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greygerbil on AO3, thank you for writing or drawing for me! Right from the start, I want to say you don’t have to do anything with my prompts, they’re just here 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
Granblue Fantasy
Overwatch
Vampyr
Mass Effect Trilogy
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Hades
Dragon Age
Yuri!!! on Ice
Original Work

DNWs and Likes

DNWs

permanent death of requested characters (they can die temporarily and come back to life, though; if a character canonically dies and is not part of the pairing you’re creating for but just requested in a different pairing, they can also die; MDSZ/Untamed characters can also stick around as fully conscious fierce corpses or fully conscious spirits)

requested characters cheating on anybody

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

unrequested noncon including sexual assault attempts (mentioning/discussing/describing canonical instances of SA & noncon is fine, as is mentioning noncon that doesn’t happen to or between the requested characters; and of course, if I request a tag including SA or noncon or have a prompt that includes it, it is totally fine to include as well!)

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

smut involving underage characters (under 18)

unrequested non-canonical incest (for requested characters, not a problem for background characters)

ageplay, diaper play, daddy or mommy kink

raceplay

rape roleplay

scat, emetophilia

necrophilia (MDSZ/Untamed’s fierce corpses with full human-level consciousness wouldn’t count as this for me, neither would fully conscious spirits)

cannibalism, debilitating mutilation of requested characters for sexual pleasure, vore (Skals and other humanoid monsters can eat corpses/people for sustenance, though)

crackfic (humour is great, but I don’t enjoy complete randomness)

high school/college AUs (other modern AUs as well as all other sorts of AUs are fine; modern or Modern AU characters just going to school or college as part of their life at some point is also no problem; basically, I just don't want it to be the main setting)

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

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

Kemonomimi AUs (I don’t even need an explanation, though having one could be fun, but feel free to just give somebody animal ears and a tail)

Wing AUs

Modern AUs

I also enjoy A/B/O AUs and gave some ideas who I’d like to take which role in the header under every pairing. Male omegas can have the male cis gender set of genitalia or have a vagina in addition, either is fine for me! Alphas can have knots or not, whichever you like. 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, intergluteal

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 (as well as regular bondage)

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 realistic paintings to manga to western comics to 3D/render and pixel art and everything in between, so please feel free to go with whatever you enjoy. I like 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.

Assassin’s Creed

Alexios/Stentor
Alexios and Stentor have such a deliciously complicated relationship. Stentor is obviously threatened by Alexios’s 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 might eventually 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. For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Stentor. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Stentor. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Stentor and alpha or beta Alexios.

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 (a 20 foot drop is usually something it can 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/longer-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 beforehand? 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 are really 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 king 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 to others before)? Stentor doesn’t seem to like Alexios, 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 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 and kidfic, one for pining tropes, one for epistolary fic, one for id 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’m happy both with historically accurate fics were Stentor being interested in grown men is not considered proper and fics where M/M marriage is already a possibility. I prefer bottom Stentor for smut. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Stentor. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Stentor and alpha or beta OMC. There are some ideas for OMCs 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 at all, 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 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 or man in his early twenties came up to Stentor at one point and asked to be his eromenos, but Stentor sends him away because he’s not interested in boys. 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 of, 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/Kassandra. However, if things went alright with Alexios/Kassandra 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/Kassandra, no less – as if his life doesn’t revolve around Alexios/Kassandra enough already) 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 by (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 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 OMC? Maybe it’s the first time he’s doing it with this partner? What (or who) convinced him to give it a try?

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’s 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. I you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Charles. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Charles and alpha or beta Haytham.

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’s 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’s Dom) or involves some real soul-searching and deep discussions or tests from Haytham (or both), all is good.

Heap on the angst and hurt/comfort! One of them almost dying, getting gravely injured, falling deadly ill, almost freezing to death, being 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 Charles?

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? Apart from that, I would also love to see their first time together.

(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.)

Ratonhnhaké:ton | Connor/Clipper Wilkinson
If you don’t remember Clipper, well, I don’t blame you! He doesn’t have a big role, but I quite liked him. He’s the Assassin recruit who allows you to order sniping from a distance when you call for your little helpers in a fight. Here is a video with all interactions you have with him directly. Short as it was, I really enjoyed the relationship Connor and him had – how much Clipper admired Connor, and how Connor respected him, and how well their morals matched up from the very start. I think for Connor, it would be great to have someone reliable and good-natured like Clipper in his life, considering how difficult it has been so far. For smut, I prefer bottom Clipper. If you include mpreg, I like pregnant Clipper. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Clipper and alpha or beta Connor.

It always seemed to me that Clipper hadn’t really found his place in life yet and I think he really would have enjoyed living in Connor’s little village. Connor offers, or Clipper just comes around so often they eventually decide it just makes sense. This affords them many chances to meet and do things together and fall in love.

Clipper has to leave his place quickly because of Templar-related problems and Connor offers him a room in his house. It’s big and rather empty, after all! Except being so close all the time makes it even harder for both of them to ignore their crush.

Connor’s story is just generally one that feels rather sad, not triumphant, even though he does eventually get Lee. Clipper being there for him after the end of the game and that bringing the two of them together would be awesome.

Generally, I would have liked for Connor to have a confidant after Achilles’s death! Despite him living in a village of his own design, he always seemed exceptionally solitary throughout the game. Clipper following him on missions, hunting with him, doing sidequests with him would be great to see.

After the end of the game, Connor decides he needs a time-out and disappears into the countryside. The Assassins/villagers get worried when he doesn’t return for a while and Clipper, coming from a surveyor family at the frontier, is the one who can actually track him down. Connor didn’t think he wanted company, but he actually enjoys Clipper being around...

I would love to see Connor teach Clipper Assassin things! And maybe Clipper can help him with his aim with a rifle, being such a great sniper? Perhaps Connor teaches him how to use a bow and arrow in return. This all would afford them a lot of opportunities to get to know each other better.

How do they handle their attraction to men? Were they both aware of their own feelings? Is one of them more comfortable with it and the other still needs to deal with it? I would like it if they worked through it together, of course.

Maybe a few of the villagers also realise that Connor may have a thing for Clipper and vice versa? They generally seem kind of relaxed about people not fitting into the expected boxes of the time, so it’d be fun to see them try their hand at match-making.

Smut would be fun! Clipper generally seems like he doesn’t have super much experience, and I think someone on the writing team actually said that Connor is a virgin throughout the whole game (so him either having no experience or very little would be interesting). Seeing the two of them fumble through and have a lot of firsts but also fun together would be really appreciated.

Maybe one of them thinks the other must definitely be more experienced (Connor is so self-confident and attractive, thinks Clipper! Clipper is very personable and has been around many parts of the country, thinks Connor!) and so they don’t dare approach the other because they feel they would disappoint them in bed, or they are at least nervous about sex. How do they figure out neither of them is exactly Casanova?

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

Granblue Fantasy

Justin/Valentin
I had too much fun with these two. Whether they were rocking on stage, doing way too public casual BDSM stuff or being catty music critics, they really seemed to get along very well for two intense personalities that might be somewhat challenging to deal with for ordinary people. Whether during their time with the Vicious Three or later, when it was just those Vicious Two left killing guitarists, or after they’ve been drafted into Aoidos’s new band, I’d love to see more of them together.

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta Justin (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by Justin would also be fun). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

Fine, Justin is going to play Aoidos’s goddamn ballads. However, he’s going to have to let his frustration out on somebody. Valentin is happy to volunteer (he might start enjoying this kind of music just for the side effects it has).

We know Valentin will take hurt and humiliation wherever it comes from and that doesn’t really bother Justin. Yet at some point Valentin collides with somebody who actually finds it pretty fun to play with him and leans into it. Justin realises rapidly he’s not actually okay with Valentin having other “main sadists” next to him anymore. I’m sure Valentin wouldn’t mind the resulting punishment from Justin at all, though perhaps he’s a bit confused about it (and maybe happy when he realises the reason)?

Once Justin’s ‘weakness’ has been established, Valentin provoking punishment by flirting with other Doms/sadists etc. would also be fun. Justin’s happy to teach his bad sub better manners!

Valentin always figured that between the three of them, Justin and Benjamin really had the tighter bond (in the sense that Justin was singularly fascinated with Benjamin and his talent). Now that they’re back with Aoidos, it stings a little bit (for once not in the good way) that he probably won’t have as much of Justin’s attention anymore. Turns out Justin actually is still very interested in Valentin, perhaps to his own surprise.

Related to the prompt above, but could also be set before that: Justin dealing with the concept of falling in love would be amazing. Being obsessed with Aoidos is kind of logical given his world-view, but actually being in love? What is he supposed to do with that?! And it’s Valentin, who isn’t even some outstanding musical inspiration like Benjamin, so there’s not even a justification.

Similarly, Valentin trying to come to terms with the ideas that he’s in love with Justin – it’s not like he’s much better adjusted, either. Does he try to court him and what would that look like? Gifts, sex, confessions? Maybe a love song with a little blood and violence (or invitation for Justin to commit violence)? Does he think he doesn’t have a chance because, well, he’s no Benjamin, so it’s all pining until it (hopefully) gets better?

I would also like to see them make some music together – whether it’s one of the concerts where they kill their criminal guitarist, or whether they’re just practicing. Obviously, they both have pretty high standards, after all! Justin seems to have taken over as songwriter as well, too, so maybe Valentin helps him find some inspiration in that department.

I love that if Aoidos’s new band sticks together, that would theoretically mean Justin and Valentin are now hanging out on the Grandcypher. They’re probably not even the weirdest people there, to be honest, so why not. Would love to see them settling into their new life. (Alternatively, I would also like them to adjust around Aoidos’s new style if they do travel with him without the others.)

What does a regular day without a gig look like for these two? They seem to have worked as mercs sometimes, do they still? And what about days off? I’d love to get a glimpse into their normal life, whatever that means for them...

Playable Justin and Valentin is my fever dream and the event described them as attack dog and shield/sandbag respectively, which sounds like DPS and tank to me, so it’d be interesting to see them fight! If you wanna do h/c, I would love Valentin getting bodied beyond the point where it’s fun even for him (which would be a lot) and Justin flipping out and causing a bloodbath because he thinks Valentin is dead/dying.

Smut would be very welcome here, of course. I mean, these two seemed to be doing everything but taking off their clothes in game already, Valentin sounded like he was starring in a smut VN. BDSM would be great here, with all that humiliation and/or pain Valentin is constantly begging for. Safe and sane is already out of the window with these two, but I would like it to be consensual (well, aside from all the poor people who constantly have to listen in on their very public dirty talk).

If you wanna go for something softer, it’d be interesting if one of them was actually hurt and had to recuperate, so they’re forced to be careful or rely on dirty talk and other stuff (well, if Valentin’s hurt, Justin may put his thumb in the wounds a tiny bit).

I’d also love to see kind of desperate, passionate sex for whatever reason – near-death experience (one they actually didn’t want to end up in, lol), thought the other had died, first time after confessing. I doubt that would end up being vanilla, but it might be a different flavour of spice!

In the past, one or both of them didn’t really think their sadistic/masochistic urges had a sexual component or repressed that thought, at least. Then they meet each other and, well, that leads to an impactful revelation.

Do they ever do something like aftercare? Probably not in the traditional sense, but maybe Justin helps with those bandages or chucks a bottle of water at Valentin sometimes?

Benjamin | Aoidos/Valentin
We know more about Justin’s relationship to Benjamin than Valentin’s relationship to him, but it’s clear he’s attached to him as well. I would love to see Valentin around Benjamin or Aoidos or both, since I think either dynamic has a lot of promise. As for Benjamin, he obviously really liked throwing Valentin around and seems to have tolerated his presence, which for Benjamin’s standards is quite good! And how does Aoidos relate to him? Now that he’s founds his memories again, does he still have fun pushing Valentin around a bit?

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta Benjamin | Aoidos (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by Benjamin | Aoidos would also be fun). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

Apparently Benjamin collected Justin “from the gutter”. Where did he scoop up Valentin and why? Did Benjamin hear Valentin play and get inspired? Did Valentin hear Benjamin play and approached him? Did Valentin’s masochistic urges seem interesting to Benjamin? Both? I would love to see their first meeting.

Benjamin being the person who first makes Valentin fully give in to his masochistic side, basically unlocking it with his personality and/or music, would also be great.

What was life with the band like during Vicious Three’s first stint? Benjamin obviously had fun punishing Valentin like he wanted, but did he ever sleep with him? If yes, did it start from the beginning or was there something later in their history that triggered it? I’d love to read about it.

I would love to read about what Valentin sees in Benjamin’s music and how it intersects with what he sees in him as a person.

I’d also love to know how his feelings for Benjamin develop (whether they’re traditional ‘being in love’ or something more twisted and intense, or both). Is he as fascinated as Justin, but just not quite as obvious about it most of the time? Does he have a little bit more distance?

The game describes Valentin as the sandbag/shield for the group. Well, that just spells h/c for me (although in Valentin’s case, the hurt probably is in some ways the comfort, lol). Still, even Valentin probably doesn’t quite want to die yet, so things might still get out of hand. Benjamin or Aoidos not being very happy with their enemies at all when Valentin lies ostensibly lifeless on the ground would be very cool, too.

Benjamin used sleep with Valentin. Aoidos, recovering memories, realizes he’s in love with him (possibly still in love with him, as far as Benjamin could be in love). He resolves to win Valentin back. Considering that he is a very high drama person, this is probably not a quiet and understated process. Do Grandcypher personnel and/or Justin get roped in?

Aoidos composing and singing a lovesong with heaps and heaps of pathos would be really fun as well. What does Valentin think of it?

Valentin actually said he kind of got Benjamin’s string-ballad-including vision, so he doesn’t seem to be as opposed as Justin to that kind of music, or he at least doesn’t mind following Benjamin’s lead. Would love for him and Aoidos to work together on some music.

Aoidos still has some of Benjamin’s violent urges, but unlike Benjamin, he doesn’t want to kill people during concerts anymore and generally really doesn’t want to hurt unwilling people at all. Luckily, there’s someone who is very, very willing. Does Aoidos feel bad at first? Can Valentin take that worry from him?

Generally, smut would be great, of course. Benjamin seemed to enjoy playing with Valentin, so if he wants to step on him some more, or find other ways to play, that would just be great. However, Aoidos re-learning Valentin’s basically non-existing boundaries would be very fun as well. Benjamin probably had no scruples to go hard from the beginning, but Aoidos might push and push it a little more each time, kind of fascinated (possibly a little horrified, also horny) when there just never seems to be a limit. I also like the idea of Aoidos still being a Dom, but a different sort of Dom than Benjamin (maybe less harsh, or maybe more into all sorts of experiments, or whatever else you’d find interesting) and Valentin adjusting to that.

Perhaps Aoidos also wants to have normal sex sometimes. Valentin manages to deal with it because, well, at least he’s still doing what is asked of him, right? And maybe he actually finds he likes this a little bit, too (though it’s unlikely it’s ever going to fully replace his thirst for getting messed up).

Aftercare would be interesting! Benjamin’s might be cursory, but perhaps he does like to make sure Valentin is not literally coming apart at the seams (since he’s unsure if Valentin would even notice or care). Aoidos, meanwhile, could actually do some of the more standard stuff, which severely confuses Valentin at first. Does he end up liking it?

Benjamin | Aoidos/Justin/Valentin
Let’s get the whole band together! I really liked the vibe between these three from what little we got to see. Whether it’s Vicious Three in its short heyday or Justin and Valentin adjusting around the new Aoidos (and Aoidos dealing with recovering his memories and incorporating them into his personality), all would be good. I’d be happy for something that goes deeper into their personalities and relationships, or a plotty fic of them getting roped into Skyfarer or merc work, but I would also enjoy smut, considering these three were like a BDSM porn waiting to happen when Benjamin was still around.

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin and have no preference between the other two. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta Benjamin | Aoidos and Justin (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by the other two would also be fun).

This fic can of course also include Benjamin | Aoidos/Justin, Justin/Valentin, or Benjamin | Aoidos/Valentin as long as it eventually turns into a closed 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, or just happening to find one, of course). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

Justin said Benjamin picked him out of the gutter, but how and where did these two happen on Valentin? Perhaps they realised that having someone to release their urges on would be very handy to have around. And hey, he’s a talented drummer, too, so that’s even better.

Valentin is pretty damn obvious about his wishes now, but maybe before meeting Benjamin and Justin, he was still trying to keep it in? Would definitely love a story where Valentin first gives in to his desires while spurned on by their music and personalities.

Alternatively, Benjamin collecting Valentin first and finding Justin later. Justin being enabled by Benjamin’s music and then having Valentin as a punching bag already available – how convenient!

If you want to do an AU, it’d be interesting to see what would have happened if Justin had bit his tongue and somehow managed to force himself into going along with Benjamin’s musical experiments. What would a more balanced version of Benjamin look like? Maybe he would have mellowed the others, too?

I would love to see a day (or hour or moment) in the life of the Vicious Three before they broke apart.

Since Aoidos has decided the band is reunited, I guess Justin and Valentin now travel with him (and potentially the Grandcypher). I bet it’s going to take some time to get used to Aoidos, but by the New Year’s event it sounded like they’d kind of adjusted to the situation, even if they still find interacting with normal people kind of difficult... I would love to see something from their everyday life!

Valentin’s position as the shield/sandbag was probably not chosen without being self-serving (it’s a good way to collect punches!), but nevertheless I would love for him to tank for his somewhat more fragile-looking boyfriends in a fight, whether it’s fun for him or actually uncomfortable – especially if the other two pay back the attackers.

Okay, here’s an old joke. What’s the last thing a drummer says to their band? “Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?” Well, Valentin doesn’t seem to be very pushy when it comes to that, other than wishing Justin would write more violence against him into his tracks, but it would be interesting if he was experimenting with drum parts and stuff by himself or even actually writing songs. His and Justin’s nagging about the Doss does show they do take music seriously, lol. Benjamin and Justin listening in and incorporating some stuff would be fun. Or maybe Aoidos is the first one who wants Valentin’s input, though Justin is skeptical, but it works out.

Perhaps Benjamin/Justin used to be a thing, but after Benjamin was gone, Justin and Valentin started sleeping together in an FWB sort of arrangement. Now that Aoidos has force-reunited the band, Justin and him get back together. Valentin expects that he’s only going to get scraps in the form of some random punishment as before, but is actually unhappy about the situation, even though he’d get to feel inferior, so that’s very odd to him! When do the other two catch on? Maybe Valentin confesses? Or perhaps (invonceivably) he rejects an insult or physical attack – they’d definitely realise something is super off. And they actually really don’t want to be without him...

Aoidos and Valentin are flirting, but they both know Aoidos probably won’t hurt Valentin like he wants it. Aoidos has a lightning strike of inspiration, though: why not keep outsourcing that part to Justin, who loves doing it anyway? (Aoidos also thinks watching would be interesting, too, maybe...) Only, of course, Justin accidentally ends up entangled much deeper in their relationship.

Aoidos still has some leftover violent urges from his time as Benjamin, but no more desire to act them out randomly. However, Valentin is still there and oh-so-happy to help. This means he does not spend a lot of time petitioning Justin for punishment anymore, though. Justin likes literally nothing about this new arrangement because he wants both men. It turns out Aoidos and Valentin are glad to invite him when they realise he’d like to join in.

Alternative to the prompt above, it would also be very fun if Justin is the one who offers Valentin to Aoidos to share to get his violent urges (that Justin incidentally likes to watch) under control.

Benjamin and Justin arguing while casually shoving an excited Valentin around was kinda hot, not gonna lie. I would love to see more of that! (Especially if it doesn’t end in a (nonconsensual) stabbing this time.)

Generally, smut would be awesome, whether with Benjamin or Aoidos. Benjamin seemed to be Justin’s match in sadism, if not more. Safe and sane is already out of the window with these three, but I would like it to be consensual. Otherwise, go wild! But what about Aoidos? Maybe he brings a completely different dynamic to the bedroom as a Dom that Valentin and Justin will first have to get used to, or maybe his sadism is just a bit more loudly enthusiastic.

Overwatch

Genji Shimada/Tekhartha Zenyatta
This pairing is one of my constant favourites. Genji and Zenyatta just seem so familiar and comfortable with each other in the game, but there’s also this whole host of history that is only hinted at there with how Genji came to Zenyatta torn up about his past and not at peace with himself. I would love to read everything, from AUs where they met in completely different ways (perhaps based on their in-game skins? That’s always fun), to their time at the Shambali temple, to established relationship fic of them travelling the world. For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Zenyatta. For A/B/O, I prefer alpha or beta Genji.

From what we’ve seen of Blackwatch Genji in the archive missions, I don’t see him bending his knee to monks too quickly. Perhaps he was streaking about the Shambali temple, very conflicted, and Zenyatta was the only one reckless enough to approach him; or perhaps Zenyatta and him met when Zenyatta was travelling with some of his brothers and sisters. How did that go? And how did it lead to them falling in love, too?

I would also love an AU where maybe they didn’t really start out as master and student at all. Perhaps Zenyatta was just curiously investigating a place he was visiting with his fellow monks and met Genji and befriended him without the thought of teaching him – or they even had a brief affair that then turned into something deeper. Or maybe Genji saved Zenyatta from some anti-omnic terrorists. Or whatever else you can come up with! I’m ready for all.

As I said, I also would love to read something about their adventures travelling together, how they help people, fight together, live together, and perhaps even go to the Overwatch recall together.

I’d like to read something that touches on Zenyatta’s decision to leave the Shambali, since it’s never really elaborated on outside his wiki description. Was Genji still around when Zenyatta decided to turn his back on the Shambali (though he probably didn’t do it before he figured Genji didn’t need him anymore)? What was it like for Zenyatta to make that decision? It couldn’t have been easy. If you track his history, he was never not either a service bot or with the Shambali, so he’s never been alone out there in the world. Is he scared, excited, conflicted? All of them, none of them? And what does Genji think of it? Does he feel abandoned? Is he worried that he won’t see Zenyatta again, or that he will be hurt out there in a world often hostile to omnics? Or does he support the decision, having seen Zenyatta was unhappy perhaps even before Zenyatta admitted it to himself (maybe he was even the one who, in conversation, steered Zenyatta to think of new paths)? A lot of ways this could go.

Zenyatta is pretty young, all things considered; 20 by the time the game’s story starts, so maybe about 15 or 16 when he first met Genji? Omnics start as adults, of course, but experience must be gained by all living creatures. Perhaps there has just never been an opportunity for him to really fall in love before and Genji is the first person he crushes on. Is he excited and curious, or is he worried that his role as guide and master forbids this? Does Genji catch on? (I do hope he reciprocates, of course.)

Similarly, Genji was kind of a playboy back in the day, so I doubt he had many meaningful romantic relationships, and he probably wasn’t up for serious relationships in Blackwatch days. So despite the fact that he has a good few years on Zenyatta, he may also not be used to building lasting romantic connections – and now he has to do it while being in this new robot body, which he has a complicated relationship to.

Genji and Zenyatta seem to have split for the time being, but a story of Genji racing back to Zenyatta after the attack on Mondatta and him comforting Zenyatta (and Zenyatta comforting Genji, who certainly also knew him) would be great. Perhaps this plus their separation is what finally pushes them to admit their feelings.

For smut, I prefer Zenyatta bottoming, if they even do anything that requires top or bottom because I imagine robot/cyborg bodies may have entirely inhuman ways to connect (literally via USB port? In the Iris?). While I do like human-ish genitalia for Zenyatta (intersex, female or male, or something that has similar functions but looks a bit different, maybe like simple sex toys, considering his model is so basic), I also really enjoy that Zenyatta is such a standard model with wires showing and made of probably (or not?) unfeeling, scratched-up metal in many parts. So wire play and all that could be really fun!

Or maybe Zenyatta doesn’t even have any sexual organs or software capability to experience sexual pleasure and gets them installed for Genji? Or he has them and hasn’t used them much? But Genji used to be a player, I bet he has a few tricks up his sleeve.

I also love fics where Genji starts connecting with his new body more through seeing that Zenyatta desires him, and that he can still give pleasure to someone.

Maybe you want to go for something more out there, so I should say I always love AUs that somehow incorporate the alternate skins the characters have. Both Genji and Zenyatta have a number of skins that tell matching stories. The nomad Genji skins, for example, which seem to be decked out for desert exploration, pairs well with the Egypt-themed divine bird skins. And wasn’t there even a little story about a wandering Genji finding the Eldritch Zenyatta? The Lunar skins pair off nicely, and demon Genji also works really well with the Sanzang one, since Sanzang actually was hunted by demons quite a bit in Journey To The West. Nvidia Zenyatta (which is what the black-green recolour is called in my mind) looks like he could have been part of Blackwatch, with such an edgy design, and also works well with Genji’s cyberpunk skins. And so on. The mix and match potential for AUs is pretty much endless here.

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

Ramattra/Tekhartha Zenyatta
Six years of basically no new lore for Zenyatta, and then they drop his angry ex, who is also a super compelling character in his own right – Christmas truly came early. I am fascinated by their relationship, the fact that they were so close before, that Ramattra was the one who brought Zenyatta to the Shambali, where apparently they discussed philosophy and became best friends and canonically made a habit of watching the stars together (!). However, I also find their in-game interactions really interesting, too. Zenyatta wants to help Ramattra, despite their stark differences now, and Ramattra obviously still likes and respects him a lot. They have very different approaches, but I think they also understand why the other acts the way they do. The fact that Ramattra absolutely hates Genji is also really funny (some jealousy, maybe?). Whether you want to write a prequel about their meeting or their time at the monastery, a reunion, or something from an alternate universe, it would all be great! For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Zenyatta.

I would love to hear more about how Zenyatta and Ramattra met. In their descriptions, it says Ramattra found Zenyatta at an omnic rights protest. There are also a few lines in the short story about their past that would be interesting to explore. Was it love at first sight or did they need to get a feel for each other first? What was Zenyatta like before he became a monk? I doubt he made a total personality switch, but it would be interesting to see if Ramattra maybe mellowed him out a bit; or maybe Zenyatta was always very suited for monkhood and Ramattra picked up on that?

Ramattra and Zenyatta seem to have wandered around together a fair bit. What did they see on their journeys? Did they get into fights, get attacked, protected the innocent? Did they enjoy different cultures, meet interesting people? When did they fall in love?

I’d also love to see there life at the temple! (Perhaps even with some star-watching...)

A reunion after both of them leave the monastery would also be fascinating. After all, Zenyatta wasn’t fully in accordance with the Shambali anymore, either, but his concerns were much different. What would that look like?

Ramattra, Zenyatta and Genji (or maybe even all of Null Sector and Overwatch) are forced to work together against a common threat. Ramattra continues to be salty as fuck around Genji, to the point that Genji knows something is going on outside of him being a human. Are Ramattra and Zenyatta former lovers and maybe Zenyatta realises there is something to rekindle when Genji asks about it? Or maybe Zenyatta actually didn’t get that Ramattra might be into him until Genji points it out?

Ramattra obviously has a lot of trauma (“Suffer, as I have”), some of it through being an omnic, some of it through being a R-7000 unit, which got hunted after the war because humans fear them. So I’m sure even at the monastery Ramattra had his dark moments. I would love to see Zenyatta pick him up a bit, either through his calm nature and wisdom, or his playful humour, or maybe even just by showing him affection. It would be great if he could lift Ramattra’s spirit and/or make him laugh.

Speaking of Ravagers, maybe even other omnics are sometimes wary of the old generals, or at least don’t want to associate with them because they know it can get dangerous? Zenyatta being open to Ramattra from the start and not afraid at all would be a nice surprise for Ramattra.

Ramattra gets hurt. He’s used to dealing with this himself (he’s an engineer, after all, so he can handle it). Zenyatta helps him out, either with his healing powers or just by assisting him. Being comforted and helped is new to Ramattra and as a dedicated soldier, he should not really want it, and yet...

However, I’d also like to see hurt/comfort the other way! Maybe Zenyatta is targeted by anti-omnic people who think he is an easy victim (and while he can fight, he is still quite easy to hurt, as all us Zenyatta players know...), or maybe Zenyatta has had a difficult past, too, and in some way it comes back to haunt him (an owner who wouldn’t let him go after the Awakening, general mistreatment, perhaps even a past as a sexbot (noncon fine to include here, and in general for Zenyatta’s backstory)). How can Ramattra help?

Did Ramattra teach Zenyatta how to fight? Or did Zenyatta already know a bit? Either way I’d love to see them sparring (after all, there is “you must learn to block, brother”, as Ramattra says when he kills Zenyatta, but also “you taught me that one” when Ramattra eliminates him with melee, lol), or taking on enemies together!

I love that Ramattra is such a dedicated tank (“I will protect you!”) and I would love for him to protect Zenyatta in a fight. However, Zenyatta can also do big damage, so hapless human attackers who think they won by disabling Ramattra may be in for a surprise...

Ramattra seems like a deeply wounded and now also very lonely person, both in-game and also in the short story, where the other founders of Null Sector die or leave him eventually. Perhaps if Zenyatta did get a chance to influence him once more, he could make him reverse course?

I don’t really see Zenyatta joining Null Sector, but maybe he would if he could talk Ramattra down to a less deadly plan? As Zenyatta points out to Soldier 76, he’s not really a pacifist, either, and he has said he would defend the Shambali monastery if necessary, so it’s not armed resistance he’s opposed to. Maybe if Ramattra can rethink genocide as his major strategy...

Ramattra is forced to compromise with Overwatch, but Zenyatta manages to plea for Ramattra so he doesn’t have to be dismantled/thrown in a hole somewhere to be left to rot (or Ramattra’s freedom was ensured because otherwise his followers wouldn’t take the peace offer). Can Zenyatta show Ramattra that his wish to protect the omnics can be fulfilled in other ways (and perhaps rekindle/start a relationship on the way)?

Smut is always great! I’d be happy for something totally out of the human experience, considering these are both robots. Can they plug in to each other and create a feedback loop? What sensitive parts do they have and are they different, being different models? Wireplay is always a classic, too, of course. However, I’d also be very happy for them to have genitalia. Did Ramattra build himself some, or Zenyatta, or both of them? (If he’s the one engineering Zenyatta’s intimate part, maybe the process of outfitting Zenyatta is already hot to them.) Have they or has one of them experimented with sex before, or are there some firsts?

Sort of a niche prompt, but I would find it very interesting if Ramattra was into Domming (I mean, look at that highlight intro where he raises the camera POV’s chin with the staff...), but maybe conflicted about it because it very much plays into him being a weapon and commander, the thing people already reduce him to; and if he wants to hurt Zenyatta, too, that probably will make him even more hesitant. However, Zenyatta seems like a curious, open-minded guy and he’ll try everything once! Does Ramattra confess his desires or does Zenyatta pick up on it himself? I would enjoy it if Zenyatta liked subbing for Ramattra, of course.

(I also have a letter dealing with smut prompts and one with iddy ideas in case you're looking for more prompts.)

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 and sub Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Jonathan.

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 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 between 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 intimacy 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, one with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O, 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 and sub Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Geoffrey.

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 tainted 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. However, 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, or talking about a street or something else 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 initial 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 intimacy 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 a 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.

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

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-barkeep and night asylum manager 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 and sub Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Tom.

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.

A 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 breakdown, 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 originally a local boy, 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 at first doesn’t intend to tell Tom about vampires, but how could you lie about something like that after you snogged the person 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?

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.)

Original Male Ekon/Sean Hampton
Sean is such a great character and I just really need to know more about him, his dealings with both his flocks, the residents of the East End Docks, other vampires, and of course potential love interests he might meet on the way now that he has been brought into this new world... There’s just so much we only learned about him in hints and asides. It’s clear he’s touched the lives of many people around him and it would be great to see that elaborated on, and for him to find someone who could make him happy and vice versa. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you want to include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Ekon.

There are some ideas below, but feel free to go wild as long as the Original Male Ekon isn’t related to Sean and isn’t underage.

Maybe Sean could be paired with an OC from his human flock or just a stranger who ends up at his doorstep. At sometime during the chaos of the plague nights this OC was attacked by an Ekon and he sure doesn’t know what’s happening, but Sean realises immediately he’s turning. Through Sean helping the new Ekon, the two of them become closer. What kind of person are they? Gang member trying to go legit, or maybe a union guy? A random, mysterious drifter? Maybe someone he helped years ago?

I think Sean can make a connection to a great many people, even the sort who might dismiss him at first glance. Maybe he meets a high-class Ekon who is used to turning his nose up at Skals, as most of them are, but begins to learn through Sean that he was hasty in his judgement? How does he get to know Sean well enough to realise his mistake?

It would generally be interesting to see another vampire take an interest in Sean. Is the Ekon of the newer sort or older or maybe truly ancient?

It’d be cool if a well-meaning Ekon with some influence/money started courting Sean. That way, he would have someone who could subtly help him with his flock eventually by becoming a benefactor. Or maybe the donations come first because the Ekon is not the sort to push to the foreground, but Sean tracks him down.

How does Sean feel about falling in love? I can’t really see him judging other people for homosexuality, even with the times being what they are, but people often are contradictory in their views and his past might make it difficult to accept that for himself. Or does the general fact that he wants a relationship and sex at all conflict with his view of himself as a man of God? On the other hand, he is not a priest, so it’s not forbidden to him. Still, lust is viewed unfavourably by the church. Does he have any voluntary experience with sex at all or not? If he hasn’t, is he hesitant or curious?

Is the Ekon Sean helps someone who needs his spiritual guidance or other help? How can Sean assist him and how does it turn into more than that?

Sean has quite the burden on his shoulders – one he loves, I’m sure, but that didn’t get easier with the whole Skal thing on top. Someone to support him would surely be appreciated.

Sean is reportedly always at the shelter helping people. Perhaps a boyfriend could convince him to carve a couple hours out of his night to go on a date.

A proposal or marriage would be sweet – even if they can’t make it official, I’m sure Mr. “zombie vampires are also creatures of the Lord” Hampton would be fine just marrying under the eyes of God.

Fight scenes are always cool. Sean isn’t a fighter, but he turns into a pretty mean mini boss if you let him deteriorate, so he definitely got a power upgrade. Maybe he can protect his boyfriend if he’s still an inexperienced Ekon or wounded? Or maybe his boyfriend is the stronger one of the two? Or they fight together!

Sean is getting regular generous donations to the shelter lately. Through some happenstance, he ends up finding out that the benefactor is a certain wealthy Ekon. Why does he support Sean? Maybe he heard something about the Skal saint and wanted to help him, even though they have never met? Maybe Sean helped him many years ago and the Ekon just now tracked him down again (and is surprised to find Sean has become a Skal when they meet)? Or maybe the Ekon realises that when you try to court Sean, buying him presents is less effective than buying them for his flock (so to speak)...

This is such a basic prompt, but I just want to see Sean have some fun, maybe even... laugh or something. Get a hug or a kiss! Like pretty much everybody in the game, he has such a bad time of it, he deserves some fluff.

I’d also love established relationship fic that flashes forward some decades and shows them moving around and living their lives in a different time period. Or maybe Sean only meets this Ekon decades down the line, or again and again over the years until they stick together?

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… whichever one you want, as long as Shepard lives somehow, really! I’m not a fan of any of them and I’d also be totally fine with an AU ending or with the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun. For smut, I prefer bottom Javik. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Javik. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Javik and alpha or beta Shepard (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!).

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 little while 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 (though it doesn’t have to be fully human-like, just not... a bunch of tentacles instead of a penis or something). I don’t think it was ever said how Protheans procreate, or how many sexes/genders they had, aside from like one line from Javik 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 either way.

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 lead to them getting to know each other, though, and they find they have common ground as well.

The Crucible really is a straight-forward 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 (maybe collecting a traditional hero’s reward in the form of a kiss?).

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 (and father if he’s around).

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).

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O, one for soulmate tropes, one for epistolary fic as well as in-universe articles, 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

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, traits and skills in common, both being passionate fighters for the freedom of their people. There’s also this conversation (with timestamp at 1:47) of Jaal praising Evfra to Drack, which just sounds like he may have a crush. Whether it’s set before, during, or after the game, it’s all great. For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Evfra and alpha or beta Jaal.

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 if they have been together for a while. There are probably lots of orphans around and I’d love the option of adoption (maybe one kid 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 also like for Jaal to fuck him, but it doesn’t seem like Jaal is interested 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/or 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 awesome.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O, one with smut prompts, one for marriage tropes, one for pining tropes, one for mpreg and kidfic, one for hurt/comfort 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/Evfra de Tershaav
Evfra is my favourite character in this game. I thoroughly enjoy how gruff he is and that his guarded personality makes him such an outlier amongst the angara. Yet, the man has dedicated his life to helping his people, shouldered a lot of responsibility, and the few times you manage to dig a little deeper in his dialogue, it’s clear that he cares about them and even starts to accept the outsiders once they have proven themselves. Please give this grumpy guy with the good heart a boyfriend! For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Evfra and alpha or beta OMC (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!). There are some ideas for the OMC below, but feel free to go wild as long as the character isn’t related to Evfra and isn’t underage.

Evfra is not the most approachable person and people greatly respect, and, as the game suggests, often even fear him. How does the OMC break through his tough shell?

Or maybe, unexpectedly, Evfra has been in a relationship with someone for a while now, but never really made it public? Would love to see everybody’s reactions when it eventually becomes clear.

Evfra lost his whole family – perhaps also a husband? It’s very unlikely, but maybe, through some great stroke of luck, that husband is still alive all those years later? But I’m sure this much time in a kett labour camp would have changed him and Evfra must be a much different person now, too, having worked his way up from what seems to have been obscurity to the leader of the Resistance. I would love to see them rekindling their relationship. (If they had other partners in the time in between, thinking the other was dead, I’d like for those not to have been serious relationships.)

Probably to Evfra’s own surprise, it’s one of the alien newcomers who manages to win his heart. Is it a contact he knows from Kadara or someone else he gets to know on the Nexus?

However, I'd also love to see an angara as the OMC. Is it a Resistance member, a politician, a random civilian, or maybe even an angara from a newly discovered world which was up to now cut off from the others?

Evfra enters a political marriage with someone from an important family and figures it will never be more than a marriage of convenience, but then the two actually fall in love.

Fleshing out the Multiplayer Classes into characters is also always fun. We only have their little wiki descriptions and a handful of voicelines. Who of that group might appeal to Evfra and vice versa? How does he get to know them better? In-game, they were APEX strike teams, but there were angaran characters, too, like the Insurgent and Exemplar. However, I’m also open to a completely original APEX guy.

I enjoy battle couples, or couples who otherwise work well together in some capacity if your chosen boyfriend for him isn’t into fighting.

However, I’d also enjoy Evfra getting to take a bit of time off for once with his lover. What do they do to relax?

Evfra and his boyfriend exploring one of the new places discovered through Meridian would be great.

Evfra working hard and falling sick/growing exhausted and his lover ushering him home and making him rest; and if Evfra’s sick, it would be sweet if his lover hung around to care for him even with the angaran taboos around talking about sickness.

Evfra probably hasn’t been on an actual date in ages. I would love for someone to take him out to have a drink or private dinner or maybe watch a movie, just some normal stuff that Evfra probably did in the past but has basically forgotten about by this time.

Someone is openly flirting with Evfra, which throws him off a little. He’s not exactly opening himself up for contact, after all. Still, we see Evfra doing well with people who put it out there (when the Pathfinder tells him the reason he should let them help is that they get things done, he says “Bold. A little arrogant. Like me.” and doesn’t seem annoyed by it). Maybe he actually agrees to a date, if only to test if the guy means it? And he does.

Evfra likes karaoke. This is actually canon (well, if Liam’s intel is good, anyway). Maybe his crush/boyfriend can coax him into leaving work be for a while and singing a few songs? Is there a lover’s duet? I don't even mean this in a crackfic way, I just want Evfra to get to have a little fun.

Akksul/Evfra de Tershaav
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 eventually got closer. For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Evfra and alpha or beta Akksul.

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 creates 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 Evfra’s accumulated guilt and that they have 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 hard-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 together 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, and he wants Evfra to succeed.

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, one for mpreg and kidfic, and one with specific smut likes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Hades

Hermes/Charon
Charon is such a mysterious figure, considering we can only ever infer what he actually says in the game, but Hermes talks enough for the two of them, so I think it really balances out. The fact that they have a working relationship, canonically and in mythology, is also really fun and provides great opportunities for the two of them to meet and get to know each other even before Zagreus’s plight becomes something for both of them to work on. I would love to see anything from when they first started to work together, through their long working relationship, or during and after the events of the game.

For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Charon. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Charon. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Charon and alpha or beta Hermes. Considering it’s not all that clear what is going on under Charon’s robes, feel free to interpret him to be basically just as human-looking as his brothers are, or make him a little more skeletal, or otherwise lean into the cryptid idea as long as he’s still somewhat humanoid. He can also have any combination of genitalia you would like to give him.

How did Charon and Hermes first meet? It must have been quite early into the history of the human world, at least, considering their jobs. Did they at first find each other strange or did they get along right away?

Maybe Charon and Hermes were developing a romance, but the rift between Hades and Olympus put a halt to that and they had to stop or continue in secret? How did that go?

Charon and Hermes throwing caution to the wind and getting together despite the fact that Hades and Olympus aren’t on speaking terms would also be great, even if they do have to hide it.

After Zagreus repaired the rift between Hades and Olympus, Charon and Hermes shock everyone by informing them that they have been together for quite a long while. Alternatively, I would also like for them to start to get used to actually being able to have a public relationship.

I would also love a (maybe even outsider POV?) story where Zagreus uses his matchmaking skills to get Charon and Hermes together after noticing that the two of them like each other, but for some reason or another have never acted on it. They’ve both helped him, after all, so he wants to return the favour!

Arranged marriage could be fun here, too. Maybe the two of them marrying is supposed to further strengthen the ties between Hades and Olympus. Hermes and Charon agree, thinking they’ll just stay professional associates, but turns out it becomes more than that. Or, if you prefer, maybe they’ve been together in secret for a long while, anyway, and find it quite amusing to play along.

Hermes and Charon fighting together (perhaps against reawakened Titans or some other enemy that could scare a couple of gods) would be great.

I would also like to see some signs of appreciation and affection. Charon doesn’t seem big on words, but maybe if he made Hermes a valuable gift (instead of hording it like... pretty much anything else) Hermes would understand?

And how does Hermes court Charon? He’s quick-witted, I’m sure he has some interesting ideas.

Hermes and Charon taking a little time off together would be fun (as long as not too many souls pile up). Maybe Hermes takes a ride on Charon’s boat (even if I’m sure it feels slow to him!), or maybe Charon has the power to be outside of the Underworld for a bit and Hermes shows him around topside?

I would like to see their first kiss, first time, anything at the start of their relationship. It’s probably not one either of them expected to be in, so how do they handle it? Do they try to resist the temptation for a while or does one/do both of them go for it immediately when they start to develop feelings?

It starts out as FWB (sorry, professional associates with benefits!), but then they both start pining. Can they figure out they want the same thing?

Dionysus and/or Aphrodite are highly amused by Hermes’s odd relationship/crush and one/both of them imbue him with some boon to better woo his lover/crush.

Smut is always appreciated! Hermes is part fertility god, of course, so I assume he’s very good at it (maybe he has some special tricks up his sleeve, too?). What about Charon? Maybe he never indulged, just figuring it was not part of his destiny. Is he worried he won’t be able to keep up? However, I would also love to see a situation where they’re both quite experienced and end up tearing each other’s clothes off for a passionate tryst.

How could Hermes’s own powers affect their sex life? All that speed-up could definitely be useful, but I’m sure there’s other possibilities, too.

(I also have a letter dealing with hurt/comfort tropes, one with smut prompts, and one for epistolary fic 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 and sub Felix. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Felix. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Felix and alpha or beta Dorian.

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 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.

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?

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? Does Dorian make it clear that sort of effort (while appreciated) was never even necessary?

Dorian’s ex is either the Iron Bull or the Inquisitor. Felix secretly wonders how he is ever going to compare 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 win alone 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. Dorian helping him afterwards would also be great.

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.

For a pre-blight prompt, one of them falling ill and the other caring about them when they don’t know each other that well yet back in Tevinter would be 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, as he’s dying from the blight. 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 an orphan baby to care for because everyone else 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. But maybe there’s just a 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 and kidfic, one for pining tropes, one for iddy prompts, and one for epistolary fic for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Male Hawke/Varric Tethras
I love this pairing anywhere in the timeline – Dragon Age II, Inquisition, Post-Inquisition, it’s all great because the friendship between Varric and Hawke is always great. I was so sad Varric wasn’t ever a love interest, so if you’re so inclined, please fix it for me! For Hawke's personality, I love all colours or colour combinations (Friendly in conversation but stern in actions? A joker who is just a little bit too chipper still while taking off heads? A grumpy ass with a heart of gold?). Purple Hawke and Varric obviously get on like a house on fire, Varric is super fond of Blue Hawke and his never-ending goodness, even if he does poke fun at him, and the tension between Red Hawke and Varric is amazing (especially if over the years Varric learns that while Hawke may come off as a callous bastard, his actions don’t always match his words). I also enjoy all classes for Hawke. You can go with the default look and first name or do something completely different, both is great. I prefer bottom and sub Varric for smut. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Varric. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Varric and alpha or beta Hawke (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!).

Generally, I’d love any of their day-to-day craziness, from fighting evil Templars and crazed blood mages and bandits to dealing with the Merchant’s Guild or the upper echelons of Kirkwall in general. I just enjoy reading about them having adventures together.

I’m all for battle synergy expressing how great two characters fit together, so fight scenes would be awesome. Two bowmen could probably get into fun competitions, whereas Varric long-range might distract the people two-handed rogue Hawke is stabbing short-range (and what if Varric laid aside Bianca in Inquisition – since you can actually take it from him in that game – and went two-handed, how does their combat change? Does two-handed Hawke teach him some things?). How do Varric and mage Hawke make up for both being squishies? Maybe Hawke picks up some Arcane Warrior skills or Varric teaches him to evade? Or something macabre based on my gameplay experiences: blood mage Hawke siphoning blood from Varric for his attacks, since Varric can afford not to be in top shape standing in the backline. Then there’s the obvious ways tanks and rogues work together, so a full-on warrior Hawke protecting Varric in battle (and having Varric cover his flank with his crossbow in turn) would be awesome, too. But really, go wild! There’s so many fun specialisations and attacks and strategies in this game.

I have always wanted the scene that you get with the LI after Hawke’s mother dies with an LI Varric, so that would be great.

Generally, Hawke goes through a lot of shit in the game. He can be left without any of his family, or at least just one sibling (and depending on how that goes, they might feel quite distant from him/not be on super friendly terms). Perhaps Varric can pick him up in one of his worse moments.

But the same is true for Varric. The whole Bartrand story obviously wears on him despite the fact they weren’t exactly super close. Hawke consoling him or trying to cheer him up would be sweet.

Speaking of families, I would love for Varric and Hawke to build one. Be it through mpreg (I’d prefer pregnant Varric – maybe because of dwarven biology, or magic, or some weird artefact Hawke picked up?) or because they end up adopting one of Varric’s informer urchins or stumble over an abandoned qunari baby during some quest, or Hawke gets handed a baby from a former fling who then walks out on them, or whatever else you can imagine. Hell, maybe they even start parenting together before they are a couple. But these two might also eventually go for having a family on purpose, post-Inquisition maybe?

I could see them ending up as friends with benefits who both want to be more than friends with benefits, but figure that it might ruin their friendship to ask, and that what they have right now is basically like a relationship already, so maybe they shouldn’t push their luck, leading to all the mutual unnecessary pining and hopefully, eventually, a good resolution.

Hawke is left behind in the Fade. Months later, he is spat back out into the real world after fighting his way through, or being released by whatever kept him. Whether him and Varric were long in a relationship or just had unspoken feelings for each other (aside from being good friends, anyway, since that’s obviously also important), their reunion would be awesome.

I would also love to see their new dynamic now that Varric is Viscount and Hawke helps him out. How do they settle back into Kirkwall? Were they already together or does the reunion spur them to admit feelings?

Smut is always welcome. I would love to see their first time, whether it’s the culmination of a romantic confession or a drunken spur-of-the-moment thing or anything in between. However, I’m also here for their thousandth time in the middle of a long relationship when they’re already comfortable with each other and know all the ways to drive their partner mad in the best way.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O, one with smut prompts, one for mpreg, and one for epistolary fic 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’s rink. For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Chris.

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’s 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 comments, fan twitter tweets, 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 and sub Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Victor.

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 whenever 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 epistolary fic, one for mpreg 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 someone who would actually thinks of Michele’s somewhat overbearing version of love as romantic, since he’s himself dialled to 100 most of the time, anyway. They could meet up at competitions, training camps, or Michele and Sara could just switch to Yakov’s rink, or Georgi come to train in Italy at their rink. For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Michele.

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 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 ideal of pure love) 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.

The two of them having a lot of fun earnestly role-playing knightly/fairy-tale themes in bed would be great.

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

Original Work

General Likes for Original Works
Characters and Tropes
I have very few real preferences for characters except that I’d be happy if the men in the pairings were at least 25 years old or older (no limit at all in that direction!) because I enjoy characters who have had some time to gather life experiences. Physically, I mostly like male characters who aren’t super dainty, but anything from skinny to average to chubby to bodybuilder goes. Also, exceptions can of course be made for certain prompts or species – a traditional elf is probably not going to look like Conan the Barbarian.

Feel free to change the characters around to fit your setting and plot ideas. You can interpret my requested kings as chieftains or pharaohs, for example, so with a vaguely equivalent role they would have in a different cultural setting. Also, you can make the characters members of a fantasy or science fiction species, too, if that fits your setting, even if the prompt itself doesn’t specify it. Jaded Warrior King/The Charming Prince Who Is His Betrothed could also be elves or aliens.

Generally, for pairings I prefer aliens who looks vaguely human: somewhat humanoid build, some recognisable facial features, genitalia that’s somewhat equivalent, though the alien could be intersex (in human terms) and/or from a species that looks closer to male humans and thus tends to be viewed as male by humans, but is actually monosex (if you want some visual direction, the playable species of SWTOR or the companions in Mass Effect would all be totally within range of not being too inhuman for my tastes). If you’d rather go with the true-and-tried ‘human but green’ trope from old sci-fi TV series, that would also be super fun.

I enjoy a/b/o, so you can add that to prompts if you like. I actually quite like omegas who are physically stronger than their alphas, but it’s not a must!

I’m into kidfic, mpreg and adoption stories, so if you want any of the requested couples planning a family, go right ahead, even if it’s not inherent to the prompt.

Settings
For historical fiction or fantasy settings, feel free to make up any number of countries for any time period or location in the world, use actually existing ones, or rewrite them to fit your needs (mpreg exists, homophobia doesn’t exist, gender equality was achieved 3000 B.C., for example), or just divorce it from our world entirely. I like high and low fantasy and everything in-between, Tolkien-esque fantasy or fantasy based in completely different mythologies and traditions. For historical or pseudo-historical fantasy settings, I’m especially into Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome (and all the places in its vast empire), Celtic Ireland, the European Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, general Age-of-Sail type stuff, Regency and Victorian England, Feudal Japan, any period of pre-17th Century China and the Classic Period Maya. But seriously, if there’s something else you like or know about, go for it, even (or especially!) if it’s maybe not something one sees often as settings for tropey slash. If the setting is fixed in the prompt (‘Victorian Gentleman’ and such) you can also very much use fantasy or alternate history settings that just mimic the trappings of that specific period.

For science fiction, I basically love all types. I enjoy the sleek, 1950s inspired looks of gleaming white utopias (with or without adjacent seedy underbelly), cyberpunk ruled by evil megacorporations full of androids and hackers and augmentations, steampunk with air ships that sail the whole universe or the more grungy variation that is all about cranking the dirt and squalor of 19th century industrialisation up, hard-boiled military SF, sprawling space operas, or even comparatively mild “we invented space travel/aliens uplifted us and now we’re part of the interstellar alien community” stuff. You can also mix fantasy and science fiction with magic spaceships and kings that lead galactic federations and such. I also enjoy post-apocalyptic wastelands, but I’d prefer it if some first tendrils of society to have already emerged again, should you go past the end times.

And then, of course, there’s the good old everyday modern world. I have to admit I’m not super interested in mundane modern stuff and most of the pairings I chose probably don’t work too well with it. However, I enjoy urban fantasy with magic and werewolves and vampires, or “our world, but we met aliens/elves decades or centuries ago and now they work alongside you at the office” or something along those lines. Also, feel free to write ideas you will often find in everyday stories, like meet-cutes or other sweet/low-stakes plots like that, in crazy sci-fi or fantasy settings; I like that a lot, too!

New Omega King/His Alpha Husbands
I really like this tag because it implies so many interesting plot possibilities. Is this a story about a New Omega King who has been on around the court for a while (but not as king) and the established relationship with his husbands, or maybe someone who decided to marry later in life and now has to deal with that? Or is the Omega King new to both his job and his marriages? If it’s the latter, did his royal parent or older sibling die, or is he actually someone who is pretty low in the chain of inheritance and never expected to get the throne at all, but something wiped out everyone ahead of him? I especially like omegas who are a bit unusual (tall and/or physically strong), but there’s many ways to go with this. For the alphas, I’d be interested whatever you come up with! Are they just there as spouses or do they have positions at court? Have they, or some of them, known each other before? Are they also in a relationship, or in separate relationships, or are some of them rivals? (This is all in case you actually want to write anything plot-related – I’m also very happy about smut that is just about alphas happily fucking their omega.) Generally, I’m more interested in a story about a poly marriage that ends up being loving (though the way there can certainly be rocky and chaotic!), whether the alphas are also sleeping with each other/in romantic relationships or just friendly; rather than a story about an asshole omega king who forces alphas into his harem, or alphas who are unhappy with their lot in life even by the end of the story. I’d also love to get to know the characters, so I’d somewhat prefer several husbands with distinct personalities to a faceless, bigger group of husbands (unless, again, you’re going for PWP porn, which I would be totally fine with, then all is fair game). For smut, I prefer bottom and sub Omega King. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Omega King.

I’d want all of the people involved in this marriage to be over eighteen and not related to each other (and not having raised each other even if they’re not blood-related, though people of the same age growing up together is totally fine, as long as they didn’t see each other as siblings), but that’s pretty much it!

If this is an Omega King who has been married to his Alpha Husbands for a while, before he became king, I’d love to see their day-to-day life – whether the husbands are a factor at court, or whether they mostly get to be trophy spouses. No matter if they are solving a political crises, engaging in court drama, or winning a war, all would be great; however, something domestic, romantic, or smutty would be just as nice. Or maybe the Alpha Husbands prepare some sort of surprise for their overworked Omega King?

Perhaps a new Alpha Husband has to be integrated because the Omega King made a treaty with someone that was sealed with marriage. This new person finding their place in the group dynamic would be great to see.

Of course, the characters could also be in a poly relationship simply because it’s a possibility and they all want to be married to each other.

Maybe the Omega King was only an Omega Duke or something, happily living with his several Alpha Husbands, which might be unorthodox (perhaps it’s more normal that alphas take several omegas, but not really the other way around), but since he wasn’t much of a presence at court, no one really cared that much. Suddenly, his family gets decimated and him and his Alpha Husbands are in the spotlight as he becomes the Omega King.

I do love the trope of people having to win ritual combat against their potential spouse. How does this work in the context of a group marriage? Are they allowed to band together? Or maybe no one ever banded together before because everyone wanted the Omega King (and the position of king’s consort) for themselves, but the Omega King is a very accomplished fighter who beat everyone. However, these Alphas realise the rules don’t specify they can’t band together, and the Omega King decides to honour their clever strategy by marrying all of them.

If they banded together from the start for ritual combat against the Omega King, maybe the Alphas are even already in a poly relationship. However, it would also be interesting to see a group of ambitious Alphas do this for political reasons and then start to like each other and the Omega King.

Maybe for ritual combat against the Omega King, they also have to beat him one by one. Perhaps the Omega King opens up a spot for a new addition and his already existing Alpha Husbands watch the people trying out with great interest? Or they are all picked at the same time and the Alphas who end up being his husbands all beat him with different strategies (maybe one wins by just having overwhelming strength, one tricks him, one hexes him...).

Mating runs are also always fun! Same as above, can the Husbands band together to catch him? Did they plan to do so, or did they just end up realising on the chase that it would make sense to work together? Or maybe three (or more) of them also accidentally work together by cornering the Omega King and then get in a fight about who has the right to marry him. The Omega King decides that for fairness’s sake, they should all be his husbands.

Ritual bride stealing is also very cute. I’m assuming the Omega King would be the bride. Does he just let the Alphas steal him because it’s just a ritual, anyway, or does he try to escape them? How quickly can the Alphas capture him? Maybe the Omega King is a bit of a trickster or has pride in his skills as a warrior, so it ends up being more of a struggle than the Alphas figured?

Generally, I would also love to see courtship. Obviously, a courtship that includes at least three and possibly more people is always going to be a bit unconventional. Do the Alphas court the Omega King together or do they make a bit of a competition out of it? Maybe the Omega King runs himself ragged trying to show every Alpha the same amount of attention? And what about the prospective Alpha Husbands among each other? Perhaps it’s not unusual for an omega king to have several spouses, but the fact that he also allows them to court each other is very unconventional.

Arranged marriage is a great trope for this, too, of course. Maybe the omega King is unsure whether the Alphas that he has been allotted for various political reasons actually want to be in this marriage and he wonders if they’re going to take this out on him in various ways, including in the bedroom. However, it turns out his Husbands are actually quite nice. On the other hand, perhaps the Alphas were the ones expecting this to end badly because the Omega King has a reputation as a jaded warrior or stern high priest or dangerous wizard, but it turns out he’s actually a lot less terrifying than advertised.

Perhaps two or more Alphas were already in a relationship before entering an arranged marriage with the Omega King, or start dating during the marriage. They planned to keep it a secret, but the Omega King finds out. To their surprise, this doesn’t really bother the Omega King at all. (Due to the set-up of arranged marriages, and the Omega King never making any rules, anyway, I would not consider this hitting the cheating DNW.)

If group marriages are common, there might even be different kinds of alliances the Alpha Husbands are for – one is connected to a neighbouring country, one to a powerful vassal, one is the scion of a rich merchant’s guild, or similar stuff. This would mean they all have different backgrounds to each other, too. It would be interesting to see them all dealing with each other and the Omega King.

A royal alliance between several countries/cultural groups that is sealed by the Omega King marrying an Alpha from each of them would also be interesting.

If the Omega King is new, maybe he inherited a conflict from the person who had the throne before? It might have been a long, bloody fight and the Omega King seeks peace for his people. If this means he has to have several husbands to make several sides happy, well, he’ll do it.

Perhaps the Omega King is also backed into a corner and forced to accept the terms the other side has (they may have even killed his predecessor(s)). If they want him to marry like four or five of their alphas, well, group marriages may not be a thing in his culture, but what can the Omega King do but agree to protect his country? However, the actual marriage ends up not being as bad as he feared.

If the marriage is arranged for political reasons, it would not be uncommon if they only met on the wedding day. I’d love to see the Omega King and his Alpha Husbands feel out each other on their wedding day. Do they get along from the start? Do they need time to warm up to each other? How do they deal with the festivities and rituals and what does it teach them about each other?

Mutual pining within an arranged marriage is also a delicious flavour. The Omega King thinks the Alpha Husbands only agreed to this marriage for political reasons and must be unhappy with this, so he doesn’t want to push them into anything that could be considered marital duties (except maybe he’s forced to ask when it comes to procreation, since he needs an heir – sex while mutually pining is also great!). The Alpha Husbands think the Omega King is uncomfortable with this arrangement and don’t want to force him into anything. How do they figure out they all want the same thing?

Some pining between the Alpha Husbands would also be interesting. Maybe the Omega King ends up brokering relationships between them, since he feels bad they all have to share him, and would rather see them happy, since he is actually crushing on them. However, it turns out the Alpha Husbands don’t just like each other, but the Omega King, too.

Pining or not, considering this is likely a political marriage, no one expects them to be in love, and they were mostly hoping for just an amicable relationship with their spouses. However, as they are married, they end up slowly falling for each other.

Maybe the reason for the marriage was not strictly political, but magical in nature. The Omega King picked Alpha Husbands with specific magic talents to revive his country/a part of his country with a ritual (or just people who would work well with the ritual in general). This is a price they’re all willing to pay, but in the end, their magical marriage ends up being something they are all very much into as well.

Generally, I’d also enjoy to see how they work out their routines in a poly relationship. If they all just met on the wedding day or were never all in a room together before that, I’m sure it would be a challenge to figure out this poly marriage at first. How do they fare and how do they get comfortable with each other?

The above would still be an interesting prompt if the poly marriage was not actually a political necessity, but a decision the Omega King and his Alpha Husbands made because they were in love and all wanted to be married.

I would love to see them sleep together on the wedding night. Is it a lot of limbs all over the place and a bit awkward? Is it surprisingly good? How do the Alpha Husbands deal with each other and with the Omega King?

Every Alpha Husband has to be with the Omega King at least once during the wedding night according to tradition, so depending on how many there are, the Omega King might be pretty exhausted afterwards. Both the process and the Alphas perhaps cuddling him afterwards would be fun.

A wedding night introducing a new Alpha Husband into the fold could also be really cool!

If bloodlines are important, it’s a good guess the Omega King would still be a virgin – and now he gets to have his first time with several people at once. Do the Alpha Husbands try to make it a little bit less overwhelming?

However, maybe the Omega King had some clandestine affairs, but one of the Alpha Husbands happens to be a virgin. The Omega King and the other Alpha Husbands teaching him what to do would be interesting.

Generally, I’m always open to all kinds of smut, of course, whether it’s part of a longer story or PWP!

The Omega King being an Omega King implies a bloodline-based inheritance system, so what about having children? I’d love to see them trying for a child (with a focus on romance or breeding kink, depending where you want to take this), the Alpha Husbands caring about their pregnant Omega King, or see how their family raises their child(ren).