Dear Not Ready For Prime Time Writer,

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

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
Assassin’s Creed
Dragon Age 2
Mass Effect Trilogy
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Black Panther

DNWs and Likes

DNWs

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

infidelity

unrequested open relationships/poly (the requested threesome can start out with less clear lines and with emotional confusion and all, I just don’t want anybody deliberately cheating on anybody else, and for them to eventually become a closed triad)

noncon, dubcon (canonical instances of sexual abuse can be included/described/discussed, though)

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

smut involving underage characters (under 18)

cross-gen incest

ageplay, diaper play, daddy or mommy kink

scat, emetophilia

necrophilia, cannibalism/debilitating mutilation of requested characters for sexual pleasure, vore, bestiality (some animal markers, such like, idk AU Alexios being Zeus' son and growing talons and eagle wings are okay, though)

crackfic (humour is totally good, just not complete randomness)

high school/college AUs (other modern AUs are okay)

1st and 2nd POV

Likes

UST (and also eventual resolving of UST)

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

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

battle couples fighting together

loyalty kink

admiring competence/skill

sparring

protectiveness

possessiveness

hurt/comfort

fluff

mpreg, kidfic

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

one partner manhandling the other

focus on height differences if applicable

you can literally always write me PWP for my pairings or spice up my prompts with some smut, I’ll be glad for it

Soulmate AUs, played straight or averted

I also enjoy A/B/O AUs, so in case you’re inspired to write that, I placed the character I most enjoy as an omega behind the / . I also like things such as beta/omega or alpha/alpha, though! Mpreg is also always welcome. Again, the person I’d like to see pregnant more will be behind the /. For mpreg childbirth, feel free to give them new genitalia to manage it or just have an anal birth or a Caesarian. (I also have one group of three, in that case, the last person listed is the one I’d want to see pregnant/as an omega.)

Smut Likes

rough sex

slow, loving sex

marking with biting and love bites, scratch marks, bruises

overstimulation

focus on hands, fingering, handjobs

intercrural

oral

anal

rimming

body worship

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

BDSM, D/s

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

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

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

Assassin’s Creed

Haytham Kenway/Charles Lee
I love Haytham and Charles, villains who really respect and like each other and stand behind their idea of a world of order being what is needed for humanity where they guide the rest of us stupid sheeple humans to a better future, lol. I immensely enjoy young Charles’ senpai-notice-me dynamic with Haytham and his adoration for him; but I also love that eventually it goes both way, when Charles becomes Haytham’s trusted second-in-command.

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, heh), 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 accolyte for his own purposes instead of making him a Templar (perhaps by seducing him, combining business with pleasure, and/or by filling his head with new ideas)?

Another idea I like is that Charles somehow knew who Haytham’s son is, or Haytham did, and, arriving just a few hours later than in game, either of them or both find little Connor in the burning wreckage of the village and take him home to raise him a Templar. Gimme all that found family fluff – Connor playing with Charles’ dogs! Haytham training little Connor by making him jump at Charles from every shadowy corner of the house! – with perhaps just that hint of a dark edge, knowing what Connor is being raised into. Relatedly, 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 mold him into a better Templar. Whether this veers into a smutty direction (D/s for the sake of self-control? I’d love Haytham as Charles’ Dom) or involves some real soul-searching and deep discussions or tests from Haytham, all is good. Or, if you want to go down a heavy route, a couple of modern historians have speculated that Charles Lee, the actual historical figure, who was also known for temper issues, had some serious mental health problems, possibly bipolar disorder. That could also be really interesting to explore and try to manage, especially in a time when mental health care was still very fledgling.

Heap on the angst and hurt/comfort! One of them almost dying, getting gravely injured, deadly ill, almost frozen to death, tortured by rogue Templars or Assassins for fun or information... and then the other one bursting in to save them (if applicable) and drag them home and put 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.

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

Alexios/Brasidas
Brasidas was amazing and the romance option of my heart and you can’t convince me he shouldn’t have been one. If you are in that part of the timeline with your fic, feel free to ignore the fact that he died because, uh, deathfic of requested characters is really not my thing, lol. But lasting, crippling injuries are fine! Or maybe Alexios can save him before any of that happens. I love these two as a battle couple (that tag team fight!), but I also like that Brasidas is one of the few Spartans who doesn’t jump to warfare and murder as the first and only solution to all problems.

Give me the hurt! Give me the comfort! Give me all the angst! Brasidas had two big battles to get critically injured in. Maybe after the second battle, Brasidas survives, but he’s not fit for army duty anymore. Perhaps he can still fight a bit and Alexios takes him on as a lieutenant on his ship; maybe he can’t and he has to deal with that and Alexios helps with that, too. Or simply Alexios sitting by Brasidas’ bedside unsure if he’ll wake up again, that’d be great, too. Also, if Alexios didn’t manage the best ending, he’ll have to deal with a lot of guilt, since its the result of his decisions (I mean, damn, just watch the bad ending with Alexios sitting alone at the dinner table, it’s heart-breaking...). Would love Brasidas helping him heal and maybe eventually think about making a new family.

I’m so easy for adventure stories. Brasidas and Alexios hunting cultists! Fighting Athenians! Fighting bandits! I really like them fighting (or plotting to solve a situation without a fight) together a lot!

I you are in the mood to just write smut, I have absolutely no problem with that, either. I somewhat prefer Alexios on top, but considering they probably spar for it and Brasidas has some tricks up his sleeve, I doubt he always ends up on bottom. However, as much as I think their sex life would be wild and athletic, I would also love a scene of a romantic sexual encounter between them, or Friends With Benefits slowly turning into more.

Spartan marriage included a ritualistic kidnapping of the bride. This could be fun with Brasidas reintroducing Alexios to some customs of his old and new home by "kidnapping" him, or Alexios deciding to woo Brasidas 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.)

Alright, so, I know I said no dead Brasidas, but this is an exception because you know what? There’s so much mythical stuff happening in this game, Alexios can definitely saddle up and pull his boyfriend/crush out of Hades. Maybe he meets some mythological figure who offers him a deal and Alexios and Brasidas have to do some feats of daring in return? Or he straight up beats up the hellhound and demands an audience with the king of the underworld.

I’d love an AU where Brasidas narrowly avoids death from the injuries Deimos!Alexios gave him in their second encounter, perhaps is even permanently disabled because of it in some way... and then Kassandra gets Deimos away from the Cult and now he’s living in a house in Sparta and Brasidas has to look him in the face every day. That can’t be too easy. How do they get closer? Perhaps Deimos feels like he has to make up for what he did; or Brasidas eventually, for Kassandra’s and Myrrin’s sake, makes an attempt to speak to him. (This could also be interesting the other way around, where Kassandra is Deimos and now Brasidas has to live with the fact that his lover Alexios brought his almost-murderer home to Sparta.)

Alexios/Stentor
Alexios and Stentor have such a deliciously complicated relationship. Stentor is obviously threatened by Alexios’ presence, and Alexios is probably jealous that Stentor got to have Nikolaos as a father whereas Alexios got to be shoved off a cliff. However, considering how attached Stentor is to Nikolaos, I doubt he has any birth family that cares about him, either. He and Alexios eventually might find themselves unexpectedly able to bond over some things. They also would make a great battle couple and their verbal and physical sparring is a lot of fun.
(Also, after trying to make sense of the respective ages of Stentor, Kassandra, and Alexios with the help (and hindrance) of the wiki, I... just don’t know anymore? Stentor should theoretically be older, but it doesn’t really make much sense with when Nikalos started paying him attention, and Alexios calls him “little brother” on the ship and Stentor doesn’t object. Also, Alexios is either 8 or 13 at the beginning of the game according to different information, Deimos is apparently 15 when you first meet them and the game takes place over 9 years but feels like it happens in the span of at max. 2. So please feel free to handwave all of this and just adjust the ages as you need them or keep them as they are, I am not picky (and I really don’t care about Spartan minimum ages for military positions, either, in case you find that in your way of whatever you want to do). This has been a PSA just in case you happen to stumble into the same land of confusion where I am currently.)

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 really 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 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 his attempts 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 relationship with Stentor, too, and Nikolaos getting to know Alexios and Kassandra better, and/or reassuring Stentor. Family fluff is great, yo. 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 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.

If you wanna go the smut-heavy route, I have some preference for Alexios on top, but I also love Alexios and Stentor fighting for dominance and Stentor probably doesn’t lose every time. A scenario where Stentor is quite happy to often be the loser (and very, very ashamed about enjoying Alexios topping him) would be great, though. I could also see them using fighting, physical or otherwise, as an entrance into their little dalliances. Do they eventually get a point where they realise that they want to sleep with each other even without almost breaking their noses in a sparring match before? Where Stentor even admits to his preference for bottoming, if he has it in this fic? Enemies to People (hardly friends) With Benefits to Lovers certainly is a great trope for them. But really – these are just ideas, I am not picky, I would be happy for all manner of smut with 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 so subtly and softly that Stentor barely realises what he’s agreeing to until it’s happening (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…).

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 mighty confused when the dude they thought would have been relieved to see the other go, 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 closer in the coming years?

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

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

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 the fight 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 some channeling of 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.

Alexios/Brasidas/Stentor
Alexios needs all the sexy Spartan men, and why not at once? I feel like this could be either a hot threesome, or, if you’re so inclined, a really interesting triad relationship (which would likely take a lot of scenes to set up, so feel free to just jump into the middle of it, or insinnuate it might happen sometime in the future). Brasidas being a popular Spartan general would almost certainly have met the hand-picked adopted son of the Wolf before, after all, and they both have quite interesting relationships with Alexios. For smut, I somewhat prefer bottom Stentor and don't have a strong preference between the other two, but I imagine in this big Spartan pile-up, there'll be a lot of back and forth, anyway.

Brasidas, time-line wise, should be some years older than Stentor and Alexios. Perhaps Stentor had a crush on him when he was a young man at the agoge and Brasidas came by to help train him sometimes, or when he was a young soldier. Now Alexios is with Brasidas and Stentor is just so unbelievably annoyed that Alexios doesn’t just steal his father and his house, but also the man he used to want (or still wants). And it certainly doesn’t help he’s secretly a bit interested in Alexios, too… Do the other two notice and invite him into their bed/relationship?

Alexios is with Stentor/Brasidas, and Stentor/Brasidas at some point mentions that he used to have an affair/friends-with-benefits thing with Brasidas/Stentor. Now Alexios can’t stop thinking about it because he does kind of want both men. Or hell, perhaps Brasidas/Stentor mentions that they slept with the respective other at some point, and his boyfriend Alexios is like “hey, I did, too”, and they invite the missing third back into their bed, and then perhaps he gets tangled in the relationship as well.

Alexios notices that Brasidas and Stentor seem kind of interested in each other and are flirting, but never seem to make the next step. Because Brasidas is his friend and Stentor definitely needs someone to remove the stick up his ass, Alexios decides to play matchmaker. However, in the process, he gets dragged into the relationship, too.

Brasidas wants to make sure Stentor and Alexios get along, since he knows and likes both of them, perhaps by inviting them to a shared mission. This ends in a threesome.

Alexios and Stentor are sleeping together and somehow both confess to each other they used to like Brasidas (would also work with Alexios and Brasidas both being interested in Stentor). They decide to seduce him together.

I could also see the three of them all getting closer on some mission simultaneously, though, with lots of three-way pining and crushing and guilty late-nigh fantasies.

The three of them fighting together, hunting Cultists together, getting drunk at festivities, barely surviving a storm on the Adrestia or an attack on their lives (I figure each one of them has enough enemies at this point) – just everyday things that could happen to them being dealt with by this trio.

Three-way sparring, whether it leads to smut or them just having fun together and getting to let go a bit with fighters of their own level without the threat of serious injury.

The three of them defending a border or country/fighting a battle for Sparta together and all the planning and fighting together that comes with it..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, these two are a bit older, but I’d still love to read smut! They may not go at it quite like the young ones anymore, but with age comes experience... although Barnabas does keep very fit, working on a ship, so it might be really fun if he surprised Herodotos with some feat of strength or endurance. Herodotos, for his part, has probably learned a lot of clever tricks from the Athenians. I somewhat prefer top Barnabas, but let’s be real, I would take everything for these two.

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

Ezio Auditore da Firenze/Leonardo da Vinci
Ezio and Leonardo are such an amazing pairing. Whether you go with the timeline of the first game, when Ezio is still wilder, or the second game, when they’re both older and and perhaps even a tad wiser, I love the trust they place in each other and their banter and friendship.

Ezio protecting Leonardo or Leonardo doing the same for him, physically (as much as he can, not being a fighter) or through a smart lie/invention and the fall-out of that would be great.

Leonardo could also be dragged away and tortured to extract information from him about Ezio – which Leonardo would never give, of course. I would love a severely beaten-up Leonardo showing up in Monteriggioni asking for protection and Ezio caring about him before going out to bring hell to the people who mistreated Leonardo.

Leonardo has a crush on Ezio, but considering what a lady’s man Ezio is, he has no hopes that anything will ever come of it and he’s quite sad about it. Perhaps Ezio finally realises what Leonardo meant in that scene in Brotherhood ("women provide little distraction") and does something about it (he can also get a clue earlier).

Leonardo and Ezio having an adventure together! Escaping Templars, searching for Assassin scrolls and artifacts, just being a great team together.

Ezio sets his mind to wooing Leonardo. He's probably never really had someone properly try to sweep him off his feet before, as most relationships with men would have been very clandestine and probably filled with shame.

Ezio being forced to test some more inventions of Leonardo’s would be great, but I would also like a vignette about Ezio being more seriously charmed by Leonardo’s genius and enthusiasm. For that matter, Ezio getting in contact with any of the sketches/inventions/paintings of Leonardo’s that survived the ages and are still revered today. I love stories that incorporate real life stuff like that.

Ezio finds the sketches Leonardo made of him - or of them (could be dirty or could be romantic, or both).

A straight modern AU of these two could be fun! Leonardo was such a multi-talent. What would he be like in the modern world, what dazzling art and inventions would he have come up with? And what would Ezio's evolution be like - straight up party fuckboy/Instagram model to real hero?

Dragon Age 2

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, 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?). Sarcastic Hawke and Varric obviously get on like a house on fire, Varric is super fond of Friendly Hawke and his never-ending goodness, even if he does poke fun at him, and the tension between Aggressive 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.

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

I’m all for battle synergy expressing how great two characters fit, 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 sort-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 syphoning blood from Varric, since he can afford not to be in top shape standing in the backline, maybe even feeding Varric healing potions when he needs more blood. Then there’s the obvious ways tanks and rogues work together, so a full-on warrior Hawke protecting Varric in battle (and having Varric keep his flank free with his crossbow) 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 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 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 artifact 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 like, basically like a relationship already, so maybe they shouldn’t push their luck, leading to all the unnecessary pining and hopefully, eventually, a 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.

Smut is always welcome. I prefer bottom Varric. 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.

Mass Effect Trilogy

Javik/Male Shepard
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 if it fits his cultural background better. Paragon, Renegade or Paragade/Renegon (mix-and-match choices) all work, too. As for the Endings… you know, whichever one works for you, as long as Shepherd lives, really! I’m not super attached to any of them and I’d also be totally fine with the blunt idea of the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun, if that suits your story better.

Javik and Shepard fighting together, doing a mission with just the two of them. All classes could be fun here, I just love combat synergy.

Post-ending and with Shepard alive, I really want to see Javik exploring what it’s like to be in a situtation that is not an active, rapidly losing war and getting closer to Shepard in the process – who may also have trouble coming down after everything that has happened to him lately.

When you let him see what was on the Shard, Javik resolves to commit suicide after the Reapers are beaten and join his indoctrinated crew that he had to kill. Perhaps Shepard, with a heavy heart, resolves to bring him to the Cronian Nebula, but the adventures on their travels there, and their relationship, make Javik see a future for himself, even if he might feel bad about it. Considering his dreams, Shepard obviously also has a lot of survivor’s guilt, much like Javik, so they could also bond over that.

Relatedly, I doubt PTSD and other mental problems stemming from war was even something the Protheans bothered to talk about anymore, since it’s a safe bet every single one of them was affected in some way with the lives they led by the time Javik was born. Just Javik learning to take help and show a little bit of weakness in front of Shepard (and vice versa, really) would be nice.

Javik and Shepard relaxing on the hanar homeworld with Javik’s hanar admirers. Bonus if Javik actually manages to be a pretty good “god” to them.

When everything has calmed down a little bit post-ending, Shepard takes Javik on a date. Just a normal-ass date, maybe with some food and drinks, or dancing, or ice cream, or making out on the couch with a vid running. Maybe it gets interrupted by a firefight. But maybe it’d also be unusual for the two of them if it wasn’t, really.

I’d love some smut between them, some preference for bottom!Javik. I would like Javik to still be humanoid when it comes to genitalia, but other than that feel free to dwell on his xeno-ness. And was it ever even explained whether Protheans are a bi-gender species? Perhaps Javik has both male and female (in human terms, anyway) genitalia. Or he’s hiding wings under that armour – some of the Collectors were flying, right? I would also love to know how the Prothean touch-reading affects sex, too.

Prothean babies! Maybe Protheans are like asari in that they can have… well, probably eggs, considering how much Javik looks like an insect, but perhaps also babies of their own species with members of other species (I’d prefer Javik pregnant here). Maybe he asks Shepard after it’s all over and they have been together for a while; or it’s an accident that happens before the Reapers are beaten and now they both have another good reason to fight. But also, Javik and Shepard raising war orphans would be cute, too.

Shepard resumes his work as Spectre and Javik becomes his loyal crewmember and lover.

Javik says that when he was born, there were basically only soldiers anymore. You didn’t have a chance to be anything else. It would be really nice if Shepard found some old Prothean ruins and Javik got to explore his own culture in its long-lost heyday for once.

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Evfra de Tershaav/Avitus Rix
These two don’t meet in-game, but I always thought it would be interesting if they did. Avitus lost his boyfriend, and Evfra lost his whole family to the kett (which may well also have included a husband or wife or even kids, but was surely traumatic any which way), so they are both no strangers to suffering – but also not to trying to claw your way back. Whether Avitus is the new Pathfinder or a mercenary, I want to see it all.

I remember once upon a time there was a rumour that you could elect Evfra as the interim ambassador to the Nexus, which didn’t make it into the game, but still seems interesting to me. In that position, Avitus and him would surely run into each other every once in a while, perhaps to discuss settlement plans (for worlds found on the Meridian map) or plan joint attacks on the kett. Perhaps they get closer as they develop respect for each other?

Evfra decides to come with Avitus in his role as turian pathfinder for some mission and the two of them end up separated. As they fight their way back to their soldiers, they have time to get to know each other and appreciate each other’s skills.

If Avitus took the mantle, how does SAM affect the relationship? He was in Macen’s head for a while and he took quite a hit there, which may have made him different from other SAMs, partial somehow. Does he like Evfra? Does he make Avitus compare his two lovers more than he usually might? Does he have to be brought around to the relationship? Even if SAM is not opposed to it and/or recovered from being stuck with Macen, what does Evfra think about basically being in a relationship with two people in one body, one of whom is an AI?

If Avitus doesn’t take the Pathfinder mantle, he ends up as a mercenary on Kadara. Evfra has contacts there, too. Perhaps when he travels there, he somehow ends up with Avitus as his mercenary or just accidentally on the same side with him in some battle. Perhaps he is impressed by him (Avitus was a Spectre once upon a time, after all) and can be the one to convince Avitus that there’s more for him out there than to drink himself to a slow death. Avitus said he’d go wherever there’s work, so if Evfra can give him some, well… since there doesn’t seem to be a turian Pathfinder so far, maybe Evfra even convinces him to take up that spot. Or he takes him home as his personal guard/a sort of ambassador.

As a variation on the prompt above, mercenary Avitus and Evfra run into each in some fraught situation. Avitus obviously won’t say he was once on track to become Pathfinder, Evfra doesn’t reveal himself so he doesn’t become a target or hostage. On their joint misadventures, however, they get closer, and Avitus is shocked to learn eventually he’s fallen for one of the most high-ranking angara currently in existence.

Would love some hurt/comfort, perhaps Evfra talking to Avitus about Macen, or Avitus giving Evfra a chance to vent about some soldiers he lost; or the traditional thing where one of them gets hurt, which I’m sure both of them would try to walk off, but the other may make them sit down and take five.

Pathfinder Avitus and Evfra find a Vault together, allowing Avitus to see that despite losing Macen, there really are great things in this new place he travelled to, and Evfra to make some connection to his history.

Smut is also always great. Some preference for bottom Evfra here. Would love them exploring each other’s bodies and teaching each other how sex works for their respective species (though I would want them to both still have vaguely humanoid genitalia). Do they go rough, or are they unexpectedly tender with each other? Maybe one leads to the other to their surprise? Does SAM somehow factor into it?

Black Panther

T'Challa/M'Baku
I love this pairing so much. It already had so many of my favourite tropes, what with T’Challa sparing M’Baku knowing that he is needed by his tribe, M’Baku wanting T’Challa out of the way but then actually saving him, and of course that scene in the end where he shows up with reinforcements. Just a lot of good stuff.
Endgame is gonna be out during the exchange period, but don’t worry about spoilers, they don’t bother me! But also, feel free to start writing and go from the information we have at the moment, just total AU. Or really, break off into AU at any point of the MCU franchise you wish. It’s at heart a superhero comic canon, and superhero comic canons are changeable, fickle beasts that can be ignored at will in my book.

I’m not going to surprise anyone by saying this, but like, arranged marriage AU, anyone? Maybe it’s a tradition that the heirs of tribes have to marry into the royal family at certain intervals or something. Or it’s to show that M’Baku and his tribe are ready to be integrated. Are they both on board for it, perhaps already silently crushing? Or are they not quite convinced this is a good idea at all and only slowly start to grow closer?

Since we’re on marriage and heirs, I’m sure if they have magic herbs and super technology, they could somehow even make an heir by blood, be they grown in a tube or in someone’s belly (if it was mpreg, I’d prefer if M’Baku was pregnant).

Speaking of kids, M’Baku said he had kids in the movie. That could totally just have been for the joke, but what if he actually does? Maybe he’s divorced or widowed. How does T’Challa deal with them? Can he get their approval? Do they want to train with him? (And do they like playing little morbid pranks as much as their father?)

I admit I’ve never been super interested in Marvel’s big team-up stuff, neither here nor in the comics. Consequently, I wouldn’t really want a whole plot focused solely around Thanos; but if you wanna have an unsnappening-focused hurt/comfort story or something like that, or use it as a jumping-off point for a plot you have planned, that’d be totally great.

I would love to see T’Challa and M’Baku working together, helping the people in the surrounding countries or around the world, joining up with other heroes, all that stuff. The Jabari seem reclusive even for the standards of Wakanda, so M’Baku’s likely going to be even more unused to interacting with the outside world. However, it doesn’t mean he can’t still kick ass, so. You know. These two would make a great super-hero team.

So, like, it would be good to have some more Heart-Shaped Herb, right? For whoever follows after T’Challa. Maybe there’s a series of rituals or trials that can be completed to maybe gain another one. Perhaps it literally involves travelling to the Ancestral Plane or some other spiritual realm? This could be interesting also for T’Challa and M’Baku to learn more about each other. Feel free to make this as symbolic or actually magic as you like (I don’t think the movie ever made it particularly clear, other than that the power of the Herb seems to be connected to Vibranium). Or perhaps it’s more of an action piece where they have to go to, idk, into a cave in a volcano to find the extra secret reserves some wise king once planted. Basically, I would love some straight-up adventure with them, too!

Smut would of course be awesome. I prefer bottom M’Baku, but I’m sure they wrestle for it sometimes and he doesn’t always lose – he may just enjoy losing more than that first time they fought, haha. But I would also love a sex scene that’s not led in by a squabble or sparring match, but is slow and loving or desperate and passionate. It would also be great to see them experiment with kinks and such, just something light-hearted and fun for both.