Dear Press Start Writer,

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

Some prompts may read like ideas for longer fics, but if you’re interested in them, please just grab a scene with the general idea out of the middle of those hypothetical longfics and write me that! I love fic of all length and don’t want anyone to feel like they have to go above the minimum word count. I just get excited writing prompts sometimes, heh.

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
Dishonored
Dragon Age
Mass Effect Trilogy
Mass Effect Andromeda
Overwatch
Vampyr

DNWs and Likes

DNWs

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

infidelity

unrequested open relationships/poly (the requested threesomes can start out with less clear lines and emotional confusion and all, I just don’t want anybody deliberately cheating on anybody else, and I’d like 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

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 groups of three, in that case, the last person listed is the one I’d want to see pregnant and/or 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

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.

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

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 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 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’ special bloodline needs to be continued. Either by way of an Isu artefact, mpreg just always being possible for (perhaps only some?) men, or A/B/O, Stentor could be the one to carry that kid. I’m also always here for unplanned pregnancies, too, though.

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

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 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 in the agoge 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.

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

Nikolaos & Stentor
I love Stentor and want to know how he ended up with Nikolaos. Is he Spartan by birth or is a he a trophimos, an outsider’s child fostered in the Spartan agoge, who is adopted into Spartan citizenship, or a syntrophos, a helot child training with the boys of the agoge after being adopted by a Spartan, who has to prove his skill to gain Spartan citizenship? Either way, he never mentions any other family and seems desperately attached to Nikolaos, so my headcanon is that he either doesn’t know them well/at all, they died early, or they treated him badly. I’m always here for hurt/comfort, so that would of course play into that. However, I’d also be very interested in Nikolaos’ perspective. He let two children die in the name of Sparta, why does he adopt another one? What does it feel like to raise Stentor not being able to raise his other children? What is being a single parent like after he raised his former children with his wife? And how does their relationship develop after Nikolaos two-year absence and now that he has his family back?

Maybe Nikolaos told himself he would never have children again after what happened with his last family. How does Stentor get his attention? What convinces Nikolaos to adopt him?

Nikolaos starts preferring Stentor not because he wants another child, but because he will do everything for Sparta and one thing Sparta demands of its men is that they raise strong sons. Since he doesn’t want to get married again, Nikolaos dutifully picks out a talented boy without a family to adopt, figuring he can shape him into a good soldier. However, as time goes by and he realises how attached and grateful Stentor is, it gets harder and harder not to like him.

Stentor tells Alexios/Kassandra that while Nikolaos was a good father, he sometimes “got a faraway look in his eyes” and he sensed a sadness there, which he also connected with regrets, so it seems that even if Nikolaos did not speak about it, it was clear enough to Stentor he missed his former family. What was it like for little Stentor knowing that his father was still grieving his other children? Did he try to make up for their loss? Was he worried he would never live up to the family Nikolaos gave up?

Stentor’s age is one of these things that gets especially lost to Odyssey’s nonsense timeline, but let’s say he was young when Alexios and Kassandra were “killed”, or as a helot or outsider just didn’t hear about it, and so Nikolaos has to tell him what happened to his family. How does Stentor take that? Is he frightened he’s going off the mountain, too, if he doesn’t behave? Does it convince him to prove himself?

Stentor called Nikolaos “caring in his way”, and we saw he was strict in practice with Kassandra/Alexios, too. I would like to see a moment where Nikolaos, who comes off as stern and not very loving at first glance, shows Stentor that he can rely on him as a parent. Maybe Stentor gets hurt or sick or is afraid of something and worried to speak of it, as a Spartan boy should always be strong.

I’d love any story about Stentor, at any age, trying his best to prove himself to Nikolaos and Nikolaos being proud of his talents and teaching him new skills and watching him succeed by putting them into practice. However, I’d also love a story where perhaps Stentor only makes second place or something in a contest and Nikolaos, though he is a strict parent, sees that maybe he has put a bit too much pressure on him and reassures him that although he does want Stentor to do well, he’s not going to kick him out over a lost wrestling contest or whatever.

Stentor’s reaction to Nikolaos’ return in Boeotia would be great. Obviously he was very happy, but I can’t imagine he doesn’t have a few nagging questions. Why didn’t his fathe even tell him he wasn’t dead? Did he not think Stentor would understand? And why did Nikolaos not do it? Was he worried he was going to lose Stentor’s regard?

Stentor thinks he’s perfectly superfluous now that Nikolaos has his real family back and his children happen to be unbeatable god creatures with superpowers that Stentor can’t hope to measure up to. When does Nikolaos realise?

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 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. Or Alkibiades tries his hand at matchmaking, noticing that these two have an unspoken attraction that they simply must act upon? But I’m sure they could figure it out themselves eventually, too.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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. Leonardo'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, so this is a nice new experience.

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).

Smut is great! Somewhat prefer bottom Leonardo. Does Ezio have any experience with men or does Leonardo have to teach him? Is he a much quicker student than Leonardo expected or perhaps even a bit reluctant because he worries about hurting Leonardo?

Marriage is legally allowed for two men and brilliant and lively Leonardo, whose interest in men wouldn’t be criminal in that case, has quite a few suitors (but maybe already lost his heart to Ezio). Ezio picks up on Leonardo’s popularity and finds that he is jealous. He decides to win Leonardo before anyone else can.

Shortly after his family is killed, Leonardo marries Ezio to give him some manner of legal protection, as above (perhaps they even pretend Ezio is Leonardo’s new husband from like, Sicily or something, giving him a new name). How many years does it take Ezio to figure out his husband is actually in love with him?

Ezio’s family married him to the more mature Leonardo in hopes of tempering him, but before the wedding night, his family gets slaughtered. Leonardo offers to keep the marriage going so that Ezio at least has someone to call on when he gets thrown in jail or something and Mario is not in the city. However, in time more develops between them than a friendship…

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

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

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. If it’s Haytham, does he maybe think he’ll just experiment with Charles for a bit, since he’s clearly willing, but it turns into more? If it’s Charles, is he growing steadily more confused about this feeling he thought to be admiration and is made to flounder constantly by Haytham, who knows exactly what’s going on and loves teasing?

For smut, I 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.

(I also have an mpreg-focused letter, one dealing with marriage tropes, and one for AUs for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Dishonored

Corvo Attano/Samuel Beechworth
I just really enjoy the relationship between Samuel and low chaos Corvo (though the tension between him and high chaos Corvo is also great, but since I’m wimpy, I have never played this way and don’t know that dynamic as well – but if you want to go for it, feel free to!). I know some people headcanon Corvo as mute and you can write him that way or just as a very tight-lipped dude, I like both.

Samuel probably considers himself pretty well below Corvo’s league. He’s just an old boatsman, after all, and here is Corvo, chosen one of the the Outsider (or, if he doesn’t know that, he can still see he’s like half a god with how good he is at everything), who used to be with an empress, and has a daughter who is the current empress. Does he not realise Corvo is in love because it seems to out there? Or maybe they had something during the brief time with the conspirators, but Samuel figures it’ll be over now that Corvo is back with the high-born people, whereas Corvo has no intentions of letting him go.

Corvo is the fighter between them, but Samuel is willing to stick his neck out for him if need be. He could get in a fight while waiting for him after a mission with his boat and get roughed up, or perhaps he pushes Corvo out of the way of an attacker and takes a hit himself.

Corvo bringing Samuel into the palace because Emily misses him and so does Corvo.

I’d just love some more conversations on the boat between them, these brief moments of quiet respite they get before and after the missions.

Samuel welcoming Corvo back after that super dangerous last mission, or another one where it seemed he would die (maybe after the poisoning) would be great. Just the two of them happy to be alive and in each other’s arms.

Corvo and Emily and Samuel being out on the sea in a little boat even after Emily is returned to the palace because it’s just a place where Corvo and Emily can relax a bit away from court. Corvo falling even deeper in love seeing Samuel around Emily.

Smut is always good! I prefer bottom Samuel. Was he a bit worried about his sexuality, knowing it’s basically branded as deviant by the Overseers? Then maybe Corvo, who is so accepting, is slowly getting him to admit to some fantasies and kinks he’s never shared because he mostly just slept with men hush-hush and without really talking much about it? Or maybe Samuel has always accepted this part of himself but Corvo hasn’t slept with men before and needs some introduction to the particulars?

Dragon Age

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. 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.

(I also have an mpreg-focused letter and one dealing with marriage tropes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Male Inquisitor/Varric Tethras
Varric has a very different relationship with the Inquisitor than he has with Hawke, but I think it’s still quite an interesting one because the Inquisitor gets Varric out of his element in Kirkwall (and the Inquisitor makes him camp out in the wild with him most days and Varric allows it, so that must mean something). All species, personalities, and classes are fine for the Inquisitor, and I’m totally happy with custom looks and even custom backstories and personalities because due to the amount of choice in player creation, I felt that, for example, an Elfquisitor could often feel pretty much the same as a Humanquisitor except for a handful of special dialogue choices. So if you wanna bring in their heritage and background more, I’d be totally happy for that. I do, of course, have my thing for size differences, so a qunari or human would be great for this pairing, but that’s just one suggestion, I love elves and dwarves, too.

Maybe Varric and the Inquisitor start out as a friends-with-benefits type of arrangement. Neither of them is in a great situation and it’s nice to just relax and have some fun. However, it doesn’t stay that simple.

The Inquisitor and Varric get separated from the rest and have to fight their way back to the next Inquisition camp. Whether that’s almost kind of romantic (if it weren’t for all those bugs and nature in general, in Varric’s opinion) or they are a stuck in an absolute hellhole and bond over having to get out, both could be fun.

The Inquisitor is a big fan of Varric’s books. He’s totally willing to trade kisses for sneak peeks, not just because of the stories, though. (But also, something sweet where Varric tells a tale to distract the Inquisitor from one of the multitude of bad experiences he can have in the game would be great, too.)

The Inquisitor is a rogue who teaches Varric two-handed dagger combat (Varric can switch from Bianca to two-handed for the first time in this games). During the lessons, they start to get along.

The Dwarfquisitor has Carta ties and Varric, as we know, does business with them. Maybe Varric knew him before the whole Inquisition business happened? But if you can think of a reason why he’d have met the other Inquisitors before, that would be fun, too. Maybe Varric and the Inquisitor even had a Thing (or just a one-nights-stand) at one point. How do they navigate that now?

After three years of long-distance relationship, Varric and the Inquisitor are overjoyed when the Inquisitor can finally join Varric in Kirkwall.

The Inquisitor was never really sure what to make of his feelings for Varric, but when Hawke or Bianca (either would work) shows up, the overwhelming jealousy suddenly becomes much less difficult to read. But Varric was only ever friends with Hawke and his romantic feelings aren’t for Bianca these days…

For smut, I’d prefer bottom Varric. Varric seems like he has a lot of experience, is it the same for the Inquisitor? Does one of them maybe have less experience with men? Does a mage Inquisitor use his powers for good in the bedroom? Do a qunari Inquisitor and Varric have to figure out how to make the size difference work?

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

Mass Effect Trilogy

Male Shepard/Javik
Javik is possibly my favourite companion in ME3 and I love his interactions with Shepard. He’s so abrasive, but the longer you talk to him, the more you realise that the glorious Prothean empire they taught them about when he was born was really already a long lost memory in ruins and he lived his whole life in a total dystopian nightmare, only to wake up to the next apocalypse. I like Default Shepard just fine, but feel free to make him look different and give him a different first name if it fits the cultural background he has in your fic better. Paragon, Renegade or Paragade/Renegon (mix-and-match choices) all work, too. As for the Endings… you know, whichever one you like, as long as Shepherd lives, really! I’m not really 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 wanting 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 more unusual for the two of them if it wasn’t, really.

I’d love some smut between them. I have some preference for bottom!Javik. I would like Javik to still be vaguely humanoid when it comes to genitalia, but other than that feel free to dwell on his xeno-ness. And was it ever even discussed 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.

To serve the Prothean empire better in the new cycle and continue their species, Javik was carrying fertilised eggs inside him (they look like insects, so I guess that’s what it’d be? Can also just be normal human-style babies, too, though). Javik figured they simply hadn’t survived the period he spent in stasis. However, he realises eventually that they just needed a little longer to thaw than the rest of him and now he has a Prothean baby/babies. Maybe he already is with Shepard at this point. How does he react? Even if they’re not in a relationship, what does he think about it? Does he help Javik with the parenting, and how qualified are the two of them for that, actually?

Let’s say Protheans are like asari in that they can create children with any other species and end up with kids that are primarily Protheans. Now that the Reapers are beaten Javik figures he should do his job for the empire and at least try to ensure the Protheans don’t totally die out, i.e. get pregnant. Either he asks Shepard because Shepard is strong and would make a good mate (and also probably because he’s in love…), or Shepard volunteers because he likes him and they all almost got wiped off the face of the universe, so whatever, no time like the present to start a family.

Javik lived in a time where people were continually dying left, right, and centre, communication and travel lines were shot, and generally you just didn’t expect to find your soulmate unless you got really lucky, so he was never surprised he didn’t. Shepard figured he just had to be one of the few people who are born without a soulmate or his soulmate died young or chose to be unregistered (I assume if there’s identifying marks and such, there’d be an extranet database to speed up the process of finding your soulmate). Imagine their surprise when Javik pops out of the cryo container and suddenly they realise they were separated from their soulmate by 50,000 years of time, not to mention a species difference.

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

Javik says that when he was born, there were only soldiers anymore, you didn’t get 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

Avitus Rix/Evfra de Tershaav
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 from everyone else. 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 or the family he lost; or the traditional thing where one of them gets hurt/sick, which I’m sure both of them would try to walk off, but the other may make them sit down and take five (the angara apparently having a taboo about speaking of sickness would be an interesting cultural challenge here).

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?

Jaal Ama Darav/Evfra de Tershaav
I always thought these two would make a fascinating couple. Jaal is very much the quintessential angara with his emotional honesty, whereas Evfra seems unusually closed-off for his kind. Opposites attract! Whether it’s set before, during, or after the game, I’d find it all great.

Any type of friends-with-benefits-to-lovers arrangement would be awesome here.

Jaal returns to the angara to start helping them look for and reactivate old homeworlds, since he knows how it’s done. I would love him bringing Evfra to some remote world and showing him how beautiful they can be (this could also simply be them exploring Meridian). Evfra hasn’t though of anything but war in so long, it would be nice to have him in a different setting. Alternatively (or on top of that), they have an adventure reactivating a Vault!

Jaal introduces Evfra to his family (who already know him, of course, because what angara doesn’t know of Evfra, and some of them are even in the Resistance, after all; but they don’t know him as Jaal’s boyfriend). Evfra hasn’t had a family in a good long while, unusual for an angara. How does it go?

When you’re not fully locked in with the romance, Jaal is kind of a flirt with your crew in game. I can’t see Evfra being super happy about that. Maybe Jaal flirting is even the thing that spurs Evfra on to admit this is more than a friends-with-benefits thing for him?

Evfra is pining after Jaal, but figures that he’s much too damaged and rough to have a relationship with someone like Jaal. However, Jaal thinks otherwise.

Jaal is pining after Evfra, but it really doesn’t seem like Evfra is in the market for a lover. Except he also likes Jaal...

Evfra is angry at Jaal after he let Akksul shoot him, probably mostly because he’s worried as hell. Jaal calms him down.

Literally just Jaal and Evfra being a cool battle couple together.

Evfra gets hurt/sick but keeps working. Apparently, it’s a taboo for angara to speak about illnesses. However, Jaal doesn’t want to watch his lover/the man he is pining after destroy himself with his stubbornness, so he forces him to rest and takes care of him.

Angaran marriage proposal (or whatever their equivalent is)! I don’t care which one of them proposes, but I want to see it. Feel free to keep it close to our earth customs or make up something completely different.

Jaal and Evfra accidentally or on purpose adopt a war orphan together.

AU where angara males can have babies. Give me tiny catsquids! Would prefer pregnant Evfra here. Was it planned? Was it an accident? How do they deal with it? Evfra has already lost a family, maybe he already has lost children of his own, too? Is Jaal overjoyed or trying to be more cautious knowing about Evfra’s hang-ups, or does he have worries of his own, considering the difficult situation the angara are in? Does Evfra end up in a dangerous situation while pregnant? Can Jaal help him out? Would like them both to be at least somewhat positive about the pregnancy by the end of the fic.

I’m always here for smut, of course. Some preference for bottom Evfra. Everything is good, but some ideas could be Jaal making Evfra relax in the most intimate way, Evfra being happy to rediscover sex with Jaal if he hasn’t had it for a while (he’s busy and he did have a big loss that seems to have made him very private and closed-off), or Jaal delighting in the fact that he can draw out a passionate and less controlled version of Evfra.

Overwatch

Jean-Baptiste Augustin/Maximilien
I love the idea of this pairing! Baptiste worked for Talon, so there’s plenty of opportunity for him to have met Maximilien. Since I’m generally into happy-ish endings, I’d like it if perhaps Baptiste could tempt Maximilien to the good side if this is in a part of the timeline where he has already defected, even if it’s just a hint that Maximilien might go there, and even if it’s not for solely altruistic purposes.

Maximilien gets hurt during an attack on Talon or one of his businesses. Baptiste is also trained in giving first aid to omnics. They take a liking to each other while Baptiste is doing his best to keep him online.

Maximilien and Baptiste meet up during their time with Talon and get along. Maximilien sets himself up to basically be Baptiste’s sugar daddy, making him presents, supporting that clinic Baptiste set up or funding another charity thing of his. Maximilien likes that this creates a certain distance and is not at all looking for anything more emotionally involved, but the two of them fall for each other, anyway.

Maximilien and Baptiste had this kind of relationship as in the above prompt, then Baptiste leaves. Some time after fleeing from Talon, Baptiste realises that Maximilien is still paying for his clinic/supporting another charity thing. Maximilien would probably claim he just forgot about the payment plan he set up, but Baptiste knows him well enough to say that Maximilien never, ever forgets about that kind of thing… Maybe Maximilien is more prone to sentimentality than he admits. Maybe Baptiste is, too.

We don’t know how old Maximilien is, only that he worked his way up from accountant somehow. Maybe Baptiste and him met way, way early, when Maximilien was still a servant bot, or even like, idk, chained to the wall on a bitcoin farm. Baptiste, then probably himself still damaged from the omnic wars, decides to help him out, either because it’s in his mission briefing or because they start to get along. They fall for each other as Maximilien begins his climb.

Baptiste has left Talon. Maximilien knows exactly where he is. He tells himself he’ll rat him out today, tomorrow, any day now… just like Baptiste tells himself that last clandestine meeting where they ended up in bed (again) was the last one for sure. In truth, these two can’t quit each other.

Maximilien obviously has no loyalty or even great affection for Talon or its members. Maybe Baptiste can convince him that an omnic as clever as him doesn’t need to be outright criminal to make money, and that the best way to protect yourself from retaliation could be to fund a team that might extend protection in a pinch, something like a watch, like, someone to watch over you… And that they could get back together, of course.

Smut would be great! I prefer bottom Maximilien. Considering Maximilien is an omnic, you can also have fun with what genitalia he would have. I’d like it to be vaguely human, but whether he has vibrating parts or is built with a vagina and penis or can switch stuff out, that’s up to you. Maybe he was even just supposed to be an accountant as per factory settings and only has the relevant mods/parts for smut installed when his relationship with Baptiste grows deeper? (You know he’d go for high-end stuff…) Or, as a darker take, maybe he actually has a lot of that stuff installed and Baptiste worries why - perhaps Maximilien was built for another purpose than he pretends? I also like wireplay and such, so if you wanna show what they got up to before Maximilien got his human(-ish) parts and sensors, or generally how omnics differ from humans between the sheets regardless of whether he has the other stuff, that would also be fun.

Genji Shimada/Zenyatta Thekharta
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, to their first canon meeting and early tentative crushes, to established relationship fic of them travelling the world.

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 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. 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 call together.

There is a lot of focus on Genji’s inner conflict in Genyatta fic and I love that angst, but I’d like to read something that touches on Zenyatta, too, if you’re so inclined. I suppose Genji was 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 certainly 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 trying to build a real romantic connection – and that while being in this new robot body that 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 on bottom, 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 built 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 he 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... Also, using sex to make Genji feel good about his body is always great, too.

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, pair 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 so on. The mix and match potential for AUs is pretty much endless here.

(I also have a letter dealing with marriage tropes for this couple, 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 even them getting into an argument over something they are at odds about and having to resolve that somehow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, that 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.

Finally, 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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Perhaps Jonathan didn’t want to draw Geoffrey’s attention to Sean, so he didn’t tell him about Sean at all and they just run into each other. How does Sean manage to talk his way out of being immediately murdered (or has Geoffrey perhaps mellowed a little bit and now does give vampires who look reasonable a chance – but then again, Skals can’t be reasonable, right...)? How does Geoffrey come to tolerate and like this weird uncommon Skal? Does Sean think he’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 is probably a virgin, apart from what happened to him. Does he ever say something about that to Geoffrey when they get closer, does he tell him at all, or does Geoffrey learn it through gossip like Jonathan did? Does Geoffrey try to let it start slowly to get him used to things, or does something happen unplanned that perhaps surprises them both? I somewhat prefer bottom Sean, but both works.

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Reid/Geoffrey McCullum/Sean Hampton
This mess of a threesome is another favourite idea of mine. There’s just so much charge there: the anger Geoffrey must feel for Jonathan, particularly if he has made him an Ekon, his aggression towards vampires turning against Skal Sean, but his newfound knowledge also perhaps halting him and showing him that both Jonathan and Sean might be the kind of vampires who don’t deserve death and thus confusing him a lot in the process. Sean is likely still a bit resentful towards Jonathan, if his curt answer concerning an examination is anything to go by, and Geoffrey would probably scare or at least worry him, but I think Sean would also try to help Jonathan and Geoffrey both if he knew the extent of their tragedies. Finally, Jonathan sees the good in both these men, but also has to live with the things he’s done to them, and, considering how Geoffrey hunted him, is probably as angry at him as Geoffrey is at Jonathan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For smut, I would love to see them doing it in all sorts of constellations: in a pile all three on each other (all my brownie points of Sean being spitroasted), or with two of them performing for the third, or one of them performing for the two others while they touch each other. Perhaps Sean isn’t quite comfortable jumping right in with two men at first, so they ease him into it. Or Sean is a lot more ready to experiment than they exptected and they have fun with that. Perhaps a little later into their relationship, the two of them are so busy bickering that Sean somehow ends up taking control at some point and makes them do what he wants to get this show on the road. I somewhat prefer bottom Sean, but all is good. No preferences between the other two.

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

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