Turing Fest 2020

[greygerbil]

Dear Turing Fest Writer or Artist,

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

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

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

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.

Table of Contents

DNWs
Likes
Smut Likes
Art Likes
Overwatch
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Mass Effect: Trilogy

DNWs and Likes

DNWs

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


• infidelity between requested characters (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)


• unrequested open relationships/poly


• noncon, dubcon


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


• smut involving underage characters (under 18)


• cross-gen incest


• ageplay, diaper play, daddy or mommy kink


• scat, emetophilia


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


• crackfic (humour is great, just not complete randomness)


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


• 1st and 2nd person POV

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


• dancing


• 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 last /. Mpreg is also always welcome. Again, the person I’d like to see pregnant more will be behind the last /. For mpreg childbirth, feel free to give them new genitalia to manage it or just have an anal birth or a Caesarian.

Smut Likes

• rough sex


• slow, loving sex


• marking with biting and love bites, scratch marks, bruises


• overstimulation


• focus on hands, fingering, handjobs


• intercrural


• oral


• anal


• rimming


• body worship


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


• BDSM, D/s, honour bondage


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


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


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

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

For motives, I gave specific prompts for each character. Literally anything that indicates it is shippy would always be appreciated, though, from hand-holding to explicit porn. I’m also always here for pictures of battle couples in action, if you enjoy fight scenes, or the characters doing simple, everyday things together and enjoying themselves.

Overwatch

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

• From what we’ve seen of Blackwatch Genji in the archive missions, I don’t see him bending his knee to monks too quickly. Perhaps he was streaking about the Shambali temple, very conflicted, and Zenyatta was the only one reckless enough to approach him; or perhaps Zenyatta and him met when Zenyatta was travelling with some of his brothers and sisters. I would also love an AU where maybe they didn’t really start out as master and student at all. Perhaps Zenyatta was just curiously investigating a place he was visiting with his fellow monks and met Genji and befriended him without the thought of teaching him – or they even had a brief affair that then turned into something deeper. Or maybe Genji saved Zenyatta from some anti-omnic terrorists. Or whatever else you can come up with, I’m ready for all.


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


• I’d like to read something that touches on Zenyatta’s decision to leave the Shambali, since it’s never really elaborated on outside his wiki description. 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 probably wasn’t up for serious relationships in Blackwatch days. So despite the fact that he has a good few years on Zenyatta, he may also not be used to building lasting romantic connections – and now he has to do it while being in this new robot body, which he has a complicated relationship to.


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


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


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be perfect, but also a picture of Genji and Zenyatta at the monastery, meditating together, travelling together. Maybe Genji tries some food he never had while Zenyatta watches, or Genji shows Zenyatta around a Japanese festival. The two of them sparring or fighting enemies together would be great fun, too. I also enjoy anything to do with their abilities – maybe Zenyatta heals Genji with his orbs or hugs him with the abundance of transcendence arms, or Genji protects Zenyatta with the help of his dragon.

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


Genji Shimada/Jesse McCree/Tekhartha Zenyatta
I’m very fond of all three of these characters and would love to see them working together, maybe during the Overwatch recall. Genji and Jesse already know each other, but what was their relationship in Blackwatch like? Does it influence how they treat each other now? How does Jesse get along with the new and reformed version of Genji? And what does Zenyatta think of Genji’s old acquaintance (or friend, or lover)? We don’t see them together in game, but I feel like Jesse and him might get along. Then, of course, there’s the dynamic between all three that could go so many different ways. I’m totally happy for this fic to also include Jesse/Genji, Genji/Zenyatta, or even Jesse/Zenyatta, as long as they all eventually end up in a closed triad and their threesome relationship is the focus. I also wouldn’t want anybody deliberately cheating on anyone else, but muddled feelings and we’re-pretending-we’re-FWB-but-we’re-pining type of deals are totally fine. For smut, I prefer bottom Zenyatta and have no preference between the other two.

• Genji is the obvious anchor point between them. Maybe he had a thing with Jesse in Blackwatch that was probably a bit more than they both pretended it was? Or maybe they broke up after a tumultuous relationship, but never quite stopped pining? Zenyatta senses the old connection and tries to help and accidentally ends up in the middle – but it works out.


• However, I could also see Zenyatta and Jesse getting along well. Maybe it’s the first time Genji starts to think of Zenyatta as someone who is even interested in romance and sex, and maybe Zenyatta really has no experience and asks for a few pointers from his friend? Genji tries to help and accidentally (or maybe purposefully?) muddles his way into the budding relationship. This suits all of them very well.


• Genji is with Zenyatta, but, after reuniting with Jesse, confesses to Zenyatta that he has feelings for Jesse, too (whether that’s new or from when they worked together before). Is Zenyatta worried at first, even though he might try to hide it, and perhaps a little jealous (which isn’t very zen)? Or is he also already interested in Jesse, too, and they start courting him? Maybe Zenyatta takes an unusual approach, being spiritual as he is, and encourages Genji to explore the feeling to see which man he would prefer, but Genji finds that he wants both?


• As above, but Zenyatta is only pining for Genji, not in a relationship with him. In that situation, he has no reason not to encourage him to go for Jesse, even though that probably hurts like hell. However, Jesse notices there’s something between Genji and Zenyatta there as well that maybe neither of them managed to address...


• Maybe Genji never figured out how to turn from student to potential love interest, or was too afraid to compromise their friendship, or didn’t think Zenyatta was interested in these things at all, since he’s a monk. Jesse, however, doesn’t have any of these hang-ups and flirts brazenly with Zenyatta. To Genji’s surprise and consternation, Zenyatta is into it. Not that Genji doesn’t understand being attracted to Jesse, mind you... how do they turn this situation into something that involves all of them?


• Jesse and Genji have always had casual sex and pick up on that again when they meet during the recall. On the other hand, Genji and Zenyatta have that strong personal connection, though this is platonic (or so they tell themselves). Jesse is jealous of Zenyatta; Zenyatta is jealous of Jesse. However, they both find they like the other one too much to really start sniping at each other. Genji, meanwhile, is probably tearing himself apart about loving both of them and wondering if he’s still an asshole playboy and just can’t shake that part of him. Can they all get it together?


• Smut it always fun! 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?). And how does Jesse with his comparatively normal human body fit in there? 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 his boyfriends? Or he has them and hasn’t used them much? Also, Jesse and Zenyatta using sex to make Genji feel good about his body is always great, too. And how much experience does Jesse have sleeping with omnics and/or cyborgs? Is he experiencing new things?


• I would also love to see these three fighting the good fight together! Two DPS and one off-healer can work somehow, as all those of us who played before role-lock know.


• And, of course, I love me some Overwatch AUs based on the skins. 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. They all have Lunar skins, too. The Monk, the Swordsman and the Gunslinger interact during the Junkenstein event and that is fun. Or any other combination of skins you can think of! I’m certainly interested.


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be perfect, or perhaps a picture of the three of them around the new Overwatch base? They could spar, or test out equipment together, or just have dinner or swap stories. I’d also like to see their downtime in other places, though. Maybe Jesse drags them to some dive bar? They all follow Genji to an arcade? The three of them fighting enemies together would be great fun, too. I also enjoy anything to do with their abilities – maybe Zenyatta heals the DPS with his orbs and during transcendence he has way enough arms to hug them both. Genji could protect Zenyatta and Jesse with the help of his dragon, or maybe Jesse saves the two of them with a well-timed High Noon.

Doomfist: The Successor | Akande Ogundimu/Maximilien
This is such an interesting couple to me. They seem to work together and ostensibly have similar goals, but it’s clear that Maximilien’s capitalist interests do not actually mesh that well with Doomfist’s more idealistic idea of the kind of war he wants. Maybe Doomfist also has Maximilien’s involvement in his capture figured out or at least suspects it? Nevertheless, they are both men of great power and ideas. I’d prefer an approach where they’re attracted to each other/fascinated with each other/possibly even in love despite themselves to a fic where they just despise each other 100 per cent – though I figure that occasional hate sex is definitely something that happens between them, and they might even tell themselves that’s all it is. They both know that there’s probably no future together for them, but still, there’s something there. The dangerous power play between them, the repercussions and details of their long relationship that was alluded to in canon, perhaps the attempt from both sides to move the other closer towards their own vision (out of stubbornness or affection), the explosive fights and subtle manipulations, maybe even the unlikely happy end (whatever that looks like for men like them), I’m here for it all. For smut, I prefer bottom Maximilien.

• Let’s say Doomfist knows who got him thrown him in prison. On the one hand, he wants to take Maximilien apart like a toy doll, but on the other, he’s kind of impressed how well he managed to organise this and now he’s so important to Talon’s finances that Doomfist can’t easily get rid of him. Maximilien, for his part, is both afraid of retribution and of what Doomfist wants to do with Talon, and grudgingly admires that he somehow managed to escape the trap Maximilien put down for him. Maybe some post-prison not safe, not sane, but consensual sex? Or their argument when they first speak about it?


• Generally, I love scenarios where they know how dangerous the other is to them, but absolutely cannot stop themselves from playing with fire.


• However, I’d also like to see their first meeting, long before all of that happened. The comic implicated that they have known each other for a long time. Is Maximilien already on the path to becoming the powerful businessman we know him as, or does he use an opportunity Doomfist creates for him to launch himself into the career? And at what point of Doomfist’s life story that we know of do they meet?


• Early into their partnership, Doomfist decides that Maximilien should at least know some self-defence and convinces him to spar with him. Can Maximilien hold his own even a little? He probably won’t beat Doomfist, but maybe he can learn to slip away. Or did he only agree to it to turn it into a more intimate version of sparring?


• Related to above, maybe a fic about them escaping a dangerous situation together or defeating some enemies? Is Maximilien of any use in a fight or can he maybe find some other way to be helpful?


• I’d like to know more about Maximilien’s past. He might have lived in unpaid servitude, been mistreated by his master or other humans, or have been originally built as a sexbot (references to past noncon/forced prostitution are fine here). Few omnics come out of the factory this jaded, right? And perhaps when he met Doomfist, he didn’t just see him as a chance to advance, but was also impressed by his strong ideals – even if he eventually came to disagree with them. Would love to see both, Maximilien’s growing fascination with Doomfist, or his inner conflict between loving the man but thinking he’s going to, well, doom them.


• For some reason, Doomfist and Maximilien have to pretend to be a couple – one of them needs a plus-one for a festive occasion (matching suits!), Doomfist wants to catch someone who frequents a seedy club for people with an omnic fetish, anything like that. And maybe it becomes just a little more than an act.


• AU idea: Maybe Doomfist’s and Maximilien’s conflict is for show and one of them already convinced the other of their ideas long ago. They coordinated the capture to put Overwatch off more important trails and then staged an escape when it was convenient. Maybe making the other members of Talon think there might be tension between them is even part of the plan?


• Smut is always fun! Has Doomfist ever been with an omnic? Has Maximilien been with a human before? Maximilien obviously likes the high-class look, so I’m sure he has top-of-the-line mods installed in that department, too (I’m fine with full male set, additional female genitalia, or something that doesn’t quite align to human expectations at all). How does Doomfist like them? Them trying out a new addition might be fun, too.


• Following the smut prompt above, Doomfist is confident, so I could also see him asking Maximilien to make some smaller modifications just for him, too, and Maximilien actually complies (just because the sex is good, of course, not because he likes Doomfist or anything...).


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be perfect, but I would also just like to see more of them together – there’s only a few comic pages so far. Anything catching the tension and interest between them would be great (maybe Doomfist holding Maximilien with the Big Hand?). Also, Doomfist in a suit, whether it’s his Formal skin or some other piece of formal wear, to match Maximilien’s get-up, maybe at a fancy party of in Maximilien’s casino. We also never got Maximilien dressing up for the masquerade, though he was in the comic with the name (Doomfist had his awesome frilly get-up, of course). I would love to see them flirting in expensive, high-class Venetian carnival costumes. Maximilien getting his fancy clothes ruffled, whether by means of smut or in a fight, would be hot, too. I’d also love to see him ducking behind Doomfist in a fight while Doomfist does his thing (or maybe Maximilien can even help out? People did want him to be playable... what would be his powers?)

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


Jean-Baptiste Augustin/Maximilien
I like this pairing as something that may have a light chance of becoming permanent, so I suppose this is the Maximilien redemption arc request stack, since Baptiste wouldn’t stick it out with a full-on Talon believer. However, I’d also be very happy with a prequel where they’re both still at Talon and Baptiste is still loyal or only just beginning to question what is happening (and maybe prompting Maximilien to do the same?). I love me some characters who pride themselves on their lack of morals and their cynicism having to eat crow and actually experience growing some ethics and falling in love, so that’s Maximilien. Then there’s Baptiste, who already made the switch to the light side, but has quite the complicated past with Talon – and perhaps with Maximilien? How does that catch up to Baptiste, mentally and otherwise? Maybe he becomes the initial contact point for Maximilien to reach out to, or maybe they have never quite stopped talking? What I really enjoy about Baptiste is that he’s already had a solid character arc and I’d love to know more about his changing mindset, too. The contrast between his now firm believes and Maximilien’s attitude that everyone has a prize makes for an interesting clash as well. For smut, I prefer bottom Maximilien.

• Baptiste made it through the omnic war, but doesn’t seem to have any issues with omnics. Was that always the case or was he wary of them at some point? Maybe meeting Maximilien was a turning point? Maximilien is hardly a good guy, but he’s very personable and starkly different from a mind-controlled war machine getting sent to raze a country.


• Maybe Maximilien has reasons to be distrustful of humans or people in general, too. He might have lived in unpaid servitude, been mistreated by his master or other humans, or have been originally built as a sexbot (references to past noncon/forced prostitution are fine here). Few people come out of the factory this jaded, right? And now here is Baptiste, ostensibly a good person, and try as he might, Maximilien just can’t find the catch. It drives him mildly insane.


• During his time with Talon, Baptiste is around as protective detail when Maximilien gets attacked. He ends up badly wounded, but Baptiste makes sure he remains stable and functional. What starts out as gratitude from Maximilien turns into more.


• Talon Baptiste is basically Maximilien’s sugar baby and for a time, that’s fun (especially since Maximilien doesn’t mind making generous charitable donations as gifts to Baptiste) and he has quite the crush. However, Baptiste eventually starts to question Talon. Maximilien, who purposefully never escalates a relationship to actual boyfriend status, figured it would be no problem to let Baptiste go once he became troublesome, but alas, maybe he’s in much deeper emotionally than he admits...


• Smut is always fun! Has Baptiste ever been with an omnic? Has Maximilien been with a human before? Maximilien obviously likes the high-class look, so I’m sure he has top-of-the-line mods installed in that department, too (I’m fine with full male set, additional female genitalia, or something that doesn’t quite align to human expectations at all). How does Baptiste like them? Them trying out a new addition might be fun, too. I also enjoy them trying out things that don’t map so easily to human bodies, like wireplay.


• Maximilien is at odds with Doomfist, to put it mildly, and we’ve already seen him waver about something Doomfist said (‘I can’t do this’), so I have this unlikely pet theory that he’s going to switch sides and finance new Overwatch, at least covertly. Maybe Baptiste, already knowing him from back in the day, talks him into it? Or maybe Maximilien approaches Baptiste? And maybe what Maximilien figured would simply be a way to get rid of a Talon that has turned too extreme for his liking actually brings him closer to the values of the heroes?


• Maximilien gets badly hurt during a fight, maybe by Null Sector, maybe by Overwatch, maybe even by careless Talon troops. Doomfist, who realised who put him in jail, takes the chance to leave him to die. Baptiste saves his life, since he knows Maximilien and decides that maybe he can be turned (or perhaps simply because it is against his ethics to leave a non-combatant to die, even if they are on the enemy team). Basically captive at Overwatch and betrayed by his own people, Maximilien nevertheless decides to work with Overwatch and starts falling for Baptiste in the process.


• Maximilien tried to bribe Baptiste to stay with Talon. Baptiste turned him down, no matter what he offered. Maximilien was so impressed with someone who so thoroughly subverted his expectations that he never told anyone where Baptiste is, though he knows.


• Baptiste and Maximilien used to be together. Years after Baptiste leaves, he finds out that there is still regular donations being made to his clinic by one of Maximilen’s shell companies. He gets a chance to talk to Maximilien about it at some point. He claims he forgot, but Maximilien never forgets about money. Maybe Maximilien misses him a bit more than previously thought. Baptiste decides to see if he can’t cajole Maximilien, but turns out Baptiste isn’t quite built for honey pot/hostile seduction and accidentally rekindles old feelings.


• Let’s hypothesise that Maximilien has a heart. Maybe he really does balk at the large-scale war that Doomfist’s and Null Sector’s new collaboration would create. Frantically looking for a way to reverse the path of the destruction of the monster he’s helped create, he finally makes contact with Baptiste, who has, after all, accomplished what he’s now trying to do in leaving Talon. As Baptiste helps Maximilien untangle himself, they get closer.


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be perfect, but I would also just love to see them... in the same frame together. I mean, I obviously like this couple, but they haven’t exactly met in game yet! A picture from their shared Talon days, with Baptiste in his uniform being protective detail to Maximilien in a snazzy suit would be great. Or maybe Maximilien insisted his bodyguard also has to look good and/or inconspicuous and put Baptiste in a suit as well for some official function? I’d also enjoy them meeting at a later stage, or something fun like pirate skin Baptiste capturing Maximilien as booty. Maximilien’s clothes being a bit messed up after a fight or a kidnapping by Overwatch or a quickie with Baptiste would also be hot. Would also love to see a picture of Baptiste using his powers or generally being a medic and helping a damaged Maximilien.

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Avitus Rix/Turian Pathfinder's SAM/Evfra de Tershaav
Evfra and Avitus would make for a very interesting couple, I think. They’re both no strangers to loss and to fighting and leading. Avitus, especially if he accepted the role of Turian pathfinder, is basically walking Evfra’s path of trying to push back against what killed the loved one he lost. And then there’s the turian SAM... we know very little about this SAM, other than that he got thoroughly shaken by Macen’s death. He doesn’t seem to have complete access to Avitus’ body (yet? maybe he sees it on the human pathfinder and decides he wants his SAM unshackled, too), but he is still a full-blown AI living in Avitus’ head. I would love to know how this SAM’s development is affected by his switch from Macen to Avitus and Avitus’ budding relationship. It always seemed to me that anyone who is outfitted with a SAM is basically in a threeway relationship, right? Because the SAMs don’t switch off. Conversely, how do Avitus and Evfra handle this? I would love for this to become a weird little triad relationship. For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra.

• Due to Avitus’ new status, he begins working with Evfra more closely, perhaps being asked to help the angara to find new worlds to settle jointly. Evfra impresses him from the first, but he feels guilty to move on from Macen so fast. Maybe SAM is the one who influences him? I doubt Avitus would discuss his feelings with anyone else, but he can’t hide anything from SAM. And what is SAM’s experience with this crush? He came to Macen when he was already with Avitus, but this is a new relationship still in the making.


• Maybe SAM is the one who is hesitant about the relationship because he knows what Avitus meant to Macen, since he lived in Macen’s head, and is thus partial to him? How can Evfra win him over?


• Avitus struggles with the loss of Macen and SAM is influenced by it, too, maybe because of SAM’s own traumatic severing from Macen. It makes them less effective. To both their surprise, hard-edged Evfra is the one who starts to help Avitus and SAM out and keeps setting them straight and helping them back on the path. They eventually learn that he has lost his husband to the kett and thus understand this particular pain very well. Both Avitus and SAM slowly deal with the loss, but also grow interested in Evfra.


• Evfra and Avitus start dating and SAM doesn’t really intervene (the human SAM never really does, either). But eventually both of them feel a bit strange not to involve him. SAM didn’t really think it was his place, but yes, he has his own thoughts on this relationship and he does share in Avitus’ feelings. Slowly, it starts to become something that feels more like a triad than a couple, but they all enjoy it.


• Evfra obviously knows about the SAMs being AI, but wasn’t yet aware that they extended to an actual voice talking in the Pathfinders’ heads and basically living as an extra person within them. It makes dating a little awkward that he can’t stop thinking about it when he finds out. Can Avitus and SAM assure him that they are both in this relationship happily?


• I’d also be interested in a snapshot of their relationship: a trip to the Nexus or Evfra’s birthplace, a visit to a newly discovered world, maybe just an evening at the bar or hanging out in the shut-off privacy of the turian SAM node.


• Smut would be super interesting. How does SAM get involved in the situation? Maybe he can pull up information about angaran physiology? Catalogue what Evfra reacted well to with a much higher rate than a human and refine Avitus’ technique as a voice in the back of his head? On the other hand, maybe being with Avitus also teaches him to simply enjoy the feeling? How does sex feel to SAM, anyway? Maybe he was put in Macen’s head right before the start of the mission and only knew it from his memories, not first-hand-experience?


• Does the turian SAM ever get control over Avitus’ body the way the human pathfinder’s Sam has? This would be interesting for smut, but also for the general shift it could create in the relationship between Avitus and SAM, making them more equal partners in Avitus’ body.


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be great, but I would also love to see how you can visually represent SAM’s presence in the relationship. Maybe it happens in SAM node or on Avitus’ ship, where SAM might have a small node (like the human pathfinder’s SAM)? Or perhaps you find a totally different way that doesn’t even involve SAM actually being physically present. I’d love to see just a quiet moment of the three of them resting, whether on Aya, on a ship, or on some newly discovered or rehabilitated world. On the other hand, I also enjoy pictures of action, and a former Spectre with a high-powered AI in his head and the leader of the Resistance are certainly going to make a team that can hardly be stopped.

Mass Effect Trilogy

Male Awakened Collector Adept/Javik
The Awakened Collector Adept is a class you may remember from the ME3 multiplayer and the existence of these rare thinking Collectors has always been absolutely fascinating to me in regards to Javik. He’s the last Prothean, but here are these mutated Protheans, completely jacked up with cybernetics, that used to torment his people for as long as Javik was alive. Now suddenly one is standing in front of him and has returned to being a creature that can think for himself and seems to remember his Prothean legacy. The fact that either of them is still alive must mess with both their heads. What do they make of it? Does the Awakened Collector feel uncomfortable around Javik at first because he’s such a stark reminder of what he isn’t anymore? Does Javik feel conflicted being around the Awakened Collector because he’s so used to seeing them as enemies, twisted images of Protheans? Or are they simply glad to find someone who still remembers a little of their old lives, even if they might come from completely different generations of Protheans? Their Reaper war spanned centuries, after all. As for the Echo Shard, I like Javik having touched it, but would not want him to go through with his plans to kill himself (but feel free to have him stop at the last possible moment). As for the Endings… I like Destroy least, but whichever one you want, really! I’m not attached to any of them and I’d also be totally fine with modified endings or with the blunt idea of the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun, if that suits your story better. For smut, I prefer bottom Javik. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Javik.

• How do Javik and the Collector Adept meet? Perhaps Javik is fighting Reaper creatures (mid- or post-game) and suddenly finds a Collector Adept, or a small group of them, fighting by his side. When the fight is over, he investigates.


• Maybe the Collector Adept is someone who actually saw the Prothean Empire at its height, right before the Reapers hit them, and still remembers. It would be interesting for Javik to meet someone who lived through what he only knew from memory shards.


• Javik and the Collector Adept could also come from the same time period, though, or at least similar situations of Everything Is Fucked Already. This would mean neither of them has ever seen peace. Finding them exploring the new peace together would be great.


• Maybe, through a great coincidence, Javik and the Collector Adept actually do know each other, and meeting Javik again is what breaks the last shackles of the Collector Adept’s indoctrination? How does it go from there?


• The Collector Adept considers himself an avatar of vengeance, as per the game wiki. Javik is probably the last avatar of vengeance the Protheans actually elected. I could see the awakened collectors (or the Awakened Collector) rallying behind him as his disciples.


• How conflicted does Javik feel about the Collector Adept? After all, he has killed a lot of those in his lifetime and now it seems like the Protheans they were weren’t completely lost. Of course, he had little choice, but it must be strange. And then he starts getting closer to the Collector Adept...


• For that matter, how does the Collector Adept see himself? He’s been made to fight against his own people, against these new people, and now he’s suddenly in control of himself again, but genetically modified and filled with cybernetics and only a shadow of what he was. Maybe he and Javik can help each other through their respective feelings of guilt.


• Did the Collector Adept spend all those thousands of years in some sort of stasis, much like Javik, or did he actually live through some or all of that time? Even if he fought for the Reapers only in the majority of the Prothean war, he could have centuries of experience. Maybe Javik learns to find his perspective quite intriguing.


• Smut would be interesting. In which ways are their bodies the same, in which are they different? Does the Awakened Collector still have the Prothean touch-read ability? If not, how do they make up for that? Does the Awakened Collector have some issues with his body, seeing it next to what he remembers a “real” Prothean’s body looking like? Can Javik convince him he still wants this?


• The two of them fighting together, being a great team of biotic bad-asses, or getting to have a moment of peace together, something neither of them will have much familiarity with anymore, would be great.


• How do they deal with suddenly being in a world beyond war when the Reapers are beaten? A world that neither of them feels like they belong to, at that. Maybe this is how they slowly get closer as they try to build another life?


• If you want to go for mpreg, maybe to both their surprise, there’s enough Prothean left in the Collector Adept to get Javik pregnant. Or maybe it’s a conscious decision they make, trying to bring the Prothean species into the next cycle (thinking they’re only working together on this pragmatic goal, but then falling in love), or simply because they want to have a family after never having such a chance in their cycle, or losing their family if they had it.


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be amazing. Fight scenes would be great, as would be seeing them just chilling together – cuddling up as they sleep (not that they’d admit it), having some of that strange new cycle food, watching the stars, maybe visiting the Citadel or some garden colony world together. I’d also love a picture that shows some small gesture of affection between them, even as they are both hardened warriors. Them exploring an old Prothean ruin would be interesting, too. I’d also love a picture of them both undressed (not necessarily smut, though I’m not saying no!), contrasting their bodies to see the similarities and differences after the Reaper procedures the Awakened Collector went through.

Male Shepard/Legion
Legion, to me, is one of the best examples of a character that is both totally removed from the human experience, being a hive-mind collective, and yet both relatable and endlessly likable. His attachment to Shepard (the N7 armour piece!) was great from the beginning and their relationship only evolved from there. If you go post-game, please leave both Legion and Shepard alive. I like Default Shepard just fine, but feel free to make him look different and give him a different first name. Paragon, Renegade or Paragade/Renegon (mix-and-match choices) all work, too, though I wouldn’t want a Shepard who is totally irredeemable. As for the Endings… Destroy obviously doesn’t really work for a Shepard/Legion romance, but the other two are fine, as long as Shepherd lives somehow, really! I’m not attached to any of them and I’d also be totally fine with modified endings or with the blunt idea of the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun, if that suits your story better. For smut, I prefer bottom Legion. I’ve seen Legion referred to as it, he, or they (in the plural sense, since he’s a collective, or because they have no human gender). All works for me!

• How does Legion fall in love? Just imagine 1,183 geth programs, all pining for Shepard-Commander... or are they? Maybe this is another situation where there’s inner conflict in the sense that not all of them are certain this relationship is a good idea. When is the tipping point where they reach consensus?


• Shepard wants to romance Legion (look, weirder shit has happened to him, I don’t think this is where he draws the line), but how do you court 1,183 programs crammed into a damaged geth platform?


• On the other hand, if Legion is the one who is trying to pursue Shepard, how does it communicate that? Is it blunt or are geth programs sometimes hesitant or embarrassed, too? After all, we see very clearly in Legion’s personal mission that even before they updated themselves, the geth were not quite as logical as they perhaps believed themselves to be.


• I’m assuming Legion probably doesn’t have any experience with organic romance, or really managing emotions in general (“anger is an organic response”), but yet we do see that Legion does feel in its own way. Romance is also a somewhat individual experience – well, individual to the 1,183 geth in Legion, rather than being shared with a yet greater geth hive-mind. Watching Legion work through all that comes with this would be very interesting. How does Shepard help? This type of relationship must be a first for him, too.


• Battle couples are such a favourite trope of mine. Legion and Shepard fighting next to each other, supporting each other, Legion experiencing worry or Shepard being worried about it, I am here for it all.


• Does Legion’s platform have any access points and appendages that might make it possible for Shepard and Legion to have sex? Or maybe something that doesn’t map to the human experience, but works quite well nevertheless? If not, can it get them installed? Does it ask Shepard’s opinion on what should be added to the platform to make their experience pleasurable?


• When Legion uploads the Reaper code, it begins to refer to itself as “I” rather than “we”. However, I doubt it’s now just the same as a human or other organic being. What is this shift that the geth have gone through? How do they deal with it? And how does it influence the relationship between Shepard and Legion? If they were already together, do they have to relearn their relationship? If they weren’t, maybe this is the point where Legion starts feeling confident enough in its personhood that it wants to pursue Shepard?


• If you go for the Synthesis ending, Legion and the other geth immediately experience another shift very quickly after just updating their systems, and so does Shepard (and everybody else, of course). What is it like for Shepard and Legion to suddenly stand on a much more level playing field like this?


• As for all my Mass Effect couples, I just want them to be happy and not dead and maybe just get like a week off or something. What do geth do in their free time? Does Legion have hobbies? I’m sure Shepard wants to know, too.


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be great. I’d also love to see a picture of the two of them being sweet with each other. Maybe Shepard can kiss Legion’s head-lamp or they hug or something. The two of them fighting side by side is also always appreciated, they were a good team in-game. I’d also enjoy them having a moment of peace, mid- or post-game. Maybe they hang out on the Citadel together or maybe Shepard takes Legion to a beach somewhere or to whatever he considers home (could be radically different places depending on his origin story).