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Dear Trick or Treater,

Happy Halloween! Thank you for checking out my letter, and I hope it's helpful to you :D

If you’d like clarification on anything, I’m happy to answer any questions sent via the mod!

Cheers,
shadowsapiens

General Preferences

I've requested fic and both tricks and treats for all fandoms. Most of my canons don't have actual Halloween in them, but I'm 1000% here for canon-based fic with Halloween themes and vibes. To me, that includes canon-plausible costume parties and masquerades, dressing up and undressing each other, dark and stormy nights, unsettling dreams, any excuse for celebration, spookiness. Dark magic. Scary monsters. Evil spirits. Catboys. Fun, creepy, sexy, I'm here for it. A ton of stuff already on my general likes list counts as "Halloween" to me.

Beyond Halloween vibes, I’m a hurt/comfort junkie. Emotional and physical h/c are both catnip to me, whether it's the focus of the fic or just touches of it worked in. I love when my fave is sad or hurt or exhausted (or all three!!) and then someone makes it better... or worse? :D?

For ship fic, I'm really into get-togethers and firsts. First kiss, first fuck, first sober fuck, first time *holding hands in public*, etc. Both "first time doing X with this specific person" and "first time doing X at all, ever" are delicious. Still-pretty-new, developing relationships are super RTMI as well. Emotional tension and complicated feelings? Yes please!

Smut-wise, I’m down for anal, oral, frottage, handjobs, only one person getting off, etc. For on-screen anal sex and fingering specifically, I prefer that my faves bottom. I'm a simple soul who wants my faves getting dicked down. If any D/s elements are involved (yes please), I also prefer those along top/bottom lines.

Faves in this exchange:
- Dragon Age: Lavellan
- Three Houses: Felix
- Genshin: Kazuha and Xiao
- Word of Honor: Xie Wang

Miscellaneous Likes

• Age differences - bonus for one or both characters being into the age difference
  
• Canon divergence AUs
  
• Catboy AUs
  
• Characters being super aware of each other
  
• Codependency
  
• Corsets
  
• Courtship & wooing & seduction
  
• Dark relationships, manipulation, complicated feelings
  
• Drinking games; drunk decisions in general; one character drunk while the other's sober
  
• Drugs - recreational fun drugs, drugged by enemy/rival, woozy from painkillers
  
• Forced eye contact
  
• Forced to work together
  
• Hand-holding, casual touches, non-casual emotionally fraught touches
  
• Happy or ambiguous endings
  
• Height differences - bonus for one or both characters being into the height difference
  
• Huddling for warmth, locked in a closet, enforced proximity scenarios
  
• Incorporating the canon magic system, if there is one; worldbuilding with the game mechanics in video game fandoms, especially buffs and debuffs
  
• Interactive fiction
  
• Loyalty & protectiveness
  
• Missing scenes
  
• Obsession & possessiveness & possessive jealousy
  
• Praise kink
  
• Sharing - clothes, bed, body heat
  
• Wrists

Hurt/Comfort Likes

• Assassination attempts, kidnapping attempts, kidnapping
  
• Bleeding and blood loss
  
• Brave, silent suffering until another character realizes something’s wrong
  
• Catching character as they collapse (ideally my fave is doing the collapsing)
  
• Collapsing from exhaustion and/or hunger
  
• Comforted by the same person who hurt them
  
• Coughing up blood
  
• Crying - from pain, emotional distress, exhaustion, crying in their sleep, overwhelmed happy..
  
• Downplaying or hiding an injury or trauma
  
• Forcing Exhausted Character to Get Some Sleep
  
• Hands too shaky to complete task
  
• Insomnia, exhaustion, nightmares
  
• Manhandling & bruises & choking
  
• Mental health issues, coping or not coping or imperfectly coping (especially but not limited to anxiety, depression, disordered eating, PTSD)
  
• Non-consensual comfort
  
• Overworking, intentional or accidental undereating, self-care failures due to stress
  
• Pining and UST (if eventually resolved at least a bit)
  
• Restrained for their own good
  
• Shivering
  
• Tenderness, especially unexpected tenderness
  
• Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms - alcohol, drugs, overworking, ill-advised sex...
  
• Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs

Smut Likes

• Being woken up by sex
  
• Bloodplay & knifeplay
  
• Bondage, blindfolds, collars (whether for smut or non-smut reasons)
  
• Celebration, victory, Thank God We're Alive sex
  
• Comfort sex
  
• Desperate arousal, desperate sex, honestly just the word "desperate"
  
• Dom/sub
  
• Dubcon
  
• Fingerfucking
  
• Getting off on how much their partner trusts them
  
• Inexperience/experience
  
• Kink exploration & kink discovery
  
• Lap sex, sitting in partner's lap while they make out
  
• Massage turns sexual
  
• Neck kissing
  
• Nipple piercings (especially on my faves)
  
• Noncon - rough or gentle, great when combined with bruises or cuddling or praise..
  
• Passing out during sex and the other partner keeps going
  
• Restraints - especially tied down or held down by the wrists, or wrists bound together
  
• Rough sex, hair-pulling, bite-marks, bruises, breath play, spanking
  
• Sensory Overload
  
• Sex as distraction from emotional turmoil
  
• Sex pollen - both affected, or either one affected
  
• Size kink - both the overall size difference and the massive dick kind
  
• Seriously here for the top having a massive dick, I can't emphasize that enough
  
• Somnophilia

Do Not Want

• Animal harm/death (characters eating meat or hunting game animals for food is fine!)
  
• Extreme underage sex (14+ is fine)
  
• First or second person POV
  
• Graphic gore; noncanon permanent maiming/incapacitation; any damage to nails
  
• Infidelity or breakups involving requested characters (for any noncanon ship requests where the characters have canon relationships, I prefer fic that simply carries on as if the canon relationship wasn't a thing)
  
• Main character death, noncanon reincarnation
  
• Mpreg as a possibility, requested characters as parents
  
• Scat, watersports, graphic vomiting, rimming, sounding
  
• Setting-change AUs, role-reversal AUs, gender identity AUs, crossovers

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Request 1: Dragon Age

Dorian Pavus/Male Lavellan
Solas/Male Lavellan
The Iron Bull/Male Lavellan
Cullen Rutherford/Male Lavellan

Like most DA fans, I'm so hyped for Veilguard! And I'm ready to get back into the Dragon Age mood with some classic "pretty elf inquisitor gets banged/romanced/comforted by a tall hot companion" fic. I'm a simple soul.

Mid- or post-Inquisition/Trespasser fic are both great! Please no Veilguard spoilers.

I'm really into how different Inquisitors adjust to being thrust into power, both magical and political - whether that's a rough transition or something they take to surprisingly well. In a very short period of time, he goes from a total unknown to the internationally famous leader of an armed religious movement. That's pretty intense.

Other ideas:
- spooky Fade shit
- Post- or mid-mission hurt/comfort
- Skyhold celebrations leading to unexpected kisses/confessions
- anything from my Likes lists

Any Inquisitor personality, appearance, and class is welcome. Please just call him Lavellan instead of any first name.

I like possessive/protective loyalty kink in all of these ships. Definitely down to get kinky with The Iron Bull (or anyone else). And I like Solas/Lavellan anywhere from "consensual but complicated" to dubcon to noncon.

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Request 2: Fire Emblem Three Houses

Dimitri/Felix

I love how Felix shows he cares by snarling insults at Dimitri, and how he's the one who can read Dimitri best (by how he holds his sword...). I love Dimitri struggling to control his strength so he doesn't break people. He tries so hard!

I'm super here for missions gone wrong, lost in the wilderness together, patching Felix up after battle, oh no there aren't any healers around and all the vulneraries are used up. Seriously, stranded in the woods or in creepy underground ruins is amazing. Or training accidents! Dimitri hurting Felix too much and Felix tries to bluff through the pain! Or oh my god Felix is so fucked up over Dimitri's everything, please give me his eventual vulnerable breakdown :D

I like them both pining for each other, or either one pining, and struggling to figure out the "love" part in between all the other feelings of loyalty and fealty and friendship and hope and betrayal.

Tropey excuses to fuck are great, sex pollen and huddling for warmth or "oh no there's only one bed at the inn on their training trip". Blue Lions Truth or Dare games gone wrong/right? :D

I'm mostly into Blue Lions route fic! I also prefer canon-era fic or immediately-post canon fic. Pre-canon, far-future, and mid-timeskip fics aren't as exciting to me.

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Request 3: Genshin Impact

Zhongli/Xiao

Loyalty kink WITH A HEIGHT DIFFERENCE, be still my heart :D There's a line from Xiao's story quest where he describes doing a ritual "with reverence for Rex Lapis in our hearts" and that's the core of their relationship to me. However close they get there's that underlying power dynamic and reverence between them and I love it.

Xiao's emotional and physical suffering is very important to me too, please let Zhongli comfort him :D

I'm definitely here for cultivation novel tropes like dual cultivation, Xiao as a human cauldron, qi deviation, coughing up blood for so many reasons. Also here for: subspace. I've been thinking about subspace since the teapot quest-- Xiao falling into the kinky version of subspace while Rex Lapis is fucking him and domming him and taking care of him would be fantastic.

Backstory fic set during ancient wars -- Xiao adjusting to life serving Morax instead of his cruel former master is excellent. More recent backstory fic like what does Zhongli do the 364 days a year he isn't giving business advice? Does he occasionally patch up his tiny adeptus's wounds?

Weird note: I'm cool with the names Zhongli, Morax, Rex Lapis, or whatever for Zhongli, but using "Alatus" for Xiao throws me.

Ayato/Kazuha

I am obsessed Ayato secretly scheming to help Kazuha. Just... okay I'm just going to copy Ayato's "About Kazuha" voiceline here:

Once upon a time, the Kaedehara Clan was a subordinate branch of the Kamisato Clan. My forebears may have failed to save his family from decline, but even today I have a duty to support him. Now, naturally, there is nothing I can do to restore his clan's former fortunes. But as for helping him avoid arrest by the Tenryou Commission, that is well within my capabilities...

"even today I have a duty support him" = shadow wants fic where Ayato marries Kazuha to protect him from destitution, execution, whatever. That's basically what the line is saying right? Ayato canonically thinks he needs to marry Kazuha? (let me dream okay.) And if one or both of them thinks it's just duty, and the other could never truly want them...

Also "hiding Kazuha from authorities" is great for forced proximity and similar tropes. Oh no maybe Kazuha gets injured and caught in the rain and has nowhere else to go? It's not like he canonically worries about--

I still like to listen to the rain today, but whenever I see the storm clouds start to gather, my heart sinks and I can't help but wonder: "Hm... will some nice person let me stay the night today?"

Oh no, what nice person will let him stay the night???

Dueling together? Celebrating festivals together? Ayato takes a break from his duties to disappear with Kazuha for a day? War-era hurt/comfort?

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Request 4: Word of Honor

Wen Kexing/Xie Wang
Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu/Xie Wang

Prompting for the OTP and OT3 together because I have a lot of the same thoughts about each!

As soon as he showed up on screen, this basically became the Scorpion King show for me. He's so pretty and so deadly and so scheming and so fucked up. I want very bad and very good things to happen to him. A few specific ideas that hopefully convey the general vibes I'm into:

- fic where WKX and ZZS pull Xie Wang out of the avalanche and tenderly/forcibly nurse him back to health

- schemes and negotiations turn sexy

- Scorpion has to become a concubine to WKX or both of them for ??? reasons

- WKX and Xie Wang meeting pre-canon, either as allies or antagonists

Things I'm super cool with: Zhao Jing/Xie Wang backstory, either noncon or fucked-up but mutual, and Xie Wang still emotionally dealing with that while getting with Wen Kexing (and Zhou Zishu). Xie-er not really realizing how fucked up it was is excellent.

For the pairing Wen Kexing/Xie Wang: I'm totally cool with either WKX/ZZS not being a thing and not mentioned, or with Wen Kexing also being with Zhou Zishu, but not as a total triad. I prefer no dramatic breakup or infidelity angst between WKX/ZZS.

Xie Wang angsting about betraying his yifu is fine hahaa

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