Dear Chocolate Box Author

Dear Chocolate Box author,

Sorry my letter was a little delayed! First of all, thank you so much for offering one of my pairings <3 I can't wait to see what you're going to come up with - these are all canons I've loved forever, so I'm super excited for any new fic in any of them. If you've come to this letter via the letters post, my AO3 name is also thisisthemorning :D I've requested many of these fandoms and characters before, so feel free to look back through my journal for more prompts/inspiration if you'd like!

I'm absolutely a believer in 'optional details are optional', so if none of my prompts spark your imagination, feel free to come up with something else! I just a have a few things I would love to see in general and a few things I generally don't like to read so I'll put those first of all:

In General

Likes - I'd be happy to see any of these!:
- pre- or post-canon
- happy endings (including AU/fix-it endings)
- friendships or relationships forged through sharing a dangerous situation
- hurt/comfort (including: people getting really beaten up/physically damaged/abused in some way and then being rescued by a loved one; people bravely soldiering on through illness or injury so that they don't let down their friends, winning the day, and finally being overcome by their ailment and having to be cared for, and this ultimately deepening a relationship into romance, deep friendship, or substitute parent relationship - especially if it causes a change of heart about a relationship!)
- plotty fic (or snippets implying a longer plot)
- unresolved sexual tension (that eventually gets resolved through mutual realisation)
- serious injury and recovery
- adventure!

Dislikes:
- first person or second person narrative
- PWPs/lemons
- super fluffy fic
- smut (sex scenes should fade to black, please)
- AUs (eg hipster AU, high school AU, barista AU etc)
- character bashing

Tortall

I've grouped these together since my crossover pairing is also part Tortall!

Pairings requested:
Alianne Cooper/Dovasary Balitang
Alianne Cooper & Dovasary Balitang
Keladry of Mindelan & Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau

Prompts:

Alianne/Dovasary and Alianne & Dovasary:
I'd love to see an Aly/Dove relationship that develops before and after the rebellion, or one that only becomes romantic after Dove becomes queen. I love their respect for each other and the way their skills complement each other, and I would love to see that worked into the story - going to each other for advice, or helping each other through stressful times. This would equally work for a friendship fic for them! Bonding over using their brains for good would be wonderful, whether it leads to romance or deeper friendship. For romance, a secret romance between them could be fun, so they could use their espionage skills (and so on) to hide it from the court/Dove's family etc (although when they do get found out nobody is particularly surprised or angry!) I'd prefer it if you don't make any mention of Aly/Nawat :)

Kel & Alanna:
I'd love to see them getting a chance to get to know each other after Kel is knighted - maybe going on an adventure together? Or dealing with something during the Scanran War together? Feel free to include lots of appearances from Neal and Raoul, as I feel like the four of them working together would be pretty amusing - perhaps they all end up involved in something together while Kel is still a squire, but she and Alanna have a chance to get to know each other as a result?

Emelan

Pairing requested: Evumeimei Dingzai & Briar Moss & Dedicate Rosethorn

Prompts:

I love the three of them together - their mutual prickliness but also relying on each other. I really love how Briar is learning to be a teacher with Rosethorn's support! I would really love some hurt/comfort here - either in the midst of the war, or on their way home, or after they've got back to Emelan. I really like hurt/comfort where you see both the hurt (physical or emotional) and the comfort, but not hurt that initially stems from hurting each others' feelings please! Feel free to bring in any other Emelan characters you'd like, I love all of them (but I'd prefer no sibling!cest!).

White Boots

Pairing requested: Harriet Johnson/Lalla Moore

Prompts: I've loved this book for a long, long time, and most of all the relationship between Harriet and Lalla. I would love to see their lives and friendship (or more!) post-canon! I absolutely ship them (as adults) but I would love to see anything about their relationship and its growth as they grow older, whether as friends or realising that they feel something more for each other.

I have so many questions about what happened next after the book ended, if you'd like some ideas: do they both end up doing the things predicted for them at the end of the book (Lalla becoming a show skater and Harriet a professional figure skater), or does something else come along and get in the way of that? How do they deal with their feelings for each other alongside their feelings about their careers? Maybe one of them is more successful than the other, or their careers force them to live far away from each other and they struggle to stay connected, but are able to overcome that in the end... What if Harriet makes it to the Olympics? How would Lalla react?

Crossover Fandom

Pairings requested:
Alianne Cooper/Daja Kisubo
Alianne Cooper/Dovasary Balitang/Daja Kisubo
Alianne Cooper & Dovasary Balitang & Daja Kisubo
Alianne Cooper & Daja Kisubo

Prompts:

Basically I just love the idea of Aly, Dove, and Daja having adventures together in some combination, whether shippy or not. I would love a story where Aly (with or without Dove) travels to Emelan as Dove's spymaster, or Daja travels to the Copper Isles on her journeys as a smith-mage, and they meet. I would love to see anything about them getting to know each other and falling for each other - letters, repeated chance meetings, electric attraction, stolen kisses in the palace, ending up on the same ship... It would be awesome to see Daja getting drawn into Aly's spy intrigues, too!

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Thank you again, and feel free to get in touch if you want any more info or clarifications! Anonymous commenting is enabled on this entry :)