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[rosewithallherthorns]

Hello Writer! I didn't get this letter entirely together before the requests closed, but I hope it's useful to you!

In general, I have a dark sense of humor. I often enjoy watching bad things happening to people as long as someone is happy, or self-destruction. I enjoy crushes that build and build without ever truly being resolved, and pining, and people in unhealthy relationships who haven't left them yet. I like characters who spur each other on to greater heights! I love time travel and other things like that, especially if they use it to make a super happy ending or become more emotionally or physically competent through it. I am entirely down for the characters I've requested being in always a women AU if they're a dude. All of them. Feel free to make every single one off and recurring character a women, whether you made them up or they existed before as a dude.

Order of the Stick

 

All: Order of the Stick is a comedic comic, and so I'd love comedy to go with it! I tend to also love angst and worldbuilding, as well as timey-wimey stuff. For shippy stuff with Vaarsuvius, I'm fine with either divorced V or unresolved UST or Inkyrius and Vaarsuvius having never gotten married, but would prefer no cheating.

 

Belkar & Vaarsuvius: They're such a weird pair. South of Neutral and North of Evil, but both of them still understand that sometimes you just need someone to let a cat piss in a kobold's mouth. I'd be very interested in fic that's about them interacting after Belkar takes a lesson in teamwork and Vaarsuvius eats their humble pie, but I'd also be interested in fic that's about them in an AU where they're not in a shared group and Belkar is a horrid lil halfling while Vaarsuvius is a married elf concerned only with their spells.

 

Inkyrius/Vaarsuvius: One of the things I learned from that strip is that Vaarsuvius must have been charming at some point, to end up with a loving and devoted spouse. My theory is that they write excellent love poetry, and can occasionally fixate on people (see: scrying for Haley). I would also love to see an AU where Vaarsuvius remains more family-focused but skids south of Neutral, and how Inkyrius deals with this.

 

Redcloak/& Vaarsuvius: Redcloak needs a pawn to do all the arcane magic he can't. Vaarsuvius is a long lived wizard who's more concerned with power than murder, usually. I'm super curious whether Redcloak would consider Vaarsuvius a safer or more dangerous bet than Xykon. 

 

Sabine & Vaarsuvius: I keep getting touched by their every interaction, honestly. From Sabine getting love advice from Vaarsuvius to Sabine spouting off every single fragment of advice she remembers, it's been great. I want them to meet up again and have Sabine work with V to some degree.

 

Roy/Vaarsuvius: I'll be real with you, I realized one day that Vaarsuvius isn't terribly unlike Eugene Greenhilt, laughed my ass off, and then developed a fondness for this crack pairing. If you want it to be crush-based or onesided rather than a resolved relationship, I'd prefer Roy to be the one catching feelings. I'm all for Roy having a sexuality crisis based in that he can't tell if V is a man or a woman. I also just want him to see some parallels between them, get unpleasant flashbacks to "marry a man like your father" and attempt to retreat.

 

DNW: Vaarsuvius sex reveal outside of explicit fic. In explicit fic, DNW human or xeno penis on them. For Inkyrius/Vaarsuvius, no character death of anyone in their family.

Homestuck

Crocker Family: I know the entire webcomic is filled with families that don't function, but this is probably one of the worst ones. I tend to imagine John stuck in a peacekeeping role between Jade and his mom, one he only escapes when Jade escapes to live her own life, and then maybe eventually falls back into once they start clashing violently again.

 

I imagine Jade really wants to protect John from how bad she sees Condie's influence is, but it's not something that's in her power because he doesn't want to/isn't ready to leave.

 

Meanwhile, I imagine that while the Condesce has more experience raising grubs in the Alpha universe than she did in the Beta one, she's not necessarily the best at it. It's so strange for her!

 

Jade/Condie: The Condesce views Jade's seething hatred as a black crush on her and thinks it's funny. Jade doesn't see it that way. But she doesn't see Condesce as her real mother now that she knows she's an alien, even if John does. When Jade changes her last name and readies herself to fight Crocker Corp's conquest of humanity in whatever way she can, Condie actually sits up and starts paying attention. For better or worse.

 

Tavros/Vriska/Equius: I'm imagining ashen romance between them, and the mediating leaf keeps changing. Is Equius trying to keep Vriska from mauling Tavros? Is Tavros distracting Equius from his disturbingly pale leanings towards Vriska? Is Vriska determined to keep Tavros' flush crush on Equius from taking root? Who knows. But I'm definitely excited for however my author chooses to write it!

 

DNW: sex between Jade and Condesce before Jade is 30 or so. Explicit fic for Tavros/Vriska/Equius.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Juri/Anthy: Juri is a lesbian with bad problems around repressing it. Anthy is bi. They're magically engaged in a somewhat abusive relationship. Go wild!

 

I like to imagine that Anthy needles Juri in spots she knows are weak, and Juri takes her anger out on her, and it's generally Not Super Healthy, but I'm up for most interpretations I can think of!

 

DNW: Healthy Juri/Anthy, post-anime Juri/Anthy.

Akatsuki no Yona

Garou & Jae-ha & Yona: I'd really love an AU where instead of Garou getting to redeem himself through death, he and Jae-ha have to air out all their dirty laundry and dysfunctionality in front of Yona, who's finally come to collect her dragons. Whether this is because Yona was born earlier or Jae-ha and Garou are born later or something else is up to the author, though! I'd enjoy Yona trying really hard to rehabilitate them and show them she doesn't view them as her property or anything, and I'm curious how their views of their situation would shift, and if you think Garou would die in this situation. I wouldn't want to see Garou and Jae-ha become a healthy, normal family in the fic, but I'm not against an ending that implies they're starting the road to getting better.

 

Hakuryuu Village: Ah yes, the cult of my heart. It's such a strange place. How do they keep everyone from becoming entangled in incest in a village where no one is allowed to come or leave? What do they usually do with strangers they capture who aren't Hiryuu's companions? How does the Hakuryuu get treated in normal circumstances? I'd also love to see the ghosts interact with the village and the current dragon, and possibly drive them a bit crazy.

 

Jae-ha & Hiryuu: Jae-ha has deeply set hangups about being the Green Dragon Warrior. I'd love to see that built on, especially since he never gets a chance to meet him so the only Hiryuu he can know is the Hiryuu inside his own head. The cruel king he imagined would show up and collect him one day.

 

Kija/Yona: I love that Kija's entire life dream is built around following Yona around and protecting her with his life. And I also love that Yona thinks he's pretty and uses his real name as opposed to his title. I'd prefer if other ships for the two weren't mentioned.