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Hello Mystery Creator! I hope 2022 is treating you well!

My name is Banah and you can find my AO3 here.

Thank you so much for creating for me; I'm very excited to see what you'll make. Below I've included some general likes (including likes specific to art & for smut if you're going in that direction) as well as some brief prompts for each pairing. Feel free to ignore them entirely; I love a wide variety of things and am looking forward to whatever you want to make! Likewise I am recycling several prompts from higher-minimum exchanges - if you're inspired by one but feel like it would be too long I'd love a scene or two, a PWP, or a "skipping straight to the juicy bit" version of any of these ideas. ;)

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edit: 1/10/22 Letter now complete!

Do Not Wants

• infidelity
  
• non-requested non-canon pairings
  
• pregnancy or childbirth
  
• rape between requested pairings unless otherwise noted
  
• the following kinks: bathroom-related, vore, spanking, vomit, breathplay, bestiality, consensual incest, on-screen extreme (<14) underage (CSA backstories are fine), graphic guro, race fetish
  
• non-canon death of major (in canon or story) canon characters. Killing off villains and OCs is fine.
  
• suicide or suicidal ideation
  
• fic focusing on IRL social issues, politics, or extensive discussion of characters' marginalizations, privileges, and identities. (Fantasy/SF prejudices and politics are fine.)
  
• Ace or aro headcanons for members of requested ships
  
• Requested ships breaking up (Unless they get back together in the end)
  
• First or second person POV, except in epistolary fic
  
• Unhappy or hopeless endings.
  
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Fanfiction Likes

• hurt/comfort (heavy on the hurt)
  
• mentor-mentee bonds (and ships!)
  
• identity porn
  
• battle couples
  
• Non-mundane AUs: superheros, post-apocalyptic, prison, steampunk, high fantasy, space opera
  
• long and difficult roads to redemption
  
• groundhog's day scenarios
  
• Time-travel and universe hopping fix-its in general
  
• epistolary & mediafic
  
• secret or unexpected badasses
  
• outsider POV
  
• making a home together in a survival situation, or fixing up an old/worn down house somewhere isolated
  
• Overly dramatic trauma-fueled backstories and the revelation thereof.
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Fanart Likes

Less of a like and more of a note, but please don't worry if you feel like your art isn't shippy "enough" - my OTP standing next to each other on a page is enough to make me happy.

Fashion! High fashion, ball gowns, historical clothing, lolita or ouji, armor, lingerie, club wear, canon outfit redesigns - any and all clothing porn.

I have a special love for hats both stylish and silly.

Redesigns in general - new hair, new outfits, role or outfit swaps, aged up or down, AU'd into another fandom

Ship wearing each other's signature clothes

Ship sleeping on each other or otherwise being vulnerable together

Ship fighting back-to-back

Taller person carrying shorter person bridal-style, either to be cute or because they're injured

Character A sitting on a throne, Character B at their feet

Fake selfies, polaroids, social media posts, etc

Cooking and eating

Magic or glowing elements

Scenery
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Smutty Likes

• younger/less experienced person bottoming
  
• oral
  
• loss of virginity - either mutual or with a more experienced partner
  
• licking, sucking, or playing with breasts
  
• dark fuck prince villains who are calm and collected during sex while their partner squirms
  
• drunk or drugged sex
  
• public or semi-public sex
  
• large object and/or dick penetration
  
• sex toys
  
• cheerful and playful doms, especially in F/m
  
• orgasm control
  
• facefucking
  
• tender aftercare
  
• fingering under a dress or skirt
  
• praisekink
  
• thigh-highs
  
• getting someone off through their panties
  
• rough sex
  
• riding
  
• against a wall
  
• begging
  
• gentle humiliation
  
• photos or videos
  
• healing cock
  
• gently blowing someone's mind
  
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FFXV - Ignis/Prompto

I love the contrasts between these two - polished suit vs punk uniforms, poised vs awkward, restrained vs unbridled enthusiasm, raised in the palace vs completely new to all of this, and, well, size - as well as the dorky sense of humor they seem to have in common. I love the moments when Ignis gets goofy and the moments when Prompto gets serious, and I like to see them reacting to those qualities in each other!

• In some kind of happier world, Ignis is tasked with getting Prompto's manners, dress, and dancing up to snuff for an important royal event (totally cool to throw in background Luna/Noctis here if you want a wedding as an excuse, or handwave he's gotta be there for some reason) and as a result they end up spending a lot of time together and grow some feelings. (shopping montage??? shopping montage!!!)


• Making a life together, post-WoR. As you can tell by my fic likes I am extremely weak for what I guess you could call homesteading for lack of a better word? Building or refurbishing a house, getting a settlement up and running, improving their surroundings as a symbol for the growth of their relationship and their recovery from grief... Love it. I like the idea of them allowing themselves a quiet retirement somewhere far away from everything. Maybe they can take over the chocobo post or something.


• Hurt/Comfort - Yes, this is a trope, not a prompt, whoops. But I love seeing Prompto get all kinds of hurt (almost-a-robot!sads, insecurity, Ardyn torture, dying of the player forgetting to throw potions at him, noncon, anything terrible your mind can come up with...) and I love seeing Ignis' caretaking side come out for him.


• Art-Specific Prompts
  
  
  • cooking together
  
  
  • chocobos (feeding, cuddling, racing!)
  
  
  • relaxing somewhere together - on the couch, at the beach, anywhere, give them some rest!
  
  
  • on a date on the streets of Lestallum or Insomnia
  
  
  • fighting back-to-back
  
  
  • Prompto wearing Ignis' leopard-print button down and nothing else for him

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FFXV - Noctis/Prompto

I love how much these two love each other! It means so much to Noctis to have someone like Prompto in his life, and Prompto worked so hard to feel worthy of being that person! They fit together the way only best friends can, but there are still secrets and insecurities and jagged edges in both of them to provide conflict and keep the ship fresh.

• Mediafic / Social Media - I LOVE the trope of 'famous person's relationship is outed to the media against their will, now they and their loved ones must deal with it.' Give me Noctis' resentment about having this otherwise untouched-by-royalty part of his life intruded on! Give me Prompto's angst about having his right to be in Noctis' life put on trial-by-internet! Give me the ill-advised r/relationships post, the drag on TMZ, or the dramatic declaration of true love on instagram! 👑🍑🍆👀
• First time - I'd love to see some sweet fooling around and either first-time sex or heading toward it with these two. I love the dynamic of each of them having their own insecurities but being totally enamored of the other, and the idea of adding a sexual element to their relationship adding bumps to an otherwise smooth transition from best bros to boyfriends
• Royal Skip-The-Wedding - Who cares if it's a terrible idea? Noctis and Prompto elope under whatever circumstances, and then tell Regis/Ignis and Gladio/whomever. Their love cannot be stopped!
• art prompts
  • playing video games while cuddling together
  • selfies
  • cosplaying as characters from other fandoms or FF games (i'm familiar with seven, ten, and classic job classes etc)
  • fighting back-to-back

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FFXV - Gladio/Prompto

• Gladio being the one to train Prompto after he's accepted into the Crownsguard, and giving him one-on-one sessions considering Prompto's closeness with Noct. Living up to Gladio's standards is difficult, but the praise? The praise is completely worth it. :D
  
• Gladio and Prompto are captured together; Gladio offers himself to be tortured in Prompto's place, and Prompto has to care for him afterward and while dealing with the fact that Gladio loves him enough to do that.
  
• An alternate universe where the Empire/Ardyn won, leaving Prompto and Gladio to head up the resistance while waiting for Noctis' return. (Only barely AU, I know!)
  
• Gladio's never been with a guy before and struggles to express his feelings for Prompto. To Prompto's quiet bafflement (or comedic misunderstanding?) he turns to ancient love poetry.
  
• The Crownsguard hosts a charity date auction and Gladio buys a date with Prompto as a joke (not a mean one; they're both in on it). The date turns out way better than either of them expected, somehow.
  
• Art-Specific Prompts
  • jogging or lifting weights together
  • Prompto sitting on Gladio's back while he does pushups
  • Sitting together, Prompto playing video games while Gladio reads
  • Watching the sunrise together post-WoR
  • sneaky citadel makeouts/sex
  • Prompto taking sexy pictures of Gladio
  • Clothes swap despite the ridiculous size difference
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FF7R - Barret/Cloud

These two. THESE TWO. I love how Barret brings out the maximum of lil' shit in Cloud, I love the clash of forced apathy vs overwhelming passion for the cause, I love the slowly growing friendship and respect. They've got potential for hatesex (love it), potential for genuine but reluctant affection (love it!!), potential for one growing into the other while they refuse to admit that it has... Good stuff, good stuff.

• Anything that extends the period Cloud was working with Barret's Avalanche cell in Sector 7. Extra missions with just the two of them, hanging out and catching each other's eye at Seventh Heaven (and subsequent possibly-drunken makeouts?), anything where they develop a sort of Status Quo together before things get really wild. This would be a great setup for casual (or angry) sex turning into feelings.
  
• I really loved the optional "resolution" scene with Barret (here) where he's surprised that talking things out with Cloud makes him feel better. I'd love to see a continuation of this dynamic with Barret going to Cloud with other feelings problems and Cloud doing his awkward best to help (even when it turns out he *is* the feeling).
  
• Sex pollen and/or sex pollen aftermath would be fantastic with these two. I love it as a mechanism to force characters to reckon with feelings; anything from light-hearted almost-immediate acceptance to a more serious take welcome, though I'd prefer it if the pollination were accidental rather than arranged by a third party.
  
• The two of them being captured together (for longer and more directly than what happened in canon) and forced to bond as they work to escape. Angst (flashbacks for Cloud? Physical h/c for Barret's arm going without maintence?) and triumph and "don't worry, I'll get you out of here!"
  
• One or both of them accidentally confesses their love in the middle of a loud public argument. :o
  
• One or both of them being shocked to bump into one another at a gay bar in the slums.
  
• Art-Specific Prompts:
  
  
  • Sleeping sitting up and leaning on each other either on the road or at one of those bench/vending machine combos.
    
  • Bandaging one another's injuries or sharing a potion.
    
  • Sitting together in the flowers in Aerith's garden
    
  • Angry kissing
    
  • Give me the sailor uniform. Do it. Context does not matter.
    
  • Barret carrying Cloud bridal-style.
    
  • Cloud defending Barret in a fight.
    
    
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FF7R - Cloud/Sephiroth

Note: I have played both the original game and consumed most of the compilation including Crisis Core, feel free to incorporate whatever canon you'd like or make up whatever isn't covered in Remake itself! I'm flexible. (I haven't played the PS5 version or the Yuffie DLC yet, though, so please avoid spoilers specific to those!)

Love me a fucked-up hero and villain ship, what can I say. As with Aerith/Sephiroth, I'm up for both more positive, redemptive directions where possible as well as a decent straight into iddy darkfic, depending on your preferences. (RE: Clerith and Cloti - I don't ship either but am okay with references to past feelings for each other.)

• An AU where weird-knowledge-of-the-future!Sephiroth manages to find and get Cloud on his/Jenova's side after the cliffside and before Cloud reaches Tifa/Midgar, when he's still fairly out of it. Cue a lot of co-villain shenannigans/being hot and evil together while in the mean time Cloud's personality and memories are trying to break through.
• A more conventional relationship during Cloud's trooper days (or maybe even something taking place in his head/with his invented memories, when Cloud was "in" SOLDIER). Something playing with the angst of Cloud's insecurity vs the added public spotlight that being with or even around Sephiroth in those days would bring would be fabulous, as would playing up the (relatively small) age gap.
• Status Effects Made Them Do It or an kind of sex pollen, especially with focus on the aftermath and how it might change the way they see each other. Both relatively fluffy takes on this and dark ones very welcome.
• Art Prompts
  • Size difference. Yowza.
  • Sephiroth 'haunting' Cloud in a sexy fashion
  • Pre-canon Sephiroth flustered by/crushing on trooper Cloud
  • fighting each other or side-by-side.
  • Sephiroth meets Miss Cloud
  • Homoerotic sword play
    

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FF7R - Aerith/Sephiroth

Note: I have played both the original game and consumed most of the compilation including Crisis Core, feel free to incorporate whatever canon you'd like or make up whatever isn't covered in Remake itself! I'm flexible. (I haven't played the PS5 version or the Yuffie DLC yet, though, so please avoid spoilers specific to those!)

So here I was, minding my own business, never having considered this ship before, when Aerith glares up at this guy twice her height and (at this point) significantly more powerful and tells him he ain't shit everything about him is wrong. Reader, I was instantly smitten. I love the contrast of how human and alive Aerith's strength is, compared to Sephiroth's cold and alien nature. I love that they both seem to know more of what's going on than the player, and that they're set so strongly against each other. I also love the idea of her being able to save him and save the world that way, without making her ultimate sacrifice.

I'm down for a lot of different dynamics with them, too - anything from fluffy AUs and canon-fix-its to hatesex and non-con is A-OK with me! :3 (RE: Clerith and Zerith - I don't ship any of the three but am okay with references to past feelings for each other.)

• I'm a big fan of fix-its and timeloops, and of course Remake is ripe for that sort of thing. I'd love to see a take where they're trapped in a timeloop or keep getting reset by the Whispers while being the only ones to remember what's happening. They could start out with their canon enemies dynamic and make the enemies-to-lovers transition under the pressure and inability to get away from one another.
• I like the fact that both were under Shinra's control during part of their childhood and the idea of the two of them meeting in that context, as lonely experiments. I've often thought about AUs where Aerith remained in Shinra's custody and the two of them grew up alongside one another. Would she be a balancing influence on him? Would he drag her down into his madness?
  
  Related, I also love Aerith's joke about how maybe she was a SOLDIER and I'd love to see an AU where that is the case!
• Canon, but for some reason they're trapped somewhere isolated and have to work together in order to survive. Perhaps - perhaps - there is only one bedroll.
  
• Art Prompts
  • size difference! that's it! that's the prompt!
  • Fighting each other, or fighting side-by-side
  • Aerith healing Sephiroth or tending to his wounds
  • Aerith braiding or grooming Sephiroth's hair
  • Sephiroth carrying Aerith bridal style
  • A roleswap with Sephiroth as the Cetra healer and Aerith as the crazy alien's daughter
  • Aerith flustering Sephiroth by bossing him around/not being afraid of him

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Breath of the Wild - Link/Zelda

Note: I haven't played Age of Calamity or any other Zelda games so I probably won't understand references to those unless they're explained in-story!

So I showed up to this fandom 35 years late with starbucks, but this ship grabbed me right in the Id. It's got sweetness, it's got lady/knight dynamics with a complex lady, it's got inevitable tragady and in the end it's got hope.

• First time/virginity loss after Zelda's failure at the Spring of Power - I just think it would be an interesting and sad time for them to get together, with her seeking comfort and him being strong for her.
• Post-canon exploration together - Link showing Zelda everything he's seen in-game and introducing her to new people, taking on Shrines together, rebuilding castle town and maybe even trying to make the castle livable again? I'm a sucker for anything where fixing up a house/town/country is a metaphor for a growing relationship.
• "I never know what he's thinking! It makes my imagination run wild, guessing at what he is thinking but will not say." (From Zelda's Dairy) Where exactly is that imagination running?? Either in a sexy way or in a "Zelda assuming Link's thoughts are X but they're actually Y causes problems"
• Art Prompts:
  
  • Dirty, tired, and happy from being on the road together
  • Riding horseback (or... motorcycle back...?) together
  • Link teaching Zelda the fine art of bomb fishing
  • Anything at all with the dragons!
  • Zelda/Voe!Link, yes please
  • Settling together in Link's house

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Kingdom Hearts - Riku/Sora

Childhood OTP? Childhood OTP. I love both the sweetness of how dedicated they are to each other and the edge of jealousy and competition that comes from Riku's issues in the early games. I also love how atmospheric Destiny Islands itself is - the music, the iconic locations, the races and the various callbacks throughout the series.

If you'd like to incorporate any Disney details or extra keyblades, my favorite movies are Treasure Planet, Lilo & Stitch, and Tangled!

• Sharing an ice cream in Disneytown
• Fake couple-y KH!instagram photos, gummiphone screen mockups, etc
• Playing together on a Classic Kingdom arcade machine
• Sora trying to get Riku to smile
• Riku standing guard over sleeping Sora in his pod
• Something colorful with Dreameaters!
• Tandem solar surfing between worlds
• Sharing a paupu
• cooking together at Little Chef's

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Kingdom Hearts - Riku/Sora/Kairi

Best! Trio! Ever! I love every component ship of these three and I love them together; I like how different each of their relationships with the others are but how they still make up this coherent little whole that's been through so much together. I like the sadness and the happiness, I love the familiarity between them, I like all the callbacks and nostalgia of them being the three people that have been there, trying to be together, since the very first game.

I just want them to be happy, man.

• Queen Kairi and King Sora with knight Riku. Loyalty kink and costumes!
• Taking a nap together in a hammock or on the beach.
• Sora serving up food he learned to cook in KH3
• Swimming together as mermaids in Atlantia
• Finally sailing on a raft together - maybe in pirate clothes?
• Training - Sora and Kairi ganging up on Riku
• Generally hanging out and being domestic - lazing around in someone's room, cooking together, building a new shack/house/hangout on the island, fishing, anything!
  

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