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So, for the fandoms I did manage to get together in time, pretty much all of this is in my signup, but due to some unfortunate circumstances (in short, I broke my computer and then myself) this is last-minute and I didn't quite have time to flesh out a couple of the fandoms.

General likes: complicated/loving but emotionally fraught family relationships, established romantic relationships, bittersweetness, hurt/comfort, canon-divergence AUs, non-mundane genre AUs, crossdressing, loyalty and lady/knight sort of dynamics (including in a D/s context), battle couples, characters protecting each other/saving each other's lives (in pretty much any context, not necessarily battle), action/casefic/etc. A-plot with romance B-plot or vice versa, smut featuring characters over 16

General DNWs: non-canon pregnancy or kidfic, issuefic, death of requested characters unless they're dead in canon, fic primarily focused on one of the requested characters being dead in canon, noncon, mundane AUs, crossovers, vore or guro (as kinks), non-requested non-canon ships (including poly ships that involve the requested ship plus one or more other characters), non-requested canon ships as a major focus of the fic, smut featuring characters under 16 (unless aged up), characters' genders being different from canon unless otherwise specified (basically, writing e.g. a female character who is [assumed to be] cis in canon as a trans woman would be okay with me, since her gender is still the same, but I don't want that character as a trans man or in an always-a-boy AU or anything unless I specifically ask for that)

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity

Komachi Tsugumi & Matsunaga Sara & The Kid: I'd love to see some post-canon exploration of what their relationship is like. None of them has had anything resembling a normal family life, ever, so how do they navigate suddenly being a family? In particular, how does Tsugumi--traumatized, bitter, and standoffish as she is--go about trying to be a mother to two teenagers she barely knows? (I'm not that interested in Takeshi; he can of course be involved, onscreen or offscreen, I just don't really want to focus on what he contributes to the family dynamic.)

Matsunaga Sara/Tanaka You: This is possibly my rarest rarepair ever, but, like, how else was I supposed to take Sara telling the Kid that she was jealous of him for dating You? I would be happy with either something set pre-canon--I love ship dynamics where the more outgoing one, through sheer persistence, drags the more reticent one out of their shell, which seems to be what their dynamic was at first--or post-canon, perhaps with You helping Sara adjust to a more normal life and/or Sara helping You adjust to being less normal than she thought and all the other weirdness that Sara has been dealing with for a long time but You has just learned about. (I would prefer either an AU where You and the Kid never dated or a quiet offscreen breakup--no infidelity/"I'm dating one person but in love with someone else" angst, no polyamory/open relationship stuff.)

Fire Emblem: Awakening

Kjelle/Severa: Basically every interaction they have reads like Severa going "I'm attracted to you and I'm VERY ANGRY ABOUT IT!" and I kind of read Kjelle's "oh no, now you have to teach me how to fight!" in the A-support as not just messing with Severa but also finding an excuse to keep spending time together. And then there's Harvest Scramble, which, I don't know what even needs to be said about that.

Lissa/Maribelle: Maribelle is so devoted to and protective of Lissa, which I love, and I also love Lissa sort of gently encouraging her to actually think about herself and what she wants sometimes. I'd enjoy seeing them trying to find a balance there in the context of a romantic relationship.

Lucina/Severa: I love the princess-and-retainer dynamic here, and I also love that Severa is kind of tsundere about it--it's a fun twist on, uh, the whole loyalty thing that drives like 90% of my Fire Emblem ships. Anyway! Stuff set during canon would be excellent (the good old "give me the supports they never got" approach), but I'd also be interested in fics set in the dystopian future/doomed timeline they come from. Like with most of my f/f ships involving royalty, I'm not interested in angst about how Lucina will have to get married someday to have heirs--I'm fine with just ignoring that for the purposes of fic.

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword

Farina/Karla: I really enjoy the way their personalities bounce off each other in their supports and would love to see them off being mercenaries together, while Farina continues to try to convince Karla that she doesn't need men, ifyouknowwhatimean.

Florina/Lyn: Love the lady/knight loyalty kink dynamic, love the added twist that Lyn is also a fighter and fairly protective of Florina herself. Post-paired ending would be great (albeit not focusing on the part where they eventually part ways again), but I'm also up for stuff set during the game in the vein of their support convos, moments together during their downtime in the army camp. Feel free to completely ignore the events of Binding Blade.

Nino: Nino is precious and I particularly want post-canon fic here, of Nino making her way in the world without her mother's influence, learning stuff, doing things she never got to do before.

Nino/Rebecca: Their supports are super cute and I really just want more of that, except more explicitly romantic. (Though, considering they're fighting a war and considering Nino's childhood, it doesn't have to be unremitting fluff.) Working together on the battlefield is great, hurt/comfort is great, Rebecca introducing Nino to things that are unremarkable to Rebecca but that Nino has never experienced before is great.

Ursula/Vaida: I love that Vaida defects less because she's had a change of heart and more because she's just so pissed off about Ursula, and I think this is a great opportunity for some antagonistic sexual tension. I adore enemies-to-lovers, but with these two I'd be just as happy with hatesex or just them fighting (I would say "verbally or physically," but I've never been able to figure out how to make the latter work with Ursula being a mage, alas) but with an undercurrent of attraction, or anything along those lines.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

Elincia/Lucia: The "queen and her favorite" vibes are so strong with these two. Like many of my FE ships, this one really lends itself to a lot of the things I love: Loyalty! Fighting side by side! Protecting each other! Post-battle h/c (physical or emotional, or both)! Obviously this leans more towards fic set during the games, but post-canon or inter-game stories involving their lives at court would also be great! In particular, a glimpse of a more firmly established Queen Elincia and the ways that Lucia supports her and helps her deal with the stresses of ruling could be fun.

Micaiah/Vika: Okay, so, the info conversation where Micaiah asks why Vika doesn't like her and Vika is like "it's not that I don't like you, I'm just avoiding you because when I see you I get this weird flustered feeling that I don't understand" is clearly supposed to be about Micaiah's laguz heritage, but I still think it came off super gay. By the end of part 1 they've clearly become pretty close and we don't see any of their interaction in the intervening time, so you could explore that, but I'd honestly be happy with anything at all here considering this ship is practically nonexistent.

Persona 5

Niijima Makoto/Takamaki Ann: This is another ship where I enjoy the interplay between someone who's kind of an uptight nerd who's bad with people and someone who's more outgoing and spontaneous--I'd love to see Ann getting Makoto to try things she wouldn't normally do. I also feel like this is potentially a good ship for the kind of mutual pining where each assumes the other is out of their league (Ann is a model! She's beautiful and vivacious and so many people must want to date her! vs. Makoto is the class president! She's so smart and responsible and everybody looks up to her! That kind of thing.)

Niijima Sae/Takemi Tae: I'd love to see these two interact, in whatever context--my go-to for engineering meetings involving at least one investigator-type character is for them to run into the other character in some capacity during an investigation, but hey, maybe Sae happens to get injured while in Yongen-Jaya and winds up at Tae's clinic because it's the only one around, or maybe they just run into each other socially somewhere. I feel like they're the type who have a decent amount in common but would superficially rub each other the wrong way at first, which I always find fun. (Also, considering Shadow Sae, does Sae secretly wish she could get away with dressing the way Tae does? Just a thought.)

Suzui Shiho/Takamaki Ann: So much of Ann's social link is about how much she loves Shiho, and I really enjoyed the glimpses of their relationship that we got through that, from the touching moments about how much Ann admires Shiho to the fact that they became friends because Shiho insulted Ann's painting and Ann thought it was hilarious (an A+ meet-cute in my book). I'm mostly interested in fic set after Shiho gets out of the hospital--not necessarily very long after, though if you want to explore what happens with their relationship when they're in college or after, that's good too.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Furudo Erika/Dlanor A. Knox: I enjoy Erika's possessiveness of her murder doll and that Dlanor does see herself as a tool to be used by Erika and has some kind of loyalty to her but at the same time is not uncritical of Erika's... everything. It's super fucked up! But also, like... probably the closest either of them gets to a genuine attachment to anybody (barring Dlanor's dead dad)? And I enjoy stuff that straddles that fucked up/"actually kind of sweet, in a weird way?" line.

Mammon/Ushiromiya Ange: I really loved their relationship in the game, with Mammon as Ange's first friend, and even though she's this non-human being driven by greed, she gets so angry on Ange's behalf when Ange is mistreated, and she really does seem to care, in her own way. I can imagine Ange's feelings for her shading into romance (especially since Ange is so lonely), although of course any kind of relationship would be complicated by Mammon's status as furniture and the fact that she's.... a non-human being driven by greed. I'd be interested in both fic set when Ange is at boarding school and fic set during the game's "present day" after Ange becomes able to summon the Stakes again.