Yuletide 2018
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Hello, Yuletide Author, and thank you for writing for me!
I've cannibalized chunks of this letter from previous exchange letters; feel free to take a gander at those (here) if you want more insight into the sort of thing I like.
The structure of this letter is as follows:
··Shipping and relationships
··General likes
··A note on AUs
··DNWs
··Opt-ins
··Fandom specifics
······Hanakisou
······Hyakujitsu no Bara | Maiden Rose
······Koori no Mamono no Monogatari | The Ice-Cold Demon's Tale
······Lamento -BEYOND THE VOID-
······Sengoku Jidai | Sengoku Period RPF
······Shirogane no Ou
I hope you'll use this letter in the spirit it is intended: I don't want to be pushy or demanding, I just want to give you some idea of the sort of things I like and hopefully spark some inspiration. If it doesn't work for you, remember that optional details are optional. The prompts are ideas, not demands! Please feel free to take what works for you, discard the rest, and write something that you have fun with. The best fic is one that the author enjoyed writing!
I hope you have a good exchange, and again, thanks for writing for me!
SHIPPING AND RELATIONSHIPS
First off: I LOVE gen. I'd be 100% happy to receive gen of anything I've requested. I have requested a number of ships, but if for whatever reason you don't want to write shipfic, I would be thrilled to receive gen of the same characters.
As for the ships I have requested, I don't mind in the slightest if you write them gen, but please don't ship those characters with someone else, either in addition to or instead of each other. I tend to OTP pretty hard, and I'm not interested in seeing unrequested ships involving requested characters. (If you want to include background ships involving non-requested characters, feel free to ask via the mods! I'm much more likely to be amenable to that.)
I'll also note that my ships do not have to be straightforward romance. For example, I absolutely LOVE one-sided relationships--unrequited pining is my jam. I'll mention specifically if I especially like A→B. I also really like relationships that muddy the waters and toe the line between romantic and platonic. If you agonize about whether to tag it A/B or A&B, that is excellent, I eat that stuff up with a spoon.
Lastly, I'm not much interested in sexual content. I usually skip over smut, and even when it's not explicit, I typically hold to a less-is-more policy. Fade to black? That's fine. Stops at kissing? Great. Nothing but gazing meaningfully at each other from across the room? Hold me, I'm going weak at the knees.
GENERAL LIKES
When it comes to fic, these are a few of my favorite things:
··Intense relationships, as well as all related topics and tropes. "You are my most important person," codependency, us against the world, self-sacrifice, obsession, "I would do terrible things for you," found families, all of it. Show me just how dedicated to and invested in each other these people are--be the relationship romantic or platonic, healthy or otherwise--and I will be there with bells on.
··Loyalty, especially mutual loyalty
··Angst (I like tragic/downer endings just as much as happy ones!)
··Pining (mutual or unrequited), especially when it's intense but unspoken
··I'm so desperately in love with you I might be slightly crazy
··Reunions
··Coming home (to someone)
··I would know you anywhere
··I'll face any scandal for you
··Between-the-scenes/missing scenes
··Outsider POV
··Understated/low-key signs of affection
··Non-sexual physicality (hugs, holding hands, bumping foreheads, leaning on each other, etc.)
··Friends to lovers
··Sudden realization of feelings (one's own or someone else's)
··A somber, dark, or bittersweet tone
A NOTE ON AUS
I generally prefer fics to be more or less canon-compliant (be it pre-, during, or post-canon). However, I do like the following types of AUs and fusionfics:
··Loveless!AUs
··daemon!AUs
··canon divergence/for want of a nail
··time loops
··hanahaki
··soulmates/soulbonds (including soulmarks, red string of fate, etc.)
However, please note that I prefer these to remain--aside from the obvious AU aspect--within the context of the canon universe. For example, if canon is about a high school baseball team, I'm totally on board with characters suddenly having virgin kitty ears, or daemons, or soulmarks... as long as they're still high school students playing baseball.
DNWs
I would rather not see any of the following:
··AUs/crossovers/fusions, including mundane, genderswap, ageswap, etc., EXCEPT those mentioned above
········For Sengoku Jidai RPF only: No AUs of any sort, please!
··Explicit sexual content
··Unrequested ships involving requested characters, including infidelity, threesomes/moresomes, and open or poly relationships
··Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, or young children
··Non-canonical nicknames/pet names/terms of endearment
··First-person POV (except epistolary)
··Crackfic
OPT-INS
Assuming it's appropriate to the story being told, I wholeheartedly welcome the following:
··Character death
··Bad/tragic/downer endings
··Horror
··Canon levels of violence, gore, adult themes, etc.
··References to/discussion of canon sexual content
··A requested character not technically appearing in the fic (as long as they're still important to the story)
··Second-person POV and epistolary fic
FANDOMS
I've written different amounts for different fandoms and characters, but please do not think that if I've written more, it must mean I want it more. If I've listed it here, it's because I really want to see it!
Hanakisou
Kuroto
I have an enormous fondness for Hanakisou. I love how the entire crapsack world is built on choices between bad and worse--the world is essentially created to self-destruct, but the built-in escape hatch is horrific; love and death are intrinsically intertwined. But I also love how, despite so much of story being founded on tragedy and pessimism and despair, the characters nevertheless strive to cling to some sort of hope or love or struggle for something better. There are so many ways that things can go wrong, and yet also a few ways--a few--that things might go at least halfway right.
My heart just goes out to Kuroto. His life is (all his lives are) a series of traumas and tragedies. I'm drawn most to his inherent goodness despite his equally inherent nature as the harbinger of destruction. The angst and whump he suffers as a result of this is excellent, A+, would like more of that please. I ship Kuroto/Hanashiro, and I'd be thrilled to anything with them, be it their conflicts over Kuroto's continued existence, facing the end of the world together, their time in the tower, a deceptively peaceful moment during Kuroto's amnesia, building a life together after successfully screwing destiny, anything! I also love love love Kuroto's relationship with Kurotaka (and Kurotaka in general), and I'd be super excited to see anything about them, especially if it involves Kurotaka being protective in his own way.
I have both played the game and read the manga, so feel free to use either one. For the game, I'm happy with any route, including bad ends.
Hyakujitsu no Bara | Maiden Rose
Taki Reizen
Klaus von Wolfstadt
I'm here for the completely unhealthy relationship, the culture clashes, the epic amounts of loyalty and the tank warfare. (I love me some tanks.) Taki and Klaus are so supremely screwed up, both individually and together, and yet they love each other even when they're hurting each other. The loyalty kink doesn't hurt. Uh, if you gave me a thousand words of loyalty, I would be happy.
For Taki, I love how dedicated he is to his people, even if he also sometimes chafes under the expectations laid upon him. For Klaus, I dig how his obsession with Taki is a double-edged sword that can cut himself, Taki, or anyone else that gets even tangentially involved with either of them. Together, I love how they lash out at each other when alone, but will go to the ends of the earth to defend each other from anyone else. I'd love to see them on the battlefield, or flashbacks to Luckenwalde, or have I mentioned the loyalty kink yet?
I'm not interested in receiving explicit sexual content, but canon being what it is, I am 100% okay with references to/discussion of sex. While I have read the two published volumes and (I think all of) the doujinshi, I don't follow the magazine releases, so please avoid spoilers for the chapters that will in the future become volume 3!
Koori no Mamono no Monogatari | The Ice-Cold Demon's Tale
Any (Ishuca, Blood, Wild, Rapunzel)
Koori no Mamono no Monogatari is one of top five favorite manga of all time. I love all of them, everything, all of it, so freaking much.
I love Ishuca's inherent goodness, his strength of character, his ability to see and believe the best in anyone, and his occasional ditziness. I love Blood's determination to be the kind of person Ishuca believes he can be, his endearing lack of knowledge about human life, and how he is both embarrassed by the depth of his feelings for Ishuca and yet absolutely unwavering and unyielding and unapologetic about it. I love how much they love each other, how they stick with each other through thick and thin, how protective they are of each other and how much they're willing to sacrifice for each other. I love Wild's craftiness and cowardice, his book smarts and his rock-bottom emotional IQ, and his desperation to do right by Rapunzel coupled with the certainty that he's utterly incapable of it. I love Rapunzel's wiliness, his soft appearance that belies a core of pure steel, and his occasionally scathing politeness. I love how desperately in love they are, how they're perfectly willing to lie and steal and cheat for each other, their communication fails and their deceptions of each other and themselves, and how they'll do anything--anything--to stay together.
I'd love to get Ishuca/Blood, Wild/Rapunzel, and/or any gen combination, set any time pre-, during or post-canon. I have read the entire manga, so feel free to include any other characters you'd like.
Lamento - BEYOND THE VOID-
Any (Konoe, Asato, Rai, Shaman Cat)
Lamento is probably my favorite visual novel. I love the worldbuilding, I love the music, and I love the characters. I think Konoe is a pretty fantastic protagonist. I love how he goes from a scared country boy fleeing for his life to someone who can face down some pretty horrific things and, oh yeah, basically save the world. Asato is probably my favorite character of the lot; he's a supremely awkward but genuinely good-hearted guy, with a naïveté that's simultaneously kind of charming and kind of sad, and I love how fond and protective he is of Konoe. And I like how Rai's icy personality doesn't stop him from being honest and principled. Mostly, I love how all of them are lonely cats who have been given a terrible lot in life and are just doing their best to get by when they happen to fall in together and find something bigger to fight for. I'm also really intrigued by the Shaman Cat, who guides Konoe and definitely knows way more than he should. I wish we'd seen more of him in the game, and I'd love to see him in fic in any capacity.
For the main three or any combination thereof, I'd love to see a snippet of their post-canon lives, something beyond the epilogue, or perhaps a quiet moment in the inn. For Konoe in particular, I'd also be interested in seeing a moment while traveling through the forest toward Ransen, or honing his abilities as a Sanga. For the Shaman cat, I'd love to see his POV on Konoe's journey, or for him to reappear with mysterious prophecies in a post-canon adventure. Whatever you write, I'd love to see little mentions about their more catlike qualities!
I ship both Konoe/Rai and Konoe/Asato; however, while I'd be equally happy with either one, I'm not interested in seeing them simultaneously, or in Rai and Asato competing for Konoe's affections, or in Konoe/Rai/Asato. I'm okay with all routes, including bad ends. I haven't listened to the drama CDs, so please stick to the visual novel and the manga.
Sengoku Jidai | Sengoku Period RPF
Uesugi Kenshin
Takeda Shingen
I love me some Sengoku Era history, and the honorable rivalry between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen is my favorite.
A brief history, for those who don't know much about the era but might be interested: The Sengoku Period (戦国時代 "warring states era") took place from 1467-1600 or thereabouts, and is known as a period of great upheaval in Japanese history. Japan was divided up into a number of provinces controlled by different warlords, or daimyo, who were constantly battling each other for supremacy. Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo and Takeda Shingen of Kai were two such warlords, and their rivalry was legendary. Though mortal enemies on the battlefield, they also respected each other immensely; they sent each other gifts, including a valuable sword Shingen sent to Kenshin, and when an Uesugi ally cut off supplies of salt (necessary for food preservation) to the Takeda, Kenshin ordered salt to be sent, with the (perhaps apocryphal) quote, "Wars are to be fought with bows and arrows, not with rice and salt." Kenshin is also said to have wept upon Shingen's death.
I honestly would be incredibly excited to see absolutely anything about their relationship. A time when their armies clashed on the battlefield! Kenshin mourning Shingen's death! Sending letters to each other (epistolary?!)! I'm also an inveterate Kenshin/Shingen shipper, in that "I will kill you on the battlefield if I must, but that does not change the love and respect I have for you" kind of way, so if you'd like to go that route, I am 100% game for that.
Please note that I would like fic that is at least vaguely historical in nature. I'm not demanding perfect historical accuracy, please do feel free to use artistic license--if nothing else, I know it can be difficult to find detailed sources in English--but please don't just use the fictionalized versions from another canon! Sengoku Basara/Ikemen Sengoku/Samurai Warriors/whatever is fun in its own way, but it's not what I'm looking for here. I want your version of these historical figures!
Shirogane no Ou
Any (Right-Eye, King, Shirogane Fenrir)
I love this obscure little manga with the fiery passion of a thousand white-hot suns. I love King and Right-Eye's relationship--the way they constantly try to protect each other from other people and from themselves, how they'll do basically anything for each other, how they are unwavering and unyielding in their loyalty to each other. And I have an enormous soft spot for Shirogane--I love it when he refuses to let the truth be ignored, I really enjoy his moments of silliness, and I really love that he's actually the one in power.
I'd be happy to receive fic for any of these characters, or any combination thereof. I don't actively ship King/Right-Eye--I mean, I love how they're slashy as all get-out and I'm pretty convinced there's no one they love more than each other and they could very easily be in love--but I so utterly adore the perfection that is their canon relationship that I feel no driving need to change it. But if you want to go there, have at it, I can get on board with that.
I'd love to see futurefic where they face some outside threat together (a spy in the palace? An assassination attempt? War? Zephil spreading information about Right-Eye's identity to the citizens of Quatredina?). Or perhaps what happens if Zoe returns and King yields the crown. Or pre-canon, why does Shirogane decide to put King on the throne? Or Shirogane and Right-Eye bonding. Or loyalty kink, in any and all directions.
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izayoi_no_mikotoHello, Yuletide Author, and thank you for writing for me!
I've cannibalized chunks of this letter from previous exchange letters; feel free to take a gander at those (here) if you want more insight into the sort of thing I like.
The structure of this letter is as follows:
··Shipping and relationships
··General likes
··A note on AUs
··DNWs
··Opt-ins
··Fandom specifics
······Hanakisou
······Hyakujitsu no Bara | Maiden Rose
······Koori no Mamono no Monogatari | The Ice-Cold Demon's Tale
······Lamento -BEYOND THE VOID-
······Sengoku Jidai | Sengoku Period RPF
······Shirogane no Ou
I hope you'll use this letter in the spirit it is intended: I don't want to be pushy or demanding, I just want to give you some idea of the sort of things I like and hopefully spark some inspiration. If it doesn't work for you, remember that optional details are optional. The prompts are ideas, not demands! Please feel free to take what works for you, discard the rest, and write something that you have fun with. The best fic is one that the author enjoyed writing!
I hope you have a good exchange, and again, thanks for writing for me!
SHIPPING AND RELATIONSHIPS
First off: I LOVE gen. I'd be 100% happy to receive gen of anything I've requested. I have requested a number of ships, but if for whatever reason you don't want to write shipfic, I would be thrilled to receive gen of the same characters.
As for the ships I have requested, I don't mind in the slightest if you write them gen, but please don't ship those characters with someone else, either in addition to or instead of each other. I tend to OTP pretty hard, and I'm not interested in seeing unrequested ships involving requested characters. (If you want to include background ships involving non-requested characters, feel free to ask via the mods! I'm much more likely to be amenable to that.)
I'll also note that my ships do not have to be straightforward romance. For example, I absolutely LOVE one-sided relationships--unrequited pining is my jam. I'll mention specifically if I especially like A→B. I also really like relationships that muddy the waters and toe the line between romantic and platonic. If you agonize about whether to tag it A/B or A&B, that is excellent, I eat that stuff up with a spoon.
Lastly, I'm not much interested in sexual content. I usually skip over smut, and even when it's not explicit, I typically hold to a less-is-more policy. Fade to black? That's fine. Stops at kissing? Great. Nothing but gazing meaningfully at each other from across the room? Hold me, I'm going weak at the knees.
GENERAL LIKES
When it comes to fic, these are a few of my favorite things:
··Intense relationships, as well as all related topics and tropes. "You are my most important person," codependency, us against the world, self-sacrifice, obsession, "I would do terrible things for you," found families, all of it. Show me just how dedicated to and invested in each other these people are--be the relationship romantic or platonic, healthy or otherwise--and I will be there with bells on.
··Loyalty, especially mutual loyalty
··Angst (I like tragic/downer endings just as much as happy ones!)
··Pining (mutual or unrequited), especially when it's intense but unspoken
··I'm so desperately in love with you I might be slightly crazy
··Reunions
··Coming home (to someone)
··I would know you anywhere
··I'll face any scandal for you
··Between-the-scenes/missing scenes
··Outsider POV
··Understated/low-key signs of affection
··Non-sexual physicality (hugs, holding hands, bumping foreheads, leaning on each other, etc.)
··Friends to lovers
··Sudden realization of feelings (one's own or someone else's)
··A somber, dark, or bittersweet tone
A NOTE ON AUS
I generally prefer fics to be more or less canon-compliant (be it pre-, during, or post-canon). However, I do like the following types of AUs and fusionfics:
··Loveless!AUs
··daemon!AUs
··canon divergence/for want of a nail
··time loops
··hanahaki
··soulmates/soulbonds (including soulmarks, red string of fate, etc.)
However, please note that I prefer these to remain--aside from the obvious AU aspect--within the context of the canon universe. For example, if canon is about a high school baseball team, I'm totally on board with characters suddenly having virgin kitty ears, or daemons, or soulmarks... as long as they're still high school students playing baseball.
DNWs
I would rather not see any of the following:
··AUs/crossovers/fusions, including mundane, genderswap, ageswap, etc., EXCEPT those mentioned above
········For Sengoku Jidai RPF only: No AUs of any sort, please!
··Explicit sexual content
··Unrequested ships involving requested characters, including infidelity, threesomes/moresomes, and open or poly relationships
··Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, or young children
··Non-canonical nicknames/pet names/terms of endearment
··First-person POV (except epistolary)
··Crackfic
OPT-INS
Assuming it's appropriate to the story being told, I wholeheartedly welcome the following:
··Character death
··Bad/tragic/downer endings
··Horror
··Canon levels of violence, gore, adult themes, etc.
··References to/discussion of canon sexual content
··A requested character not technically appearing in the fic (as long as they're still important to the story)
··Second-person POV and epistolary fic
FANDOMS
I've written different amounts for different fandoms and characters, but please do not think that if I've written more, it must mean I want it more. If I've listed it here, it's because I really want to see it!
Hanakisou
Kuroto
I have an enormous fondness for Hanakisou. I love how the entire crapsack world is built on choices between bad and worse--the world is essentially created to self-destruct, but the built-in escape hatch is horrific; love and death are intrinsically intertwined. But I also love how, despite so much of story being founded on tragedy and pessimism and despair, the characters nevertheless strive to cling to some sort of hope or love or struggle for something better. There are so many ways that things can go wrong, and yet also a few ways--a few--that things might go at least halfway right.
My heart just goes out to Kuroto. His life is (all his lives are) a series of traumas and tragedies. I'm drawn most to his inherent goodness despite his equally inherent nature as the harbinger of destruction. The angst and whump he suffers as a result of this is excellent, A+, would like more of that please. I ship Kuroto/Hanashiro, and I'd be thrilled to anything with them, be it their conflicts over Kuroto's continued existence, facing the end of the world together, their time in the tower, a deceptively peaceful moment during Kuroto's amnesia, building a life together after successfully screwing destiny, anything! I also love love love Kuroto's relationship with Kurotaka (and Kurotaka in general), and I'd be super excited to see anything about them, especially if it involves Kurotaka being protective in his own way.
I have both played the game and read the manga, so feel free to use either one. For the game, I'm happy with any route, including bad ends.
Hyakujitsu no Bara | Maiden Rose
Taki Reizen
Klaus von Wolfstadt
I'm here for the completely unhealthy relationship, the culture clashes, the epic amounts of loyalty and the tank warfare. (I love me some tanks.) Taki and Klaus are so supremely screwed up, both individually and together, and yet they love each other even when they're hurting each other. The loyalty kink doesn't hurt. Uh, if you gave me a thousand words of loyalty, I would be happy.
For Taki, I love how dedicated he is to his people, even if he also sometimes chafes under the expectations laid upon him. For Klaus, I dig how his obsession with Taki is a double-edged sword that can cut himself, Taki, or anyone else that gets even tangentially involved with either of them. Together, I love how they lash out at each other when alone, but will go to the ends of the earth to defend each other from anyone else. I'd love to see them on the battlefield, or flashbacks to Luckenwalde, or have I mentioned the loyalty kink yet?
I'm not interested in receiving explicit sexual content, but canon being what it is, I am 100% okay with references to/discussion of sex. While I have read the two published volumes and (I think all of) the doujinshi, I don't follow the magazine releases, so please avoid spoilers for the chapters that will in the future become volume 3!
Koori no Mamono no Monogatari | The Ice-Cold Demon's Tale
Any (Ishuca, Blood, Wild, Rapunzel)
Koori no Mamono no Monogatari is one of top five favorite manga of all time. I love all of them, everything, all of it, so freaking much.
I love Ishuca's inherent goodness, his strength of character, his ability to see and believe the best in anyone, and his occasional ditziness. I love Blood's determination to be the kind of person Ishuca believes he can be, his endearing lack of knowledge about human life, and how he is both embarrassed by the depth of his feelings for Ishuca and yet absolutely unwavering and unyielding and unapologetic about it. I love how much they love each other, how they stick with each other through thick and thin, how protective they are of each other and how much they're willing to sacrifice for each other. I love Wild's craftiness and cowardice, his book smarts and his rock-bottom emotional IQ, and his desperation to do right by Rapunzel coupled with the certainty that he's utterly incapable of it. I love Rapunzel's wiliness, his soft appearance that belies a core of pure steel, and his occasionally scathing politeness. I love how desperately in love they are, how they're perfectly willing to lie and steal and cheat for each other, their communication fails and their deceptions of each other and themselves, and how they'll do anything--anything--to stay together.
I'd love to get Ishuca/Blood, Wild/Rapunzel, and/or any gen combination, set any time pre-, during or post-canon. I have read the entire manga, so feel free to include any other characters you'd like.
Lamento - BEYOND THE VOID-
Any (Konoe, Asato, Rai, Shaman Cat)
Lamento is probably my favorite visual novel. I love the worldbuilding, I love the music, and I love the characters. I think Konoe is a pretty fantastic protagonist. I love how he goes from a scared country boy fleeing for his life to someone who can face down some pretty horrific things and, oh yeah, basically save the world. Asato is probably my favorite character of the lot; he's a supremely awkward but genuinely good-hearted guy, with a naïveté that's simultaneously kind of charming and kind of sad, and I love how fond and protective he is of Konoe. And I like how Rai's icy personality doesn't stop him from being honest and principled. Mostly, I love how all of them are lonely cats who have been given a terrible lot in life and are just doing their best to get by when they happen to fall in together and find something bigger to fight for. I'm also really intrigued by the Shaman Cat, who guides Konoe and definitely knows way more than he should. I wish we'd seen more of him in the game, and I'd love to see him in fic in any capacity.
For the main three or any combination thereof, I'd love to see a snippet of their post-canon lives, something beyond the epilogue, or perhaps a quiet moment in the inn. For Konoe in particular, I'd also be interested in seeing a moment while traveling through the forest toward Ransen, or honing his abilities as a Sanga. For the Shaman cat, I'd love to see his POV on Konoe's journey, or for him to reappear with mysterious prophecies in a post-canon adventure. Whatever you write, I'd love to see little mentions about their more catlike qualities!
I ship both Konoe/Rai and Konoe/Asato; however, while I'd be equally happy with either one, I'm not interested in seeing them simultaneously, or in Rai and Asato competing for Konoe's affections, or in Konoe/Rai/Asato. I'm okay with all routes, including bad ends. I haven't listened to the drama CDs, so please stick to the visual novel and the manga.
Sengoku Jidai | Sengoku Period RPF
Uesugi Kenshin
Takeda Shingen
I love me some Sengoku Era history, and the honorable rivalry between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen is my favorite.
A brief history, for those who don't know much about the era but might be interested: The Sengoku Period (戦国時代 "warring states era") took place from 1467-1600 or thereabouts, and is known as a period of great upheaval in Japanese history. Japan was divided up into a number of provinces controlled by different warlords, or daimyo, who were constantly battling each other for supremacy. Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo and Takeda Shingen of Kai were two such warlords, and their rivalry was legendary. Though mortal enemies on the battlefield, they also respected each other immensely; they sent each other gifts, including a valuable sword Shingen sent to Kenshin, and when an Uesugi ally cut off supplies of salt (necessary for food preservation) to the Takeda, Kenshin ordered salt to be sent, with the (perhaps apocryphal) quote, "Wars are to be fought with bows and arrows, not with rice and salt." Kenshin is also said to have wept upon Shingen's death.
I honestly would be incredibly excited to see absolutely anything about their relationship. A time when their armies clashed on the battlefield! Kenshin mourning Shingen's death! Sending letters to each other (epistolary?!)! I'm also an inveterate Kenshin/Shingen shipper, in that "I will kill you on the battlefield if I must, but that does not change the love and respect I have for you" kind of way, so if you'd like to go that route, I am 100% game for that.
Please note that I would like fic that is at least vaguely historical in nature. I'm not demanding perfect historical accuracy, please do feel free to use artistic license--if nothing else, I know it can be difficult to find detailed sources in English--but please don't just use the fictionalized versions from another canon! Sengoku Basara/Ikemen Sengoku/Samurai Warriors/whatever is fun in its own way, but it's not what I'm looking for here. I want your version of these historical figures!
Shirogane no Ou
Any (Right-Eye, King, Shirogane Fenrir)
I love this obscure little manga with the fiery passion of a thousand white-hot suns. I love King and Right-Eye's relationship--the way they constantly try to protect each other from other people and from themselves, how they'll do basically anything for each other, how they are unwavering and unyielding in their loyalty to each other. And I have an enormous soft spot for Shirogane--I love it when he refuses to let the truth be ignored, I really enjoy his moments of silliness, and I really love that he's actually the one in power.
I'd be happy to receive fic for any of these characters, or any combination thereof. I don't actively ship King/Right-Eye--I mean, I love how they're slashy as all get-out and I'm pretty convinced there's no one they love more than each other and they could very easily be in love--but I so utterly adore the perfection that is their canon relationship that I feel no driving need to change it. But if you want to go there, have at it, I can get on board with that.
I'd love to see futurefic where they face some outside threat together (a spy in the palace? An assassination attempt? War? Zephil spreading information about Right-Eye's identity to the citizens of Quatredina?). Or perhaps what happens if Zoe returns and King yields the crown. Or pre-canon, why does Shirogane decide to put King on the throne? Or Shirogane and Right-Eye bonding. Or loyalty kink, in any and all directions.
