The Same Watari As Always

I like: Humor, drama, snark, romance, smiling in the face of absurdity. I find AUs fun, both canon divergence and actual AUs. I tend to prefer fantasy/adventure AUs to everyday ones (so, Pokemon trainer AU over coffeeshop). Length, genre, any of that is entirely up to you. The suggestions here are just that, suggestions, and feel free to look at other letters, etc, for ideas. I love in-universe stuff and there are some great in-universe possibilities here. I tried to pick what suited my idea of canon in my optional choices. (I noticed I may have repeated a few things or chosen overlapping options, that's not me excluding things, it's me trying to be inclusive. This is my first FIAB so please be patient, heh.)

 

If I have 'better' sounding prompts for any character/fandom, it's not because I like them less, it's just how inspiration has struck. Please, go with what you want to write and what you have fun exploring!

 

My first online fandom was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and this movie made me incredibly happy. Emphasizing their teenage-ness was just so fun, and the end of the movie opens up so many possibilities for stories that haven't really been told before (outside of AUs, heh).

 

Mikey is my all-time favorite so I chose him as a solo character, but I also really adore the relationship between all the brothers (and the brothers w/Splinter). They're supportive and loving but it doesn't stop them from teasing the hell out of each other. Perfection.

 

There are so many wacky post-canon situations they could be in! There are so many wacky pre-canon things that must have happened! I love humor and family vibes and I'd love to see the Turtles doing just...dorky high school stuff. (What does their enrollment paperwork look like?!? The minutes from anime club? The program from Mikey's improv debut?) I love how much love went into this movie, and how populated the world is with flyers and junk and the Turtles' things and the movies they watched and the pop cultur references they annoy each other with. It's busy and crowded and alive.

 

I do not ship Leo/April but I find Leo's crush on her hilarious and the way the other three absolutely drag him for said crush made me laugh every single damn time it came up. Leo can suffer for my amusement, that's fine.

OCs are obviously fine here; I don't want you to try to write "Mikey at Improv club" and not write OCs. Having these guys bump up against the wider world has so many cool possibilities, in and out of school.

 

DNWs: Omegaverse, non-con, incest, no pregnancy of any kind, no sexual assault/abuse, no explicit sex with these characters at their current ages. I am fine with futurefic when these characters are adults but would prefer that not to be the whole fic/all the fic you write.
 

Solo: Plants
Meryl Stryfe & Milly Thompson & Vash the Stampede & Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede & Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood

Length Opt-In: Drabble Series, Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Restaurant Menu, Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff In-Universe Mediums/Work That Fit The Canon Setting, Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Botanical Illustration, Medium Opt-In: Art - Landscape, Medium Opt-In: Art - Costume Design, Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Art, Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Advertisement, Medium Opt-In: Art - Playing Card, Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card, Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry, Medium Opt-In: Art - Weapon Schematics, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - A Page From An Herbal, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Travel Literature, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Mission Report, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Card Game Reskin, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Cross Stitch Pattern, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: City or Country or World, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents

 

I'm so happy to see interest in this fandom again! I love the core four cast so much, and the way that Vash and Wolfwood's tension and loyalty contrasts with Milly and Meryl's ride-or-die friendship. I ship Vash and Wolfwood (like, so much) but I also really love them as friends or what-might-have-been or whatever works. Adventures within canon, missing scenes, different AUs and alternate endings are all welcome.

 

I love the themes of forgiveness (and what's beyond forgiveness) and just literally everything about how Gunsmoke works (and doesn't).

 

Wolfwood's canon fate is so thematically perfect and I love it so much and also...feel free to mess with it, lol. But I do think it's really Important that he gets pushed to the point where he's ready to lose everything if you address the back 1/3 or so of canon.

 

I love the canon art style but I've seen so many nifty re-interpretations of the characters and setting that pretty much anything would be fun. I want to see your style, dear artist (if you are an artist). The desert setting is so stark and also beautiful, especially with those gorgeous glowing plants out there. And of course the typography and feel of Gunsmoke are distinctive too. The possibilities are endless!

 

I am okay with cis, trans or 'we are beyond your human idea of gender, what are you even talking about' interpretations for basically any/all plants.

DNWs: Omegaverse, non-con, dubcon, no pregnancy of any kind, no underage sex/sexual abuse. No Meryl without Milly or vice versa. (My biggest objection to Stampede, an anime I have mixed feelings about at best, remains "no Big Girl.")

 

 

WB: Meiffu
Solo: Kurosaki Hisoka

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon; Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author; Medium Opt-In: Writing - Legal Documents, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Meta, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Travelogue, Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Scientific Documents, Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Personal Documents, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Advice Column, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Meta Infographic, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: Any, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Cross Stitch Pattern, Medium Opt-In: Poetry - Theatre Script - Musical, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Official Workplace Documentation, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook

 

Yami is full of secrets and bad decisions and poorly hidden desires, and it's all pretty and Gothic-ish and dark and weird. I love it.

 

Hisoka burns so brightly, and he's so angry, and I have a LOT of Hisoka feelings. I like that his empathy is so strong as to be painful, and that sometimes he uses it for understanding but sometimes he's just done with people and their stupid drama. I am happy with all three nominated pairings for him (or some combination of that) or something gen.

 

As for those relationships - Hisoka treats Tatsumi as a colleague, but there's caution when he does it; Tsuzuki is more something precious and fragile to him. And then there's Hisoka/Oriya: they're both obsessed with Muraki and I love the respect they have for one another in that climactic fight.

 

And then...Meifu. WTF is up with Meifu. There's so much shit going on behind the scenes, and Tsuzuki couldn't quit if he wanted to, and does Meifu want to keep Hisoka around too to keep him stable (stable-ish)? In-universe documents would be so fun for this one. I want to learn all about their bureaucracy. I would be happy to have the whole Meifu crew show up, or to have a past or present staff (with or without the canon characters; Tsuzuki, for example, has been around an awfully long time). Casefic! Terrible first dates! Weird supernatural shit! Go crazy.

 

DNWs: Omegaverse, mundane AUs, non-con, no pregnancy of any kind, no explicit sexual assault/abuse (referring to Hisoka's past is fine). No trans interpretations of these characters, please, and I do not like the mangaka's later art style at all.
 

Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

Length Opt-In: Drabble Series, Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff In-Universe Mediums/Work That Fit The Canon Setting, Medium Opt-In: Art - Costume Design, Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Advertisement, Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Spread, Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Social Media, Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card, Medium Opt-In: Art - Trading Cards, Medium Opt-In: Audio - Arrangement/Cover Music, Medium Opt-In: Audio - Original Fan Music, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Advertisement, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Spread, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Social Media, Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Travel Literature, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Infographic, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents

 

Oh gosh, I love these two edgelords. Yuri is such a live wire, and Otabek is as over the top as Yuri is, just in a much quieter way. They compliment each other so well. They're ludicrous. I love it.

 

I love so much about the figure skating world in YoI, and costumes, music choices, and the constantly-connected world these characters live in is endlessly fascinating to me. I like that Yuri and Otabek come from different worlds in a lot of ways and exactly the same world in others. I'm happy to see any/all other cast members; AUs are also welcome; I prefer fantastical settings to mundane ones. I really love stories where Otabek goes to Russia or Yuri to Kazahstan (I can never get enough of Otabek meeting Potya), but I also like them just hanging out at competitions or visiting Hatsetsu together.

 

DNWs: Omegaverse, non-con, no pregnancy of any kind, no sexual assault/abuse, no explicit sex with these characters under their canon ages. No trans interpretations of these characters, please,