nemainofthewater

Dearest Author,

Thank you so much for my gift in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.

Things I like:

-Found family! I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other

-angst: I am awful for this and I enjoy reading angsty things, though I would like some glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel and for it not to be all doom and gloom.

-Adventures: I love case fics or adventure things where the characters work together to solve something. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their team appreciating that

-some canon divergence AUs or role reversal (although on the whole I am not a fan of college/high school AUs). I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. Modern day AUs are a little hit or miss for me; sometimes I love them and sometimes it really takes me out of the story? I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)

-characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves. I am a huge fan of the ‘perfect mask much work until I collapse’ type character, especially when there are others around to take care oof them before/when they eventually collapse.

-food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic)

-OT3s to solve love triangles

-people appreciating other people’s competencies!

-multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!

-identity porn

-wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…

-survival stories? I don’t know how to characterise this. Kind of the ‘trapped on a desert island’ kind of thing where everyone has to work together and bring out their various specialities and intelligence to build a home. The kind of domestic slice of life type thing only with having to literally establish their own settlement type thing

DNWs: high school/college AUs, texting fics, characters watching the show/read the book they’re from, script format (for the entire story, in universe reasons such as they’re acting or a video is being transcribed is fine so long as it isn’t the entire story!), PWP, sibling (biological or otherwise) incest, underage, character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example), racism, sexism, homophobia, aphobia, transphobia

Below are the fandoms and the characters and/or relationships that I chose alongside some prompts and some reasons why I like the character/relationship; please feel free to mix and match, smush together, or even ignore them altogether if you get inspired! I have put the romantic OR platonic relationship on some of the prompts: please take this to mean that I would be delighted to see either!

Above all, please write whatever pleases you and whatever you have fun writing; I promise that I will love whatever I get!

I am very happy to have any other characters that you want to add into the story unless I’ve written out a fandom specific DNW about it.

Aragorn & Faramir (Son of Denethor)

-I just love the idea of exploring their relationship. They are two people who weren’t expecting to be king/steward. How does the weight of expectations lie of them? Are they able to be friends, or is the gulf between Steward and King too far?

-Some of the Gondorion nobles would like Faramir on the throne please (because they don’t like change? Because they don’t like Aragorn? Because they genuinely like Faramir? Because they think he’ll be easier to manipulate?). Faramir 100% does not want this. Aragorn would be convinced if it means that he has less paperwork… (not really).

Denethor II & Faramir & Boromir

I would love to see some more of the dynamics between this family.

-Did Denethor always favour Boromir or did this change over time?

-What was the relationship like between the brothers when they were children?

-When did Boromir realise that he and Faramir were being treated differently?

-Or when did Boromir realise that he and his brother were different people and liked different things?

Éowyn/Faramir

Anything post canon.

-Rebuilding!

-Learning to live together!

-Having to deal with politics!

-Being a great team!

Elrond Peredhel

-Elrond honestly has a very raw deal in terms of family leaving him. I would love to see him decide enough and drag Maglor back to Rivendell. Create a beach cryptid habitat.

-I would also love to see any shenanigans (any level of serious) that go hand in hand with running the last Homely House. Bonus for Erestor!

-Or perhaps a fic exploring Elrond playing hot potatoes with the Kingship of the Noldor and politely refusing to accept it?

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

William Laurence & Napoléon I de France | Napoléon Bonaparte OR William Laurence/Napoleon Bonaparte

-something about the way that Napoleon holds Laurence as a Good Man and that he values him and his opinion. Yet that doesn’t stop him from his plans nor his invasion.

William Laurence & Temeraire (Temeraire)

-Quiet moments between them both. I love this relationship. Laurence and Temeraire take a moment to just breath.

-Laurence has to choose between his Patriotism and Temeraire, but like, even more. I’m sorry I just really love this trope (despite it also being canon)

-somehow, Laurence and Temeraire wake in a universe where Laurence is the dragon and Temeraire a human. Cue a lot of freaking out! Coaching each other into being able to even move. Even more freaking out! (in, of course, a very emotionally repressed way)

-for Political Reasons, instead of Australia, Laurence and Temeraire are shipped off to China in exile. Laurence hates being (technically) a prince while Temeraire is having an amazing time (at first at least).

琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)

Mei Changsu & Meng Zhi

-Meng-dage best dage

-Meng is slightly more outraged when MCS is being left outside in the snow and spills the plot

-Anything I love them

Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe & Xiao Jingyan (NiF)

-Knives?

-Identity porn ?

-MCS’ games catching up to him ?

-Jingyan being able to have a real friend so he and MCS relax into old patterns until they both awkwardly remember MCS isn’t Lin Shu and it’s weird?

Lin Chen (NiF)

-It would be hilarious if Langya Hall, being the source of all knowledge etc, also moonlit as a relationship advice column. I can’t imagine the amount of chaos that this could cause, and I can’t decide whether Lin Chen would be an amazing relationship guru or a terrible one (purposefully or not!)

-Oops Lin Chen has accidentally Ascended to godhood through no fault of his own (he hadn’t realised that the MacGuffin he was looking for did that). Now he’s on a mission to gain more followers and game the system to stop Mei Changsu from dying

Lin Chen & Fei Liu (NiF) AND/OR Mei Changsu & Fei Liu (NiF) AND/OR Lin Chen /& Mei Changsu (NiF)

Please feel free to have various combinations (is Lin Chen & Fei Liu, Lin Chen & MCS, MCS & Fei Liu): you don’t have to have all three in here if you’re not feeling it!

-for once, Mei Changsu isn’t the one that needs to be looked after, Lin Chen is. Mei Changsu gets to be on the other side of the ‘friend/patient is being awful and won’t just sit down and heal, but insists on actually straining himself for reasons I feel are Inadequate, but he won’t listen to me’. Mei Changsu hates it. Lin Chen, when he isn’t trying to hide how awful he feels, is smug. Fei Liu is helpful. Whether this actually helps is up to you.

-A pre-canon jianghu adventure! Perhaps Lin Chen and MCS need to go undercover but Lin Chen isn’t taking it seriously? Maybe they get kidnapped, forcing the poor kidnapper listen to them bickering instead of being adequately intimidated by said kidnapping? Maybe there is a friendly rivalry between members of the Jiangzuo Alliance and Langya Hall and Mei Changsu and Lin Chen are both vicariously competing (and actually competing) through their subordinates? Id this the adventure where they find and save fei liu? Or does Fei Liu have to be ‘kidnapped’ only he’s very bad at it?

镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)

Shěn Wēi & Professor Zhōu & Lǐ Qiàn & Science

-Anything to do with his life at the university! Shen Wei not realising that he’s 99% of the biology department’s recruiting strategy! Conspiracy boards about what Shen Wei actually does when he disappears (the top 2 contenders are that he’s got a secret modelling job or that his boyfriend is part of the mob)

-I just love outsider POV. Go wild!

-I also love science families. What made professor Zhou look at Shen Wei and take him under his wing? Did he meet Li Qian? Are there science family dinners and does Shen Wei cater? Has Jiajia been welcomed to the fold? Students going to a conference?

Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán

-Shen Wei accidentally learns an annoying new power which means that the weather now reflects his emotions! Does he realise this? Maybe Zhao Yunlan is away (on a conference? A case? A holiday?) leading to literally days of rain in Dragon city before the SID decides that enough is enough and try to cheer him up

-AU where Shen Wei wakes about 20 years later and has to deal with sleeping through 10,000 years, the modern day, university life, AND Kunlun coming to investigate murders at the university. And that’s without getting into any of the black cloaked guardian stuff…

Char: Ye Zun (Guardian 2018)

-Ye Zu vs the internet, who would win? (no one would win, this sounds like a terrible combination)

-you know what, I would love to see a story where Ye Zun manages to get friends (who possibly don’t know who he is and who aren’t his brother or connected to his brother in any way) because he has had trauma after trauma piled on and then he was stuck in solitary confinement for 10,000 years. Actually, any story where he manages to work through things in a healthy manner would be lovely. Maybe he writes a book? Becomes a film producer?

-Ye Zun publishes the next 50 shades of grey or outlander based on his brother’s romance and despite it becoming extremely popular Shen Wei has no idea. Of the SID, only Da Qing and Lin Jing know and they are being bribed to keep quiet

Shen Wei & Ye Zun (Guardian 2018)

-Ye Zun has integrated well into the modern world. Much better than his brother. I would love to see him do something like drag Shen Wei to a cosplay convention with him.

-Shen Wei and Ye Zun getting mistaken for each other and just going with it would be amazing. Ye Zun has a lot of fun with it and Shen Wei just goes along with him because if his brother’s having fun far be it to be the one to rain on that parade.

Solo: SID Ensemble

-I would love to see any case fics! Please choose whichever character you want to be the unlucky guys who have to tag along with Shen Wei and ZYL on a case!

-Outsider POV? I love it

-The SID being competent and good at their jobs while ZYL and Shen Wei are on holiday/their honeymoon (not that that stops the happy couple from trying to micromanage from abroad)

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Though I have asked for the TV show, at this point canon is just a smushed up mess of book, tv show, and donghua episodes all swirled together in my head, so please feel free to draw from whichever source you want to/is better for the story that you want to tell! Also, please feel free to take this one opportunity to ignore my ‘no character-bashing’ DNW here when it comes to Jin Guangshan. He is a terrible father and person and I dislike him immensely

Char: Xiao Xingchen (The Untamed)

-I want to know more about Baoshan Sanren’s mountain! What goes on there? What does living on an immortal mountain actually look like?

-I would love to see something where all of Baoshan Sanren’s disciples can do somethings absolutely Strange (glowing? Attractive to small animals, à la Disney princess? No dust touches them despite wearing absolutely normal clothes? Sometimes when they’re not concentrating they just hover in the air without having to use a sword?) and the rest of the world (Song Lan, a-qing, xue Yang, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji… anyone really) is very ????? about it while Xiao Xingchen just assumes that everyone he meets just has a better control and that’s why they’re not showing it.

Jin Ling & Lan Jingyi & Lan Yuan & Ouyang Zizhen (The Untamed)

-Do you know what I think would be hilarious? Lan Sizhui having to impersonate either of his fathers or Lan Xichen for some reason. Maybe he’s in a remote village and there a Dispute ™ that both sides absolutely refuse to resolve without the presence of X so Sizhui is forced to step up to the plate. The rest of the gang ‘help’ as much as possible. Maybe Zizhen provides (pnly slightly embroidered) backstory? Jin Ling gets press ganged into verifying Sizhui’s fake identity? Jingyi things that it’s hilarious!

-I really love time travel fics where it is the Juniors who go back in time and just??? Completely mess with everything. Integrity of the timeline? What is that? Can’t you see our parents/uncles are going through a war here?

Jin Zixuan/Jiang Yanli & Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao (The Untamed)

-I would love to see an alternate universe where Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao goes to Lotus Pier instead of Qinghe Nie and become Jiang Yanli’s friend. Now Jin Zixuan has to both a) apologise and convince someone who he’s, frankly, been pretty awful to to marry him while also, b) figure out how he feels about having a brother. I would love to see Jin Zixuan jealous that Jiang Yanli is a better older sibling than he is and also that Meng Yao knows how to talk to Jiang Yanli without becoming a stammering ball of nerves.

-Jiang Yanli wants to save her family, thank you very much, and she knows that the best way to do this is by getting Jin Guangyao on her side and working against his father. Jin Zixuan is undergoing severe disillusionment about how awful his dad is. Jin Guangyao has no idea why his new sister-in-law is being so nice to him ~~but he really likes it please don’t stop~~.

-Jin Guangshan dies just after the Sunshot Campaign and now Jin Zixuan is thrust into being Sect Leader despite not being ready for it at all. Luckily both his new wife and his new brother are both politically savvy. Jiang Yanli gets to be badass with a smile. Jin Guangyao gets all the power of running a sect but none of the public-facing bullsh*t.

-Jin Zixuan and Jin Guangyao accidentally swap bodies. This could be:

-Pre-canon! Before they know of each other’s existance. Luckily for Jin Zixuan, Yunnping is relatively close to Lotus Pier so he ca at least get some help for this problem…

-Just after Sunshot! The two of them have to work together, Jin Guangyao taking advantage of the situation to better his position at Koi Tower while Jin Zixuan takes advantage of Jin Guangyao’s ability not to stick his foot in his mouth at every opportunity. They both try and fool Jiang Yanli but she figures it out in 0.05 seconds and then helps them both.

Lan Qiren/Wen Ruohan (The Untamed)

I got really into this pairing through Nirejeski’s (amazing) fic on AO3 and now I can’t get enough. This pairing is so rare, I will adore anything I get, I am literally dying.

Jiang Cheng & Xiao Xingchen (The Untamed)

Do you know what, I would love to see Jiang Cheng post WWX’s death glomping onto XXC as the last remnant on his Shixiong. Whether this is CQL canon so after he’s lost his eyes (possibly while JC was searching for demonic cultivators) or MDZS canon so he’s literally meeting him fresh off the mountain is up to you!

Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo (The Untamed)

-Viciously coparenting Jin Ling together.

-Judging the other sect leaders at conferences.

-Discovering to their mutual horror that they actually like each other

Lan Huan | Lan Xichen & Lan Qiren & Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji (The Untamed) AND/0R Lan Xichen & Lan Sizhui (The Untamed) AND/OR Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui & Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji (The Untamed)

Just huge Lan family feels! Anything at all, pre, during, or post canon!