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.

I am very happy to receive comics/art, and my treats are on if anyone feels so inclined (!!!)

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! The length of each prompt has no bearing on how much I love each thing I’ve asked for.

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.

侍神令 | Shì Shén Lìng | The Yin-yang Master (2021) [SAFETY]

Boya & Shen Le (Shi Shen Ling)

I love the sibling relationship between this pair. Would love to see an exploration of their journey together – perhaps it actually took a few weeks? How do they divide chores?

I would also like to see anything post canon.

Qingming & Boya (shi shen ling)

I don’t know if I ship (this incarnation) of them exactly, but I would love to see more of their relationship.

Qingming & His Shishen (Shi Shen Ling)

Backstory! How did they all meet? How does the camp work? What does a day in their life look like? Or post canon, what do they do once the shishen bond is broken?

Qingming & Xiangliu (Shi Shen Ling)

Post canon fic about how the two of them co-exist? Maybe Xiangliu realises that Qingming has no survival instincts and now has to make sure that his host actually survives

Worldbuilding & None (Shi Shen Ling)

Ok, but any exploration of how the world works! What are demon-human trade relationships like? Do you know and enjoy a strange hobby and want to incorporate it into a fic? Talk to me about the Fashi and how integrated they are into the government!

Love Like the Galaxy

Cheng Shaoshang & Cheng Shi & Xiao Yuanyi, Cheng Shaoshang & Cheng Shaogong & Cheng Song

My favourite part of this series was the early episodes, where the Cheng family were learning to live with each other.

I would love to see anything exploring all relationships between this family, in any configuration you want. I am also happy for it to take place whenever – pre, during, or post canon.

Emperor Wen (Love Like the Galaxy)/Xuan Shen'an/Yue Heng

Honestly I was so interested by these three’s relationship – Empress Xuan is very aware of the fact that the Emperor and Consort Yue were childhood sweethearts and would have been happy to be married only to one another. On the other hand, Consort Yue really doesn’t want to be the Empress – she feels like she would rather spend time writing music and only occasionally showing up to formal events too be the most powerful person in the room. Finally, the Emperor also doesn’t give the impression he particularly wants to be emperor despite being the founder of his dynasty!

On My X Day As A Second Century Warlord - romanceyourdemons (Tumblr Post) [SAFETY]

Second Century Warlord & His Men (Second Century Warlord)

Second Century Warlord & None (Second Century Warlord)

Second Century Warlord/His Loser Liege Lord (Second Century Warlord)

Worldbuilding & None (Second Century Warlord)

This feels like the sort of canon that would thrive from anything. Expand the canon! Outsider POV! What happens post canon? What do the narrator’s men thing about their commander? Go wild with this one! If you’re interested in checking it out, I also wrote a canon promo post (including links to the tumblr post which is under 2k!) here.

琉璃 | Love and Redemption (TV)

Hao Chen/Yu Sifeng (Love and Redemption), Hao Chen/Yu Sifeng/Chu Xuanji (Love and Redemption)

I love the way that Hao Chen is just… so evil. So unrepentant. I hate him so much. He’s great.

I think it’d be really interesting to see a universe where Hao Chen seduces Yu Sifeng first so he doesn’t have the opportunity to fall in love with Xuanji. Alternatively, he decides that he can’t break Xuanjo and Sifeng up – it’s been ten lifetimes after all – so he decides that he’s going to seduce them both and try to break them up. In both of these, it’d be very interesting to see him slowly turning his obsessive love for Xuanji towards Sifeng…

Luohou Jidu/Yu Sifeng (Love and Redemption), Yu Sifeng & Chu Xuanji (Love and Redemption), Yu Sifeng/Chu Xuanji (Love and Redemption)

Ok I can’t believe the queer themes that appeared in the last few episodes of the show!! And then post canon doesn’t really cover them. I would love to see;

-more explorations of the time where Luohou Jidu was the one controlling the body

-post canon where sometimes Xuanji wants to be Xuanji, but sometimes Luohou Jidu comes out. Sifeng loves both of them and still considers them the same person.

-Any exploration of the other lifetimes that Sifeng and Xuanji shared

Yu Sifeng & Chu Xuanji & Chu Linglong & Zhong Minyan (Love and Redemption)

Remember at the beginning of the series and they all wanted to go off and form their own sect together? Yeah, I would love to see an AU where that happened.

苍兰诀 | Love Between Fairy and Devil (TV)

Changheng & Ronghao (Fairy and Devil)

Ok, but the fact that Ronghao depises everyone but truly was Changheng’s friend… that just gets me, ok?

Danyin & Changheng (Fairy and Devil)

I love these two! I love the character development that Danyin got over the course of the series. Honestly, she deserved to go off by the end. I would love to see a universe where she decides to take over Shuiyuntian in Changheng’s name, possibly without Changheng’s knowledge.

Dongfang Qingcang/Xiao Lanhua/Changheng (Fairy and Devil)

I’m not the only one who was thinking this, I’m sure… I just think that they would work well together!

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Mu Qingfang & Original Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS), Mu Qingfang/Original Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)

I adore the idea that there was one person who was on OG!SQQ’s side. I also think that the dynamics between the two of them are potentially super interesting – OG!SQQ glaring at people who try and get MQF to prioritise their bruised knee, MQF being the only person allowed behind OG!SQQ’s barriers and able to see how hurt (physically and emotionally)…

Tianlang-jun/Su Xiyan/Original Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)

I just think it would be hilarious.

琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)

Lin Chen /& Mei Changsu (NiF)

-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?

Lin Chen & Mu Nihuang

I just want to see them interact more! I think they have the potential to be fascinating together, and I would love to see something exploring a potential relationship

-post canon, Nihuang decides to wander the jianghu for a time and leets in Chen. Where? Was it on purpose? What do they do? Are they brought closer by grief or do they blame each other?

-pre canon, Nihuang went to langya hall at literally any point. What happens?

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

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 Nirejseki’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.

-How did they get together? Does their relationship change anything about the Sunshot Campaign? Doesn’t it?

-What do other people think about it? Do any of the younger generation know about them?

-Any interactions are delicious, tbh

Cangse Sanren/Wei Changze/Lan Qiren

Once again, anything that I get I would lap up!

-canon divergence where Qingheng-jun and madam’s lan story doesn’t end quite as badly and Lan Qiren isn’t acting set leader?

-Shenanigans while WCZ and CSSR are studying at the cloud recesses?

-are they rogue cultivators together? Is LQR still the Acting Lan Sect Leader and they come back to visit him? What do their dynamics look like?

-LQR has to get married and CSSR agrees to do it. Then they meet WCZ and have to convince him (and fit him into their lives). Angst! Comedy! Drama! The woes of scheduling! Any and everything!

-Alternately, how do CSSR and WCZ woo Lan Qiren? Does he notice?

Lan Xichen & Lan Wangji & Lan Sizhui & Lan Qiren

I would love Lan family feels. Please feel free to mix and match characters here if it so pleases you.

Lán Qǐrén & Qīnghéng-jūn

I would also like Lan family feels here, but possibly in a different way? I am intrigued by the relationship between Qingheng-jun and Lan Qiren. Do they like each other? Despise each other? What does their dynamic look like? Would it have been better or worse if they had had a good sibling relationship before Qingheng-jun went into seclusion?

Jiāng Yànlí & Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén (The Untamed)

I love both of these characters. They are very similar – both elder siblings, both wanting the best for their younger siblings, more inclined to peace and preventing strife than arguing – and I think that they both deserve a friend!

Jīn Zixuān & Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo & Mò Xuányǔ & Qín Sù (The Untamed)

I just love righteous himbo Jin Zixuan who’s realised that he had many, many siblings, and wants to gather them together.