FFFX 2024 Dear Creator Letter

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LETTER COMPLETE!

Hi, and welcome to another FFFX Dear Creator letter from me!

It will mostly be the same as last year, except more likes and added fandoms. (My likes/smut likes are not exhaustive, if it's not in my DNWs there's a good chance I'll love it! But feel free to have the mod message me if you're unsure! Also unless stated as a DNW, I'm okay with smut for all listed pairings. Also, I have absolutely no preference for alpha/omega or top/bottom for any of the ships, so write whatever you want to if you write smut!)

Explainer for my cheating DNW: I'm okay with, for example, A/B get together after the partner of one of them cheated on them. I am not okay with A/B cheating on each other, OR A cheating on their partner to be with B (or vice versa)

explainer for my Adam Bashing DNW: If you're adam negative, I would prefer you don't write him, as that has a tendency to show through when writing him! If you like him/ is neutral, I'm totally fine with it. I don't want you to ignore the bad things he did in canon, I just don't want to read him being cartoonishly evil, or the other characters getting their "revenge" on him!

NB: I will be okay with platonic & relationships for pairings that are marked as such, even if I have requested the / version!(Also okay with romantic for platonic pairings when marked as such) If you really want to write that pairing but prefer to write &, feel free! You can mail the mod and have them ask if I'm okay with it for the pairing, and I will let them know I am! I have denoted / as romantic relationship, but feel free to have it as sexual only!

Likes

• Enemies to Friends to Lovers


• Characters having creative hobbies (knitting, cooking, writing, photography etc etc etc)


• Friends to Lovers


• Idiots in Love


• Pining


• AU- canon-typical time period but with magic/fantasy elements


• Soulmate AU


• non sexual intimacy


• Characters getting therapy


• Slow Burn


• touch starved characters finally gettinv hugs/cuddles etc


• Character studies


• Angst with a happy ending


• True Love


• Hurt/comfort


• Murder mysteries


• Insecure character feeling like they're unloved getting all the love from their friends/romantic partner


• Pure fluff


• Characters cooking


• Domestic bliss


• Whump


• Character always taking care of everyone else finally getting taken care of


• Spy stuff/Spy AU


• Enemy spies falling in love


• Banter


• Forehead kisses


• Marriage proposals


• People being saved from burning buildings when they think they've been abandoned/ are all alone/ left to die etc

Smut likes

• Omegaverse (totally okay with omegaverse in non-smut!)


• Oral sex


• Pet play


• Breeding kink (as long as pregnancy not main focus of the fic, and no on-page birth.


• Tentacles


• BDSM


• Aftercare


• Kink negotiations


• praise kink


• Safe sane consensual (also totally okay with consensiual but definitely not safe or sane)


• Rape roleplay


• Nipple piercings


• Scent kink


• Consensual erotic hypnosis


• Heavy petting


• Rough sex


• Sex toys


• Both mommy and daddy kink (not necessarily at the same time)
  
• Mutual masturbation


• Monsterfucking


• Phone/video sex


• Character wearing collar in bed


• Breathplay


• Piss kink (marking their territory/partner, forced to hold it until they just can't, piss drinking... whatever!

DNWs

• Unrequested headcanons for the gender of a character


• Major character death(Canon major character death OK. Also OK with temporary death as long as they're alive at the end of the work)


• Unhappy ending


• Cheating between requested pairings (explained up above in more detail)


• Torture involving nails or teeth written in detail (brief mention like "x had teeth pulled out" OK


• Permanent divorce/breakup


• Victim blaming in any situation by other requested people/ other characters in the canon (victim blaming by people like Generic Police Officer #1 OK)


• Animal cruelty/ animal death


• Dystopian AUs


• requested characters in unrequested ships

Smut DNWs

• Ignoring of safewords on purpose (accidental followed by aftercare OK)


• Fat shaming


• woundfucking


• On-page birth (mpreg in omegaverse totally okay, as is off-page birth)
  
• Vomit


• dacryphilia


• No Aftercare in hardcore scenarios (no aftercare after a blowjob totally OK, no aftercare after rough BDSM, DNW


• Permanent wounds/ scarring

Fandom DNWs (Fandom listed together with each point. General DNWs apply for all unless otherwise stated in letter. No DNWs listed= only general DNWs apply)

• SK8: Ainosuke/Adam bashing


• SK8: The main cast not forgiving Ainosuke/Adam post-anime and/or hurting him


• SK8: Abusive Ainosuke/Adam


• SK8: Mentions of past Kikuchi Tadashi/Shindo Aiichiro


• SK8: Ignoring of Ainosuke/Adam's redemption


• Lupin III (for all pairings): Lupin currently being in love with Fujiko (mentions of them being together in the past OK)


• Lupin III: characters that premiered in parts 4-6


• Midsomer Murders: "Henry Marwood" continuing to use the name Henry Marwood post-episode


• Hudson & Rex: The gang playing mean pranks on each other, in the level of the "we forgot your birthday" prank from season 5. Banter/ other pranks fine, no pranks that makes it seem like people have been forgotten/abandoned

FANDOM/PAIRING PROMPTS:

SK8 the Infinity

• NB: I'm totally okay with "no S" AUs, or "S is something else" AUs! (Like, "S is a group of superheroes" or the like)



• Kikuchi Tadashi/ Shindo Ainosuke (totally okay with platonic relationship): I seriously cannot get these two out of my brain. I LOVE them. I love their whole casual pet play in the show, but I especially love how near the end, you can see how much Ainosuke loves him. I view Ainosuke in a positive light, but I'd be totally okay with early post-anime Ainosuke still trying to heal after everything, because recovery is messy! Him just starting sobbing for no reason, accidentally snappping at Tadashi etc... and Tadashi just being there for him and being oh so gentle, even when Ainosuke doesn't think he deserves it. For specific prompts/ ideas, I'm honestly open for everything here. Something soft (Ainosuke slowly getting redeemed and trying to be a better man? Maybe learning to cook for Tadashi, and maybe even a proposal!), something more hurt/comfort (Ainosuke getting really badly hurt and ending up in the hospital, a kidnapping situation etc), or just whatever you can think of! As you will find with all of my sign-ups, I don't have any real preference for who tops and bottoms. For omegaverse I do have a preference for omega Ainosuke, but I also love alpha Ainosuke! I also have a soft spot for service top Tadashi. One of my current brainrots is SPY AU for these two. Thre's so many flavours for it! Rival spies, spy/person caught in the middle that they need protecting, partner spies etc. I love it all!



• Nanjo Kojiro&Shindo Ainosuke&Sakurayashiki Kaoru: Hi yes, I love LMB sooo much. I love them both as a platonic group, but if you want to throw in some non-platonic stuff, please, feel free! I also have a very soft spot for Kojiro/Kaoru being friends with benefits with Aionosuke. But to keep it to the platonic, for some prompts... I'd both love an exploration of them in the past, before Kojiro and Ainosuke left, but also the adult group! As with the prompts above, I'd love hrut/comfort with them. Maybe Ainosuke goes to the hospital, not thinking any of them would show up, since their renewed friendship is still so new and fragile, but they both show up. I'd love just seeing him enerestly trying to make amends and getting his friends back!



• Hasegawa Langa/Shindo Ainouke (totally okay with platonic relationship): Okay but Eden too though oh my god I-- Okay I just love them so much now?? Whether it's soft Eden, dirty Eden, more hardcore Eden (like Ainouke mindreaking him into being the perfect Eve)... I just love it! One of my fave tropes for this is forcefemmed Langa! But again, I also just love them when they're so soft.



• Kyan Reki/Shindo Ainosuke (totally okay with platonic relationship: Okay so..... I might have gotten adareki brainrot too. I just love them! One of my fave flavours is post-anime where Reki is insecure, thinks everyone is better at him etc... and the one to try and help him change his mindset is Ainosuke. I also have a headcanon that Ainosuke is afraid of thunder, and Reki comforts him! For smut for these two, I love experienced Ainosuke and inexperienced Reki soooo much.



• Char: Shindo Ainosuke: I just cannot shut up about him. His struggles, the abuse he suffered, how hard he's trying to fix himself and redeem himself post-anime... I love it all! I also just love fluff with him. I'd love anything with him here! Character studying him and his redemption, his friendships, angst with a happy ending... i love it all! One idea I have in my mind is kidnapped Ainosuke, who is still slowly healing mentally and getting redeemed, so he doesn't believe anyone will come for him... but they all try hard to find him, because despite everything, they still really care for him!



• Nanjo Kojiro/Sakurayashiki Kaoru: THE THEM. Just... the them. I love them. Their banter, their bickering, how much they clearly care for each other, despite the act they put on... I just love them! Whether you decide if they had any contact while Kojiro was in Italy is totally up to you. I personally like to imagine that they did have contact, and did things like play games despite the time zone until one of them began falling asleep while they played/talked... but the angst of them not having any contact is also chefs kiss! This is one of the pairings where I really can see AUs for! I wrote the "enemy spies" AU with them in mind. but also just THEM! My like of "character who takes care of everyone finally gets taken care of" was also inspired by Kojiro! Maybe he's sick, but he's trying to hide it because it's ingrained in him to take care of everyone else, but Kaoru notioces and takes so good care of his gorilla!

Starmyu

• Hoshitani Yuuta/Ootori Itsuki (totally okay with platonic relationship: Okay, hear me out... I love them. And it makes so much sense! They clearly care for each other a lot, Ootori is his beloved senpai, and there's clear romantic subtext between them. I just want something with them, even angst with a happy ending! For another angst with a happy ending prompt, I'd love Hoshitani suffering, maybe he's ill, but he's expected to always be the happy one, and the only one who notices something's wrong is Ootori. Bonus points if Hoshitani ends up in the hospital because he's neglected himself, and when he wakes up, Ootori is there! As for smut, if that's what you wanna write... honestly, go ham! I also love mundane AU's for them. I wrote barista hoshitani/ customer Ootori for sakura ex, and it has opened my eyes!



• Tsukigami Haruto/ Uozumi Asaki: So... there's a line in season 2, said by Uozumi, that sounds like he and Haruto used to date, but Asaki broke it off. I would love something that explore their relationship! Whether it's them being together in their youth, them trying to make it work later, one of them drunk calling the other, one of them ending up at the other's doorstep because of something (maybe a mugging, if you need ideas!)... I love it all! I just think they're neat!



• Kuga Shuu/Tengenji Kakeru (totally okay with platonic relationship): I love them. Kuga clearly gets along well with Tavian, and I don't think that Tengenji would let anyone he doesn't trust/ like near his precious baby. I can see everything for them! Smut, aged up post--anime shenanigans, Tengenji hafing a breakdown due to something and Kuga being there for comfort... everything!

Lupin III

• Jigen Daisuke/ Lupin III (totally okay with platonic relationship): I honestly really ship these two dorks. I haven't seen every Lupin-thing yet, but their dynamic is clearly them flirting all the time and caring for each other. If you want any ideas, I'm all for some angst with a happy ending for them! Maybe Jigen has been kidnapped, and Lupin has to work with Zenigata to find him (or vice versa). Honestly, I'd be happy for anything with them!



• Ishikawa Goemon XIII/Jigen Daisuke (totally okay with platonic relationship): Honestly yeah, I really love these two, and can definitely see them together. I personally headcanon that Goemon has only just realized that he's into guys (no preference if he's gay, bi, pan etc, take your pick!), and maybe have that as some of the conflict while he comes to terms with his feelings for Jigen. This is also my only exception for my major character death DNW: i'm okay with lupin either faking his death or being dead for real, and Goemon and Jigen turn to each other for comfort after losing their shared best friend/partner in crime!



• Jigen Daisuke & Zenigata Kouichi (PLUS Lupin III & Zenigata Kouichi. Also, totally okay with romantic relationship for both pairings): Yeah, this one is a double prompt/explainer, as most of what I have to say about both friendships are the same for both. I just love the whole unlikely partnership trope for them. Like, Jigen/Lupin being forced to work with Zenigata to save the other is one of my favourite tropes.



• Lupin III/Zenigata Kouichi (totally okay with platonic pairing): another amazing ship! I seriously love their whole dynamic woth their cat and mouse game, with Lupin clearly just treating it like a game. One of my favourite ideas for them is them having to reluctantly having to work together (in the style of Cagliostro and the part II opener, for example). Another thing I love for them is having to fake being a couple/ being married. Plenty of opportunities for some jokes about "being tied down"!



• Ishikawa Goemon XIII & Jigen Daisuke & Arsène Lupin III & Mine Fujiko & Zenigata Kouichi: I just love the whole gang, man! Whether it be domestic stuff, like how we see them hanging around in earlier parts, heists, saving one of them etc... I love it all! Especially if they rope in Zenigata. Whether they kind of force him to help ,or he help by his own volition, both are amazing!

Hudson & Rex

• Charlie Hudson/Sarah Truong(totally okay with platonic relationship: They have amazing chemistry! Even before they began dating, it was evident that they had amazing chemistry! Be it how in sync they were working on cases, their friendship, everythign just works! And she's soooo good with Rexie! I would love to just see more of this. As always, I am a sucker for whump/angst with happy ending and such for them. It's not like it's anythign they don't know! I am okay with some death for them- One prompt I have is Charlie's Aunt Miranda passing away, and how Sarah (and anyone else you want to throw in) helps him overcome his grief. Maybe even a return of his brother!



• Karma Poole/Jesse Mills (totally okay with platonic relationship): I was so bummed when Karma doesn't appear to be in season 6, I loved her and Jesse! Every single interaction they had just had so much chemistry. From their boardgame in the morgue, to the time she drew him, to when he helped her solve the mystery of the missing personal effects... I would love to see her more, and to see them realizing that they like each other!



• char: Jesse Mills: HE'S MY FAVE SERIOUSLY AAHHH, I love him so fucking much. And the show is not afraid of hurting him. Shot (several times), drugged and almost drowned, plane crash... I want him to suffer MORE!!! well... okay, but I also just want him to have his team around him when he needs them. Is he hurt again? Suspected of something again, like in the Impawster episode? I love it all. Do your best/worst! One thing I did hate in the show is the "we forgot your birthday" prank from season 5, so I would please ask that you don't include that, or other pranks like it. Their normal banter is totally okay, I love that!



• Karma Poole & Sarah Truong: I really loved their dynamic, and even if you don't make an entire work with them, I would love to seee them interacting in some way! Karma is a treasure, and I want her involved!



• Charlie Hudson & Jesse Mills & Sarah Truong & Joe Donovan (and rexie, ofc!): THE GANG'S HERE Y'ALL!!! God, the entire banter/ vibe is just so fucking good. Perfect for a case fic! Maybe one of them is suspected or hurt, or maybe it's just a case fic. You can flex your mystery muscles!
  

Crossover Fandom

• Dio Brando (Jojo)/ Shindo Ainosuke (SK8): okay hear me out y'all. Adam is just skateboarding Dio. I would love something with these two. I can't explain it, but they're amazing! I don't care if you bring Adam to the jojo world, or bring Dio to the modern world. And honestly? the sex would be H O T!



• Kudo Yuusaku (detective conan) & Jigen Daisuke (Lupin III): I literally got this idea as I was thinking about crossovers! I would love to see something with them! Maybe Yuusaku knows Jigen from somewhere, and gets his help in research? Maybe they're old friends, and one of them needs help? Whatever you can think of!



• Shindo Ainosuke (SK8) & Kikuchi Tadashi (SK8) & Neville Parker (Death in Paradise) (totally okay with romantic for ainosuke and tadashi): I've had this brainrot for a while, where Ainosuke and Tadashi are on Saint Marie for some reason (vacation? secret honeymoon? Meeting? Whichever!), where they get involved in the Murder of the Week. Maybe of them even ends up as the prime suspect for a while! It doesn't have to be just Neville btw, it can be any fo the crew. It can even be one of the others, like Richard, Humphrey... whoever!



• Neville Parker (Death in Paradise) & Jesse Mills (Hudson & Rex): Same idea as the SK8 crossover! Maybe he's on vacation and ends up involved in a case? He doesn't have to be a suspect (but that's a good idea!), but maybe he helps them in some way?




• Tsukigami Haruto (Starmyu)/ Shindo Ainosuke (SK8) (totally okay with platonic relationship): another stupid brainrot idea since they share a VA! One of my main ideas for them is that Ainosuke is in New York, Haruto has lost his voice, they meet... and he gets Ainosuke to say his lines instead, since they realize they have the same voice. I also just love the idea of them having hot sex. One night stand works amazing for them!
  

Spy X Family

• Loid Forger/ Yor Briar Forger: Okay I just love them holy shit?? they're AMAZING. Wehther it's the canon where they're fake dating, or if you write them ended up getting together for real, or even them realizing they're Twilight and Thorn Princess respectively, whatever the chef cooks up I will gladly eat! I trust the chef!! bonus for badass protective Yor!!!



• Damian Desmond/Anya Forger (totaly okay with platonic relationship): God, these two... I cna't even really explain it, but they have grreat rivals to friends to lvoers vibes!! Maybe when they're tolder like teens), they start getting closer nad get friendlier? Maybe something happens to make them realizing they like each other?



• Bond & Anya Forger & Loid Forger & Yor Briar Forger: BEST FAKE FAMILY AHAHH ESPECIALLY BOND BEST BOOFER sorry I just needed to scream. Ahem... I love them. Their 'ootings', their general vibe... I would love something with them! Maybe the moment where everyone realizes each others' secret, and still stick together? Domestic goodness for them? I love it!!

Ya Boy Kongming!

• Owner Kobayashi/Zhuge Liang | Zhuge Kongming: God, I haven't requested this pair in a while, but I have the Brainrots:tm: again...... fuck man THEY'RE SO GOOD? I MEAN, it practically writes itself. Kobayashi owns the bar Kongming ends up working at, and he's a huge Three Kingdoms nerd. It's also canon that Kongming lives with him. I'd honestly just love anything with them being together. Whether it's a date, awkward kissing, taking care of their bunny... just cute gentle stuff! One of my biggest headcanons for them is that Kobayashi has insomnia, or at the very least works until way too late in the night, so I would love to see Konging trying to drag him to bed (by any means possible!)

James Bond (Craig Movies)

• James Bond/ Q (totally okay with platonic relationship): THIS IS MY OG M/M PAIR MAN!! I haven't had rot for them in a while, but I rewatched Skyfall recently, and it's all coming back to me nooooow! Honestly, I'd just love anything with them? Slow Burn, established relationship, "movie"-fic where there's a Big Threat (maybe Q gets to have a huge part in it?), one saving the other, their first time, their 500th time... whatever!

Midsomer Murders

• Charlie Nelson/Jamie Winter (totally okay with platonic relationship): Signs are big that Jamie might be bi, and I am a huge fan of Nelson, so I would love more with him! Maybe an AU/ canon divergent where Charlie stayed in Midsomer/Causton, but no longer works with Barnaby, and happened to meet Jamie around? Maybe they don't even know the other is currently/ used to work with Barnaby! I also love whump a whole fucking lot, so feel free to include that in some way! Maybe one of them is accused of one/ several murders, and the other has to work to clear their friend/ partner (depending on what you choose to write)? This just came to me, but if Charlie had a reason to not want to work in the police anymore (like something traumatic happened), and he has to work with Barnaby again to clear Jamie's name! Or if Jamie was kidnapped/ targeted, and Charlie has to face his demons to help!



• John Barnaby & Jamie Winter: Okay, so I love their general vibe and banter... but I do think all of them (Fleur and John in particular) can oftentimes say things that borderlines on actually mean, and I would love something that touches upon that, if you're up for it! Maybe Barnaby says a thing that just crosses a line for Jamie? Maybe Jamie had an ex that used to say the same thing to him, so that time it just gets Too Much?

The explainer for Henry Marwood | Dominic Jephcott's Character/ Peggy Aynscombe will be in a dropdown, as it has spoilers for the episode! You only have to watch S9.E5 for that pairing, as that's the only episode they're in!

Henry Marwood | Dominic Jephcott's Character/ Peggy Aynscombe

• Benjamin Hastings/ Peggy Aynscombe: SO to finally explain this one: In the episode, there was a fire, and a baby named Benjamin Hastings was presumed dead, and the baby Henry Marwood was saved. In the actual episode, it is revealed that Lorna Hastings, the murderer of the episode, killed several people to stop the reveal that... the man we have preumed is Henry Marwood the entire episode is actually her son, Benjamin Hastings. Right at the end, we see his marriage to Peggy, and we get the reveal that he began using his real name, Benjamin Hastings. And I... I am OBSESSED with them. I watched this episode 5 times in a week! I just LOVE them, and I would LOVE more of their life post-episode! Did their children grow closer? Does he keep in touch with his mother in prison? Did their union help mend the whole Skimmington Feud? I would love to see more of that! And most importantly, I would love to see more of Benjamin. He's spent his entire life believeing he's someone he's not, eh was saddled with debt that was never his to handle, his mother is in prison... I want to see how he copes, or doens't cope! Maybe this is all just breaking him, especially after the death of his first wife, and I would love to see how he and Peggy handles it, and how she supports him! Mabe you can even through some other characters, like the main cast, or other characters from that episode, or others!

If you have read this far, thank you for listening to me screaming!!!