YHY Fest letter

Dear Creator,

Hi! I'm so hyped for this exchange, HST is my absolute no-holds barred FAVORITE BABY and I love love love his enthusiasm and trash talk and energy! Pairing him with Ye Xiu is my OTP but I'm also happy for platonic interactions with his captain or even both of them! Really I just want more HST fic, I'm easy like that. I also like ensemble fic, so feel free to add in any chars you like.

If you want to write/draw NSFW, go ahead, I'd love that! Here are general NSFW tropes I like and here are the dubcon/non-con tropes I like.

DO NOT WANT:

mistreatment of a mentally disabled person
animal abuse/death
A/B/O
age gaps
age play
corrective rape
sexualization of children
victim blaming narratives
soulmates
reincarnation
coffee shop AUs
office AUs
fluff/cute happy domesticity
pregnancy
polyamory

I've got a few prompts to offer but please feel free to come up with scenarios of your own if none of them inspire you!

CUTE/COMIC GEN SUGGESTIONS :

• HST actually ditches the trash talk during a match, prompted by who knows what, and has incredible hand speed. Impossible to deal with. But will this be enough to beat YX? And if so, what are the consequences?
  
• Body swap! HST wakes up in YX's body, YX wakes up in YW's body, YW wakes up in HST's body. What do they make of this? How do they handle it? Do they tell anyone?
  
• HST was originally found in the game by Wei-Chan. What if YX had been playing with him on a smurf, thinking of scouting him for Excellent Era, before HST got stolen away?
  
• Anything to do with HST being mad at trees. You know why. XD

SHIPPY HST/YX SUGGESTIONS:

• ...First kiss? I imagine pro players don't have much time for romance, I would love to see how awkward/cute their first kiss is!
  
• The entire Blue Rain team is aware of HST's crush on YX and are making bets on how long it'll be before he actually confesses. Or just as cute, they're trying to help him out!
  
• YW has a talk with YX about how utterly obvious it is that YX's playing HST, only to find out that nope, YX actually didn't know, he really did think that HST ran to the game to help out of 'friendship'. Now YX has something to think about.
  
• HST and YX had a lover's quarrel. Unknown to each other, both of them seek advice from YW on how to settle it.
  
• AU where HST really is a Sword Saint and YX is a Battle God. Saint and God, how do they interact? If HST worships a Rain God, will he be willing to kneel before YX's altar?
  
• YX and HST's relationship is exposed to the public! How do their teams react? What about other pro players? Or the fans? If you want to have some of the people being fine with the gay part but pitying whomever is dating Ye Xiu, that's totally fine! Just please no homophobic backlash or restricted to the 'villains' of the story (Liu Hao, Cui Li, Chen Yehai etc.)
  
• HST is so mad when YX quits, he tries to talk to his captain about recruiting him for Blue Rain once the cooldown is over. I'd love to see that convo, esp if YW actually does bring HST into a chat group on QQ with YX to show that it's YX turning it down, not YWZ not trying hard enough.
  
• AU where HST turns into the cutest little Pomeranian whenever it's a full moon. YX is totally clueless as to why this dog keeps showing up on his doorstep or how he even gets into the house, but he's not heartless enough to kick the pupper out into the street.
  
• Pro players don't drink so HST has no tolerance for alcohol. The first time he tries alcohol at a post-finals party with YX, Excellent Era, YW and Blue Rain, HST gets drunk, blurts out a really long love confession to YX and then promptly passes out. What happens the next morning?
  
• For the sake of publicity, HST gets paired with someone for fake dating. YX isn't happy about it and YW tells him why.

ANGSTY SUGGESTIONS: (warnings for injury, infidelity, heartbreak)

• HST's hand(s) get injured, either permanently or temporarily. How does he cope with losing his handspeed? How do his captain or YX console him?
  
• Absolutely anything to do with HST being forced to betray either YX or his captain in some way. Maybe having to choose between them if they're both in love with him?
  
• HST is dating YW and cheats on him with YX. Aftermath of it is what's interesting to me - does he tell YW? Does YX tell YW? Does YX actually want a relationship or was it just a one-off?

( Dark suggestions are under the cut! )

SFW ART SUGGESTIONS :

• HST and YX in each other's team jackets!
  
• Either of them having their hands massaged/cream rubbed in by the other.
  
• Either of them kissing the other's finger tips.
  
• HST confessing his love with the most massive word bubble ever and a stunned YX? XD
  
• Sword Saint/Lord Grim couple cosplay!
  
• YX or HST hauling the other into a kiss on stage during a press conference!

( NSFW ART suggestions are under the cut! )

Ultimately, if none of these ideas catch your fancy, don't feel hampered by them! Do whatever you want. As long as it focuses on HST or has HST/YX, I'll love it. Thank you so much!