fickle | Dear Rare Pair Exchange Writer

Hi!

Thank you so much for signing up for this! My baby rare pairs are my favorites and the idea of getting anything at all for them is thrilling!

Apart from that, please take anything I say below as only a suggestion. If you have something you're excited to write, go for it! My suggestions are only things I like and you are in no way obligated to write them.

In general, I like dark, angsty, emotionally-heavy pieces. I'm not interested in fluff, but I love unhealthy relationships, obsession, addiction, emotional manipulation, blackmail, guilt, coercion, abuse of authority and hate-flirting/black rom.

DO NOT WANT:

mistreatment of a mentally disabled person
animal abuse/death
A/B/O
age play
sexualization of children
soulmates
reincarnation
pregnancy
polyamory
office/coffeeshop AUs

The first few, up to and including sexualization of children, are things that trigger/deeply upset me. The rest are just things that I'm not interested in reading about, in case you were wondering why it goes from horrible to harmless.

Fandom-specific scenarios are under a cut and again, COMPLETELY OPTIONAL!

Aladdin (2019) Scenarios:

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who saw Jafar on screen and thought he was smokin' and then screamed at his COMPLETE DISINTEREST in marrying Jasmine! He makes it so clear he's doing it just to hurt the Sultan and he doesn't have any actual attraction to her!

Anyway it made me desperately crave some Jafar/Aladdin, where Jafar takes advantage of Aladdin before Aladdin knows who he is (street rat offered cash for sex, maybe?) or where Jafar keeps Aladdin for himself instead of sending him away to the land of icy ice.
Alternatively, I am totally here for anything where Jafar misuses his power over the Genie. Sure, the Genie can't make people *fall* in love, but he can make people desperate to please another, or make them believe that they're in love. The feelings aren't there but the end goal? Still the same. What if Jafar ordered Genie to make himself desperate to please Jafar? Would he get free wishes? Would he get the world? Or would Genie find grey area to work with there too?

Animorph Scenarios:

Pre-rat David can't understand what Rachel sees in Tobias. He decides to find out for himself. Tobias does not approve at all (please don't break up Rachel and Tobias, they're my OTP for this series, I just like the idea of David obsessing over Tobias a lot.)
Visser Three maybe morphing into someone to honeytrap Ax's human form?
Visser Three using Elfangor or Aximili's body as hosts? Or making advances on them while in Alloran's body. Alloran does not like this at all.

Final Fantasy XIV Scenarios:

Estinien Wyrmblood/Thordan VII: Not exactly a whipping boy fic, but something where Estinient is punished to make a point to Aymeric about how even if he's out of reach, Estinien isn't? Anything focusing on the Church's corruption and the hypocrisy of Thordan would be great.
Aymeric de Borel/Thancred Waters: Thancred is irresistible and Aymeric is badly in need of distraction. If you want to kick in some Aymeric/Estinien here with Aymeric maybe saying Estinien's name during an intimate moment, or Thancred commenting on how Aymeric should chase the man he loves instead of settling for substitutes, that would be beautiful. Maybe a darker take where Aymeric is using Thancred and Thancred knows it, but he'll accept it as the only way he can be close to Aymeric?
Aymeric de Borel/Estinien Wyrmblood: My FFXIV OTP! Dark and angsty with lots of pining, please please please? I'd prefer them not getting happily together, just longing for each other, maybe getting jealous/possessive when other people hit on their loved one. Maybe they confess to each other in the end but acknowledge a relationship can't ever happen? I want that intense loyalty and love, but mostly I want them both suffering because of how much they love each other.
Aymeric de Borel/Thordan VII: Just make Aymeric suffer, seriously. Something where Aymeric looks too much like his mother?
Artoirel de Fortemps/Emmanellain de Fortemps: Impossible dark obsessions and longing! Anything where they're wrecked with guilt or it's a one-sided obsession is fantastic.

Homestuck Scenarios:

I love Caliborn's early obsession with Dirk! What if it carried over to Lord English? What if he just can't leave Dirk alone?
Caliborn wants to break Dirk of this hero-worship for the brother he never knew.
Dirk rebounds onto Caliborn after Jake dumps him, because Caliborn was so goddamn clingy that there's no way he'll find Dirk too clingy, right?
AU where Lord English wins and keeps Dirk as a pet?
AU where Dirk and Caliborn are on the same side from the start!

Kuroko no BasukeScenarios:

Hanamiya Makoto/Imayoshi Shouichi: Okay, so I love love LOVE Imayoshi/Hanamiya, they're my favorite terrible power couple forever. I love absolutely anything with them being terrible either to each other or to other people - either them fucking each other up, trying to see who can be worse, or doing it casually just because they are that awful, or destroying a third party. Future AUs where they're in the yakuza, or at least Hanamiya is, are also delicious.
Aomine Daiki/Hanamiya Makoto: Hanamiya finds a way to challenge Aomine and draws him into his spiderweb. Also happy with a future fic with yakuza Hanamiya and police detective Aomine!
Akashi Seijuurou/Hanamiya Makoto: Alll the manipulation, all of it. Show me who wins. Does Hanamiya end up the power behind the throne or does he have to bow before his Emperor? AUs are perfectly okay too!
Hanamiya Makoto/Kuroko Tetsuya: Kuroko always gets underestimated. Will Hanamiya make that mistake too?
Hanamiya Makoto/Kise Ryouta: Hanamiya could manipulate Kise so very, very easily. Dark, destructive and fucked up, please, with Hanamiya discarding Kise when he knows it'll hurt the most.

League of Legends Scenarios:

I love Talon. A lot. I'm not sure how I feel about the new short story (where he's waiting to be ordered to kill Kat again and has named the knife after her that he's going to use to kill her, his diction feels too elegant for a kid who grew up poor and in Noxus' underground) but I do like the fact that Kat literally didn't know who he was until he was sent to kill her. So much for being 'adopted' into the family.

ANYWAY, Talon/Vladimir is my all-time fave for League ships, and I like anything that stresses the fact that they're both terrible people. Vladimir's a literal serial killer, Talon's an edgelord assassin, they are so awful and they utterly deserve each other.
Talon/Kayn - they're both poor kids from Noxus, but Kayn got drafted and Talon did. Something focusing on how they started off on such similar paths but ended up in such different places, how an Ionian offered Kayn more kindness than a Noxian did to Talon? Rhaast's POV on their relationship? And of course the whole thing where Kayn is a Noxian fighting for Ionia against Noxus, while Talon is an assassin who doesn't care a bit about patriotism, only about getting paid.
Or, for a darker take, Zed and/or the Order of Shadows and/or Kayn find and subdue Talon when he's in Ionia. Time to show the Noxian invader his place.
Talon/Darius - Darius is from outside Noxus, Talon is Noxian-born, but Darius is the patriot out of the two of them. Darius will give everything for Noxus and Talon will take everything that he wants for himself. Also Darius is a General and Talon is a famed assassin, but both of them started off poor. Their slow fumble towards understanding each other? Or if we're going darker, something where Darius is sick of Talon refusing to take orders from him/from anyone who is not General Du Couteau and putting Talon in his place? Maybe punishing him in front of the army to show them what happens to defiant Noxians?
Talon/Draven - Draven's so showy and arrogant, Talon strikes from the shadows and vanishes from sight. A secret relationship, maybe? Draven writing about the events in the Awaken video? Draven bragging about all his admirers but confessing he misses Talon's acerbic comments on his flaws more?
Talon/Jarvan IV - something set during the period that Talon was held prisoner in Demacia? Some sort of forced alliance with Noxus/angriest arranged marriage ever? Anything super dark and angry here would be ace.
Talon/Swain - as dark as you can possibly make it, please! Anything with blackmail, coercion, command, etc. Swain is part demon, commands Noxus and Talon - Talon's just an assassin. A clever one, yes, but just an assassin. The power dynamics between them would be completely out of scale and I'd love to see a Talon who resents Swain as much as he admires him, and a Swain capable of walking that fine line between the two so Talon never quite slips out of his control.
Or, to summarise that: "Jericho Swain can see the potential of an asset like Talon. First, however, he has to break the boy's will."

MDZS/Untamed Scenarios:

Wēn Níng/Xuē Yáng: Xue Yang had all that time with the very first fierce corpse that WWX raised, surely he would've quizzed Wen Ning about WWX? Maybe he escapes WITH WN! Maybe WN offers to teach him how to raise fierce corpses if XY helps him escape?
Wēn Cháo/Xuē Yáng: Wen Chao is terrible rapist trash BUT what if he's like that with women because he's secretly a cutsleeve and in denial about it? Then in saunters this smoking hot young man who fears nobody, not even Wen Ruohan, and Wen Chao is both smitten and furious about it.
Wèi Wúxiàn/Xuē Yáng: I am a sucker for stories where Xue Yang does end up as a disciple of WWX, but I would also LOVE an AU where the two of them are blood-related. Twins, canon age gap, idc. I just want to see what changes if WWX had a brother from the start.
Wèi Wúxiàn/Wēn Níng: I really, really love the loyalty aspect here but also? WN risked his life to save WWX after JUST A FEW KIND WORDS AT AN ARCHERY TOURNAMENT. I would love a piece that examines how overwhelming and disproportionate a response that is, something where WWX actually thinks about how unusual a reaction that is and the pressure of earning lifelong loyalty so easily.
Ōuyáng Zǐzhēn/Xuē Yáng: This was a spur-of-the-moment impulse, I was mostly just amused by the idea of OYZ being so romantic and XY being so down-to-earth. Like imagine the banter and XY constantly interrupting OYZ whenever he starts waxing poetic.
Lán Xīchén/Wèi Wúxiàn: I fucking love mistaken identity plots based around LXC and LWJ actually looking like twins in the novel. Something where WWX confesses to LXC, believing that he's LWJ, but then LXC returns his feelings so WWX can't tell him the truth? Absolutely the best. Mega bonus points for jealous LWJ, I love love love seeing him getting all pissy but trying to squash it down because he wants his brother to be happy.

King's Avatar Scenarios:

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 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
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!
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.)
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?
The only way to break YX's win streak is to destroy those hands of his. HST is the one to find him afterwards.

Yu-Gi-Oh Scenarios:

Seto doesn't give anything for free. Ryuuji's used to paying but this price is higher than he expected.
Sindin's aware of his son's growing crush on Seto Kaiba. He won't tolerate any competition for Ryuuji's loyalty so ensures that Seto will never, ever return Ryuuji's feelings by making his son break Ryuuji.
Same scenario as above, just have Gozaburo Kaiba being the one breaking them apart.
Ryuuji's a flirt who's been teasing Seto at every business meeting, every formal dinner, with no intention of carrying through. Seto doesn't give him a choice anymore.
Seto and Ryuuji as exes who broke up because two traumatized boys don't actually work that well together, but Seto can't get over Ryuuji and Ryuuji's too fond of playing with fire.
Mokuba's crushing hard on the only person he knows who can match Seto's intellect. He doesn't think it's a form of rebellion but a form of wishing - he looks at Ryuuji and sees who he can be. He doesn't see all the cracks underneath, no matter how Seto tries to warn him. Seto kidnaps Ryuuji to keep him from developing a relationship with Mokuba. He's expecting Stockholm Syndrome to set in but instead, he falls for Ryuuji who is not amused but is willing to manipulate the situation to his advantage.
8 billion people on the planet, and Seto and Ryuuji are the only two who can understand each other. That doesn't mean they like each other, but it does mean they need each other.
My kingdom for a Pacific Rim AU with Seto+Ryuuji as Jaegar pilots. Or Mokie and Ryuuji, with Mokie playing matchmaker for Seto and Ryuuji.

AGAIN, all of those are completely optional! Just write me something dark and awful and I'll be happy.

Dear Rare Pair Exchange Writer

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