Dear Chocolate Box 2020

[fair_feather_friend]

Dear Chocolatier,

My first exchange, please be gentle. I've already messed up twice, I'm hoping I don't again.

Thanks so much for looking at my letter! I'm really excited to be participating in the exchange even if I keep making mistakes.

First and foremost I want to say that I will be happy with whatever I get. These comments are just my vague musings on each prompt, if you want to go your own direction that's great.

I'm hoping for M/M of whatever rating you want to write. (But if you somehow end up with me and hate writing M/M, then I'd be happy with a General/Teen rated F/F fic.)

Gattaca: I would like a fix-it fic for the end of Gattaca, where everyone lives. And/or an exploration of what if Jerome and Vincent's relationship turned romantic. There's a number of almost moments between them. Really I just wished for a different end.

Arthurian Legend: I absolutely adore Gawain, I read him as so very queer. His title of the Maiden Knight, is it an honour, is it an insult, an attack on his masculinity and his lack of love interests. It makes me think of trans headcanons and genderqueerness, or a woman who disguises herself as male, perhaps posing as her brother to become a Knight. I also love gay/bi cis male Gawain, and asexual, homoromantic Gawain. I love how how tied to the land he is, and his strength waxing and waning with the sun. How tied to the seasons the story of the Green Knight is, the Winter and Spring symbolism, and the sacrifices.

Gawain and Lancelot are both assaulted by women. Gawain wakes up with Lady Bertilak trying to force herself onto him when he's clearly not interested. Lancelot is tricked by Elaine who resorts to magic to conceive Galahad. Lancelot seems to have so many women fall for him. I like reading Lancelot as gay, and his relationship with Guinevere as a strong friendship that was forged when he escorted her to Camelot.

Original Works:

DNW: Het. ABO. Mpreg. Graphic descriptions of violence, illness, gore, bodily fluids etc. Incest. Bestiality. Dirty Talk. Humiliation kink. Rape/NonCon. 2nd person POV. Suicide and Suicidal Ideation. Depressing/Hopeless Endings. Mundane Setting. Children.

In short if it's going to get hot and steamy I prefer it relatively vanilla and entirely consensual.

I'm so sorry. I messed up my Original Works DNW list on AO3 and it's now locked and I can't change things. I have certain prompts that seem to lend themselves to horror but then I've gone and put horror on my DNW list. I think I meant to put body-horror. I like vampires, werewolves, and all that. I prefer my horror to have elements of other genres. My favourite horror movies tend to be either comedies, or sci-fi. Or the black mirror sort of psychological horror.

Likes:

Where gender isn't specified in the prompts, I'm hoping for m/m fic at whatever level of explicitness you want to write.

I like fluff, feel good, happy stories with good, satisfying endings. I like playful, fun, silly stories. I like fantasy, sci-fi and stories with fantastical elements. I also like stories that ask what if, get you thinking, have moral dilemmas, and choices to be made.

But, I also like a whole lot of other stuff too, so please feel free to write anything and I'm sure I'll love it. The main thing I don't like is hopeless endings, but even with those I'll be furiously writing a fix-it. If bad things happen to good people I like them to be able to get themselves some revenge.

Male Demigod tyrant/his male protege who leads rebellion against him (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Superhero would be my preference here.)

I'd love to see a tyrant who believes he's serving the greater good, where he takes initially good intentions and a desire to protect his people to an extremely oppressive extreme. Where he strips away free will and choice because his subjects cannot be trusted to keep themselves alive, not hurt eachother, and always choose the right thing. I love twisted utopias where everything seems perfect at first until it turns out it's not.

Or an over the top scenery chewing Tyrant, and his even more villainous protege that seduced him, in order to overthrow him.

Or a good protege who overcomes the tyrant's evilness through the power of LOVE!!! Or one of those scenes where the Tyrant's all "join me on the dark side, together we will rule the world" and the protege is all "okay!" Or played straight with a protege who has the difficult moral dilemma of overthrowing the tyrant he loves, or working to redeem him, or being forced to make a choice between love and freedom, and whether he takes a leadership role, or instead walks away. Difficult choices!


Trickster God/Human Trickster

I love tricksters! I also have such a fondness for fables with trickster types. I'd be so happy with a story that read like the Just So Stories, or Brer Rabbit, or Coyote, or El-Ahrairah, here. But with the trickster having a humanish form.

I also love Loki though and more typical trickster types. Does the human win? Does the god win? Is there trolling? Is there a prank war as a form of courtship?

Sphinx/Adventurer who keeps getting riddles wrong

I love riddles! I also love Gordian Knot solutions and how frustrating they can be, when the adventurer just ruins everything. Is the Sphinx annoyed or amused. Does the Sphinx only have the one riddle or are there more? Does it end up with the Sphinx giving a ridiculous riddle like "what is your name?" and the adventurer still gets it wrong? Is the adventurer trolling? Are the answers technically correct but not what was intended? Is the riddle game just a pick-up technique? I would like the Sphinx to have a human shape if it's going to get sexy, and I was hoping for a male Sphinx here, but if you picked the prompt expecting female go for it.

Human Male Knight/Fairy Prince Who Covets Him

I love fairies! I prefer them human sized. Modern Setting! Fantasy! Fairytale! Sci-Fi! It's all good. I'm as happy with space-knights, and people with the surname Knight, or actors/gamers/roleplayers who play knights, as I am with typical fantasy knights.

Evil Adviser to Bumbling Mad Sultan/Non-Evil Adviser to Homicidal Mad Tsar

I keep thinking the advisers should just swap, like on that tv show Wife Swap. Or the hilarity if the sultan/tsar fell madly in love, (maybe all 12th Night), and the advisers were trying to negotiate this. Or there's heirs that want to marry eachother and unite the families! Maybe they're cursed with their madness and that curse needs to be lifted, and so the advisers must plot with each-other! Sci-fi or fantasy would be great, and no need for everyone to be human.

Seemingly Widowed King/His New Husband/His First Husband Who is Surprise Not Dead
I'd rather not modern. Fantasy or sci-fi would be great.

Is the not-dead husband an immortal, vampire, reincarnated, time-traveler? Did he just fake his own death, or had it faked for him? Were they together for years, or did the first husband fall overboard on their wedding night never to be seen from again. Did their vows say until death do we part? Was the second husband always in love with the King, and do disposed of the first? Is the Widowed King good, or evil? Did he kill his first husband (or at least try to) and now the second one is in danger which is why the first has returned? Or was the first husband evil, and he's now returning to cause chaos in a happy marriage? Is his new husband a clone of the first one? Will it be a joyous reunion accompanied by a threesome?


Knight with Necromantic Powers/His Deceased Arch-Rival He Raised from the Dead

I know this might be the trickiest of my prompts to do coupled with my dislike of bad endings. I think it's possible, but if you picked this prompt wanting to write a Necromancer who raises his rival from the dead so that his rival can never escape from him I'm sorry.

I love playing with the concept of necromancy that isn't evil, but which does still have a price. (Aren't resurrection spells a form of Necromancy?) And I forgot that not everybody does, and that it's just as interesting if a Necromancer Knight is just a Knecromancer.

The whole idea of came back wrong, be that they can no longer be harmed, or no longer heal, or feel, or were ripped away from heaven, or now feel dead inside and nothing seems real and they need to recover their zest for life. (I don't like rotting corpses though so please don't.)

This rival, having a destiny, one where they're expected to sacrifice themselves, to die a hero, they do so, and then the Necromancer completely ruins that by bringing them back. That switch from a life with meaning and purpose to one where they're meant to be dead and they no longer have a place.

Is the Knight from a family of Necromancers, but he turned his back on magic to become a Knight instead. Did he deliberately raise his rival from the dead, and if so why? Or was it an accident? Why were they rivals? Did they go to Knight School together?

If you do want to write this straight, with Evil Necromancer raises Good Rival to torment, I'd consider it a good ending if the Rival thwarts him, or puts an end to his evil or whatever, good triumphing and all that.


Male Demon/Virginal Male Priest
I'd like this completely consensual. Is the priest's religion pro or anti demons? Virginal doesn't need to mean pure, nor innocent. What god does the priest serve? and sacrificing your own virginity to a demon for greater power, or to trick someone is great! Better yet if they then decide to be completely pedantic about what does and doesn't entail virginity. Does sex with a male demon keep the priest pure? I like when demons aren't pure evil, but they may have different morality.


Dark Mage/Light Mage
Zealous Witch Hunter/Warlock Attempting to Seduce Him
Original Demon Character(s)/Original Human Character
Dark Mage/Conjured Demon

I enjoy themes of good and evil, villains and heroes, dark and light being played with. In so much as good and evil are more a matter of publicity, pro vs anti-establishment, and lawful vs unlawful. I prefer my villains/evil to be more cinematic, over the top, scenery chewing villainy than grounded in realism. Contrarily, I'd be happy for the good characters to be flawed, judgemental, stuck in their ways believing only they are right, only to be shown their error.

I love seeing characters overcoming their prejudices and narrow-mindedness to see there's other paths of goodness.

But really I'd love anything.

(Still working on the original prompts.)