sigalit | Dear Chocolatier 2019

Dear Chocolatier, thank you very much for taking on any of these prompts and making them yours and even giving me a gift out of the deal!

A confession: I have not ever done an exchange before. This is my first. I have been floating around fandom spaces for fifteen years, so I mean it from the bottom of my heart, thank you for making me a thing because it's brand new to have a thing out there that is for me. That said, do not feel pressured by that, please, I am not hard to satisfy!

Mostly, I want you to have fun, so I'm not specifying a lot here -- the only thing I really request is followed to the letter is the DNWs. I have no specific prompts exactly, so much as likes-and-don't-likes: here they are.

Things I Really Like

Road trips or other ADVENTURES
Casefic
Enemies-to-friends, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, enemies-to-platonic-partners-in-crime
Short vignettes that are only a little picture of a bigger picture that is only hinted at
Relationships that most people would describe as 'twisted' or 'fucked up' but truly loving deep down (either friendships or romance)
For fanfic, trans headcanons, especially those that match the character's canonically presented gender
And for that matter, always-a-girl genderswaps
Magitech
Comedy with a serious backdrop (aka funny-but-not-crack)
Human weapons (warning for TV Tropes, but I've had people misunderstand what I meant, so I included the link for context)

Do Not Wants

Infidelity.
Eye or dental trauma.
Explicit noncon; dubcon is OK.
Issuefic
PWP. I have nothing against the existence of PWP or anything, but explicit sex doesn't do much for me and I tend to skim it so if that's the whole piece it isn't going far!
Character death, specifically for this exchange.
Angst-centric pieces, specifically for this exchange.
Explicit M/M or M/F; sorry! This is a body-squick issue, please feel free to write romance and UST and FTB in all equations.
Unrequested crossovers

Meh

These are more like things I'm not very big on in general (though every rule has an exception and I've read them for all of these!), but if they are crucial to the piece of your heart, please go ahead.

Canon-divergence AUs, with any exceptions noted in the individual requests. I just don't want to be thrown into them!
Medieval or traditional high fantasy settings. It took me a while to be sure I had spelled medieval correctly; it's not something that brings me any joy or excitement as a backdrop/setting for itself but I'm willing to read it. Which means for the original works that sound like they should be in this setting, that's fine but I would also love to see something that isn't!
Roleswaps.
Setting change AUs with two caveats:
- "[anything] IN SPACE" is always fine, and
- modern setting AUs for things that are not in modern setting are also very interesting to me.

Requests

All are for fic or art!

Original Work

Tags: Arrogant Empress in Exile/Sensible Female Foreign Mercenary She's Hired to Protect Her, Cat Who Is Secretly A Superhero & Cat Who Is Secretly A Supervillain & Their Oblivious Human Owner, Confused Male Astronaut/Friendly Male Alien That Wants To Have His Babies, Court Dancer Unwittingly Turned into Vampire/Vampire Prince Who Wanted a Court Dancer, Evil Overlord of an Undead Army/Barbarian Warrior-Queen He Wants an Alliance With, Experienced Queen/Foreign Spy Who Seduced Her for Her Own Gain and Then Caught Feelings, Female Cop Skeptical About Androids/Female-Identifying Android Who's Been Assigned as Her Partner, Female Hit Man/Female Cop Female home owner/catgirl who moves in without permission, Female Magic Mechanic/Her Newest and Enamoured Female Client, Female Pirate/Female Stowaway, Ghost Prince/Boy with an "Imaginary" Friend, Groom/Unwilling Bride, Hacker/Genderfluid Casino Owner, Nonbinary Naval Officer/Smuggler With a Heart of Gold, Pirate Captain/Naval Captain Tasked With Capturing Them, Princess/Male Dragon Shapeshifter, Regency Lady Who Needs a Respectable Match/Female Respectable Match She Immediately Disliked, Retainer(s) Quietly In Love With Their Knight Master/Overworked Female Knight, Shapeshifting Dragon/Runaway Noble, Selkie/Nonbinary Person Who Hates Fishing, Spotted Hyena Monstergirl/Human who doesn't know much about hyenas, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/Incredibly Bored Demon Who Pretends She Summoned Them, Warrior Queen Who Rose Up and Defeated an Emperor/Foreign Princess Bride Legitimizing Her Rule

For the majority of these, please do just go right ahead and take from the 'things I like' section, incorporate whatever you want, and have fun! Please no bestiality; for the human/creature pairings if you're going to do sex I would prefer you include shapeshifting ... or just leave it so vague the reader has no idea.

Forgotten Ages

Tags: Tikaya Komitopis & Agarik, Tikaya Komitopis/Rias Starcrest

These are my favorite books in the entire world, and I will take anything (happy) about these characters. I especially am curious about the world in which Agarik survived and what his relationship with Tikaya -- and his relationship with Starcrest! -- became after canon. Please no threesomes, though, I'm a big fan of the Tikaya-Agarik friendship and Tikaya/Rias is my OTP to end all, but I'm absolutely fine with Agarik having another love (even, or maybe ESPECIALLY one of Rias' brothers) mentioned. Or appearing. Anything would make me hugely delighted.

If you're coming from outside this canon and are curious about it, here it is on Amazon as the omnibus; it is a sci-fi steampunk romance adventure with alien technology, and I love it.

Machineries of Empire

Tags: Inesser/Kel Miuzan, Hemiola/Original Shuos Servitor

Inesser/Miuzan: I accidentally made this ship into A Thing by suggesting someone else nominate it, and I'm hoping to see at least one person tackle it! I am not into ethically shady hawkfucking, however - I'd love to see either unrequited-but-not-miserable or awkward UST that doesn't go anywhere or a way of making things work.

Inesser retiring doesn't seem to be IC to me, though. Miuzan being urged to tackle parts of the world that aren't working directly for her is more my style - either out of the Kel entirely (gasp, but if you can make it IC, go for it!) or into command that isn't directly Inesser's; maybe under the new calendar, eventually Miuzan is promoted high enough that it doesn't matter anymore that they're both Kel. For art, some yearning-touching that isn't sexual, maybe glove-fingertips (or bare hands!) or whatever a better visual artist than me can use to tell the story.

Hemiola/Original Shuos Servitor: I couldn't resist the siren call of THIS one, either. It doesn't have to be romantic, though servitor romance seems adorable to me. Someone is bound to catch Hemiola lurking about being friends with Jedao, or it makes a formal diplomatic request to join the Citadel enclave - then what happens with its new friends?

Cold Case

Tags: Lily Rush/Kite, Lily Rush & Scotty Valens, John Stillman & Lilly Rush & Scotty Valens & Nick Vera & Will Jeffries & Kat Miller

Oh my gosh, I did not come into this fest expecting to see THIS as an offer, but when I did couldn't resist it; I really loved Lily/Kite as a couple and early Cold Case is my favorite Cold Case, though I also absolutely love Kat and will pretend she's been here all along. I am here for Lily/Kite fix-it fic, and I'm also here for group ensemble adventures of any kind. While Scotty/Elisa isn't given as a tag, I liked them and their relationship and am completely down for mentions of and/or inclusion of Elisa provided it isn't angsty!

I don't like the idea of shipping within the core group, so please keep the &s to &s! ♥