Just Married Exchange Letter

[singedsun]

First some basics: Thanks so much for writing for me. I'm very excited about this exchange, there are so many opportunities here for really fun, sexy and exciting fic. If you want to see things I like you can visit my tumblr or twitter, or things I've written for these pairings all under this same name. Anon questions are also open on my tumblr, so if you need to ask me something, that's a good way to do it.

Specifics: For all fandoms, I'm interested in fic that could be sexual, romantic or platonic. I love the play on lights and darks in stories, tough choices that don't always turn out the way you want them to, and it doesn't always have to have a happy ending. PWP stories are good here too, whatever works for you.

Things I love to see in stories: dark comedy, witty banter, vivid imagery, literary & historical references, melancholy tone, moral and sexual ambiguity, social commentary, emotionally intense relationships without an acknowledged sexual relationship, serious and/or goofy story twists (with or without red herrings), writing, characters with crazy hobbies, nostalgia, music, changes in power dynamics, unreliable narrators, f/f relationships that may or may not be explicitly sexual (but especially those that are), light and dark image dichotomies, faulty and questioning faith, perseverance, subversive religious ideals and relationships

The Fandoms


Critical Role (Web Series): : Words cannot describe how much I'm in love with this show. Honestly, I wouldn't care what you write me as long as it's got the voice of the characters and is even a little bit fun. My first love will always be for Vex'ahlia/Percy. But after The Search for Grog, I've definitely come around to the idea of Vex/Keyleth too for the S1 characters. For S2 I'm all about Fjord/Jester... ESPECIALLY after the most recent episode.

For Vex/Percy so much of their off-screen marriage and potential honeymoon is appealing to me. Clearly there's a chance for danger around every corner, which presents myriad options for plans to be foiled. I love how open they become with each other, how communicative, how united. They are IN LOVE and while you by no means have to write them post-marriage (because there's plenty of other ideas to be had in having them act married before, or get married in an different potential world where they never met as adventurers) I do really love what might happen for them in their older years (more Percy than Vex, for obvious reasons). How do they celebrate, what does their relationship look like or their family?

For Vex/Keyleth man, I'm down for so many options here. Secret relationships, pretend marriages, a world where Keyleth and Vex'ahlia stayed home and met as noble women of their respective families. But I also really love the potential of these old, half-elven women living past Vex and Percy's marriage to find some kind of solace in each other. It's sweet and lovely and there's always been a real love there between them, and an interest that wasn't always sisterly. So exploring a potential where Vex and Keyleth got together before any of the other relationships happened is also really good.

For Fjord/Jester I see so much potential for marriage shenanigans that involve them pining for each other while pretending to be married, or getting married drunk, or Fjord pretending to marry them on the Balleater not realizing that as Captain their marriage could be legal. While I think there's a lot of room to play with them doing it on a lark or on accident, I also really would love something sincere between them, where their relationship has developed into something substantial between them.

Wedding prompts here include:
Everyone Thought They Were Already Married, Wedding anniversary as old people, wedding is interrupted by the bad guys, Undercover as Married, Second marriage, Marriage of Convenience, Secret Marriage, Undercover as Married While Mutually Pining, Fake Marriage Results in Surprise Real Feelings, Marriage Assumed to be Fake/Done as Prank is Actually Legally Binding

Dracula (TV): : I hate that this show got so little time, but the love between Lucy & Mina was my absolute favorite thing about it. Give me Lucy before or after she vamps, before or after she declares herself to Mina. And give me Mina who loves her friend more than she loves Jonathan, or Grayson, or herself. And while I adore Lucy/Mina on their own, I think the potential of Grayson/Lucy/Mina would be amazing. Maybe Grayson, has taken a vamp Lucy under his wing and inside a relationship with Grayson perhaps Mina sheds some of her hesitation about being with Lucy. I'm also very much interested in the time/dream aspects of Grayson's past and how he believes Mina to be his wife reincarnated (or brought back to him somehow). So if that suits you to play with, I'm all for it. Really with this time period there's a lot to play with in regard to secret or arraigned marriage aspects in addition to the vampiric story happening.

Wedding prompts here include:
Arranged Marriage, Unconventional courtship, Secret Marriage, Spouses Separated by Time, Marriage Is Sealed with Blood Drinking, Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress

Dragon Age: :
Pairings: Cullen Rutherford/Female Surana, Female Cousland/Teagan Guerrin, Female Inquisitor/Josephine Montilyet, Isabela/Aveline Vallen, Josephine Montilyet/Cassandra Pentaghast, Ser Cauthrien/Teagan Guerrin, Teagan Guerrin/Anora Mac Tir ×

(pre-apologies for rambling) For the most part I kind of consider Dragon Age to be the fandom where I live pretty much all the time. It's been my main fandom since before Origins came out, when all I had was the strained relationship between Maric, Rowan & Loghain to live on. I love so much about this stupid world and it's characters and it's hard to just whittle down to a few, but these two ships are kind of the ships of my heart. My tumblr is FULL of Dragon Age nonsense and I don't plan to stop that really ever. I'm am totally here for the warrior companions and characters though. If I had to pick one character type, that's what it'd be. Teagan, Aveline, Meredith, Cullen, Cassandra, Blackwall - there's so much about these characters and what makes them tick that I can't get enough of. But when it comes right down to it, Teagan, Cullen and Aveline are my absolute favorite characters. And I love them enough I can spread the love out to multiple ships for them.

For Isabela/Aveline I'm in love with Aveline's sense of duty, her loyalty and dedication, and I love the way she and Isabela develop throughout the second game as characters individual of each other but also because of each other. Their friendship is also something that's really important to me, especially as someone with a similar sense of humor (where the best friends you have are also the ones you can rib at, or tease like you might a sibling). I don't consider them much of a fluffy ship, or very domestic in nature, but I do like snapshots of those moments in fic or art that show what they might be when no one else is watching. I'm also very much here for the angst that comes with the Captain of the Guard loving a pirate Captain who both know they can't always live in the same place together.

For Teagan/Anora I'm very much here for their history. I adore the intricacies that come from examining the fact that Teagan's older sister was Queen but he never would've known her much during that time given his age, that he probably spent time with Cailan and Anora, maybe in an older brother/cousin/friend kind of role before he joined the army. That Rowan and Loghain could've had this really intense relationship had it not been for Maric (or maybe they did carry on for some time, or maybe all three of them had something), and that the kind of rumors those relationships might spawn don't really die, even after the people pass on or grow old. I said that to say that I really like the idea of Teagan and Anora having to come to terms with the history of their relationship. Given Teagan's age and the fact that he hasn't been married before, I really like the concept that he might've been considered as a match for Anora at some point. (Or that he might've been paraded out at a younger age as an eligible bachelor that Anora found interesting/attractive, or the younger ladies at court did.) IDK, the TL;DR of this is that I love that there's a lot of potential history that could play into their relationship. Prompt wise, I'm open to whatever you might come up with, whether it's pre or post-Blight, whether it's something lighter and more simple fluff or darker more brooding character introspection.

For Teagan/F!Cousland, it's kind of the same thing. Giving their lineages there's a good chance they've met and interacted at some point before Origins begins. At the very least, they know of each other and again, perhaps have been offered up as a suitable match for the other at some point in time.

For Teagan/Cauthrien this is a guilty pleasure pairing for me because I think they come out the other side of the war on opposite sides, regardless if Anora remains queen or not. So there's tension there and I am always down for an enemies to lovers kind of relationship progression.

For either Josephine/Cassandra or Josephine/F!Inquisitor I'm especially interested in the elements of Josephine's arranged marriage and ways to get her out of it. I'm also fond of her friendship with Leliana and how her opinion might color Josephine's choice in partner/wedding.

For Cullen/F!Surana I love what potential their backstory has, what longing one might have had for the other and what freedom the post-war world might hold for them. A Surana Grey Warden who revels in her freedom and power might enjoy the ability to be with Cullen in the real world, especially if you bring their story forward into Inquisition or post-Inquisition. They have nothing to lose then, to be together, except each other in whatever that world holds. I just love them.

Wedding prompts here include:
Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress, Wedding is Attacked, Secret Wedding in the Forest, Crashing A Wedding So Character Can Marry One Of The Participants Instead, Forced Marriage, Undercover as Married, Secret Marriage, Married on battlefield in midst of the fighting, Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else, Unconventional courtship, Woke Up Married, Wedding anniversary as old people

Comments

[ashling]

I'm sad to say I don't know your fandoms, but I'm so happy to see that you ended up doing Just Married after all! <3

[singedsun]

Thanks! I'm very excited to see what comes of it.