Dear writer,

Hello! I'm Relle, or kaerstyne on AO3. Thank you so much for writing something for me!

Honestly I'm fairly easy to please; my fandoms are usually small enough I'm just happy to have more fic about them at all, so as long as you have the character combinations I want and avoid the DNW list, you should be good. I'm fine with all ratings, from domestic fluff to filthy smut, so write whatever you like best! I've provided some ideas and general likes to help you get started, but feel free to come up with your own thing if that works better for you; don't feel like you're limited to ideas I've listed here.

Also, I've requested several of these fandoms in other exchanges, so feel free to scroll through my previous letters if you want to see what I had to say about them before. My AO3 bookmarks are kind of a grab bag, but may also be helpful for inspiration. (Though, just because something isn't in there doesn't mean I won't like it!)

General Likes

• character-based stories
• stories that showcase character interactions or explore relationships
• relationship negotiation (especially for poly relationships)
• expansions or alternate versions of canon scenes, missing scenes
• canon divergence, fix-it fic
• canon-typical adventures and shenanigans, casefic
• modern mundane AUs (like coffee shop and college AUs)
• slice of life, curtainfic, fluff
• angst and whump (though I generally prefer if they're resolved by the end)
• hurt/comfort
• awkward dorks
• banter and snark
• atypical expressions of love
• queer headcanons (including trans, nonbinary, ace, aro, poly)
• non-standard formats: second person POV, drabble collections, epistolary or social media fic, in-universe meta

Dark Likes

For this exchange these are mostly relevant for Exit/Corners and Higurashi (and maybe Squid Game?), not so much for the others. But feel free to grab from here for those, and in general I am very hard to squick when it comes to darkfic, have at it.

• dubcon, consent fuckery in general (only for Higurashi and Exit/Corners, see DNWs)
• consensual but not safe or sane
• unhealthy or dysfunctional relationships, power imbalances
• corruption and violation
• murder husbands/wives/partners
• blood and gore
• cannibalism
• psychological horror
• gaslighting, emotional abuse
• grey morality, alternate morality systems

Smut Likes

I'm not that picky here and I'd rather you do what's appropriate for the characters and relationship dynamic you're writing, so don't feel like you have to throw all (or any) of my personal kinks in there. (I am kinkier than a lot of the characters I request, lol.) But if it fits...

• Dom/sub, bondage, sadomasochism
• kink negotiation, and its inverse under-negotiated kink
• aftercare, morning afters
• body worship
• non-penetrative sex
• sensation play
• banter, dirty talk
• wall sex, wall-slamming in general
• rough sex
• biting
• blood kink, knife kink
• non-human anatomy, tentacles, monsterfucking
• sex pollen, fuck or die, X made them do it

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

BJ, Minami Natsuno, Miura Keitaro

DNW: dubcon/noncon, permanent major character death, fusions/crossovers/different setting AUs, soulmates/soulbonds, scat/watersports/vomit

These three are all super adorable together and I love them. Natsuno quickly became one of my favorites early on in the game because I loved her being a big UFO dork and going on adventures with BJ, and then Keitaro showed up and they were adorable dorks together, and then we find out who BJ is and that adds so many fascinating layers to everything, especially his interactions with Keitaro. And then in the epilogue! When they manage to get BJ back!! I had a lot of emotions playing this game, is what I'm saying.

I am particularly interested in post-canon fic for this fandom, because I want them all to get the happy domestic fluff they deserve and also because I'm intrigued by the worldbuilding aspects. So I'd love anything that explores what Natsuno and Keitaro are up to on the new planet, and how BJ fits into that once they get him there. What's their living situation like? What do the three of them do when they hang out? How extra cute are Natsuno and Keitaro when they're engaged/married? Is it awkward between Keitaro and BJ, how do they figure that out?

I'd also be interested in seeing more of BJ's perspective on in-game events, since we don't get to see much of that and he knew more about what was going on. What does he think of Natsuno when they first meet? How does he feel when they run into Keitaro? What's it like to see the two of them interact? I'm just really curious about his feelings on everything ever.

Exit/Corners

Sent

DNW: fusions/crossovers/different setting AUs, soulmates/soulbonds, pregnancy/kidfic, scat/watersports/vomit

I liked Sent as a character throughout the game because I enjoyed the combination of sincerity and snarkiness he had going on, but I'm particularly interested in the endgame reveal about how his personality was constructed, and how that affected his POV. Obviously Sent had a rather different experience of the game than the other characters did -- what did he think of the whole situation and his part in it? What did his communications with the game's creators look like? How did the whole "being in love with Ink" thing work? It would also be really interesting to see how alternate paths through the game would affect Sent's personality and behavior -- if the other characters treated him differently in the beginning, what would change?

(I've used he/him pronouns here, but obviously gender is wonky when it comes to Sent, so feel free to take a different approach with that if you'd prefer.)

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou/Sotsu

Furude Rika, Houjou Satoko

DNW: noncon, permanent major character death, fusions/crossovers/different setting AUs (other When They Cry series are fine!), soulmates/soulbonds, pregnancy/kidfic, scat/watersports/vomit

I liked Rika and Satoko's relationship in the original Higurashi just fine, in an "oh yeah they're cute together" sort of way, but then Satokowashi-hen and Sotsu happened and now I am riveted. Everything got so incredibly fucked up and it's fascinating to watch, even if I did spend half the show yelling at them to use their words instead of trying to communicate their feelings solely through time loop murder. Plus all of the Significant Handholding killed me, so I would very much appreciate shipfic here, even if tragic.

I'd be interested in fic set at St. Lucia's, either looking at what with wrong their relationship there (what if they were actually dating when all that happened, oh no) or them trying to address it in a more healthy way than they did in canon. Post-canon fic looking at how they handled the separation would also be really interesting -- does both of them being in environments that actually suit them help them repair things? Does being so far apart for the first time in years still totally suck?

Or, y'know, more fucked up murder and manipulation and Satoko breaking the timeline is always fun too. Whatever works for you; I'd be pretty happy with anything that plays off their dynamic in the new series, at any point in its progression.

I am also very into Umineko and enjoy both general Umineko-typical witchiness and Bernkastel & Lambdadelta's specific flavor of witchiness, so feel free to incorporate any of those elements if you'd like.

Squid Game

Jiyeong, Kang Saebyeok

DNW: dubcon/noncon, fusions/crossovers, soulmates/soulbonds, pregnancy/kidfic, scat/watersports/vomit

Look the marble game gave me Emotions and now I really want these two to interact more doing pretty much anything else. I'm particularly interested in seeing more of them outside of the context of the game; we only get a little glimpse of what Saebyeok's life was like, and never see Jiyeong's life directly at all. Fix-it scenarios where they both make it out alive are good here -- what would they even do with themselves if that happened? It's not like either of them have much in the way of long-term life goals. AUs where they never enter the game at all would also be intriguing -- how do they meet in that case? How would they respond to each other differently given the different context?

If you're more into the game itself, I would also be totally happy with canon compliant or divergent scenarios focusing on that -- the two of them meeting earlier in the game, alternate POVs, missing scenes, different games or teams, any of that kind of thing is great. Happy endings are appreciated, but it is a death game show; if I wasn't okay with having my heart ripped out when my faves die horribly I wouldn't be here.

Also I absolutely ship them together, so do feel free to run with that if you feel the same way.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Willard H. Wright, Ushiromiya Lion

DNW: dubcon/noncon, permanent major character death, fusions/crossovers (other When They Cry series are fine!), soulmates/soulbonds, pregnancy/kidfic, scat/watersports/vomit

I really like the partnership between these two in general, so honestly anything where they hang out together and have canon-typical bantering will probably be great. I'm particularly interested in seeing them get to chill out and do "normal" stuff outside of the game board, since in canon they're so closely entwined with the plot that they don't have much opportunity for that. So post-canon fics are great -- what do they even do now? Does Will actually stay retired? Does Lion stay on Rokkenjima or go with Will? It would be very fun to see them visit other fragments and be a badass detective duo for non-Ushiromiya cases. AUs are also fun here -- I know a lot of people aren't into modern mundane AUs, but I personally love them and would happily eat up 1000 words of coffeeshop AU if you like that kind of thing.

Shipping is excellent here, as well as smut. (The bantering would extend pretty well to bedroom activities, just saying.)

Also, I am firmly of the opinion that Lion is Schrodinger's Gender and therefore anything goes for fic purposes, so feel free to do whatever you like there.