Darkest Night 2018 Letter

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Hi there, and thank you for checking out my letter! I'm riiiied on AO3, and if you're here I assume you're interested in offering for some of these fandoms/pairings/characters, which is awesome already! This letter has notes on some things I might like to see for my requests, but if you have any other ideas that don't hit any stated DNWs, feel free to use that too!

General likes: character studies, missing scenes, characters getting to know each other, rivalry, relationships with mixed/fraught feelings, banter, post-canon, canon divergence, smut

General DNWs: genderswap-to-het for M/M & F/F ships, A/B/O dynamics, de-aging, unrequested crossovers/AUs, unrequested background non-canon pairings

Gakkou Gurashi!

(I'm familiar with both the anime & manga)

Characters/Pairings: Naoki Miki, Shidou Kei
Freeforms: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, Survivor Guilt, came back wrong, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Forced Isolation

- In contrast to the School Living club, the mall where Miki & Kei hid didn't seem as well-equipped, and I'd be interested in more on how they tried to survive there, e.g. how did they gather their supplies, or if they ever had to fight the zombies head-on while doing so. Or the ways they try to cope with their situation less-than-perfectly - maybe with ill-advised sexual advances?

- What really happened to Kei when she ran away on her own? Did she get turned immediately? Did she manage to survive for a while? While Miki survived, Kei might not know that - did she feel some guilt about leaving her friend alone? It's shown in canon that the zombies maintain some semblance of thought & routine from their previous lives, like Megu-nee in the manga - what's left in her mind after she turned?

- I'd also love something that explores how Miki deals with her memories of Kei, and perhaps some guilt for not being able to help her more/stop her from running away. And what would happen if zombie!Kei somehow crosses Miki's path again?

A Place Further Than the Universe
Characters/Pairings: Any
Freeforms: Wilderness Survival, Survivor Guilt, Hypothermia, Starvation, Grief/Mourning, Mission Failure, Pyrrhic Victory, Nature Which Tries To Eat You

- Antarctica can be a treacherous place, which means a high chance of things going wrong. I'd be interested in cases of expeditions gone wrong, in which the characters has to survive in the extreme cold waiting for help that may or may not come. In the end, the expedition might be considered a failure, or a technical success that came with a heavy cost - how do those that manage to go home deal with the results?

- I'd also be interested in the above points being applied to the mission where Takako was lost. What exactly has been going inside the head of those who survived that mission throughout the years? More on how Shirase coped with the loss of her mother could be interesting too.

- Although the show focuses on Antarctica, I'd be interested in other kinds of wilderness survival scenarios as well - the Arctic? A desert? Sprawling rainforests? Something more fantastic/AU-ish where everything really is trying to eat you?

Girls' Last Tour

(I'm familiar with both the anime & manga)

Characters/Pairings: Chito/Yuuri
Freeforms: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, Hypothermia, Dying planet, Living in Ruins, Architectural Horror, Starvation

- While I like the more-melancholic-than-grimdark tone of the canon, I'm definitely interested in seeing a darker take as well. I'm especially interested in a post-series look at where Chito & Yuuri goes after reaching the top level - they no longer have a vehicle and they've exhausted so much of their supplies going up there, how would they gather more of what they need? Where would they seek shelter?

- If you're fine with going super bleak, feel free to write a dying together scenario, or even one of them dying first and the other trying to cope with it (or failing at it).

- With so many abandoned buildings in disrepair, there has got to be some which comes across as rather creepy - has the two ever needed to explore such a building? Does anything bad actually happen, e.g. part of the building collapsing while they're inside?

March Comes in Like A Lion

(I'm only familiar with the anime, but wouldn't mind manga spoilers)

Characters/Pairings: Kiriyama Rei/Kouda Kyouko
Freeforms: condescending praise, Daddy Issues, Dubious Consent, Sex as Self-Punishment, Shame in Sexual Desires, Sibling Incest

- What a messy, messy relationship. In general, I'd like there to be an undercurrent of tension regarding their "family but not quite" relationship. Would love to see Kyouko mess with Rei by pointing out that they're not blood-related and that he's "not really family anyway" if he refuses on the basis of their relationship, and sneering about him doing his own sister when he relents to her advances.

- I feel like some of their interactions in canon already can be read as somewhat sexually-charged, and I'd love to see some ill-advised sex, not necessarily consensual (though I prefer Kyouko as the perpetrator in case of non/dub-con) - maybe Kyouko forcing herself on Rei & lobbing roundabout put-downs at him all the while as a way of trying to regain control of her life (except all it does is mess the both of them even further).

- In general, Rei reluctantly accepting whatever Kyouko throws at/does to him because he feels like he deserves it for "breaking the family" or such, and what Kyouko thinks about him for it.

The House in Fata Morgana

(I've finished the main VN, Requiem, and everything in Collected Edition. For both requests, I'm fine with things set in any canonical timeline or modern reincarnation stuff, Reincarnation chapter-compliant or otherwise)

Request 1
Characters/Pairings: Ceren
Freeforms: almost died, Character Has No Concept of Consent, Creepy Fluff, Hurt No Comfort, Loneliness

-Ceren's sadness malfunction is endlessly fascinating to me, and I'd love to see more of the creepiness that comes from that. Were there other cases of her being hurt to the point of near-death, only for her smile to reappear quickly after? Pile on all of the "hurt" bit of "hurt/comfort" with limited/no "comfort" on her, yet she seems unaffected? With art, I'd be interested in seeing her all battered up yet still smiling.

-I'd also be interested in her lack of empathy being explored. Maybe she does a gesture that in her mind is cute, but creeps out the other person? Does her not understanding empathy affect how she understands consent?

-While she doesn't understand sadness, she seems to understand loneliness and missing things/people. How exactly does what she feels/perceives as "loneliness" differ from "sadness"? What are all the things that makes her feel lonely - are they any different compared to other people who know what sadness is?

Request 2
Characters/Pairings: Yukimasa Aida/Pauline Asama
Freeforms: Arousal From Killing, Blood Kink, Bloodplay, Dark Hanahaki Disease, Knifeplay, Rough Sex to Stave Off Other Violent Urges, Snuff, Necrophilia, Kill You to Love You

-tl;dr give me all the kinky stuff (explicitly smutty or otherwise) as a less outright murderous outlet for Yukimasa's bloodlust. Bloodplay? Knifeplay? Just rough sex in general? Does Pauline get weirded out by it, or goes along with it surprisingly well? Heck, make it outright murderous with snuff, especially if it's a twistedly sort-of-romantic "it's okay if it's you killing me" sort.

-In one minigame, Yukimasa jokes(?) that he'd be able to love Pauline straightforwardly if she were a zombie. While I'm not requesting zombies here, what if he really is only able to love Pauline once she's dead?

-Pauline's feelings being secretly one-sided could open up possibilities for a messier twist on hanahaki disease - imagine her surprise considering as far as she knows, Yukimasa loves her back. If it were the first lifetime, maybe she considers it a punishment for breaking her vows, or in the second lifetime, she might put it to their distance and/or him being lost? And what would she (and/or Yukimasa) try to do to alleviate it?