Multifandom Tropefest 2021 Letter

[elsajeni]

Thank you for stopping by! Here are my general likes/DNWs again, for the sake of having everything in one place:

General likes: bantering and bickering; moments of humor even in dark situations; pining; hurt/comfort; rescue missions; casual relationships; in wrestling fandoms, kayfabe-compliant fic

Sex likes: light bondage; lots of talking during sex, both sweet and dirty; laughing during sex; "foreplay" activities as the main event.

DNWs: rape/non-con; incest; explicit scenes with underage characters; detailed description of bodily fluids; mundane AUs (coffeeshop, high school, etc.); A/B/O; infidelity; pregnancy, miscarriage, or infertility; unrelentingly dark and grim stories (I like a glimmering of hope).

Almost all of these are Star Wars requests, so also a quick note on my Star Wars canon preferences: look, I love Legends. Even my "Original Trilogy" requests are Legends-adjacent. I also love mixing and matching timelines, and gluing the loose ends of Legends continuity into the loose ends of new-canon continuity. Some of my prompts are mix-and-matchy as a result -- of course, feel free to ignore those, but if the mix-and-match approach does appeal to you, please also feel free to mess around, write a canon pairing in a more Legends-influenced setting or bring a Legends pairing into the new-canon timeline, write a pairing in a different era than I listed them under, whatever. (The one thing I do have a strong preference about is Wedge's backstory -- I like Legends Wedge. If you're not really a Legends person, just go easy on details from his new-canon backstory and I'll be happy.)

And below the cut, some fandom-, pairing- and trope-specific prompts and details!
 

Star Wars Original Trilogy
Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Han Solo
Wedge Antilles/Leia Organa/Han Solo

• What can I say, I love a threesome. I'm grouping these together because I have pretty similar requests for both -- I like these ships best with Han and Leia as an established couple, inviting an old friend or friendly ex to join them for either a one-time fling or an ongoing, but casual, FWB thing; I'm less interested in a "committed triad" type of situation.
• I fully assume Lando is Han's ex, and I'd love to see a little tension between him and Leia as they sort out their respective claims on Han (but ultimately everything works out and everyone has a good time!)
• With Wedge, I've always liked the close friendship he seems to have with Leia in Legends; I'd love for that to be his closer tie to her and Han, or make that also a "friendly exes" situation (I do have Wedge/Leia in the requests somewhere below...)
• These are Original Trilogy requests, but if it interests you, either of these could also be interesting to bring into the sequel trilogy timeline -- I can see Wedge as the solid point that both Leia and Han end up orbiting after their relationship has sort of fallen apart, or Lando as the outside escape that both of them turn to when the whole Republic/Resistance/whatever business gets to be too much

Leia Organa/Han Solo

• Look, I just love them. Anywhere along the timeline of the relationship -- some of these tropes are great for two prickly, stubborn people who bicker all the time and are definitely not into each other how dare you even ask, some are great for established-relationship overtly-crazy-about-each-other phase -- I'm not sure I have any tropes that really work with the later-timeline phase of two people who still love each other but have kind of fallen apart, but if you think you can make it work, knock yourself out!
• Those Accidental Marriage tropes would be SUPER fun here.
• Also the Distracted Sex - Paperwork and Fail Sex - Distracted By Bickering seem like natural fits.

Wedge Antilles/Leia Organa

• I mentioned above, but this is very much a Legends-influenced pairing for me -- I've always been fond of the close relationship that Wedge and Leia seem to have in Legends. They've obviously known each other a long time, they work together well, they like each other a lot.
• This is a relationship I tend to like better as a short-term or casual thing, more like a FWB situation that grows out of that friendship or a fling that ends happily than a long-term romance -- maybe during their early days in the Rebellion, or in the immediately post-ROTJ period where Leia and Han are still sorting their shit out.
• That Arranged Marriage trope would be particularly fun here, wouldn't it?

Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker

• If I have a real OTP, this is it. This is one pairing where I do want a long-term romance -- if you go with a trope that calls for the characters not to start out as a couple (accidental marriage, etc.), I'd like that to be the catalyst that makes them realize they want to stay together long-term.
• During or after the Original Trilogy timeline, I'm interested in the pressures that their respective positions and commitments put on the relationship, and especially the difficulty of maintaining a relationship with someone who's always disappearing on incomprehensible Jedi business (Luke just up and vanishing off of Hoth is a crucial moment in my idea of this relationship!)
• Alternately, go back further in time: a little pilot training (Luke may have been a natural, but someone had to show him which button does what), for a fun light version, or two freaked-out survivors of the Death Star run finding comfort together, for a darker or more bittersweet version.

Biggs Darklighter/Luke Skywalker

• I really like this as a teen relationship that grows pretty naturally out of their friendship, is a good time while it lasts, and transitions easily back into friendship when it ends.
• That said, anything you do here is going to be a little tinged with sadness; if you like it a lot tinged with sadness, I'd also really enjoy a fic set in the brief window between when they reconnect in the Rebellion and the Death Star run.
• Alternately, and the reason they got their own request separate from the other pairings, get weird with it -- find a way for Biggs to survive, or bring him back from the dead. Write that Space Winter Soldier AU that I secretly kind of love, or Luke being haunted by the very literal ghosts of his past.

Star Wars Legends
Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker

• Yes, hello. Here we are again. The pairing so nice I requested it twice. Although this one I guess is unambiguously Legends Wedge -- my favorite!
• A pairing where I am very much looking for long-term romance! If you go with a trope that calls for the characters not to start out as a couple, I'd like that to be the catalyst that makes them realize they do want to be together long-term.
• As above, I'm interested in the pressures that their respective positions and responsibilities put on the relationship -- the difficulty of maintaining a relationship with someone who keeps disappearing on mysterious Jedi business, and the complications of long-distance romance when "long-distance" means "literal light-years, and sometimes one or both of us are under comm blackout for military security reasons."

Lando Calrissian/Mara Jade
Lando Calrissian/Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker

• Grouping these together because really it's all about Lando and Mara, with Luke as a nice bonus if you would like to toss him in.
• I liked Lando and Mara's Legends relationship, and wasn't happy with the "it was all a cover" retcon; show me the time, or times, that it wasn't just a cover. Or maybe an earlier meeting in their lives -- maybe when Mara was brand-new to Karrde's organization, and getting to know his smuggler contacts? Maybe the couple of days that they must have both been at Jabba's?
• Part of the dynamic I like here is: Lando is 100% sincere and genuine in his charm; Mara is losing her goddamn mind trying to figure out what his ulterior motive or angle is. Lando is going to show you a nice time if it kills him; Mara is actually... to her surprise, and sort of against her will... having a nice time?
• Bringing Luke into it: I like Luke and Lando as a sort of casual-relationship pairing, too, so why not bring it all together? Three busy people who all care deeply for each other, but aren't often in the same place at the same time -- so when they are, well, let's meet over a mug of hot chocolate and see where the evening takes us, shall we? (I'd prefer this with everyone on a more-or-less equal footing, rather than one established couple and an outside third party.)
• That Character A Picks Clothes Out For B trope would be fun here. Sometimes it's nice to spoil your partner(s). Or make sure they're dressed nice enough for the place you have in mind for dinner. Fancy capes all around!

Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker

• Okay, maybe this is my actual OTP. A longtime favorite and a pairing where I would enjoy pretty much anything you give me!
• I'm especially interested in the innate connection between them that exists before they even meet, and how that shapes their relationship. (Related to that, I don't know if it could be made to work with the tropes I've requested, but this is one of the rare pairings where I really enjoy a soulmate AU -- not least because of how completely furious Mara would be about it.)
• I am, of course, very into their eventual true love and the canonical slow build into it; I'm also super into the idea that they had the occasional purely-chemistry-driven goddammit-I-don't-even-like-you hookup long before that.
• If bringing Legends into the sequel timeline appeals to you, this is one pairing where I'm very interested in that -- see Wedge/Mara/Luke below for some more thoughts on that.
• Rescue Missions! Sudden Realization - sees loved one in peril! Undercover - breaking cover to protect partner! DRAMA.

Wedge Antilles/Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker

• I'd love to see this as a V with Luke at the point that eventually becomes a more even triad, as Wedge and Mara come to see more in each other than Commander Square Corners and a barely-trustworthy semi-reformed Imperial assassin. Some of these tropes (Rescue Missions? Undercover?) would work great to set up an outside crisis that forces them to rely on each other and build up that base of trust -- I'd really enjoy something like that.
• I'm most interested in this as a getting-together or early-relationship fic, with everyone still sorting out their respective claims on each other.
• Alternately, if bringing Legends into the sequel timeline appeals to you, I'm interested in what Luke's choice to isolate himself would have meant for this relationship -- were either or both of them ever on Ahch-To with him? Have they been in contact at all since he disappeared? (Do Wedge and Mara stay together without him, or drift apart?) When he resurfaces, are they in a rush to see him again, or are one or both of their feelings more complicated? (If you do go this route, I am very happy to see an AU where Luke doesn't die! But I can also get along with a tragic ending, or with some Force-ghost contact after death.)

Wedge Antilles/Wes Janson

• The perfect pairing for some rescue missions or hurt/comfort, imo! These guys are always in situations going from bad to worse; let's see how they get out of one, or the aftermath of it.
• If you're feeling ambitious, you could fix Isard's Revenge for me and give them a better reunion after they've both believed each other to be dead for weeks.
• And of course, I'll never turn down more Wraith Squadron/Starfighters of Adumar-type shenanigans. Silly Undercover As A Couple stuff, stress-relief casual fun, whatever floats your boat.

Garik "Face" Loran/Ton Phanan

• Hear me out: GHOSTS
• Ton hangs around after death -- where else does he have to go? Haunting all of the Wraiths, or just Face, or trying to figure out how he can weaponize haunting and go ruin some Imperial officer's day; making Face miserable, or still making him laugh (and is he real, or is this some kind of coping mechanism, and does Face really want to know which?), or not seeming to know that he's dead.
• If ghosts aren't for you, maybe a rescue from the underworld is? Or a fix-it to let him survive somehow?
• Or, just two best friends and wingmates in happier days, getting into trouble and having very snarky sex. I won't turn it down!
• Soulmarks -- look, I am generally kind of a mean, cynical person about soulmate stuff. But it works for me here, because I think Ton would be also! Knowing he has a soulmate definitely complicates his "no future worth living for" thing -- but what good is a soulmark if it was on the hand you lost over Endor and no one but you can ever know what it said?

Myn Donos/Gara Petothel | Lara Notsil

• Just hurt my feelings
• What really works for me is those agonizing bits of Solo Command where Lara is trying to convince Myn to stay away from her, and clearly trying to convince herself as well -- I'd love a fic that puts them in a situation where it would be so easy to give in, or a situation where she does give in and then has to try and figure out how to take it back.
• For a happier take, how about the story of how they made their way back together? In canon, we have the message Myn gets from "Kirney," and then we have a glimpse at Donoslane Excursions something like 30 years later -- what bridges that gap? How did Myn answer that message?

Star Wars Crossover Fandom
Mara Jade & Darth Vader

• I'm interested in Mara's childhood and youth, and the sort of... just-under-the-surface yawning horror that we know is there, but that doesn't get dug into much in Legends canon.
• I think it is, technically, Legends canon that Palpatine kept his two attack dogs pretty separate. But that's no fun. Let me see the time they encountered each other -- as rivals for Palpatine's attention, as tentative allies in the intrigues of the Imperial court, as student and tutor?
• Mara's youth in the Imperial court is a grim situation and I like it that way, but some of these are sort of sweet or happy tropes -- in those cases, I'm looking for the glimmer of light in a dark room, or the surprising happy memories that stand out against the background of a bad time in your life.
• Some of these -- Hair Brushing/Braiding, Touch-Starved -- are also pretty intimate or touchy-feely tropes; in those cases, I'm mostly looking for sort of a fucked-up parental relationship.

Lucha Underground
I know, you didn't offer this. (Maybe you did? I actually haven't checked the Signup Summary in a couple days. But the odds seem astronomical.) But just in case!

General trope notes:

• A lot of these are just great, very physical tropes that seem like natural fits for wrestling fic -- Adrenaline-Fueled Makeout, One character gets off on watching the other(s) fight, Sparring Leading to Sex, Sudden Realization - Sees Loved One In Peril. Same goes for all the Hurt/Comfort tropes -- an in-ring or training injury, a rough match, a beatdown by a rival, whatever.
• For Hurt/Comfort - Comforter is the One Who Hurt Them in particular, I'm picturing this as an in-ring injury -- either accidental (freak accident or "whoops that landed a little stiffer than I meant it") or regrettable but deliberate ("look, I like you very much and I'm sorry about your face, but I'm not gonna lose this match by going easy on you").
• Marriage by Winning Ritual Combat, Accidental Marriage - Misunderstanding Ritual Combat -- listen these are just. so funny. And matches in LU do have ritual magical weight! The accidental one especially -- someone sorta tuned out whatever long boring speech the boss was making before the match, yeah yeah "I love violence" yadda yadda, and now HEY WAIT A MINUTE--
• I understand some people didn’t like this show because it had “too much supernatural bullshit.” Those people are wrong. Lean in. Dial that shit up to 11. Supernatural - Character is secretly a supernatural creature. Werecats (see below for more thoughts on that). Wingfic -- make a high flyer a literal high flyer. Go nuts.

Johnny Mundo/Prince Puma

• I loved the arc of their friendship in the first season -- friends, then friendly rivals, then suddenly the rivalry gets real and things go sour and everything is ruined. "Former best friends" is the best possible subtype of wrestling rivalry. I'm into a fic that takes place anytime along that arc, and (maybe especially) a fic that brings them back together and makes it pay off in a way it never really did on the show. That Friends to Enemies to Lovers - Pining the Whole Time trope is made for this.
• And then there's... you know... the cat thing. The dubbed-over cat snarling noises. Werecats, is what I'm saying. There are a lot of ways you could go with this and all of them are very silly -- I'm partial to "hot idiot Johnny Mundo can't figure out how this big weird cat keeps getting into his apartment, why his boyfriend never answers his 'help that big weird cat is here again' texts." Alternately, take it in a sadder direction: Puma, post-friend-breakup, sneaking around in cat form where he knows he isn't welcome anymore in human form?

Angelico/Son of Havoc/Ivelisse

• I love my three idiot children and I want them to love each other.
• They're dysfunctional! They're chaotic! They fight like rats in a sack! Until someone else fucks with any one of them, and then they will close ranks and back each other to the death.
• All of my tropes that really require a villain -- Captivity, Mind Control, Rescue Missions and the like -- I am picturing as Catrina fucking with these three.
• Supernatural Creatures, Wingfic -- I have a special place in my heart for Actual Literal (Fallen?) Angel Angelico, and also for regular mortal Havoc and Ivelisse getting dragged into dangerous supernatural bullshit because their boyfriend is a supernatural creature with no sense of self-preservation.