#i love saying 'in my mind palace' about fairly mundane headcanons

[monstrsball]

in my beautiful mind place iwaizumi's favorite pokemon is heracross. btw. tyranitar is a very close second. i think he would really like a tyranitar poster inspired by a classic godzilla poster.

[argylemnwrites]

OTP Questions

Thanks for the tag, @addictedtodrakefanfic!

1.Who is the most affectionate?

Riley is probably more physically affectionate than Drake, particularly in public.

2. Big spoon/Little spoon?

To be honest, Riley’s a stomach sleeper most nights. They sometimes will start with Drake as the big spoon, but Riley has usually rolled onto her stomach by the time they wake up.

3.Most common argument?

In canon, they often are at odds with how to raise Bridget. Riley is pretty defensive and protective, particularly when it comes to royal duties/obligations and pushes back on a lot of things. Drake remembers a lot of the good times he and Liam had together at the palace and has a harder time saying no to Liam’s requests, so while he grumbles about some of the time his family spends in the spotlight, he’s more likely to go along with whatever Liam recommends for raising an heir. It’s a frequent point of contention between the two of them.

In the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe, Riley will agree to plans for the two of them without running it by Drake first if she knows he has nothing going on. Drake has told her repeatedly that she shouldn’t just assume he’s free.

4. Favorite non-sexual activity?

They like playing card games together, or rather against each other. They both are very competitive, and will often make bets ranging from the mundane to the ridiculous. They also enjoy drinking together while they play

5. Who is most likely to carry the other?

Riley is fairly strong for her size, but she is not deluded enough to think she could carry Drake. Drake doesn’t really carry her often either. The most he’ll typically do is a couple of steps to bed in the heat of the moment. Sheer physical strength is the one area where Drake can one up her 100% of the time, and it feels strange to both of them when they aren’t on an even playing field. They both like keeping things competitive.

6. What is their favorite feature of their partner’s?

Riley really loves Drake’s shoulders. Not only are they strong and broad, but she can really easily read his mood based on changes in his posture. She’s also a big fan of his hands. Drake is fascinated by her hair and loves running his hands through it. Her laugh gets him as well.

7. What’s the first thing that changes when they realize they have feelings for the other?

Drake starts calling her Liu to create some distance, but at the same time he finds it harder and harder to say no when she invites him to do something together, or even with Maxwell and Hana. Riley knows it’s not great that she’s developed feelings for the best friend of the guy shes been flirting with and making out with, so she decides she needs to spend more time with Drake so she can either get some clarity or get him out of her system. The end result is they start spending a ton of time together and the feelings keep growing and growing.

8. Nicknames? & if so, how did they originate?

In canon, Drake calls her Liu until they’re married, at which point he switches to Walker (except during sex, because that’s sort of creepy). Riley knows that the reminder that they share a last name, that she chose him, helps him when he feels out of his depth at court, so she suggested the change.

In the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe, since they don’t rush to get married, she’s Liu to him for much longer and it would just feel weird to Drake to call her anything else.

Riley doesn’t have a nickname for Drake. She tries a few on, but she hates all of them for him, so she just calls him Drake.

9. Who worries the most?

Drake definitely worries more often, but it’s a low level concern typically. Given how much Riley endured during her childhood, she’s usually of the opinion that things will have a way of working out. However, when she does worry about something, she tumbles into a massive spiral of panic and fear and it can be hard for her to rein herself back in or for Drake to reassure her. Luckily, that doesn’t happen often.

10. Who remembers what the other one always orders at a restaurant?

They both are pretty observant of the other’s likes and dislikes when it comes to food. Drake tends to like the same staples over and over, so Riley will often push him to at least try something new. Riley will get so caught up in what pictures look good, that she won’t check the actual written description, so Drake will often stop her from ordering something he knows she’s gonna hate.

11. Who tops?

Their competitive nature definitely comes out in the bedroom as well, so this ends up being about 50/50.

12. Who initiates kisses?

Riley probably initiates kissing slightly more often, but it’s fairly even.

13. Who reaches for the other’s hand first?

Riley’s a big hand holder, so she’ll reach for his hand before he often even has the chance to think of taking hers.

14. Who kisses the hardest?

Again, they’re competitive. They both tend to be aggressive, possessive kissers, but never in public. Any kisses there are kept light because they both feel weird with excessive PDA.

15. Who wakes up first?

Drake. He’s a morning person and a light sleeper. Riley is neither of those things.

16. Who wants to stay in bed just a little longer?

Riley.

17. Who says I love you first?

In canon, Riley beats him to it after the shooting. In the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe, Drake says it first.

After their first time of saying it, it’s pretty even who says it first, but to be fair, they aren’t a big “I love you,” couple. Neither one would score very high for words of affirmation as a love language, so they usually find ways to show each other as opposed to saying it all the time.

18. Who leaves little notes in the other’s one lunch? (Bonus: what does it usually say?)

No. That is way too cutesy for them. The only time they came close to doing this was in the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe. Drake will sometimes set aside some leftovers in a bag for Riley to take to work, and one time she opened the bag and saw a folded sheet of paper in there. It turns out, Drake had printed out the wikipedia page about cheesecake because they’d been bickering over where cheesecake was first created the night before, and he couldn’t let her have the last word.

19. Who tells their family/friends about their relationship first?

Riley tells Maxwell she’s developing feelings for someone besides Liam during the social season and he has a pretty good idea who she means, but then she doesn’t bring it up again, so he assumes that fizzled out until he sees them making out in NYC (It’s why he tells her not to worry about House Beaumont at the UN party later that night). Drake doesn’t tell anyone (friends or family) until they are openly and officially together.

20. What do their family/friends think of their relationship?

Riley has no family left living where she has any sort of relationship. Savannah and Bianca like Riley a lot (certainly more than she likes either of them, though she tries not to show it) and they think she and Drake are good for each other. Leona doesn’t really warm to Riley ever. No love lost there as the feeling is mutual. Their friends all think they are insanely well suited for each other.

21. Who is more likely to start dancing with the other?

Riley

22. Who cooks more/who is better at cooking?

Drake is the better cook and does basically all the cooking in the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe and some cooking to try and keep the staff presence at Valtoria low in canon.

23. Who comes up with cheesy pick up lines?

Riley sometimes will do this to annoy the shit out of Drake.

24. Who whispers inappropriate things in the other’s ear during inappropriate times?

Both of them. So much. It’s just another thing for them to compete over, seeing who can crack the other one first.

25. Who needs more assurance?

They both have pretty deep seated insecurities and abandonment issues, so they both need reassurance somewhat often. However, they never really mind, because they both understand exactly where the other one is coming from.

26. What would be their theme song?

They don’t have a song that’s “their song,” but I feel like “Best Part of Me” by Ed Sheeran and YEBBA represents them well.

27. Who would sing to their child back to sleep?

Riley. Drake is more of a ramble about anything and everything to lull them back to sleep type of parent.

28. What do they do when they’re away from each other?

Inside jokes or snarky texts, Facetime or Skype sex. If they’re apart for a longer stretch of time, Drake gets a little more sentimental and sends her more genuine, heartfelt messages.

29. one headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart

My canon one is too bleak for this (seriously, there is no headcanon to mend it), so I’ll just say there is at least one serious medical condition ahead for each of them in the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe.

30. one headcanon about this OTP that mends it

They always go to the scary doctor’s appointments together, though and they support each other through the medical struggles.

This was so much fun! Tagging @thequeenofcronuts @ravenpuff02 @burnsoslow @fromthedeskofpaisleybleakmore​ if you all haven’t been tagged yet. Would love to hear about your couples!

[lostinthewinterwood]

AU Exchange 2020

Hey friend!

Looks like this letter’ll be going out on time, for once in my life.  This one’s very long; there’ll be a list of fandoms after the general info so you can hop around and not get bogged down in the details that don’t matter for what you’re going to be writing.

Treats in any medium are welcome, my other exchange letters are here, and at the bottom there’ll be tags for each fandom I’ve requested, if you want to see whether I’ve requested them before and what I’ve said about them.  Good luck, have fun, and thanks for writing for me!

 General DNW non/dub-con; non-canonical major character death; heavy angst; hurt no comfort; graphic depictions of deliberate and methodical self-harm*; graphic depictions of suicide; smut; gore; grimdark; complete downer endings; character bashing; incest; cringe comedy; a/b/o; mpreg; graphic eye trauma; graphic and/or permanent hand trauma; issuefic; unrequested identity headcanons; a focus on unrequested romantic relationships**. *I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. however, something like cutting would not be appreciated. **canonical levels of canonical ships are perfectly fine; background non-canon ships that I haven’t dnw’d are okay too (unless otherwise specified—see below for fandom-specific notes).

  General Likes

– I really like plotty fics

– Secret identity and disguise shenanigans, the more layers to them and more absurdity the better.

– Crossdressing for whatever reason and gender disguises, also for whatever reason.

– A focus on family and/or friendship, especially characters realizing they’re not nearly as alone as they think they are, and just generally characters who like each other and enjoy spending time together

– Found family; families of choice

– Character studies

– Worldbuilding

- explorations of how whatever AU you pick to write affects the characters and/or plot, and the ways in which it doesn’t

  Other General Notes:

If there’s an AU I’d especially like to see on its own, without any other AU in combination with it, I’ll mention it—outside of that, feel free to combine the AUs as you see fit.

All the times that the Dragon Rider au is one I asked for, I’ve framed it in my prompts as a sports story thing—while that would definitely be great, don’t feel pressured to make it be like that; it’s just where my prompting muse is at right now, so if you want to take it in another direction go right ahead.

  Fandoms in Order of Appearance:

Hanging Out with a Gamer Girl

Harry Potter

Mother of Learning (x2)

Day Break Illusion (x2)

  Hanging Out with a Gamer Girl (Manga)  

·        Fanfiction (Medium)

·        Terazaki Kaoru (HOwaGG)

·        Ousaka Nanami (HOwaGG)

·        Group: Terazaki Kaoru & Ousaka Shouko (HOwaGG)

·        Group: Terazaki Kaoru & Ousaka Nanami (HOwaGG)

 Fandom-specific dnw: sexualization of Kaoru’s crossdressing, romance between Kaoru and Nanami beyond light shiptease à la canon (unless the AU chosen is a romantic fairytale, in which case go right ahead), full justification of Kaoru’s fears re: Nanami’s dad, heavy gender dysphoria.

 Overall I love these kids and their friendship, and I also love how much Shouko feels like a mom to Kaoru even though he isn’t hers, even though he’s keeping secrets from her—he doesn’t seem to have that much parental support overall.

Whatever AU you pick, I’d appreciate that being preserved.

  ·        ALL: Character was Stolen by Fairies as a Baby

·        All: East of the Sun and West of the Moon Fusion

·        All: Fairytale Fusion

·        ALL: Fantasy/Magic Royalty and Palace Intrigue AU

·        ALL: Magic is a part of everyday life

·        ALL: Magical Girl Fusion

·        ALL: Magical Realism

·        ALL: Regency-Inspired Fantasy AU

 For this set of tags, I’d love to see something that fuses the AU elements to canon, or replaces canon elements with them—maybe instead of gamers, the kids are magical girls!  Or maybe there’s just magical elements wound seamlessly into their lives, or they instead live in a fairytale world, or…

Basically, this is my more generic magic!au set.

  ·        ALL: Characters met as children

·        ALL: Deaf Canon Characters

·        ALL: Disabled Canon Characters

·        ALL: Mute Canon Characters

·        HOwaGG: trans girl Terazaki Kaoru

 These are the generally mundane AUs—if one or both of the kids is disabled in some way, how does that affect them?  If they’ve known each other longer than they have in canon, or used to know each other—how does that affect them?  If Kaoru is a trans girl, is that something that she knows before their canon meeting, and maybe that’s a point at which she’s already begun transitioning?  Or does the crossdressing give her a revelation?

  ·        ALL: Daemon AU

·        ALL: Daemons in Canon Divergent AU

 I like daemon!aus a lot, though I’m not very good at writing them myself—if this world has daemons, what are the kids’?  Are they fully settled yet, or not quite?  Most people have daemons opposite to their sex—is it obvious that Kaoru’s daemon is female, and if so, does that pique Shouko’s interest?  Does his daemon get him recognized by people who know Kaoru-the-boy even when he’s out looking like a girl?

  ·        ALL: Dragon Rider AU

·        All: Figure skating AU

 Sports aus!  One mundane, one distinctly less so… what’s it like, if they’re dragon riders? Is it a whole other world, or just our world +dragons?  If it’s figure skating, what kind of skating do they do?  Singles?  Pairs? Ice dance?  Are they just casual about it or competitive?

  ·        ALL: Platonic Soulmate AU

·        ALL: Soulmates - Soulmate Mark Appears At First Touch

·        ALL: Soulmates Share Scars

 These are probably my three favorite kinds of soulmate AUs—run with them!  Tell me about the kids and their dynamic and the world they inhabit, with soulmates thrown into the mix!

     Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling   

·        Fanfiction (Medium)

·        Percy Weasley (HP - JKR)

 Fandom-specific dnw: non-canon ships.

 I’ve phrased this so broadly because it’s generally better safe than sorry on these things—essentially what I especially don’t want is non-canon ships between people on opposite sides of the war, e.g. drarry, harry/Voldemort, etc. If you want to toss in background, idk, Pansy/Daphne or something, or relationships between various Ministry people, that I don’t mind.

 ·        ALL: Underground Resistance

·        HP: Percy Weasley is a spy for the Order of the Phoenix during the war

·        ALL: Character Is a Secretly a Spy for the Other Side

 There’s really one thing I want here—spy!Percy!  He spends so much of the war in the Ministry, surrounded by Death Eaters and their accomplices and enablers, to all appearances the black sheep of the Weasley family and not much of a threat.  Now, this could be genuine… but it could also be him playing them; I want to see a world where he, at some point—maybe after he chooses to stay with the ministry instead of his family, maybe before—decides to be a spy for the Order et al.

What are the risks?  What can he accomplish?  Can he help people beyond simply passing out information, perhaps with seemingly-inconsequential little acts?

     Mother of Learning - nobody103   

·        Fanfiction (Medium)

·        Kirielle Kazinski (Mother of Learning)

 request-specific dnw: physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family, significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction, romantic and/or sexual Zach/Zorian.

 ·        All: Character has a secret identity

·        All: Identity Porn

·        ALL: Possessed by time travelling future self

·        MoL: Kirielle as a Branded One

 I’m fascinated by the idea of Kirielle somehow getting wrapped up in the time loop—what’s it like to live years and years of your life while your body stays nine?  What does she do, what does she learn?  Are Zach and Zorian still Branded Ones, or is she taking one or both of their places?

If you go with this, I’d rather not have her gate!soul erased—either let her escape, or don’t go far enough to need to address it, please.

The identity bits here are mostly leaning on the idea that, with her only being nine, Kiri would need some kind of identity obfuscation to do half of what Zach and Zorian do in canon, so…

  ·        ALL: Daemon AU

·        ALL: Daemons in Canon Divergent AU

 Nothing particularly profound here—but! Daemons! How does this affect things? Is Kiri happier with someone to talk to who isn’t her siblings or parents or village children that her parents mightn’t approve of?  I’d imagine her daemon hasn’t settled yet—what forms does it like?

  ·        All: Changeling AU

·        ALL: Fairy Tale AU

·        All: Fairytale Fusion

·        All: Historical Fantasy AU

·        ALL: Magical Realism

·        ALL: Nature Magic

 The setting and/or mood change AUs—give me Kirielle-the-faerie child, or Kiri in a fairytale, or shift the setting more historical and into our world, or change the nature of the magic—the canonical magic system is fairly hard as magic systems go, which works well for the story as it is, but I also really like softer magics.  What about a world where there’s simply small everyday magics present, or where Kiri has an affinity for green growing things quite beyond the natural?

  ·        ALL: Deaf Canon Characters

 How does Kiri’s life change, if she’s born deaf or becomes deaf?  How does her role as Cikan Kazinski’s only daughter change?  Does Eldemar have a Deaf community?

This could play into her desire to go to Cyoria, too—I wouldn’t expect Cirin to have much in the way of resources or community, but maybe Cyoria does; maybe that’s why she wants so badly to go.

  ·        ALL: Finding Peace/An End to the War

·        ALL: Legal Drama

·        ALL: Magical environment/species conservation scientist au

·        ALL: Magical horticulturists

 This set is more likely future!fic than anything else—Kirielle’s growing up into a country on the brink of war; what’s she going to do when she gets older?  Maybe she’ll be involved in that, or with the law—or maybe she goes to school and learns to be a mage, and then goes on to a career as a conservationist or horticulturist.

    Mother of Learning - nobody103   

·        Fanfiction (Medium)

·        Zorian Kazinski (Mother of Learning)

·        Zach Noveda (Mother of Learning)

 request-specific dnw: physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family, significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction, romantic and/or sexual Zach/Zorian (unless in a romantic fairytale au).

 ·        All: Changeling AU

·        All: Fairytale Fusion

·        ALL: Fantasy/Magic Royalty and Palace Intrigue AU

·        ALL: High Fantasy AU

·        All: Historical Fantasy AU

·        ALL: Magical Realism

·        ALL: Nature Magic

 Again, setting and/or mood changes—turn one or both of these two into a changeling child, or push them into a different setting, or change their world to feel a little more magical than it does in canon.

  ·        All: Character has a secret identity

·        ALL: Deaf Canon Characters

·        ALL: Legal Drama

·        ALL: Magical environment/species conservation scientist au

·        ALL: Magical horticulturists

·        ALL: Role Swap AU

 This set is a combination of probably-post-canon things and things that could slide into the canon timeline—what if one or both of them went to more effort to construct a second identity, either in the loop or out of it, for anyone’s benefit?  What if one or both of them was deaf—if you go here, it’d be interesting if you combined it with deaf!Kirielle too.  A role swap—what if Zorian got there earlier and the angels didn’t think him unworthy, and Zach wound up his tagalong instead?

And the other three are basically what-ifs for the post-canon world—there’s Zach’s court case to be dealt with, and these two are both skilled enough to do basically whatever they want to, if it’s to do with magic.  Why not become a conservationist or horticulturist?

  ·        ALL: Daemons in Canon Divergent AU

·        All: Figure skating AU

·        ALL: Regency AU

·        All: Robin Hood Fusion

·        ALL: Spies & Secret Agents

·        ALL: University AU

 This is a whole grab bag of different AUs—they’re all fairly self-explanatory I think, though I will say that you shouldn’t feel pressured to keep the overtly mundane-seeming AUs mundane, if you don’t want too—I’d like the mundane versions of course!  But there’s plenty of interesting things you could explore with, e.g., magic!figure skating, so.  Go wild.

  ·        All: Tam Lin Fusion

 In a weird way, MoL already has its characters in the roles they need to be in for a Tam Lin fusion, though the structure is of course very different–what is Zach if not a sacrifice against Panaxeth’s release? What is Zorian if not the one who fights nigh-impossible odds to save him from that fate?  I’d love to see a fic that goes into this.

    幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽 il sole penetra le illusioni | Day Break Illusion   

·        Fanfiction (Medium)

·        Tsukuyomi Luna (Day Break Illusion)

·        Taiyou Akari (Day Break Illusion)

·        Shirokane Ginka (Day Break Illusion)

·        Hoshikawa Seira (Day Break Illusion)

·        Group: Tsukuyomi Luna & Tsukuyomi Serena (Day Break Illusion)

·        Group: Hoshikawa Seira & Shirokane Ginka & Taiyou Akari & Tsukuyomi Luna

 fandom-specific dnw: heavy gender dysphoria.

 ·        All: a character is transgender (binary)

·        ALL: Alternate First Meetings

·        All: Character has a secret identity

·        ALL: Deaf Canon Characters

·        ALL: Disabled Canon Characters

·        ALL: Street Rats

 This is basically the AUs of mundane level things; the broad strokes of canon are perfectly compliant with any of these, or at least they could be. What changes, if you go for any of the AUs listed above? What stays the same?

  ·        All: Changeling AU

·        ALL: Character was Stolen by Fairies as a Baby

·        ALL: Daemon AU

·        All: Fairytale Fusion

·        ALL: Fantasy/Magic Royalty and Palace Intrigue AU

·        ALL: Magical Realism

·        ALL: Regency-Inspired Fantasy AU

·        All: with the right postage you can send letters anywhere anywhen

 Different flavors of fantasy—for the changelings, is the character we know from canon the stolen child, or their faerie replacement?  Are their daemons affected by them fighting the daemonia; what happens to a daemon when the human is consumed by a daemonia?  How do their powers and battles work in a world that’s more overtly magical? For the last—who/where/when would they send letters to?  Would Akari send one back in time to Fuyuna, Luna to her sister, Seira to her friend? Forward to their future selves? How does this affect the timeline; do you have to be careful, lest you irrevocably change things, or are future-letters already set and immutable?  Is this common or rare—what’s the price to send a letter through time?

  ·        ALL: Character Journeys To The Underworld to Rescue Their Dead Friend

·        All: Journey to the Underworld to Resurrect Loved One

 Who are they rescuing?  How are they going about the rescue?  Are they bringing back Fuyuna?  Seira’s friend?  Luna’s sister, if it turns out she’s dead not just vanished some other way?  Ginka herself, if we suppose that she died in the annihilation rather than going to battle elsewhere?

If a Daemonia’s victim is resurrected, does everyone remember them again? Either way, what are the consequences of bringing back a person who’d been erased?

  ·        ALL: Dragon Rider AU

·        ALL: Fencing AU

·        All: Figure skating AU

 Sports aus!  Two mundane, one not.  I’d love to see the kids in some kind of competitive something—are they teammates? Competitors? Is Sefiro Fiore a sports organization in this world, or are they both athletes and tarot users?

  ·        DBI: Daemonia hosts aren't erased from the timeline when killed

 So, one of the generally convenient things in this world—even if it’s not a particularly nice thing—is that none of the characters ever have to deal with the fallout of the deaths they cause; the daemonia’s victims are erased.  Ret-gone, if you will.  But what if they weren’t?  What would the effect of that be; how would that change things?

    幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽 il sole penetra le illusioni | Day Break Illusion   

·        Fanfiction (Medium)

·        Group: Hanayume & Lymro & Mama Nagataki & Taiyou Akari (Day Break Illusion)

·        Group: Hanayume & Lymro & Mama Nagataki (Day Break Illusion)

 fandom-specific dnw: heavy gender dysphoria.

 ·        All: a character is transgender (binary)

·        ALL: Deaf Canon Characters

·        ALL: Disabled Canon Characters

·        ALL: Found Family

 So, again, this is the more mundane aus—add these in!! tell me how they affect things, or how they don’t affect them!

Found family is… kinda canon? But there isn’t really much focus on that aspect in canon so I’d love some more here.

  ·        All: Changeling AU

·        ALL: Character was Stolen by Fairies as a Baby

·        All: Fairytale Fusion

·        ALL: Fantasy/Magic Royalty and Palace Intrigue AU

·        All: Historical Fantasy AU

·        ALL: Magic is a part of everyday life

·        ALL: Magical Realism

·        ALL: Regency AU (no homophobia)

·        ALL: Regency-Inspired Fantasy AU

·        All: with the right postage you can send letters anywhere anywhen

 And these are the magic and/or setting AUs!  How do these elements change their lives; what stays the same regardless?

See my previous set of Day Break Illusion requests for my thoughts on the letters tag.

  ·        ALL: Daemon AU

·        ALL: Daemons in Canon Divergent AU

 Just—daemons!  What are theirs?  For Hanayume—what gender is her daemon?  I’m sorry I’m running out of things to say at this point…

  ·        ALL: Dragon Rider AU

·        ALL: Fencing AU

·        All: Figure skating AU

 So, in canon, Hanayume, Lymro, and Mama Nagataki are kind of Akari’s fortune-teller aunts/mentors; if we change it so that Akari’s thing is fencing or figure skating or dragon-riding, why not bring her aunts along for the ride as her mentors in that sport, or, if we’re not including Akari—competitors themselves, perhaps, or maybe generally teachers?

   If you made it all the way down here—first of all, wow, this letter was way too long so good on you for making it—second of all—thank you again for writing for me!! Good luck!!