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Dear Author,
It's been a few years since I've been able to participate in this exchange and I've missed it! I am generally quite easy to please so long as you avoid my DNWs, so I hope you enjoy writing a fic for me!
I've got a bunch of different pairings/OT3s with different preferences for each. The one thing that I most want for all of them is that the requested pairing/OT3 fall in love by the end of the story (if they aren't in love already) and a reasonably happy ending. By "reasonably" happy, I mean, the situation around them can be kind of dark, but they're together and that's what matters.
The first most important DNW is: infidelity. I am just not here for that.
I'm totally fine with people having pasts in which they loved/were with/were married to other people but by the time the characters get together, I want them both to be single. Or, in the case of an OT3 where two thirds of the characters are married to each other, they both need to be enthusiastic about inviting a third member into the relationship.
Some other DNWS:
+ PWP. Porn is fine, I just don't want the porn to be all the fic is. And porn is in no way necessary--you can write the most rated G fic ever if you like. I love all ratings equally.
+ Instalove/love at first sight (for anyone other Wangxian--infatuation at first site is okay for them--or Peter falling in love with Harriet because canon). As an ace person, it's super important to me that characters actually know each other before they fall in love.
+ Modern AUs of historical/fantasy fandoms. Canon divergence/what ifs are amazing, though, and if you want to twist the setting a little bit (giving Hodel magical powers or making Lan Wangji emperor or something), go for it. I just do not want to read about any of these historical/fantasy characters working in a coffee shop.
+ Major character deaths (unless someone comes back to life à la Wei Wuxian)
+ Character bashing
+ Unmitigated fluff (some fluff is fine! But I'd like some deeper feelings to dig into.)
+ Onscreen noncon
+ Focus on babies/children
+ Watersports/scat
+ BDSM outside the bedroom
General likes: angst, especially if it ends happily; getting together; hurt/comfort; mutual pining; in character characters; complicated relationships between women; good worldbuilding; longfic; outsider povs; location/setting as character; political intrigue; forced proximity; good people trying to do the right thing; bad people trying to do the right thing; found families; siblings; porn with feelings; character A having to rescue/defend character B; total devotion/us against the world dynamics. I also love the other characters in these canons, so bringing them into the fic in large supporting roles is great!
Now onto the requests.
Attolia | Irene/Eugenides
Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Trick for the Purpose of Assassination
Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Enemy Under Control
Arranged Marriage - Mutual Pining
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Established Marriage - Dealing With In-Law(s)
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse From Danger
Historical - Court Reaction to Unexpected Marriage
Marriage - For The Purpose Of Assassination (But Falling In Love Instead)
Political Marriage - They Try to Kill Each Other Until They Fall in Love
Political Marriage - Strengths Balance Each Other Unexpectedly Well
Political Marriage - To Avert A War
Wedding Ceremony - Interrupted By An Assassination Attempt; Continue After They Take Care Of Them
Wedding Night - Planned Assassination Gone Wrong
Most of the tropes I requested would work best in an AU, but there are a few that could easily slide into canon. The in-laws request is mostly because I think it would be hilarious to see them dealing with all of Gen's thousands of cousins. The court reactions, contract negotiations, and rescuing of spouse could be canon as well, if you prefer that route.
But I also love any kind of arranged/political marriage for them or anything involving attempted assassination. As long as they're in love by the end, I'm happy!
Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
Arranged Marriage - Contract Bought Out By Someone Else
Arranged Marriage - As Part of a Business Deal
Arranged Marriage - Avoiding It by Marrying Someone Else
Arranged Marriage - Expecting Hurt; Receiving Kindness
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Forced Marriage - Hand In Marriage Auctioned Off To Highest Bidder
Marriage Laws - Marriage Contract Purchased or Auctioned
Marriage of Convenience - Both Distrust Love Because of Trauma; Fall in Love Anyway
Marriage of Convenience - Marriage For Protection
Marriage of Convenience - Saving A Sex Slave/Sex Worker In Need By Marrying Them
Marriage of Convenience - To Prevent Female Partner’s Forced Marriage To Someone Else
Why do Kaz and Inej have to get married? I don't know! That's up to you! But they have to! Cue mutual pining! And perhaps both of them dealing with their severe trauma as they fall in love.
Re: Kaz’s touch aversion: touch seems to be important to Inej so I would prefer if the story ended on a hopeful note on that topic. Either that he’s overcome his aversion or he’s working on it.
Hodel/Perchik
Arranged Marriage - Avoiding It by Marrying Someone Else
Elopement - Eloping After Wide Disapproval of Relationship
Established Marriage - Falling in Love with Spouse
Honeymoon - Sexual Exploration For Couple Who Had Little/No Opportunity For Sex Before Marriage
Marriage of Convenience - To Prevent Female Partner’s Forced Marriage To Someone Else
Wedding - Running Away with Your Lover on the Day of Your Wedding to a Third Party
I chose some freeform tags that I thought might work well for them, but here's my permission to go in a different direction if you want. I don't really care about focusing on the wedding ceremony but other than that, I'm open to lots of things, including fantasy AUs with soulmarks or something like that.
I am requesting Hodel/Perchik but anything that incorporates the rest of the characters (especially the other sisters) is awesome with me.
I feel like they don't know each other super well, so anything about their marriage would need to involve them getting to know each other further. The proposal scene in the film is my favorite proposal scene from any form of media ever, so that should give you some idea of what I'm into with this dynamic. I mean, it's got to be so frustrating being in love with this guy who can only see anything through the lens of class struggle, but also Hodel clearly loves how idealistic and committed Perchik is. And I believe he would never have fallen for her (certainly not enough to ask her to marry him) if she wasn't as smart as he was and at least open to his political priorities. So I want to watch two revolutionaries (or, really, a revolutionary and a potential revolutionary) fall in love with both their brains and their hearts.
It's fine to do a canon divergence where something else happens--they go to America or Kiev or Vienna or wherever together after the pogrom, the pogrom never happens, etc. Anything where they work together for revolutionary causes would also be awesome. I love the idea of Hodel becoming just as much of a committed revolutionary as Perchik.
A canon divergence where they haven't gotten together yet, but Hodel is supposed to marry someone else but chooses Perchik instead is fine. Or a canon divergence in which Yenta chooses someone for Hodel, Hodel is horrified, and Perchik is like, "Well, you could marry me instead?" That would be awesome!
If you want to do a canon divergence where Tevye doesn't agree to the marriage--or it takes much longer to convince him, that's cool. But if they elope, I'd prefer it if they don't remain estranged from family. Like, the family comes around to it in the end.
Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed)
Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Reluctant Ally Under Control
Arranged Marriage - arrangement made when one or both was a child and now they're grown up
Arranged Marriage - Enemies to Lovers
Arranged Marriage - Meet at the Wedding; Have Awkward But Satisfying Wedding Night Sex
Arranged Marriage - Mutual Pining
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Forced Marriage - Enemies Forced Into Marriage; Defeated One Becomes Slave-Spouse (Love Ensues)
Forced Marriage - Married To Save Family/Allies
Honeymoon - Both Inexperienced and Anxious But It Turns Out to Be Great
Proposal - Proposal Misunderstood as Being for Ulterior Motives
Established Marriage - Amnesia Results in Forgotten Marriage
or
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Jiāng Yànlí/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed)
Arranged Marriage - arrangement made when one or both was a child and now they're grown up
Arranged Marriage - Married as Children
Honeymoon - Both Inexperienced and Anxious But It Turns Out to Be Great
Poly Marriage - Asexual and/or Aromantic Character In a Happy Group Marriage
Poly Marriage - Fuck Whatever the Laws Say. We're Married
Poly Marriage - Sharing Spouse with Sibling
I'm crazy for anything with LWJ/WWX that involves arranged marriages or war prize AUs. Literally do not care which one is the victor and which is the war prize. Just give me some mutual pining that ends in requited love and I will be happy. I also love the most basic “you forgot me?” amnesia stories and anything involving them not really knowing what they’re doing re: sex but both being REALLY into it.
For JC/JYL/WWX, what I'm really wanting is an AU wherein WWX and JYL get married (whether arranged marriage or decided on their own) but JC and WWX are also in love so JYL ends up sharing her husband with her brother. You can have some JC/JYL incest in here if that's what you want to do, but I'd prefer both of the siblings being in love with WWX. The marriage can be non-sexual if you like, and I love ace!Jiang Cheng, so if you want to write him as asexual, but romantically in love with WWX, that's cool too! Honestly, there doesn't have to be any sexual contact between any of them, so long as both JC and JYL are in love with WWX and he loves them back.
Basically, I can't stop thinking about how their original dream was for all three of them to be together forever at Lotus Pier. I just want to see them together and happy.
Winter de Ballesteros/Alex Randall
Established Marriage - Dealing With In-Law(s)
Established Marriage - Falling In Love With Spouse
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse From Danger
Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
Marriage of Convenience - Marrying to protect someone from danger
This one is SUCH a longshot, but I can't resist requesting. Obviously Winter is married for a significant portion of the book so I don't want her actively cheating with Alex, but feel free to kill off Conway sooner or write a canon divergence where they never marry or write post-canon fic, whatever. I just don't want Winter/Alex acting on their love until she's safely widowed though obviously pining before that point is great!
This fic could, if you wish, be entirely canon-compliant and just explore more fully what actually happens in canon (where Alex marries Winter to protect her, then doesn't have sex with her for fear of getting her pregnant, but SURPRISE! she's already pregnant from that one moment they had together a while back).
It's pretty canon that Winter is just head-over-heels in love with Alex, but he's so busy, like, trying to save lives that he doesn't have as much time to develop feelings. A fic about him realizing that, actually, his wife is fantastic and he loves her would be great. Or a post-canon fic where they run into danger and he has to save her (or she helps with saving herself!) is great.
I included the dealing with in-laws option because I think the two of them having to deal with her mom's family back in England would be interesting. I'd also love something where Winter arrives in India, realizes that Conway is the actual worst, and Alex offers to marry her instead.
Miryem Mandelstam/The Staryk Lord
Arranged Marriage - Arrangement Made to form Union Between Two Cultures
Engagement - Converting Religions Before the Wedding
Marriage Laws - Marriage Contract Negotiations
Political Marriage - Strengths Balance Each Other Unexpectedly Well
Proposal - Accidental Proposal due to Cultural Differences
Ritualistic Marriage - Forced to Undergo Elaborate Wedding Ritual
Supernatural - Interspecies Wedding Rituals
Wedding - Blended Traditions
Wedding - Religious Traditions
Wedding Planning - Clash Of Customs/Culture Around Wedding/Marriage
Wedding Planning - Conversion Required for Marriage
Wedding Planning - Discussing How to Handle/Blend Spouses' Different Traditions
I'll be honest: what I want from this fandom is absolutely anything about the Staryk Lord converting to Judaism. Give me his bris. Give me Miryem explaining her faith to him. Give me their wedding under a chuppah. Give me working out the details of the ketubah. Anything. I just want this supernatural creepy ice lord to take his wife's faith.
It could be really interesting to play up the cultural differences and incorporate both of their cultures' traditions into one wedding. Any culture clash stuff would be fun, an AU where they have to marry each other for other reasons would be fun, just...I want all the Judaism.
Also! I love Miryem/Wanda so if Miryem has a husband in one world and a wife in another--that's awesome!
Casey McDonald/Derek Venturi
Accidental Marriage - Series Of Mishaps Prevent Annulment Of Accidental Marriage
Accidental Marriage - Woke Up Married
Celebrity Marriage - Media Reaction
Dimension Travel - Enemies or Just Friends Find Out They're Married In An Alternate Universe
Divorce - Keep “Forgetting” to Annul the Marriage
Elopement - Eloping After Wide Disapproval of Relationship
Established Marriage - Amnesia Results in Forgotten Marriage
Elopement - Incestuous Couple Elope to Somewhere No One Knows They're Related
Soul Bond - Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond
Wedding - Drunken Marriage (Vegas Edition)
Wedding Ceremony - Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About For Years
Wedding Planning - Friends And Family Being Way Too Involved
No, I'm not blushing at all as I request a step-sibling pairing from an early 2000s Canadian children's sitcom, why do you ask?
Please no AU where they were never step-siblings. What's really important to me with these two is their canon arc: forced together, hating each other, becoming ride-or-die for each other while furiously insisting they still hate each other. The way they can absolutely depend on each other despite keeping up the fiction that the other is awful just makes me froth at the mouth. The fic can be set post-this dynamic where they're together, but I want them to have gone through all that stuff (or currently be going through it).
Please, please, please feel ignore Vacation with Derek and Life with Luca. I’m only here for the original show.
I've read fic where Derek/Casey get together and it ends with estrangement from their furious family. I've read fic where their family all basically knew all along that they were in love and take it in stride. Either (or some complicated in between) is fine with me so long as you try to keep all the characters in character.
The celebrity thing is if Derek becomes a pro hockey player or documentarian.
Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey
Marriage of Convenience - Mutual Pining
Marriage of Convenience - Marriage To Avoid Scandal
Marriage of Convenience - So You Can't Testify Against Each Other In Court
Marriage Of Convenience - Spouses Never Expected To See Each Other Again But They Do
Marriage of Convenience - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Soul Bond - Arranged Marriage Spouses Discover Matching Soulmarks on Wedding Night
Soul Bond - Married to soulmate for practicality while mutually pining
Soul Bond - Soulmates Legally Obligated To Marry
Soul Bond - Marriage Arranged Because Of Matching Soulmarks
Give me all the AUs! I am so happy with what we got canon-wise in Busman’s Honeymoon that I don’t really need anything canon, but any kind of AU would make me so very happy! You can keep the “Peter falls immediately and is very obvious about his love but Harriet is skeptical” thing from canon or have them both fall in love much more slowly.
I once read a Peter/Harriet soulbond fic and it gave me a lot of feelings, so that’s why I’m requesting some of those scenarios. Including a soulbond is ENTIRELY optional though!
It's been a few years since I've been able to participate in this exchange and I've missed it! I am generally quite easy to please so long as you avoid my DNWs, so I hope you enjoy writing a fic for me!
I've got a bunch of different pairings/OT3s with different preferences for each. The one thing that I most want for all of them is that the requested pairing/OT3 fall in love by the end of the story (if they aren't in love already) and a reasonably happy ending. By "reasonably" happy, I mean, the situation around them can be kind of dark, but they're together and that's what matters.
The first most important DNW is: infidelity. I am just not here for that.
I'm totally fine with people having pasts in which they loved/were with/were married to other people but by the time the characters get together, I want them both to be single. Or, in the case of an OT3 where two thirds of the characters are married to each other, they both need to be enthusiastic about inviting a third member into the relationship.
Some other DNWS:
+ PWP. Porn is fine, I just don't want the porn to be all the fic is. And porn is in no way necessary--you can write the most rated G fic ever if you like. I love all ratings equally.
+ Instalove/love at first sight (for anyone other Wangxian--infatuation at first site is okay for them--or Peter falling in love with Harriet because canon). As an ace person, it's super important to me that characters actually know each other before they fall in love.
+ Modern AUs of historical/fantasy fandoms. Canon divergence/what ifs are amazing, though, and if you want to twist the setting a little bit (giving Hodel magical powers or making Lan Wangji emperor or something), go for it. I just do not want to read about any of these historical/fantasy characters working in a coffee shop.
+ Major character deaths (unless someone comes back to life à la Wei Wuxian)
+ Character bashing
+ Unmitigated fluff (some fluff is fine! But I'd like some deeper feelings to dig into.)
+ Onscreen noncon
+ Focus on babies/children
+ Watersports/scat
+ BDSM outside the bedroom
General likes: angst, especially if it ends happily; getting together; hurt/comfort; mutual pining; in character characters; complicated relationships between women; good worldbuilding; longfic; outsider povs; location/setting as character; political intrigue; forced proximity; good people trying to do the right thing; bad people trying to do the right thing; found families; siblings; porn with feelings; character A having to rescue/defend character B; total devotion/us against the world dynamics. I also love the other characters in these canons, so bringing them into the fic in large supporting roles is great!
Now onto the requests.
Attolia | Irene/Eugenides
Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Trick for the Purpose of Assassination
Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Enemy Under Control
Arranged Marriage - Mutual Pining
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Established Marriage - Dealing With In-Law(s)
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse From Danger
Historical - Court Reaction to Unexpected Marriage
Marriage - For The Purpose Of Assassination (But Falling In Love Instead)
Political Marriage - They Try to Kill Each Other Until They Fall in Love
Political Marriage - Strengths Balance Each Other Unexpectedly Well
Political Marriage - To Avert A War
Wedding Ceremony - Interrupted By An Assassination Attempt; Continue After They Take Care Of Them
Wedding Night - Planned Assassination Gone Wrong
Most of the tropes I requested would work best in an AU, but there are a few that could easily slide into canon. The in-laws request is mostly because I think it would be hilarious to see them dealing with all of Gen's thousands of cousins. The court reactions, contract negotiations, and rescuing of spouse could be canon as well, if you prefer that route.
But I also love any kind of arranged/political marriage for them or anything involving attempted assassination. As long as they're in love by the end, I'm happy!
Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
Arranged Marriage - Contract Bought Out By Someone Else
Arranged Marriage - As Part of a Business Deal
Arranged Marriage - Avoiding It by Marrying Someone Else
Arranged Marriage - Expecting Hurt; Receiving Kindness
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Forced Marriage - Hand In Marriage Auctioned Off To Highest Bidder
Marriage Laws - Marriage Contract Purchased or Auctioned
Marriage of Convenience - Both Distrust Love Because of Trauma; Fall in Love Anyway
Marriage of Convenience - Marriage For Protection
Marriage of Convenience - Saving A Sex Slave/Sex Worker In Need By Marrying Them
Marriage of Convenience - To Prevent Female Partner’s Forced Marriage To Someone Else
Why do Kaz and Inej have to get married? I don't know! That's up to you! But they have to! Cue mutual pining! And perhaps both of them dealing with their severe trauma as they fall in love.
Re: Kaz’s touch aversion: touch seems to be important to Inej so I would prefer if the story ended on a hopeful note on that topic. Either that he’s overcome his aversion or he’s working on it.
Hodel/Perchik
Arranged Marriage - Avoiding It by Marrying Someone Else
Elopement - Eloping After Wide Disapproval of Relationship
Established Marriage - Falling in Love with Spouse
Honeymoon - Sexual Exploration For Couple Who Had Little/No Opportunity For Sex Before Marriage
Marriage of Convenience - To Prevent Female Partner’s Forced Marriage To Someone Else
Wedding - Running Away with Your Lover on the Day of Your Wedding to a Third Party
I chose some freeform tags that I thought might work well for them, but here's my permission to go in a different direction if you want. I don't really care about focusing on the wedding ceremony but other than that, I'm open to lots of things, including fantasy AUs with soulmarks or something like that.
I am requesting Hodel/Perchik but anything that incorporates the rest of the characters (especially the other sisters) is awesome with me.
I feel like they don't know each other super well, so anything about their marriage would need to involve them getting to know each other further. The proposal scene in the film is my favorite proposal scene from any form of media ever, so that should give you some idea of what I'm into with this dynamic. I mean, it's got to be so frustrating being in love with this guy who can only see anything through the lens of class struggle, but also Hodel clearly loves how idealistic and committed Perchik is. And I believe he would never have fallen for her (certainly not enough to ask her to marry him) if she wasn't as smart as he was and at least open to his political priorities. So I want to watch two revolutionaries (or, really, a revolutionary and a potential revolutionary) fall in love with both their brains and their hearts.
It's fine to do a canon divergence where something else happens--they go to America or Kiev or Vienna or wherever together after the pogrom, the pogrom never happens, etc. Anything where they work together for revolutionary causes would also be awesome. I love the idea of Hodel becoming just as much of a committed revolutionary as Perchik.
A canon divergence where they haven't gotten together yet, but Hodel is supposed to marry someone else but chooses Perchik instead is fine. Or a canon divergence in which Yenta chooses someone for Hodel, Hodel is horrified, and Perchik is like, "Well, you could marry me instead?" That would be awesome!
If you want to do a canon divergence where Tevye doesn't agree to the marriage--or it takes much longer to convince him, that's cool. But if they elope, I'd prefer it if they don't remain estranged from family. Like, the family comes around to it in the end.
Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed)
Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Reluctant Ally Under Control
Arranged Marriage - arrangement made when one or both was a child and now they're grown up
Arranged Marriage - Enemies to Lovers
Arranged Marriage - Meet at the Wedding; Have Awkward But Satisfying Wedding Night Sex
Arranged Marriage - Mutual Pining
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Forced Marriage - Enemies Forced Into Marriage; Defeated One Becomes Slave-Spouse (Love Ensues)
Forced Marriage - Married To Save Family/Allies
Honeymoon - Both Inexperienced and Anxious But It Turns Out to Be Great
Proposal - Proposal Misunderstood as Being for Ulterior Motives
Established Marriage - Amnesia Results in Forgotten Marriage
or
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Jiāng Yànlí/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed)
Arranged Marriage - arrangement made when one or both was a child and now they're grown up
Arranged Marriage - Married as Children
Honeymoon - Both Inexperienced and Anxious But It Turns Out to Be Great
Poly Marriage - Asexual and/or Aromantic Character In a Happy Group Marriage
Poly Marriage - Fuck Whatever the Laws Say. We're Married
Poly Marriage - Sharing Spouse with Sibling
I'm crazy for anything with LWJ/WWX that involves arranged marriages or war prize AUs. Literally do not care which one is the victor and which is the war prize. Just give me some mutual pining that ends in requited love and I will be happy. I also love the most basic “you forgot me?” amnesia stories and anything involving them not really knowing what they’re doing re: sex but both being REALLY into it.
For JC/JYL/WWX, what I'm really wanting is an AU wherein WWX and JYL get married (whether arranged marriage or decided on their own) but JC and WWX are also in love so JYL ends up sharing her husband with her brother. You can have some JC/JYL incest in here if that's what you want to do, but I'd prefer both of the siblings being in love with WWX. The marriage can be non-sexual if you like, and I love ace!Jiang Cheng, so if you want to write him as asexual, but romantically in love with WWX, that's cool too! Honestly, there doesn't have to be any sexual contact between any of them, so long as both JC and JYL are in love with WWX and he loves them back.
Basically, I can't stop thinking about how their original dream was for all three of them to be together forever at Lotus Pier. I just want to see them together and happy.
Winter de Ballesteros/Alex Randall
Established Marriage - Dealing With In-Law(s)
Established Marriage - Falling In Love With Spouse
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse From Danger
Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
Marriage of Convenience - Marrying to protect someone from danger
This one is SUCH a longshot, but I can't resist requesting. Obviously Winter is married for a significant portion of the book so I don't want her actively cheating with Alex, but feel free to kill off Conway sooner or write a canon divergence where they never marry or write post-canon fic, whatever. I just don't want Winter/Alex acting on their love until she's safely widowed though obviously pining before that point is great!
This fic could, if you wish, be entirely canon-compliant and just explore more fully what actually happens in canon (where Alex marries Winter to protect her, then doesn't have sex with her for fear of getting her pregnant, but SURPRISE! she's already pregnant from that one moment they had together a while back).
It's pretty canon that Winter is just head-over-heels in love with Alex, but he's so busy, like, trying to save lives that he doesn't have as much time to develop feelings. A fic about him realizing that, actually, his wife is fantastic and he loves her would be great. Or a post-canon fic where they run into danger and he has to save her (or she helps with saving herself!) is great.
I included the dealing with in-laws option because I think the two of them having to deal with her mom's family back in England would be interesting. I'd also love something where Winter arrives in India, realizes that Conway is the actual worst, and Alex offers to marry her instead.
Miryem Mandelstam/The Staryk Lord
Arranged Marriage - Arrangement Made to form Union Between Two Cultures
Engagement - Converting Religions Before the Wedding
Marriage Laws - Marriage Contract Negotiations
Political Marriage - Strengths Balance Each Other Unexpectedly Well
Proposal - Accidental Proposal due to Cultural Differences
Ritualistic Marriage - Forced to Undergo Elaborate Wedding Ritual
Supernatural - Interspecies Wedding Rituals
Wedding - Blended Traditions
Wedding - Religious Traditions
Wedding Planning - Clash Of Customs/Culture Around Wedding/Marriage
Wedding Planning - Conversion Required for Marriage
Wedding Planning - Discussing How to Handle/Blend Spouses' Different Traditions
I'll be honest: what I want from this fandom is absolutely anything about the Staryk Lord converting to Judaism. Give me his bris. Give me Miryem explaining her faith to him. Give me their wedding under a chuppah. Give me working out the details of the ketubah. Anything. I just want this supernatural creepy ice lord to take his wife's faith.
It could be really interesting to play up the cultural differences and incorporate both of their cultures' traditions into one wedding. Any culture clash stuff would be fun, an AU where they have to marry each other for other reasons would be fun, just...I want all the Judaism.
Also! I love Miryem/Wanda so if Miryem has a husband in one world and a wife in another--that's awesome!
Casey McDonald/Derek Venturi
Accidental Marriage - Series Of Mishaps Prevent Annulment Of Accidental Marriage
Accidental Marriage - Woke Up Married
Celebrity Marriage - Media Reaction
Dimension Travel - Enemies or Just Friends Find Out They're Married In An Alternate Universe
Divorce - Keep “Forgetting” to Annul the Marriage
Elopement - Eloping After Wide Disapproval of Relationship
Established Marriage - Amnesia Results in Forgotten Marriage
Elopement - Incestuous Couple Elope to Somewhere No One Knows They're Related
Soul Bond - Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond
Wedding - Drunken Marriage (Vegas Edition)
Wedding Ceremony - Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About For Years
Wedding Planning - Friends And Family Being Way Too Involved
No, I'm not blushing at all as I request a step-sibling pairing from an early 2000s Canadian children's sitcom, why do you ask?
Please no AU where they were never step-siblings. What's really important to me with these two is their canon arc: forced together, hating each other, becoming ride-or-die for each other while furiously insisting they still hate each other. The way they can absolutely depend on each other despite keeping up the fiction that the other is awful just makes me froth at the mouth. The fic can be set post-this dynamic where they're together, but I want them to have gone through all that stuff (or currently be going through it).
Please, please, please feel ignore Vacation with Derek and Life with Luca. I’m only here for the original show.
I've read fic where Derek/Casey get together and it ends with estrangement from their furious family. I've read fic where their family all basically knew all along that they were in love and take it in stride. Either (or some complicated in between) is fine with me so long as you try to keep all the characters in character.
The celebrity thing is if Derek becomes a pro hockey player or documentarian.
Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey
Marriage of Convenience - Mutual Pining
Marriage of Convenience - Marriage To Avoid Scandal
Marriage of Convenience - So You Can't Testify Against Each Other In Court
Marriage Of Convenience - Spouses Never Expected To See Each Other Again But They Do
Marriage of Convenience - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Soul Bond - Arranged Marriage Spouses Discover Matching Soulmarks on Wedding Night
Soul Bond - Married to soulmate for practicality while mutually pining
Soul Bond - Soulmates Legally Obligated To Marry
Soul Bond - Marriage Arranged Because Of Matching Soulmarks
Give me all the AUs! I am so happy with what we got canon-wise in Busman’s Honeymoon that I don’t really need anything canon, but any kind of AU would make me so very happy! You can keep the “Peter falls immediately and is very obvious about his love but Harriet is skeptical” thing from canon or have them both fall in love much more slowly.
I once read a Peter/Harriet soulbond fic and it gave me a lot of feelings, so that’s why I’m requesting some of those scenarios. Including a soulbond is ENTIRELY optional though!