Press Start 2021

♥ Dear Creator,

First of all, thank you so much for writing or drawing for me! I'm excited to see whatever you make. My signups here are a mix of forever fandoms, old favorites, and brand spanking new obsessions, and I've tried my best to give some broad and specific prompts for each. Of course feel free to ignore all this and go where your heart takes you - I usually have no idea what I'm going to love until I see it, and I have faith in you. :)

Click on the headings to expand; the list is alphabetized. At the moment there are no fandom specific prompts up but they will be added ASAP! EDIT: The prompts are, finally, done. I am so incredibly sorry for the delay.

Do Not Wants

• infidelity
• pregnancy or childbirth
• major non-canon character death
• suicide or suicidal ideation
• matchmaking, betting on the ship getting together, or "we knew before you did" type comments
• strangulation
• Mental institutionalization
• issuefic or fic where characters have conversations about their identities or oppressions
• unrequested non-canon pairings or polyamory
• spanking
• Ace or aro headcanons for requested ship members
• sad or hopeless endings
• Requested ships breaking up (Unless they get back together in the end)
• First or second person POV, except in epistolary fic

Fanfiction Likes

• hurt/comfort (heavy on the hurt)
• mentor-mentee bonds (and ships!)
• identity porn
• battle couples
• Non-mundane AUs: superheros, post-apocalyptic, prison, steampunk, high fantasy, space opera
• long and difficult roads to redemption
• groundhog's day scenarios
• Time-travel and universe hopping fix-its in general
• epistolary & mediafic
• secret or unexpected badasses
• outsider POV
• making a home together in a survival situation, or fixing up an old/worn down house somewhere isolated

Fanart Likes

• Fashion! High fashion, ball gowns, historical clothing, lolita or ouji, armor, lingerie, club wear, canon outfit redesigns - any and all clothing porn.
• I have a special love for hats both stylish and silly.
• Redesigns in general - new hair, new outfits, role or outfit swaps, aged up or down, AU'd into another fandom
• Ship wearing each other's signature clothes
• Ship sleeping on each other or otherwise being vulnerable together
• Ship fighting back-to-back
• Taller person carrying shorter person bridal-style, either to be cute or because they're injured
• Character A sitting on a throne, Character B at their feet
• Fake selfies, polaroids, social media posts, etc
• Cooking and eating
• Magic or glowing elements
• Scenery

Final Fantasy XV - Ignis/Prompto

I love the contrasts between these two - polished suit vs punk uniforms, poised vs awkward, restrained vs unbridled enthusiasm, raised in the palace vs completely new to all of this, and, well, size - as well as the dorky sense of humor they seem to have in common. I love the moments when Ignis gets goofy and the moments when Prompto gets serious, and I like to see them reacting to those qualities in each other!

• In some kind of happier world, Ignis is tasked with getting Prompto's manners, dress, and dancing up to snuff for an important royal event (totally cool to throw in background Luna/Noctis here if you want a wedding as an excuse, or handwave he's gotta be there for some reason) and as a result they end up spending a lot of time together and grow some feelings. (shopping montage??? shopping montage!!!)
• Making a life together, post-WoR. As you can tell by my fic likes I am extremely weak for what I guess you could call homesteading for lack of a better word? Building or refurbishing a house, getting a settlement up and running, improving their surroundings as a symbol for the growth of their relationship and their recovery from grief... Love it. I like the idea of them allowing themselves a quiet retirement somewhere far away from everything. Maybe they can take over the chocobo post or something.
• Hurt/Comfort - Yes, this is a trope, not a prompt, whoops. But I love seeing Prompto get all kinds of hurt (almost-a-robot!sads, insecurity, Ardyn torture, dying of the player forgetting to throw potions at him, noncon, anything terrible your mind can come up with...) and I love seeing Ignis' caretaking side come out for him.
• Art-Specific Prompts
  • cooking together
  • chocobos (feeding, cuddling, racing!)
  • relaxing somewhere together - on the couch, at the beach, anywhere, give them some rest!
  • on a date on the streets of lestallum or insomnia
  • fighting back-to-back
  • Prompto wearing Ignis' leopard-print button down and nothing else for him

Final Fantasy XV - Noctis/Prompto

I love how much these two love each other! It means so much to Noctis to have someone like Prompto in his life, and Prompto worked so hard to feel worthy of being that person! They fit together the way only best friends can, but there are still secrets and insecurities and jagged edges in both of them to provide conflict and keep the ship fresh.

• Mediafic / Social Media - I LOVE the trope of 'famous person's relationship is outed to the media against their will, now they and their loved ones must deal with it.' Give me Noctis' resentment about having this otherwise untouched-by-royalty part of his life intruded on! Give me Prompto's angst about having his right to be in Noctis' life put on trial-by-internet! Give me the ill-advised r/relationships post, the drag on TMZ, or the dramatic declaration of true love on instagram! 👑🍑🍆👀
• First time - I'd love to see some sweet fooling around and either first-time sex or heading toward it with these two. I love the dynamic of each of them having their own insecurities but being totally enamored of the other, and the idea of adding a sexual element to their relationship adding bumps to an otherwise smooth transition from best bros to boyfriends
• Royal Skip-The-Wedding - Who cares if it's a terrible idea? Noctis and Prompto elope under whatever circumstances, and then tell Regis/Ignis and Gladio/whomever. Their love cannot be stopped!
• art prompts
  • playing video games while cuddling together
  • selfies
  • cosplaying as characters from other fandoms or FF games (i'm familiar with seven, ten, and classic job classes etc)
  • fighting back-to-back

Final Fantasy VII Remake - Aerith/Sephiroth.

Note: I have played both the original game and consumed most of the compilation including Crisis Core, feel free to incorporate whatever canon you'd like or make up whatever isn't covered in Remake itself! I'm flexible. (I haven't played the PS5 version or the Yuffie DLC yet, though, so please avoid spoilers specific to those!)

So here I was, minding my own business, never having considered this ship before, when Aerith glares up at this guy twice her height and (at this point) significantly more powerful and tells him he ain't shit everything about him is wrong. Reader, I was instantly smitten. I love the contrast of how human and alive Aerith's strength is, compared to Sephiroth's cold and alien nature. I love that they both seem to know more of what's going on than the player, and that they're set so strongly against each other. I also love the idea of her being able to save him and save the world that way, without making her ultimate sacrifice.

I'm down for a lot of different dynamics with them, too - anything from fluffy AUs and canon-fix-its to hatesex and non-con is A-OK with me! :3 (RE: Clerith and Zerith - I don't ship any of the three but am okay with references to past feelings for each other.)

• I'm a big fan of fix-its and timeloops, and of course Remake is ripe for that sort of thing. I'd love to see a take where they're trapped in a timeloop or keep getting reset by the Whispers while being the only ones to remember what's happening. They could start out with their canon enemies dynamic and make the enemies-to-lovers transition under the pressure and inability to get away from one another.
• I like the fact that both were under Shinra's control during part of their childhood and the idea of the two of them meeting in that context, as lonely experiments. I've often thought about AUs where Aerith remained in Shinra's custody and the two of them grew up alongside one another. Would she be a balancing influence on him? Would he drag her down into his madness?
  
  Related, I also love Aerith's joke about how maybe she was a SOLDIER and I'd love to see an AU where that is the case!
• Canon, but for some reason they're trapped somewhere isolated and have to work together in order to survive. Perhaps - perhaps - there is only one bedroll.
  
• Art Prompts
  • size difference! that's it! that's the prompt!
  • Fighting each other, or fighting side-by-side
  • Aerith healing Sephiroth or tending to his wounds
  • Aerith braiding or grooming Sephiroth's hair
  • Sephiroth carrying Aerith bridal style
  • A roleswap with Sephiroth as the Cetra healer and Aerith as the crazy alien's daughter
  • Aerith flustering Sephiroth by bossing him around/not being afraid of him

Final Fantasy VII Remake - Cloud/Sephiroth

Note: I have played both the original game and consumed most of the compilation including Crisis Core, feel free to incorporate whatever canon you'd like or make up whatever isn't covered in Remake itself! I'm flexible. (I haven't played the PS5 version or the Yuffie DLC yet, though, so please avoid spoilers specific to those!)

Love me a fucked-up hero and villain ship, what can I say. As with Aerith/Sephiroth, I'm up for both more positive, redemptive directions where possible as well as a decent straight into iddy darkfic, depending on your preferences. (RE: Clerith and Cloti - I don't ship either but am okay with references to past feelings for each other.)

• An AU where weird-knowledge-of-the-future!Sephiroth manages to find and get Cloud on his/Jenova's side after the cliffside and before Cloud reaches Tifa/Midgar, when he's still fairly out of it. Cue a lot of co-villain shenannigans/being hot and evil together while in the mean time Cloud's personality and memories are trying to break through.
• A more conventional relationship during Cloud's trooper days (or maybe even something taking place in his head/with his invented memories, when Cloud was "in" SOLDIER). Something playing with the angst of Cloud's insecurity vs the added public spotlight that being with or even around Sephiroth in those days would bring would be fabulous, as would playing up the (relatively small) age gap.
• Status Effects Made Them Do It or an kind of sex pollen, especially with focus on the aftermath and how it might change the way they see each other. Both relatively fluffy takes on this and dark ones very welcome.
• Art Prompts
  • Size difference. Yowza.
  • Sephiroth 'haunting' Cloud in a sexy fashion
  • Pre-canon Sephiroth flustered by/crushing on trooper Cloud
  • fighting each other or side-by-side.
  • Sephiroth meets Miss Cloud
  • Homoerotic sword play
    

Final Fantasy VII Remake - Zack/Cloud

Note: I have played both the original game and consumed most of the compilation including Crisis Core, feel free to incorporate whatever canon you'd like or make up whatever isn't covered in Remake itself! I'm flexible. (I haven't played the PS5 version or the Yuffie DLC yet, though, so please avoid spoilers specific to those!) With these two in particular I found it hard to write prompts referencing only what we know from remake so I kind of shrugged and went with it, but again please feel free to use whichever version of canon you're into and ignore the rest. (Re: Cloti, Zereith, and Clerith - I don't ship any of the three but am okay with references to past feelings for each other.)

• Anything about the AU (?) from the ending where Zack is still alive and carrying Cloud with him after the firefight - their return to Midgar, Cloud's continued recovery along less weird lines, becoming mercenaries together. Surviving together as fugitives on the run with Cloud more aware of what's going on and dealing with what happened to them togther.
• Living Zack crossing universes and meeting Cloud in his early game state, what he makes of the personality change and the persona Cloud's putting on and how they cope with one another when everything is so messed up, and how they fit together as a couple in the party's group dynamic. An outsider POV on these two would be great!
• Zack bringing out Cloud's sweet/shy side despite Cloud's best efforts - either in front of people or in private. Cute, teasing, happy reunion smut if you're into that!
• Art-Specific Prompts
  
  • Anything with Miss Cloud. Anything.
  • Zack picking up or carrying Cloud, either in a rescue or a jokey way (or a swoon-y romantic way)!
  • Cloud defending an injured Zack against an attacker.
  • Beachy fun at Costa Del Sol
  • Fighting back-to-back
  • K a b e d o n
  • On the road together
  • Darts tournament

Kingdom Hearts - Sora/Riku

Childhood OTP? Childhood OTP. I love both the sweetness of how dedicated they are to each other and the edge of jealousy and competition that comes from Riku's issues in the early games. I also love how atmospheric Destiny Islands itself is - the music, the iconic locations, the races and the various callbacks throughout the series.

If you'd like to incorporate any Disney details or extra keyblades, my favorite movies are Treasure Planet, Lilo & Stitch, and Tangled!

• Sharing an ice cream in Disneytown
• Fake couple-y KH!instagram photos, gummiphone screen mockups, etc
• Playing together on a Classic Kingdom arcade machine
• Sora trying to get Riku to smile
• Riku standing guard over sleeping Sora in his pod
• Something colorful with Dreameaters!
• Tandem solar surfing between worlds
• Sharing a paupu
• cooking together at Little Chef's

Kingdom Hearts - Sora/Riku/Kairi

Best! Trio! Ever! I love every component ship of these three and I love them together; I like how different each of their relationships with the others are but how they still make up this coherent little whole that's been through so much together. I like the sadness and the happiness, I love the familiarity between them, I like all the callbacks and nostalgia of them being the three people that have been there, trying to be together, since the very first game.

I just want them to be happy, man.

• Queen Kairi and King Sora with knight Riku. Loyalty kink and costumes!
• Taking a nap together in a hammock or on the beach.
• Sora serving up food he learned to cook in KH3
• Swimming together as mermaids in Atlantia
• Finally sailing on a raft together - maybe in pirate clothes?
• Training - Sora and Kairi ganging up on Riku
• Generally hanging out and being domestic - lazing around in someone's room, cooking together, building a new shack/house/hangout on the island, fishing, anything!
  

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Link

Note: I haven't played Age of Calamity or any other Zelda games so I probably won't understand references to those unless they're explained in-story!

I arrived to this fandom 35 years late with Starbucks. I don't have any strong opinions except that Link and Zelda are Very Good and deserve all the good things but also I like seeing them sad.

Link's a tough nut to crack, obviously, and everyone's going to have their own interpretation of him. I'm excited to see yours! I'm into the fanon about him being a bit (or a lot lol) feral and strange after awakening, myself.

• I'd love to see anything pre-canon digging into Link's past prior to becoming the Master Sword's champion, how he came to be in the Royal Guard and how he felt about being thrust into the middle of everything. Was he talkative before? Did he stop talking for the most part gradually or all at once? An outsider POV would be cool here, too, with someone who knew him before and witnessed how he changed.
• Maybe some kind of 4+1 fic centering around his relationships with the other Champions, and how he won them over or how he felt about them.
• I loved the quest where you get his house! Maybe something about making the place livable and cozy, settling a bit in the village, getting to know his neighbors and being a part of the community?
• Art Prompts!
  
  
  • Cooking, fishing, tree climbing - all that cute stuff Link gets up to in the main game!
  • Anything with Voe!Link.
  • Hanging out with Koroks, or in a Korok themed outfit
  • something based on this video because it makes me cry with laughter
  • Link doing ordinary/domestic things - shopping, laundry, etc
  • New armor designs, or new takes on old armor designs

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Zelda

Note: I haven't played Age of Calamity or any other Zelda games so I probably won't understand references to those unless they're explained in-story!

They made her a nerd and my heart was won. I absolutely loved the determined scholar struggling with her destiny we got in BOTW. The depth of her character took me completely by surprise and I found her so loveable.

• Scholarly article written by or about Zelda! I love that kind of format and I'd love to see both an outsider POV of Zelda as a historical figure as well as something that got at her voice and sense of humor through academic writing. What does peer review look like when your sources are "this bird sang it at me"?
• Post-canon where she gets to figure out her life now that she's no longer got destiny hanging over her head (shh, sequel.) Where does she want to go? What does she want to study? How does she cope with what she's been through and with the time skip? I'd love to see her struggling as well as some recovery where she puts herself back together. Restoring the soul through restoring Hyrule!
• An AU featuring some kind of BOTW take on Shiek - maybe rather than being trapped in the castle with Ganon she was disguised and traveling the world for the last 100 years, waiting for Link. What was she up to? Up to you!
• Art Prompts
  
  • Tinkering with tech
  • The Spring of Wisdom is one of my favorite locations in the game, if you like drawing scenery I'd love to see it.
  • Zelda + Silent Princess flowers, in a flower crown, with floral motifs in general
  • I adore her white dress and would love to see any kind of alternate take on it
  • In Kakoriko villiage, maybe dressed similarly to Impa/Paya
  • With her pretty, pretty horse.
    

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Link/Zelda

Note: I haven't played Age of Calamity or any other Zelda games so I probably won't understand references to those unless they're explained in-story!

So I showed up to this fandom 35 years late with starbucks, but this ship grabbed me right in the Id. It's got sweetness, it's got lady/knight dynamics with a complex lady, it's got inevitable tragady and in the end it's got hope.

For these two I'd love shippy versions of any of the above concepts but also a few more ideas -

• First time/virginity loss after Zelda's failure at the Spring of Power - I just think it would be an interesting and sad time for them to get together, with her seeking comfort and him being strong for her.
• Post-canon exploration together - Link showing Zelda everything he's seen in-game and introducing her to new people, taking on Shrines together, rebuilding castle town and maybe even trying to make the castle livable again? I'm a sucker for anything where fixing up a house/town/country is a metaphor for a growing relationship.
• "I never know what he's thinking! It makes my imagination run wild, guessing at what he is thinking but will not say." (From Zelda's Dairy) Where exactly is that imagination running?? Either in a sexy way or in a "Zelda assuming Link's thoughts are X but they're actually Y causes problems"
• Art Prompts:
  
  • Dirty, tired, and happy from being on the road together
  • Riding horseback (or... motorcycle back...?) together
  • Link teaching Zelda the fine art of bomb fishing
  • Anything at all with the dragons!
  • Zelda/Voe!Link, yes please
  • Settling together in Link's house