madame_oryx: (SPAAAAACE)
dear yuletide writer,

heyyy. B) i am a pretty easy-to-please person so don't worry too much about writing for me!! if you matched with me you've already got gr8 taste in fandoms, so whatever you come up with, i'm sure i'll enjoy it~
some general likes/dislikes to get the ball rolling:

I LOVE
* worldbuilding
* character studies
* present tense (though obvs i know this isn't for everyone, so feel free to disregard)
* understated/"less is more" romance
* complex platonic relationships
* drama/angst (though i like fluff as well!)
* tropes i enjoy: found family, domesticity, pining and/or unrequited love, loyalty, hero worship, "us against the world," presumed dead, hurt/comfort (physical & mental hurt both welcome), time travel, butterfly effect/fork in the road AUs, characters who suffer ~nobly for the good of someone else

NO THANK YOU
* crossovers
* PWP (a well-placed sex scene is fine but i'd rather it not be the whole fic)
* mundane AUs
* first person POV

& now for my specific requests:

Kamen Rider 555
Inui Takumi, Kiba Yuuji

555 was my first kamen rider, so despite its issues it has a very special place in my heart. and yuutaku is THE otp by far. really i'd just... love to read something about them not written by me? if you don't ship them that's completely fine - i love the two of them in a gen capacity as well. obviously this is a relationship that lends itself to misery, which i am totally down with. also one that lends itself to canon divergent AUs, because, well. you know. a happy AU where kiba never goes to the dark side, or a violently depressing AU where he "wins" and continues down that unfortunate path rather than sacrificing himself... i'm equally interested in both those options. or hell, something set during canon - introspective musings, scenes we didn't get to see, etc. etc. i have seen paradise lost, which actually leads me to my favorite part about the yuutaku relationship: the "connected by fate" aspect. the way things play out so similarly in the alternate universe of the movie... i don't know. it just seems like they were doomed to end up that way, no matter the circumstances? (reincarnation fic could be incredible for them.) i love this idea of people destined to care about each other but to never be happy, for it to always go sour in every possible universe. or maybe i'm doing this whole "otp" thing wrong ;)

(sidenotes: i love takumi & mari's friendship, and kiba's "guardian" relationship with his children yuka & kaidou. and just recently i watched showa vs. heisei, so i'm aware of takumi's situation there. i actually headcanon him as suffering from clinical depression, so. throwin' that out there just in case. i am definitely not looking for issuefic tho)

Kamen Rider Den-o
Nogami Koutarou, Teddy

normally when i request shippy stuff i include a "platonic is fine too" caveat, but... i just can't do it with these two. they're basically canon in my mind, and i can't really think of their relationship as anything other than romantic? this is another one where i'd honestly be happy with anything, since fanworks for them are pretty much nonexistent. i'd love to get a glimpse into what their day to day life is like, whether as den-o or in the downtime in between. what's koutarou's life like beyond den-o? does he go to college, or have a regular job on the side? does anyone close to him (other than ryoutarou) know about his superhero gig? i'm guessing episode blue-aged koutarou must be from the year 2060 or so? maybe a bit later? so any little worldbuilding details about futuristic stuff would be very cute~
basically... i'm looking for fluff for these two. i have so many depressing kamen rider ships, y'know? so i cling to kouteddy as one of the few truly happy exceptions. i'm sure there would be some difficulties, of course - the complexities of maintaining an imagin/human romance and all that - but generally i can't imagine too much drama in their lives, now that they've gotten the character development of episode blue out of the way.

(sidenotes: i have also seen onigashima warship, episode red, episode yellow, saraba, climax deka, & of course the entire main series. i have yet to watch the den-o/OOO movie but probably will sometime soon. as far as other relationships go, koutarou bonding with his grandfather over their shared experiences is always a plus. and teddy interacting with any of the other imagin! i think him and deneb would be really adorable friends ♥)

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Hurdy | Gurdy

as the one who nominated ffcc, mayyybe i kinda cheated by nominating hurdy & gurdy as one character. ;o i mean, technically they share the same body, right? but i do consider them to be two very separate entities, so. idk. either way, they are the NPCs that interested me most in ffcc, a game i played as a kid but only recently saw through to the end. when i was younger it was just a fun distraction, but playing it again as an adult opened my eyes to how eerie and unsettling it really is: this bright, colourful world that's so much darker beneath the surface, where people's memories are constantly slipping away.
i'd love pretty much anything about hurdy & gurdy. pre-canon fic of his (whatever his name once was) journey with leon/the black knight - how they met, what their relationship was like (friendly or just business?), what happened during their encounter with raem (obviously it didn't end well, but maybe they came close to defeating him?). conversely, i'd love something mindfuck-y set during canon. are either of the two personalities aware of the other? i could've sworn some of gurdy's dialogue implied that he knew about his other self, but what about hurdy? how does he explain away the lost time - hours and even days he can't account for, going to sleep one place and waking up somewhere else? (finding scribbled fragments of poems in his pockets, in his own handwriting, but not being able to decipher what they mean.) how does he reconcile his preaching about the importance of memory with his own inability to remember anything at all?

(sidenotes: i didn't request him, but a bigger focus on the black knight would be cool, too. both he and hurdy/gurdy went mad because of their memory loss, but the end result was so different - one of them splitting himself in two to cope, the other filling up that emptiness with blind rage. "i will die a hollow man. where will my spirit go?" is a quote i'll never forget. man, ffcc is some weirdly grim shit)

so... yeah. that's about it, i guess!

places to find me: oryx @ AO3 (obviously), yagamieiji @ tumblr (nothing very interesting there, sorry to say), tezukamiyuki @ tumblr (if you matched with me on kamen rider - beware my painfully unfunny liveblogging)

thanks so much for writing for me ♥
with love, oryx
madame_oryx: (it's domino bitches)
to my assigned author --

hey-o!! my last rarewomen experience was fab so here i am, back for another round. if you matched to write for me i already know you've got A+ taste so i'm sure whatever you come up will be great~ but i shall include some actually helpful info for you just in case ;o

I LOVE:
* worldbuilding
* character studies
* present tense (though obvs i know this isn't for everyone, so feel free to disregard)
* understated/"less is more" romance
* complex platonic relationships
* drama/angst (though i like fluff as well!)
* tropes i enjoy: found family, pining/unrequited love, loyalty, hero worship, "us against the world," presumed dead, hurt/comfort, butterfly effect/fork in the road AUs, characters who suffer ~nobly for the good of someone else

EHH NOT SO MUCH:
* crossovers
* PWP (a well-placed sex scene is fine but i'd rather it not be the whole fic)
* mundane AUs
* first person POV

and now on to my requests:

Suikoden IV
Elenor Silverberg, Agnes

something to do with their teacher/student relationship would be amazing! pre-canon fic of when agnes first became elenor's apprentice, desperately trying to please her rather no-nonsense mentor, or something from elenor's POV - having to get used to agnes's presence and overall clinginess. post-canon fic would be great (and sad) too - agnes saying goodbye to the hermitage before she leaves the island, remembering her time there, or even her new life in the scarlet moon empire (i imagine she would constantly compare her new teacher to elenor). any little details about battle strategy and the teaching thereof would be hella rad *u*

Suikoden II
Teresa Wisemail, Jillia Blight, Elza

obviously you don't have to write these three together in the same story, though if you managed it i would certainly be impressed, hehe

teresa - pre-canon (either suikogaiden or directly before S2) fic about teresa dealing with the difficulties of politics/being a leader would be wonderful. or something post-canon would also be nice - trying to balance being mayor with her personal life, maybe? i ship shin/teresa and i tend to ignore the whole "it never worked out between them; he left and never returned" bullshit, so if he were included in the story that would be a plus. or i could get behind her being shipped with another character, if you have someone else suitable in mind!

jillia - i'm all about jillia's relationships with other people - jillia & luca, especially her watching him slowly devolve into insanity; jillia & pilika, living in their remote manor house after the war and growing up and supporting each other; jillia & jowy, who i sort of ship but not really?? i have very complicated ~feelings about the jowy/jillia ship. it hits some DNWs for me but at the same time i love how... quiet and thoughtful they are together, if that makes any sense? i like the idea of them sending secret letters to each other post-canon! (oh, and i'm also very much invested in the relationship between jillia & watari, which is mostly my own headcanon tbh and isn't based on much in the textual sense)

elza - she's my girl~ life as a young'un in the guild with kelley and clive, her thoughts around the time of the Mond/Stern Incident, her day-to-day life as a fugitive... anything about her would make my day ngl. i ship clive/elza/kelley super hard - probably one of my all-time OT3s - but i am down with her being shipped with other characters, women included. i actually rather like the idea of her having someone she stays with/goes to for comfort every once in a while (someone who knows nothing about her true identity, presumably)

Metal Gear
The Boss, Sniper Wolf

the boss - oh, how i love the boss. ♥ honestly as long as she's the main focus i would be pleased with pretty much anything! character study fic, sweet or angsty joy/sorrow (all-time OTP right there), pre-MGS3 mentor/student cuteness with jack (...maybe "cuteness" isn't the best word but you know what i mean), pre-peace walker fic about her and strangelove (i always wonder if she knew about strangelove's feelings?)... something with ocelot would be fab, too, with them talking and getting to know each other a bit more than what we see in the game. it's all good, really.

sniper wolf - god damn you, mgs, making me love all the characters who are destined to die tragically. :') i'd really like to see something about sniper wolf's early life in kurdistan, how she managed to get through each day and/or her sniper training under the gurkha. or fastforwarding ahead a little bit i'd also love to read about her first meeting with big boss or how she came to call him "saladin" & regard him with such respect. i don't ship her with anyone but if you want to go that route i wouldn't mind.

Final Fantasy X & X-2
Belgemine, Yocun

i'd love to read a fic about either one of their pilgrimages. :) with yocun we know that she was a crusader (and in her official art she's holding a sword) so she was clearly a warrior as well as a summoner, and it's interesting to think about how different her journey must have been because of this. she also seems a bit older in her official art, judging by her silver/white hair. i just love the idea of this badass older woman slashing through hordes of fiends on her way to zanarkand. they told her she couldn't do it, but she did, dammit! ;o getting a glimpse of belgemine's journey would be great as well, or her thoughts during FF10, or even a fic about her death - how she decided that her work wasn't done yet and that she needed to continue on as an unsent.

so... yeah. there we go. c: thank you so much in advance for writing for me!! you are wonderful~

with love, oryx

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