First of all, apologies if I've screwed up or misunderstood the rules in some way: the only other exchange I've participated in is Yuletide, and I believe the matching on this one is different. If I start talking about prompts for characters you don't want to write on the fandom we matched, feel free to ignore that part, since on most of these I'm pretty flexible and would be fine with any combination of nominated characters. I'm not trying to game the system, I'm genuinely confused by it. While I'm mostly in the market for character-centric gen (or in some cases femslash) I do have some het ships and favored male characters I'll mention. Obviously those are all optional, so please don't take that to mean I don't actually want fic centering on the women!
If you find yourself regretting the fandom match and wanting to switch, I can't really help you with the availability of Suikoden games or FF6, nor can I hook you up with a level 86 character so you can do Li Li's quests in World of Warcraft, but I can tell you that Tiger & Bunny (a superhero action/dramedy) and Madoka Magica (a very dark magical girl anime) are both available subtitled on Hulu, if you have access to that. T&B is 25 episodes long and Madoka Magica is 12.
Touching on some other things that some people feel strongly about: Use whatever narrative tense or POV you want. I don't have any triggers to speak of, though I really, really, really hate scenes of public humiliation. I get annoyed with Japanese honorifics and terminology used in non-Japanese settings (i.e. Tiger & Bunny,) though I can take or leave it in Japanese settings and I've used them myself. Another thing I can take or leave is extra-canon info (spin-off or tie-in works, adaptations in other media, interviews with the creators.) They can give some fun info to use to embroider the world, but I hate when people act like they're irrefutable canon or use them to stifle fan theories and speculation, i.e. "that's a neat idea but the writers SAID..." As far as I'm concerned, canon is what's onscreen, not what's in the game guide or on the character designer's blog or the director's Twitter.
Things I like are pretty much covered in the prompts, but in general, I enjoy world-building, meta about the functioning of the world (its magic system, the superhero industry in T&B, etc.) domesticity that doesn't erase canon personalities (when I talk about domesticity, I'm thinking more of bickering about the dishes than about smooching while shopping for curtains,) sex that's awkward or silly, people who enjoy each other's company and laugh together whether they're platonic friends or lovers and whether they're sharing a meal or having sex, and maybe most of all, people finding ways to reach hope and contentment despite having been to hell and back.
( Tiger & Bunny: Pao-lin Huang and Karina Lyle ) ( Final Fantasy VI: Terra Branford )
( Suikoden: Cleo )( Suikoden III: Aila )
( Madoka Magica: Kaname Junko and Saotome Kazuko ) ( World of Warcraft: Li Li Stormstout )![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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