Dear Chocolatier!

[eglantiere]

Dear Chocolatier, thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you'll find something you like in my prompts; those are fandoms close and dear to my heart, so feel free to mix and match! As long as you avoid my DNWs, I'm good.

Things I like:
- Hurt/comfort in all its forms is always a sure bet. All the hurt/comfort, you can't do wrong (or be too hardcore) with it. Physical h/c, emotional h/c, captivity scenarios, caretaking, whipping, dungeons, bullet wounds, wilderness survival, whatever. I love hurt/comfort mostly within the context of a relationship (not necessarily romantic - filial ties, friendship, brothers-in-arms comradeship, whichever fits), as an opening for one character to be hurt and for the other to be outraged/terrified/comforting on their behalf. The only thing I'm particular about is who in a particular gets whumped.
- Found families, tight friendships, us-against-the-world, people finding and keeping each other, providing kindness and warmth against the dark.
- Hope and kindness, Clair universes, stories where the entropy tries its hardest but doesn't win.
- Loyalty in all forms! From ritualized (oaths, kneeling, ring-kissing, knights and bodyguards and henchmen and so on) to more casual ways, like standing up for your friends.
- Self-sacrifice (metaphorical and quite literal) and martyrdom (ditto).
- Tropey AUs - space opera! high fantasy! historical! pirates!
- Outsider POVs.

DNWs:
- Hurt no comfort
- Partner betrayal of any kind or infidelity
- Unhappy endings and permanent character death
- A/B/O, hurtcomfortverse, any other 'verses with built-in biology-based inequality
- Hanahaki AUs and variations thereof
- Soulmate AUs
- Mundane AUs
- PWPs

And some links, if you're so inclined:
- My fics at egelantier
- My bookmarks
- Exchange sign-ups, Dear Writer letters, recs etc.

The Collared Knight - Tara McGolden
Farnesse/Lio/Ralston

This book (a cleverly done ot3 slavefic with WWI-inspired magical setting) is one of my top 2018 black horse favorites, and I'm hugely excited about the chance to request a fic for it. Full confession: Farnesse is my favorite, in all his ridiculously macho heroic glory, and while the book did a great job of slowly deconstructing his martyr fantasies, my id is not that far from Farnesse's, and what I crave is a chance for him to gloriously lay his soul and body down for his loves' sake. And so:
- Literally any variation on Accepting Torture To Protect His Loved Ones, as it says on a tin.
- Accepting some public and unpleasant punishment so Lio won't have to / Ralston's position won't suffer.
- Same but Ralston is the one who has to hurt him, and Farnesse practically sweet-talks him into it.
- ...Those shock collars and use thereof were criminally underused in canon, I'm just saying.
- Getting kidnapped by Ralston's enemies and steadfastly refusing to be their bargaining chip.
- Deciding, for some reason, Lio and Ralston are very much suited to each other and Better Off Without Him, and subtly trying to distance himself for their sake - preferably resolved by some flashy and physically horrible happenstance, yes please.
- More dealing with his war trauma PTSD please.
- Going undercover with people who think he will turn on Ralston, and getting into trouble.
- Hiding injuries / illness / harassment from somebody else in the castle and trying to deal with it by himself.
- A scene with Ralston going wrong, possibly due to inadvertently hitting on aforementioned PTSD war trauma, and the aftermath thereof.
- Some nebulous trouble in their post-canon Canadian Snack: snowed in, injured while out, harassed by the general population, fighting off intruders, getting sick, trading himself for the food on the sly after a particularly bad harvest, whatever.
...And any other option that comes to mind.

バチカン奇跡調査官 | Vatican Kiseki Chousakan | Vatican Miracle Examiner (Anime)
Hiraga Josef Kou & Roberto Nicholas

VME continues to be my delight and joy; I'm reusing my previous requests because they already netted me some great fics and I want more. So; VME being sparkly, completely ridiculous, somehow deadly serious despite being completely ridiculous, and full of gorgeous, warm, feelings-filled devotion between Roberto and Hiraga, and I loved each of its weird and wonderful story beats. It's also hella whiplashy in tone, and I guess my prompts will reflect that. In general: bring on candlelit dinners, creepy and twisted cases, true and false miracles, Roberto whump, pining, science, tears and hugs.
In particular:
- Casefics, casefics, all the casefics, all the deliciously weird casefics with all the life-and-death situations you can think of. Cave-ins! Blizzards! Death traps rooms! Ambushes and kidnappings! Cuddling for warmth! Protecting each other! More snakebites and weird amazing hallucinations! Evil cultists! Helpful application of sulphuric acid!
- Alternately, I have this craving for the strange domesticity of their Vatican life; maybe Roberto and Hiraga moving together and navigating the shores of their life together? Dinners and shopping and taking care and this easy, benign understanding they have for each other (honestly, I was dead and gone on the canon from their very scene together, where Hiraga admits to playing his game for the whole night in hopes that it would somehow help his little brother, and Roberto just going with it without missing a beat - and then, well, going to clean and iron for Hiraga, as one does).
- For some reason, I'd really love an old-fashioned sickfic for this fandom. Fever, pain, tender care, gentle blanket-tucking… It just feels like it would really suit. (Somehow I feel it combines well with the previous option)
- I'm sure this wasn't the last time Julia had tried to convert them both to his case, and the events in the finale will most definitely come back to haunt them. So, how?
- Somebody once described Roberto's feelings for Hiraga as 'pining while already being in a committed relationship,' and just. Yes. Hiraga is at once so obviously full of love, and so oblivious of it, that there are endless possibilities for angst here, and I want all of them.- …on unrelated note, I feel like this is the canon where I can actually mention, in Yuletide, that I have a crucifixion kink a mile wide. So, I have a crucifixion (h/c) kink a mile wide, and Roberto is an ideal candidate.
- Bonus option: If you like to serious-ify a cracky canon, go for it! The show uses a very anime kind of Catholicism, mostly aesthetics and trappings, but I'm fascinated with how injecting a bit of the real deal will change things (or not): the actual everyday application of faith, you know? For example, we know from the novels that Hiraga is a true believer but Roberto mostly treats his position as a job that gives him access to old books; I wonder if the canon events changed it, for both of them.
If you like Lauren, I'm of the opinion that Lauren makes everything better (and makes for an ideal outsider's POV). Ditto Bill.
Fandom-specific DNW caveat: For me, the allure of this relationship, given that both of them are priests, is that they are completely devoted to each other, but they're also at peace with being celibate. I'd prefer to see the same setup in fic - so, no sex between them, and also no angst about having to be celibate.

Final Fantasy XV
Noctis Lucis Caelum/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Ignis Scientia

This is the rare-3 that's very dear to my heart. I adore the idea of Noct bringing Ignis into his marriage as a dowry, and Ignis transferring part of their loyalty to Luna, and the three of them navigating their complicated relationship together (in whatever combination speaks to you; maybe an equilateral triangle, maybe a V thing with Noctis in the middle, or maybe even some combination of sexual and platonic love - as long as they all end up being equally important to each other).
I love all three of them - Ignis with his perfect combination of loyalty, competence, hidden dorkitude and high martyrdom; Noct who's sometimes childish and sometimes petty, but who loves people a whole lot and learns to walk to his destiny so well; and Luna with her healing and her grace and her iron will and marching onward to subdue the gods and sweeps armored soldiers aside with disdain. I basically just want to see them together, being glorious.
Some scenarios! As you might've noticed, I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort, especially for Ignis to be hurt, so if our interests align, feel free to pour it in liberally.
- No-Destiny AUs where the threat from the Empire exists, and the marriage to Luna is still arranged, but there's no Ardyn or gods or mystical threats, and the three of them have to nagivate their relationship and the politics together.
- Any variation of Luna-on-the-roadtrip with Noct and Ignis and the other bros, all of them having badass adventures.
- Ignis makes his way to the altar in Altissia earlier and saves Luna as well as Noct (preferably at the same or higher personal cost), and it changes the course of history.
- Luna and Ignis in WOR, holding the world together for Noct's return with teeth, nails, magic and anger.
- When Niflhelm strikes Tenebrae, Regis has to flee, and Ignis and Noct are both left behind and raised with Luna in captivity.
- If you like your smut, personally I'm very much in favor of Luna and Noct gently (or not quite) co-domming Ignis. You know?
And so on! And any other options I have not thought about!

Thank you so much! Looking forward to meeting you soon.