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Summertime Sadness 2021 Letter
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echoslam on AO3, and I'm so happy for this exchange! I'd love to see more tragic angst and heartbreak in my fandoms, so I will be excited for whatever you want to make for my request.
Everything in this letter is optional. I'm just as happy for you to create something based solely on the tags we matched on.
Requesting fanart and fanfic for everything!
General notes:
-I like all levels of tragedy, from subtle melancholy to full-on grimdark cataclysm.
-I'm cool with whatever you want to do with the setting. Any kind of AU, crossover, or fusion is fine.
-I'm fine with including additional background characters and ships, but I prefer no poly that includes any of my requested pairings.
Sad likes:
-Bad endings
-Never getting over your grief
-Falls from grace
-Descents into madness
-Existential angst
-Lovers to enemies
-Messages from beyond the grave
-Painful pining
-Sad porn: dub or noncon, sex with partner's ghost or a hallucination, sadsturbation, etc.
-Any excuse for hanahaki disease
-Sad soulmate AUs
-"Kiss me hard before you go" as a theme
Art likes (all styles welcome):
-TEARS
-Holding each other while both look pained or anguished
-Together in a sad or monochrome landscape
-Mourning dress
-Scenes of death or violence
-For ships involving death: portrait of one half of the pairing with the outline/ghost of the other near them
-Symbology
General Do Not Wants:
-Bestiality (relationships involving shapeshifters are fine)
-Body waste kinks
-Fisting
-Futanari
-Inflation kink
-Use of the word “cunt” or "twat" during sex scenes
Please consider all prompts open-ended, and feel free to mix and match elements or change them up as you see fit.
Bleach
Ulquiorra Cifer/Inoue Orihime
Tags:
Being together is just fighting destiny
Stockholm Syndrome
Captivity
Making a Grave for Loved One When There's No Body
Alternate Universe - Dystopic Soulmate AU
I love this ship as having a sense of mutual captivation if not romantic attraction. The Hueco Mundo setting is always fascinating to me, but I'm also interested in what happens if they end up elsewhere. For smut, any level of consent is fine. I'm also cool with mentioning any other Orihime ships.
Prompts:
-Orihime succumbs completely to Stockholm Syndrome, and this pleases Aizen (and potentially Ulquiorra?)
-Both of them are used for sadistic experiments
-Ulquiorra continues to exist in a non-corporeal form and witnesses Orihime's life as canon events continue or diverge as you see fit
-Orihime makes a grave for Ulquiorra
Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Sonia Nevermind/Tanaka Gundam
Tags:
Grief/Mourning
One half of the ship is a ghost
Death game
A goes evil & can't be cured/contained;B stays with them as they wreak havoc instead of killing them
I love everything about their relationship, especially the darker elements. I definitely prefer mutual attraction or co-dependence as far as how they see each other, but it can also be left unresolved, especially with regards to Gundam's "death."
Prompts:
-Anything in Despair!!
-Mastermind Gundam or Sonia AU
-Macabre fairy tale themes
-Dark fuck princess Sonia
New Dangan Ronpa V3
Akamatsu Kaede/Amami Rantaro
Akamatsu Kaede/Harukawa Maki
Tags:
One half of the ship is a ghost
Grief/Mourning
Death game
Music as Ritual Communication with the Dead
These characters have so much going on between the identity issues and the real vs perceived death and murder. Feel free to deal with them however you want or just revel in all the dark stuff.
Prompts:
-Executions for Rantaro or Maki
-Relationship with ghost/spiritual advisor Kaede
-Sad piano music themes
Downton Abbey
Mary Crawley/Anna Smith
Sybil Crawley/Tom Branson
Tags:
The slow realization of figuring out that the object of your loyalty is a terrible person
Power Imbalance
Hanahaki Disease - knows it will eventually kill them; keeps it a secret anyway
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
Pining for someone who is dead or never coming back
Abusive Relationships
Character dies but comes back as a ghost to stay close to love interest(s)/lover(s)
Alternate Universe - Dystopic Soulmate AU
Downton Abbey was very efficient about doling out death and exquisite pain to my favorite characters, and I'm here for more of it!
For Mary/Anna, I'm fascinated by the imbalanced nature of their relationship and just how far Anna is willing to go to uphold her own sense of duty toward her employers. I like both one side-pining and mutual attraction, and I'm not at all opposed to seeing Mary being awful. Feel free to deal with the canon love interests however you wish.
For Sybil/Tom, I love the tragedy element surrounding Sybil's death and the despairing sense of "We went through so much to be together, but this is how it ends??" Extremely sad and eternally grieving Tom is my jam, so anything involving mourning, ghost!Sybil hallucinations or unhealthy coping mechanisms is great.
I'd prefer to ignore the movie canon and the Edna Braithwaite subplot for this request.
Prompts:
-The emotional consequences of being Mary's confidante
-Mary asks Anna to do things she's increasingly uncomfortable with, and Anna can't say no
-Mary makes Anna's rape trauma worse
-Societally incompatible soulmates
-Post-Edwardian Hanahaki disease
-Relationship with ghost!Sybil
-Morbid behavior that the Crawleys (esp Robert) find very creepy
Dungeon Fighter Online
Marianne Jurgen/Tammy Lohengrin
Hiram Klauf/Woon Lyonir
Tags:
Realizing the Person You Love Can't Be Redeemed and You Have To Kill Them
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
Torture
Unhealthy disaster relationship neither of them can quit
Hindsight makes everything worse
Love Turns To Hatred (But The Love Never Goes Away)
A was a traitor all along (but it's too late for B's forgiveness no matter how much they regret it)
A was a traitor all along (and doesn't regret it)
So I kind of loved how at level 90 you go back to Ghent and it's like TroyDeliveringPizza.gif: the city is on fire, there's revolt going on, your old NPC buddies are stabbing each other in the back left and right, and people are dropping like flies. It was all very tragic and emotionally-charged and I just want more of it.
Poor Woon is already a tragedy-burdened emotional wreck to begin with, and getting involved with Hiram would only have made it even worse. As for Tammy, I was taken by how she's one of the few people who actually stood up to Marianne and told her off to her face, and I'm so curious as to what a relationship between them would have been like. That whole "I tried to respect you before, but now..." attitude really made me wonder.
I know the DFO lore is a bit convoluted and hard to follow given the MMO format and stuff not always being accessible, so don't feel like you have to be super accurate with canon details. I'm happy for you to fill in the blanks however you want. Really I'll be delighted by anything at all featuring Hiram or Marianne being terrible and Woon/Tammy suffering because of it.
Prompts:
-Bad Ending or AU with Woon/Tammy getting captured during the revolt and being tortured or nonconned by their former love interest.
-Woon's PTSD being used against him, maybe Hiram took advantage of him during a vulnerable moment
-Hiram/Marianne thinking cruel and malicious thoughts whilst getting it on with Woon/Tammy before the betrayal
-Trying to turn the other partner to their side or redeem them and despair when they realize it isn't going to happen
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Male Byleth Eisner/Ashe Ubert
Tags:
Older/more senior character gets in trouble for relationship with younger/subordinate character
Hanahaki Disease - knows it will eventually kill them; keeps it a secret anyway
Killed By Love Interest/SO
I didn't tell you I love you and now it's too late
Farewells
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
I see this relationship as being sweet and mutually affectionate but with tons of angst baked in due to complicated mentor/student feelings, the war stuff, and Byleth's potentially incompatible lifespan.
Prompts:
-Teacher/student relationship angst
-Existential musings about Byleth's potential immortality, Mayfly/December romance stuff, etc
-Ashe is forced to kill Byleth on any of the routes where they end up on opposing sides
The Fly (1986)
Solo: Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle/Veronica Quaife
Tags:
Existential Despair
Killed By Love Interest/SO
Descent into Madness
Plan to Fix Canon Issue Fails
Loss of Identity
I adore tragic metamorphosis themes, and I would love to see anything about this movie, really. Graphic body horror is definitely very welcome. You can ignore my bestiality DNW for this request.
Prompts:
-Seth's perspective as he loses his mind to the fly-ness
-Seth's obituary
-Creepy/horrifying flyman sex
Liar! Uncover the Truth
Main Character/Kagami Kazumi
Tags:
Character dies but comes back as a ghost to stay close to love interest(s)/lover(s)
Character A Is Terminally Ill
Grief/Mourning
Characters know their relationship won't end well; they still get together
Keeping an object that formerly belonged to a dead loved one
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
I have seen the Kazumi route described as "Tragic Shojo Drama Bait", and hell yeah, it totally is. I love the idea of them taking a chance on love, even it doesn't work out in a traditional happy ending.
Any name or nameless MC are both fine.
Prompts:
-Lover's Route/Love Ending turns tragic
-Kazumi agrees to a friends with benefits-type relationship on the condition that they have a pretense about not having feelings (even though they definitely do)
-Ghost!Kazumi stuff
-Kazumi writes more love stories, MC reads them after his death and is sad
萌妻食神 | Meng Qi Shi Shen (Cartoon)
Xia Chunyu/Ye Jiayao
Tags:
Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything
being together is just fighting destiny
Happy ending undone by time travel
Caught between two worlds; belonging to neither
Cute series about cooking and transmigration! I'd love to see a more tragic take on it.
Prompts:
-They never get to be together again or are separated except for a brief period every X years in a qixi sort of thing
-Angsty food porn
-Chunyu pines for Jiayao's cooking
-Are somehow forced to observe the novelverse version of their relationship (all that noncon...)
全职高手 Quánzhí Gāoshǒu/The King's Avatar
Qiao Yifan/Creator's Choice of Male Character
Dancing Rain/Su Mucheng
Han Wenqing/Su Mucheng
Wei Chen/Yu Wenzhou
Tags:
Self-destructive habits as coping mechanism
Love Turns To Hatred (But The Love Never Goes Away)
Realizing Too Late That Unrequited Love Was Actually Requited
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
Hanahaki Disease - knows it will eventually kill them; keeps it a secret anyway
Hallucinations
IMO, most of the serious conflict in this series is within the players themselves and their personal motivations and struggles. Anything that deals with those kind of issues or just some good old sad or messed up relationships would be great to see.
Prompts:
-Missed signals with romantic partner, painful mutual pining
-Friends/Lovers to Enemies/Rivals
-Sadness related to stress or feeling they aren't living up to their own brutal expectations
-Qiao Yifan having an angsty frenemies romance with someone on another team
-Dancing Rain as the embodiment of Su Mucheng's survivor's guilt that torments her in hallucinations or dreams
-Su Mucheng/Han Wenqing: Melodramatic Romeo and Juliet themes
-Wei Chen/Yu Wenzhou: messed up relationship between a former captain and the trainee he never took and interest in until it was too late, lots of bitterness and resentment welcome
Thank you so much for your time! If anything needs clarification, feel free to let me know.
Thanks for checking this out! I'm
Everything in this letter is optional. I'm just as happy for you to create something based solely on the tags we matched on.
Requesting fanart and fanfic for everything!
General notes:
-I like all levels of tragedy, from subtle melancholy to full-on grimdark cataclysm.
-I'm cool with whatever you want to do with the setting. Any kind of AU, crossover, or fusion is fine.
-I'm fine with including additional background characters and ships, but I prefer no poly that includes any of my requested pairings.
Sad likes:
-Bad endings
-Never getting over your grief
-Falls from grace
-Descents into madness
-Existential angst
-Lovers to enemies
-Messages from beyond the grave
-Painful pining
-Sad porn: dub or noncon, sex with partner's ghost or a hallucination, sadsturbation, etc.
-Any excuse for hanahaki disease
-Sad soulmate AUs
-"Kiss me hard before you go" as a theme
Art likes (all styles welcome):
-TEARS
-Holding each other while both look pained or anguished
-Together in a sad or monochrome landscape
-Mourning dress
-Scenes of death or violence
-For ships involving death: portrait of one half of the pairing with the outline/ghost of the other near them
-Symbology
General Do Not Wants:
-Bestiality (relationships involving shapeshifters are fine)
-Body waste kinks
-Fisting
-Futanari
-Inflation kink
-Use of the word “cunt” or "twat" during sex scenes
Please consider all prompts open-ended, and feel free to mix and match elements or change them up as you see fit.
Bleach
Ulquiorra Cifer/Inoue Orihime
Tags:
Being together is just fighting destiny
Stockholm Syndrome
Captivity
Making a Grave for Loved One When There's No Body
Alternate Universe - Dystopic Soulmate AU
I love this ship as having a sense of mutual captivation if not romantic attraction. The Hueco Mundo setting is always fascinating to me, but I'm also interested in what happens if they end up elsewhere. For smut, any level of consent is fine. I'm also cool with mentioning any other Orihime ships.
Prompts:
-Orihime succumbs completely to Stockholm Syndrome, and this pleases Aizen (and potentially Ulquiorra?)
-Both of them are used for sadistic experiments
-Ulquiorra continues to exist in a non-corporeal form and witnesses Orihime's life as canon events continue or diverge as you see fit
-Orihime makes a grave for Ulquiorra
Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Sonia Nevermind/Tanaka Gundam
Tags:
Grief/Mourning
One half of the ship is a ghost
Death game
A goes evil & can't be cured/contained;B stays with them as they wreak havoc instead of killing them
I love everything about their relationship, especially the darker elements. I definitely prefer mutual attraction or co-dependence as far as how they see each other, but it can also be left unresolved, especially with regards to Gundam's "death."
Prompts:
-Anything in Despair!!
-Mastermind Gundam or Sonia AU
-Macabre fairy tale themes
-Dark fuck princess Sonia
New Dangan Ronpa V3
Akamatsu Kaede/Amami Rantaro
Akamatsu Kaede/Harukawa Maki
Tags:
One half of the ship is a ghost
Grief/Mourning
Death game
Music as Ritual Communication with the Dead
These characters have so much going on between the identity issues and the real vs perceived death and murder. Feel free to deal with them however you want or just revel in all the dark stuff.
Prompts:
-Executions for Rantaro or Maki
-Relationship with ghost/spiritual advisor Kaede
-Sad piano music themes
Downton Abbey
Mary Crawley/Anna Smith
Sybil Crawley/Tom Branson
Tags:
The slow realization of figuring out that the object of your loyalty is a terrible person
Power Imbalance
Hanahaki Disease - knows it will eventually kill them; keeps it a secret anyway
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
Pining for someone who is dead or never coming back
Abusive Relationships
Character dies but comes back as a ghost to stay close to love interest(s)/lover(s)
Alternate Universe - Dystopic Soulmate AU
Downton Abbey was very efficient about doling out death and exquisite pain to my favorite characters, and I'm here for more of it!
For Mary/Anna, I'm fascinated by the imbalanced nature of their relationship and just how far Anna is willing to go to uphold her own sense of duty toward her employers. I like both one side-pining and mutual attraction, and I'm not at all opposed to seeing Mary being awful. Feel free to deal with the canon love interests however you wish.
For Sybil/Tom, I love the tragedy element surrounding Sybil's death and the despairing sense of "We went through so much to be together, but this is how it ends??" Extremely sad and eternally grieving Tom is my jam, so anything involving mourning, ghost!Sybil hallucinations or unhealthy coping mechanisms is great.
I'd prefer to ignore the movie canon and the Edna Braithwaite subplot for this request.
Prompts:
-The emotional consequences of being Mary's confidante
-Mary asks Anna to do things she's increasingly uncomfortable with, and Anna can't say no
-Mary makes Anna's rape trauma worse
-Societally incompatible soulmates
-Post-Edwardian Hanahaki disease
-Relationship with ghost!Sybil
-Morbid behavior that the Crawleys (esp Robert) find very creepy
Dungeon Fighter Online
Marianne Jurgen/Tammy Lohengrin
Hiram Klauf/Woon Lyonir
Tags:
Realizing the Person You Love Can't Be Redeemed and You Have To Kill Them
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
Torture
Unhealthy disaster relationship neither of them can quit
Hindsight makes everything worse
Love Turns To Hatred (But The Love Never Goes Away)
A was a traitor all along (but it's too late for B's forgiveness no matter how much they regret it)
A was a traitor all along (and doesn't regret it)
So I kind of loved how at level 90 you go back to Ghent and it's like TroyDeliveringPizza.gif: the city is on fire, there's revolt going on, your old NPC buddies are stabbing each other in the back left and right, and people are dropping like flies. It was all very tragic and emotionally-charged and I just want more of it.
Poor Woon is already a tragedy-burdened emotional wreck to begin with, and getting involved with Hiram would only have made it even worse. As for Tammy, I was taken by how she's one of the few people who actually stood up to Marianne and told her off to her face, and I'm so curious as to what a relationship between them would have been like. That whole "I tried to respect you before, but now..." attitude really made me wonder.
I know the DFO lore is a bit convoluted and hard to follow given the MMO format and stuff not always being accessible, so don't feel like you have to be super accurate with canon details. I'm happy for you to fill in the blanks however you want. Really I'll be delighted by anything at all featuring Hiram or Marianne being terrible and Woon/Tammy suffering because of it.
Prompts:
-Bad Ending or AU with Woon/Tammy getting captured during the revolt and being tortured or nonconned by their former love interest.
-Woon's PTSD being used against him, maybe Hiram took advantage of him during a vulnerable moment
-Hiram/Marianne thinking cruel and malicious thoughts whilst getting it on with Woon/Tammy before the betrayal
-Trying to turn the other partner to their side or redeem them and despair when they realize it isn't going to happen
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Male Byleth Eisner/Ashe Ubert
Tags:
Older/more senior character gets in trouble for relationship with younger/subordinate character
Hanahaki Disease - knows it will eventually kill them; keeps it a secret anyway
Killed By Love Interest/SO
I didn't tell you I love you and now it's too late
Farewells
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
I see this relationship as being sweet and mutually affectionate but with tons of angst baked in due to complicated mentor/student feelings, the war stuff, and Byleth's potentially incompatible lifespan.
Prompts:
-Teacher/student relationship angst
-Existential musings about Byleth's potential immortality, Mayfly/December romance stuff, etc
-Ashe is forced to kill Byleth on any of the routes where they end up on opposing sides
The Fly (1986)
Solo: Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle/Veronica Quaife
Tags:
Existential Despair
Killed By Love Interest/SO
Descent into Madness
Plan to Fix Canon Issue Fails
Loss of Identity
I adore tragic metamorphosis themes, and I would love to see anything about this movie, really. Graphic body horror is definitely very welcome. You can ignore my bestiality DNW for this request.
Prompts:
-Seth's perspective as he loses his mind to the fly-ness
-Seth's obituary
-Creepy/horrifying flyman sex
Liar! Uncover the Truth
Main Character/Kagami Kazumi
Tags:
Character dies but comes back as a ghost to stay close to love interest(s)/lover(s)
Character A Is Terminally Ill
Grief/Mourning
Characters know their relationship won't end well; they still get together
Keeping an object that formerly belonged to a dead loved one
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
I have seen the Kazumi route described as "Tragic Shojo Drama Bait", and hell yeah, it totally is. I love the idea of them taking a chance on love, even it doesn't work out in a traditional happy ending.
Any name or nameless MC are both fine.
Prompts:
-Lover's Route/Love Ending turns tragic
-Kazumi agrees to a friends with benefits-type relationship on the condition that they have a pretense about not having feelings (even though they definitely do)
-Ghost!Kazumi stuff
-Kazumi writes more love stories, MC reads them after his death and is sad
萌妻食神 | Meng Qi Shi Shen (Cartoon)
Xia Chunyu/Ye Jiayao
Tags:
Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything
being together is just fighting destiny
Happy ending undone by time travel
Caught between two worlds; belonging to neither
Cute series about cooking and transmigration! I'd love to see a more tragic take on it.
Prompts:
-They never get to be together again or are separated except for a brief period every X years in a qixi sort of thing
-Angsty food porn
-Chunyu pines for Jiayao's cooking
-Are somehow forced to observe the novelverse version of their relationship (all that noncon...)
全职高手 Quánzhí Gāoshǒu/The King's Avatar
Qiao Yifan/Creator's Choice of Male Character
Dancing Rain/Su Mucheng
Han Wenqing/Su Mucheng
Wei Chen/Yu Wenzhou
Tags:
Self-destructive habits as coping mechanism
Love Turns To Hatred (But The Love Never Goes Away)
Realizing Too Late That Unrequited Love Was Actually Requited
Hanahaki Disease - begins after loved one's death
Hanahaki Disease - knows it will eventually kill them; keeps it a secret anyway
Hallucinations
IMO, most of the serious conflict in this series is within the players themselves and their personal motivations and struggles. Anything that deals with those kind of issues or just some good old sad or messed up relationships would be great to see.
Prompts:
-Missed signals with romantic partner, painful mutual pining
-Friends/Lovers to Enemies/Rivals
-Sadness related to stress or feeling they aren't living up to their own brutal expectations
-Qiao Yifan having an angsty frenemies romance with someone on another team
-Dancing Rain as the embodiment of Su Mucheng's survivor's guilt that torments her in hallucinations or dreams
-Su Mucheng/Han Wenqing: Melodramatic Romeo and Juliet themes
-Wei Chen/Yu Wenzhou: messed up relationship between a former captain and the trainee he never took and interest in until it was too late, lots of bitterness and resentment welcome
Thank you so much for your time! If anything needs clarification, feel free to let me know.