FFFX 25 letter

[thebansacredband]

Hi, thank you for writing for me for FFFX! I hope one of my prompts sparks joy, but if they don’t or you have your own ideas about a direction you’d like to take a nominated character or relationship, please do! I've only nominated things that I know I’ll love whatever I end up being gifted about them, so please follow your heart <3

General likes

• gender politics, anything exploring the way people of different genders go through life and the different things they deal with – systematic sexism, being married out of their family, pregnancy, etc. I also love anything that plays with gender eg cisswap (including gender bending a m/m ship to an m/f ship), trans characters, and bonus fantasy gender dynamics like omegaverse (I also enjoy mpreg in all its various flavours)
• whump, angst, hurt/comfort, dark!fic I – also enjoy fluff and humour as well! I make sure to emphasise that I enjoy the darker side of things because you kind of need to for gifts, but if you want to create something that is cracky nonsense please don’t feel put off lmao
• alternate universes – whether its canon divergence or everything’s the same but they have wings or anything really
• found family – can be platonic or romantic or sexual or something in between, as long as they’re all insane about each other
• ambiguous relationships – are they platonic or romantic or familial or what. Who knows
• arranged marriages – whether they fall in love or just end up as platonic life partners, I enjoy the strangers to lovers vibes
• polyam in all shapes and forms
• ace and/or aro headcanons
• I am just as fine with the pairs being one-sided, or not end game, as I am with them ending up in a long and happy relationship. I fully subscribe to the idea that sometimes shipping is about ‘wouldn’t it be fucked up if…’. So feel free to like kill one half of the pairing and have the other try to move on with their life, or have the pairings be no-strings-attached friends-with-benefits situations that aren't intended to last for a long time. Or have them be happily-ever-after married that's also good I do also like that.

Any background ships are also fine! I’m a multishipper at heart and the things I've requested aren't the only things I ship, just the things I'd be most interested in a focus on 

DNWs

• graphic descriptions/depictions of eye trauma
• horror as a genre (obviously mileage may vary on what counts as ‘horror’, but please err on the side of caution, especially for visual media)

 

 

The Blood of Youth

Oth: Worldbuilding

- The Blood of Youth is currently my favourite media of all time, has been for about 2 years, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to abate any time soon. When I say you can create literally anything for me under the guise of worldbuilding, I mean it

- For a more specific worldbuilding prompt, I’d love anything that focuses on Xueyue City: the way it keeps running despite the fact one of the city lords is an alcoholic and the other lives on a mountain and never talks to anyone; Dengtian Tower and all that involves; what the non-martial artists in the lower city think about all the nonsense that’s going on

- This can also include worldbuilding spilling over into the other shows in the franchise/the novels/the donghua. It’s all the same canon to meeee

 

Char: Tang Lian

- Tang Lian. Hdasfldkjsghfkahgkaflghkfhgkafjhgkfhgkafhgklfdhg. I genuinely cannot begin to explain how much I love him. I spent approximately 2 days crying over episode 26

- again I’m basically viewing this as a free prompt. You could give me 10k character study and I’d cry (positive). You could show Tang Lian interacting with literally anyone and I would be on my knees thanking you for it. You could write him being horribly and brutally tortured by Dark River instead of dying and I would be eating that up with a spoon. He hurts very pretty and he CARES so much and I love him

 

Tang Lian/Tiannü Rui | Fairy Lady Rui

- I really do love these two. Such an opposites attract kind of vibe but it’s clear they really do care about each other despite Rui’s flirty facade and Lian’s inability to deal with flirting whatsoever. (Also!! The fact that they call each other by just a single character name!! Makes me scream!!)

- I’d love a look at their backstory and how they met, or how their reunion goes post canon

 

Sikong Qianluo & Tang Lian

- Sikong Qianluo was about 10 when 17 year old Tang Lian came to Xueyue City, and it’s pretty obvious from their every interaction that she sees him as an older brother. Sikong Changfeng even describes him as her Xiongzhang rather than her Dashixiong when he’s talking to Tang Lianyue, which I noticed on a rewatch and promptly started screaming about

 

Baili Dongjun & Tang Lian

- the funniest master & disciple combo. Depressed alcoholic vs anxious nerd. They have nothing in common. It’s also pretty obvious in the very brief amount of time they interact that Baili Dongjun cares a lot about Tang Lian and really believes in him and his abilities, and I’d love to see more of them together

 

Sikong Changfeng & Sikong Qianluo

- and for my non-Tang Lian based prompt: best cdrama dad of all time and his spoiled brat daughter

- the author of the novel doesn’t understand what a consistent timeline is, so at some points of the show and novel you can calculate that Sikong Changfeng was about 17 or 18 when Qianluo was born. Obviously you don’t have to run with that but I’m obsessed with teen dad Sikong Changfeng just as a concept. (trans teen dad Sikong Changfeng??? *eyes emoji*)

 

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Char: Shan Gudao

- one thing you should know about me is that I am the number one (read: only) Shan Gudao Defender. Yeah he did all that, but honestly he deserved to do it. He’s a complex nuanced character and also a horrible awful person and I love him

- I’d love and appreciate anything that views him as a character with like. thoughts and feelings and motivations rather than just a cartoon villain. He can still be the villain and he can still lose if you want but I just want him to be marginally sympathetic

 

Char: He Xiaolan

- Fang Duobing’s birth mother is just so dead. What if she had got the chance to LIVE ;-;

 

Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi/Shan Gudao; Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi & Shan Gudao

- have you seen THIS POLL????? these two are insane about each other and literally every option on that poll is a goldmine and I would love and appreciate anything based on it. The most important thing is that they’re obsessed about each other but in completely different and non-compatible ways

 

He Xiaolan/Shan Gudao

- in the show it very much shows that she was interested in him but he was not interested in her. And yet, Fang Duobing still happens. And Shan Gudao doesn’t even know about it??

 

Nirvana in Fire

Char: Xiao Jingrui

- I’ve been thinking about Jingrui’s messed up family stuff, and his relationships with both sets of parents and siblings and especially that his brother married his sister but they’re not related but they only really properly know each other because of him.

- what if his not!twin hadn’t died but they still didn’t know which child was which? Would they just have picked one or would they both have swapped between the parents. And if that was the case would they go together or would they be like divorced parents who only ever see each other at swap time

 

Meng Zhi/Xiao Jingyu

- woe! Rarepair be upon ye

- basically the story is I was thinking about how well Meng Zhi knows Lin Shu and how much he trusts him and my brain alighted on the idea that he was in a secret relationship with Jingyu/Prince Qi which only Lin Shu had managed to figure out. Hence why MCS calls him Meng-dage [I am aware that people do just call their older friends dage. I was just overthinking it]

- I’d love to see an au where Jingyu survives secretly in Meng Zhi’s house the whole time. Or maybe even a secretly a girl/omega au where the emperor finds out and marries him off to Meng Zhi to avoid scandal. Or just them being sweet and maybe no one dying, as a treat

 

Meng Zhi/Mu Nihuang; Meng Zhi & Mu Nihuang

- all I’m saying is, the emperor said that Nihuang would have to marry someone who bested her in the tournament, so if the emperor also said that Meng Zhi had to compete in the tournament she would have had to marry him, because there’s no way the emperor would believe that three slave children defeated his own captain

-whether their arranged marriage ends up romantic or stays strictly platonic is up to you – I enjoy thinking about both! There’s a scene in the show where they’re both talking to MCS and it gave me intense ‘married couple worried about their single friend’ vibe

 

The Disguiser

Ming Cheng/Ming Lou

- they’re brothers they’re lovers they’re master and servant they’re politician and secretary they’re soldier they’re spies. They’re everything to me

 

Ming Cheng & Ming Jing & Ming Lou & Ming Tai

- AUGH this family. They all love each other so much but they’re so Complicated and the dynamics between them are messed up and they keep LYING to each other even when they’re all on the same side.

- why did no one teach dajie how to shoot a gun

 

Char: Ming Cheng

- THE character of all time. His position in the household is solid but from the outside he’s not even one of them. That must weigh on him, right??

 

Ming Cheng/Wang Manchun

- I just keep thinking about proxy-fucking. Like. She’s in love with Ming Lou. He’s in love with Ming Lou. She’s making do with him as an extension of Ming Lou. He’s using and manipulating her on Ming Lou’s instructions. They both hate each other.

 

Dashing Youth

Li Changsheng & Sikong Changfeng; Char: Sikong Changfeng; Baili Dongjun & Sikong Changfeng; Baili Dongjun & Li Hanyi & Sikong Changfeng

- devastated we didn’t get to see more of the Xueyue City Lords interacting in this show. Sikong Changfeng was Li Changsheng|Nangong Chunshui’s disciple for the whole of 5 minutes. I need moreeeeeeeeeee

- once again I would like to push my trans Sikong Changfeng agenda. He claims he woke up in a temple with no memory of his past but like, what if that’s just what he tells people so they don’t connect him to the little girl who ran away. How does this affect his interactions with his shifu and shixoingmen?

 

Sha Po Lang

At point of writing, I have just started reading volume 4, but I will have finished by reveals (one of the reasons for me signing up is to make sure I finish it by then). I haven’t read any fic yet because I don’t want any major spoilers (although I think I already do know how they end up? Maybe?) so I am basically giving anyone who wants to create for it free reign to write the 10k SPL fic/draw the 10 page SPL comic of your dreams.

The only vaguely prompt-ish thing I have is there was one scene where Chang Geng was like ‘if I’d known you when your father was beating you as a child I would have taken you away and raised you myself’ and all I could think was ‘what and groom him to be your childbride?? creep (affectionate)’. So if you need a prompt you could go with that but like that is very fucked up and again if you don’t want to create something really fucked up I will appreciate literally anything because I’m really enjoying the novel and when I did quickly look at the state of the fandom on ao3 it didn’t look like there was much which is Tragic