PDPH Post #2

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CLAIMED

PH 23 - Naruto, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2, Gravity Falls, Paranatural (Webcomic), Homestuck, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Magical Diary (Visual Novels), Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2, Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)

Request 1 by cricket_aria
Naruto
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Haruno Sakura (Naruto)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship, F/M - Relationship

Do you ever get into a show with a large cast and for a good long while you poke around in the fandom thinking "I'm here for a good hunk of the ensemble!" right up until you realize that you're only really clicking things where the summaries focus on one member of the cast? That is my Naruto story, where I still have lots of affection for most of the cast but any time I dip my toes back in for a second I'll gravitate to anything I see that seems to give Sakura her time in the limelight. I have a soft-spot for her in age-gap relationships, and among her own generation also really like stories pairing her with people you don't see her interact with as often so we can see what they bring out in her in a relationship.

I'm also super into her making use of her strength around someone who finds it hot as hell, and into using her healing abilities for the sake of hurt-comfort or for someone who's into her getting inappropriately turned on during what's supposed to be a routine check-up/healing. Getting creative with jutsu or weaponry during intimate moments is also A++.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, teacher/student pairings, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, underage for 14+ for anything sexual but chaste crushes are fine earlier, time travelling and hooking up with figures in the past or younger versions of people she already knows

Pairing DNWs: Sakura/Naruto or Sakura/Sasuke

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine, if her family comes up I even greatly prefer commoner!Sakura)

Request 2 by cricket_aria
Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy 1997)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship, F/M - Relationship, F/M/M - Relationship

Tifa is a character who really grew on me over the years, way back when I first played the game my reaction to her was basically "Blahhhh childhood friend romance figure, I am never giving the game the satisfaction of putting her in my party if I can help it" because I was a contrary little snot but over replays she grew and grew on me until her getting a chance to be happy became very important to me!

Much like with Sakura I am very into her getting to fight and her love interest being totally into how tough she is. I'm also really interested in whoever she's with's reaction to the godawful scar that's surely revealed whenever they first see her with her top off (one of my minor headcanons is that she dresses the way she does to hide it in plain sight; if any of Shinra's systems ever flag that there's someone living in the slums who their records suggest should have been in Nibelheim when it burned, well, no need to look very closely because nobody who actually was there would have gotten out unscathed and nobody would be hiding Sephiroth-damage under that little clothing). Any flirty bartender action, or her love interest playing bouncer for her, or her love interest attempting to play bouncer for her except she's already bounced the problem herself before they can cut in (and it's hot).

Also, chocobo racing! If you'd be interested in humoring it my extremely dumb favorite vision of the post-game future, based purely on her occasionally popping out and asking for a chance to race, is her (and Cid, for the same reason) playing jockey to chocobos that Cloud's off breeding then running a bar in the Ghost Hotel in the evenings.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 15+ underage is fine if you want to give her a chance to get some before the Nibelheim incident, and even though I didn't check Tifa/Other if you go with Tifa/Reeve I'd be fine with her flirting with Cait Sith.

Pairing DNWs: Tifa/post-Nibelheim massacre Sephiroth (before he snapped, whether by time travel or a very brief fling before he decides humans are a plague, is fine), Tifa/Don Corneo

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine)

Request 3 by cricket_aria
Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Yuna (FFX & FFX-2)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship, F/M - Relationship, F/Many - Relatonship, F/Other - Relationship

With most of the characters that I'm a big multishipper over it's basically "I love the character and am really interested in seeing how they bounce off of anyone else a writer might ship them with", but with Yuna it's more "I love her, she spent the majority of her life ready and willing to give up everything for the sake of everyone else, and she damned well deserves the chance to want something just for herself instead and get to keep it" so if you can convince me that she wants someone than I will be all in favor of their getting to be happy together.

I prefer things set post-X, when the final summoning isn't hanging over her head, or at least with a few scenes set after it when the both know that Yuna isn't going to die and didn't doom the world when she took down the old system. I like both things where she continues to go out and have adventures, with or without the rest of the Gullwings, and things where she just gets to settle in an have some peace and quiet after everything she's been through. I love people looking at the fact that she's sweet and soft-spoken and thinking it means that she'll just be a pushover right up until they run into that iron core she has that won't let her budge from doing what she thinks is right. I like her getting a chance to explore the Al Bhed side of her heritage (my favorite weird post-canon mental picture for her is her convincing Gippal to hire her on as a full-time digger; I'm endlessly sad that you can't choose the Machine Faction to ally with in-game) or how spending a good hunk of her childhood being brought up by a Ronso effects her.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, incest (pseudo as well as biological, if you want her to hook up with Kimahri), enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 16+ underage, pairing her with an aeon, an unsent, or a member of any of Spira's sapient races.

Pairing DNW: Yuna/Tidus (I'm fine with it having happened in the past and still being an important memory for her though, I just don't find them super compelling in fic), Yuna/Yu Yevon (unless she travels way the heck back in time to meet him before he becomes a tick thing.)

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine) FFX/X-2 specific DNW: Please just ignore Eien no Daishō and Will completely (especially any suggestion that the Eternal Calm isn't)

Request 4 by cricket_aria
Gravity Falls
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship, F/M - Relationship, F/Other - Relationship

I love how gleefully open to crushing on anyone or anything that gets her attention Mabel is, and I'm a big fan of her being the one to push for relationships with people who should be inadvisable, whether because of age, species, or being related to her, convincing them to make a go of it and then having them manage to make it work together (if either secretly or somewhere that nobody knows them, in the case of 'being related' pairings)

Beyond that I like times when she's the one who dives straight into some bit of weirdness found in Gravity Falls, or elsewhere if you'd like to have mysterious things turn up back home or on vacation elsewhere that she and Dipper just never knew to search for before. I like her figuring out her own place in the world as she gets older, where she fits beyond Dipper so the beginning of Weirdmageddon is the closet the two of them ever get to mirroring what happened with Stan and Ford.

Opt-ins: Incest, age gaps, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 16+ underage for sexual situations (fic set when she's younger is fine, just please leave it at canonical crushing levels), xeno

Pairing DNW: Mabel/Jeff or any of the other gnomes

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine)

Request 5 by cricket_aria
Paranatural (Webcomic)
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Isaac O'Connor (Paranatural)

Freeforms: M/M - Relationship, M/Other - Relationship

I love this poor kid, how hard he wants to belong and how even as he's getting hurt by the others not always being the best of friends to him he's also gradually realizing how he's not always the best to them either and trying to get better about it. I like seeing him getting to become more secure in his place in the world and the club. Exploring more of the oddness of the town is always great, maybe actually interacting with some of the goofy docile background critters that usually get ignored in-strip. Something where he gets a tool of his own so he has some fight options more suitable to a pacifist available to him (and your chosen love interest helping him deal with how badly King Catnine is likely to take that)? Or anything with training, whether it's with whoever he's dating or, if you go with a mundane classmate, them watching him and other members of the club just doing what looks like a bunch of adorably dorky poses together.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, teacher/student pairings, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 16+ underage for sexual situations (fic set when he's younger is fine, just please leave it at puppylove). Also I will waive my major AU request for anything based on that piece of art where the kids are pirates ( https://archive.fo/mZJzG )

Pairing DNW: None on this one

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine)

Request 6 by cricket_aria
Homestuck
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship, F/M - Relationship

Any form of Aradia- pre-death, ghost, robot, or god tier- are all fine by me for this one, I love every aspect of her that we saw over the series and the way those who know her react differently to the ways her personality changes between them. Things that explore her rediscovering the full range of her emotions (and physical senses, for that matter) post-ghostliness are great, when she'd fully alive again I have a soft-spot by her being endlessly thrilled even by the negative ones just from the joy of getting to experience them again. Things playing with her timey-wimeyness are great, or exploring any extra features Equius might have built into her robot body for her. Playing with the frustration of being an archaeologist on a planet you and your friends just made so you just keep digging up references to yourselves?

Also, for red romance I really like things exploring the romantic focus being on pity instead of love as humans experience it, for all that canon itself eventually seemed to give up on the distinction when it came to flushed pairs.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, dancestor or ancestor incest, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, underage from any post-grub age we see her at in the comic, really, Alternia is such a hellhole I'm fine with them being sexually active early just to do something that feels good when they find someone they like enough that hasn't been culled yet. Crossover pairings with the Friendsim and Hiveswap.

Pairing DNW: Red Aradia/Vriska (but either black quadrant is great), Aradia/Lord English

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine). Homestuck only DNW: trolls have both or tentabulge fanons, I prefer xeno that gets even weirder than that or else just sticking with human-style genitalia. Also original comic canon only (well, + Hiveswap and the Friendsim for Alternia worldbuilding or if you'd like to ship her with one of their characters, but I haven't played Pesterquest yet to recognize references to her chapter of it), please, I'm not a fan of the epilogues or sequel.

Request 7 by cricket_aria
Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Ushiromiya Ange (Umineko)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship

When Ange first burst onto the scene by initial reaction was 'Do I really need another fleshed out character to care about, this is already getting a little unwieldy just from furniture alone' but boy did she win me over quickly. By the time Alliance ended I was so into her journey that the events of her trip to Rokkenjima at the end of it honestly remain the most cathartic part of the entire story to me. I love that out of this entire fucked up family she at least managed to recognize the horrible cycle of abuse for what it was.

Something where she makes use of the knowledge, trying her best to keep herself from slipping into it with any partners, would be nice. Or playing around with how things would go if someone other than Eva was the one who came home and raised her? (I am fully okay with any of the options ending up in a fucked-up sexual relationship with her once she's older, including Rudolf or Kyrie). Something where she falls deeper into the world of magic, making herself a lover or hooking up with any of the available furniture, possibly with a real world potential love interest trying, successfully or not, to make her see them instead? Or something where she makes a different choice in the meta of Alliance, helping to keep the stalemate going so she can remain with Battler and the rest forever.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, incest, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, I can't remember off the top of my head how old Ange was when she first started summoning the Seven Sisters but I'm fine with her masturbating having a sexual relationship with any of them from the start, taking the meta to any level that you want from fully embracing the fantasy to tearing it apart to show what's really there versus what she magics up for herself.

Pairing DNW: Ange/Maria unless it's as totally innocent puppylove or Ange magicking up a furniture Maria into who she imagines she'd be if she'd gotten to grow up, Ange/any of her horrible classmates
Ange/Eva as they ended up in the story, but if you'd like to explore a fragment where their relationship didn't become so horribly twisted (even one where it's bad but not that bad) I'd be fine with it happening there.

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine)

Request 8 by cricket_aria
Magical Diary (Visual Novels)
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Mary Sue (Magical Diary)

Freeforms: F/F - Relationship, F/M - Relationship, F/Other - Relationship

Getting very close to sign-ups closing so sorry if I'm a bit skimpy on optional details from here!

I have played Wolf Hall as well, so if you'd like to pull any details from it (or have Gary and Mary both exist at the same time) that's fine. Any deeper exploration of being a wildseed is great, her stepping into things that she had no idea she should stay out of because she doesn't know any better, whether with a fellow wildseem love interest fumbling along with her or a love interest from the magical world helping her fumble her way back out of it again. Anything getting creative with magic, or the type of things they might get into during future school years. Exploring that distance the school artificially creates between her and her family and old life; does it ever get any worse like it did so quickly for Ellen or does the magical disconnect remain bearable? If you go with Grabiner as the love interest anything exploring her reaction when she eventually brings him home and introduces him as her husband would be awesome, or the same with her clearly otherworldly boyfriend if she ever had them meet Damien (for whatever brief time they were able to react to him before the magical world mind-whammied them again about it).

Speaking of Damien, if you went with him my favorite ending for them is actually the one where she loses her powers and they go on the run together. (This probably has a lot to do with the fact that I didn't realize there was a better ending possible for a very long time.)

Opt-ins: Age gaps, teacher/student pairings, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 16+ underage

Pairing DNW: Mary/Potsdam, Mary/Kyo, Mary/Angela

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine). Magical Diary specific DNW: Minnie/Kyo as a side-pairing.

Request 9 by cricket_aria
Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Auron (FFX & FFX-2)

Freeforms: F/M - Relationship, M/M - Relationship, M/M/M - Relationship

Getting very close to sign-ups closing so sorry if I'm a bit skimpy on optional details from here!

Pairings with young and older Auron are both welcome, although I'll admit that I find older Auron a lot hotter. Anything exploring his living for ten years in dream Zanarkand would be interesting, we never get to see any of the incredible culture shock that he surely must have gone through when he was dropped into a city that's futuristic even for those of us living in a world that doesn't shun almost all forms of technology or what it was like being dropped back into low-tech Spira after having got used to Zanarkand. Something exploring his love interest (if it isn't Tidus, an Al Bhed, or set in the past) trying to get past the hero worship of this being Sir Auron, guardian to the last High Summoner, as they get to know and fall for the person he is beyond that. Something exploring the parts of the political system of Bevelle that he knows while others around him are left in the dark.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 16+ underage

Pairing DNW: Auron/Kinoc

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine, including letting Auron stick around to see the Eternal Calm) FFX/X-2 specific DNW: Please just ignore Eien no Daishō and Will completely (especially any suggestion that the Eternal Calm isn't)

Request 10 by cricket_aria
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
Opt-Ins: Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform

Relationships:

• Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn)

Freeforms: F/M - Relationship

Seriously pushing the clock now so I'm sorry if this is brief!

Anything with Aloy finding more bits of the old world than we've seen are great, especially when it's recognizable to us where she is even if she has no clue (Aloy finds Disneyland?). Her love interest reacting to her controlling that machines; I always wish we got more reactions to her charging around on their backs! Aloy learning more about how to create them herself, I love the thought of her fumbling her way through learning to be an engineer with just her focus for guidance. Trying to figure out a way to unlock the plans for cloning larger animals back into the world.

Opt-ins: Age gaps, incest, enemy ships, dubcon, graphic violence, 16+ underage

Pairing DNW: Aloy/a somehow still alive Ted Faro (Aloy/a Ted Faro clone who has no idea why she loathes him when they first meet would be fine though)

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, noncon, OCs for the love interest, or major AUs (but divergent timeline and other slight change to canon ones are fine)

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