Chocolate Box 2021 Letter

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Dear Chocolatier,

Hello dear writer or artist! Thank you for your interest in creating something for me, and I hope the prompts below will help you and inspire you! Please keep in mind that these prompts are only suggestions; if you already have an idea of what you want to create, I promise I'll love that too. Here you will find my general likes and DNWs, as well as specific prompts for each fandom.

Also, if you're the kind of creator who likes to look through previous gifts and things your recipient has written, my AO3 is here @ SilverInk! Happy creating! (ALSO, I'm so sorry I'm only just now finishing this!!!)

Likes:
- I love pretty much all genres: fluff, hurt/comfort, angst, character exploration pieces, more plot focused stories...

- Happy or hopeful endings are preferable, but if it doesn't fit the theme of the story, sad/bittersweet endings are good too.

- Characters having quiet, soft moments — heart-to-heart talks, hand holding, touching foreheads together, cuddling... !!

- Characters being vulnerable with each other.

- Supernatural occurrences or ghost stories.

- Smut is always great but not obligatory! I'd love to read everything from cuddly sweet vanilla sex, rough sex, consensual BDSM/kink, all the way to dub-con and non-con. I definitely have preferences for certain pairings, though.

- Kink related: if you choose to write kink, I'd love things like bondage, orgasm denial, light humiliation, spanking.

- Characters pining for each other and eventually confessing their love.

- Established relationships and domesticity.

- Devotion/Loyalty kink!!

- Firsts: first kisses, first dates, first times having sex (either with a certain partner or losing virginity), etc.
- Canon divergent AUs/Everyone lives AUs/Supernatural AUs
- Many of my fandoms have historical settings/themes, so I'd love if you wanted to include historical details in your story. Those are completely optional though, and don't feel any pressure to do this; I'm mainly here for the characters and their stories, historical detail is just a bonus!
- Also, as much as I love my ships, I also just love their relationships in general, either romantic or platonic. If you get more platonic vibes from a ship, please feel free to write that instead because I'll happily read that too! :D

DNWs:
- (Non-canonical or unrequested) Major character death.

- Unrequested trans/gender/identity headcanons.

- Miscarriages or sexual assault as dramatic backstory.
- Current events, modern world politics

- A/B/O dynamics.

- Kink/smut related: scat, watersports, mpreg, incest, underage (nothing explicit under 18, though I’m fine with mentions of younger characters. Nothing under 16 though.)

Frontier Wolf:
Hilarion/Lucius, Alexios/Hilarion, Drium/Nuada. 

For Hilarion and Lucius, I'd love something set before Alexios comes to Castellum. How long have they known each other? How do they become lovers? Do they know how the other came to be among the "scum and scrapings of the empire"? Also in a Lucius Lives AU, what happens there? 

For Hilarion and Alexios, I'd love to see more of their relationship developing from their initial meeting. What do they think of each other? How do they come to trust each other more? They could fall in love in canon, or post canon in Belgica; either way would be lovely! Also in general for this fandom - I love the weapon dances, so it would be wonderful to see characters learning about them (any of my requested characters learning the weapon dances when they come to Castellum would be great), and also anything about the Lady Stone would be lovely!!

 For Druim and Nuada, I’d like to see something about their backstory! What kind of spy work does Druim do, and why? Who is Nuada? Do they know each other and is there history between them? Were they lovers before or do they just have a passionate tryst when Nuada comes to Castellum?

The Truce of the Games:
Amyntas/Leon, Amyntas & Leon.

I was so excited to see this was nominated! It's such a nice little short story, and I'd really just love the two main characters in any kind of relationship, romantic or platonic. If you go the romantic route, I'd prefer them both to be adults please. You can write what happens when they meet later on in life—maybe they meet on a battlefield, or maybe they get to compete in the Olympics together again! Or you can write about whatever shenanigans they might've gotten up to together in canon!

The Old Guard:
Joe/Nicky, Nicky & Nile, Joe & Nile.

Feel free to include all team dynamics here because I adore all of them, but I just feel like Joe and Nicky had a really nice relationship with Nile and I'd love for that to be the main focus. Joe and Nicky were the first ones to advocate going to find her when they started dreaming about her, and Nicky's words about their purpose being to help people seem to stick with Nile throughout the movie. Basically I just want anything about Joe and Nicky's relationship with Nile! And if you just want to write Joe/Nicky, I'd love to see something about their early-ish relationship, or something about Malta...

Original Work:
Loyal General/The monarch they serve, Shy bookish Victorian woman/Dashing Victorian lady fencer, Female artist/Female nude model who's secretly in love with the artist, Enemy general/Princess of the land they conquer.

For all of these, I'd prefer some kind of historical setting, whatever era you want or a fantasy setting that feels historical. I'd also prefer the general/princess pairing to be f/f, and i'd prefer the general/monarch pairing to be either m/f or f/f.

For the general/monarch pairing, I would love to see lots of undying loyalty and King and Lionheart dynamics! Again I would prefer this pairing to be m/f or f/f, but it doesn't matter which one is a man or woman. Maybe their country is at war with another country, and the ruler and general spend a lot of time together strategizing about how to beat the enemy and develop a romance that way? Maybe the two of them are determined to conquer another country/area, and they're ruthless and in love together? Or, maybe their country is at peace and they're celebrating that? 

For the shy bookish victorian woman/dashing lady fencer, I really want a rivals-to-friends-to-lovers or rivals-to-lovers type thing. Maybe the bookish woman is a librarian and the fencer comes to the library to get a book, and then just keeps finding excuses to come back again and again, and the bookish librarian is annoyed at first but gradually starts to like her? Maybe the bookish woman likes to watch fencing and is a bit of a fangirl, but she thinks the lady fencer is rude at first but they grow to like each other?

For the female artist/nude model pairing, I'd love to see some kind of Renaissance setting! Maybe the artist is doing a painting of Venus/Aphrodite or something and the model is the most beautiful woman she knows, and they're both secretly in love with each other from the start? Maybe the artist and model have worked together for a long time and the model's been in love a long time and the artist gradually realizes her feelings? Maybe the artist is very well known, and it's become a Thing that she always uses the same model...

Finally, for the enemy general/princess pairing, I would love something kind of dark. Again I want them both to be women, and I'd love dubcon or noncon sexual situations (preferably only if the princess is aroused/enjoys it and finds the general attractive) maybe with the princess as kind of a war prize if you're comfortable writing that. I'd love for the enemy general to be kind of "gentle" with the princess instead of physically forcing her into sex (more subtle and kind of psychological - like "iron fist in a velvet glove" sort of force). Also, kinks like bondage and orgasm denial would be great for this. Maybe the princess and the general end up being in a relationship and go off to conquer different countries together?