Hello, dear creator! Thank you for writing for me this HQHols :) I'm eternally grateful already for whatever you'll write, and I know I'll be really excited to see any works at all for these ships, so no pressure!
I'll go a little more into detail about my requests here, in each prompt there is one underlined line that is
the heart of the prompt, the rest of it is elaboration and ideas that I'm just throwing out there as inspiration. Feel free to use or ignore any of it as you wish.
Here are the ships I've requested: some of the prompts are ship specific, some can be for any.
For all ships except the last, make it as gen or romantic as you wish, but G or T rating only please!
1. Akaashi Keiji/Kozume Kenma
2. Sugawara Koushi/Kozume Kenma
3. Oikawa Tooru/Kozume Kenma
4. Kunimi Akira/Kageyama Tobio
5. Yaku Morisuke/Sugawara Koushi
6. Ikejiri Hayato/Sawamura Daichi
7. Lazy Squad: Akaashi Keiji, Kozume Kenma, Tsukishima Kei, Kunimi Akira
for the lazy squad, four-way gen only. no polyamory please or romance between two of the four1) travel fic
I'm really weak for travel. Trains, planes, buses, ROAD TRIPS, give me all the travel fic! For this, my request is easy: just your ship of choice,
taking a trip together. I'm not fussy about where, when, mode of transport. I'd love to see them exploring a new place together, or perhaps they're a long distance relationship and Person A goes to visit Person B, who's very excited to take them round their city. I love the dynamics that travel can bring out, the themes of losing yourself and finding yourself again in a brand new setting, and even just the journey itself, gazing out of the window at the rolling scenery, singing bad karaoke on long road trips with the setting sun on the horizon beyond. They can go camping, or stay in a AirBNB, anything you like. Maybe one of them is a travel writer and meets the other in the course of their work. Maybe Person A is a lone traveller and Person B is their AirBNB host!! The possibilities are ENDLESS! (I've gone on a lot about "person A/B" in this elaboration, but please make it four-way with the lazy squad should you choose to go with them, that would absolutely make my day too.)
2) magic realism AU
This is my favourite genre and I am here for all flavours of
magic realism, infusing the mundane with a slight magical touch. The more mundane the better. Anything set in the city is great - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, I love cities and street lights and bicycles and telephone wires. I really like magic realism in "slice of life" type fics like roommate or domestic fics. If you want to combine this with travel fic and make magic realism travel fic I'll probably combust. I'm going to leave this fairly broad since it's not an easy genre and I'm happy to be surprised by your creativity! My favourite kind of magic realism is anything involving time: time jumps, time loops, different timelines, time manipulation, even reincarnation and multiple lives if you can make it work - but this is optional for your consideration.
3) post-canon fic: getting together
I won't go into too much detail for this because I want to leave it open to your interpretation. Anything with the pair aged-up, in university, perhaps taking their first steps into the working world,
interacting and getting together is great. They don't even need to "get together" in a romantic sense, just building a friendship would be wonderful. For this I'm thinking particularly of the pairs that don't get much canon interaction, like SugaKen and OiKen; my favourite brand of SugaKen is Suga and Kenma getting to know each other because Daichi comes to Tokyo for uni and Suga hangs out with him and Kuroo and Kenma, anything along those lines, and for OiKen I'd really like to see their competitive streak come out, maybe they face off against each other at an arcade or something. Even for YakuSuga who are actually shown to get along quite well in canon, they don't get much of a chance to interact outside of summer camp, so I'd love to see them in a fic like this as well.
4) for AkaKen: third year canonverse fic
I want to see
Akaashi and Kenma navigating their third year in canon. I prefer if Kenma is captain and we also get them interacting captain-to-captain, but there are many ways you can take this. Scenes of them at training camp, Kenma texting Hinata (yes please!) about Akaashi, their teams meeting in practice matches and Interhigh qualifiers, or just Akaken hanging out outside of volleyball and finding a chill space in each other when their teams drive them nuts, talking about pressure, about hopes and dreams, about going to uni, and whether they'll continue playing volleyball. Both of them are really smart, so maybe they meet in cram school or study together, or just hang out at Kenma's house gaming. I love Akaken (this is honestly an understatement of the year) and anything for them in their third year would make me so happy. If you haven't caught up with the manga, it's cool, but if you have, I'd LOVE to see their dynamic in recent chapters being incorporated - the subtle way they spark, get under each other's skins and read each other from across the net.
5) for IkeDai and KuniKage: reconnectingOk this is gonna get long because it applies to two of my ships. But basically, for this prompt, I would love to see
them reconnecting with each other after years of separation. I'm thinking canon-verse, but if you want to take this in a AU direction, I'd love to see how creative you get!
For KuniKage: I can't stop thinking of that one moment in the Karasuno-Seijou Interhigh match where Kageyama looks across the net and thinks that they were teammates for three years, but this was the first time he'd ever seen Kunimi smiling so naturally during a match. It's heartbreaking, and just makes me wonder - what could have been? What can they be, now that they've both grown up some, and learned what it is to trust others and to be part of a supportive team? And just as Kageyama's noticed the growth in Kunimi, Kunimi, too, has noticed that Kageyama's changed. You can write them talking after a match, hanging out, even in uni - maybe they end up in the same uni team - just basically taking steps to learning each other anew, connecting in a way they couldn't in their younger days.
As for IkeDai: remember Ikejiri's flashbacks to playing with Daichi? Their moments of meeting again at Interhigh prelims, Ikejiri realising how much Daichi's grown, asking him to win and win again, and Daichi clasping Ikejiri's hand in both of his like
you got it? I'd love to see something exploring their relationship. Ikejiri thinking of Daichi over the years, what kept him going, them exchanging numbers and maybe getting to know each other all over again. Maybe Ikejiri watching Karasuno's Spring High qualifiers from the stands or on TV and getting emotional. Why did they go to different schools? What kept Ikejiri motivated to play? How will they get on with each other now that they've finally met again? Bonus points for Michimiya Yui to complete the Izumitate Trio.
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Here's a list of other things I generally like, feel free to go for any of the below if these prompts don't inspire you!
- long-distance relationships, texting, phone calls
- slow build
- roommates fic
- really mundane things like grocery shopping and housework and cooking, the more "everyday" the better
- GEN, A LOT OF GEN, AND FRIENDSHIP
- STEAMPUNK!!!!!
- historical AU especially Victorian era
- classical music AU especially piano
- Kenma growing his hair back out to black sometime in the future I honestly burn for black haired Kenma
- NON LIP KISSES rev my engines, kisses on the cheek, neck(!!!), jawline, back, palms and knuckles and fingertips, inside of the wrist
And here are some things I'm not so big on in my fic...
- coffee shop AU
- genderswap, bodyswap, de-aging
- smoking, drug use and excessive drinking
- zombies/vampires/werewolves/merfolk/omegaverse (basically fantastical creatures)
- infidelity/cheating
- any AU where there is a vast age difference or a hierarchical difference, e.g. teacher/student, coach/player, boss/employee
- parenting, kid fic, sappy weddings
- rape, noncon, anything of that ilk
- mental illness and social anxiety
- terminal illness fic, especially cancer.
- anything that ignores the cultural setting of the fic, e.g. if it's in japan, i don't want the kids learning to drive when they're 16.
- Characterisation wise: I'm not a big fan of "soft" Suga, I especially dislike the mom trope with him. Make him feisty! Make him punch people in the gut! Make him punch Kenma in the gut! I'm cool with that ;)
And one final
final SMALL NOTE...
- If you're writing a canon fic: I get a little twitchy when characters aren't called correctly, e.g. please don't have Oikawa call Iwaizumi "Hajime", or Suga call Daichi "Dai" or some nickname, since they literally never do so in canon, unless there is a good reason for it. I know there are a lot of names to keep straight so I don't expect perfection but to the best of your ability, I would really love if there wasn't unnecessary variation!! THANK YOU ♥
...wow that was a lot longer than I thought it would turn out.
Thank you so much, dear creator. I'm really excited to see what you do, and I'm very, very thankful :D
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