Candy Hearts 2025 Letter
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kay_obsessiveDear Candy Hearts Exchange Creator,
First of all, thank you so much for making something for me! I really love all of these fandoms and relationships I’m requesting, so I’m sure I’ll like anything you make for any of them!
My previous exchange letters can be found here, my AO3 account is here, and my tumblr is here.
General Likes/Dislikes
Likes: Characters who know each other better than anyone else, whether they are friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies, or any combination of the above. Trust and loyalty. Competence kink. Casually intimate body language. People who have no sense of personal space with each other. Outsider POVs. Interweaving plots. Slice of life. Weird domesticity. Roadtrips. Mission fic. Future fic. Canon divergence AUs. Supernatural/fantasy/______punk/in space! AUs. Interesting little worldbuilding details. Undercover as a couple. Sharing a bed. Culture clashes. People who are bad at communicating finally managing it. Drabbles and drabble sequences. Epistolary formats and in-universe documents. 5+1 things format. Stylized designs. Limited color palettes.
DNWs: Non-canon permanent major character death. Explicit, onscreen non-con. Underage sex under 15 or so. Unrequested parent-child incest. Unrequested crossovers. ‘Modern mundane’/high school/coffee shop-type AUs. Anything omegaverse, dom/sub world AU, soulmates, or soulbonds (canonical supernatural bonds and connections are fine).
Requests
Any prompts listed are just ideas and suggestions, and if you have your own super great idea for any of these fandoms and relationships you should totally go for it! I haven’t tried to separate out fic/art prompts, so feel free to interpret anything in either direction.
Also as a general note, I am okay with pretty much any way of dealing with conflicting canon relationships except for unrequested poly – breakups, handwaves, infidelity, died off-screen, completely unmentioned, all fine.
Arcane
Jinx/Silco
Season two reignited my feelings for these two, and I’m still so into whatever the hell their whole deal is. The uncomfortably intimate body language, the “us against the world”ness, the twisted but completely genuine love between them that absolutely encourages the worst in each other. Yes please, give me all of that.
Anything with the same ambiguous intimacy they have in the show would be great, as would them pushing what limited boundaries they have and justifying it to themselves. Something post-season one would also be very welcome, a canon divergence scenario where Silco survives or is resurrected or comes back wrong in some way, or just more of Jinx grieving in unhealthy ways and wanting/not wanting Silco to join her regular hallucinations. Or play around with the alternate timeline from episode seven! Maybe Jinx winds up there and clings to the still alive alt!Silco who is a bit weirded out by the intensity, or somehow they both wind up there and try to figure things out together while weirding everyone else out. Or, hey, maybe alt!Silco and Powder are already kinda weird with each other, just in a moderately healthier way.
Dishonored
Billie Lurk & Thomas
Billie Lurk & The Whalers
The relationship Billie has with the other Whalers is really fascinating to me, since they generally seem to respect her while she stays kind of aloof from everyone but Daud. Some of the comments they make after her betrayal and exile/death are pretty interesting, along with the letter from another former Whaler in the sequel. And Thomas was next in the chain of command, and he and Billie apparently either stayed in touch or reestablished contact after Dunwall, so I’m curious what kind of relationship they had.
Anything from their Whaler days would be fun. Who did Billie come up through the ranks with? Did they train together, commiserate over dealing with new recruits, complain about the boss, or was she already keeping to herself? Or anything later on, after Billie’s betrayal and the last days of the Whalers. How did she wind up in contact with Thomas again? Did she meet up with anyone else? Maybe Thomas or another Whaler was a passenger on the Dreadful Wale once, or maybe they meet again after the events of Death of the Outsider.
Daud/Billie Lurk
This is one of those relationships that was basically tailor-made for me. Mentor/student, leader and their close subordinate who can get away things others can’t, age gap, complicated issues of trust and loyalty and betrayal and forgiveness – these are a few of my favorite things. I love everything about these two and their messy, complex history with each other.
I would love pretty much anything for these two – something from their Whaler days pulling off jobs or fighting and training and blowing off steam together, AUs where they meet up again earlier than in canon and have to sort their shit out without that time pressure helping them along, spending their last little bit of time together on the Dreadful Wale, AU endings to Death of the Outsider and its aftermath, fun with Fugue Feast, anything.
Daud/Jessamine Kaldwin
So, this one is a little bit complicated, given that Daud’s hired killing of Jessamine is the inciting incident for the whole series, but I think there’s some interesting potential here. Daud has a clear respect for Jessamine, and her death affects him in a way none of his other victims has. And Jessamine gets the rare opportunity to assess her murderer after her death, and she finds herself a little conflicted about what he deserves, despite her justified anger. And before all of that, they were both prominent, powerful figures running different parts of the same city – who’s to say they never had any dealings with each other in all those years before the murder?
I’d just be interested in any kind of possible interaction between these two. Maybe pre-canon Jessamine had reason to hire an assassin, or she tried to get rid of the Whaler presence in her city, or they crossed paths in some other way while doing their jobs. Or maybe an AU where Daud decides not to go through with the assassination for whatever reason and they develop some kind of relationship in the aftermath. Fun with Fugue Feast is also very welcome here.
Daud & Emily Kaldwin
I find the idea of these two so interesting. He killed her mother and helped kidnap her as a child, then made a pretty good go at killing her father too, but he also saved her from a fate worse than death at Delilah’s hands. And she never knew that part until more than a decade later, after she unknowingly befriended his former lieutenant and snuck into her cabin to listen to a recording about it. What a fascinatingly complex connection between two characters who never actually spoke to each other on screen.
I would love any kind of interaction between these two. Handwave the timeline on Death of the Outsider stuff and let them meet somehow - maybe Emily gets involved in the Eyeless cult investigation through Billie or stumbles on it herself beforehand. Or maybe Daud gets involved in the Dishonored 2 plot since Delilah is around again and he has experience in dealing with her. Or they even meet before (or after, if you want to handwave Daud’s death) all that somehow, somewhere in the isles.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
Olivier Mira Armstrong/Miles
I’m a sucker for leaders and their close subordinates; I love that kind of loyalty and trust, especially if it goes both ways as is clearly the case for Olivier and Miles. We don’t get a ton on their relationship in the series, but I love the glimpses we do get: Olivier explaining to Miles why she needs someone like him at her side, Miles saying that Olivier was the one to convince him he could make a difference from within the military, Olivier releasing Miles to help with the Ishval restoration at the end.
I’d love to see anything expanding on what we see in canon. How did Miles wind up working under Olivier at Briggs? What kinds of conflicts and tensions did they have before figuring each other out? Do they keep in touch while he’s working to rebuild Ishval, and does the relationship change at all now that he no longer reports directly to her? Does he wind up back at Briggs when he’s done? What happens if one or both of them retires down the line? Or just some quiet moments spent throughout their years together.
Girl Genius
I am okay with the general background poly assumption of Agatha’s Future Harem here. I’m also okay with it not being assumed.
Agatha Heterodyne & Vanamond von Mekkhan
I love all the fun loyalty stuff in this canon. I read some of the novelizations of the comic recently, and there’s a bit from Van’s POV that really stuck with me: The Heterodyne. Of course it was she. Everything he was and that his family had been for generations recognized her as the thing that had been missing from his life, and in that moment of realization he became forever and irrevocably hers.
He was under the influence of Agatha’s coffee at the time, but still.
The sort of intrinsic, almost genetic aspect that triggers when he meets “his” Heterodyne is really interesting to me, and it would be cool to see that explored some. Or just more of the two interacting directly, since Van seems to do a lot of his work separately from Agatha in keeping her town running smoothly. Or maybe the conversation where he managed to convince her that Gil’s statue design made for good Town Hall decor.
Theopholous DuMedd & Agatha Heterodyne
Cousins! They never did get much of a chance to really catch up in Mechanicsburg. They both deserve some nice bonding time with family that’s not dead or evil or otherwise fraught with extremely complicated mixed emotions.
Maybe Agatha helps out with Theo’s search for his father’s secret lab, or maybe they just visit each other after everything has settled down. For family game night, or something.
Martellus von Blitzengaard/Agatha Heterodyne
I don’t know how or why, but I came out the other end of my latest catch-up read really enjoying Martellus as a character. He tends to be on generally the same side of major conflicts as Our Heroes, with a few crucial divergences that keep him from being an actual ally, which makes for some fun interactions.
I liked all the times he and Agatha wound up working together (and really liked when he was dependent on her mercy and physical touch due to his own bad choices), and I’m a sucker for a classic “oops, caught feelings”. I would just love anything more along any of those lines. Maybe with Martellus continuing to try and do better with Agatha and winding up more genuinely on her side, and Agatha reluctantly becoming a bit fond of him. Or at least tolerating him in larger doses.
Martellus von Blitzengaard & Tarvek Sturmvoraus
Their interactions before the whole kidnapping and attempted murder thing gave me the impression that they actually used to get along fairly well, at least by their family’s standards. I would enjoy seeing them have more positive interactions, either something from their childhoods or reconnecting in the future. Or just commiserating over family.
Psychonauts
Sasha Nein/Milla Vodello
I love everything about these two. They’re psychic secret agent partners! They go on ridiculous missions together and fight crime - psychic crime! One of these missions involved being undercover in elaborate costumes at a fancy party! They have had at least one clichéd instance of falling down and landing on top of each other in a ~romantic~ pose! They reach for each other as their plane is going down! I eat this stuff up with a spoon.
While Psychonauts 2 was tragically not The Sasha and Milla Kissing Game, I really enjoyed that it gave us more of them in their element at the Motherlobe and also out on a real mission. I would love to see even more of them working together, in the field, at camp, or at the office. All the other characters are great too, so bringing in campers, interns, and coworkers would be very welcome – the fact that there is office gossip about their relationship is a delight to me. Exploring just how strong their psychic bond is (they’re always talking!) and how they came to be so close would also be great.
Well, that about sums it up, I think. Again, thank you so much for creating something for me! If you like prompts, I hope what I gave you is helpful. If you prefer to work without them, I look forward to seeing whatever you come up with. I’m sure whatever you make will be awesome!
First of all, thank you so much for making something for me! I really love all of these fandoms and relationships I’m requesting, so I’m sure I’ll like anything you make for any of them!
My previous exchange letters can be found here, my AO3 account is here, and my tumblr is here.
General Likes/Dislikes
Likes: Characters who know each other better than anyone else, whether they are friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies, or any combination of the above. Trust and loyalty. Competence kink. Casually intimate body language. People who have no sense of personal space with each other. Outsider POVs. Interweaving plots. Slice of life. Weird domesticity. Roadtrips. Mission fic. Future fic. Canon divergence AUs. Supernatural/fantasy/______punk/in space! AUs. Interesting little worldbuilding details. Undercover as a couple. Sharing a bed. Culture clashes. People who are bad at communicating finally managing it. Drabbles and drabble sequences. Epistolary formats and in-universe documents. 5+1 things format. Stylized designs. Limited color palettes.
DNWs: Non-canon permanent major character death. Explicit, onscreen non-con. Underage sex under 15 or so. Unrequested parent-child incest. Unrequested crossovers. ‘Modern mundane’/high school/coffee shop-type AUs. Anything omegaverse, dom/sub world AU, soulmates, or soulbonds (canonical supernatural bonds and connections are fine).
Requests
Any prompts listed are just ideas and suggestions, and if you have your own super great idea for any of these fandoms and relationships you should totally go for it! I haven’t tried to separate out fic/art prompts, so feel free to interpret anything in either direction.
Also as a general note, I am okay with pretty much any way of dealing with conflicting canon relationships except for unrequested poly – breakups, handwaves, infidelity, died off-screen, completely unmentioned, all fine.
Arcane
Jinx/Silco
Season two reignited my feelings for these two, and I’m still so into whatever the hell their whole deal is. The uncomfortably intimate body language, the “us against the world”ness, the twisted but completely genuine love between them that absolutely encourages the worst in each other. Yes please, give me all of that.
Anything with the same ambiguous intimacy they have in the show would be great, as would them pushing what limited boundaries they have and justifying it to themselves. Something post-season one would also be very welcome, a canon divergence scenario where Silco survives or is resurrected or comes back wrong in some way, or just more of Jinx grieving in unhealthy ways and wanting/not wanting Silco to join her regular hallucinations. Or play around with the alternate timeline from episode seven! Maybe Jinx winds up there and clings to the still alive alt!Silco who is a bit weirded out by the intensity, or somehow they both wind up there and try to figure things out together while weirding everyone else out. Or, hey, maybe alt!Silco and Powder are already kinda weird with each other, just in a moderately healthier way.
Dishonored
Billie Lurk & Thomas
Billie Lurk & The Whalers
The relationship Billie has with the other Whalers is really fascinating to me, since they generally seem to respect her while she stays kind of aloof from everyone but Daud. Some of the comments they make after her betrayal and exile/death are pretty interesting, along with the letter from another former Whaler in the sequel. And Thomas was next in the chain of command, and he and Billie apparently either stayed in touch or reestablished contact after Dunwall, so I’m curious what kind of relationship they had.
Anything from their Whaler days would be fun. Who did Billie come up through the ranks with? Did they train together, commiserate over dealing with new recruits, complain about the boss, or was she already keeping to herself? Or anything later on, after Billie’s betrayal and the last days of the Whalers. How did she wind up in contact with Thomas again? Did she meet up with anyone else? Maybe Thomas or another Whaler was a passenger on the Dreadful Wale once, or maybe they meet again after the events of Death of the Outsider.
Daud/Billie Lurk
This is one of those relationships that was basically tailor-made for me. Mentor/student, leader and their close subordinate who can get away things others can’t, age gap, complicated issues of trust and loyalty and betrayal and forgiveness – these are a few of my favorite things. I love everything about these two and their messy, complex history with each other.
I would love pretty much anything for these two – something from their Whaler days pulling off jobs or fighting and training and blowing off steam together, AUs where they meet up again earlier than in canon and have to sort their shit out without that time pressure helping them along, spending their last little bit of time together on the Dreadful Wale, AU endings to Death of the Outsider and its aftermath, fun with Fugue Feast, anything.
Daud/Jessamine Kaldwin
So, this one is a little bit complicated, given that Daud’s hired killing of Jessamine is the inciting incident for the whole series, but I think there’s some interesting potential here. Daud has a clear respect for Jessamine, and her death affects him in a way none of his other victims has. And Jessamine gets the rare opportunity to assess her murderer after her death, and she finds herself a little conflicted about what he deserves, despite her justified anger. And before all of that, they were both prominent, powerful figures running different parts of the same city – who’s to say they never had any dealings with each other in all those years before the murder?
I’d just be interested in any kind of possible interaction between these two. Maybe pre-canon Jessamine had reason to hire an assassin, or she tried to get rid of the Whaler presence in her city, or they crossed paths in some other way while doing their jobs. Or maybe an AU where Daud decides not to go through with the assassination for whatever reason and they develop some kind of relationship in the aftermath. Fun with Fugue Feast is also very welcome here.
Daud & Emily Kaldwin
I find the idea of these two so interesting. He killed her mother and helped kidnap her as a child, then made a pretty good go at killing her father too, but he also saved her from a fate worse than death at Delilah’s hands. And she never knew that part until more than a decade later, after she unknowingly befriended his former lieutenant and snuck into her cabin to listen to a recording about it. What a fascinatingly complex connection between two characters who never actually spoke to each other on screen.
I would love any kind of interaction between these two. Handwave the timeline on Death of the Outsider stuff and let them meet somehow - maybe Emily gets involved in the Eyeless cult investigation through Billie or stumbles on it herself beforehand. Or maybe Daud gets involved in the Dishonored 2 plot since Delilah is around again and he has experience in dealing with her. Or they even meet before (or after, if you want to handwave Daud’s death) all that somehow, somewhere in the isles.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
Olivier Mira Armstrong/Miles
I’m a sucker for leaders and their close subordinates; I love that kind of loyalty and trust, especially if it goes both ways as is clearly the case for Olivier and Miles. We don’t get a ton on their relationship in the series, but I love the glimpses we do get: Olivier explaining to Miles why she needs someone like him at her side, Miles saying that Olivier was the one to convince him he could make a difference from within the military, Olivier releasing Miles to help with the Ishval restoration at the end.
I’d love to see anything expanding on what we see in canon. How did Miles wind up working under Olivier at Briggs? What kinds of conflicts and tensions did they have before figuring each other out? Do they keep in touch while he’s working to rebuild Ishval, and does the relationship change at all now that he no longer reports directly to her? Does he wind up back at Briggs when he’s done? What happens if one or both of them retires down the line? Or just some quiet moments spent throughout their years together.
Girl Genius
I am okay with the general background poly assumption of Agatha’s Future Harem here. I’m also okay with it not being assumed.
Agatha Heterodyne & Vanamond von Mekkhan
I love all the fun loyalty stuff in this canon. I read some of the novelizations of the comic recently, and there’s a bit from Van’s POV that really stuck with me: The Heterodyne. Of course it was she. Everything he was and that his family had been for generations recognized her as the thing that had been missing from his life, and in that moment of realization he became forever and irrevocably hers.
He was under the influence of Agatha’s coffee at the time, but still.
The sort of intrinsic, almost genetic aspect that triggers when he meets “his” Heterodyne is really interesting to me, and it would be cool to see that explored some. Or just more of the two interacting directly, since Van seems to do a lot of his work separately from Agatha in keeping her town running smoothly. Or maybe the conversation where he managed to convince her that Gil’s statue design made for good Town Hall decor.
Theopholous DuMedd & Agatha Heterodyne
Cousins! They never did get much of a chance to really catch up in Mechanicsburg. They both deserve some nice bonding time with family that’s not dead or evil or otherwise fraught with extremely complicated mixed emotions.
Maybe Agatha helps out with Theo’s search for his father’s secret lab, or maybe they just visit each other after everything has settled down. For family game night, or something.
Martellus von Blitzengaard/Agatha Heterodyne
I don’t know how or why, but I came out the other end of my latest catch-up read really enjoying Martellus as a character. He tends to be on generally the same side of major conflicts as Our Heroes, with a few crucial divergences that keep him from being an actual ally, which makes for some fun interactions.
I liked all the times he and Agatha wound up working together (and really liked when he was dependent on her mercy and physical touch due to his own bad choices), and I’m a sucker for a classic “oops, caught feelings”. I would just love anything more along any of those lines. Maybe with Martellus continuing to try and do better with Agatha and winding up more genuinely on her side, and Agatha reluctantly becoming a bit fond of him. Or at least tolerating him in larger doses.
Martellus von Blitzengaard & Tarvek Sturmvoraus
Their interactions before the whole kidnapping and attempted murder thing gave me the impression that they actually used to get along fairly well, at least by their family’s standards. I would enjoy seeing them have more positive interactions, either something from their childhoods or reconnecting in the future. Or just commiserating over family.
Psychonauts
Sasha Nein/Milla Vodello
I love everything about these two. They’re psychic secret agent partners! They go on ridiculous missions together and fight crime - psychic crime! One of these missions involved being undercover in elaborate costumes at a fancy party! They have had at least one clichéd instance of falling down and landing on top of each other in a ~romantic~ pose! They reach for each other as their plane is going down! I eat this stuff up with a spoon.
While Psychonauts 2 was tragically not The Sasha and Milla Kissing Game, I really enjoyed that it gave us more of them in their element at the Motherlobe and also out on a real mission. I would love to see even more of them working together, in the field, at camp, or at the office. All the other characters are great too, so bringing in campers, interns, and coworkers would be very welcome – the fact that there is office gossip about their relationship is a delight to me. Exploring just how strong their psychic bond is (they’re always talking!) and how they came to be so close would also be great.
Well, that about sums it up, I think. Again, thank you so much for creating something for me! If you like prompts, I hope what I gave you is helpful. If you prefer to work without them, I look forward to seeing whatever you come up with. I’m sure whatever you make will be awesome!
