Chocolate Box 2022 Letter

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Dear Chocolate Box 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 worldbuilding details. Undercover as a couple. Sharing a bed. Culture clashes. People who are bad at communicating finally managing it. Drabbles and drabble sequences. 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 A/B/O, 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.

Amphibia

Grime & Sasha Waybright
Grime/Sasha Waybright

Their relationship is just so fun and weirdly sweet. I love how they start off just using each other and are both aware of it, but they wind up genuinely getting along and caring about each other and sticking with the other out of loyalty even if they disagree. And also they just really enjoy beating up giant monsters together.

I enjoy them happily being villains and leading conquering armies and also their more recent change of heart leading to them protecting Wartwood/possibly heading up the resistance from there. I also find it interesting that Sasha makes herself at home almost as much as Marcy and doesn’t seem too fussed about when/if she makes it back to Earth, so some future scenario where she stays in Amphibia or is able to easily return and becomes really established there with Grime would be fun to explore. And one of my favorite little things is how completely in sync they are whenever they fight together, barely having to say a word or do anything to signal each other, so I would also enjoy anything about them training and practicing combo moves or just them striking cool fighting poses together. Or more of Grime carrying Sasha for whatever reason.

Arcane

Jinx/Silco

Whatever the hell their deal is, I am into it. The uncomfortably intimate body language, the “us against the world”ness, the 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 and physical closeness they have in the show would be great, as would them pushing what limited boundaries they have and justifying it to themselves. I also really like the visual aspect of Jinx's neon drawings being all over Silco's office and belongings, like it's as much her space as her own rooms, and would enjoy anything playing with that. I would also be interested in anything taking place after the last episode, where Silco survives, or is resurrected, or comes back wrong, and they deal with the fallout of everything. Or just Jinx grieving in super unhealthy ways and Silco becoming one of the voices in her head.

Dishonored

Billie Lurk/Daud

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.

Billie Lurk & Thomas

The relationship Billie has with the other Whalers is pretty interesting to me, since they generally seem to respect her while she stays kind of aloof from everyone but Daud. But Thomas was next in the chain of command, and they 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. Did they come up the ranks together, or was one already more established when the other joined? Did they train together, commiserate over dealing with new recruits, complain about the boss? Or anything later on, like how and why they met up again after Billie’s betrayal and the last days of the Whalers. Maybe Thomas was a passenger on the Dreadful Wale once, or maybe they meet again after the events of Death of the Outsider.

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 replayed the first game and DLC recently, and the idea of these two really struck me this time. 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 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.

Fruits Basket

Manabe Kakeru/Sohma Yuki

I really love this relationship so much, especially how their friendship helps them both become better, more confident people. Kakeru pushes Yuki into showing his real personality and having more natural reactions, which is really important as he’s trying to break out of the manufactured, inoffensive, ‘princely’ personality he’s developed. And Yuki lets Kakeru know when he’s gone too far and helps him become more empathetic and understanding of other people’s feelings. Also they’re hilarious together, especially as Yuki becomes more comfortable and their interactions become more mutually teasing.

I’d be interested in seeing what happens post-series and how they stay in each other’s lives outside of the Student Council. I’d also like to see them interacting with each other’s families. Kakeru gets along well with Ayame and has had a few brief interactions with some of the other Sohmas, but I’d love to see more of that and to see how the Sohmas react to him. Kakeru’s family life isn’t quite as screwed up as Yuki’s, but it’s still pretty messy. How does Yuki fit in to a more mundane set of family issues? I’d also love to see what would have happened if Kakeru somehow found out about the curse before it was broken. How would he react to it? Would he be brought into the loop like Tohru? Would they try to keep his finding out a secret? Would there be another upsetting memory erasing scene? Or just more Student Council shenanigans and Kakeru and Yuki’s increasing lack of personal space with each other would always be fun!

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.

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.

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Leia Organa/Poe Dameron

I just adore how much he adores and respects her, both as a leader and as a person. And Leia obviously likes him a lot too and appreciates his talents and maybe lets him get away with a little more than she would someone else.

I’d just like to see more them. Some fun banter, some plausible deniability flirting where of course everyone knows they’re joking but if one of them actually made a move the other would totally reciprocate, some bonding/commiserating over their respective roles and responsibilities to the Resistance. Maybe something earlier on, with Poe going from awe and infatuation with Leia as a legend to genuine respect for her as an actual person and oops those feelings are stronger now. Or Leia surviving and the two of them navigating a peacetime existence together. Outsider POV with other Resistance members/allies/enemies speculating on them would also be fun.



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!