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Fic In A Box 2021
Dear Fic In A Box creator, thank you for writing for me! Everything here is optional; please have fun!
AO3: karanguni; full sign-up here
tl;dr: I am 100% here for whatever you want to try and create! I love that FIAB is so multi-media and multi-faceted. My prompts are 100% just jumping off points; if something pings your brain, my "any nominated" request is genuine: go for it!
Likes
- Old friendships and relationships: people who were close but who then drifted or were driven apart, and how they come together again. The internal struggle of renegotiating new/old territory; unrequited/unresolved tension. Pining is great.
- People who know each other very well, and who translate that knowledge into a variety of things - whether that's intimacy, sex, codependency, codeswitching or otherwise - that aren't easily read or understood by third parties. Ingroup/outgroup dynamics!
- Service/loyalty/contractual obligations.
- High-pressure situations - whether immediate or over a long time span - and how people respond to them.
- Competence porn: people who have worked very hard to become highly proficient in their skillsets, whether that's being an assassin or meticulous scholarship.
- Private versus public conflicts, and how a character balances the two. Winning one only to lose the other; difficult compromises.
- Cross-class interactions; the bigger the divide, the better. Double points if it's not just a case of "I've got X and you've not", but rather how two people challenge each other across said divides.
- Worldbuilding, especially economic, in-group, and political worldbuilding.
- Powerplays and mindfucking, whether in bed or out of it. Cavalier but not careless use of power.
- Dom/sub dynamics, but not as a lifestyle (To whit - a commander/subordinate relationship with lots of sir-ing? Delicious. Slave or A/B/O AU where the setting encourages the dynamic? Yes, please! Bringing a BDSM master/slave relationship in a vanilla society out of the bedroom without a supporting non-bedroom context? Nah. :))
- Age gaps, and gaps in general - of experience, of personal wealth, of language, of social class.
- Breathplay, dirty talk, spanking/impact play, voyeurism/exhibitionism, clothing or uniform porn or mostly-dressed sex, restraints.
Art Thoughts:
- Ghost in the Shell pose
- Pose: someone sitting with someone standing behind them draped over their chair
- Illuminated texts
- Isometric pixel art?
- Chillhop loop art
DNWs
Again, I'm omnivorous! Hard DNWs are listed in my prompts per-fandom. I trust your best judgement! WELCOME TO 2005, because that seems to be where my signup is from.
A Note On Canons
Both Prince of Tennis and Naruto have a ridiculous amount of material. Please pick and choose to your liking. I've watched both the original runs of PoT and Naruto/Naruto Shippuden; I've watched and read all the additional PoT anime/manga but have not watched Boruto. I honestly am not picky! I'm a character-focused reader, so don't feel the need to canon review to the last nitty-gritty detail.
Prince of Tennis
Fuji Shuusuke/Tezuka Kunimitsu and Atobe Keigo/Tezuka Kunimitsu
Fuji/Tezuka
DNW: genderswap, Fujicest
I could eat this pair for breakfast every day for the rest of my life and be happy. They smash all my buttons re: competence porn, complex friendships, silent-but-deadly, smouldering inner landscapes, still waters run deep, and do it all in a canon that has had them essentially actually be married looking after a group of feel-good lunatics.
I think Tezuka is hugely dimensional despite his I'm-40-call-me-buchou face: the New Prince of Tennis U-16s Yamato-kicks-his-head-in and German pro arc solidified that for me as Tezuka yeets himself out of Japan to go burn passionately for himself. That said, please don't feel like you need to go consume Konomi's never-ending canons; I'm just as happy if you draw from the OG anime.
FUJI, meanwhile, WHERE DO I BEGIN. I love his Juno-like personality: I believe there's genuine kindness/gentleness to him just as I believe that he'll grind your nose into a cement curb and break every bone in your body. I know my DNW of "please don't make Fuji too much of an asshole" seems a little washy, but all that means is that if Fuji is - say - destroying someone's entire universe, that he do it for a relatively good reason. I expect NO LIMITS to what this human being could do. Again, the later arcs hint at Fuji tipping slowly on the scales of his dedication to tennis beyond a fun thing to do in the afternoons, and offer us tantalising prospects of Fuji possibly being as good (or better) than Tezuka/Yukimura/Atobe/whoever he damned well puts his mind to being better at. The push/pull of Fuji being unable to fully commit to tennis while also being fully committed enough to, say, stalking Tezuka to the hospital, to the Nationals, and around the world is GREAT.
As a pair in canon, it's always been the little things. I love that almost every scene in which the two of them are present involves a shot of them quietly next to one another: evaluating games, or Tezuka waiting for Fuji to tie his shoelaces, or Fuji knowing when Tezuka is going to just randomly disappear again. It's not shouted from the hilltops, but that's what I love about it: how they fly it under the radar, how Fuji refuses to let himself be on the "executive committee" of team leadership but is there anyway, how Tezuka can actually sit next to him and maybe not be a captain or national figure.
So, in terms of actual prompts, ha! I'm not joking: give me anything. I love in-canon stuff, post-canon stuff, missing scenes, random crack, AUs, ARs, ANYTHING THAT IS MORE OF THEM. Some additional random thoughts:
- Missing scene: Fuji plays Atobe, and Tezuka has way too many feelings about it
- Midsummer Night's Dream AU: someone (maybe even Fuji) plays a trick on Tezuka and bewitches him to be UNWILLINGLY IN LOVE with Fuji - how aware Tezuka is of this compulsion and how much he fights it is up to you. Plot twist: by the end of the night's dream, Tezuka reveals that the compulsion'd worn off a long time ago, but was a good excuse to act like ____
- Competence porn: a writeup about their playstyles? A look at their standings in high school/the pro circuit? Echizen getting smacked down by a leveled-up Fuji and outsider perspective-ing the two of them?
- Injury/disability AU: some hurt/comfort or competence co-dependence in a situation where either of them has to not overcome but live with a long-term impairment = amazing. Whether this is in our normal universe or some AU (magic? they're both ninja in Naruto?) is up to you!
- I have this vague memory of an AMAZING Fuji/Tezuka ship manifesto from the Times of LJ Yore, so I'd love one of those brought up to date 8D
Feel free to reference my FFFX letter (findable via this post's tags -> exchange letters) for this pairing.
Tezuka/Atobe
DNW: genderswap
Oh, Atobe, you're so much more than a pretty face even if you're also the cracktastic crack-fuelled crack master of the PoT universe. I spent two hours at 1AM recently watching the specials with the whole... castle and the tennis gangs and then the... Kabaji birthday thing... and it's just absurd. Atobe is absurd. He's ridiculous. But he also works so hard, and I love that about him. I want to see him use and be used by his family's money; I want to see him deal with that - whether it means moving away from tennis to do his duty or abandoning his duty to play tennis or finding a third way, because if anyone can, why not Atobe?
It's a fascinating feature of the fact that we get Hyotei early that Atobe got stood up as this great player only to be eclipsed time and time again by players from other schools in later arcs. By the time you get to the end of the current canon, it's obvious that Atobe is still talented, but he's somehow always the bridesmaid. He picks up responsibilities that Tezuka puts down, but it's heartbreaking to watch him lose more often than he wins when he has no magical injury to handicap him. And that's such brain fodder for me: here is this egotistic, rich lil' bastard, but out of so many in PoT's ensemble cast, he's the one who is constantly learning how to lose gracefully and grow. Play with that dynamic however you will!
I like the thought that he and Tezuka maybe fall into some unspoken agreements: a bucho circle of responsibility, but also that kind of understanding that you get when you're crazy about something and meet someone just as crazy as you. Atobe's Insightfulness™ allowing him to peel past the onion layers of Tezuka's yuudan-ni-sezu-ni-ikou oneliners = happiness.
Some random additional ideas:
- Fake relationship: Tezuka is in Germany, so is Atobe, they're at a bar, people are coming on to them, they just want some peace. The consequences are up to you! It's splashed all over the news? It's not noticed at all but it triggers something?
- Tezuka blueballs Atobe, because Atobe having to fight endlessly for what he wants is always great
- Their hands and handedness. Okay, so sue me, but Atobe and Tezuka naturally using their dominant arms to elbow bump so casually in the anime is still one of the be-still-my-beating-heart moments and I just love left-handed dynamics (thanks, Konomi). INTERPRET AS YOU WILL. (Who wears their watch on what hand? What unconscious adaptations do they have to accommodate opposite-handedness? What happens when someone has to use their off hand? Why am I suddenly thinking of them in some team building activity in which Tezuka's left is tied to Atobe's right and they're literally useless at everything?)
- Fuji's Wrath Descends Upon Them Both
- Fuji's Benefaction Descends Upon Them Both
- They're both called upon to get Yukimura out of trouble because Yukimura tried having fun with tennis and ended up ______ instead
- Their email/text conversations, because Tezuka can express more when actually using words than he does when using no words
Naruto
Hatake Kakashi
DNW: Kakashi/Obito or Kakashi/Rin (codependent friendships to the moon are fine)
My signup has all of my gushing, so I'll just throw out some vague additional ideas here. If you want to go into the land of shipping or bouncing Kakashi off another character, I particularly like Kakashi &/ Tenzo and Minato for backstory meatiness. I'm fascinated by Minato's caretaking of Kakashi post-Obito/Rin: good lord. I'm not sure if the neglect is intentional or accidental or if it's just Shinobi Culture, but I'd love more insight into what Minato is thinking as Kakashi is wandering around Konoha a little to a lot broken. Tenzo and Kakashi are my favourite broken-but-reborn ANBU/Root boys and I will eat up literally anything you write about them; bonus if they bring Sai into their little conclave. Kakashi/Iruka feel-good feelings and post-Rokudaime life = also fantastic
More random ideas:
- I'm fascinated by lineages and reputation in Konoha. Kakashi + the Sannin = ?
- Kakashi and free time: does this many have any space for hobbies? Does he read anything beyond Icha Icha? How about hanging out with his ninken?
- Kakashi packages up some of his legacy. What does this mean?
- Turning 30, then 35, then 40: time slices?
- How do the other jounin feel about Kakashi over the ages?
- Art: Kakashi... and handwriting/seal writing analysis
- Art: Kakashi and his disregard/regard for what attire befits a hokage
- Kakashi has to navigate something entirely by smell because he's been blinded. This can be as cracky (escape room?) or serious (he's gone blind?) or porny (Orochimaru?) as you like.
Original Work
Church Painter Who May Be the Devil/Village Priest (M/M)
In addition to my long original prompt below, here are some bullet points for you:
- Art: the devil and the priest in suits. Bonus points again for the GitS pose: feel free to OC the others in the lineup up -the devil's familiar? Their pigment dealer? YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO EXPLAIN THEM.
- Handjobs in the confessional
- _____________ in the confessional
- _____________ outside the confessional
- Paint on skin
- Magic paint on skin
- Holy paint on devil skin. Does it become a tattoo?
- Language porn
- Music: what does, say, Kyrie sound like in this universe and why does it matter to a painter?
- If there were ever a time for poetry...
[Original prompt:] TAKE ME TO CHURCH. Create me your iddy worst/best. Interpret "priest" in our real world sense of any variety of religion (I would love a Jesuit priest if you want a preference) or invent your own. Some ideas:
- The painting is alive, or prophetic
- Only the priest can see some elements of the painting
- The priest turns out not to be just a priest but the Chosen One™
- The devil is literally in the details
- The priest is totally okay with the devil painting his church, and engages in 10,000 words of conversation and confession with the devil, since he carries the weight of his community on his shoulders and it would be unfair to unload on anyone else
- The priest tempts the devil with beautiful but holy pigments
- The priest and the devil, after years of developing the painting together, both walk away from religion for Reasons.
- The priest was someone's firstborn offering to the devil, and the devil isn't collecting because...
- The devil is tired of hell and ceding the throne to someone else
- Either one of them is a reincarnate
- Bonus: the priest is blind and the devil has to describe his own work.
- The priest is more worldly than the devil can account for
- The church ends up becoming some weird confessional ground for both angelic and demonic sorts due to their combined influence and the priest AND the devil end up taking a whole lot of confessions from unexpected individuals. The church of grey areas? They are united by their aunt agony services?
I'd love a dynamic where they are both end up relatively equal partners in terms of intellectual or emotional sparring, though I am all for imbalance in every other sense - power, age, &c. I'd prefer for the priest not to be afraid all the time, though feel free to use that as a focal point of his development.
Fun kinks, sexual or otherwise: clerical attire porn, all the symbology you want to put together, time passing/reversing/looping, speaking in tongues, blasphemy, impact play, dirty talk (especially if the priest is doing it!), competence porn
Here are some random canons to inspire the tone of the fic for you: Vampire Chronicles.... OR QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. The Sparrow... OR Father Brown. HP Lovecraft... OR Discworld. Vienna Teng's In Another Life. I'm just as happy if the tone is a little crackier as long as the world is internally consistent!
Some non-fic thoughts: church music both holy and unholy? The devil's personal tarot deck that slowly becomes a deck of things he wants to do to the priest potential futures? A sketch of what the painting actually is? What does a combined liturgy look like? Map of the village and their favourite haunts? An illuminated journal? Them in stained glass? The priest beta reading the devil's spell book? Hymnbook?
DNWs: permanent death of either main character; totally grimdark ending (sad ending, yes! they don't actually get together, sure! rocks fall, everybody dies, the devil is going to hell after making the priest's life hell and doesn't care, please no), scat, oviposition, non-con without at least progression to less-non-con afterwards (i.e., single non-con PWP = ):, non-con scene in fic where their relationship develops into one that's not so non-con = :))
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