Perennial Exchange Letter

Dear exchange creator,

Thanks for hopping by – this is a perennial letter I'm re-using, since I often re-use prompts for fandoms and my general likes apply universally. Feel free to take or leave as much as you'd like!

[2026: this has been a bit of a rough year, so pardon me if the fandom I requested doesn't have a section here or has a shorter one than the others. It's not that I don't like it as much: I'm just running on fumes at the moment.]

AO3: karanguni
tl;dr: I am 100% here for whatever you want to create – my prompts are just jumping off points.
Fic In A Box-specific: If something pings you, my "any nominated length/medium" opt-ins are genuine: go for it! Feel free to crib off any of my previous requests.

General Info
Initial D
Crossover Fandom
Hikaru no Go
Prince of Tennis
Original Work
Disco Elysium

General 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.

If you're interested in writing totally-optional porn:

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 alpha/beta/omega 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
I really like monochromatic colour palates, black/gold/silver/white, the moon as a symbol, art deco, typography, and am extremely sorry I'm not very good at giving examples...

In general, you can consider me opted-in to any AU you can come up with, crossovers with any fandom I have requested or written before, darkfic &c. as long as my fandom-specific DNWs are respected. Recursive/remixes of my fic, or sequels/prequels if you've written for me before would also be incredible. Have fun!

DNWs

Again, I'm omnivorous! Hard DNWs will be listed in actual AO3 signups. I trust your best judgement!

Initial D

Takahashi Ryousuke, Takahashi Ryousuke & Fujiwara Bunta

I've been on some sort of wild Initial D kick after discovering the fandom, as one does, a thousand years late in the year of EVs 2025. I love Ryousuke in particular because while he's all Ego and I'm The Cool Guy, he also clearly, rabidly cares about more than just winning: he's interested in cars, in technique, in the aesthetics of racing (instead of brrrr just buy an R32 and profit) and in the unpredictability of the street. I love that considering how he's got this whole other buttoned up career waiting for him on the side, and how incongruous it is for some rich kid of hospital administrators in med school to be doing this kind of stuff. And scaring his punk younger brother in the process! It must take a lot to scare someone like Keisuke, after all...

Bunta is sort of the same in an inverse way for me: here you have this hyper-competent racer who clearly has worked obsessively both on his racing technique and his mechanical knowledge and he's... a single dad tofu seller. Bunta, at the end of the day, seems pretty well adjusted: he doesn't Crave To Race, after all, and besides his desires for Takumi (very, er, normal... non-child endangering desires, eh? ILU, BUNTA), keeps his nose pretty much out of it. Is he satisfied with that? Or is he satisfied because he wouldn't be happy giving it his all or being at the top of his game, kind of the same with how Ryousuke retires himself from actively racing?

Some other ideas outside of what I put in my signup:

I'm a huge competence porn fan. Ryousuke fanboying Bunta from afar by looking up or, gasp, interviewing people about Bunta's racing records because there was no internet back when Bunta was racing is delicious to me
How did Ryousuke get into racing in the first place? How did Bunta, and do they ever swap stories at some point somehow?
Takumi watching in horror as his racing dad meets his racing dad (hurhur) would be incredible... :D :D :D
Ryousuke decides he wants to send flowers to Fujiwara the Elder
Ryousuke driving the 86???
Ryousuke writing a medical report on Bunta. This could go somewhere really sad, or be funny - I leave it up to you!
Maybe they have to co-parent (???) Takumi after Takumi has a bad break. What does this look like?
Or maybe Takumi asks Ryousuke to go parent his parent. I think Ryousuke would figure out how to deal with crotchety old men pretttty quickly...

No DNWs.

Crossover Fandom

Takahashi Ryousuke/Kim Kitsuragi, Takahashi Ryousuke/Ogata Seiji

I raved quite a bit in my signup prompt so suffice to say here that I adore AU/AR/fusions and would absolutely be delighted by the dropping of any one or more of these three into each others' universes. Disco Elysium is just an incredible world, and I would pay a lot to see Ryousuke and Ogata interact in it as themselves - i.e. street racer and Go/game player - if that floats your boat, for example.

Staying within the pairings themselves, for Ryousuke/Kim:

Car geekery! I love the idea that Ryousuke might be on the radio waves. Or maybe the Pale causes Kim to hear radio from another dimension, say, the dimension of Gunma-in-the-90s... Or even vice versa
Ryousuke plays Disco Elysium in the modern era and wakes up in the universe. Where is he, what does he do, and what does he think about ending up in a game?
Kim in the real world as a police officer rounding up racing delinquents only to get DRAWN INTO THE ILLEGAL RACES BY THIS charismatic intelligent young man.......

For Ryousuke/Ogata:

Ryousuke and Ogata bump into one another in Tokyo. Literally. Cars are slightly damaged. Tempers are high. What happens?
Ogata has a bad habit of picking up in the strangest places. Where does he pick Ryousuke up and how?
Maybe Ryousuke is really into Go and one thing leads to another?

No DNWs

Hikaru no Go

Touya Kouyou & Ogata Seiji, Solo: Touya Kouyou

I am on a real Touya Kouyou kick, somehow, so HIT ME WITH WHATEVER YOU'VE GOT. I just love crazy dignified papa Touya and his not-so-secret wildly-similar-to-Akira obsessive tendencies that are masked, one assumes, by his age and reputation. Kouyou's Seen Some Things, has raised a rabble of Go players and a son, and is now off gallivanting doing who-knows-what off of the leash of professional Japanese Go.

The latter, to me, is supremely interesting because professional Go in Japan is exactly that: a profession tied to a professional association. What does cutting himself off from all that being in the association – a salary, the ability to compete in professional matches, the events and the access to the association's resources – look like for Kouyou? Does Not Much Change because he's such a figure of Japanese Go? Or maybe focus on what he gains by not being tied to the association: freedom to set his own schedule, to travel, to play whatever the heck type of matches he wants with whomever the heck he pleases...

I also love the idea of Kouyou as a mentor. His study group is this hilarious combination of personality types and ages, and he's got both the supremely up-and-coming, the already successful, and the might-not-be-a-title-winner types all in one bag. Tell me more about that! How did he meet them? How DOES one get introduced to THE Touya Kouyou?

Re: Ogata & Kouyou - just, gosh. They're such different people. I would love for you to dig into Ogata's unspoken other-ness, whether you want to speculate on his background, his socio-economic status, his unhealthy addiction to fish/cigarettes, his lifestyle... How does that tie into his relationship with his master, especially considering that he's becoming so successful himself as we meet him in canon? How does that relationship change over time, especially with Akira' advent and then, later on, Hikaru's? GIVE ME TEENAGED OGATA ANGST IF YOUR HEART WILLS IT.

However you want to tie Go the game into the fic itself, I'm also all here for it. Whether it's a language, an inter-generational tie, a crux, a curse, I WANT IT ALL. I also know about as little about how to play Go as someone who has spent an unhealthy amount of time researching historical Go players could possibly know, so please don't feel the need to be particularly accurate about anything because I know far more Go-related nouns than I know actual Go rules...

Prince of Tennis

Fuji Shuusuke/Tezuka Kunimitsu

I am highly predictable, this is me. If you've written them for me before, I very much opt into sequels/prequels! The rest of this prompt is copy-pasta'd from 2022:

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 Janus-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 also reference my other letters (findable via this post's tags -> exchange letters) for this pairing.

Canon notes: Prince of Tennis has a ridiculous amount of material: please pick and choose to your liking. I've watched both the original run of PoT and read/watched all the New Prince of Tennis anime/manga. I honestly am not picky! I'm a character-focused reader, so don't feel the need to canon review to the last detail.

Original Work

Church Painter Who May Be the Devil/Village Priest (M/M)

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...

Disco Elysium

Solo: Kim Kitsuragi; WB: Cars in Revachol

Kim is just the best. I adore his sense of fashion, of self, of the world around him. One of my favourite skills in the game is Esprit de Corps, and it reminds me of Kim: cop-Shivers. Anything you'd like to write about his motivations, his origins, his interests and his future would be candy to me – Kim is just a cool cat and I adore him.

Meanwhile, the way cars are described in the game – especially Kim's Kineema and Harry's unfortunate vehicle – is so evocative that I want to eat it up and have more of it. Worldbuild away! What cars say about Revachol and their owners fascinates me. Then there's the idea of them as actual vehicles: the slice city we get to see in the game is so strange, on the edge of the sea and the Pale with these boats and cars that can take you to other places. Where can you go with a car in this universe? What gets embedded into the paint, the seats; what can the headlights illuminate or the radios play?