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Gamer/Nerd AU

(Ok, this is more my speed. I like computer games and stuff. XD)

They met on an MMORPG, which neither now plays as it sold out after the second round of extra content. She was a paladin, he was a hunter. They would sometimes join their guildies to do raids and dungeons, and everyone dealt with Nikola’s flighty fighting because Helen was an amazing tank.

They also play card games. They both applied to take part in a Pokémon card tournament, and both got to the final. Nikola won with his lucky Jolteon.

Helen tells everyone her favourite type of game is a puzzle action game, like Legend of Zelda or Alundra, but she really loves platformers. Nikola goes through obsessions, and at the moment its the Professor Layton games.

They have a YouTube channel, mostly for Nikola to show off, but his best rated videos are the ones with him and Helen playing games together, bantering and being themselves, and people actually tell him, when he does an end of year what should I do next video, that there should be more Teslen videos.

For birthdays/Christmas, they commission fandomy presents for each other. Nikola’s favourite is still the first present Helen gave him - an actual print of a fanart of his hunter - although the mint in box copy of Final Fantasy VII has pride of place in their home, next to her beat up Pokémon Crystal cartridge (her first proper Pokémon game that she bought with her own pocket money).

They have a room in their house for gaming/recording/various computer based things. All their special fandomy things are on display in there. They also have laptops so they can compare games between their super awesome desktop pcs and their pretty awesome laptops.

When they’re not gaming/editing/doing whatevs in the computer room, they curl up on the sofa, drinking tea and watching sci-fi, or playing board games. Helen wins at chess and Monopoly, but Nikola is a demon playing Snakes and Ladders.

Fantasy AU

(Sam/Jack!!! <3<3<3) Ok, not super into fantasy past LotR or The Dark Tower (I know, two different types of fantasy), so if this is trope-y, that’s why. XD

When they go on adventures, Jack is the leader, and a swordsman that only draws his blade to kill. He was a member of an elite squad until he lost his taste for death. Now he only fights/kills when he has to. Sam is a mage who tends to fight with fire/electric magic. She would have been a member of the same elite squad had she not fallen in love with Jack and he hadn’t fallen for her.

Sam is the daughter of an important lord, and had to keep her magic casting secret as women of the land were only to be healers or mothers. A woman caught transgressing would be put to death. Sam, therefore, dresses and travels as a man in her own country... Until she gets sick of it when she’s older. She starts fighting as herself, and her electric magic strengthens as she isn’t hiding a art of herself.

Sam hunts the food, Jack cooks the food (unless it’s fish, then Jack catches the fish himself).

When they aren’t adventuring, Jack does woodwork. Sam is a mechanic of sorts - fixing windmills, spinning wheels, things like that. Jack sometimes makes the parts to replace the broken ones.

An evil sorcerer placed a charm on Sam’s heart so that it wouldn’t beat with love for Jack. The sorcerer was paid to do so by a lonely toll house operator who had seen Sam with Jack and thought the sun rose and shone because of her. Jack for ages couldn’t understand why Sam was behaving so oddly, and for a while things looked bleak. He was about to let her leave for good when he kissed her, in front of the toll house operator, one last time. The charm was lifted. Sam was freed, as the operator had witnessed true love’s kiss. (Sam then punched the living daylights out of the guy because who the hell uses a charm like that in this day and age?)

BDSM AU. This one is kinda influenced by two Sam/Jack fics I read ages ago - Leather & Lace (it’s a series by Kimberly Jackson) and Trust Me by @amaradangeli. (I would heartily recommend both.) (And yes, this is probably just as trope laden as my previous head canons.)

Jack likes tying Sam up and torturing her (usually orgasm denial, but it’s dependent on his mood). He’s really good at that fine line balance of pleasure/pain.

Their D/s dynamic doesn’t always bleed through into their day to day dynamic, but there are times when Jack will say something a certain way and Sam’s eyes glaze for a moment. He always notices.

Sam likes the pretty patterns rope bondage leaves on her skin (Jack likes seeing them).

Jack gave Sam a box one birthday, and told her to come down to dinner in it’s contents. She ate dinner at his knee, naked except for the velvet choker around her neck.

They discovered Sam’s sub side sorta by accident - they were messing around one evening and Jack says he isn’t above spanking her. Its the way her breath catches, her big eyes wide and expressive, that tells him this is something they could explore together.

When they cuddle afterwards, it always feels like the place is glowing and warm, even if it isn’t physically. They always feel calmer after a session.