#multifandom tropefest

Clark is adrift in endless peace with neither past nor future.

Slowly, the thick substrate drains away around him and his back settles against a hard, metal surface. Heavy eyes struggle open against the bright world.

“It’s a miracle you’ve lasted as long as you have.” A distant, muted voice comes from somewhere above him.

Clark strains to see the hazy figure and his even hazier surroundings, but painfully tight bands on his wrists and ankles and across his chest keep him down.

“Ah, you’re finally awake.” A large, firm hand cups Clark’s chin, roughly tilting his head back against the metal surface to bare his neck. “That was a foolish gamble even for you, but it all turned out alright in the end. I finally have you all to myself.”

It’s a man with sharp, narrow features and a smooth, bald head. His other arm is in a sling.

“Lex…” the name comes out unbidden.

For Multifandom Tropefest 2018, I received this wonderful xxxHolic fic from partypaprika, featuring a very distressed Doumeki and a very badass Watanuki.

Fandom: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Markus/North (Detroit: Become Human) Characters: Markus (Detroit: Become Human), North (Detroit: Become Human), Android Polar Bear | URS12 Additional Tags: accidental pet acquisition, Pets, Mentions of Past Animal Abuse, Canon-Typical Violence, Domestic Fluff, Post-Canon, Treat

Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jon Snow/Sansa Stark Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Rhaegar won, Sansa Stark is Queen in the North, Politics, Arranged Marriage, Courtly Love

Summary: Love is built stone by stone through hard work, her mother had once told Sansa. She wouldn't understand these words until her family was dead and White Walkers roamed the land, and she found herself wedded to a dragon prince through duty and necessity.

Hey there! The tropes kind of speak for themselves, but here are a bunch of my likes if you’re looking for some other inspiration!

 General likes: Worldbuilding, queer characters and queer characters being normalised aka them being queer is not the focus of the fic, fight scenes and fighting banter, established relationships!!!!!!, daemon AUs, soulmate AUs, pining, outside POV, social media fic, post canon fic, femslash, violence and blood as long as comfort follows the hurt. I really love some plot - doesn’t have to be deep or anything, just a solid storyline is great. Including original characters is also great!

General dislikes: fake dating, marriage of convenience, miscommunication (pining okay), NSFW or any implied sex, character bashing, unhappy endings. If you’re going to write a trans character please don’t misgender them.

Worldbuilding prompts/ideas here!

Other letters for other exchanges

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Horizon: Zero Dawn

Fandom likes: Vala lives!!!, Aloy interacting with Old World tech, GAIA Prime being rebuilt, TFW characters interacting with base game characters, Aloy being a big lady lover!!!, Vala interacting with other characters (especially those in the Cut), Aloy introducing Varl or Vala to old world tech, striders and just machines in general befriending Aloy when she overrides them, normal people’s reactions to Aloy’s actions, Aloy being a living legend

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Kingdom Hearts

Fandom likes: Riku is FTM trans, Roxas or Xion or Ven or Van lurking in the background/influencing Sora’s actions while they’re still in his heart, Sora crying, drive forms, keyblades!!, Van remembering KHUX events, SORIKAI, Nobodies being treated like the really fucking scary/dead things that they are, Roxas being OP, the Oathkeeper and Oblivion (the keyblades and their symbolism). I love Roxas a lot. If you could include him, I would really be over the moon.

I’ve played KH3, and unless you’re going to be doing some canon fixing, I’d prefer if you stayed away from it. Fixing KH3 would be very, very welcomed though!!

What I didn’t like about kh3: everyone getting rebodied with no explanation, literally the entire ending, the lack of Riku and Kairi interacting, the lack of Oathkeeper and Oblivion, Lea breaking the fourth wall all the time, the WEIRD paopu fruit scene between Sora and Kairi (I ship sokai but something was really offputting to me about that scene), the lack of interaction between all the different characters (Riku and Aqua should talk!!), Vanitas not being redeemed. PLEASE if you’re doing post canon kh3 fic, can you please have Sora, Kairi and Vanitas alive (or just don’t mention them so I can pretend they’re alive). You absolutely do not have to explain how they’re alive if you don’t want to, just have them all there and I will 100% accept it!

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Fire Emblem Heroes

Fandom likes: Fjorm. I love, adore, and cherish Fjorm. If you write me anything about her, I will love it. Besides that – please only use they/them pronouns for the Summoner. I like Fjorm being OP, soft ice siblings and ice siblings in general, and fix it fics where everyone lives. I would prefer the Summoner to be written just like any other character, not as a self-insert – so third person POV please.

General likes: bantering or bickering; moments of humor even in the darkest situations; pining; misunderstandings that turn out all right in the end; poly relationships; casual relationships; hurt/comfort.

Sexy likes: lots of talking during sex, both sweet and dirty; light bondage; realistic awkward or silly moments.

DNWs: rape/non-con; incest; detailed description of bodily fluids; infidelity; unrelentingly dark and grim stories (I like a glimmering of hope).

That stuff, you’ve already seen in my sign-up on AO3. Now for some fandom-specific details! I’m afraid this is a pretty long letter, but I’ve tried to give you some bold headers to make it easy to search:

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Han Solo

What can I say, I love a threesome. I like this ship best with Han and Leia as an established couple, inviting a friend or friendly ex into their bedroom as either a one-time fling or an ongoing, but casual, FWB arrangement; I’m less interested in a long-term triad. I’d also love to see a little tension between Lando and Leia as they sort out the boundaries of their respective claims on Han before ultimately deciding that, yes, there’s enough room there for them to share.

Tropes I think would really shine here: Exes -- The Missus and the Ex. Distracted Sex -- Doing Paperwork. Flirting Under Fire. Hurt/Comfort -- Everyone Needs to Give or Receive Comfort. Stranded on a Hostile Planet. Accidental Marriage -- Misunderstanding Local Marriage Customs. Undercover as Bodyguard(s)/Client.

Leia Organa/Han Solo

I just love them. Anywhere along the timeline of the relationship -- some of these tropes would be great for two prickly, stubborn people who bicker all the time and are definitely not into each other how dare you even ask, some would be perfect for established-relationship crazy-about-each-other Han and Leia. (I’m not sure I have any tropes listed that are a great fit for the sequel trilogy timeline of two people who still love each other but have kind of fallen apart, but if you think you can make it work, go for it!)

Tropes I think would work best here: Accidental Marriage -- Misunderstanding Local Marriage Customs. Distracted Sex -- Doing Paperwork. Flirting Under Fire. Falsely Accused of Being a Traitor. Undercover -- Breaking Cover to Protect Partner. Undercover as Bodyguard/Client.

Wedge Antilles/Leia Organa

This is definitely a Legends-influenced pairing for me -- I’ve always been really fond of their close friendship in the EU novels. This is another relationship that I like better as something casual, more of a FWB arrangement that grows out of that friendship or a fling that ends happily than a long-term romance.

Tropes that would really shine here: Accidental Marriage -- Misunderstanding Local Marriage Customs. Distracted Sex -- Doing Paperwork. Falsely Accused of Being a Traitor. Hurt/Comfort -- Comforter Secretly Nursing Their Own Injury. Stranded In Enemy Territory. Under the Influence -- Getting Drunk Together. Undercover as a Couple.

Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker

My favorites! If I have a real OTP, this is it. For this ship, I definitely am looking for a long-term romance -- if you go with one of the tropes that call for the characters not to start as a couple (accidental marriage, undercover as a couple), I’d like that to be the catalyst that makes them realize they want to stay together long-term.

Tropes I think would fit best here: Accidental Marriage -- either subtrope. Flirting Under Fire. Stranded in Enemy Territory. Stranded on a Hostile Planet. Undercover -- Breaking Cover to Protect Partner. Undercover as Bodyguard/Client. Hurt/Comfort -- Comforter Secretly Nursing Their Own Injury.

Star Wars Legends

Garik “Face” Loran/Ton Phanan

All of the ghost/undead/resurrection-related tropes I have in my list are kind of meant for these guys. Hurt me. Give me their fated romance cut short, or the even worse tragedy of Phanan somehow coming back and meeting Face’s delight with resentment at having to face life again.

Alternately: they do have a nice long run as best friends and wingmates, and I’d also be happy with them getting into shenanigans and having lots of pleasant casual sex during happier days.

Tropes I’d love to see here: Flirting Under Fire. Friends With Benefits. Ghosts -- Character Haunts Other Character. Ghosts/Undead -- Character Is Dead And Doesn’t Know It. Resurrection -- Resurrected Character Didn’t Want To Come Back. Stranded in Enemy Territory. Undercover as a Couple.

Mara Jade & Talon Karrde

I do definitely want this to stay a platonic/mentorship relationship, and not have it turn romantic or sexual. But I’m fine with any of the tropes that involve their relationship being perceived as romantic/sexual!

Tropes I think are well-suited here: Accidental Marriage -- Misunderstanding Local Marriage Traditions. Captivity -- Captured Together. Everyone Thinks They’re Together. Stranded on a Hostile Planet. Undercover -- Breaking Cover to Protect Partner. Undercover as a Couple.

Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker

The true Enemies To Friends To Lovers OTP. I love their relationship so much. I feel like a lot of these tropes could work at different points in the timeline -- some after they’re definitely allies but not exactly friends, some after they’ve realized they're meant for each other (or as they’re realizing it), a few very early on while Mara’s still insisting she plans to kill him... go nuts!

This is also one of the Legends relationships that I’m always trying to stick back into the new canon -- if you feel any of these would work well for that, go for it. (I normally don’t love versions of that where the reason Mara isn’t around in the sequel films is that she’s dead, but I do think the Ghosts tropes could potentially work, if you want to take it in that direction.)

Tropes that could shine the best here: Captivity -- Captured Together. Flirting Under Fire. Physical Fight Leading to Sex -- Sparring. Stranded in Enemy Territory. Stranded on a Hostile Planet. Sudden Realization -- Sees Loved One in Peril. Undercover as a Couple. Hurt/Comfort -- Everyone Needs to Give or Receive Comfort.

Myn Donos/Gara Petothel | Lara Notsil

Listen: I re-read Solo Command recently and spent, conservatively, 90% of it crying about these two. What really works for me is those agonizing scenes where Lara’s trying to convince Myn to stay away from her, and clearly trying to convince herself as well -- I’d love a fic that puts them in a situation where it would be so easy to give in, or a situation where she does give in and then has to try to figure out how to take it back. In short: hurt me. Do your worst.

Tropes I think would really suit here: Captivity -- Captured Together. Physical Fight Leading to Sex -- Sparring. Stranded in Enemy Territory. Sudden Realization -- Sees Loved One in Peril. Undercover -- Breaking Cover to Protect Partner. Undercover as a Couple. Hurt/Comfort -- Comforter Secretly Nursing Their Own Injury. Hurt/Comfort generally.

Wedge Antilles/Wes Janson

Let’s be honest, I’m mostly looking for more Wraith Squadron shenanigans here. Alternately, this is a pairing that lends itself to hurt/comfort -- both of these guys have more than enough canonical close calls. Or why not a bit of both? If you’re feeling ambitious, you could fix Isard’s Revenge for me by writing their reunion after they’ve both believed each other to be dead for weeks.

Tropes that would work best for this ship: Accidental Marriage -- Misunderstanding Local Marriage Customs. Captivity -- Captured Together. Flirting Under Fire. Physical Fight Leading to Sex -- Sparring. Stranded in Enemy Territory. Sudden Realization -- Sees Loved One in Peril. Undercover -- Breaking Cover to Protect Partner. Hurt/Comfort -- Comforter Secretly Nursing Their Own Injury.

The Mummy Series

This one is pretty brief -- I only requested the one ship, Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O’Connell/Rick O’Connell, so of course I think all these tropes are perfect for that ship! Basically: I am a woman of simple tastes, and those tastes are adventures and threesomes, and I just want to give these guys a warm, happy, fluffy home base between adventures.

I’m equally happy with a “the entire triad gets together at once” approach or a “Rick and Evy get together, then eventually add Ardeth” approach -- you can see I’ve requested Polyamory tropes that would suit either option, and the Long-Distance Relationship and Sudden Realization tropes also kind of split along these lines (Sudden Realization where Rick and Evy are already an established couple, Long-Distance Relationship where Ardeth is a party to the relationship from the start).

Lucha Underground

I know, you didn’t offer this. No one did. I checked the Signup Summary. But I’m throwing in some notes here, just in case someone wants to write a treat for it or anything, because it’s the fandom where I have the strongest feelings about which tropes go with which ship.

Johnny Mundo/Prince Puma

I loved the arc of their friendship in season 1 -- friends, then friendly rivals, then suddenly the rivalry gets real and things go sour and everything is ruined. “Former best friends” is maybe my favorite category of wrestling rivalry. I’m into a fic that takes place at any point along that arc, and (maybe especially) a fic that brings them back together and makes it pay off in a way it never really did on the show. Friends to Enemies to Lovers -- Pining Knowingly The Whole Time is maybe the perfect trope in that respect.

Werecats is, of course, the other trope I see as specific to this ship. There are a lot of ways you could go with this and all of them are goofy as hell, but what would delight me is perhaps the goofiest of all: hot idiot Johnny Mundo tries to figure out how this big weird cat keeps getting in his apartment, why his boyfriend never answers his “help that big weird cat is here again” texts. Alternately, go a little sad with it and give me Puma, post-friend-breakup, using cat form to sneak around and get closer to Johnny than he can get in human form anymore.

Angelico/Son of Havoc/Ivelisse

I love these beautiful dysfunctional dipshits and I just want them to love each other.

All of my tropes that really require a villain -- Captivity -- Captured Together, Captivity -- One Character Captured, Mind Control -- Forced to Harm Loved One -- I’m picturing as Catrina fucking with these three.

No big surprise that Polyamory -- Two People Sharing a Third Makes Them Realize They Like Each Other Too is also intended for these guys. I’d throw a “still” or “again” in there -- make sharing Angelico the catalyst that brings Ivelisse and Havoc back together.

Protection -- Smaller Character Physically Protects Injured Bigger Character was also intended for these three. Give me a match that never happened where Ivelisse (size category: Tiny) gets to run in and intervene to protect one or both of her large idiot boyfriends.

Tropes That Suit Either Ship

A lot of these are just great, very physical tropes that seem natural for wrestling fic -- Adrenaline-Fueled Makeout, Physical Fight Leading to Sex -- Sparring, Sudden Realization -- Sees Loved One in Peril. Same goes for the Hurt/Comfort tropes -- an in-ring or training injury, a rough match or a beatdown by a rival, whatever.

For Hurt/Comfort -- Comforter is the One Who Hurt Them in particular, I’m picturing this as an in-ring injury -- either accidental (freak accident, “oh no that landed a little stiffer than I meant it to,” whatever) or regrettable but deliberate (“listen, I like you a lot and I’m very sorry about your face, but I am not about to go around losing matches just because the alternative is to kick your ass”).

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This is an exchange dedicated to tropes, variations on tropes, and trope subversions! This exchange matches based on fandom, character/relationship, trope, and medium, i.e. canon compliant, canon divergent, or alternate universe art or fanfic.

2K word minimum or minimum of a clean lineart illustration.

Important dates:

Sign-up Closes:          Sat 22 Sep 2018 09:59PM MDT (11:59PM EDT)

Assignments Due:      Fri 09 Nov 2018 11:59PM MST (01:59AM EST)

Works Revealed:        Fri 23 Nov 2018 09:59AM MST (11:59AM EST)