shifty_gardener | Yuletide Letter 2018

Happy Yuletide! I'm specialrhino on Ao3.

I've requested shippy things for all categories, but if you can't bring yourself to write shipfic, a strong focus on the pairing's relationship would suffice. No pwp, please.

To me, gestures of trust and/or affection are THE MOST romantic, whether it's making someone a cup of tea or murdering someone for them <3 so if there's any h/c, focus on the caretaking aspect of it or how out-of-the-way the caring character goes to help the hurt character would be the cutest.

Loves: bedsharing, accidental relationships, intimacy, drunken/drugged cuddling, bickering, protagonist-centric morality, friend side characters

Things I don't want this Yuletide: embarrassing scenes (making a big scene in public, being really awkward around semi-strangers), dark fic, character bashing, italics, roadtrips, drug addiction

I'm totally fine with handwaving of canon timelines! So long as your fic is internally consistent, I will be happy.

Squirrel Girl

Doreen Green, Kraven the Hunter - I ship them!

Both Doreen and Kraven are pretty ridiculous people, but they take one another very seriously. It's great! It's adorbs how they have a solid foundation of trust and mutual respect. And he has a nickname for her!! I <3 them.

I would love anything for this pairing, but if you need prompts, here are some off the top of my head:

1. fake dating -> them realizing they're actually really good at it???? Kraven needing squirrel girl to help rehabilitate his image?

2. doreen learning some russian to go visit him in the Motherland (and talk to russian squirrels)

3. tony gets doreen baseball tickets, she takes Kraven, and then <3kiss cam<3 is tony setting them up??? or Tony finds out and razzes her on twitter for having such odd taste in men

4. alternate meeting???

5. kraven invites doreen to russia for some russian holiday and she discovers that he is an actualfax crazy rich count

6. Nancy POV, realizing Kraven has a thing for her roommate and her general wtf response or trying to coach him on how to be a good date

Side things I love from the canon:

Loki!cat!Thor!

Twitter banter!

Brian Drayne and his super unhelpful existential commentary!

Logan Lucky

Dayton White, Clyde Logan

I'd like something with them interacting past the canon (or an alt meetcute? or pre-canon?), pls! Both of these characters are very weird in their own ways, and it'd be interesting to see how they'd bounce off one another / I think it would work.

The relationship between these two characters can be platonic or shippy, but what I would really love is one or both of these things:

1. For Dayton and Clyde to have bonded over their hatred of Max Chilblaine and become friends - we don't actually see how that punching him in the face scene ends, so who knows? that could have happened! the start of a beautiful friendship!

2. For the ending where the FBI agent is suspicious of the Logan brothers at the end to be fixed, possibly with the help of Dayton

Side things I love from the canon:
Mellie! She is so great and matter-of-fact. So. great. how did she even get all of those cockroaches??
The prison guys and their silly demands and tragic lack of knowledge re: Game of Thrones publishing schedule! The way they all agreed to work together to help Joe escape was weirdly touching, too :3

Oresama Teacher

Takaomi, Mafuyu

I ship Takaomi/Mafuyu with the power of a billion burning suns and also just generally love Oresama Teacher fic because the tone of the manga and its mix of irreverence, meta and deep sincerity is a beautiful thing to behold. So, uh, I'm sorry if you've been assigned to me before, but I love your thing! Pls write for me again! Lol.

Why do I ship them? Everyone sees different parts of Mafuyu - the featherbrained girl, the terrifyingly strong fighter, the natural leader, the dashing prince, the girl who wants to live a shoujo manga life - but Takaomi is the only person who sees all of those parts. Mafuyu doesn't totally understand Takaomi, but she sees more of him than anyone else does and is the person he lets his guard around. I find it incredibly sweet. Also Mafuyu is pretty much everyone's prince, but is occasionally girly around Takaomi, and I want her to get her shoujo manga dream, gdi.

in manga land age difference doesn't really mean much to me, but if it bothers you, feel free to age the characters however to make yourself most comfortable when writing this! I don't mind world-tampering so long as it's explained in-fic.

Random prompts, if you need any:

1. Takaomi gets aged down! Mafuyu gets aged up! Or both! Not an AU, like, a mysterious magical occurrence.

2. Takaomi needs a thing done, and only trusts Mafuyu to do it! Mafuyu goes a bit overboard. Or Takaomi really just wanted to distract her from something.

3. Future get-together fic?

4. Huddling for warmth! Fake dating! Insert other trope here!

5. Everything pre-canon is the same, except it comes out that Mafuyu has been promised to marry the prince, a guy named Takaomi, who seems oddly familiar.... (so basically, a Goong AU)

6. Outside of school, people mistake them for a couple all of the time! Cough, I wonder why that is?!

7. They have to get engaged/married! because of, er, reasons.

8. One of them gets hurt and the other one exacts terrifying vengeance!!

9. A general "omg I actually have feelings for them!!! o______O?!!?!?!!?? WHAT DO?!" moment

10. TRUTH SERUM. Idk I'm sure Yui has some, for some reason, from some ninja poison skills book he thought was bullshit. or that hayazaka bought him on a lark.

11. Mafuyu finds a magic item that gives her wishes! Chaos ensues!! (or not...?)

Side things I love from canon:

people being ~overwhelmed with emotion over something mundane

weird things like messenger pigeons and Ninja's ninja hiding techniques

outsiders misunderstanding a situation

crossdressing