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laurus_nobilis
GENERAL LIKES
Casefic and missionfic; backstory and missing scenes; hurt/comfort; slice of life; adventure; humor; dramatic irony; silly/humorous premises; competence and teamwork; friendship; sibling and sibling-like relationships; characters finding common ground.
GENERAL DNWs
Detailed descriptions of graphic violence; non-con/dub-con; non canonical character death; non canonical incest; unrequested non-canon ships; AUs that change the setting; D/s dynamics (except for Adoribull); spanking.
七爷 | Qi Ye - priest
Jǐng Běiyuān/Wū Xī (Qi Ye - priest)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Bedside Vigils
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters Shown Still Happily Together as an Old/Older Couple
- Displays of Love/Affection That'd Probably Weird Out Anyone But Their Intended Recipient
- Dreams and nightmares - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
- Experienced partner lets inexperienced one explore them
- Pining - Mutual admiration
- Scars Touching/Kissing
I love how ridiculously intense these two are about each other, to the point that they pretty much break fate, and yet each of them has his own "I'm not worthy" moments. Somehow they get to have both intense drama full of epic grand gestures, and a quiet slow burn where they show how much they care in small, every-day ways. They love each other so much but they're very messed up people in different ways, and that makes their eventual happy ending hit even harder.
Jing Beiyuan & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye - priest)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Character trying to hold it together is clearly fraying at the edges
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters keeping secrets - I Know That You Know That I Know
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour)
- Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other
Terrible people who nonetheless genuinely care for each other are one of my favorite things in fiction and these two are great for it. Their friendship is so strong, even though or perhaps because they have no illusions about the kind of people they are: they just seem to get each other. And I love those times when Jing Beiyuan is stuck in the middle of his two very dramatic suitors and Zhou Zishu is just there being a good bro. Fic for either Beiyuan's current life or the first one would be great! Whatever works best for you.
Helian Yi/Jing Beiyuan (Qi Ye - priest)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Character A Doesn't Realize How Much Power They Have Over Character B
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters keeping secrets - Technically I Didn't Lie
- Dreams and nightmares - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Obsessive Possessive and Codependent
The thing about Jing Beiyuan and Helian Yi is that they are so messed up and so bad for each other, and yet the love is there. That's fascinating! I also think it's interesting how they're never really on the same page: first Beiyuan is a lot more into Helian Yi than the reverse, and then it gets turned around. This is another request where I'd enjoy fic from any point in their timelines - first life or current ones or even the ones we only see mentioned in passing.
天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu - Moxiang Tongxiu
Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (TGCF)
Freeforms:
- "Thank Fuck You're Alive!" Emotions Turn Into Frantic Fucking
- Action Couple - perfect teamwork; unison attacks; combining abilities for greater effect
- Bantering and Bickering as Flirting
- Competence Kink - Character A Annoyed By How Hot They Find Character B’s Competence
- Fighting turns into sex
- Sparring as foreplay
- Unabashed Humor and/or Silliness
These two hit me right in the "constant bickering turned into UST" trope, but there is also a serious undercurrent behind the humor that helps make them rounded characters. They've spent centuries stuck in the same dynamic, without either becoming friends again or avoiding each other. Their original falling out (with each other and with Xie Lian) was complex and very human: they both had good points, they both screwed up, and given their circumstances it makes sense why they couldn't see eye-to-eye. They're very funny, but they also have emotional depth.
Fēng Xìn & Mù Qíng & Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Bodyswapped Characters Pretend To Be Each Other With Varying Success
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
As I said in the FengQing section, I love their messy backstory, and I love how everyone screws up and everyone has a point. I also like how even in the present they're not completely over everything that's happened between them, but they're trying! Both present day fic or backstory fic are great for them.
Ling Wen & Pei Ming & Shi Wudu (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Ling Wen/Pei Ming/Shi Wudu (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Freeforms:
- Bodyswapped Characters Pretend To Be Each Other With Varying Success
- Canonically dead character comes back as annoying ghost
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Unabashed Humor and/or Silliness
I love how in spite of each of them having their own personal drama, they're actually very chill together. I think the idea of these people who nobody else seems to like because they're dicks even by TGCF!Heaven's standards becoming friends (and/or lovers) is very interesting, and I wish we had seen more about them together.
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue (The Untamed)
Freeforms:
- "We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse
- Action Couple - perfect teamwork; unison attacks; combining abilities for greater effect
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Pining - Mutual admiration
- Repressed and serious character gets to be horny
- Repressed and serious character gets to be silly
- Seeming fluff that’s actually incredibly bittersweet due to surrounding circumstances
- Sparring as foreplay
One thing I love about them is that their main conflict comes from their virtues: Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue are both good people trying to do the right thing, and yet due to their personalities and upbringing Nie Mingjue is all action while Lan Xichen is all thought. I love their competence, their mutual respect, and the way they're both kind of repressed but it shows in different ways.
Nie Huaisang & Nie Mingjue (The Untamed)
Freeforms:
- Bodyswapped Characters Pretend To Be Each Other With Varying Success
- Character A Doesn't Realize How Much Power They Have Over Character B
- Character A drops the lighthearted facade when Character B is in danger
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Mutual Protectiveness
- Protectiveness - Normally Gentle Character A Gets Scarily Protective When B Is Hurt
I love Nie Huaisang's secrets, his ruthlessness, and his contrasts. The drama shows us a lot of his friendly, carefree side in his youth, and it's really interesting (and heartbreaking) to see him end up as a lonely manipulator, and how he really was a rage-filled, stubborn Nie after all. The contrasts are a big part of what I like about his relationship with Nie Mingjue, too: they're very different, at least superficially, but they love each other deeply in spite of their arguments and would do anything for each other.
(I've watched and liked Fatal Journey; I don't *expect* fic that uses it as a canon source, since it's just a tie-in, but feel free to use it if you want!)
Wei Wuxian & Wen Qionglin (The Untamed)
Wei Wuxian/Wen Qionglin (The Untamed)
Freeforms:
- Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset
- Character A drops the lighthearted facade when Character B is in danger
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Loyalty so intense they commit crime/treason for the character they're loyal to without question
- Mutual Protectiveness
I love their friendship, and their deep, mutual loyalty, and how they are in fact pretty damn dangerous. For both of them, being good people is an active choice. Wen Ning is a sweetheart with a hidden backbone of steel, Wei Wuxian can be very kind under all his bluster, and the combination makes for a really interesting mix.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
The Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus (DA:I)
Freeforms:
- Action Couple - perfect teamwork; unison attacks; combining abilities for greater effect
- Bantering and Bickering as Flirting
- Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset
- Character A drops the lighthearted facade when Character B is in danger
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters Shown Still Happily Together as an Old/Older Couple
- Domestic fluff in the middle of Serious Battles
- Sparring as foreplay
- Unabashed Humor and/or Silliness
This is such a fun ship, with two characters who love each other a lot and have plenty of funny banter and hot sex and who are badasses together - and underneath that, you have them navigating their conflicting backgrounds, and each of them has their own sad backstory. They really end up being good for each other, and I love that.
GENERAL LIKES
Casefic and missionfic; backstory and missing scenes; hurt/comfort; slice of life; adventure; humor; dramatic irony; silly/humorous premises; competence and teamwork; friendship; sibling and sibling-like relationships; characters finding common ground.
GENERAL DNWs
Detailed descriptions of graphic violence; non-con/dub-con; non canonical character death; non canonical incest; unrequested non-canon ships; AUs that change the setting; D/s dynamics (except for Adoribull); spanking.
七爷 | Qi Ye - priest
Jǐng Běiyuān/Wū Xī (Qi Ye - priest)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Bedside Vigils
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters Shown Still Happily Together as an Old/Older Couple
- Displays of Love/Affection That'd Probably Weird Out Anyone But Their Intended Recipient
- Dreams and nightmares - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
- Experienced partner lets inexperienced one explore them
- Pining - Mutual admiration
- Scars Touching/Kissing
I love how ridiculously intense these two are about each other, to the point that they pretty much break fate, and yet each of them has his own "I'm not worthy" moments. Somehow they get to have both intense drama full of epic grand gestures, and a quiet slow burn where they show how much they care in small, every-day ways. They love each other so much but they're very messed up people in different ways, and that makes their eventual happy ending hit even harder.
Jing Beiyuan & Zhou Zishu (Qi Ye - priest)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Character trying to hold it together is clearly fraying at the edges
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters keeping secrets - I Know That You Know That I Know
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour)
- Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other
Terrible people who nonetheless genuinely care for each other are one of my favorite things in fiction and these two are great for it. Their friendship is so strong, even though or perhaps because they have no illusions about the kind of people they are: they just seem to get each other. And I love those times when Jing Beiyuan is stuck in the middle of his two very dramatic suitors and Zhou Zishu is just there being a good bro. Fic for either Beiyuan's current life or the first one would be great! Whatever works best for you.
Helian Yi/Jing Beiyuan (Qi Ye - priest)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Character A Doesn't Realize How Much Power They Have Over Character B
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters keeping secrets - Technically I Didn't Lie
- Dreams and nightmares - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Obsessive Possessive and Codependent
The thing about Jing Beiyuan and Helian Yi is that they are so messed up and so bad for each other, and yet the love is there. That's fascinating! I also think it's interesting how they're never really on the same page: first Beiyuan is a lot more into Helian Yi than the reverse, and then it gets turned around. This is another request where I'd enjoy fic from any point in their timelines - first life or current ones or even the ones we only see mentioned in passing.
天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu - Moxiang Tongxiu
Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (TGCF)
Freeforms:
- "Thank Fuck You're Alive!" Emotions Turn Into Frantic Fucking
- Action Couple - perfect teamwork; unison attacks; combining abilities for greater effect
- Bantering and Bickering as Flirting
- Competence Kink - Character A Annoyed By How Hot They Find Character B’s Competence
- Fighting turns into sex
- Sparring as foreplay
- Unabashed Humor and/or Silliness
These two hit me right in the "constant bickering turned into UST" trope, but there is also a serious undercurrent behind the humor that helps make them rounded characters. They've spent centuries stuck in the same dynamic, without either becoming friends again or avoiding each other. Their original falling out (with each other and with Xie Lian) was complex and very human: they both had good points, they both screwed up, and given their circumstances it makes sense why they couldn't see eye-to-eye. They're very funny, but they also have emotional depth.
Fēng Xìn & Mù Qíng & Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)
Freeforms:
- Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves
- Bodyswapped Characters Pretend To Be Each Other With Varying Success
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
As I said in the FengQing section, I love their messy backstory, and I love how everyone screws up and everyone has a point. I also like how even in the present they're not completely over everything that's happened between them, but they're trying! Both present day fic or backstory fic are great for them.
Ling Wen & Pei Ming & Shi Wudu (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Ling Wen/Pei Ming/Shi Wudu (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Freeforms:
- Bodyswapped Characters Pretend To Be Each Other With Varying Success
- Canonically dead character comes back as annoying ghost
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Unabashed Humor and/or Silliness
I love how in spite of each of them having their own personal drama, they're actually very chill together. I think the idea of these people who nobody else seems to like because they're dicks even by TGCF!Heaven's standards becoming friends (and/or lovers) is very interesting, and I wish we had seen more about them together.
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue (The Untamed)
Freeforms:
- "We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse
- Action Couple - perfect teamwork; unison attacks; combining abilities for greater effect
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Pining - Mutual admiration
- Repressed and serious character gets to be horny
- Repressed and serious character gets to be silly
- Seeming fluff that’s actually incredibly bittersweet due to surrounding circumstances
- Sparring as foreplay
One thing I love about them is that their main conflict comes from their virtues: Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue are both good people trying to do the right thing, and yet due to their personalities and upbringing Nie Mingjue is all action while Lan Xichen is all thought. I love their competence, their mutual respect, and the way they're both kind of repressed but it shows in different ways.
Nie Huaisang & Nie Mingjue (The Untamed)
Freeforms:
- Bodyswapped Characters Pretend To Be Each Other With Varying Success
- Character A Doesn't Realize How Much Power They Have Over Character B
- Character A drops the lighthearted facade when Character B is in danger
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Mutual Protectiveness
- Protectiveness - Normally Gentle Character A Gets Scarily Protective When B Is Hurt
I love Nie Huaisang's secrets, his ruthlessness, and his contrasts. The drama shows us a lot of his friendly, carefree side in his youth, and it's really interesting (and heartbreaking) to see him end up as a lonely manipulator, and how he really was a rage-filled, stubborn Nie after all. The contrasts are a big part of what I like about his relationship with Nie Mingjue, too: they're very different, at least superficially, but they love each other deeply in spite of their arguments and would do anything for each other.
(I've watched and liked Fatal Journey; I don't *expect* fic that uses it as a canon source, since it's just a tie-in, but feel free to use it if you want!)
Wei Wuxian & Wen Qionglin (The Untamed)
Wei Wuxian/Wen Qionglin (The Untamed)
Freeforms:
- Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset
- Character A drops the lighthearted facade when Character B is in danger
- Foreshadowing of Future Tragic Canon Events
- Loyalty so intense they commit crime/treason for the character they're loyal to without question
- Mutual Protectiveness
I love their friendship, and their deep, mutual loyalty, and how they are in fact pretty damn dangerous. For both of them, being good people is an active choice. Wen Ning is a sweetheart with a hidden backbone of steel, Wei Wuxian can be very kind under all his bluster, and the combination makes for a really interesting mix.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
The Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus (DA:I)
Freeforms:
- Action Couple - perfect teamwork; unison attacks; combining abilities for greater effect
- Bantering and Bickering as Flirting
- Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset
- Character A drops the lighthearted facade when Character B is in danger
- Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail
- Characters Shown Still Happily Together as an Old/Older Couple
- Domestic fluff in the middle of Serious Battles
- Sparring as foreplay
- Unabashed Humor and/or Silliness
This is such a fun ship, with two characters who love each other a lot and have plenty of funny banter and hot sex and who are badasses together - and underneath that, you have them navigating their conflicting backgrounds, and each of them has their own sad backstory. They really end up being good for each other, and I love that.