charientist

Dear Creator,
Thanks for looking at my letter! I have all the information from my requests here so you don't have to mess with the AO3 interface, as well as a list of things I generally love to read and prompts for all of my requests. I hope the likes and prompts will help if you don't know where to go with my requests or if you enjoy specifically tailoring gifts to a recipient, but they are, of course, entirely optional. I tend to sign up with a specific concept or scene in mind which feeds into the prompts, but I make sure that every tag is something I would love to receive individually, so if you have an idea based on our matching that doesn't cross my DNWs, I would absolutely love to receive anything using the ideas from my requests in ways I hadn't even considered.

Note that several of my likes have long and loving explanations on why I enjoy them so much. I don't like them more than the ones without explanation. The latter I either haven't found a good way to explain yet or I ran out of energy writing the letter because Signups Are Hard. The exact same is true of my requests and prompts. Requests with fewer prompts are not any less loved.

You can find me back at AO3 at @Charientist.ao3

Likes

• Angst and Fluff: I have so much love for fluffy endings, but I often don’t find fluff palatable or sometimes even believable if there isn’t angst to balance or ‘earn’ it.
• Backstories and Missing Scenes: Anything simultaneously cannon compliant and cannon additive, especially when it re-contextualizes existing scenes and character interactions, adding depth without contradicting what was already there.
• Canon Divergence: whether it's a single scene, for-want-of-a-nail, or time travel (see time travel entry), I really love seeing how small or large changes affect a story, and learning more about a world and the characters in it by how much they persist or transform under any given change.
• Casefic & Missionfic
• Creative Problem-Solving – Rather than being given new powers or having problems resolve themselves, I love seeing characters apply themselves to a situation using what they already know and have in intelligent and creative ways.
• Emotional Hurt/Comfort – On the same lines as fluff and angst, how do a character’s internal and external struggles interact. Give me conflict and then catharsis.
• Fix-It
• Found Family
• Mutual Protectiveness
• Outsider POV
• Supportive Friendships
• Time Travel – Time Loops and Peggy Sues and Time Looped Peggy Sues, Time Travel Fix-It and Time Travel Make-it-Worse, Avoiding Paradoxes and Deliberately Creating Paradoxes, Time Travel to Any Historical Era… honestly I love it in every form
• Worldbuilding – Potential explanations and consequences for things we see in canon. Differences between what insiders and outsiders notice and understand. It’s possibly my favorite thing and a huge part of why I love DoS to begin with.

General DNW

• Archive Warnings
• AU: Biology
• AU: Career
• AU: Setting
• AU: Soulmates/Soulmarks
• Crack (unless treated seriously)
• Dysphoria
• Gaslighting
• Grimdark
• Harm to Animals (besides wild animals as needed for food)
• Hopeless Endings
• Hurt no Comfort
• Incest
• Infidelity
• Issuefic
• Nara Shikako's reincarnation revealed
• Nara Shikako pregnant, married, having sex, or being in any romantic or sexual relationship, even off screen
• Smut
• Suicidal Ideation
• Unrequited Love

( Request #1: Dreaming of Sunshine (fanfiction) )

( Request #2: Reincarnation Roulette (fanfiction) )

( Request #3: Dreaming of Sunshine/Reincarnation Roulette (fanfiction) )

( Request #4: Dreaming of Sunshine/Reincarnation Roulette (fanfiction) )

( Request #5: Boku no Hero Academia|My Hero Academia Crossover (fanfiction) )

( Request #6: Boku no Hero Academia|My Hero Academia Crossover (fanfiction) )

( Request #7: Boku no Hero Academia|My Hero Academia Crossover (fanfiction) )

( Request #8: Darkest Dungeon Crossover (fanfiction) )

Dear Creator,
Thanks for stopping by my letter and sorry it took a while to get up! This exchange is quite different from anything else I've done and I'm not sure the General Likes or DNWs will even apply, but oh well.

General Likes
Time Travel, Worldbuilding, Characters Using Creative Problem-Solving, Outsider POV, Supportive Friendships

DNW
Archive Warnings, Suicidal Ideation, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Incest, Infidelity, Bashing, Smut, Hurt no Comfort, Grimdark, Hopeless Endings, Crack, Focus on Serious Illness, Unrequited Love, No-Power AUs or Fandom-Based Alternatives, First or Second Person POV

( Request 1 (DOS) )

( Request 2 (DOS) )

( Request 3 (DOS) )

( Request 4 (MCU) )

( Request 5 (Mass Effect) )

( Request 6 (Deus Ex) )

( Request 7 (Harry Potter) )

( Request 8 (BnHA/MHA) )

( Request 9 (AtLA) )

The second work I posted on Archive of Our Own had been sitting in my files as a very rough draft for well over a year before I got the idea to bring it out and polish it for an exchange. When I got incredible feedback and reviews, it motivated me to go through all my files and compile a list of everything I thought could be publishable if I actually finished it and got the guts to post.

I'm posting it here for multiple reasons. To make sure it doesn't get lost amidst my files. To remind myself that I do think these ideas have promise and I want to finish and share them. And to tease ideas for those who are cheering me on to finally share my work.

I'll update this as I finish things. Or add new ones. The titles are temporary.

Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Anger Issues | Bakugo travels back from a timeline where Midoriya died early

Communication | conversations that would have improved quality of life for everyone involved if they'd happened

UA Reformed | Worldbuilding || Functional Systems series

Spite | 5+1 Midoriya Izuku character study

Victory | Backugo Katsuki character study

Detroit: Become Human

False Hopes | RA9 is a lie created by Cyberlife or Kamski

Lead by Example | Markus studied various revolutionaries while he lived with Carl (expanded timeline on the Android Rebellion)

Eidolon | Deviancy has been around as long as androids, and Connor has been hunting them just as long

Deus Ex

Hominum in Machina | post-Mankind Divided mission fic

Harry Potter

Ambiguity | series of one-shots about the Prophecy and how it could have meant anything

Discovery | muggles inevitably find the wizarding world

Divination | Worldbuiding: Divination is the art of magically acquiring information

I Will Not Tell Lies | writing in blood creates magical contracts

Indiscretion | Time Travel MoD Harry Potter not a fix-it

Liquid Luck | inspired by the myth of Achilles, Lily dunks Harry in Liquid Luck as an infant (crack treated seriously)

Lunacy | the Quibbler as an underground network, the Lovegoods as masters of doublespeak

Paranoia | SI OC

Hogwarts the School | Worldbuilding || Functional Systems series

Tradition | Theodore Nott pov of canon

Marvel

Antithesis | Marvel Villians Redux

Angles of a Prism | Avengers character studies

Disenchantment | Steve Rogers Peggy Sue

Odin the Conqueror | Worldbuilding: "Where do you think all this gold came from?"

Surety | Loki Groundhog Peggy Sue

The Snap | OC pov apocalypse

Mass Effect

New ME3 | rewrite of the third game based on the abandoned dark matter plot

New Game+ | Shepard Peggy Sue, Gamer elements

Hold the Line | ME3, OC soldiers fighting the apocalypse

In Memory | Shepard's crew sticks together after the Normandy's destruction / Garrus becomes a Spectre

Naruto

Cage of Memory | Uchiha character studies

Chuunin Business | Worldbuilding: life and strife for the rank and file

Groundwork | Reformed Genin Tests || Functional Systems series

Masquerade | AU in which Itachi told Sasuke the truth during the Massacre

Naruto – Dreaming of Sunshine

Counter-Espionage | Worldbuilding: how personable shinobi in key positions monitor the village for infiltrators, defectors, and power plays.

Desolation | Kakashi Groundhog Peggy Sue

Inner | Inner Sakura was a mistake

Internships | the final year of the Academy as altered by Nara Shikako || Functional Systems series

Little God | Jashin[ist] pov of Shikako

Seal Masters in Time | if there is time enough unofficial sequel

Shadows Against Death | Kankuro has an existential crisis about shogi

Tasogare | Sasuke Peggy Sue

Star Wars

Honor | Star Wars Prequels AU

Jedi of the Oaths | AU Worldbuilding

Time Web | Whispers of the Future remix

Tolkien

Keepers | Hobbit AU Compilation

The Witcher

Practicality | AU Worldbuilding: Witcher recruitment || Functional Systems series

Crossovers

Fantastic Monsters | Pokémon, Hunger Games, Fantastic Beasts Series | Newton Scamander is forced to become a Pokémon Master

RA9 | Detroit: Become Human, Iron Man | unofficial prequel to esama's "Long Shadows," RA9 is the lone successful Jarvis Android

Renovation | Boku no Hero Academia, Dreaming of Sunshine | Shikako as Eraserhead's Sidekick

Doctors | Doctor Who, Sherlock | The Tenth Doctor meets post-Reichenbach John Watson in the Judoon hospital holdup instead of Martha (or in addition to her)

Witch Hunts | Multi | modern fantasy stories that reference medieval witch hunts but say that most victims weren’t magical all exist in the same universe: most people magical in some way

Current Total: 51

 These are some things I found when creating the List that I think are good ideas, but I don't have the ability or inspiration to write. Anyone is free to do whatever with them.

X-Men AU: Dark Rogue

When Rogue steals people's powers, she also gets some of their personality.

SAO AU: Kirito Overhaul

Kirigaya Kazuto is severely injured in an accident and permanently loses use of his legs. As Kazuto and his family struggle to adjust to his paraplegia, Minetaka (his uncle/adoptive father) becomes obsessed with perfecting virtual reality for him, and Kazuto is involved in many stages of testing the Nerve Gear. This is both part of what gives him his edge over other players and a more interesting secret for him to hide than being a beta player -- along with the fact that he's not sure if he wants to go back to the real world despite all the danger of SAO. Minetaka is the final boss instead of Kayaba Akihiko.