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Dear Stylist

Thanks so much for creating for me! In general, I’m easy to please and hard to disappoint. As long as my gift features something I’ve mentioned wanting, I’m going to be delighted no matter where else inspiration takes you along the way. Surprises are great, and my likes list and prompts are nowhere NEAR exhaustive. If you're looking at my letter thinking 'hmm, she hasn't mentioned [thing], but it doesn't seem wildly out of line with her tastes' – your instincts are good, you should include the thing, I bet I'll love it. :D

Some notes that are hopefully helpful: I have no strong feelings about the line between gen and romance, so please don’t worry about your work not being shippy enough, or being dark rather than romantic, or anything. Past or background ships are welcome in any gender configuration, regardless of what I've requested for the main ship. Love triangles, poly, and multiple relationships within one work are all welcome. While I've suggested some ships here and there, I not only understand but actively love the fact that these details are optional. Seriously, gift me the crackship of your heart! Inaugurate a new ship tag! Introduce me to your blorbo who's listed in the credits as Background Guy #3 and who no one else has ever noticed! Or go ahead and garnish the fandom juggernaut ship with sprigs of a trope I love – hey, it's popular for a reason! I'm truly down for anything.

If a prompt seems to suggest a longer story, I’d also be thrilled with a short scene or excerpt based on that concept. Ditto, if a prompt sounds fic-oriented, please feel free to adapt it to your preferred use. I'm requesting both fic and art for everything and am totally open to treats in other media. Please don't take length or number of prompts as a mark of how much I do or don't want a particular fandom - I want them all! I just have a bunch of old material to copy/paste for characters I've been requesting for ages, while newer requests are a bit more sparse.

If anything is unclear in this letter, or you’d like more information about something, I’m always happy to answer questions through the mods.

Thanks again, and happy creating!

lucymonster

General info

⛔ Do not want

Underage: explicit <18 sex, any <16 sex, any <13 romance
Cross-generation incest
Any mention of child death, including pregnancy loss
Child harm, except as angsty backstory for main characters
AUs other than canon divergence (incl trope AUs: please no omegaverse, soulmarks etc)
Unrequested identity headcanons
Poetry, first person POV (unless in an unconventional format such as epistolary)
Unwarned major character death (tag or author’s note appreciated!)
"Hard" xeno (enthusiastic yes to sex with closely humanoid characters, no thanks to sex with Hutts or Wookiees or anyone non-speech-capable or with human-incompatible genitalia)
Art-specific DNW: extreme gore (blood/cuts/bruises good, innards bad).

⭐ Story likes

In general, my favourite stories are the ones where the characters feel like real, live, messy and imperfect people. I love fics that are thought-provoking or uncomfortable to read. I love to relax into well-earned (or not-so-well-earned) moments of happiness for my otherwise beleaguered faves. I love to laugh. Favourite themes include:

anything with a strong character focus
characters who are flawed and abrasive and challenging to love; difficult or dysfunctional relationships
any level of shippiness or non-shippiness: pre-ship, relationships that don't work out or gennish plot-based fic with my requested ship as a secondary focus are all a-okay with me
dark/gritty/moody aesthetics
imperfect happiness, bittersweetness, unfulfilled yearning
complicated, bittersweet twists on seemingly fluffy premises
ensemble casts, background characters, outsider POV
established partners luring confused newcomer into their polycule
competence porn, especially of the ’walking human disaster is also breathtakingly competent’ variety
mundane details, little moments of human vulnerability
politics, bureaucracy, propaganda
banter, snark, gallows humour, quippiness
guilty pleasures: denying them, suppressing them, and finally giving into temptation
tropes: hurt/comfort, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, huddling for warmth, fake relationships, bodyswap
descriptions of food, characters eating or sharing food, food as comfort
kidfic: the ups and downs of new parenthood; characters with fraught pasts determined to do better for their kids; tough guys going soft over little ones; dwelling in lavish, messy, sticky, smiley detail on how cute babies are (biokids, surprise acquisitions, OCs or canonical kids drawn however implausibly into my ship's care are all good)
military details
harsh environments, brutal weather, survival/adventure stories
redemption (or failed redemption)
religion
meta-fic stuff: subversions, tongue-in-cheek use of tropes, crack treated (semi-)seriously, genre-savvy characters, narratorial asides, really anything that engages playfully with the fictional world we're sharing
non-standard formats: creative POVs, drabbles, non-linear narratives, social media, in-universe meta.

🎨 Art likes

Any of my fic likes that can translate visually are just as relevant to my taste in art. For any of my ficcier prompts or favourite tropes, I'd be over the moon to receive an illustration from the hypothetical fic that fills them. I love shadowy colour palettes and dark/gothy/edgy styles and an overall moody gloom. I love symbolism and meaningful visual motifs, and I'm open to oblique, metaphorical depictions of ships just as much as pictures of people kissing. (But I am also, to be clear, still very keen on pictures of people kissing.) Action scenes are great. Weapons are great. Costume porn is great. Cool locations and eye-catching props or backgrounds are great.

On a different note, fluffy art is also amazing. I love chibis, cuddle piles and all manner of sugary cuteness. Polka dots or rainbows in the background just because? You son of a bitch, I'm in. My ship holds hands in the background while their new pet hamster frolics across most of the canvas? Just make sure that little guy's cheeks are as chubby as they come! Throw my grumpy black-clad faves into a scene of lollipops and sparkles? I'll squeal so much that even my ship's new pet hamster will think I'm shrill. I also adore that trend of tiny chibi characters with food items larger than they are.

For explicit art, I've no objection to seeing genitals, but they're never really the main draw for me, if that makes sense? I'm more interested in what's going on with the characters' bodies overall, the feelings of intimacy and need and desire between them, and most especially in the expressions on their faces. I prefer natural, “flawed” bodies over Hollywood-perfect ones, so please feel free and encouraged to include details that a Playboy photographer might have preferred to airbrush out!

Some fandom-neutral prompts:

Love interest helps LBD by tending their wounds, supporting their weight or simply cradling their head while they lie hurt on the ground. My favourite kinds of visual whump include bruises, black eyes, split lips, bloodstains, lacerations, being trapped under something heavy or chained up.
Food - show the characters eating together, playfully handfeeding each other, wearing flourstained aprons or laying out a picnic blanket. I go soft for bulging cheeks, starry eyes, greedily wide open mouths and detailed drawings of the food itself. If it fits your style, I also adore that trend of tiny chibi characters with food items larger than they are.
A passionate kiss or hug with the characters holding each other tight enough to hurt.
LBD falls apart on love interest's shoulder (crying, or else sagging against them and looking exhausted.)
Poly love interests sandwich LBD between them for erotic or affectionate purposes.
LBD and love interest train or work out together. I love athleticism, action poses, weaponry, sweat, hair coming loose / falling in eyes and a general sense of movement.
Costume porn, especially of the black-on-black variety. Some of my requested characters are already rocking that trve kvlt black metal aesthetic, and the ones that aren't can be easily made to do so! I love straps and studs and buckles. I love leather, kevlar and coarse, tough fabric textures. I love red accents. I love armour and weapons carry. I love shaggy dark hair that falls in the eyes. I love goth power couples, but I equally love the visual contrast of 'A shops exclusively at Hot Topic' / 'B loves bubblegum pink and sparkles'.

💀 Dark likes

I love my dark themes both overt and covert - if you're not feeling the in-your-face disasterfest, by all means creep me out with subtle insinuations or dark twists to sweet-seeming premises. Some favourite themes:

unreliable narrators
characters doing terrible things for sympathetic reasons
grey morality, antiheroes, villain-centred morality
extremist politics, callous bureaucracies, the mundane horrors of life under the jackboot
'ugly' mental illness: violence, paranoia, self-destructiveness, warped thinking
self-harm, suicide attempts or ideation
psychological horror
coercion, blackmail, abuse of power
victim blaming
self-harm, self-destructiveness, suicide attempts
physical torture: flogging, beating, burrning, bone-breaking, electrocuting
psychological/'enhanced interrogation' style torture: sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, stress positions, extreme noise and temperature, deliberate humiliation.

🍑 Smut likes

In general I love sex that says something about the people involved, that's awkward and imperfect and humanising. Specific sex acts are less important to me than characterisation: I'm ready and eager to be sold on pretty much any kink if it's being used as a lens to bring my faves’ desires, beliefs, motives, hangups and relationship skills (or lack thereof) into focus.

Some dynamics I’m reliably weak for:

I can’t believe I get to touch this exquisite goddess, I’m so overwhelmed
Ugh this jerk drives me mad but I can’t seem to keep my hands off them
I’m an actual human disaster and this sex is going to have to make up for the therapy I’m not getting
This love is forbidden and could ruin my life but I just can’t resist.

And a few of my forever favourite kinks, if a more specific starting point is helpful:

orgasm delay/denial, sexual frustration, begging
coming too quickly, loss of control, getting overwhelmed
rough sex, hate sex, power imbalances
on the other hand: tender, adoring, needy sex with lavish attention to each other's pleasure
frottage, dry humping, clothed sex
sex pollen
different erogenous zones, being sensitive in non-genital places
anal sex (het, slash or femslash), double or multiple penetration
sounding, watersports, forced wetting
public use, gangbangs
loss of virginity, inexperience, clumsy sex
praise kink
scar worship
uncomfortable, consensual-but-unpleasant type sex
under-negotiated kinks
any level of complex, problematic or questionable consent.

Request details

The Locked Tomb

❤️ Our Lady of the Passion

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F
Ships I don't want: Nona, Ianthe

Why she's a wardrobe staple: I came away from Nona absolutely obsessed with Blood of Eden in general and Pash in particular. I love love love the whole idea of this mundane(-ish) rebel militia out there in Magical Topsy-Turvy Necromancer World, fighting a hopelessly asymmetrical war against an enemy that can literally eat planets for breakfast. I love the desperation, the anger, the extremism, the incredible courage and the devastating corrosion of the Edenites' humanity as they push themselves to such heartless lengths for such a sympathetic cause. I love Pash for her toughness, her fanaticism, her shitty attitude, her abrasive persona, her inability to get along with basically anyone - and, despite all that, the loyalty she commands from her soldiers and the trust from her superiors. I love the jarring contradictions she embodies of defiance and obedience, of coolness and uncoolness, of ego and self-sacrifice, of callousness and a love for the cause so deep that she's willing to stake everything she has on it. I love her machetes and her blue hair and her facial scars. (Artists: I really, really love her machetes and her blue hair and her facial scars.)

How to wear her:

I hardly even know where to begin prompting for this fandom - I just want more of it all! More of Pash's radicalised upbringing, more of the various (fr)enmities she has going on with her fellow Edenites, more of her competence as a bodyguard, her hatred of necromancers, her distrust of Cam and Pyrrha, her disdain for Judith, her willingness to impulsively drop everything and go charging off on terrifying missions into enemy territory. If your fanwork stars Pash and avoids my DNWs, I can pretty much guarantee I'm going to be in love with it no matter what, so please go wild!

Teixcalaan

🧡 Nineteen Adze

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F
Ships I don't want: None for this fandom.
Ship opt-ins: Feel free to ship her with a female OC!

Why she's a wardrobe staple: I'm in love with her razor's edge balance of decency and ruthlessness, of political cynicism and deep, loving loyalty, of absolute power and precarious political vulnerability that she's always working six steps ahead of everyone else to stave off. I adore her strong personal branding - all that stark white against the technicolour backdrop of Teixcalaanli culture - and the devotion she's able to inspire among her inner circle. I love that she's so likable and human but at the same time so hard. I really have no strong feelings about her relationships with Six Direction and Yskandr - I love the complicated angst they provide her with and am fine with them being mentioned for that purpose, but the relationships themselves don't really capture my interest and I'd much rather the screen time be devoted to her and your lady(/ies) of choice.

How to wear her:

Let her have an emotionally complex fling with Mahit, who is so much like Yskandr until she really, really isn't. I spent the whole first book hoping this would happen and I don't see why it shouldn't - it doesn't even have to get in the way of Mahit/Three Seagrass, since romantic exclusivity doesn't seem to be a huge thing in the Teixcalaanli court.

(For that matter, why not let her be involved with Mahit AND Three Seagrass? Two young lovers and their much older, more jaded, more powerful lover/mentor/protector/whatever the hell this is ... that would be hot. <3)

Help her resolve things with her wayward generals through the trusty medium of intense, politically charged D/s.

Explore her history with Five Agate. Is their loyalty to each other really just professional, or is there/has there been an intimate connection? I'd love to see Nineteen Adze mentoring Five Agate, blurring the boundary between employer and confidant, perhaps supporting her during her pregnancy and early motherhood.

Pair her up with a Teixcalaanli OFC as an excuse for some worldbuilding! I'd love to hear more about Nineteen Adze's history of service as one of Six Direction's ezuazuacatlim, her careful curation of her own inner circle as Emperor, or perhaps a lover from outside the court who she can't openly be with for reasons of political scandal?

Star Wars

For all my Star Wars requests, I opt in to crossovers with any other Star Wars property within Disney's canon! I've requested my LBDs under their respective subfandoms rather than AMT purely because I'm not interested in Legends, but go ahead and ship them with characters from any of the other canonical films, shows, books, comics, cartoons or games - so long as you'll forgive me for potentially missing some subfadom-specific nuances, I'm very happy to come in "canon-blind" if your star war of choice turns out to be one I'm less familiar with.

💛 Alexsandr Kallus

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F, LBD/M, LBD/M/F
Ships I don't want: Zeb, Ahsoka

Why he's a wardrobe staple: I'd love to know more about Kallus's post-defection life, and the connections he makes (with either his canon crew or with the wider Rebel Alliance) while he sorts through his ex-Imperial baggage and figures out a new value system to replace his old broken one. I'd love to see him build a civilian life for himself after the war, or get roped back into the fight - Against the former Imperial warlords wreaking havoc across the New Republic? Against old allies who resent his defection? Against the First Order? I'd also love to dip back into his ISB past, and see him struggling with the loneliness and moral uncertainty that eventually led him to defect.

How to wear him:

Some lighter ideas: Building a new life for himself after the war. Badass missions with the Ghost crew. Mentoring a new generation of freedom fighters in the Resistance. Being a cool parent/uncle figure to Jacen.

Some darker ideas: ISB training. Haunted by the ghosts of his past victims. Spooky supernatural brushes with the Force. Watching the rise of the First Order.

💛 Dedra Meero

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F
Ships I don't want: Ahsoka, Bix, Eedy
Ship opt-ins: Dedra/Kallus would be so great. :D

Why she's a wardrobe staple: My awful, ghastly, no good, terrible, unrepentantly fascist babygirl! She's a bad person and I love her specifically BECAUSE she's a bad person and I want to roll around forever in what a bad person she is. She is ruthless, selfish, manipulative, emotionally stunted, power-hungry, consumed by ambition and capable of utterly dehumanising anyone who stands in her way. I don't think there's any apology to be made for Dedra. She straight-up sucks and I say that with all the love in the world. :DDD

That's not by any means to say I'm demanding an unsympathetic portrayal! Angsty villains who truly see themselves as having been wronged are great, and I'm very happy to indulge her for the span of a story. I'm also totally down for a redemption arc where she starts growing a conscience and has to grapple with what it says about her ISB career. Or a "redemption" arc where she goes over to the good guys not because she's taking a principled stance against the Empire but because she's mad about how they treated her specifically.

How to wear her:

I'm really interested in her life after the Empire's collapse. Presumably she gets let out of that prison, and maybe she manages to sneak past the war prosecutors in a crowd of wrongly accused political prisoners, so now she's loose on the galaxy and trying to build a new life on the pulverised wreckage of her old one. Does she throw her lot in with the Imperial Remnant - perhaps she decides Rae Sloane's bed is the safest place for her now? Does she find her way into the New Republic Amnesty Program, or somehow convince a victorious Rebel or established Imperial defector (Magna Tolvan! Kallus! Iden Versio!) to vouch for her? Does she lose faith in law and order, and devote her talents to a new career in the criminal underworld? Does she cross paths with Mando & co on their interwar adventures? What is she doing with herself by the time the events of the Sequel Trilogy roll around?

💛 Synara San

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F
Ships I don't want: Ahsoka, Aunt Z, Torra Doza

Why she's a wardrobe staple: Because women who are badass outlaws with hearts of gold are never not sexy. I love the clear-eyed sense of decency and justice Synara has retained despite being raised by cutthroat pirates, and how loyal she is to her friends in the face of any level of danger, and just how smart and competent and multi-talented and adaptable she is. She gets to play the straight man a lot by virtue of being surrounded by goofballs, but I also remain firmly convinced she has a goofy side of her own that's bound to peek out past her tough exterior now and then the longer you know her...

How to wear her:

First off, I ship her and Tam like crazy. The way their burgeoning friendship was cut short, first by Synara's secrets and then by Tam's betrayal, is one thing I really wish the show had done more with and I will always welcome any fanworks that pick up that deliciously fraught and angsty thread.

Secondly, Synara needs to meet the other ST-era ladies! I'd love to see Team Colossus working more closely with the Resistance - perhaps they come back to base after the attack on Exegol, and things develop from there? Perhaps for Reasons she needs to dip her toes back in the criminal underworld, and she just so happens to have a connection with Zorii and the Spice Runners of Kijimi?

I'd also love an in-universe AU that brings Rey or Rose or one of our Resistance heroes into Synara's pre-Resistance world. Enemies to lovers featuring an unshakeable connection between members of two rival pirate gangs! Smuggler teammates AU! Bodyguards! The possibilities are as endless as the GFFA's capacity for rogueish spacefaring antiheroes.

Or maybe she can hook up with one of our previous generation of morally ambiguous troublemakers. Maybe she takes a job for Qi'ra or Aphra and gets more involved than she expected?

💛 Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

⛔ Request-specific DNW: Ben | Kylo subbing or bottoming for any male darksider. I'm not into the whole dynamic of "Kylo gets dommed by a bigger, badder bad guy"; I'd like him to hold the balance of power, or at least an equal share of it, in any relationship with (for instance) a male First Order officer or Imperial loyalist or the Knights of Ren. He's very welcome to sub/bottom for the good guys, or for women of any moral alignment.

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F, LBD/M, LBD/M/F, LBD/M/M, LBD/Many
Ships I don't want: Hux, Snoke, Palpatine
Ship opt-ins: I'm very fond of Kylo in larger "big Resistance puppy pile" type poly relationships (Finn/Poe/Rey/Kylo/Rose/Jacen/...). I haven't requested LBD/Many because I'm not into the LBD/Other aspect, but by all means go to town with as many human/oid partners at once as you like!

Why he's a wardrobe staple: Ben's character arc is everything I've ever wanted out of a villain redemption story. He's got sad childhood memories filled with feelings of inadequacy and abandonment. A catalogue of horrific, deliberately cruel and shocking past misdeeds. An imperfectly suppressed conscience screaming in protest each time he Does An Evil. He thinks he wants to be feared and obeyed, he actually wants to be loved and accepted, and he almost breaks his fork trying to eat both cakes at once. It's an act of selfless, unconditional love that finally gets through to him, and an act of selfless, unconditional love that ends his life when he embraces the light. I love that he dies with a smile on his face, bruised and bleeding but relieved beyond the reach of all pain that he's finally found his purpose. I also love that this is Star Wars and he can come back as a Force ghost boyfriend whenever he likes. I also love that canon is fake, and there are countless ways he can survive the ending of TROS.

I want to see him trying and failing to be a Dark Fuck Prince. I want to see him using sex to fill the void. I want to see him learning how to love in a healthier, less zero-sum way (and maybe fucking it up as he goes, because old habits are hard to break). I want to see him forging fragile new bonds with people who thought they'd never be able to forgive him. I want to see him expressing affection in weird, broken ways. I want warts-and-all romance that doesn't shy away from what a flaming human trashfire he is, but gives him a chance at love and a chance to be better despite (or even because of) his many flaws.

How to wear him:

Play with his canon backstory. I love his special bond (Force bond?) with Tai, and his one-sided rivalry with Voe, how she's always trying to catch him and he's smugly unworried with his long headstart. I love the ridiculous starry-eyed crush he develops on Ren at literal first sight. I'd love to see his early travels with the Knights of Ren, as he tries to fit into the group and establish himself as a credible dark warrior as opposed to a terrified failboat with granddaddy issues.

Give him some non-canon backstory. Which member/s of the Resistance totally knew him as Ben Solo before he donned his black helmet? What early warning signs did he show, and what redeeming traits made him worth the effort of overlooking them?

Show him in full darkside swing, trying and failing to be a proper Big Bad (but still achieving more than enough horrific impact along his way). Showcase his volatile temper and emotional neediness in a twisted, toxic relationship with a fellow darksider or a good guy who he just can't manage to hate like he's supposed to.

Fly him to the moon and back! I'd love to see more of his piloting skills, and his fondness for dangerously fast and over-armed starfighter prototypes.

Indulge me with some worldbuilding about space travel, the dark side of the Force or his adventures in the Unknown Regions during the cold war.

Torture him. As revenge? As training? As the senseless evil deed of a faceless third party from whom his love interest/s must then heroically rescue him? I really, really love Kylo whump. He hurts so pretty.

Send redeemed Ben Solo on adventures with his new good guy allies. I love prickly, distrustful dynamics where no one's sure what to do with him or how much forgiveness to offer (and where, despite his best intentions, he's still damaged and difficult and maybe kind of an asshole sometimes). I love complicated redemption-in-progress, the lingering ache of old half-healed wounds and the hard-earned warmth of former enemies learning how to care for each other.

💛 Hera Syndulla

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F, LBD/M, LBD/M/F
Ships I don't want: Ahsoka; Kanan as the sole or main shipping focus (past Hera/Kanan is great, Hera/Kanan/[other] is great, Hera/[other] while her loving ghost ex hangs around in the background is great).

Why she's a wardrobe staple: She's kind and gentle but takes no one's shit. She's a brilliant commander and tactician, a dream boss, full of deep feeling but capable of reining in her emotions when other people need her to. I love the rest of the Spectres but let's be real, they'd go straight to hell in a handbasket without her. The number of balls that woman can juggle at once is amazing. I want badass Rebel competence porn, more of Hera coming through for the people she loves, and more of them coming through for her because god, she deserves a break.

How to wear her:

Some lighter ideas: Test piloting a badass new fighter. Quiet moments between missions with the people she loves most. The joys and aggravations of parenthood. Moments where she gets to let her guard down and be taken care of instead of always doing the caretaking.

Some darker ideas: Space horror, cosmic horror, weird-eldritch-manifestations-of-the-Force horror. Missions gone wrong. Imperial captivity. Grieving Kanan. Chasing Kanan's ghost.

If you'd like specific ship prompts, you may also be interested in some of my past May the Fourth letters - especially here and here.

💛 Voe

Requested categories: LBD/F, LBD/F/F
Ships I don't want: Ahsoka
Ship opt-ins: Voe/M or Voe/M/F is welcome if the M is Ben | Kylo, Finn or Poe.

Why she's a wardrobe staple: I love Voe's quick temper and determination, her competitive streak and her bitter struggle to fit herself into the serene Jedi mould. She may not have a Skywalker's innate strength in the Force, but she aims high and works hard and never resigns herself to coming in second. I'd have loved to see more about her in the comics - where she's from, how she ended up at the temple, who she might have become if not for her untimely end.

How to wear her:

Let her survive! Seriously, I'm here for any version of Voe surviving the minemoon and going on to play a role in or after the events of the sequel movies. Maybe she joins the Resistance and sparks fly between her and Rey or Rose or Suralinda or Zorii or Synara or Tam or any one of the badass women kicking around in the Resistance's orbit during the war. Maybe the trauma drives her to the dark side, either in pursuit of revenge against Kylo specifically or more generally to avoid ever feeling vulnerable like that again. Maybe Kylo recruits her instead of killing her, and she joins the Knights of Ren or the First Order and lives out her own f/f version of Kylo and Hux's rivalry. Maybe she gives up on being a Jedi and slinks off to the criminal underworld instead - I'd be so down for shipping her with Qi'ra or Aphra or any other female crime lord (and yes, I'm fine with the big age gap!).

I'd also be very into an AU where the minemoon incident never happened at all, either because Ben never fell and they became Jedi together, or because Voe dropped out of Jedi school before that point. Maybe her temper or competitive streak got the better of her, and instead of continuing to beat her head against that brick wall, she uses her semi-developed Force powers to help her build a new career as a [stunt pilot who pulls off tricks no one else can / journalist who somehow always knows where the next scoop is / smuggler who's eerily good at avoiding patrols / politician who no one can seem to resist supporting once they've talked to her / insert other cool career here]!