Dear Creator

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 – so please don't stress about whether your idea is too dark, too niche, too shippy/not shippy enough, whatever. I'm also fine with any past or background relationships or other supporting characters you want to include. 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

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 I'm totally open to treats in other media.

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 so much, and happy creating!

lucymonster

General info

⛔ Do not want

Underage: explicit <18 sex, any <16 sex, any <13 romance
Incest involving different generations or large age gaps
Any mention of child death, including pregnancy loss
On-screen child harm (requested characters recalling their childhood trauma is fine)
AUs other than canon divergence (including 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!)
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
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.

💀 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
loss of virginity, inexperience, clumsy sex
praise kink
scar worship
under-negotiated kinks
any level of complex, problematic or questionable consent

🎨 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!

Request details

Note for all ships: regardless of which subfandom they were nominated/requested under, I'm happy with a gift that draws from any of their canon appearances.

Sequels poly

Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Poe Dameron/Finn & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rose Tico
Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rose Tico
Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Jacen Syndulla

Ben survives Exegol. Now comes the really awkward part: figuring out how to live with the other half of his dyad and her friends who he's given every possible reason to hate him. Team missions to clean up what's left of the First Order? Dysfunctional New New Republic politics? Quiet but unavoidably enmeshed civilian lives? I'm up for anything!

I'm pretty relaxed about relationship configurations here. Ensemble of allies with their black sheep ex-enemy is what I'm after and I've picked the tags I think best lend themselves to that, but I'm fine with focusing more on certain subsets of characters than others, and with lopsided or non-mutual poly if you're creating for one of those tags. Some sub-dynamics I particularly like are Rey and Ben having a volatile but irresistible connection, the trio having some form of three's-a-crowd energy (Poe and Finn uniting under the 'wtf is Rey doing with Kylo Ren' banner; Finn as the peace-loving middleman between Rey and Poe's frenemy tendencies; Poe struggling to understand Rey and Finn's shared Force sensitivity, etc); Jacen having history with Ben and/or Poe; and Rose just, like, really truly hating Ben's guts. But also wanting to climb him like a tree. But also hating him. But being sucked irresistibly into his drama despite herself. But hating him.

Also relevant to my interests: AU Ben who never technically fell to the dark side but is still complicated and kind of a jerk. I especially love stories where he takes more after his father than his mother vis-à-vis respectable career/lifestyle choices.

Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

I love these two as enemies drawn together by circumstance, as foils to each other's best and worst traits, as lost souls with a shared (albeit lopsided) background in the First Order doing their best to leave that influence behind. I love pre-canon stories where stormtrooper Finn stumbles into his scariest commander's orbit (only to find that maybe he isn't so scary after all?). I love post-canon or divergent stories where Ben defects to the Resistance and Finn helps him find his footing on the new terrain. I love happy endings and bleak disasters and bittersweet could-have-beens. Honestly, if these two are interacting, I'm happy.

Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rose Tico

I'm really into the ethical clash between these two: Kylo with his love of power and his violent authoritarian leanings, Rose with her sense of justice and compassion for the underdog. I'd love to see the two of them build a relationship of some kind, either with Kylo in full First Order meltdown mode or redeemed Ben Solo cooperating with the Resistance afterwards.

Some prompts:
- Kylo thinks Rose's morals are naive. She's too young and idealistic to correctly process the trauma of her upbringing and embrace totalitarianism as the natural solution to all the galaxy's problems.

- Redeemed, conflicted Ben needs someone to lean on as he sorts out what the hell he's doing in a post-Evil Meltdown world. Rose is there - to listen? To argue political philosophy? To smack him back into shape?

- Neither of them can stand each other, but somehow they keep ending up in bed when the beers and bad decisions come out.

- A stray plot device strands the two of them on a hostile planet where they're forced to work together for survival.

- Rose struggles to reconcile the irreconcilable reality that her sister died fighting the man she's now crushing on/sleeping with/getting close to.

Voe ships

Voe/Rey
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Voe
Tava Ren/Voe (see also: Tava prompts below)

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.

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. Maybe she shows up after Exegol and is aghast to find Ben Solo there as well, "redeemed" after all he did to her. 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. Maybe she gives up on being a Jedi and slinks off to the criminal underworld instead.

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]!

Tava Ren ships

Tava Ren/Rey
Tava Ren/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Tava Ren/Voe (see also: Voe prompts above)

My feelings on Tava are basically: I ADORE her, and I'd love literally any fic or art about her whether using my prompts your own idea.

Tava/Kylo: He's fascinated! He knows damn well she's trying to play him, but he's so lonely and so desperate for a companion who understands the Force like he does, and he's on the rebound from Rey, and Tava's right, he really doesn't want the job he's got right now even if he can't admit it to himself. Falling for Tava is a terrible idea in every possible way and we all know how Kylo feels about bad ideas. I'm here for him caving in to temptation and reconciling with the Knights of Ren after all, because wreaking havoc with them and letting Tava play him like a fiddle is the literal only fun he ever has anymore.

Tava/Rey or Tava/Voe: Perhaps when seducing Kylo doesn't work the way she hoped, Tava decides to try Rey instead! I'd love a weird not-quite-teamup where it ends up being in the best interests of both the Resistance and the Knights of Ren to cooperate against their shared enemy. Or, in my expansive Star Wars ur-headcanon Voe is also alive and helping the Resistance, so maybe that's how Tava/Voe happens.

Alternatively, how about an AU where Tava was found young and ended up at Luke's Jedi school with Ben and Voe?

Or some art: costume porn art, or art that accentuates Tava's gorgeous red hair and badass combat skills, or actually any art at all please draw my new fave she's so gorgeous and she deserves it.

Basically, I'm a simple woman with simple needs, and Tava is a GORGEOUS woman with powers and an all-black outfit and a deeply regrettable worldview. I love her so much and I'm going to love whatever you do with her.