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iserlohnaThank you so much for creating something for me! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the fandoms and relationships I requested, and everything important is already in the requests themselves and repeated here, but if you'd like more information about what I like and why I like and picked these fandoms, you can find it in this letter.
GENERAL LIKES:
- angst
- action/adventure
- political intrigue
- mirror verse/trapped in a VR-world/dream/alternate universe
- rivals/enemies to lovers
- friends to lovers
- strong trust
- competency/competence kink
- hurt/comfort (physical or emotional) or hurt with no to little comfort
- backstories
- bridal carries
- dramatic rescue
- heroes doubting themselves and coming through in the end
- tsundere
- unrequited or unknowingly requited crushes/pining/mutual pining
- PWP
- mysteries
- ghost stories
- tragedy
- humor – especially with a side of angst
- canon divergence/what-if
- undercover stories
- time travel
- time loops
- emotionally repressed people fighting their feelings
- mirror verses and people getting sucked into alternate/parallel universes
- fluff
- domesticity
- hand holding and hugging
- family/found family
- jealousy
- possessiveness
- neediness
- team bonding
- fake dating & accidental/convenience/forced marriages
- amnesia
- sex pollen/alien made them do it
- repressed person saying I love you in complicated ways or being forced to reveal their emotions
- dub con where they both like each other but consent isn’t clear/not negotiated/things get out of hand
- PTSD
- dark pasts haunting the present
- huddling for warmth/sharing a bed/snowed in
- costume/uniform kinks
- death fic
- handcuffs/being tied up/being tied together
- kidnapping/imprisonment/torture
- mind control/memory alteration
- 5 things or 5+1 style works
I’m okay with non-con elements (but not overly explicit please) and character death. I love bitter-sweetness and hopeful endings. I’m fine with open endings. I’m also fine with canonical background relationships or characters being in other (canonical or implied) relationships before ending up in the requested relationship.
Kinky likes (in case it becomes relevant):
- possessive behavior leading to rough sex
- emotionally charged sex
- frottage, intercrural sex, tribbing
- slow love making that turns frantic
- shower sex
- wall sex
- ghost sex
- married sex
- massage escalating into sex
- sex magic/ritual sex
- hand jobs/fingering
- voyeurism
- sex pollen/aliens made them do it
- empathic bonds/Newtype bonds/mind melds
- biting, bruises, marking someone on purpose
- fantasizing/dreaming about sex
- uniforms/costumes kink and clothe sharing
- mind control/possession/hypnotism/manipulation via drug use
- light bondage that is unnegotiated and happens in the heat of the moment – or was planned by one for a long time surprising the other
- captivity, kidnapping, prison sex, stockholm/lima syndrome
- black mail, sexual coercion, threatening loved ones
- dominance/submission in a non- 24/7 D/s setting
- invading the fuck out of somebody's personal space
- aliens/xeno/tentacles
I’m fine with dub scenarios that involve drugs/aphordisica and drunk sex.
DNWs: AUs apart from canon divergence, cannibalism/vore, bodily fluids (apart from sexual fluids, sweat and light blood), explicit underage porn, ageplay, D/s, A/B/O (where not specifically mentioned in the prompts/fandom details), breath play,.
Schönkopf/Yang
I know pretty much all the versions – old anime, Neue These, novels, and both manga adaptations. If there are particular elements you want to use just pick the version you like best or fuse as you see fit. For character descriptions I probably prefer the two anime versions or the Katsumi Michihara over the newer Manga version - but go with any of the three to choose what your Schönkopf et al look like. ;)
The character selection may already be giving it away but, I’m absolutely a Yang Fleet/Free planets girl. But if you want to build a plot that also involves the Empire side and Reinhard and the amazing people he has gathered around himself or involve the political machinations going on in this version of space from (Heinessen to Phezzan and Odin) go right ahead by showing both sides of the greater conflict that is also fine with me. There are no characters you need to avoid.
I’d especially love Yang's friends, Julian and Frederica to be included in any plot where it makes sense. I love Frederica and her relationship with Yang too, so please be kind to her. Or if you want to explore Katerose and her dad getting to know each other more, that would also be amazing. (Background Julian/Karin also more than welcome. As would be past or unrequitted Dusty/Yang. Jealousy is fine!)
I have an abundance of love for this canon and all the political complications, even though I don’t always agree with Tanaka Yoshiki’s view of humanity or his conclusions. (Constitutional monarchy has not figured it all out, sorry.)
I was always fascinated by how Yang was the brillant, kind person he is who always ended up having to follow paths that he wouldn’t have chosen otherwise. So much in his life was pushed on him by circumstances that were outside of his control or in areas where he wasn’t willing to play the ruthless power games even though he was quite aware of them. There are so many ways his life could have gone differently and even though the tragedy of his end appeals to me too, I’d love to see any way you can find to give him a happier ending. I wish poor Yang had had more luck outside of the job that he was so damn good at even if he never wanted to have it. Anything that at least gives him a chance to decide his own fate or to find a way to live away from it all (would he miss it, maybe?) would be amazing.
With Schönkopf I very much love the idea of his background: born in the Empire that he doesn’t have a love for, not trusted by the Free Planets because he was born to a aristocratic family in the Empire - and because traitors in the ranks of Rosenritter leaders aren’t uncommon. Neue These explored that a little more with the backstory of the flight, we only got remarks and glimpses of his thoughts in other versions - but it’s at his core that he doesn’t have much trust or even love for one side or the other, but is willing to instead trust in Yang who was willing to put his trust in him before they even really knew each other.There’s something they see in each other that from the start and they somehow click despite being very different and maybe not always able to understand each other. I think Yang’s unwillingness to use his brilliance to seize power both baffles and charms Schönkopf - and frustrates him when it means Yang would rather lose than do something against his convictions of what’s right.
Equally, I think Yang admires Schönkopf from the start and learns very quickly to trust him and when to rely on him - but he very clearly has his own opinions on things. He chooses Schönkopf as teacher for Julian and sends him and the Rosenritter into dangerous situations - but that kind of fighting is not his world. And yet they respect each other and seem to react to each other's cues.
I love their first meetings in both the old anime and the new if you want to go with either version and love how their rapport forms with Yang explaining his plan and his stance on why he’s doing what he’s doing and then through the seizing of Iserlohn. And later for both of them Iserlohn becomes such an important focal point as the fleet makes it a home. I love how they snark at each other.
I’m a sucker for scenes like Yang having to face the Patriotic Knights Corps, or being detained for the unlawfull inquiry, smart tactics like seizing Iserlohn and getting it back later, and all his guerilla tactics. Anything that has them saving each other in some way, any missions where they end up on the run or having to outmaneuver their enemies to get away would be awesome! Hut/Comfort with someone being hurt badly would also fit well with this canon.
From sign up
For this fandom: Yang lives, being rescued from imprisonment, battlefield wounds, philosophical debates, New Years Celebrations on Iserlohn, making a home in a war zone, unexpected allies, writing your own history, Yang gets to drink tea and read books – and maybe finally study history, Julian’s first days with Yang after the adoption, peace treaties, for once things go Yang’s way and no politician on the home front or Earth cults or anyone turns things on him
Plot ideas (that you can ignore – more general stuff in my letter, too):
Either of them gets the chance to go back in time and/or redo a critical moment in their lives – how will that shape their relationship or the war or the political messes Yang gets stuck in
A murder mystery on Iserlohn – and it’s not clear if it’s just a killer or a traitor, someone after Yang (from which side???) and Schönkopf needs to solve it because he’s in charge of Fortress security – and also because nobody gets past him to hurt Yang.
Any sort of mission/battle gone wrong scenario where one needs to do whatever necessary to save the other
Schönkopf has family in the Empire and everyone expects him to be the next traitor – so someone reaches out with a proposition. What happens?
Anything where they’re stuck together
Flirting to rile Yang up turns very real, very fast instead
Hijikata/Gintoki
Shinpachi & Kagura & Gintoki
This is such a long time favorite for me. Gintama comes at you as this comedy thing with lots of references to Japanese culture, history, many other manga and anime properties and popular culture and even (at the time) current events - and reveals itself to be a super angsty story about a boy who became a samurai and lived as a Yorzuya, repressing his emotions A LOT. He behaves like an ass and yet it’s easy to see how much he cares, and how important it is for him to show others that they can live by their own rules. And it’s always so fun to watch Gin-chan collect all these friends - starting with his kids.
He’s maybe not the best organized and responsible single parent, but he takes on way more than the role of older brother with Shinpachi and Kagura - and there are all these other people he cares for and who care for him too. More than a few of the awesome female characters are interested in him - and yet he never goes for any sort of relationship.
No wonder when you learn about his past, what he went through as a child, then teen and how he fought with the Joi and how he ended up in Edo with Otose.
I do very much love tropes of found family and of mentoring - and it's especially fund and sad to watch with Gin-sa who has this past with his own mentor/teacher/father figure and we know the fast forwarding to their two endings. And then there are the two kids he adopts and who adopt him and it's so clear how much they care for each other even when they can be very harsh, hiding their feeling behind their big mouthed attitiudes and what they are willing to do to let their little family thrive. From competing to being the best Santa Clause to just noticing when one of them isn't at their best and wanting to help, fighting together. And family outings hurt comfort, missions gone right or wrong... or just getting Shimpachi into a concert... it's all good with me! (Also Gin-san realizing he's totally the mum.)
And then there’s Hijikata who has an equally sad and complicated past and who has found this family and purpose in the Shinsengumi - and who can also be the scariest asshole and at the same time has all these soft spots. And he also has this tragic romance that he more or less denied himself to protect Mitsuba. And there are all the fun ways life puts mirrors in front of him - the cursed sword that makes him an otaku, the way Okita challenges him all the time, and, of course, Gintoki who he has more in common with than they would both ever admit.
So that’s what always fascinates me: the way they gravitate towards each other, how they end up in the same izakaya, in the same saune, how they can argue incessantly and beat bad guys up while being handcuffed together. If this is earlier in canon I’d love to be along for the right of Hijikata discovering more about Gintoki, I’d love anything that has canon events where one or the other weren’t along for the ride or not in the know play out with both of them around instead, or any mayhem they can face together like another ghost ryokan style adventure, anything that deals with revenge plots against them (for whatever reason) spiraling out of control Gintama style.Give me Edo-style idol concerts, bachelor TV shows - or just sword fights with samurai or aliens - I will LOVE IT.
I’d fine with A/B/O for this as there are so many weird Amanto induced tropes happening that this would just be another day in the park in this world.
Also Joi 4 making their appearances and meddling would be loved. (Past Tatsuma/Gin or Takasugi/Gin being mentioned would be fine with me.) I do love me all the female characters and love the Yoshiwara crew and their problems. I have a very soft spot for Tatsuma and his annoying laughter.
Plot ideas:
Someone puts a prize on either of their heads and this sets of a chain of events where the other has to get them out of town for a few days/hide them somewhere/take them on a trip – and it’s Gintama so something will go wrong or chaos will ensue
Experiencing the others past first hand in some way
Five jobs Gintoki had to take that ended with Hijikata in some way
Hijikata needs a date for a night and the Shinsengumi hire Gin-san to be the date (as Gin or Paako?)
Family outing to a remote part of Japan.
Char/Amuro
Char/Amuro/Lalah
Side note: Generally this canon influenced LoHG backstory as well as gets referenced for all Sunrise jokes in Gitnama so often that a crossover or cameo in the above would be absolutely fine with me. ＼(٥⁀▽⁀ )／
I’ve nominated the broadest possible fandom for this - so it’s up to you to pick if this spirals out of original Mobile Suit Gundam or Zeta Gundam, Char’s Counterattack or anything else in the UC universe. I was probably thinking of the original MSG, The Origins, and Zeta the most, but any canon divergence where they’re all around in Unicorn or Hathaway would also be absolutely fine with me.
I’m fascinated by Newtype powers and love that Amuro defies expectation as an Earthnoid - and that Lalah, also born on Earth, is another equally powerful Newtype. I wonder what that says about all the theories of Zeon that new humanity develops in space?
Amuro really is one of my all time faces and I would have loved his PTSD to be explored even more - and honestly I would have loved him to survive and mourn Char - even though quite honestly them dying together meets quite a few of my narrative kinks. There’s so much here to explore - the seven years between MSG and Zeta, canon divergence where he and Char get to work together more, where he goes to space with “Quattro” after all - anything really. How would that change things for them and for Kamille? Or any AU that spins out of Origins - their mother comes with them, they get groomed by the Zabis, they get to stay in Spain and everyone forgets about them - what would that mean for “Edouard” who never meets a Char. Does he end up in space or going to Zeon anyway or does he end up with Sayla on Side 7? I admit I enjoy Char’s darker side and his archnemisis qualities - but I also like it when he shows that he cares and that he's just very much broken in too many ways to ever live a normal life. He does try to mentor Kamille, he does try to get Amuro to come with him, he really cared for Lalah or her death wouldn’t have meant so much - and he did try to get Sayla to leave White Base to be safe…
Time travel in this fandom for added angst and discovery about backstories would be loved too.
Char is just one of the best and most complicated antagonists - at the same time he really is an ass. He manipulates people until everything falls in place for him and his on plans - and he has so many reasons to want revenge, to want to shape a new world - to even think he’s entitled to - but at the same time he had so many chances to stop, to stop fighting and hating or making Amura his forever rival. It’s funny that Newtypes could in theros communicate so much better and yet he never understands Amuro fully. Take all that and turn it into a bit of a possessive streak that makes him realize he really wants something from Amuro that isn’t fighting and I’m all there...
I love that scene where Amuro’s car gets stuck and Char and Lalah drive by and they have the awkward interaction where Amura Newtype recognizes Char, but Char doesn’t know he’s the Gundam pilot and Lalah has only just met Amura once very briefly before… That is a bit like identity porn with superheros in an even more complicated way that can’t be held up (add Char’s many aliases and names..) I’d love anything where they get to interact with each other on neutral ground like this - or like later in Zeta where they can discover that things they think they know may not actually be true.
Lalah is a very fascinating figure for me and I would simply have loved to know more about her, see her interact more with Amura especially, see her survive and make her own choices - with or without Char. How much did she know about him being Casval and about what he really was doing in that war at the time? Could she have helped him? Where would she have ended up and how could she have survived. I’d love to see a threesome story where things turn out very happy or extremely tragic - up to you.
As Newtype bonds are very much a thing in this canon anything you can think of involving soulmate trope variations would be awesome too. As would be political marriages to stop all the warring.
I’d ask that for all sexual descriptions Amuro and Lalah, Kamille are at the very least 18.
Cloud/Squall)
I love mutliverses and universe hopping and Dissidia was right up my alley for that. I do love the idea that this is not the first or last time that they meet or that they get pulled in to fight the missions again and again or meet on washed up the shores of dreams they have to fight their way out together through darkness and their worst nightmares – even if that means they can never see each other again???
They would bond over fighting and I always feel they would get along well with both being very much not men of many words with too many bottled up emotions. How much do they learn about each other and how much will they find out about their respective worlds or the worlds that are out there. If you want to take inspiration from KH and Leon/Cloud there that would also be find with me!
GENERAL LIKES:
- angst
- action/adventure
- political intrigue
- mirror verse/trapped in a VR-world/dream/alternate universe
- rivals/enemies to lovers
- friends to lovers
- strong trust
- competency/competence kink
- hurt/comfort (physical or emotional) or hurt with no to little comfort
- backstories
- bridal carries
- dramatic rescue
- heroes doubting themselves and coming through in the end
- tsundere
- unrequited or unknowingly requited crushes/pining/mutual pining
- PWP
- mysteries
- ghost stories
- tragedy
- humor – especially with a side of angst
- canon divergence/what-if
- undercover stories
- time travel
- time loops
- emotionally repressed people fighting their feelings
- mirror verses and people getting sucked into alternate/parallel universes
- fluff
- domesticity
- hand holding and hugging
- family/found family
- jealousy
- possessiveness
- neediness
- team bonding
- fake dating & accidental/convenience/forced marriages
- amnesia
- sex pollen/alien made them do it
- repressed person saying I love you in complicated ways or being forced to reveal their emotions
- dub con where they both like each other but consent isn’t clear/not negotiated/things get out of hand
- PTSD
- dark pasts haunting the present
- huddling for warmth/sharing a bed/snowed in
- costume/uniform kinks
- death fic
- handcuffs/being tied up/being tied together
- kidnapping/imprisonment/torture
- mind control/memory alteration
- 5 things or 5+1 style works
I’m okay with non-con elements (but not overly explicit please) and character death. I love bitter-sweetness and hopeful endings. I’m fine with open endings. I’m also fine with canonical background relationships or characters being in other (canonical or implied) relationships before ending up in the requested relationship.
Kinky likes (in case it becomes relevant):
- possessive behavior leading to rough sex
- emotionally charged sex
- frottage, intercrural sex, tribbing
- slow love making that turns frantic
- shower sex
- wall sex
- ghost sex
- married sex
- massage escalating into sex
- sex magic/ritual sex
- hand jobs/fingering
- voyeurism
- sex pollen/aliens made them do it
- empathic bonds/Newtype bonds/mind melds
- biting, bruises, marking someone on purpose
- fantasizing/dreaming about sex
- uniforms/costumes kink and clothe sharing
- mind control/possession/hypnotism/manipulation via drug use
- light bondage that is unnegotiated and happens in the heat of the moment – or was planned by one for a long time surprising the other
- captivity, kidnapping, prison sex, stockholm/lima syndrome
- black mail, sexual coercion, threatening loved ones
- dominance/submission in a non- 24/7 D/s setting
- invading the fuck out of somebody's personal space
- aliens/xeno/tentacles
I’m fine with dub scenarios that involve drugs/aphordisica and drunk sex.
DNWs: AUs apart from canon divergence, cannibalism/vore, bodily fluids (apart from sexual fluids, sweat and light blood), explicit underage porn, ageplay, D/s, A/B/O (where not specifically mentioned in the prompts/fandom details), breath play,.
Legend of Galactic Heroes
Schönkopf/Yang
I know pretty much all the versions – old anime, Neue These, novels, and both manga adaptations. If there are particular elements you want to use just pick the version you like best or fuse as you see fit. For character descriptions I probably prefer the two anime versions or the Katsumi Michihara over the newer Manga version - but go with any of the three to choose what your Schönkopf et al look like. ;)
The character selection may already be giving it away but, I’m absolutely a Yang Fleet/Free planets girl. But if you want to build a plot that also involves the Empire side and Reinhard and the amazing people he has gathered around himself or involve the political machinations going on in this version of space from (Heinessen to Phezzan and Odin) go right ahead by showing both sides of the greater conflict that is also fine with me. There are no characters you need to avoid.
I’d especially love Yang's friends, Julian and Frederica to be included in any plot where it makes sense. I love Frederica and her relationship with Yang too, so please be kind to her. Or if you want to explore Katerose and her dad getting to know each other more, that would also be amazing. (Background Julian/Karin also more than welcome. As would be past or unrequitted Dusty/Yang. Jealousy is fine!)
I have an abundance of love for this canon and all the political complications, even though I don’t always agree with Tanaka Yoshiki’s view of humanity or his conclusions. (Constitutional monarchy has not figured it all out, sorry.)
I was always fascinated by how Yang was the brillant, kind person he is who always ended up having to follow paths that he wouldn’t have chosen otherwise. So much in his life was pushed on him by circumstances that were outside of his control or in areas where he wasn’t willing to play the ruthless power games even though he was quite aware of them. There are so many ways his life could have gone differently and even though the tragedy of his end appeals to me too, I’d love to see any way you can find to give him a happier ending. I wish poor Yang had had more luck outside of the job that he was so damn good at even if he never wanted to have it. Anything that at least gives him a chance to decide his own fate or to find a way to live away from it all (would he miss it, maybe?) would be amazing.
With Schönkopf I very much love the idea of his background: born in the Empire that he doesn’t have a love for, not trusted by the Free Planets because he was born to a aristocratic family in the Empire - and because traitors in the ranks of Rosenritter leaders aren’t uncommon. Neue These explored that a little more with the backstory of the flight, we only got remarks and glimpses of his thoughts in other versions - but it’s at his core that he doesn’t have much trust or even love for one side or the other, but is willing to instead trust in Yang who was willing to put his trust in him before they even really knew each other.There’s something they see in each other that from the start and they somehow click despite being very different and maybe not always able to understand each other. I think Yang’s unwillingness to use his brilliance to seize power both baffles and charms Schönkopf - and frustrates him when it means Yang would rather lose than do something against his convictions of what’s right.
Equally, I think Yang admires Schönkopf from the start and learns very quickly to trust him and when to rely on him - but he very clearly has his own opinions on things. He chooses Schönkopf as teacher for Julian and sends him and the Rosenritter into dangerous situations - but that kind of fighting is not his world. And yet they respect each other and seem to react to each other's cues.
I love their first meetings in both the old anime and the new if you want to go with either version and love how their rapport forms with Yang explaining his plan and his stance on why he’s doing what he’s doing and then through the seizing of Iserlohn. And later for both of them Iserlohn becomes such an important focal point as the fleet makes it a home. I love how they snark at each other.
I’m a sucker for scenes like Yang having to face the Patriotic Knights Corps, or being detained for the unlawfull inquiry, smart tactics like seizing Iserlohn and getting it back later, and all his guerilla tactics. Anything that has them saving each other in some way, any missions where they end up on the run or having to outmaneuver their enemies to get away would be awesome! Hut/Comfort with someone being hurt badly would also fit well with this canon.
From sign up
For this fandom: Yang lives, being rescued from imprisonment, battlefield wounds, philosophical debates, New Years Celebrations on Iserlohn, making a home in a war zone, unexpected allies, writing your own history, Yang gets to drink tea and read books – and maybe finally study history, Julian’s first days with Yang after the adoption, peace treaties, for once things go Yang’s way and no politician on the home front or Earth cults or anyone turns things on him
Plot ideas (that you can ignore – more general stuff in my letter, too):
Either of them gets the chance to go back in time and/or redo a critical moment in their lives – how will that shape their relationship or the war or the political messes Yang gets stuck in
A murder mystery on Iserlohn – and it’s not clear if it’s just a killer or a traitor, someone after Yang (from which side???) and Schönkopf needs to solve it because he’s in charge of Fortress security – and also because nobody gets past him to hurt Yang.
Any sort of mission/battle gone wrong scenario where one needs to do whatever necessary to save the other
Schönkopf has family in the Empire and everyone expects him to be the next traitor – so someone reaches out with a proposition. What happens?
Anything where they’re stuck together
Flirting to rile Yang up turns very real, very fast instead
Gintama
Hijikata/Gintoki
Shinpachi & Kagura & Gintoki
This is such a long time favorite for me. Gintama comes at you as this comedy thing with lots of references to Japanese culture, history, many other manga and anime properties and popular culture and even (at the time) current events - and reveals itself to be a super angsty story about a boy who became a samurai and lived as a Yorzuya, repressing his emotions A LOT. He behaves like an ass and yet it’s easy to see how much he cares, and how important it is for him to show others that they can live by their own rules. And it’s always so fun to watch Gin-chan collect all these friends - starting with his kids.
He’s maybe not the best organized and responsible single parent, but he takes on way more than the role of older brother with Shinpachi and Kagura - and there are all these other people he cares for and who care for him too. More than a few of the awesome female characters are interested in him - and yet he never goes for any sort of relationship.
No wonder when you learn about his past, what he went through as a child, then teen and how he fought with the Joi and how he ended up in Edo with Otose.
I do very much love tropes of found family and of mentoring - and it's especially fund and sad to watch with Gin-sa who has this past with his own mentor/teacher/father figure and we know the fast forwarding to their two endings. And then there are the two kids he adopts and who adopt him and it's so clear how much they care for each other even when they can be very harsh, hiding their feeling behind their big mouthed attitiudes and what they are willing to do to let their little family thrive. From competing to being the best Santa Clause to just noticing when one of them isn't at their best and wanting to help, fighting together. And family outings hurt comfort, missions gone right or wrong... or just getting Shimpachi into a concert... it's all good with me! (Also Gin-san realizing he's totally the mum.)
And then there’s Hijikata who has an equally sad and complicated past and who has found this family and purpose in the Shinsengumi - and who can also be the scariest asshole and at the same time has all these soft spots. And he also has this tragic romance that he more or less denied himself to protect Mitsuba. And there are all the fun ways life puts mirrors in front of him - the cursed sword that makes him an otaku, the way Okita challenges him all the time, and, of course, Gintoki who he has more in common with than they would both ever admit.
So that’s what always fascinates me: the way they gravitate towards each other, how they end up in the same izakaya, in the same saune, how they can argue incessantly and beat bad guys up while being handcuffed together. If this is earlier in canon I’d love to be along for the right of Hijikata discovering more about Gintoki, I’d love anything that has canon events where one or the other weren’t along for the ride or not in the know play out with both of them around instead, or any mayhem they can face together like another ghost ryokan style adventure, anything that deals with revenge plots against them (for whatever reason) spiraling out of control Gintama style.Give me Edo-style idol concerts, bachelor TV shows - or just sword fights with samurai or aliens - I will LOVE IT.
I’d fine with A/B/O for this as there are so many weird Amanto induced tropes happening that this would just be another day in the park in this world.
Also Joi 4 making their appearances and meddling would be loved. (Past Tatsuma/Gin or Takasugi/Gin being mentioned would be fine with me.) I do love me all the female characters and love the Yoshiwara crew and their problems. I have a very soft spot for Tatsuma and his annoying laughter.
Plot ideas:
Someone puts a prize on either of their heads and this sets of a chain of events where the other has to get them out of town for a few days/hide them somewhere/take them on a trip – and it’s Gintama so something will go wrong or chaos will ensue
Experiencing the others past first hand in some way
Five jobs Gintoki had to take that ended with Hijikata in some way
Hijikata needs a date for a night and the Shinsengumi hire Gin-san to be the date (as Gin or Paako?)
Family outing to a remote part of Japan.
Mobile Suit Gundam/Universal Century Gundam
Char/Amuro
Char/Amuro/Lalah
Side note: Generally this canon influenced LoHG backstory as well as gets referenced for all Sunrise jokes in Gitnama so often that a crossover or cameo in the above would be absolutely fine with me. ＼(٥⁀▽⁀ )／
I’ve nominated the broadest possible fandom for this - so it’s up to you to pick if this spirals out of original Mobile Suit Gundam or Zeta Gundam, Char’s Counterattack or anything else in the UC universe. I was probably thinking of the original MSG, The Origins, and Zeta the most, but any canon divergence where they’re all around in Unicorn or Hathaway would also be absolutely fine with me.
I’m fascinated by Newtype powers and love that Amuro defies expectation as an Earthnoid - and that Lalah, also born on Earth, is another equally powerful Newtype. I wonder what that says about all the theories of Zeon that new humanity develops in space?
Amuro really is one of my all time faces and I would have loved his PTSD to be explored even more - and honestly I would have loved him to survive and mourn Char - even though quite honestly them dying together meets quite a few of my narrative kinks. There’s so much here to explore - the seven years between MSG and Zeta, canon divergence where he and Char get to work together more, where he goes to space with “Quattro” after all - anything really. How would that change things for them and for Kamille? Or any AU that spins out of Origins - their mother comes with them, they get groomed by the Zabis, they get to stay in Spain and everyone forgets about them - what would that mean for “Edouard” who never meets a Char. Does he end up in space or going to Zeon anyway or does he end up with Sayla on Side 7? I admit I enjoy Char’s darker side and his archnemisis qualities - but I also like it when he shows that he cares and that he's just very much broken in too many ways to ever live a normal life. He does try to mentor Kamille, he does try to get Amuro to come with him, he really cared for Lalah or her death wouldn’t have meant so much - and he did try to get Sayla to leave White Base to be safe…
Time travel in this fandom for added angst and discovery about backstories would be loved too.
Char is just one of the best and most complicated antagonists - at the same time he really is an ass. He manipulates people until everything falls in place for him and his on plans - and he has so many reasons to want revenge, to want to shape a new world - to even think he’s entitled to - but at the same time he had so many chances to stop, to stop fighting and hating or making Amura his forever rival. It’s funny that Newtypes could in theros communicate so much better and yet he never understands Amuro fully. Take all that and turn it into a bit of a possessive streak that makes him realize he really wants something from Amuro that isn’t fighting and I’m all there...
I love that scene where Amuro’s car gets stuck and Char and Lalah drive by and they have the awkward interaction where Amura Newtype recognizes Char, but Char doesn’t know he’s the Gundam pilot and Lalah has only just met Amura once very briefly before… That is a bit like identity porn with superheros in an even more complicated way that can’t be held up (add Char’s many aliases and names..) I’d love anything where they get to interact with each other on neutral ground like this - or like later in Zeta where they can discover that things they think they know may not actually be true.
Lalah is a very fascinating figure for me and I would simply have loved to know more about her, see her interact more with Amura especially, see her survive and make her own choices - with or without Char. How much did she know about him being Casval and about what he really was doing in that war at the time? Could she have helped him? Where would she have ended up and how could she have survived. I’d love to see a threesome story where things turn out very happy or extremely tragic - up to you.
As Newtype bonds are very much a thing in this canon anything you can think of involving soulmate trope variations would be awesome too. As would be political marriages to stop all the warring.
I’d ask that for all sexual descriptions Amuro and Lalah, Kamille are at the very least 18.
Dissidia
Cloud/Squall)
I love mutliverses and universe hopping and Dissidia was right up my alley for that. I do love the idea that this is not the first or last time that they meet or that they get pulled in to fight the missions again and again or meet on washed up the shores of dreams they have to fight their way out together through darkness and their worst nightmares – even if that means they can never see each other again???
They would bond over fighting and I always feel they would get along well with both being very much not men of many words with too many bottled up emotions. How much do they learn about each other and how much will they find out about their respective worlds or the worlds that are out there. If you want to take inspiration from KH and Leon/Cloud there that would also be find with me!
