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meikureeHi there, and thanks so much for creating for me! I'm easy to please and omnivorous in taste, so feel free to take this chance to write something fun, or dust off that fic/art draft at the bottom of your drawer. If you want direction, I've listed some general likes and prompts where I have them below. Go loud or wild like Cam; I'll love to see what you come up with. I'm ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
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Fine with any ratings, porn or no porn, anything from plotty casefic to plotless introspection, and darkfic if you swing that way. Feel free to write any / pairings as their & or pre-relationship versions (or toe the line of ambiguity). It's probably... a given with this series, but I'm fine with major character death if your gift needs it.
General Likes
Art Likes
I like a wide variety of styles; browsing my art tags here and here might be useful inspiration (general content warnings apply). Some specific visual likes:
NSFW Likes
DNWs
Requests
Happy to have Alecto interpreted as her awakened self at the end of Nona the Ninth or just the Body. With the Body, I love the wistful devotion Harrow shows towards The Body and her mysterious but somehow permissive grace; the way she shows up in some of Harrow's darkest and loneliest moments as a beacon of gentleness, the intimate reverence with which Harrow refers to her as 'beloved'. Feel free to explore meetings between the Body and Harrow within echoing hallways and in-between moments on the Mithraeum. I'd welcome explorations of prayer and devotional practices on the Ninth through this, and how Harrow tries to use them in her interactions with the Body despite the heretical nature of it all.
Some ideas: sexual fantasies or outright weird sex (with the Body steering Harrow, perhaps?). More of Harrow confessing or unloading her guilt over the two hundred deaths, perhaps, onto the Body? And body worship, prayer kinks, etc. But I'd also love tender premises, like: the Body carrying Harrow to bed after she's passed out, Harrow praying to the Body in moments of distress and her appearing, or a history of the guises in which the Body has come to comfort Harrow since childhood (over her parents, Gideon, etc).
With Alecto the First as her angry rageful earth-personified self, I'm besotted by that... devoted but violent dynamic her and Harrow had going on in Nona's epilogue, and especially the reversal of Harrow's usual reverence of her, with Alecto pledging loyalty to Harrow instead. More 'meat loves meat' bizarre poetry-esque lines, dwellings on what it means to have an OLD AND VENGEFUL AND TEN-THOUSAND YEAR OLD spirit becoming your follower, the strangeness that follows... give it all to me. I had the thought that a What We Do in the Shadows-style dynamic or mockumentary format could be cool for spotlighting Alecto's weirdness, but I'm open to so many things for this.
Wew, I like the legs of this triangle on their own (Alecto punting Ianthe away! Harrow and Ianthe's prickly antagonism! Harrow's devotion towards Alecto!) and I think the three of them could be really interesting together. Give me deranged or awkward or weird threesomes, Ianthe trying to teach Alecto how to do cannibalism properly as an art instead of just inelegant lip munching, whatever. Harrow topping Ianthe under Alecto's orders or voyeurism/supervision? Also good. The classic formula of monsterfucking (I mean, Alecto's basically a monster wife) would have me overjoyed, as would descriptions of Alecto's otherworldliness and monstrosity.
Harrow and Ianthe share such a delicious tension, and I'd be overjoyed to see anything showcasing their complicated dynamic; they have their capacities for prickly -- but genuine! -- kindness with each other, and I'd welcome moments exploring those slippery threads of care and distance, neither tender nor cruel; the revelation that they're perhaps sometimes just two [Mercymorn voice] children fumbling in the dark of a hostile situation together. Or go full darkness (death or Ianthe dubconning Harrow), if you like. <3
• An AU where Harrow doesn't turn away from Ianthe after the bathtub attack: "If Ianthe Tridentarius knelt beside you then, [...] you would press your diminished bloody terror into her. You would crawl like a worm to whatever clinging scrap of solace she would give you.”
• Bed-sharing moments on the Mithraeum, in response to Harrow’s fear over Ortus’s attacks, or other forms of trauma/hurt.
• Either of them trying to cook for each other, with disastrous results.
• Harrow's notes state that Ianthe cries herself to sleep every night. I'd love to read about Harrow discovering this, in a hurt with dubious comfort or hurt no comfort scenario.
• Necromancy used for romantic, sexual, or comforting purposes, such as: breathplay via squeezing on the veins or aorta, slowing each other's heartbeats, etc.
• An AU where Ianthe still experiences issues adapting to her bone arm (pain, soreness, loss of control) after the subtextual bone arm sex scene bone arm transplant and Harrow has to step in to attend to her.
• A far-future AU where both are matured lyctors, Harrow never remembers Gideon, and they've settled more into their roles, where they might have unique hurt/comfort rituals after battles or difficult planet missions. (Sorry, for the record, I love Gideon! Feel free to slip in hints that she's still hanging around, somehow.)
• Harrow and Ianthe comforting each other through homesickness (planet-sickness?): giving each other House artefacts/mementos, or recounting childhood memories and stories to each other. Or: kinking on House titles during comfort sex.
I have to admit it, that indirect hand kiss in the Nona the Ninth previews charmed me. But even before then, these two have had a freight tank's worth of loyalty kink packed into them. I haven't had time to come up with good prompts, but tell me about their relationship: Camilla's grief and devotion, bodysharing shenanigans, a perfect lyctorhood AU, life on that BoE planet in Nona the Ninth. Or mundane moments on Planet Academia where they might've trained, shared rooms, etc. More hand kisses, understated promises, their steadfast rapport. Casual physical intimacy; them figuring out the logistics of bodysharing sex; fragments of conversations recorded through tape, all the ways they try to maintain and carry across physical intimacy when they're always missing each other by seconds.
Art ideas: Camilla with Pal-Skull! Funny meetings with other characters like Harrow or Ianthe. Drawings of their room or the layout of buildings on the Sixth House. Something funky playing on eye colours. Or anything you'd love to write about/create; I'm chill. <3
Codependency, that messed up moment your sister didn't choose you to cannibalise, spinning out the aftermath of "Babs? Who cares about Babs?" and so on. I've read As Yet Unsent so feel free to work in the reveal of Coronabeth's hidden neediness, or all the ways she's the worse twin. I'm down for anything about their twisted dynamic. Some ideas: Ianthe being subtly jealous of Coronabeth's affection for other cavaliers (Gideon, Judith, et al.), an AU where Coronabeth does get to be Ianthe's cavalier, an AU where Coronabeth doesn't betray BoE and sticks to her guns and they remain bitter enemies in an inter-galactic conflict...
Kinky ideas, if you swing that way: power plays in bed, praise kinks, Coronabeth trying to shower Ianthe with all the attention she isn't getting, knifeplay as a demonstration of Coronabeth's worthiness of cavalierhood. Whiffs of necrophilia and body horror (in the form of intentional mutilation, Ianthe mocking Corona with all the ropes of what she can do as a Lyctor) while Ianthe is in Babs's body. I'm fine if you want to go AU and write/draw a missing scene where Ianthe is in her own body instead of Babs's.
• Coronabeth letting Ianthe practise small doses of cannibalism or animaphalia on her.
• Ianthe and Coronabeth performing Third House marriage/scarification vows and rituals secretly with themselves.
• Ianthe gets arranged to marry another necromancer (Harrow, perhaps). Coronabeth gets jealous.
• A 5+1 times style study of (twisted) birthdays they've celebrated over the years. Creepy or messed up variants of their "fuck, kill, reanimate" games. Or various times Coronabeth's been mistaken for Ianthe's partner/girlfriend, and vice versa.
• A look at Third House rituals they've done, from the bizarre to ostentatious to downright weird; ritual sex even, where they've been asked to consummate their bond or mark the anniversary of their House's founding (or something...) in front of their peers, parents, anything.
• Alternatively, the Ninth House is obsessed with preservation and entombment, the veiling away of the past; what if the Third House is obsessed with gaudy opulence and the appearance of liveliness even in death? I'm thinking Ianthe having to use flesh magic to build/add on to corpses and a young Coronabeth trying to help her.
• Unexpectedly tender first-time sex with each other.
Nona/Camilla Hect
Nona & Camilla Hect
Nona & Pyrrha Dve & Camilla Hect & Palamedes Sextus
This family won my heart, even if they may be a mess of psychosexual roleplaying and codependence according to Tazmuir, and I'd love to get more -- comedy, other poignant after-school conversations, Pyrrha dancing with Nona, Nona having hilarious conversations about marrying Pyrrha in general. I'd also love hurt/comfort with Pyrrha patching Camilla up after an injury (augh), and so on. With the found family foursome, feel free to just focus on any two of the characters instead of all four of them.
For Nona/Camilla: Nona's crush on Camilla was very cute and sweet. I don't necessarily ship them as a conventional couple, but I feel like I could be convinced. Camilla perhaps indulging Nona in the bathtub...? Fleeting touches, very ambiguous but intense casual physical intimacy would be my jam too. I'd also love to see Nona from Camilla's perspective, what with Camilla potentially mourning Harrow and Gideon and perhaps seeing shades of her friends in Nona, feeling like spending time with Nona is a means to be closer to them, and so on. I'm fine with sexual content though I'd prefer you avoid any exaggerated focus on Nona's youth, naivete, etc. or her having an entirely childlike understanding of sex.
I think that explains it all.
But also! Loved their spark of antagonism in the fight at the end of Gideon the Ninth, loved the casual grace with which Cytherea severs Ianthe's arm. Also, Ianthe skewering Cytherea...
Feel free to transplant them into an AU where Cytherea survived and Augustine, Mercy, or G1deon died at Canaan House instead. I'd love a twisted mentor/protege relationship with them, where Cytherea's the only one who can cow Ianthe's inflated ego into whimpering submission. Give me sexy avulsion, choking, painplay (Cytherea siphoning Ianthe's soul for herself, Ianthe letting her do it for the social points), all the works.
Alternatively: Mithraeum politics and power plays, with Cytherea continuing to plot God's demise behind his back? Particularly with the constant, chronic pain she's been subjected to over the years. Ianthe perhaps coddling up to God and then going behind his back to talk with Cytherea about her plans while being fucked (or fucked over) by Cytherea, in every sense of that word? Anything goes in my books for this; you could give me something simple like the two of them being cloyingly and performatively sweet one moment then debauched and cruel the next, and I'd gobble it up. <3
Don't have many specific thoughts except that I enjoyed what we got in Nona the Ninth of these new dynamics, and I'd love to see more; go crazy.
With Gideon/Ianthe, I'm down for banter and comedy and campy weird friendship, and erotic BODY HORROR! with the chussy.
With Pash/Coronabeth, I'd love more of them duking it out during boring BoE meetings, Coronabeth freaking Pash out with stories of necromancers or her Third House life or, uh, if you're inclined, latent twincest tendencies.
You know the classic Harrow/Gideon/Ianthe dynamic? This is me wanting to throw Nona into the mix and see what happens.
We know literally nothing about Kiki/Kiana, but I'm intrigued by Palamedes's mention that Camilla's attachment to her wasn't "[his] secret to tell", the fact that they're 'quite' fond of each other, the way Camilla wanted Kiki to be there for the Grand Lyctor Fusion -- I imagine Kiki as someone Camilla admired, who might've mentored Camilla. Go wild and tell me about Camilla hanging out with her on the Sixth or in libraries, conversations over the years about Lyctorhood and its discontents, Camilla’s protective sentiments over Kiki, Camilla leaning on her shoulder after training or sparring. If Kiki was a necromancer adept (I might be forgetting what was actually said in Nona... feel free to go AU), that adds an interesting dimension to Camilla and her relationship with Pal too. I just think Camilla having a sister is interesting, and I'd love your take on how Camilla relates to her.
Totally open to smut for this. Are there incest taboos on the Sixth, compounded by society-wide cav-necro taboos perhaps, and how do they negotiate it, if or when they care? Kiki feeling ambivalent about Camilla's search for perfect Lyctorhood fusion, maybe... them writing letters to each other where Kiki lends her counsel, unspoken codependency neither realises is codependency, them being in an ambiguous sisterly but also sexual no-strings-attached relationship, with surprise undercurrents of feelings... give me anything.
What can I say, except... the poeticism of mummy issues being displaced onto another MILF, obviously, and also Pyrrha hooking up with Gideon even if she knows it's a bad idea; Pyrrha hooking up with Gideon for all the ways Gideon does and doesn't remind her of Wake! Educational sex! Gideon bonding with Pyrrha about her Cohort days and cavalierhood, perhaps? I'm fine if you want to write Gideon hanging out with her in Harrow's body.
Grief, tragedy, not being able to let go of your cavalier after 10,000 years -- these two hit all my buttons. We've gotten new looks at their pre-Resurrection lives in Nona, and I'd love to see something exploring any other dimensions to their relationship hinted or added by those snippets (Cristabel sure sounds like a badass nun, huh).
Fine with any ratings, porn or no porn, anything from plotty casefic to plotless introspection, and darkfic if you swing that way. Feel free to write any / pairings as their & or pre-relationship versions (or toe the line of ambiguity). It's probably... a given with this series, but I'm fine with major character death if your gift needs it.
General Likes
- gen, f/f, fic and art of all ratings
- nuanced, intense, or unconventional relationships between women
- relationships ambiguous or difficult to define
- love or loyalty, mingled with resentment, etc. complex feelings in general!
- codependency, manipulation, (inverted) power dynamics
- morally grey/ambiguous queer women
- mentor/protege dynamics
- pre-canon, post-canon, canon-divergence AUs
- banter, humour, worldbuilding, character studies, missing scenes, hurt/comfort, silly concepts played straight, crack treated seriously
- hopeful/melancholic moods, second and third person POV, 5+1 times (and similar), unusual prose styles or structures (e.g., non-linear narratives, interview formats, epistolary, etc.)
- friendship, dilemmas, worldview clashes, physical intimacy, reunions
- confrontations, emotional repression, unhealthy coping mechanisms
- history, endurance, beauty amidst bleakness and cruelty, ruins and remnants (literally and metaphorically)
- dreams, liminal places, hauntings, fractured identities, surrealism, magical realism, absurdism
- tragedy, loss, grief/mourning; stories about living with loss
- psychological/existential horror; body horror, close and unsentimental descriptions of pain, pain as an axis for transformation or self-knowledge, the weirdness of having a body
- road-trips, greenery and NATURE, water bodies, hair-washing, bathtubs, politics mixed with the mundane and everyday (e.g., life in a refugee zone on BoE planets)
- monstrosity, monstrous women
Art Likes
I like a wide variety of styles; browsing my art tags here and here might be useful inspiration (general content warnings apply). Some specific visual likes:
- art in your own style; I like seeing people's unique styles/approaches.
- art nouveau, tarot, post-impressionist styles, symbolism and motifs (especially geometric or natural)
- atmosphere, moodiness, analogue feel, seeing partial slices of characters or scenes
- cosmos, planets, mundane slices of BoE life
- gouache, watercolour, ink styles
- pixel/isometric art
- bestiaries, illustrations with text, incorporation of poetry or quotes (whether as inspiration or in the art itself)
- light and shadow, dramatic contrasts, minimalism, sketches, studies
- interiors, personalised environments or backgrounds, sunlight, coziness
- gazes, perspective, distance
- portraits, quiet actions/scenes: characters doing anything, even if simple (e.g., studying the surroundings, drinking tea, resting on each other)
- sensuality or eroticism: implication, gesture, contact, spines, hands, gloves, cuddling or embraces
- intensity, horror, anger, beautifully grotesque things, bandages, bloodied faces or noses, characters holding onto each other for support or their waist
- use of complementary colours for contrast (examples here)
- memes, canon parodies, cats/kittens
NSFW Likes
- character study via porn
- choking or breathplay
- dubious consent (e.g., due to power imbalances, identity issues, "fuck or die" scenarios, codependency, altered mental states)
- finger sucking
- oral sex and/or fingering
- recreational drug use during sex
- clothing kinks, partly clothed sex
- focus on hands, wrists, necks
- friends/enemies with benefits
- painplay, consensual pain/violence (especially if characters get off on it)
- sexual fantasies and masturbation
- sex with feelings (whether repressed, intense, or uncomfortable)
- sex described in unconventional ways (preferably in line with the tone of canon)
- erotic body horror; sex that reads mildly or a lot like body horror due to things like altered mental states, dissociation, embodiment issues, or in-universe reasons
DNWs
- rape/noncon (dubcon and canon references are fine)
- explicit underage sex under 16
- pregnancy
- high school/college AUs
- extensive descriptions of weight gain or loss
- trypophobic imagery (hole clusters)
- scat, emetophilia, watersports, ageplay, weight gain/stuffing kinks, spanking, A/B/O
Requests
Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Alecto the First
Happy to have Alecto interpreted as her awakened self at the end of Nona the Ninth or just the Body. With the Body, I love the wistful devotion Harrow shows towards The Body and her mysterious but somehow permissive grace; the way she shows up in some of Harrow's darkest and loneliest moments as a beacon of gentleness, the intimate reverence with which Harrow refers to her as 'beloved'. Feel free to explore meetings between the Body and Harrow within echoing hallways and in-between moments on the Mithraeum. I'd welcome explorations of prayer and devotional practices on the Ninth through this, and how Harrow tries to use them in her interactions with the Body despite the heretical nature of it all.
Some ideas: sexual fantasies or outright weird sex (with the Body steering Harrow, perhaps?). More of Harrow confessing or unloading her guilt over the two hundred deaths, perhaps, onto the Body? And body worship, prayer kinks, etc. But I'd also love tender premises, like: the Body carrying Harrow to bed after she's passed out, Harrow praying to the Body in moments of distress and her appearing, or a history of the guises in which the Body has come to comfort Harrow since childhood (over her parents, Gideon, etc).
With Alecto the First as her angry rageful earth-personified self, I'm besotted by that... devoted but violent dynamic her and Harrow had going on in Nona's epilogue, and especially the reversal of Harrow's usual reverence of her, with Alecto pledging loyalty to Harrow instead. More 'meat loves meat' bizarre poetry-esque lines, dwellings on what it means to have an OLD AND VENGEFUL AND TEN-THOUSAND YEAR OLD spirit becoming your follower, the strangeness that follows... give it all to me. I had the thought that a What We Do in the Shadows-style dynamic or mockumentary format could be cool for spotlighting Alecto's weirdness, but I'm open to so many things for this.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Alecto the First/Ianthe Tridentarius
Wew, I like the legs of this triangle on their own (Alecto punting Ianthe away! Harrow and Ianthe's prickly antagonism! Harrow's devotion towards Alecto!) and I think the three of them could be really interesting together. Give me deranged or awkward or weird threesomes, Ianthe trying to teach Alecto how to do cannibalism properly as an art instead of just inelegant lip munching, whatever. Harrow topping Ianthe under Alecto's orders or voyeurism/supervision? Also good. The classic formula of monsterfucking (I mean, Alecto's basically a monster wife) would have me overjoyed, as would descriptions of Alecto's otherworldliness and monstrosity.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Ianthe Tridentarius
Harrow and Ianthe share such a delicious tension, and I'd be overjoyed to see anything showcasing their complicated dynamic; they have their capacities for prickly -- but genuine! -- kindness with each other, and I'd welcome moments exploring those slippery threads of care and distance, neither tender nor cruel; the revelation that they're perhaps sometimes just two [Mercymorn voice] children fumbling in the dark of a hostile situation together. Or go full darkness (death or Ianthe dubconning Harrow), if you like. <3
• An AU where Harrow doesn't turn away from Ianthe after the bathtub attack: "If Ianthe Tridentarius knelt beside you then, [...] you would press your diminished bloody terror into her. You would crawl like a worm to whatever clinging scrap of solace she would give you.”
• Bed-sharing moments on the Mithraeum, in response to Harrow’s fear over Ortus’s attacks, or other forms of trauma/hurt.
• Either of them trying to cook for each other, with disastrous results.
• Harrow's notes state that Ianthe cries herself to sleep every night. I'd love to read about Harrow discovering this, in a hurt with dubious comfort or hurt no comfort scenario.
• Necromancy used for romantic, sexual, or comforting purposes, such as: breathplay via squeezing on the veins or aorta, slowing each other's heartbeats, etc.
• An AU where Ianthe still experiences issues adapting to her bone arm (pain, soreness, loss of control) after the subtextual bone arm sex scene bone arm transplant and Harrow has to step in to attend to her.
• A far-future AU where both are matured lyctors, Harrow never remembers Gideon, and they've settled more into their roles, where they might have unique hurt/comfort rituals after battles or difficult planet missions. (Sorry, for the record, I love Gideon! Feel free to slip in hints that she's still hanging around, somehow.)
• Harrow and Ianthe comforting each other through homesickness (planet-sickness?): giving each other House artefacts/mementos, or recounting childhood memories and stories to each other. Or: kinking on House titles during comfort sex.
Camilla Hect & Palamedes Sextus
Camilla Hect/Palamedes Sextus
Camilla Hect/Palamedes Sextus
I have to admit it, that indirect hand kiss in the Nona the Ninth previews charmed me. But even before then, these two have had a freight tank's worth of loyalty kink packed into them. I haven't had time to come up with good prompts, but tell me about their relationship: Camilla's grief and devotion, bodysharing shenanigans, a perfect lyctorhood AU, life on that BoE planet in Nona the Ninth. Or mundane moments on Planet Academia where they might've trained, shared rooms, etc. More hand kisses, understated promises, their steadfast rapport. Casual physical intimacy; them figuring out the logistics of bodysharing sex; fragments of conversations recorded through tape, all the ways they try to maintain and carry across physical intimacy when they're always missing each other by seconds.
Art ideas: Camilla with Pal-Skull! Funny meetings with other characters like Harrow or Ianthe. Drawings of their room or the layout of buildings on the Sixth House. Something funky playing on eye colours. Or anything you'd love to write about/create; I'm chill. <3
Coronabeth Tridentarius/Ianthe Tridentarius
Codependency, that messed up moment your sister didn't choose you to cannibalise, spinning out the aftermath of "Babs? Who cares about Babs?" and so on. I've read As Yet Unsent so feel free to work in the reveal of Coronabeth's hidden neediness, or all the ways she's the worse twin. I'm down for anything about their twisted dynamic. Some ideas: Ianthe being subtly jealous of Coronabeth's affection for other cavaliers (Gideon, Judith, et al.), an AU where Coronabeth does get to be Ianthe's cavalier, an AU where Coronabeth doesn't betray BoE and sticks to her guns and they remain bitter enemies in an inter-galactic conflict...
Kinky ideas, if you swing that way: power plays in bed, praise kinks, Coronabeth trying to shower Ianthe with all the attention she isn't getting, knifeplay as a demonstration of Coronabeth's worthiness of cavalierhood. Whiffs of necrophilia and body horror (in the form of intentional mutilation, Ianthe mocking Corona with all the ropes of what she can do as a Lyctor) while Ianthe is in Babs's body. I'm fine if you want to go AU and write/draw a missing scene where Ianthe is in her own body instead of Babs's.
• Coronabeth letting Ianthe practise small doses of cannibalism or animaphalia on her.
• Ianthe and Coronabeth performing Third House marriage/scarification vows and rituals secretly with themselves.
• Ianthe gets arranged to marry another necromancer (Harrow, perhaps). Coronabeth gets jealous.
• A 5+1 times style study of (twisted) birthdays they've celebrated over the years. Creepy or messed up variants of their "fuck, kill, reanimate" games. Or various times Coronabeth's been mistaken for Ianthe's partner/girlfriend, and vice versa.
• A look at Third House rituals they've done, from the bizarre to ostentatious to downright weird; ritual sex even, where they've been asked to consummate their bond or mark the anniversary of their House's founding (or something...) in front of their peers, parents, anything.
• Alternatively, the Ninth House is obsessed with preservation and entombment, the veiling away of the past; what if the Third House is obsessed with gaudy opulence and the appearance of liveliness even in death? I'm thinking Ianthe having to use flesh magic to build/add on to corpses and a young Coronabeth trying to help her.
• Unexpectedly tender first-time sex with each other.
Nona/Camilla Hect
Nona & Camilla Hect
Nona & Pyrrha Dve & Camilla Hect & Palamedes Sextus
This family won my heart, even if they may be a mess of psychosexual roleplaying and codependence according to Tazmuir, and I'd love to get more -- comedy, other poignant after-school conversations, Pyrrha dancing with Nona, Nona having hilarious conversations about marrying Pyrrha in general. I'd also love hurt/comfort with Pyrrha patching Camilla up after an injury (augh), and so on. With the found family foursome, feel free to just focus on any two of the characters instead of all four of them.
For Nona/Camilla: Nona's crush on Camilla was very cute and sweet. I don't necessarily ship them as a conventional couple, but I feel like I could be convinced. Camilla perhaps indulging Nona in the bathtub...? Fleeting touches, very ambiguous but intense casual physical intimacy would be my jam too. I'd also love to see Nona from Camilla's perspective, what with Camilla potentially mourning Harrow and Gideon and perhaps seeing shades of her friends in Nona, feeling like spending time with Nona is a means to be closer to them, and so on. I'm fine with sexual content though I'd prefer you avoid any exaggerated focus on Nona's youth, naivete, etc. or her having an entirely childlike understanding of sex.
Cytherea the First/Ianthe Tridentarius
"I’ve tried the sister thing already,” said Ianthe, circling around to one side, “and I wasn’t any good at it.”
“But I have so much to teach you,” said Cytherea.
I think that explains it all.
But also! Loved their spark of antagonism in the fight at the end of Gideon the Ninth, loved the casual grace with which Cytherea severs Ianthe's arm. Also, Ianthe skewering Cytherea...
Feel free to transplant them into an AU where Cytherea survived and Augustine, Mercy, or G1deon died at Canaan House instead. I'd love a twisted mentor/protege relationship with them, where Cytherea's the only one who can cow Ianthe's inflated ego into whimpering submission. Give me sexy avulsion, choking, painplay (Cytherea siphoning Ianthe's soul for herself, Ianthe letting her do it for the social points), all the works.
Alternatively: Mithraeum politics and power plays, with Cytherea continuing to plot God's demise behind his back? Particularly with the constant, chronic pain she's been subjected to over the years. Ianthe perhaps coddling up to God and then going behind his back to talk with Cytherea about her plans while being fucked (or fucked over) by Cytherea, in every sense of that word? Anything goes in my books for this; you could give me something simple like the two of them being cloyingly and performatively sweet one moment then debauched and cruel the next, and I'd gobble it up. <3
Gideon Nav/Ianthe Tridentarius
Our Lady of the Passion/Coronabeth Tridentarius
Our Lady of the Passion/Coronabeth Tridentarius
Don't have many specific thoughts except that I enjoyed what we got in Nona the Ninth of these new dynamics, and I'd love to see more; go crazy.
With Gideon/Ianthe, I'm down for banter and comedy and campy weird friendship, and erotic BODY HORROR! with the chussy.
With Pash/Coronabeth, I'd love more of them duking it out during boring BoE meetings, Coronabeth freaking Pash out with stories of necromancers or her Third House life or, uh, if you're inclined, latent twincest tendencies.
Nona/Gideon Nav/Ianthe Tridentarius
You know the classic Harrow/Gideon/Ianthe dynamic? This is me wanting to throw Nona into the mix and see what happens.
Camilla Hect/Kiki
Camilla Hect & Kiki
Camilla Hect & Kiki
We know literally nothing about Kiki/Kiana, but I'm intrigued by Palamedes's mention that Camilla's attachment to her wasn't "[his] secret to tell", the fact that they're 'quite' fond of each other, the way Camilla wanted Kiki to be there for the Grand Lyctor Fusion -- I imagine Kiki as someone Camilla admired, who might've mentored Camilla. Go wild and tell me about Camilla hanging out with her on the Sixth or in libraries, conversations over the years about Lyctorhood and its discontents, Camilla’s protective sentiments over Kiki, Camilla leaning on her shoulder after training or sparring. If Kiki was a necromancer adept (I might be forgetting what was actually said in Nona... feel free to go AU), that adds an interesting dimension to Camilla and her relationship with Pal too. I just think Camilla having a sister is interesting, and I'd love your take on how Camilla relates to her.
Totally open to smut for this. Are there incest taboos on the Sixth, compounded by society-wide cav-necro taboos perhaps, and how do they negotiate it, if or when they care? Kiki feeling ambivalent about Camilla's search for perfect Lyctorhood fusion, maybe... them writing letters to each other where Kiki lends her counsel, unspoken codependency neither realises is codependency, them being in an ambiguous sisterly but also sexual no-strings-attached relationship, with surprise undercurrents of feelings... give me anything.
Pyrrha Dve/Gideon Nav
What can I say, except... the poeticism of mummy issues being displaced onto another MILF, obviously, and also Pyrrha hooking up with Gideon even if she knows it's a bad idea; Pyrrha hooking up with Gideon for all the ways Gideon does and doesn't remind her of Wake! Educational sex! Gideon bonding with Pyrrha about her Cohort days and cavalierhood, perhaps? I'm fine if you want to write Gideon hanging out with her in Harrow's body.
Mercymorn the First/Cristabel Oct
Grief, tragedy, not being able to let go of your cavalier after 10,000 years -- these two hit all my buttons. We've gotten new looks at their pre-Resurrection lives in Nona, and I'd love to see something exploring any other dimensions to their relationship hinted or added by those snippets (Cristabel sure sounds like a badass nun, huh).
