Dear Creator

[lacksley]

(complete as of 2/4/24)

lacksley

Hello dear creator! Thanks for offering one or more of my pairings. Below are lists of my general likes and Do Not Wants, but I also wanted to note a couple things.

I ask a lot of questions in my prompts, but this is not a school essay; you don’t have to answer them! The questions I pose are just thoughts I have about canon or character interactions, a guide for what I might want to see in a work or how you can think about what you want to create.

I am always okay with non-requested characters making appearances as long as they don’t become the focus of the work.

Smut is welcome, as long as it’s consensual. I usually like a bit of build up before getting into the action (e.g. clothes are on in the opening paragraphs). Polyamory/threesomes/moresomes are also welcome! You are welcome to look at the bookmarks in my AO3 profile to get a better idea of what I like.

Please remember that optional details are optional! It’s always a joy to be given a gift of any kind. If there’s something you’re unsure about, you can always contact the mods to get clarification.

General likes (in no particular order):

• Reincarnation/past lives: I love when people are so destined for each other that they keep meeting in every lifetime
• Soulmates: marks (like names, first/last words, where they’re first touched by each other), seeing colors (gray scale to full color, seeing every color except their soulmates eyes until they meet), or any other fun concept
• In-universe crossovers: characters that have never met in canon randomly meeting without knowing how they’re connected (like waiting next to each other in line somewhere, or sitting next to each other on the bus)
• Character A calling character B by their first name in a stressful/intimate moment when normally A would use B’s last name or title
• Epistolary/multimedia
• Character A doing something that makes character B’s heart swell and think “oh my god I love them”
• Secret relationships and/or established relationships
• Character A has trouble sleeping and can only get a good night’s sleep when they share a bed with character B
• Snowed in/sharing a bed
• Ferris wheel dates/confessions

Do Not Wants (also in no particular order):

• Unhappy/tragic/hopeless endings
• Permanent break-ups (of relationships or friendships)
• Rape/non-con
• Incest (including adopted relatives and step-relatives)
• Daddy kink, pet play, dom-sub lifestyle dynamics, slavery
• De-aging/age regression
• Kidfic, meaning characters having children or becoming children (Canonical child characters are okay)
• Non-canonical major character death (characters who are dead/die in canon are okay, as are random background characters/OC)
• Pet death
• Extreme graphic violence
• Pregnancy/mpreg
• Texting/chatfics (occasional short text conversations are fine but I do not want the entire body of work to be just texting)
• First person POV

On to the requests! These are not listed in order of preference, but just how I filled out the form on AO3. Also, the “additional comments” are just there in case I think of anything to add once sign-ups are closed. I have split each relationship into one "request" for ease of reading.

One last thing, in case you are interested. I typically play a paragon, spacer sole survivor vanguard female Shepard with the default name, Jane. You are under no obligation to include these details, but I thought I would list them anyways!


Request 1: Jeff "Joker" Moreau/James Vega

• Request: It's so interesting having two characters that are so different physically, but have such similar senses of humor. Joker uses sarcasm as a shield to deflect from his condition, and Vega uses humor to keep from getting too close to anyone. Joker is insecure, Vega is confident (on the surface...) and I'd just love to see them interact more. Plus, I'm sure the fact that Vega could break him in half is highly appealing to Joker.
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Request 2: Kaidan Alenko/James Vega

• Request: I love these two so much. I'd love to see some verbal sparring between them, maybe Vega underestimates Kaidan and gets a little embarrassed? Maybe he liked it?? Vega is such a physical character in comparison to Kaidan, I wonder if they'd come across each other in the cafeteria refueling. How did Kaidan interact with Vega as Shepard's guard under house arrest? Was there any tension between them at first?
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Request 3: Jeff "Joker" Moreau/EDI

• Request: Always the side couple, never the focus. I love the dynamic of someone growing into their personhood being so attached to a sarcastic insecure asshole. How many profound questions can you be asked before you just break down and start being sincere? What do you learn about your own humanity after helping guiding an AI into her own? How does EDI navigate having a body and being able to act on her desires, whatever they are? What does sex and intimacy look like between someone who is maybe (probably) inexperienced and someone who is actually literally discovering what all of that is?
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Request 4: Kaidan Alenko/Jeff "Joker" Moreau

• Request: I wish these two got to interact more during the games. They have very different ways of being snarky, and I'd love to see what happens if one of them catches feelings and gets a little more flustered around the other one. How does Kaidan feel about Joker working with Shepard/Cerberus during ME2? What's their reunion like after the game? Does Joker get worried about Kaidan when he's part of the ground team? What if he came back injured, how would Joker react? Kaidan has hurt people before, would he treat Joker with kid gloves? Does Joker like/dislike that?
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Request 5: Female Cerberus Agent/Male Systems Alliance Operative

• Request: I'm picturing a few different scenarios here. I can see a Mr & Mrs Smith kind of thing, where they're in a relationship but they don't know that they're working for opposite sides. Or, one of them is undercover sent to kill the other, but they just can't bring themselves to do it (and run away together??). Or, there's some kind of shootout, and one of them is injured and hides but is found by the other, but they don't kill each other and maybe actually help each other? The possibilities are endless here.
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Request 6: Kelly Chambers/Jack | Subject Zero

• Request: I just want nice things for Jack. I want Kelly to put that psych degree to use and crack Jack open to get at her soft parts in a very gentle, caring way. And maybe Jack can show Kelly a bit more of the wild side, maybe give her a tattoo?
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Request 7: Kaidan Alenko/(Male or Female) Citadel Doctor

• Request: I have the same prompt for both of these, because I have no preference for male or female citadel doctor. Of the ME1 romances Kaidan is the only one who explicitly started to try and move on from Shepard's death. I wonder what that was like for him, how his friends convinced him to go see someone. How did they know this doctor? I know a common headcanon for the doctor is Dr. Michel, but I am personally not very interested in that. Does Kaidan feel guilty during the date or does it feel freeing? Feel free to fill in the details on the doctor however you'd like. It's interesting if Kaidan started to explore his bisexuality with this re-entry to dating. Up to you though!
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Request 8: Kaidan Alenko/Female Shepard/James Vega

• Request: Something I see quite often with this ship is Shepard and Kaidan having an established relationship and welcoming James into it. I think it could be interesting to see Shepard and James or Kaidan and James already being together, or interested in some capacity, and bringing the third person in. Or all coming together at once! Maybe some hot-blooded marine sparring? Or wrestling? Strip poker? The possibilities are endless!
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Request 9: Kaidan Alenko/Jeff "Joker" Moreau/Female Shepard

• Request: I have to wonder if Kaidan and Joker would have turned to each other after Shepard's death in ME2. Joker blames himself, Kaidan just lost his love interest, and both of them are there. And then Joker disappears and he and Shepard end up with Cerberus. What happens between them after Shepard and Joker turn themselves into the Alliance and Shepard goes under house arrest? Do they talk? What do Kaidan and Joker do with themselves while Shepard is in jail?
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