Dreaming of Sunshine Winter 2020
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wafflelateHello, thank you for reading my letter! A few notes:
- Some things will have more prompts than others but that doesn't mean I want anything more or less than anything else.
- Although I try to provide a lot of prompts please don't feel like you need to write one of them! I think prompts make it easier to see where I'm coming from/how I'm approaching the tag, but this letter is not a final summation of all the fic plots I could possibly enjoy. Whatever you come up with will be great!
DNWs
- Suicide, suicidal ideation, mentions of suicide, implied suicide, the word suicide
- You may find yourself in a situation where you're writing, say, one character staying behind to fight so that their teammates can escape. Please focus on their determination to save their comrades, live as long as possible, and maybe just maybe succeed without dying no matter how slim the chances are.
- Or, since I've requested time loops, you might find yourself writing a character who seeks/experiences temporary death to achieve some goal. Temporary character death is fine, but please have them killed by other people rather than killing themselves.
- examples include characters not feeling real, not feeling connected to their body, feeling like they're viewing a scene from the third person while someone else moves their body.
- Exceptions to the above:
- obviously there are canon characters who can do that kind of thing to themselves/other people because of their cool powers.
- characters having a literal out-of-body experience because of magic ninja bullshit is fine.
- characters literally not being in control of their bodies because of magic ninja bullshit is fine.
- So, no to: mundane AUs, IN SPACE AUs, fantasy AUs, soulmate AUs, etc, unless directly requested.
- But yes to: canon divergence, alternate timelines, For Want Of A Nail
- (I won't notice if it's a jutsu here or there, but I'm not interested in any of the worldbuilding or characters in Boruto.)
Likes
- casefic, mission fic, murder mysteries — I love intricately plotted examples but I ALSO don't mind simple plots or just having canon-typical events happening vaguely in the background
- minor characters — do you have a weird rare fave? please give them a cameo!
- worldbuilding — why and how do things work the way they do? what systems and social structures are in place?
- fake and fantasy politics — International (eg, concerning the threat of war or the import of stuff) or domestic, inter- and intraclan politics, small local politics, even stuff like city planning and zoning boards or school boards or HOAs! (Or fantasy equivalent.)
- unlikely friendships (friendship in general!)
- enemies to friends, enemies to allies, enemies to since-you've-had-a-rough-day-already-I-won't-try-to-stab-you-this-times
- characters who don't like each other being forced into doing something together, like solving a problem, escaping from prison, being handcuffed together, helping some third party that they both like, etc
- angst — especially over not belonging or not being use if a friendship/other emotional bond is real/reciprocated, and especially when everything turns out okay in the end!
- hurt/comfort — I like a broad range of emotional hurt/comfort, whatever you think fits the character! for physical, I like non-permanent injuries unless canonical. for sick fic, magically induced or poison-related are good, stress headaches or migraines, fevers/chills/hypothermia.
- protectiveness/loyalty — especially unexpected! also tied into something like being rescued when they thought they'd be on their own, or someone refusing to leave them behind.
- time travel — I like mental time travel the most if the character is traveling back to when they were about 8 or older, but physical time travel is also really fun!
- time loops — I like when time loops have a solid reason for existing and end because the characters do something, but if the canon worldbuilding makes the "you can't escape unless you confess your feelings" etc type of timeloop work then that's great too! I am not very picky about what exactly causes it, though: even in a canon like Person of Interest, feel free to throw in a random artifact that Just Does That and then the character has to find and break it to escape ot whatever.
- canon divergence — I like fix its, For Want Of A Nail, and pretty much any kind of canon divergence that could have happened because someone made different choices but doesn't remove the fantastic/non-mundane aspects of canon.
- dimension travel — like from canon to a wild canon divergence!
- garbage-tier magical items
- detailed setting description
- gentle spooks and horror — you can find more specifics in my Trick or Treat letter!
- committing treason or other serious crimes for the benefit of loved ones/against a corrupt authority
Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen
Aburame Shino (DoS) & Nara Shikako (DoS)
- First of all, Shino is great.
- Second of all, he promised to protect Shikako from spiders and anything that brings that up will please me so greatly.
- They could go on a mission together? They could train together? They could work on a project together?
- An AU/canon divergence where Shino gets to save the day! Like maybe the Grass kidnapping is successful, but Shino had a kikaichu on Shikako so they're able to find her. Or go even more AU — an AU where Shikako was taken into ROOT when they were young and years later Shino is the only one who recognizes her because Bug Reasons, so he's able to help her? (I definitely don't want Shikako to be helpless, she never is, but! I want Shino to have a chance to shine ok...)
- Also I feel like Shino is the #1 person who's ride or die for Shikako without Shikako having ANY clue and I love that. I'd love some kind of situation where she's like...committing treason or time/dimension traveling or something and she needs Shino's help or at least his silence and Shino is just 100% there for it above and beyond her expectations.
Yamashiro Aoba/Mitarashi Anko
This is just the tiniest little OTP of my heart. I am totally okay with non-shippy stuff about them where they do non-ship things and I can just put my ship goggles on and sigh happily!
- Anything that explores their past with each other and especially Anko's backstory post-Orochimaru's betrayal. From the Sunshine Sidestory where she talks to Inoichi I get the impresssion it was really rough for her and probably really tense, that not a lot of people trusted her and that she didn't trust very many people. How does Aoba fit into that?
- Especially interested in him being an older ninja with more experience in politics and intel but less combat power because uh he wasn't
- Anko told Shikako that she and Aoba have been on missions behind enemy lines together and had each other's backs. I would love to see anything about that. I don't make the rules, but maybe... there could be some cuddling for warmth? Maybe! Or.. one of them could be injured....?
- Aoba lives through Hot Springs
- Anko and Aoba make jōnin together thanks to Gai's training.
Sai
Sai is so sad and I just want a fic that rolls around in how sad he is and then makes him feel better.
- Like, obviously Sai and Shikako have real friendship feelings between them, but does Sai even realize that? I mean, logically, given what he must have been taught in ROOT, isn't he possibly thinking that when Shikako finishes investigating ROOT she'll just let Sai get executed as a traitor?
- I'd love to see something about who Sai trusts and why
- I am fascinated by Sai's loyalty (to Shikako, to the village) and would love for it to be put to the test by something.
- I'm very very here for Nara!Sai.
- Sai goes on along on a diplomatic visit and meets some interesting people. What does he think of Gaara? What does Zabuza think of him?
Also here are some hurt/comfort freeforms, because I love them:
- Character believes comforter is taking care of them for practical or selfish reasons
- Character believes no one is coming to save them
- Character expects to be punished for failure but is shown unexpected concern
- Comfortee Believes They Have To Earn Their Comfort
- Falling Asleep As A Sign Of Trust
- Mistakenly Believes the Other is Dead
- Unexpected Mercy
- A is too uncertain of their place in B's life to directly ask for direly needed help
- Character A abandons plans in order to rescue Character B
Morino Ibiki & Nara Shikako (DoS)
Ibiki and Shikako's friendship is one of my absolute favorite things about DoS. The way she gets his jokes! The way other people react to them hanging out! It's so beautiful. I also like that Ibiki has definitely looked at Shikako in ways most other people haven't, because he's had to consider if... y'know....she's torturing people for fun...anyway I'd love literally anything with them in the same scene, but here's some ideas!
- Ibiki's POV of being handed Hidan's talking, severed head. What was the discussion with Tsunade/Shikaku/Inoichi/Chouza/other T&I members like?
- Time/dimension traveling Shikako saves Ibiki from being tortured by Rokushō Aoi
- Outside POV of their friendship!
- They go on a mission together! Ibiki finally understands all of Aoba's complaints.
Crossover Fandom (Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen/Naruto)
Mitarashi Anko (DoS) & Momochi Zabuza (Naruto)
Alright. Okay. Listen. Listen. We don't actually see Anko and Zabuza them interacting during the Mist arc, but they must have, right? Anko got to see Zabuza being a teacher and learn he's in charge of the Mist academy and probably shit talk him about her team being awesome. Maybe they're not friends but they're not not friends! Plus absolutely everyone probably knows all of the details about the Land of Wave mission because that was such a fuck up of mission intel.
...what I'm saying is, Anko is uniquely positioned to meet Naruto!Zabuza and be like, "Hey, it's that guy who's great with kids!", which is in my opinion a really really interesting set up for character interactions. \o/
So, okay:
- No preference for who goes in which direction or in what manner.
- Anko throws herself back in time but whoops lands in a universe without Shikako where everything is sucky — but at least she can bust Tazuna and get herself assigned to go to Wave where she can try to help their future alliance with Mist along?
- Anko needs help rescuing one or more of her kids (or her kids need help rescuing her) and Zabuza gets roped into it, maybe while being mistaken for DoS!Zabuza.
- Zabuza needs help rescuing Haku and Anko is happy to help.
- Zabuza's been contracted to assassinate someone and is undercover trying to make that happen...and for some reason this Konoha ninja is helping him.
- Zabuza's been contracted to assassinate someone and Anko's been assigned to a similar mission and insists they work together.
- Anko is the one undercover and she's trying to kill Gatou; Zabuza helps.
- Anko and Zabuza are sent back in time to try and avert a terrible future, but the time travel technique is misaimed so A) Anko ends up in a universe with no Shikako and B) when she goes to make contact with Zabuza he has no clue who she is or what she wants.
- Zabuza is powerless or at Anko's mercy and she helps/spares him because she knows they could be friends and it'd be better for him to live and overhaul Mist's education system.
Also this was straight copied from the Gen Freeform Exchange so here are the freeforms from that because they're still good and maybe you want them:
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
- Time Travel - Mercy Killing Your Original Timeline & Creating A Better New One
- Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
- Undercover - Enemies have to corroborate each other's cover
- Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
- Enemies to Allies - Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
- Injured Character Can't Complete Rescue Mission Without Help From Unlikely Source
- Team Up to Rescue Another Character
- Unexpected Mercy
- Usually Powerful Character is Rendered Powerless
Nara Shikako (Dreaming of Sunshine) & Nara Shikaku (Naruto)
Shikaku is the best dad and I'd just really love to see something where Naruto!Shikaku gets to be Best Dad for Shikako despite not knowing her. I'm okay with Narutoverse Shikaku never having had a daughter or with Narutoverse Shikaku having had a daughter but she died as a baby — whatever works for you! I'm also okay with Shikako having to stay in Narutoverse or with her going home.
Here are hurt/comfort freeforms that I would love to have applied to these two:
- Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
- Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another
- Falling Asleep As A Sign Of Trust
- Dimension Traveler A Has Had Bad Experiences With Other Versions Of B
- Character Comforts By Taking Immediate Action To Solve The Problem
- Character must comfort a stranger because they look like someone else
- Comfort focusing on little hurt because the big hurt is massive and unapproachable
- Comforter stunned by how much comfortee trusts them
- Comforting dimension traveler who can't go home
- Dimension Traveler A Has Had Bad Experiences With Other Versions Of B & Is Cautious
- Character abandons plans in order to rescue stranger who is suffering
Crossover Fandom (Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen/The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)
Solo: Nara Shikako (DoS) in SVSSS
Nara Shikako (DoS) & Luo Binghe (SVSSS)
SVSSS is extremely wacky and I would love to see Shikako interacting with the world! Reincarnation, gardens travel, or dimension travel would all be interesting — if it's reincarnation or The Many Gardens of Shikabane-hime travel I would prefer Shikako not be with other DoS characters, but if it's some other kind of dimension travel then bring a whole team!
Something I think DoS and SVSSS both do really well is show the characters that are/were fictional being well-rounded complete human beings while also exploring the fully realized world created by what was once just background worldbuilding. I don't necessarily need or want that similarity to directly come into focus in my gift, but I am interested in how tropey storytelling conventions and Airplane-bro's laziness have shaped the scum villain world!
In terms of LBH specifically, I would love some hurt/comfort. Admittedly my favorite LBH is before or during the Abyss, but I think after would be really fun too! I'm definitely open to works set in the world of my existing SVSSS/DoS crossover fics if you want, but I would be just as thrilled with something else.
If you're wondering who I like besides LBH, kind of everyone! Live your dreams.
