Dear Creator Letter - AU Exchange 2020

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. General Do-Not-Wants
2. General Likes
3. Ratings
4. Characters/Ships
5. Prompt Requests
   1. Solo Leveling
   2. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e | Classroom of the Elite
   3. Fast & Furious
   4. The Mentalist
   5. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
   6. Trash of the Count's Family
   7. The Great Mage Returns After 4000 Years
   8. A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
   9. Dr. STONE

 

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General Do-Not-Wants:

• Noncon/Dubcon/Abuse/Rape (between requested characters/ships)
• Infidelity/Betrayal (between requested characters/ships)
• Hurt/No Comfort and Unhappy/Tragic Endings (for requested characters/ships)
  • Feel free to bring down murder and mayhem on everyone else though if that's where the fic ends up.
• Scat/Vomiting/Age Play/Infantilism/Amputation/Body Modification/Watersports/Vore
  • I'm fine with stuff like knotting or fisting but any really dark or extreme kinks is a no-go for me.
• BDSM Lifestyles
  • I'm totally fine with dom/sub undertones but I'd rather avoid full-on BDSM scenes/AUs.
• Mpreg/Childbirth
• Pet Play
• Food Sex
• Drug Abuse/Addiction
• Homophobia/Transphobia/Racism/Sexism/etc. (between requested characters/ships)
• Unrequited Love (between requested characters/ships)
• Songfics/Poetry
• Bugs/Insects (mentions is fine, just nothing in-depth)
• Animal Cruelty/Death
  • If there's mentions of it for plot reasons, that's fine, but no in-depth scenes please.
• Kidfics
  • I'm fine with the requested characters as children for part of the fic or in a flashback, or if there's mentions/brief appearances of other children, but I'm usually not in the mood for fics focused on having a kid or raising a kid, etc.
• Major Character Death
  
  • Again, I'm down for murder/death of any characters in a fic EXCEPT the requested characters.
  • Rule of thumb: make sure the ending is a happy or at least hopeful one for the requested character(s).
• Crack
  • Some cracky humour is okay if it fits the scene, but no pure crack fic.
• Pining/Misunderstandings
  • I'm okay with pining or misunderstandings, but not if it goes on forever and a day, way beyond any realistic obliviousness.
• Extreme Underage
  • I'm cool with large age differences, but if you're setting the fic at a point where the younger character is underage, I'd prefer if they're at least 15/16 before anything explicitly sexual happens between them.
• Unrequested Ships (with the exception of background ships that are unrelated to requested characters)
• First and Second Person POV
• Breaking the Fourth Wall
• Uwu-fication/Woobified Characters
• Seme/Uke

General Likes:

• So long as it's not on my DNW list, I think I'm pretty much fine with anything. But if you want an idea of my reading tastes, here are some tropes I always enjoy in any fic, in no particular order:
  
  • Hurt & Comfort or Angst & Fluff
  • BAMF Main Characters/Competence Kink
  • Trust/Loyalty/Devotion
  • Codpendency/Protectiveness/Possessiveness
  • Morally Grey/Dark Characters who aren't particularly sorry about it
  • Murder & Mayhem
  • Characters only feel safe with each other/can be vulnerable with each other
  • Characters are only affectionate with each other
  • Trauma/PTSD/Mental or Physical Injuries/Scars + How They Deal/Recovery
  • Touch-Starvation
  • Injured Character Tries to Hide Their Injuries (Other Character isn't Taking Any of Their Shit When They Find Out)
  • One Character Sacrifices Themself/Something Important For the Other (hurt/tortured in their place, almost dies for the other, gives up their goals for the other, etc.)
  • Characters are captured together, or one is captured and the other rescues them
  • Sharing a Bed/Cuddling
  • Sharing Clothes
  • Revenge Fics
  • Survival Fics
  • Creature/Something-Other-Than-Human!Character
  • Post-/Apocalypse AUs
  • Canon Divergence AUs
  • Historical AUs
  • Time Travel AUs

Ratings:

• I'm fine with any rating! So long as it doesn't include my DNWs, feel free to keep it PG or throw in some explicit porn.

Characters/Ships:

• In general, I tend to be really picky about what ships I read, so if you want to include a ship, please only write what the prompt request specifies. Character-centric and no ships at all is fine too! And I would prefer the main characters be any (or all) of the ones I've listed for that request, although feel free to bring in anyone as minor/secondary/background characters.

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Prompt Requests

 

1) Solo Leveling

Character(s): Sung Jin-Woo

Relationship(s): Sung Jin-Woo/Woo Jin-Chul, Sung Jin-Woo & Woo Jin-Chul, Baek Yoon-Ho/Sung Jin-Woo, Baek Yoon-Ho & Sung Jin-Woo, Liu Zhigang/Sung Jin-Woo, Liu Zhigang & Sung Jin-Woo, Choi Jong-In/Sung Jin-Woo, Choi Jong-In & Sung Jin-Woo, Goto Ryuji/Sung Jin-Woo, Goto Ryuji & Sung Jin-Woo

AU Details:

• Solo Leveling: Everyone Remembers the Erased Timeline
  
  
  • Fix that canon ending. Everyone remembers the other timeline, maybe in bits and pieces over time, in their dreams, or all at once, one day. Chaos and reactions ensue.
  
  
  • Feel free to define "everyone" as in literally everyone, or just the people Jin-Woo interacted with most/knew best (guild leaders, fellow top-tier hunters, etc.).

• Solo Leveling: System Administrator Sung Jin-Woo
  
  
  • Jin-Woo takes over as the Administrator of the 'System' program that allowed him to grow as a hunter, which grants him the ability to give it to other hunters so they can grow stronger too. Who does he give it to? How do they react?

• Solo Leveling: Other Hunters Become Players
  
  
  • This AU goes hand-in-hand with the one above - basically other hunters can become "players" as well through the System, which lets them grow past their previous limits (and shoulder some of the burden Jin-Woo has to carry).

• Solo Leveling: The Cup of Reincarnation Cannot Be Used One Last Time
  
  
  • No time travel after that last battle against Antares, so either the Cup of Reincarnation has been exhausted or the Sovereigns never show up. What happens in the aftermath? Who's first on the scene once the war is over? How long does it take Jin-Woo to recover? Give me all the injured!Jin-Woo and worried boyfriends friends/allies/family.

• ALL: K-Project Fusion
  
  
  • The King system from K-Project is incorporated into the Solo Leveling universe. Feel free to play with the worldbuilding (ie. more than one King of each colour, expand on their powers, etc.).

• ALL: Katekyou Hitman Reborn Flame Lore Fusion
  
  
  • KHR Flames are incorporated into the Solo Leveling universe. Feel free to simply use the basic Flame characteristics or expand on the lore however you want.

• ALL: Sugar Daddy AU
  
  
  • Jin-Woo has a ton of money from various dungeons and raids, and he enjoys being able to spoil his sister now, which leads to splurging on people he's grown fond of.
  • Or flip it around, other hunters have a tendency to show their appreciation for Jin-Woo by gifting him with rare items and weapons.
  • *Can include a sexual component or not.

• ALL: Soulmate AU
  
  
  • I'd love to see Jin-Woo having multiple soulmates, platonic or otherwise, or if you want to write a particular ship with him, that's fine too. Feel free to pick whichever soulmate trope you prefer.

• ALL: Soulmates Share Scars
  
  
  • I'm partial to this one because before Jin-Woo Reawakened, he got hurt all the time and had a bunch of scars. I'd love to see how his soulmate(s) handle that and what they do when they finally meet him.

• ALL: Soulmates share a pain bond
  
  
  • This one pairs pretty well with the scars AU, and it's double the angst when Jin-Woo's soulmate(s) feel what he goes through too. Even after he Reawakens, some of the injuries he got would've been fatal if he couldn't heal from them almost everything instantaneously.

• ALL: Soulbonds Convey Healing Powers Between Bondmates
  
  
  • Feel free to make it a triple with the two above XD Admittedly, I'm mostly thinking of Jin-Woo/Ryuji here, with Jin-Woo saving Ryuji from his death on Jeju Island via soulbond. Cue realizing they're soulmates and how they get together afterwards.

• ALL: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (knovel) AU - the world becomes a death game
  
  
  • Self-explanatory lol, instead of monsters invading earth, a game is forced on the world instead, with a real chance of death.

• ALL: Time-travel to fix an apocalyptic future
  
  
  • Jin-Woo loses against Antares, who wipes out most of the planet in retaliation. The Sovereigns arrive too late, and all Jin-Woo makes them send him back ten years to do the whole thing again but better. Maybe they also give him the ability to grant other people their alternate future memories. Could work well with the whole System Administrator!Jin-Woo AU to help other hunters grow beyond their limits, or maybe they remember on their own and insist on accompanying Jin-Woo on his twenty-plus-year war campaign in the gap between dimensions against the Monarchs.

• ALL: the canon setting is a MMORPG the characters play
  
  
  • Real life is normal and SL is a game that the characters play.

• ALL: Virtual Reality Online Gaming AU
  
  
  • See above, with the game being a virtual reality.

• ALL: Trapped In An MMORPG
  
  
  • See above, but the characters get trapped one day. I sort of imagine Jin-Woo would be an unaffiliated player minding his own business while the guilds and more well-known players duke it out for territory and authority, but he gets noticed anyway after playing inadvertent hero one too many times.

• ALL: If you owe someone a life debt their name appears on your skin
  
  
  • This carries over when Jin-Woo time travels back to the past. Pairs well with the Everyone Remembers the Erased Timeline AU, so as they remember, Jin-Woo's name appears on their skin. Could be interesting if they get the name instantly but the whole set of memories take longer to come back. Doubly so if when they finally remember, Jin-Woo's literally in-between dimensions waging a thirty-year war on their behalf.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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2) Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e | Classroom of the Elite

Character(s): Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, Ryuuen Kakeru

Relationship(s): Ayanokouji Kiyotaka/Ryuuen Kakeru, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka & Ryuuen Kakeru

AU Details:

• You-Zitsu: Kiyotaka Starts in C-Class
  
  
  • What happens when Kiyotaka and Ryuuen start out in the same class? I don't mind if you do the reverse with Ryuuen in D-Class instead.

• You-Zitsu: One of the class tests goes differently
  
  
  • Does it go differently because one of the teachers or upper-years (looking at you Nagumo) ups the difficulty, or because the White Room interferes, or just bad luck? Feel free to throw in some survival/serious injury/life-or-death elements into it XD

• You-Zitsu: Ryuuen time travels back to first year but accidentally lands in Suzune's body
  
  
  • I'd love an ot3 Ryuuen!Suzune/Kiyotaka/Ryuuen for this AU lmao. And Kiyo's a lot more interested in this "Suzune" than the original. Ryuuen is smug.

• You-Zitsu: Taking down the White Room
  
  
  • Just Kiyotaka dealing with his childhood torture chamber prison school(?), and of course Ryuuen doesn't let him do it alone. Maybe his dad finally goes too far and tries to go after one of Kiyotaka's people, and Kiyo just snaps.

• ALL: K-Project Fusion
  
  
  • The King system from K-Project is incorporated into the CotE universe. I'd actually like to see Ryuuen in Kiyotaka's clan but both of them being Kings could be interesting too.

• ALL: Katekyou Hitman Reborn Flame Lore Fusion
  
  
  • KHR Flames are incorporated into the CotE universe. Sky!Kiyo of course =D Ryuuen could fit a Sky attribute too, although it might be his Secondary since he seems more a Storm or Mist or Cloud to me.

• ALL: Jumanji AU
  
  
  • Kiyotaka and Ryuuen (and other characters if you want) are dropped into Jumanji and have to fight to survive and escape. Feel free to draw elements of the game from the 1995 film and the 2017 film. Cartoon too if you're familiar with that, or just put your own twist into it.

• ALL: Soulmarks - Mark is damaged before soulmates meet
  
  
  • With how harsh the White Room was, it wouldn't be surprising if Kiyo's dad deemed soulmates to be a weakness and tried to get rid of Kiyo's, so he either doesn't have it anymore, or the mark is badly scarred. Ryuuen knows him immediately the moment he learns his name and pays even more attention to him than in canon so he ends up figuring out Kiyo's masterminding early, but maybe Kiyotaka doesn't remember his soulmate's name anymore.

• ALL: Soulmates Share Scars
  
  
  • Kiyotaka probably has his fair share, even if Ayanokouji Senior had doctors on his payroll to get rid of any imperfections as much as possible. Ryuuen probably has a few too. This one feels surprisingly soft for these two. Maybe one of them tracing the other's scars in bed :pikasmirk:

• ALL: Soulbonds - Feeling Each Other's Emotions
  
  
  • Kiyotaka's emotions are super muted and almost always calm and kind of flat. Ryuuen's lived with it his whole life so he has no idea how horrifying that is, and never understands when he hears other people talking about how loud their soulmates' emotions can be. On the other hand, Ryuuen nurses rage like a dragon guarding its hoard from thieves, and sometimes it's a relief to have his soulmate's quiet stillness to focus on, it's almost like a built-in tranquilizer for when his temper reaches snapping point. How do they realize they're each other's soulmates? Maybe the first time Ryuuen feels his soulmate get angry is when he gets hurt and Kiyo gets pissed, even if none of it shows, and everything clicks.

• ALL: Solo Leveling AU (monsters appear one day and people develop special abilities)
  
  
  • Self-explanatory. Although maybe one too many experiments accidentally unlocks the System for Kiyo and that's how he escapes?

• ALL: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (knovel) AU - the world becomes a death game
  
  
  • Also self-explanatory, Kiyo would thrive in this world lmao.

• ALL: Apocalypse AU
  
  
  • Any kind of apocalypse, take your pick, mix in some survival and murder.

• ALL: Zombie Apocalypse
  
  
  • Zombies. Kill.

• ALL: Post-Apocalypse
  
  
  • Rebuilding in the aftermath of whatever wiped out half the planet? Adjusting to a new normal. Maybe the school becomes one of the few safe places left.

• ALL: Post-Apocalypse - Dr. STONE AU (everyone is petrified and the world reverts to a Stone World)
  
  
  • Survival in the Stone Age.

• ALL: Hunger Games AU
  
  
  • Kiyotaka breaks the record for quickest win ever. Or both he and Ryuuen are thrown into the arena and some new rule lets them both win. Or Ryuuen gets sent there and Kiyo is his mentor. Or he gets fed up with the whole thing, gathers the network of allies he's managed to build, and forces a rebellion.

• ALL: Leverage AU
  
  
  • Team of thieves. Shenanigans.

• ALL: Harry Potter Setting
  
  
  • Professors AU or Students AU (lbr, they'd both go into Slytherin, although different Houses could be fun too) or one of them as a teacher and the other as a student ;)
  • There's still something like the White Room in the HP world, Kiyotaka escapes and opens a shop in Hogsmeade, and Ryuuen meets him during a Hogsmeade weekend.
  • Meet during the war (I wouldn't mind if you threw in Voldemort & company so you don't have to think up a whole new setting, or you can make someone in CotE the enemy too), maybe on the same side, maybe on opposing sides.
  • Maybe everything is still set in the CotE universe, except magic is a thing, and classes are sorted by Houses or magic power, etc.

• ALL: A/B/O - BAMF Power Couple Alpha/Alpha
  
  
  • What it says on the tin, I got it off you anyway lmao.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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3) Fast & Furious

Relationship(s): Deckard Shaw/Owen Shaw, Deckard Shaw & Owen Shaw, Luke Hobbs/Deckard Shaw/Owen Shaw, Luke Hobbs & Deckard Shaw & Owen Shaw

AU Details:

• F&F: Owen Becomes a Ghost During His Coma
  
  
  • If one Shaw isn't enough, send both. Owen accompanying Deckard on his revenge spree with a supernatural twist and a side of angst. Up to you what - if any - kind of abilities you’d want to give a ghost.
  • I'm fine with the "good guys" losing/dying so long as the Shaw brothers come out on top. (This goes for all the AUs.)

• ALL: Time Travel Fix-It
  
  
  • Any time travel is good time travel lol. But for this one, maybe Owen wakes up from his coma to find himself back before the Nightshade job, and instead of accepting the job, he goes after Cipher first to remove the problem. And while he's ticking off his terrorist card, he figures he might as well take a shot at Eteon too before they go after Deckard again. Deckard finds out his brother's seemingly gone round the bend and tracks him down.

• ALL: Time-travel to fix an apocalyptic future
  
  
  • There's so many opportunities for an end of the world scenario in canon, so what if one of those times, Cipher or Eteon succeed? Go back and try again. Shaw brothers-centric would be great, throw in Hobbs if that's your cup of tea, and - for any of the other AUs too - I don't care if you tweak it to leave Hattie and Magdalene out of the family, even if you want to draw from the Hobbs & Shaw plot.

• ALL: Character Invents Time Travel to Save Dead Loved One
  
  
  • Owen dies instead of falling into a coma. Deckard won't accept that. Or Deckard dies going after Eteon. Owen definitely won't accept that. Whoever travels back is torn between how dare you die who gave you permission and I will raze this person's entire world to the ground for killing you.
  • Doesn’t have to be “invent”. “Find” or “steal”, “hijack a death cult’s shady time travel project” is fine too.

• ALL: Apocalypse AU
  
  
  • No time travel involved. Just hell on earth. The Shaws are rather good at surviving though.

• All: Zombie Apocalypse
  
  
  • Same as above. Except here be zombies.

• ALL: Canon Divergence AU
  
  
  • Any kind of canon divergence in the sixth, seventh, or eighth movies, or Hobbs & Shaw, with a focus on Owen and Deckard, maybe Hobbs too if you like that dynamic. I'm fine with the Shaws teaming up with the main cast, but likewise, the "good guys" dying is fine too.

• ALL: The Magnus Archives Fusion
  
  
  • One or both of the Shaw brothers as Avatars. Maybe after being thrown out of the plane, Owen should've died but the Vast claimed him instead, and he disappears and even Deckard can't find him, although not for lack of trying. Several years later, they meet again when Deckard's stealing a virus and Owen's stealing a Leitner from the same death cult. How do events unfold from there?

• ALL: Soulmate AU
  
  
  • Self-explanatory. Shaw brothers as soulmates. Maybe they have a third. Does Hobbs still side with Toretto?

• ALL: Jumanji AU
  
  
  • The Shaw brothers get thrown into a game that won't let them out until they beat it. Could be interesting how you fit Hobbs in since Dwayne Johnson acts in both.

• ALL: Space Outlaws AU | ALL: Space Smugglers AU | ALL: Treasure Hunter AU | ALL: Demon Hunters
  
  
  • And these four AUs are just different careers the Shaws could have in different universes if you feel like departing from the canon universe entirely.

• ALL: Beauty and the Beast AU
  
  
  • But like not the classic insert-character-in-place-of-fairy-tale-character-in-that-fairy-tale-setting kind of AU. Instead, Owen and Deckard somehow gets dropped back in 1760 France right after the whole Beauty and the Beast (live action) plot, and suffice to say, there are a lot of unique reactions when the spitting image of a dead man walks into Villeneuve. Owen is irritated and tired and just wants to find a way back home. Deckard thinks the whole situation is hilarious, but also if another idiot - prince or no - tries to kill his brother one more time, he's not opposed to razing this entire village and the nearby castle to the ground.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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4) The Mentalist

Relationship(s): Patrick Jane & CBI Team, Patrick Jane/CBI Team

AU Details:

• ALL: Sugar Daddy AU
  
  
  • Jane buying anything and everything his team wants or needs. It's how he shows his love.

• The Mentalist: Jane is Red John But Someone Else Impersonates Him
  
  
  • Jane is actually Red John, with the information network to match. Not everything he invests in is entirely legal but he has lines, and most of the time, the work he does usually means trading his resources and pulling strings in return for favours. But then someone begins going around drawing smiley faces on murder scenes and making a mess of his reputation and then even has the gall to kill his wife and child. Jane hasn't been very hands-on since Charlotte came along, but maybe that was a mistake if someone thinks he won't retaliate when they try to impersonate him. He joins the CBI to track this Red John fraud down.
  • Extra points for found family and a team that finds out the truth but loves their psychopath consultant anyway.

• ALL: Apocalypse AU
  
  
  • When the world ends, the CBI team sticks together.

• All: Zombie Apocalypse
  
  
  • Plus zombies.

• ALL: Katekyou Hitman Reborn Flame Lore Fusion
  
  
  • KHR Flames are incorporated into the Mentalist universe. Maybe Jane actually comes from mafia instead of the circus, and Flames are still a mafia-dominated thing, but he introduces them to his team and helps them activate theirs to keep them a bit safer. Or maybe they're an everyday thing, and most people take one look at Jane and think he's a Rain or a Sun, and they share one conversation with him and pin him as a Mist, but all of them are wrong and he's actually a Sky. Jane doesn't use his Flames much but the team figures it out one by one anyway.

• ALL: Mafia
  
  
  • Could be connected to the KHR AU or not. Jane with mafia roots.

• ALL: The Magnus Archives Fusion
  
  
  • Jane as an Avatar. It helps, whenever a weird case lands on CBI's desk. He keeps the team safe and teaches them about the paranormal, and in exchange, they look the other way when Jane makes the occasional criminal disappear. Win-win.

• ALL: Space AU
  
  
  • The team in outer space on their own ship, maybe as mercenaries or smugglers, generally running into trouble and kicking ass.

• ALL: Alternate First Meetings
  
  
  • Jane meets the team some other way, either in canon 'verse or in a different AU entirely.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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5) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Relationship(s): Lara Croft/Manfred Powell

If you could ignore the second movie, that would be great, because I never watched it.

AU Details:

• ALL: Time Loop
  
  
  • Basically How Many Times Does It Take For Two Enemies To Fall In Love. They're not getting out of this loop without depending on each other.

• ALL: Enemies forced to work together
  
  
  • See above. But also no time travel and they still have to work together to survive.

• ALL: Character and enemy must work together to save the world
  
  
  • Self-explanatory. Enemies to friends to lovers.

• ALL: Canon Divergence AU
  
  
  • Could be pre-canon canon divergence, maybe Manfred doesn't kill Lara's father and leaves with him instead. Lara's just a child when they meet, but she doesn't stay a child for long. By the time she's old enough to hold her own in digs and tomb raids, she has her fair share of admirers too, and Manfred's always been possessive.

• ALL: Jumanji AU
  
  
  • Stuck in a game and forced to lean on each other to survive and escape.

• ALL: Alternate First Meetings
  
  
  • Maybe they meet during a different expedition in a world where Lara still has her father and the Illuminati doesn't exist.

• ALL: Demon Hunters
  
  
  • Demon hunters instead of treasure hunters.

• ALL: Canon setting has Silent Hill style Otherworld
  
  
  • I really like eerie, haunted, deadly otherworlds that characters get stuck in and have to adapt to, not necessarily as run-for-your-life as Silent Hill, though I'm cool with that too, so think stuff like Neverwhere or Coraline, worlds like those where the rules are different and there's things that can kill you, etc. Maybe Lara and/or Manfred stumble on something in a tomb that triggers an otherworld that they have to escape from.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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5) Trash of the Count's Family

Relationship(s): Alberu Crossman & Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo, Alberu Crossman/Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo, Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo & his allies

AU Details:

• TCF: Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo transmigrated with multiple abilities (on top of Record)
  
  
  • Yes.

• ALL: Soulmate AU
  
  
  • In the novel, soulmates are a thing but the character Cale Henituse never had one. He gains a bunch of soulmates the moment Kim Rok Soo becomes him, and it's terribly troublesome but also makes him even more suicidally protective XD

• ALL: Soulmates Share Scars
  
  
  • See above, and while the Vitality of the Heart heals almost any injury he gets, it still leaves behind scars. His soulmate(s) Are Concerned.

• ALL: Soulbonds - Feeling Each Other's Emotions
  
  
  • Cale's great at pretending he doesn't feel much of anything and only cares about his slacker life, but his soulmate(s) know better. And the grief and loneliness he carries around feels like being gutted. Luckily, that's something they can help fix.

• ALL: Reincarnation
  
  
  • The cast in the modern era/apocalyptic earth, and either they all remember their past life or most of them do except Cale, and this time they're determined to protect him instead of letting him die for them.

• ALL: K-Project Fusion
  
  
  • The King system from K-Project is incorporated into the TCF universe. Feel free to play with the worldbuilding (ie. more than seven Kings, expand on their powers, etc.).

• ALL: Katekyou Hitman Reborn Flame Lore Fusion
  
  
  • KHR Flames incorporated into the TCF universe. It would actually be kind of interesting if Cale "invents" it and teaches it to his friends since it only became a thing on earth after monsters invaded, but everyone has the potential for it.

• ALL: Howl's Moving Castle AU
  
  
  • What it says on the tin. Howl!Cale? Who just wants to slack off in his castle but Cannot Because All These Annoying People Keep Turning Up On His Doorstep With Their Problems.

• ALL: Shapeshifter AU
  
  
  • Everything is the same except people can shift into creatures. Most are just animal shifters but those with enough strength and conviction and power can turn into something more special. Dragon!Cale could be interesting XD Phoenix!Cale might fit him better though lmao.

• ALL: Character plays a game with Death in exchange for their/somebody else's life
  
  
  • Cale, no.

• ALL: Arranged Marriage AU
  
  
  • Maybe it happens right after KRS wakes up in Cale's body - the Crown needs a way to secure the Northeast region, and the Henituse family could rein OG!Cale's behaviour in without outright disowning him. Alberu's not exactly thrilled about it, and he has plans to have the engagement annulled in the future, but it doesn't take him long to realize something is seriously off because Cale? Isn't trash?? But he keeps insisting he is??? He also says he's a slacker and just wants to laze around all day but also brings home strong political allies and powerful loyal friends as easy as breathing, protects citizens from harm like it's his sworn duty, and throws himself headfirst into trouble at every opportunity????? Bonus points for Cale still picking up strays like no tomorrow, picking up after Alberu because staying on the prince's good side is a way to have an easy life, and all the while insisting that all he wants is to be a slacker. How can Alberu not fall head over heels with that?

• ALL: Canon setting has Silent Hill style Otherworld
  
  
  • I really like eerie, haunted, deadly otherworlds that characters get stuck in and have to adapt to, not necessarily as run-for-your-life as Silent Hill, though I'm cool with that too, so think stuff like Neverwhere or Coraline, worlds like those where the rules are different and there's things that can kill you, etc. In TCF, I imagine this could work as a test for Cale maybe, or just something a demon or god tossed him into, and he has to work out a way to survive and escape. Maybe his friends force their way in after him to get him back, or maybe they can't, Cale comes back on his own, but for once, he isn't able to hide just how affected he is.

• ALL: If you owe someone a life debt their name appears on your skin
  
  
  • Everyone owes this bastard a life debt. Cale will never know peace again. :tries to stage his own near-death situations to erase some of those debts, then ends up saving more people when shit inevitably hits the fan:

• ALL: Found Family
  
  
  • Conversations/interactions between Cale and Eruhaben or Cale and Ron? Maybe a 5+1 sort of thing. I just really like how they support and low-key dote on him in their own ways, and they're probably the closest Cale will ever get to/accept as parents. Maybe they find out about Cale's previous life, or they find out what the Wind Island test consisted of. Give me all that angsty hurt/comfort found fam goodness.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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5) The Great Mage Returns After 4000 Years

Character(s): Lucas Traumen | Frey Blake

Relationship(s): King Kassajin/Iris Phisfounder/Lucas Traumen/Schweizer Wilsemann, King Kassajin/Lucas Traumen | Frey Blake, Lucas Traumen | Frey Blake/Schweizer Strow | Schweizer Wilsemann

AU Details:

• Great Mage: All four great sages are still alive
  
  
  • Maybe they all found a way to reincarnate, maybe they put their bodies in stasis to wait for the day Lucas comes back and revives them - however it happens, I need these four together happy.

• Great Mage: All four great sages fight Demigod
  
  
  • Demigod deserves it. Seriously.

• Great Mage: Lucas gets reincarnated but as a spirit inside Frey's mind
  
  
  • Instead of Lucas taking over Frey's body, Frey is still alive, just with an overprotective ghost sharing body space. I'd love it if Lucas wasn't just a voice in his head but could actually take over Frey's body like they're time-sharing it. Give me all the angst and found family feels please.

• ALL: Post-Apocalypse
  
  
  • Lucas reincarnates into a modern but apocalyptic era. He's more than strong enough to survive, but he also wants to know how this happened, and maybe he ends up collecting a bunch of kids and reincarnated friends along the way.

• All: Zombie Apocalypse
  
  
  • See above but with zombies.

• ALL: Found Family
  
  
  • Lucas being a mentor/dad. Kids just flock to him.

• ALL: Daemon AU
  
  
  • Everything's the same but everyone has a daemon. Frey goes to school and his daemon is different now that someone else is in the driver's seat. Or maybe this is a ghost!Lucas AU and Frey now seems like he has two daemons. I imagine his has always been something small that people laugh at. They probably won't be laughing anymore when they see Lucas' daemon.

• ALL: Teachers
  
  
  • Instead of reincarnating in Frey's body, maybe Lucas takes over a teacher instead and becomes a professor at Westrod Academy.

• ALL: If you owe someone a life debt their name appears on your skin
• He's saved like a bunch of kids by now, imagine the confusion and chaos when they all get Lucas Traumen on their skin instead of Frey Blake.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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5) A Returner's Magic Should Be Special

Relationship(s): Desir Arman/Zod Exarion

AU Details:

• Returner's Magic: Priscilla does not kill Zod
  
  
  • What it says on the tin. Novel hasn't gotten to this part yet but maybe a future fic or post-canon fic where the Shadow Labyrinth has been dealt with and Zod is still around researching magic and courting Desir XD

• Returner's Magic: Zod also came back in time
  
  
  • Desir isn't alone, thank fuck. But it takes a while for both of them to realize.

• Returner's Magic: Zod eventually recalls bits and pieces of the alternate timeline in his dreams
  
  
  • Canon but Zod slowly starts to remember. The day he finally remembers enough to fit everything together, Desir's probably neck-deep in a dangerous Shadow World or in the thick of some messy battlefield without Zod, because their luck is just like that.

• ALL: Sugar Daddy AU
  
  
  • Sugar daddy!Zod. It started innocently enough - Desir more than pays him back with all his ideas and research - but eventually, as they get closer, Zod finds himself buying things for Desir just because he thinks he'll like them. Or this could pair well with Zod coming back in time as well, and since he has the resources again and they're no longer stuck in the Labyrinth, he might as well spoil Desir properly.

• ALL: Canon Divergence AU
  
  
  • No time travel, they defeat the Labyrinth in that alternate future - what happens afterwards?

• ALL: Alternate First Meetings
  
  
  • A different way they could've met, either in canon 'verse or some other AU.

• ALL: Alice in Wonderland AU
  
  
  • A Shadow World/Labyrinth in a Wonderland setting? The darker/more twisted the Wonderland, the better. No need to follow the classic children's tale.

(Prompts are just suggestions/explanations! If they don't appeal to you, feel free to interpret them your own way.)

 

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9) Dr. STONE

Relationship(s): Ishigami Senkuu/Nanami Ryuusui, Ishigami Senkuu & Nanami Ryuusui

AU Details:

• Dr. STONE: Everyone is an ability user but Senkuu never seems to use his
  
  
  • Senkuu's ability is something subtle? Or ridiculously overpowered and not something suitable for everyday use? Or just not something he considers particularly necessary since he can achieve his goals all by himself. Everyone assumes he just has a really useless ability but Ryuusui is Curious.

• Dr. STONE: the Petrification doesn't happen but Senkuu and Ryuusui meet anyway
  
  
  • Senkuu and Ryuusui in the modern era.

• ALL: Pacific Rim AU
  
  
  • Senkuu and Ryuusui are drift-compatible.

• ALL: Isekai
  
  
  • The Stone Age apocalypse is a novel Senkuu finishes reading right before getting transported into the novel world, right as he's breaking out of stone. He still doesn't know how to get home, but at least he knows who to revive and ally with and how to survive. In Senkuu's opinion, it was actually a pretty bad novel, with Tsukasa (also a transmigrator?) starting out looking like the protagonist but eventually ending up as the villain ruling in a society where everyone follows him or dies, with no hero to oppose him. Senkuu has no desire to be a hero either but if he has to live in this world, the least he can do is make it easier for himself.

• ALL: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (knovel) AU - the world becomes a death game
  
  
  • Senkuu and Ryuusui surviving. Rip.

• ALL: Characters Meet at a Different Point in Their Canon
  
  
  • Senkuu ends up reviving Ryuusui at a different point in time, maybe he's the first after breaking out of the stone. Could pair well with the Isekai AU.

(If none of these prompts particularly appeal to you, feel free to just use something from my General Likes section above for inspiration instead.)

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