Dear H/C Ex Creator,
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lagaillardeAo3 username: lagaillarde
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All requests for both art and fic
Whether you're here for an assignment, a treat, or sheer curiosity, thank you for the interest :D Nothing here is set in stone, and rule #1 is always: have fun!
Fic Likes | Art Likes | DNWs
Three Houses | Fates | New Mystery | Awakening
Fic Likes
Relationship development in general:
- first meetings,
- getting to know each other,
- backstory reveals,
- meet the family/friends,
- pre-relationship,
- established relationship,
- characters teaching each other new skills, picking up new hobbies, etc.
Teamwork in dangerous situations:
- casefic, missionfic, action/adventure in general,
- conflicted loyalties,
- teeth-clenched teamwork between enemies, or rivals, or characters who simply cannot stand one another
- mutual protectiveness,
- characters sacrificing for each other, especially if what they sacrifice is a goal/dream/principle rather than something tangible.
Hurt/comfort:
- aftermath of canon whump,
- aftermath of [danger] in general,
- wound care,
- characters acting or speaking in defense of someone else, especially if the person they’re defending is surprised by it,
- badass/stoic sufferers and the one person they’re comfortable showing vulnerability to,
- magic spells gone awry and other convenient trope starters (especially: lotus-eater machines, worst fears come to life, de-aging, suddenly gaining cool yet inconvenient powers like telepathy or invisibility, truth spells).
I like my h/c to lean hard on the comfort side, but I also enjoy heavy whump so long as there’s a happy ending I can look forward to (at a minimum, ‘characters alive and not trapped in an inescapable hell situation’); the only exception is sickfic, where I’m pretty much only interested in the comfort side of things.
Women offering physical protection / men offering emotional support = love.
I’m also always down for:
- N+1 stories,
- in medias res beginnings,
- missing scenes.
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Art Likes
Plays on light/shadow, vibrant colors but also warm contrasts and earthy tones, shadow puppets.
For settings, I love snowy and/or mountainous landscapes or the sea (!)(I get very excited about the sea), or scenes set in half-lit rooms that are cozy and familiar to the characters; really though I just like to get a general sense of where the characters are, even if it’s not super detailed.
Hurt/comforty things that I love:
- small gestures of affection,
- wound care,
- hudding for warmth,
- characters desperately holding onto each other,
- characters still smiling despite being banged up to hell and back,
- heat of the moment holy shit we survived kisses, especially if initiated by women,
- bandages that are just barely poking out from under a character’s clothes,
- characters standing, battered and bloodied, between their loved one(s) and danger,
- action snapshots,
- that thing where a character wipes the blood from their chin and grins and you know someone’s about to go down.
In a more abstract way, I love symbolic representations of invisible woes: internal pain blooming in flowers, ghosts/shadows clinging to a character to represent loss or anxiety/depression/trauma, etc.
I’m also always down for:
- illustrations of canon or implied-by-canon scenes;
- redesigns, especially personalized variants of generic class outfits. (I would however prefer if post-timeskip Dimitri kept his og hairstyle, as I don’t like the alt.)
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DNWs
- Smut,
- omegaverse,
- death of requested characters,
- 1st person POV (epistolary is fine),
- any scenario involving a character being tricked, manipulated or coerced into accepting medical care (‘too out of it to fully grasp what’s going on’ is fine),
- belly/fat kink,
- Art: boob windows,
- Art: body horror and heavy gore (blood is fine! blood is great! just please no bones poking through the skin / limbs going the wrong way / guts hanging out in the open, thank you),
- Art: giant arachnids.
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Fire Emblem Three Houses
Requests
Dimitri & Edelgard & Claude (all hurt), Dimitri & Blue Lions (hurt Dimitri), Dimitri/Mercedes (either hurt), Yuri/Ingrid (either hurt)
Dimitri & Edelgard & Claude
General
Cindered Shadows left me with a deep yearning for House Leaders Working Together. The mood here is presenting a united front even if you couldn’t be less united, learning or relearning to trust in the face of an immediate threat, and accidentally unveiling secrets that change your understanding of each other; if it leads to reconciliation, great! But tbh I’d be just as happy with a temporary alliance that is destined to fall apart once canon catches up to them – the tragedy of three characters who were this close to being on the same page, but ultimately missed their chance is a big part of the appeal to me.
Freeforms
- Assassination Attempt(s)
- Attacked By A Creature
- Character is forced to relive another character's trauma
- Comforter started out trying to manipulate comfortee but now they're not so sure
- Dreamworld featuring worst memories/fears
- Emotional/mental scars manifesting as physical wounds
- Huddling For Warmth
- Hurt character has to lean on smaller character(s) to get around
- Missing Family
- Mutually patching up injuries after battle
- Normally antagonistic characters are both hurt and must cooperate to survive
- Painful secrets revealed
- Phobias
- Reconciliation while Trapped and Injured
- Stranded in the wilderness
Dimitri & Blue Lions
General
Just fuck me up.
Freeforms
- Closing ranks around hurt leader
Dimitri/Mercedes
General
Extremely sweet ship with the potential for some serious bite once you start digging into their respective issues (pre-timeskip Dimitri and Mercedes are perfectly poised to enable each other’s worst tendencies, in this essay I will). I’m always there for all manners of hurt Dimitri, but I would also love for Mercedes to take a turn as the comforted for once: the self-effacement and conflict avoidance could lead to all sort of delicious hide-the-hurt-until-you-can-no-longer-pretend scenarios, and her Team Mom status means there’s not enough fanworks out there that take advantage of that imho.
Freeforms
Yuri/Ingrid
General
Knight/knave pairings own my entire heart!! I love their Azure Moon ending to bits (they get a retirement inn, how cute is that?!), and with so many of Ingrid's romantic supports having her as the nagging girlfriend, it's really nice to have one where *she* gets to be a bit of a mess for a change. I’d be especially interested in post-canon for this one, whether in the immediate aftermath of the war or way down the line (cannot overstate how much I like the retirement inn), as well as anything that taps into the danger inherent to their chosen paths.
Freeforms
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Fire Emblem Fates
Requests
Azama & Hinoka (hurt Hinoka or both), Sakura & Hana & Subaki (all hurt), Ryoma & Kagero (hurt Kagero), Orochi/Kagero (hurt Kagero), (Ryoma & Kagero)/Orochi (hurt Kagero)
Azama & Hinoka, Sakura & Hana & Subaki
General
Honestly, Azama & Hinoka are probably my favorite Lord & Retainer duo: their worldviews are so wonderfully at odds, and their support chain gets to me every time ("I thought it would be interesting to see what you would do with your life." just fuck me up). I also just really love Hinoka hurt/comfort - Corrin’s disappearance clearly hit her hard, and the years she spent putting herself in dangerous situations out of anger + her determination to do the impossible + the fact that of all the Lords, she’s the only one whose retainers start with basically no fighting ability so she HAS to be on the front lines is endlessly interesting to me.
I didn't think to nominate Setsuna because I really wanted the focus to be on these two, but for the record I love her and won't be put off if she's along for the ride.
Sakura, Hana and Subaki are much simpler: I love Hana and Subaki remaining united in their drive to protect Sakura despite being at odds in everything else, I think they're a fun trio to throw at any given obstacle, and I find Sakura's highkey sensitivity to be delicious delicious angst fodder.
Freeforms
Ryoma & Kagero, Orochi/Kagero, (Ryoma & Kagero)/Orochi
General
I am a simple fan of simple needs, and what I simply need is Kagero whump. I’m just!! Characters who’ve had Duty thrust upon them and carry it with quiet stoicism own my entire heart, okay.
Ryoma & Kagero is – I mean if you’ve read the previous section it should be clear by now that I have a thing for Retainers And Their Lords, especially on the Hoshidan side, and Kagero insisting on maintaining proper distance so Ryoma has to go out of his way to reach her even though he’s not the most approachable fellow himself makes a wonderful combo.
Kagero/Orochi hits just the right note of gloom/sunshine for me, and I melt every time I remember “I suppose I'll just have to carry your smile with me in life.” / “Your doom and gloom got me through my childhood with a smile on my face.” (How many times do you see gloom framed as a positive in gloom/sunshine ships, not enough times if you ask me.) I’m not usually that into childhood friends to lovers, but this is a very happy exception.
Tbh Orochi is my favorite Fates character for being both a bundle of sunshine and a bit of a troll, and her efforts to make the people around her smile warm my heart every time. V poly with Orochi at the center but Kagero hurting would be incredible, but honestly even without the poly angle I’d be pleased as punch to just get An Interaction between the three.
Freeforms
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Fire Emblem New Mystery of the Emblem
Requests
Ogma & Jubelo & Yuliya (hurt all)
Ogma & Jubelo & Yuliya
General
I played the game for the first time last month, and of course of all possible units I immediately latched onto ‘royal twins and their ex-gladiator bodyguard’. There’s so much about that set-up that’s appealing to me especially when it comes to h/c tropes – kids in peril! Kids who have already been through some serious shit but are still trying to put on a brave face! (... kids who were permanent fixtures in my party and ended the game as powerhouses, tbh, ngl that helped too.) No-nonsense girl & sensitive boy! And then there’s Ogma, resigned to the violence and used to working alone and quietly determined to fulfill his promise to Lorenz and his duty to King Talys (how did that one-man rescue even go, man?).
I was definitely thinking of their time on the run during chapter 1-4 when I picked the freeforms, but please don’t feel like you have to stick to that: I’d be happy with anything that taps into that quality h/c material.
Freeforms
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Fire Emblem Awakening
Requests
Cordelia/Gaius (either hurt), Cordelia/Maribelle (either hurt), (Gaius & Maribelle)/Cordelia (hurt Cordelia)
Cordelia/Gaius, Cordelia/Maribelle, (Gaius & Maribelle)/Cordelia
General
Cordelia and Gaius were my first MVP pair-up and I never forgot. I am weak to knight/knave ships, and I love the gentle ribbing of their support line (“I'll take a yes out of laziness. I'm not picky” might be my favorite FE marriage proposal). It doesn’t hurt that they tap right into those neglected kid discovering what it’s like when other people actually give enough of a shit to care about the dirty clothes feels.
Cordelia and Maribelle I ship mostly on the basis of their Summer Scramble support, which has always read very ‘two lesbians getting overly competitive over their totally 100% platonic no homo bffs’ to me. I simply think they should keep escalating the competitiveness until they somehow end up dating. Also: crime-fighting girlfriends! What kind of trouble do Maribelle’s efforts to reform the justice system land them into?
As for (Gaius & Maribelle)/Cordelia, honestly, I’m just really into V polyships, and assorted scenarios where A & B bond over their mutual love for C. This is very much a shoot-for-the-moon request so I’d be thrilled with anything!
Freeforms
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