• Character studies / blorbo gazing
• Neurodivergent characters
• Non-socialised character learning how to be human
• Villains that want to recruit the hero
• Non-human characters being completely fucking baffled
• Characters putting up a cold and aloof front because they're doing their best and secretly very scared/traumatised/in a very difficult position or performing a tricky job
• Characters putting up a snarky or outgoing front because they're doing their best and secretly very scared/traumatised/in a very difficult position or performing a tricky job
• Character vs the role they think they hold
• Realising that talking problems out (even if it's against their will) actually helps
• Really fucked up levels of codependency and being unhinged levels of into each other but they're happy and it's mutual
• Assassins (I just think they're cool)
• Nuns (I just think they have the potential to be very cool, especially in a fantasy setting)
• Competency and/or passion (it's not necessary for these two to be the same thing)
• Characters with very complicated family dynamics and relationships
• Mutual pining/pre-relationship/getting together
• Established relationship navigating something new

• Petty academic sqaubbles
• Most 'forced together' tropes - hanahaki, x pollen, truth or dare, undercover mission, huddling together
• Trapped in a small space (whether alone or with company)
• Undercurrents of hope and renewal even in very grimdark settings
• Anything satirising or going >:( at capitalism
• Wilderness and survival - caving, mountaineering, deep sea diving, space exploration!
• Stories with BDSM involved (whether diagetic or not! Love a good fic containing the author's barely disguised fetish)
• Scheming together
• Medical and scientific experiments gone wrong

• Non-traditional formats. I love drabble sequences! Second person POV narratives where the 'you' is a canon character! I love unusual perspectives and surprise recontextualisations! I love art that works as an icon (with permission)!
• Stories that teach me something. Not, like, in a deep emotional way... but if you're the world's most enthusiastic fan of culturing bacteria or something, please feel free to leave in little infodumps. I'll love it.
• UST-ridden scenes that read absolutely sexual or kinky but aren't technically sex
• My personal hobbies are yoga, pole dancing, rollerskating and tarot reading if you ever find a great spot to slot any of those in

• Enemies/rivals to lovers
• Childhood friends to enemies
• Lovers to enemies to 'well they fuck I guess'
• Enemies to enemies with benefits
• Enemies to lovers
• Enemies to ???
• Enemies/rivals to 'forced proximity until they slowly learn to respect each other and now cannot be forced apart'
• Whatever dynamic means I get 'I fear that one person understands me and I fuckin' hate that guy'
• Couple that bring out the worst in each other
• Couple that have gone through extreme trauma and come out the other end battered and neatly slotting into the holes in each others heart
• The couple is the last to find out that they're a couple
• Cute codependency
• Unhealthy codependecy
• Fake/pretend relationship to 'oh no real feelings'
• "I've got nowhere else to go"
• "You've got nowhere else to go" (smug)
• People that only see each other one in a blue moon and always end up hate fucking
• Very complicated sibling relationships
• Battle couple that rely on one another
• Battle couple that doesn't need to rely on one another but nevertheless want one another
• Colleagues that one day wake up and realised they've basically been acting married for a decade so why not make it official
• Arranged marriages (platonic, romantic, sexual or forced)
• Agreeing to marry someone for the tax breaks (and somehow not realising they don't actually pay taxes)
• Sibling rivalry

• Cis, trans, I don't care who has what so go and be free with your headcanons (but if it's fic of an existing character, I prefer canon pronouns!)
• I will love m/m, m/f, f/f, nb/nb, and poly equally
• Any words are fine to use to describe genitals
• I personally use 'come' as the verb ("I'm gonna come") and 'cum' as the noun ("He inspected the cum on the surface") but I don't DNW any other way
• Every fictional character is a true switch to me. Strict top/bottom dom/sub who, as far as I'm concerned, everyone is just spaghetti noodling around doing whatever they want whenever they want so if you're writing NSFW, whichever way you write them will be amazing

• Mechs! I love so many flavours. Mechs as a tool of capitalism, as an earth defence force, as an eldritch entity or otherwise a little too human with its own agenda, as glorified beyblades, as something someone built in their back garden but oops now It's A Thing. And pilot/mechanic dynamics!!
• Alien first contact! I love cultural misunderstandings, the discussions of 'what makes sentience' and perhaps being a little out of step with your own species anyway so maybe this alien just makes more sense than other humans.
• Solarpunk! It's pretty, it's green, it's possibly got a ton of body horror locked in the basement!
• Sci-fi horror! It's a great genre for blurring the line between supernatural and technology. I love survive the night type scenarios, Creatures, anything inspired by gothic horror or even just the aesthetics of it, thinking about what a liminal space looks like in a sci-fi situation, post-apocalyptic but we're still going vibes.
• Cyberpunk! Dystopian corporate-ruled futures, information becoming the new currency, enhancements and augmentations that are neither legal nor ethical! 

• Magic that can be learned by anyone with access to the education for it, but practitioners are either treated like high-level olympians or your local underpaid IT help desk guys 
• Fae - I love when a setting simply runs on different logic, and fae are perfect for this. True names and hospitality laws! Courts inspired by seasons and wildlife and tarot cards! Both modern elfin fae and traditional Celtic fair folk are adored.
• Bringing myths and legends to life! I wanna be a little bit nervous next time I walk by the ocean or pass through a dark forest!
• This is the perfect genre for some good secretive and secluded royals with a dark secret. Heaps of political intrigue! Family drama! That much money and power giving you a completely different set of problems!
• Also the perfect genre to breath enough magic into settings to turn them into their own characters, like libraries, homes, schools and forests!
• Curses! Cursebreaking!!!
• Settings where belief affects reality, such as gods requiring worship and magic being a manifestation of strong will
• Assassins... priests and nuns... assassin priests and nuns...
• Necromancy! Looking death in the face and saying 'no thanks' is such a power move. 
• Slightly related to necromancy, I always love a good fantasy healer or medic!
• I'm not a fan of IRL substance abuse issues, but fantasy substance abuse issues is a whole new exciting ballpark!! 
• Corruption that physically spreads like a rot
• Religion-heavy fantasy worlds that show the gods as physical beings

• Creature horror! Angry sea monsters, angry space monsters, angry mountain monsters!
• Wilderness survival horror. Trapped on a mountain in a blizzard! Trapped under the sea in a collapsing construction tunnel! Trapped in a deep cave system!
• Ghost hunter/paranormal investigator/cult infiltrator (gone wrong gone sexual)
• Gothic horror (tortured heroes, dust-covered manors, blood-stained white nightgowns!!)
• Medical whump/torture porn/'take me instead'/'if you don't do it I will'
• Trapped together/captivity
• Based on a myth/retelling
• Creatures of the deep / creatures of the forest / creatures of the night - demon deals and possession, monstrous fae, eldritch infections
• Folk horror (rituals, isolation, stumbling into a witch/cult/creature's back garden and somehow being confused when they're mad about it)
• Surviving the night
• The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
• Time loops and the existential dread of reliving your own death over and over in different ways
• Haunting failures because the victims are better at this than the ghost / helping lost and confused ghosts
• Turned into a vampire / living blood bag for vampire
• Liminal spaces - deserted stretches of road, a swimming pool after closing time, a deserted shopping centre
• Having mixed feeling about the bloodthirsty entity on Blorbo's side
• Daylight horror
• Marriage of convenience turns extremely inconvenient (because spouse is evil)
• Zombies!!
• epistolary/found footage style

• Sci-fi - post apocalyptic, bio/solarpunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, kaiju/mecha, military sci-fi, any sci-fi/horror mashup
• Fantasy - high fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, historical (if you have actual historical knowledge and can teach me something as well that would be amazing), paranormal, magical realism, fairytale, superhero, cosy, new weird, gaslamp, fae (I LOVE fae worldbuilding)
• Horror - demonic, paranormal (curses and hauntings!), zombie, witchcraft, psychological, comedic, home invasion, torture, folk horror, haunted house, cosmic/eldritch, gothic, epistolary/found footage style, survival in the wilderness 
• Coffee shop where opening and closing shifts despise each other OR it is a money laundering scheme

• Cis, trans, I don't care who has what so go and be free with your headcanons (but I prefer canon pronouns!)
• I will love m/m, m/f, f/f, nb/nb, and poly equally
• Any words are fine to use to describe genitals
• Every fictional character is a true switch to me. Strict top/bottom dom/sub who, as far as I'm concerned, everyone is just spaghetti noodling around doing whatever they want whenever they want so if you're writing NSFW, whichever way you write them will be amazing

• Character studies / blorbo gazing
• Kidnapping / captivity
• Most 'forced together' tags - hanahaki, x pollen, truth or dare, undercover mission
• Non-socialised character learning to be human (yet to figure out a tag for this)
• Gothic horror / gothic romance
• Processing past trauma in a safe place
• Processing past trauma in an unsafe place
• Character vs the role they think they hold
• Comedy of errors
• Touchstarved

• Kink exploration
• Important personal realisations being had right in the middle of kinky sex
• Character study/development through the lens of smut
• Unreasonable amounts of orgasms across the board
• Hands/mouth/toys treated as 'the fun' rather than a lead up to dick in hole
• Sex to chase away the Big Sads
• Overwhelmed or happy crying/dacryphilia
• Praise and body worship
• Lovingly consensual
• Dubiously consensual
• Nonconsensual but gentle
• Not safe, sane or consensual
• Tickling

• Bondage: ropes, chains, predicament bondage, honour bondage, stocks, hogtie, shibari, spreader bars, fucking machines, medical restraints
• Dominance and submission: edging, delay and denial, domestic discipline, impossible or humiliating orders, tickling (especially when paired with bondage and/orhumiliation), medical kink, forced pleasure, begging, nonsexual play, primal play, dom directs sub's gangbang
• Sadism and masochism: impact play (spanking, caning, flogging), hot wax, clamps, 'I love how pretty you suffer', overstim
• I love soft, RACK/SSC-abiding scenes within discussed limits, 24/7 D/S, and 'this is not safe sane or consensual'
• Dynamics: hard dom/bratty sub, pleasure dom/needy sub, experienced dom/new sub that's about to get their shit rocked, new but enthusiastic dom exploring/eager sub that can take whatever the dom wants to dish out, dom/sub reluctant to give up power even though they REALLY need a good subdrop
• Better mental health through BDSM

• Dubcon where the victim secretly wanted it
• Dubcon where the victim didn't want it before but they do now
• Soft noncon where the victim enjoys themself
• x made them do it / fuck or die
• Weapons play (as a threat or to force obedience)
• Kidnapping/captivity
• Torture (gone wrong gone sexual)
• 'I have to torture you in front of my friends so I don't blow my cover while I'm undercover sorry sorry sorry'
• I am super into tickling in a noncon, interrogation or torture way too. Escpecially if the poor recip is humiliated about being into it!

• Mecha AUs - Pacific Rim (love makes giant robots punch!!), Evangelion AUs, scavenged part mechs in a dystopian world, help the mech I'm in is alive and has its own agenda, the only Gundam I've seen is Witch from Mercury but that
• Alien first contact
• Solarpunk (with bonus body horror)
• Space pirates/smugglers
• Drifting around in a spaceship until plot lands on them as a stowaway

• Ghost hunter/paranormal investigator/cult infiltrator (gone wrong gone sexual)
• Gothic horror (tortured heroes, dust-covered manors, blood-stained white nightgowns!!)
• Medical whump/torture porn/'take me instead'/'if you don't do it I will'
• Trapped together/captivity
• Based on a myth/retelling
• Creatures of the deep / creatures of the forest / creatures of the night - demon deals and possession, monstrous fae, eldritch infections
• Folk horror (rituals, isolation, stumbling into a witch/cult/creature's back garden and somehow being confused when they're mad about it)
• Surviving the night
• The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
• Time loops and the existential dread of reliving your own death over and over in different ways
• Haunting failures because the victims are better at this than the ghost / helping lost and confused ghosts
• Turned into a vampire / living blood bag for vampire
• Liminal spaces - deserted stretches of road, a swimming pool after closing time, a deserted shopping centre
• Having mixed feeling about the bloodthirsty entity on Blorbo's side
• Daylight horror
• Marriage of convenience turns extremely inconvenient (because spouse is evil)

• Sub or dom suffering because they refuse to admit they need this
• 'and they were both subs (or doms)' finding a third
• Shyly asking a friend to help
• Finding a dom/sub through an agency but OOPS it's someone they know
• First time
• Experienced dom/sub couple showing a newer dom/sub couple what to do
• Sub goes through training to NOT submit to dom demands
• Accidentally discovering someone's dom/sub designation through an innocent joke
• Villain uses hero's dom/sub designation against them
• Introducing a switch designation
• BDSM to stave off violent/self-destructive urges

• Minimalist colour schemes
• Dark jewel tones
• Suggestive rather than explicit
• I love both soft and simple backgrounds, and backgrounds being the focus of a piece!
• Comic/sketchy styles
• Fun with lighting
• Tarot themes
• If you'd be happy for me to use it as an icon or banner, please let me know!

• Focus on grief/mourning/terminal illness
• Focus on pregnancy/having kids (mentions fine)
• Cheating involving main characters
• Weed culture (other drugs or passing mentions of weed are fine; noncon drugging such as sex pollen or spiking is fine)
• Focus on alcohol
• Not a hard DNW, but skimming or glossing over non-vegan food (such as canonical favourite meals) is appreciated! Exceptions happily made for settings where animal products are necessary for survival. Feel free to kink on making humans into livestock/being treated like animals as long as no actual animals are harmed!

• Copious amounts of cum (it exists and that's fine but if there's swallowing/playing with it/snowballing/excessive time spent on it, please gloss over the texture/smell/taste! Cum on someone's back/ass/whatever is fine, noting that it's in their hair/eye and played for laughs is great, coming inside and realising it's leaking out is fine, I just don't find it sexy on its own!)

• Teeth or eye related body horror (everything else is fair game!)
• Underage (references or mentions in passing are fine if between consenting older teens or if child abuse is part of the plot/characterisation)
• Main character death (unless rectified quickly in a spooky supernatural kind of way!)

• Dubcon/noncon/CNC
• Drabble sequences
• Body horror (exception: eyes and teeth)
• Fun with narration, such as 2nd person POV or epistolary like chatfic (but please don't use exclusively text speak!)
• Feet (if they're clean)
• Character bashing a character that's a canonical child abuser in-universe (even if they feel sad about it)
• BDSM, dom/sub, impact play
• Whump
• Cannibalism (especially when the eater doesn't know, but the person feeding it to them does; or as a metaphor for codependent love)

• Omorashi (in a forced dom/sub context?)
• Knife/blood play (I've only ever used it in a Toga Himiko context but it doesn't disgust me)
• Tentacles (I tend to love interpersonal dynamics and conflicts which I imagine is harder to do with tentacles but I'm not against them)
• Emeto (Fictional depictions don't phase me)
• Micro/macro

• I adore, for lack of a better term, how 'millenial' this game feels. It's meta, it's irreverant, and yet it still cares so deeply about everything. The characters are all given such care and exploration, and the characters themselves are all people pretending they don't care about the fate of several countries while actively risking themselves to bring about peace. I also love that you can turn military-grade turrets off by holding the status button and tapping reset three times.
• Dessa Banks: I fell in love with her in the game trailer showing her mechanics, and then again in-game seeing all her conversations and realising she's an absolute killjoy dour pessimist. And then I love how un-grumpy she looks when you get her talking about etymology or medicine because she's a massive nerd, and how she has all this terrifying necromedic power and can't help but use it to actually help people. That said, she's a huge gremlin and absolutely spent too much time on the internet in med school, I just know it. And she's practical! I saw the screen where she's eating with her surgery scalpel.
• Jen Kellen: I love that Darrell has the trans-inclusive pride sticker on his carry case. Her anxiety dream about her sense of self and struggles holding onto validation and lack of direction really resonated with me, and I just know she gets anxiety tummy aches when she has to phone the vet to book Darrell in. And that doesn't stop her being an optimistic lunatic willing to try absolutely everything for the smallest chance of doing something good! She's so patient and empathetic unless you're Steve fucking Clark!!

 

• There is so much fun to be had with this setting. The horror of time loops / the fun of time loops / the fun of making out in a time loop while incorrectly assuming there will be no lasting consequences!! The lengths they go to for their beliefs! Fighting unwinnable fights because they have to! Body horror that comes from -waves vaguely at everything crest-related-! Taking a prisoner of war but oops they remember sitting next to them in history class!
• Ingrid: despite railing against the gender norms forced upon her, she knows she *has* to try and keep the other Faerghus nobles in line as The Responsible Girl because she's the only thing standing between them and total dissolution, probably. She's got a really interesting take on Faerghan chivalry considering she goes out of her way to take on a warrior role and I think what would cure her is a pretty girl kissing her.
• Dorothea: she knows what it is to be both privileged and disadvantaged and she's honed that into a diamond-sharp blade to carve out a space for her and her loved ones in the world. Despite everything she went through, she's still so kind. She's also willing to drop to her knees and serenade a pretty girl at a moments notice so 10/10 just purely for that tbh. She'd also look great as a gothic heroine kicking the shit out of the beast holding her captive while looking glamorous in a blood-stained white nightgown.
• Mercedes: her entire life has been shaped by the pursuit of crests as people try to play god and here she is, all religious and shit. Very sexy of her. Approximately two inches to the left of her own body at all times and both willing and able to deliver a sick burn and then float away ethereally.
• Edelgard: she's tiny and angry and goddamnit she's got too much to do for how incompetant everyone around her is. She's the emperor of a kingdom but that doesn't stop her shyly drawing fanart of her teacher and laying in bed at night with anxiety tummy aches thinking up names for her new strike force. I'm also fascinated with the effects of her history of experimentation and what that means for present-day Edelgard. Scars? Nightmares? I wanna know!
• Hapi: she's A+ trauma rep for her uncanny ability to tolerate anything except for minor day-to-day inconveniences. There's a certain nonchalance that must come with being able to summon giant demonic beasts toward any threat to her, but I'd love to know how much of her personality is a trauma response and how much is Just Her
• Constance: I am fascinated by gulf between 'well-bred noble who speaks well and exceeds at everything she sets her mind to' and 'the saddest, most passive soggy cat you've ever seen'. 

• Abigail: I am FASCINATED by the concept that she loved all these amazing magical things and may, in fact, actually be able to cast magic. And who could hate someone that loves rainstorms, graveyards, flute and frogs?? I think she should read everyone's tarot cards with David the guinea pig as her glamorous assistant. 
• Haley: I love that you meet her and she comes across as an airheaded, image-obsessed slob - and it's not wrong! She is! She's just also an enthusiastic photographer with a strong sense of self and helping those who need it and she isn't afraid to speak her mind!
• Leah: she's so in tune with the seasons of the valley - and she taught herself that! She comes from the city! She's just that passionate! Knowing that she's willing to punch her unsupportive ex-partner in the face is just a nice bonus.
• Maru: Smart! Compentent! Built a robot in her room and then gave it its freedom just because it asked!! It's also really sexy of her to work at the clinic.

• Banks: Brain damage and a lack of affordable medical care won't stop her siphoning funds from heavily guarded accounts to rebuild her hometown! Slán go fóill!
• Olivia: Her dream of a better world has survived her faked execution, a total turnover of upper management and having to interact with the dumbasses she employs after the torture left her body unable to hold up to the rigours of fieldwork!! She's so competent -swoons-
• Rush: Chanelled her absolutely insane world-class athlete work ethic and determination into protecting innocent people and was executed on live TV for it. ...or maybe spent years imprisoned in a detention centre, or on the run, or...
• Prism:  Isn't it WILD that she was a preteen when the Istanbul Four were executed on live TV and then went on to take part in anti-corp protests and eventually fake her death, independently scam corps and then join Invisible Inc.? God I love a good radicalisation story
• Nika: she takes absolutely no shit but is such an unbothered queen that you have to actively be up in her space for her to care. And she's on Invisible Inc.'s payroll?? Terrifying.

• Clarke: is literally a cat that's sick and trying to hide her injuries and sneak away to die quietly but her friends won't let her and I love that for her. People are totally fine with her making the hard choices until they personally disagree with her decision and you know what, she deserves a little bit of light murder. As a treat. She's not got the technical knowledge or the physical strength of a lot of other people but that doesn't stop her being a goddamn terminator. If she can't power-of-friendship her way through a problem then by god she's going to make sure it never becomes a problem again.
• Raven: every day she wakes up and drinks a cup of get shit done. She's smart, she's competent, she's not fucking around - if you need something accomplished, she's your woman. It's also so lovely to see her dealing with her chronic pain, and being a core member of the team even though she has to consistently tear herself away from thinking that her disability means her life is over.
• Octavia: I love every step of Octavia's journey, from the girl under the floor to the last of humanity (several times over). She always finds her own place despite being pushed into this role or that role and you know what, I'm Octavia's number one apologist. She did her best!!
• Echo: she is SO fascinating. I wish we could have seen more of Azgeda, because they clearly have some (deliciously) fucked up views of chivalry and honour. Like what is that cutting up her face to symbolise being totally fine?? It took was six years stuck in space with the same handful of people to realise that maybe it's okay to soften up a bit and then another two seasons happen to her :( Echo has never known peace!!
• Anya: she's SO fierce and confident and powerful that the moment someone turns up with orders from the Commander to take over, she's totally fine to step aside because she knows her worth and doesn't need to take it personally. She was raised in a hostile death world where only aggression and territorial paranoia keep someone alive, tentatively agrees to peace to protect everyone anyway, and then is shot for her troubles! Anya deserves better!!

• Miku: Action girl! High strung princess! Sad computer program! The possibilities are endless!! I love that she keeps getting official backstories that keep getting retconned as well, it just tickles me.
• Rin: Rin really excels in her fantasy based songs like Daughter of Evil, Childish War, Alluring Secret Black Vow and Synchronicity, but she's also got so many fun sci-fi personas like in Kokoro and Antichlorobenzine! I usually see her as bubbly and refusing to take anyone's shit with a slightly inflated ego, but i'm eager to hear how other people see her.
• Gumi: I love the identity crisis she has in ten-faced, and it could be explored in so many different settings as either literal or metaphorical! I especially love the characterisations of her that let her be a plucky tomboy, and I'm always in love with her slightly unhinged Panda Hero and Matryoshka portrayals where she's not quite thinking clearly. 

• Sci-fi - post apocalyptic, bio/solarpunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, kaiju/mecha, military sci-fi, any sci-fi/horror mashup
• Fantasy - high fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, historical (if you have actual historical knowledge and can teach me something as well that would be amazing), paranormal, magical realism, fairytale, superhero, cosy, new weird, gaslamp, fae (I LOVE fae worldbuilding)
• Horror - demonic, paranormal (curses and hauntings!), zombie, witchcraft, psychological, comedic, home invasion, torture, folk horror, haunted house, cosmic/eldritch, gothic, epistolary/found footage style, survival in the wilderness 
• Coffee shop where opening and closing shifts despise each other OR it is a money laundering scheme

• Cis, trans, I don't care who has what so go and be free with your headcanons (but I prefer canon pronouns!)
• I will love m/m, m/f, f/f, nb/nb, and poly equally
• Any words are fine to use to describe genitals
• Every fictional character is a true switch to me. Strict top/bottom dom/sub who, as far as I'm concerned, everyone is just spaghetti noodling around doing whatever they want whenever they want so if you're writing NSFW, whichever way you write them will be amazing

• Character studies / blorbo gazing
• Kidnapping / captivity
• Most 'forced together' tags - hanahaki, x pollen, truth or dare, undercover mission
• Non-socialised character learning to be human (yet to figure out a tag for this)
• Gothic horror / gothic romance
• Processing past trauma in a safe place
• Processing past trauma in an unsafe place
• Character vs the role they think they hold
• Comedy of errors

• Kink exploration
• Important personal realisations being had right in the middle of kinky sex
• Character study/development through the lens of smut
• Unreasonable amounts of orgasms across the board
• Hands/mouth/toys treated as 'the fun' rather than a lead up to dick in hole
• Sex to chase away the Big Sads
• Overwhelmed or happy crying/dacryphilia
• Praise and body worship
• Lovingly consensual
• Dubiously consensual
• Nonconsensual but gentle
• Not safe, sane or consensual

• Bondage: ropes, chains, predicament bondage, honour bondage, stocks, hogtie, shibari, spreader bars, fucking machines, medical restraints
• Dominance and submission: edging, delay and denial, domestic discipline, impossible or humiliating orders, tickling, medical kink, forced pleasure, begging, nonsexual play, primal play, dom directs sub's gangbang
• Sadism and masochism: impact play (spanking, caning, flogging), hot wax, clamps, 'I love how pretty you suffer', overstim
• I love soft, RACK/SSC-abiding scenes within discussed limits, 24/7 D/S, and 'this is not safe sane or consensual'
• Dynamics: hard dom/bratty sub, pleasure dom/needy sub, experienced dom/new sub that's about to get their shit rocked, new but enthusiastic dom exploring/eager sub that can take whatever the dom wants to dish out, dom/sub reluctant to give up power even though they REALLY need a good subdrop
• Better mental health through BDSM

• Dubcon where the victim secretly wanted it
• Dubcon where the victim didn't want it before but they do now
• Soft noncon where the victim enjoys themself
• x made them do it / fuck or die
• Weapons play (as a threat or to force obedience)
• Kidnapping/captivity
• Torture (gone wrong gone sexual)
• 'I have to torture you in front of my friends so I don't blow my cover while I'm undercover sorry sorry sorry'

• Mecha AUs - Pacific Rim (love makes giant robots punch!!), Evangelion AUs, scavenged part mechs in a dystopian world, help the mech I'm in is alive and has its own agenda, the only Gundam I've seen is Witch from Mercury but that
• Alien first contact
• Solarpunk (with bonus body horror)
• Space pirates/smugglers
• Drifting around in a spaceship until plot lands on them as a stowaway

• Ghost hunter/paranormal investigator/cult infiltrator (gone wrong gone sexual)
• Gothic horror (tortured heroes, dust-covered manors, blood-stained white nightgowns!!)
• Medical whump/torture porn/'take me instead'/'if you don't do it I will'
• Trapped together/captivity
• Based on a myth/retelling
• Creatures of the deep / creatures of the forest / creatures of the night - demon deals and possession, monstrous fae, eldritch infections
• Folk horror (rituals, isolation, stumbling into a witch/cult/creature's back garden and somehow being confused when they're mad about it)
• Surviving the night
• The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
• Time loops and the existential dread of reliving your own death over and over in different ways
• Haunting failures because the victims are better at this than the ghost / helping lost and confused ghosts
• Turned into a vampire / living blood bag for vampire
• Liminal spaces - deserted stretches of road, a swimming pool after closing time, a deserted shopping centre
• Having mixed feeling about the bloodthirsty entity on Blorbo's side
• Daylight horror
• Marriage of convenience turns extremely inconvenient (because spouse is evil)

• Sub or dom suffering because they refuse to admit they need this
• 'and they were both subs (or doms)' finding a third
• Shyly asking a friend to help
• Finding a dom/sub through an agency but OOPS it's someone they know
• First time
• Experienced dom/sub couple showing a newer dom/sub couple what to do
• Sub goes through training to NOT submit to dom demands
• Accidentally discovering someone's dom/sub designation through an innocent joke
• Villain uses hero's dom/sub designation against them
• Introducing a switch designation
• BDSM to stave off violent/self-destructive urges

• Minimalist colour schemes
• Dark jewel tones
• Suggestive rather than explicit
• I love both soft and simple backgrounds, and backgrounds being the focus of a piece!
• Comic/sketchy styles
• Fun with lighting
• Tarot themes
• If you'd be happy for me to use it as an icon or banner, please let me know!

• Focus on grief/mourning/terminal illness
• Focus on pregnancy/having kids (mentions fine)
• Cheating involving main characters
• Weed culture (other drugs or passing mentions of weed are fine; noncon drugging such as sex pollen or spiking is fine)
• Focus on alcohol
• Not a hard DNW, but skimming or glossing over non-vegan food (such as canonical favourite meals) is appreciated! Exceptions happily made for settings where animal products are necessary for survival. Feel free to kink on making humans into livestock/being treated like animals as long as no actual animals are harmed!

• Copious amounts of cum (it exists and that's fine but if there's swallowing/playing with it/snowballing/excessive time spent on it, please gloss over the texture/smell/taste! Cum on someone's back/ass/whatever is fine, noting that it's in their hair/eye and played for laughs is great, coming inside and realising it's leaking out is fine, I just don't find it sexy on its own!)

• Teeth or eye related body horror (everything else is fair game!)
• Underage (references or mentions in passing are fine if between consenting older teens or if child abuse is part of the plot/characterisation)
• Main character death (unless rectified quickly in a spooky supernatural kind of way!)

• Dubcon/noncon/CNC
• Fun with narration, such as 2nd person POV or epistolary like chatfic (but please don't use exclusively text speak!)
• Torture
• Pet play
• Sounding
• Feet (clean)
• Character bashing a character that's a canonical child abuser in-universe (even if they feel sad about it)
• BDSM, dom/sub, impact play
• Whump
• Cannibalism (especially when the eater doesn't know, but the person feeding it to them does; or as a metaphor for codependent love)

• Omorashi (in a forced dom/sub context?)
• Knife/blood play (I've only ever used it in a Toga Himiko context but it doesn't disgust me)
• Tentacles (I tend to love interpersonal dynamics and conflicts which I imagine is harder to do with tentacles but I'm not against them)
• Emeto (Fictional depictions don't phase me)
• Micro/macro

• I adore, for lack of a better term, how 'millenial' this game feels. It's meta, it's irreverant, and yet it still cares so deeply about everything. The characters are all given such care and exploration, and the characters themselves are all people pretending they don't care about the fate of several countries while actively risking themselves to bring about peace. I also love that you can turn military-grade turrets off by holding the status button and tapping reset three times.
• Dessa Banks: I fell in love with her in the game trailer showing her mechanics, and then again in-game seeing all her conversations and realising she's an absolute killjoy dour pessimist. And then I love how un-grumpy she looks when you get her talking about etymology or medicine because she's a massive nerd, and how she has all this terrifying necromedic power and can't help but use it to actually help people. That said, she's a huge gremlin and absolutely spent too much time on the internet in med school, I just know it. And she's practical! I saw the screen where she's eating with her surgery scalpel.
• Zan Vesker: if I were reduced to only have one per media, Zan is my one autistic headcanon pick. He listens to his Ma. He loves little model vehicles. He spent so long agonising over what happened with Liv in the first mission of the game that it informs everything he does later, and I genuinely can't tell if it's just a mentor-trainee relationship with a lot of guilt or if there was a toxic co-dependency going on - either way, it's delicious watching him try to figure out who is is without her. Especially when he's on the only one that stands a chance of beating her. 
• Jen Kellen: I love that Darrell has the trans-inclusive pride sticker on his carry case. Her anxiety dream about her sense of self and struggles holding onto validation and lack of direction really resonated with me, and I just know she gets anxiety tummy aches when she has to phone the vet to book Darrell in. And that doesn't stop her being an optimistic lunatic willing to try absolutely everything for the smallest chance of doing something good! She's so patient and empathetic unless you're Steve fucking Clark!!
• Rion: his backstory reveal hit me so hard I had to exit the game for a bit and think about life. His godawful British dialect is hilariously charming. His general disdain for his ball-licker mode tickles me despite everything, because he absolutely seems to also resent being a human. I'm sure his belief that cruelty and hate are inherant to humans doesn't need therapy or anything... love that he lives by doggy morals though.
• Dall Sabin: Hers are the only levels I skipped in the game because hearing her talk about Jida was too sad for me :( I love watching her journey channeling that grief into action, and her thoughts on her religion are beautiful. I also love her completely correct takes on olives.

• Since we're fig-leafing this exchange, here's an extra list of freeform AUs I would also be estatic to see in this exchange
• Ancient Greece/Rome
• Apocalypse
• Arranged marriage
• Artist/model
• BDSM
• Bodyguard AU (is it really an AU if it's Nika though)
• Bodyswap
• Casefic 
• Cat rescue
• Cats (the musical) (because Olivia deserves to sing Memories tbh)
• Canon death averted (if we assume the archive-only characters have no on-file for a reason...)
• Character is dehumanised human weapon (aka the winter soldier AU)
• Character working as a professional dom/me in their spare time
• Characters pretend to be a couple/married so often they catch feelings
• Coffee shop
• Coffee shop is actually a mafia front
• Ecologists
• Fire Emblem Three Houses
• Ghost hunter
• Gods/goddesses
• Heist 
• Heist but fantasy setting
• Honeypot
• Horror
• Horror with erotic themes
• Hunger Games Victor
• Lighthouse keeper
• Mall workers
• Marriage of convenience
• Mecha
• Merpeople
• Mockumentary
• Pacific Rim
• Paramornal investigators
• Pokemon
• Political marriage
• possessed by time-travelling future self
• post-apocalypse
• post-apocalypse homeowners association
• pro wrestling
• Sci-fi horror
• SCP foundation fusion
• Sex pollen
• Solarpunk 
• The Thing fusion

• Sci-fi - post apocalyptic, bio/solarpunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, kaiju/mecha, military sci-fi, any sci-fi/horror mashup
• Fantasy - high fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, historical (if you have actual historical knowledge and can teach me something as well that would be amazing), paranormal, magical realism, fairytale, superhero, cosy, new weird, gaslamp, fae (I LOVE fae worldbuilding)
• Horror - demonic, paranormal (curses and hauntings!), zombie, witchcraft, psychological, comedic, home invasion, torture, folk horror, haunted house, cosmic/eldritch, gothic, epistolary/found footage style, survival in the wilderness 
• Coffee shop where opening and closing shifts despise each other OR it is a money laundering scheme

• Cis, trans, I don't care who has what so go and be free with your headcanons (but I prefer canon pronouns!)
• I will love m/m, m/f, f/f, nb/nb, and poly equally
• Any words are fine to use to describe genitals
• Every fictional character is a true switch to me. Strict top/bottom dom/sub who, as far as I'm concerned, everyone is just spaghetti noodling around doing whatever they want whenever they want so if you're writing NSFW, whichever way you write them will be amazing

• Character studies / blorbo gazing
• Kidnapping / captivity
• Most 'forced together' tags - hanahaki, x pollen, truth or dare, undercover mission, huddling together
• Non-socialised character learning to be human
• Gothic horror / gothic romance
• Processing past trauma in a safe place
• Processing past trauma in an unsafe place
• Character vs the role they think they hold
• Comedy of errors
• Touchstarved characters
• Hurt/Comfort fluff
• Unhinged kink
• Scheming together
• Experiments gone wrong

• Kink exploration
• Important personal realisations being had right in the middle of kinky sex
• Character study/development through the lens of smut
• Unreasonable amounts of orgasms across the board
• Hands/mouth/toys treated as 'the fun' rather than a lead up to dick in hole
• Sex to chase away the Big Sads
• Overwhelmed or happy crying/dacryphilia
• Praise and body worship
• Lovingly consensual
• Dubiously consensual
• Nonconsensual but gentle
• Not safe, sane or consensual
• Tickling

• Bondage: ropes, chains, predicament bondage, honour bondage, stocks, hogtie, shibari, spreader bars, fucking machines, medical restraints
• Dominance and submission: edging, delay and denial, domestic discipline, impossible or humiliating orders, tickling (especially when paired with bondage and/orhumiliation), medical kink, forced pleasure, begging, nonsexual play, primal play, dom directs sub's gangbang
• Sadism and masochism: impact play (spanking, caning, flogging), hot wax, clamps, 'I love how pretty you suffer', overstim
• I love soft, RACK/SSC-abiding scenes within discussed limits, 24/7 D/S, and 'this is not safe sane or consensual'
• Dynamics: hard dom/bratty sub, pleasure dom/needy sub, experienced dom/new sub that's about to get their shit rocked, new but enthusiastic dom exploring/eager sub that can take whatever the dom wants to dish out, dom/sub reluctant to give up power even though they REALLY need a good subdrop
• Better mental health through BDSM

• Dubcon where the victim secretly wanted it
• Dubcon where the victim didn't want it before but they do now
• Soft noncon where the victim enjoys themself
• x made them do it / fuck or die
• Weapons play (as a threat or to force obedience)
• Kidnapping/captivity
• Torture (gone wrong gone sexual)
• 'I have to torture you in front of my friends so I don't blow my cover while I'm undercover sorry sorry sorry'
• I am super into tickling in a noncon, interrogation or torture way too. Especially if the poor recip is humiliated about being into it!

• Mecha AUs - Pacific Rim (love makes giant robots punch!!), Evangelion AUs, scavenged part mechs in a dystopian world, help the mech I'm in is alive and has its own agenda, the only Gundam I've seen is Witch from Mercury but I love that
• Alien first contact
• Solarpunk (with bonus body horror)
• Space pirates/smugglers
• Drifting around in a spaceship until plot lands on them as a stowaway

• Ghost hunter/paranormal investigator/cult infiltrator (gone wrong gone sexual)
• Gothic horror (tortured heroes, dust-covered manors, blood-stained white nightgowns!!)
• Medical whump/torture porn/'take me instead'/'if you don't do it I will'
• Trapped together/captivity
• Based on a myth/retelling
• Creatures of the deep / creatures of the forest / creatures of the night - demon deals and possession, monstrous fae, eldritch infections
• Folk horror (rituals, isolation, stumbling into a witch/cult/creature's back garden and somehow being confused when they're mad about it)
• Surviving the night
• The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
• Time loops and the existential dread of reliving your own death over and over in different ways
• Haunting failures because the victims are better at this than the ghost / helping lost and confused ghosts
• Turned into a vampire / living blood bag for vampire
• Liminal spaces - deserted stretches of road, a swimming pool after closing time, a deserted shopping centre
• Having mixed feeling about the bloodthirsty entity on Blorbo's side
• Daylight horror
• Marriage of convenience turns extremely inconvenient (because spouse is evil)

• Sub or dom suffering because they refuse to admit they need this
• 'and they were both subs (or doms)' finding a third
• Shyly asking a friend to help
• Finding a dom/sub through an agency but OOPS it's someone they know
• First time
• Experienced dom/sub couple showing a newer dom/sub couple what to do
• Sub goes through training to NOT submit to dom demands
• Accidentally discovering someone's dom/sub designation through an innocent joke
• Villain uses hero's dom/sub designation against them
• Introducing a switch designation
• BDSM to stave off violent/self-destructive urges

• Minimalist colour schemes
• Dark jewel tones
• Suggestive rather than explicit
• I love both simple backgrounds, and backgrounds being the focus of a piece!
• Comic/sketchy styles
• Fun with lighting
• Tarot themes
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• Grief/mourning/terminal illness as a focus
• Pregnancy/having kids (mentions fine)
• Cheating/infidelity with main characters
• Parental incest
• Fic with no capitalisation (lapslock)
• Not a hard DNW, but skimming or glossing over non-vegan food is appreciated! Exceptions happily made for settings where animal products are necessary for survival, or for human cannibalism

• Copious amounts of cum (it exists and that's fine but if there's swallowing/playing with it/snowballing/excessive time spent on it, please gloss over the texture/smell/taste! Cum on someone's back/ass/whatever is fine, noting that it's in their hair/eye and played for laughs is great, coming inside and realising it's leaking out is fine, I just don't find it sexy on its own!)

• Teeth or eye related body horror (every other kind is fair game!)
• Underage (references or mentions in passing are fine if between consenting older teens or if child abuse is part of the plot/characterisation)
• Main character death (unless rectified quickly in a spooky supernatural kind of way!)

• Dubcon/noncon/CNC
• Drabble sequences
• Body horror (exception: eyes and teeth)
• Fun with narration, such as 2nd person POV or epistolary like chatfic (but that specific brand of 2010s textspeak hurts my head)
• Feet (if they're clean)
• Character bashing a character that's a canonical child abuser in-universe (even if they feel sad about it)
• BDSM, dom/sub, impact play
• Whump
• Sibling incest (or adjacent. Especially love it if the relationship is antagonistic!)
• Cannibalism (especially when the eater doesn't know, but the person feeding it to them does; or as a metaphor for codependent love)

• Omorashi 
• Knife/blood play
• Tentacles 
• Emeto
• Micro/macro

• I adore, for lack of a better term, how 'millenial' this game feels. It's meta, it's irreverant, and yet it still cares so deeply about everything. The characters are all given such care and exploration, and the characters themselves are all people pretending they don't care about the fate of several countries while actively risking themselves to bring about peace. I also love that you can turn military-grade turrets off by holding the status button and tapping reset three times.
• Dessa Banks: I fell in love with her in the game trailer showing her mechanics, and then again in-game seeing all her conversations and realising she's an absolute killjoy dour pessimist. And then I love how un-grumpy she looks when you get her talking about etymology or medicine because she's a massive nerd, and how she has all this terrifying necromedic power and can't help but use it to actually help people. That said, she's a huge gremlin and absolutely spent too much time on the internet in med school, I just know it. And she's practical! I saw the screen where she's eating with her surgery scalpel.
• Zan Vesker: if I were reduced to only have one per media, Zan is my one autistic headcanon pick. He listens to his Ma. He loves little model vehicles. He spent so long agonising over what happened with Liv in the first mission of the game that it informs everything he does later, and I genuinely can't tell if it's just a mentor-trainee relationship with a lot of guilt or if there was a toxic co-dependency going on - either way, it's delicious watching him try to figure out who is is without her. Especially when he's on the only one that stands a chance of beating her. 
• Jen Kellen: I love that Darrell has the trans-inclusive pride sticker on his carry case. Her anxiety dream about her sense of self and struggles holding onto validation and lack of direction really resonated with me, and I just know she gets anxiety tummy aches when she has to phone the vet to book Darrell in. And that doesn't stop her being an optimistic lunatic willing to try absolutely everything for the smallest chance of doing something good! She's so patient and empathetic unless you're Steve fucking Clark!!
• Rion: his backstory reveal hit me so hard I had to exit the game for a bit and think about life. His godawful British dialect is hilariously charming. His general disdain for his ball-licker mode tickles me despite everything, because he absolutely seems to also resent being a human. I'm sure his belief that cruelty and hate are inherant to humans doesn't need therapy or anything... love that he lives by doggy morals though.
• Dall Sabin: Hers are the only levels I skipped in the game because hearing her talk about Jida was too sad for me :( I love watching her journey channeling that grief into action, and her thoughts on her religion are beautiful. I also love her completely correct takes on olives.

 

• There is so much fun to be had with this setting. The horror of time loops / the fun of time loops / the fun of making out in a time loop while incorrectly assuming there will be no lasting consequences!! The lengths they go to for their beliefs! Fighting unwinnable fights because they have to! Body horror that comes from -waves vaguely at everything crest-related-! Taking a prisoner of war but oops they remember sitting next to them in history class!
• Sylvain: claims to be in love with everyone to hide that he thinks he's got a black hole where his heart should be. His unconfronted childhood trauma has made him kind, but nobody will see this until they're five years into a war and he's so sleepy he forgets to hide that he's a pretty decent guy, actually. Was fully prepared to let Miklan into the army for the good of the people even though the guy threw a young Sylvain down a well to drown because he thinks he deserved it, probably. World's politest misogynist. 
• Dimitri: his pleasant smile is at all times masking barely contained rage. Went to school so he research his family's murder without his uncle trying to assassinate him every night. The sole character that would be estatic to find himself in a time loop because it would mean he doesn't have to deal with all the shit he has going on for two minutes. Wipes out every TWSITD leader accidentally. Got so much game he straight up invites his teacher to the Goddess Tower.
• Felix: is such a bitch so people won't realise he gets anxiety tummy aches about Dimitri's well-being. Saw his family's self-sacrificial deaths and decided it was a skill issue. Loves his mama. Is right about everything all the time but he's so unsocialised that not a single person listens to him (the effect of what unresolved deep-rooted grief does to a child who turns to aggression to hide that he's hurting). Mocks his teacher for turning up at the Goddess Tower, where he has been all night, waiting for them.
• Ingrid: despite railing against the gender norms forced upon her, she knows she *has* to try and keep the other Faerghus nobles in line as The Responsible Girl because she's the only thing standing between them and total dissolution, probably. She's got a really interesting take on Faerghan chivalry considering she goes out of her way to take on a warrior role and I think what would cure her is a pretty girl kissing her.
• Mercedes: her entire life has been shaped by the pursuit of crests as people try to play god and here she is, all religious and shit. Very sexy of her. Approximately two inches to the left of her own body at all times and both willing and able to deliver a sick burn and then float away ethereally.
• Dorothea: she knows what it is to be both privileged and disadvantaged and she's honed that into a diamond-sharp blade to carve out a space for her and her loved ones in the world. Despite everything she went through, she's still so kind. She's also willing to drop to her knees and serenade a pretty girl at a moments notice so 10/10 just purely for that tbh. She'd also look great as a gothic heroine kicking the shit out of the beast holding her captive while looking glamorous in a blood-stained white nightgown.
• Edelgard: she's tiny and angry and goddamnit she's got too much to do for how incompetant everyone around her is. She's the emperor of a kingdom but that doesn't stop her shyly drawing fanart of her teacher and laying in bed at night with anxiety tummy aches thinking up names for her new strike force. I'm also fascinated with the effects of her history of experimentation and what that means for present-day Edelgard. Scars? Nightmares? I wanna know!
• Hapi: she's A+ trauma rep for her uncanny ability to tolerate anything except for minor day-to-day inconveniences. There's a certain nonchalance that must come with being able to summon giant demonic beasts toward any threat to her, but I'd love to know how much of her personality is a trauma response and how much is Just Her
• Constance: I am fascinated by gulf between 'well-bred noble who speaks well and exceeds at everything she sets her mind to' and 'the saddest, most passive soggy cat you've ever seen'. 
• Lysithea: she is All Or Nothing, no in between. Pretty sure she thinks she should have died during her experiments and treats any time after that as a bonus that should be used solely to improve the lives of her parents, her territory, and her friends and doesn't actually consider herself alive in the traditional sense. Looks impulsive in battle but it turns out that she considered all the possibilities and decided on a near-suicide run anyway because it beats a lingering fight when she's on a deadline. Would not know what to do with a spa day gift card.
• Claude: attributing his 'bullying as a love language' thing to an utter dearth of familiar affection in childhood. He might die if he has to stop moving. Is actually pretty honest about a lot of things but says it in such a way that nobody believes him. Not to woobify him but I think if someone hugged him without the intent to stab, he would tear up.

• The concept of 'you need to assist in the birth of a god' is AMAZING. And there are time loops? PERFECT 10/10 NO NOTES.
• The interactions with Princess changing based on choices you make born from preconceptions is BEAUTIFUL. She says herself that each perspective is still her, simply changed through the lens of how we view her, and even when she and the player take violent actions toward one another they're still able to sit and talk about how it's pretty much all out of fear. It feels impossible to have a favourite perspective because they're all her, and I love all of her equally (because I am a huge Princess/The Shifting Mound simp)
• The Narrator being a desperate, pompous little british man trying to cheat death is the absolute funniest way he could have been written. He's not even alive any more, but even as an echo he's so scared of the changed The Shifting Mound respresents that he's willing to completely dehumanise both her and you. A fascinating exploration. Also you know who else took on a devil role in order to prevent the birth of a god? Homura Akemi. I don't know what point I'm making here but it's a fundamentally sexy concept right
• A ramble about how I connect this game to experiences IRL, feel free to skip! (CW for therapy-speak from both a personal and professional perspective.) My entire playthough felt really visceral because of how much love has been put into making the game, but also how I relate to it. The whole concept of the princess' different parts felt really similar to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model which - and bear with me, I'm not fully qualified yet lmao - is about identifying and externalising stress and trauma responses to make it easier to treat them with compassion, with the goal being able to reintegrate them into the 'self' in a less harmful or disruptive way. While the circumstances are a bit different since she's starting from scratch, the idea of exploring and learning to love each part individually before making her whole felt really beautiful. (Also 'The Shifting Mound sending out trial personalities to gather info about How To Live' is very autistic coded right???)

• There are so many fun things to play with in the world of Stardew Valley - the small town, everyone-knows-everyone vibe, all the cool festivals, whatever the heck is going on in the mines. 
• Sebastian: huge nerd that would rather be right than nice (affectionate). Anxious king. Stands at the end of the pier in the rain like he's in an early 2000s teen movie and starts a frog sanctuary the moment he gets a chance and I think that's really sexy of him
• Shane: short king. Loves his chickens more than life itself. Making terrible decisions while drunk makes for GREAT fic fodder. Knows he's a huge fuckup but also knows he's doing his best to be better so he can be proud of himself. You know he runs chicken gridball tournements when no-one's looking.
• Abigail: I am FASCINATED by the concept that she loved all these amazing magical things and may, in fact, actually be able to cast magic. And who could hate someone that loves rainstorms, graveyards, flute and frogs?? I think she should read everyone's tarot cards with David the guinea pig as her glamorous assistant. 
• Haley: I love that you meet her and she comes across as an airheaded, image-obsessed slob - and it's not wrong! She is! She's just also an enthusiastic photographer with a strong sense of self and helping those who need it and she isn't afraid to speak her mind!
• Leah: she's so in tune with the seasons of the valley - and she taught herself that! She comes from the city! She's just that passionate! Knowing that she's willing to punch her unsupportive ex-partner in the face is just a nice bonus.
• Maru: Smart! Compentent! Built a robot in her room and then gave it its freedom just because it asked!! It's also really sexy of her to work at the clinic.

• Banks: Brain damage and a lack of affordable medical care won't stop her siphoning funds from heavily guarded accounts to rebuild her hometown! Slán go fóill!
• Olivia: Her dream of a better world has survived her faked execution, a total turnover of upper management and having to interact with the dumbasses she employs after the torture left her body unable to hold up to the rigours of fieldwork!! She's so competent -swoons-
• Rush: Chanelled her absolutely insane world-class athlete work ethic and determination into protecting innocent people and was executed on live TV for it. ...or maybe spent years imprisoned in a detention centre, or on the run, or...
• Prism:  Isn't it WILD that she was a preteen when the Istanbul Four were executed on live TV and then went on to take part in anti-corp protests and eventually fake her death, independently scam corps and then join Invisible Inc.? God I love a good radicalisation story
• Nika: she takes absolutely no shit but is such an unbothered queen that you have to actively be up in her space for her to care. And she's on Invisible Inc.'s payroll?? Terrifying.

• Clarke: is literally a cat that's sick and trying to hide her injuries and sneak away to die quietly but her friends won't let her and I love that for her. People are totally fine with her making the hard choices until they personally disagree with her decision and you know what, she deserves a little bit of light murder. As a treat. She's not got the technical knowledge or the physical strength of a lot of other people but that doesn't stop her being a goddamn terminator. If she can't power-of-friendship her way through a problem then by god she's going to make sure it never becomes a problem again.
• Raven: every day she wakes up and drinks a cup of get shit done. She's smart, she's competent, she's not fucking around - if you need something accomplished, she's your woman. It's also so lovely to see her dealing with her chronic pain, and being a core member of the team even though she has to consistently tear herself away from thinking that her disability means her life is over.
• Octavia: I love every step of Octavia's journey, from the girl under the floor to the last of humanity (several times over). She always finds her own place despite being pushed into this role or that role and you know what, I'm Octavia's number one apologist. She did her best!!
• Echo: she is SO fascinating. I wish we could have seen more of Azgeda, because they clearly have some (deliciously) fucked up views of chivalry and honour. Like what is that cutting up her face to symbolise being totally fine?? It took was six years stuck in space with the same handful of people to realise that maybe it's okay to soften up a bit and then another two seasons happen to her :( Echo has never known peace!!
• Anya: she's SO fierce and confident and powerful that the moment someone turns up with orders from the Commander to take over, she's totally fine to step aside because she knows her worth and doesn't need to take it personally. She was raised in a hostile death world where only aggression and territorial paranoia keep someone alive, tentatively agrees to peace to protect everyone anyway, and then is shot for her troubles! Anya deserves better!!

• Miku: Action girl! High strung princess! Sad computer program! The possibilities are endless!! I love that she keeps getting official backstories that keep getting retconned as well, it just tickles me.
• Rin: Rin really excels in her fantasy based songs like Daughter of Evil, Childish War, Alluring Secret Black Vow and Synchronicity, but she's also got so many fun sci-fi personas like in Kokoro and Antichlorobenzine! I usually see her as bubbly and refusing to take anyone's shit with a slightly inflated ego, but i'm eager to hear how other people see her.
• Gumi: I love the identity crisis she has in ten-faced, and it could be explored in so many different settings as either literal or metaphorical! I especially love the characterisations of her that let her be a plucky tomboy, and I'm always in love with her slightly unhinged Panda Hero and Matryoshka portrayals where she's not quite thinking clearly.