Original 5k 2022

Hello! It's my first time participating in this exchange, and I'm really looking forward to it! The ideas (mostly questions, tbh) are below.
Also, all this account is for exchange letters, so browse at your pleasure.
Regarding smut/no smut - only one ship is stricktly no smut, the rest is up to you! (I do prefer plot to smut, but it's a preference).

General DNW:
- generic modern time
- any allusions to modern situation/politics (illnesses that span the globe, countries being torn apart, that kind of thing - mentions is fine, being the centre of the plot is DNW)
- hopeless endings (open endings are fine)
- non-canonical character death
- eye trauma described in any kind of detail
- mind-control
- character bashing (as in unreasonable hating without any reason spelled out - if you see a character able to bash another, warn for it and keep it as out of the author's speech as possible)
- non-con

General likes (in addition to specific prompts):
- hurt/comfort
- there was only one _insert object here_ plots
- characters expressing their feelings by actions instead of words
- calm before the storm moments (especially if there's a foreshadowing of important events or such)
- soulmate AUs (but not any kind that impedes one's vision before meeting a soulmate - like, see only the colour of their eyes/no colours other than black and white until you've met, that kind of thing)
- daemon AU
- bodyswap
- timetravel in all shapes and forms (inc. groundhog-day AUs)


- historical, steampunk or magical settings (historical being up to approx. 1920)
- mpreg (where applicaple)

Ships:
Woman Crowned King Instead of Queen For Legal Reasons/Her Arranged Marriage Queen Consort (F/F)

This is a pretty fascinating prompt (mostly for legal reasons bit, tbh): does the Queen Consort know she’s marrying a woman? Is the King title a tradition? A personal preference for some reason?
Note: while the prompt hints at patriarchate society, I’d prefer either minimum or no misogyny – because it’s somewhat baked in the prompt, it’s not a DNW but a preference.

Queen/Her Chancellor (F/F)

Oh, this one is all about loyalty for me – does the chancellor do all the things Queen would like to happen even before she asks? Is it vice versa? Does the Queen know the Chancellor would never betray her? Or does she have doubts regardless?
An actual prompt: the Chancellor realises there’s a plot against the Queen and has to join them to dismantle it from within. Does she tell the Queen? Or does she keep her in the dark?

Immortal Empress/Her Reincarnated Lover (F/F)

How does the Empress recognises her lover? Is it a gesture, a skill, or do they look the same? How do mortal and immortal being live, knowing one is going to die? Does the lover remember her previous lives or are they more like a dream? If second, does the Empress tell her lover about their past together?

Goddess of War/Goddess of Art (F/F)

How do they court each other? Does War bring fancy spoils for Art, or does Art depict War (be it pictures, songs, dances or whatever)? Or does War try to court Art with, well, art, be it her own or commissioned?

God of Time/God of Jewellery/Goddess of Telepathy (M/M/F)

Can they use their powers on each other? Do they use them? It’s probably more obvious with Time and Telepathy, but Jewellery could be used for bondage wink-wink
Or just a day in their life, probably a long one.

God of Justice/Goddess of War (M/F)

What do they disagree on? Are there laws War agrees to apheld? Or does Justice berates her every time there’s another conflict?
Or who’s going to win, if there’s a fight?

God of Time/Mortal he is trying to seduce (M/M)

How does a God of Time who has all the time in the world seduces someone who is mortal? Is he successful?

God of Justice/His Paladine who Came to Arrest Him (M/M)

Oh, this one is also about loyalty, yet not to a being – to an idea. What exactly is Justice if a God of it is to be arrested? Is the Paladine even right or is it a revolt? If he is, does the God go quietly or resists, believing himself to be always right?

Is it a built in feature of the universe they live in, where each and every god is eventually displaced by someone who’d be better?

Deity of Life & Woman asking to repeatedly revive fiance/Fiance who thinks they are just sickly

I’m just expecting crack from this, tbh, and all the ways someone can die and still believe it to be an illness.
Prompt specific DNW: explicit gore

Empress/Her Empire (F/Other)

Emperor/His Empire (M/Other)

Those two are fairly similar, so they are grouped together. Is the Empire the spouse, by tradition or by choice? Or does they keep their ruler on a short leash so that there’s no sudden changes in policy that’ll negatively affect them? Or does the Empire choose the Empress/Emperor?

Empire/Their Capital City (Other/Other)

Who’s in charge? Do they agree on things or not? Who was there first: did the Empire built themselves a Capital, or did the Capital conquer the world for their Empire (okay, a small chunk of the world)?

Or do they foul mouth the court/Senate/whoever together?

Immortal Ruler & Their Advisors over the Ages (Any & Any)

I’d like to see different people interact with the Ruler, be it conflicts, or agreements, or just the day-to-day work with someone who knew your grand-grand-grand parents and would know your grand-grandchildren.

 

As for the setting: I like steampunk, generic XVII-XIX century for historical and fantasy akin to Discworld or Witcher if not (as in – magic more prevalent than gunpowder, actions have consequences, humans are humans and therefore are allowed to be nasty, modern utilities can exist but as a magical or less technological thing, etc.).
Any fantasy races are welcome (preferably with tags).
Thanks again for creating something for me (or just reading this)! I wish you all the inspiration (and may the writer's block never find you!)