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Hi!
If you're considering making something for me and want to see some extra thoughts on my requests, or just my likes and DNWs in bullet lists, I hope this letter is helpful. But please, feel free to just go by my requested tags, my DNNWs (Do Not Wants), and your own heart! You don't have to look at this or use it at all. Thank you so much for being interested at all!
Gifts enabled are enabled on AO3 (where I am LittleRaven); treats welcome!
Likes:
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys. Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones. Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy:
- fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, illustrated fic, poetry, epistolary, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, 5+1 stories, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, road trips
- enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments
- bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings
- quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love
- politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming
- Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, Ahsoka’s fangs, connecting to the force together
- time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, time loops (including those which get reset with death, and where the person in the loop resets it purposefully by dying), time freezing
- undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games
- scars, suspense, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets
- trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy
- casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, growling, blindfolding, chains
- stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other
- spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing
- loneliness, mutual pining
- dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters
- us against the world
- ghosts
- rule 63'ing male characters (where they were always a girl)
- learning new skills
- gothic romance
- daemons (His Dark Materials-style)
Horror Likes:
- ghosts
- hostile alternate selves
- loneliness
- suspense
- scars
- time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, time loops (including those which get reset with death, and where the person in the loop resets it purposefully by dying), time freezing
- psychological horror
- isolation
- architecture that wants to keep you
- nature that wants to keep you
- gothic horror
- cosmic horror
- post-apocalypse scenarios
- dreams bleeding into reality
- hauntings
- cursed objects
- possession
Smut Likes:
- character focus in smut, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, the divine as sex
- cunnilingus, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, eating her out while holding her hand, multiple orgasms, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, learning new skills, kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
- trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection
- shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps
- sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse
- body heat sharing
- dreams
- pining, mutual pining
- ghost sex
- feeling each others' sensations during sex
- Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, Vulcan Mind Meld during on-your-knees cunnilingus
AU Likes:
Canon divergence
Period AUs - Regency (played straight or fantasy/science-fiction, in our world or another), 1920s, Jazz Age, Medieval, Renaissance, Byzantine Empire, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greece
Genres - planetary romance, fairy tale, magical girl, steampunk, pirate, high fantasy, noir
Other Canons - characters having daemons like in the His Dark Materials books, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, Star Trek, Jupiter Ascending, Silent Hill (2006), Clue, Annihilation (2018), Southern Reach trilogy, 30 Days of Night, The Mummy (1999-2001), Happy Death Day, Pacific Rim, Stardust (film or book)
IF Likes:
I use Windows 7 and Apple mobile devices. Most of my experience is with choice games--for example, like Alabaster, The Book of Guenevere, Affairs of the Court, visual novels like Oxenfree and Cinders, dating sims like Long Live the Queen and Magical Diary , and paper books where you turn to a page for every choice--but I’d be delighted with a parser game too. Puzzles, mazes, and timers aren’t a strength of mine, so I would enjoy a walkthrough if those are present.
Art Likes:
General:
any art style, rough sketches and clean line art both, color and composition to set mood, comics, scenery, single and group character poses, cute or actiony or romantic or moody or creepy, character expressions, body language, art of characters as tarot cards, dreams, in-universe art, characters with their loved ones (whether or not they're having a good time), characters with their enemies, characters doing the kind of thing they are good at in canon, lineart, lineless art, black and white/grayscale, bright colors, deep colors, subdued colors, pastel colors, monochrome, color highlights, anything with my AU likes
Poses:
non-explicit poses like characters kissing (on the mouth, the temple, the top of the head, hands, the cheek, etc), holding hands, hugging, carrying each other (princess carry, fireman, piggyback, shoulder rides), and pressing their foreheads together, petting their faces/hair, arms around shoulders/waists
explicit poses involving anything in my smut likes
DNWs:
If you have questions about any of these as they apply to a request, I welcome contact through the mod!
- bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead requested characters (where they're not even a ghost/vampire)
- mpreg
- detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia
- noncon (unless requested/prompted)—dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o,bestiality, oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, anal tearing, ass to mouth
- body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating
- animal harm, animal death
- rule 63’ing female characters
- bashing of characters or ships
- unrequited love (except if it's prompted, or if it’s only unrequited in a characters' head)
- permanent breakups unless prompted
- focus on requested characters in unrequested/unprompted ships, non-canon unrequested ships, unrequested/unprompted poly/open relationships
- stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship
- AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested/in list of likes)
- underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+)
- ageplay/infantilization; unrequested/unprompted humiliation
- sexuality/gender headcanons
- coronavirus
- incest (unless prompted/requested), selfcest (unless prompted/requested)
- necrophilia
- vore
- insects, arachnids
Black Magician Trilogy - Trudi Canavan
Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Sonea (Black Magician Trilogy)
Ship: Akkarin/Sonea (Black Magician Trilogy)
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
I'd love to know how she went about setting up the hospice at the end of the first trilogy: with Dorrien helping her, and with other healers coming forward--was she surprised?--and the reception she got from her prospective patients. I'd also love anything with her in between trilogies, whether handling a particularly difficult part of patient care, or Guild politics, or raising Lorkin, or something post-The Traitor Queen, after she's started to realize she can be less restricted than she thinks, and navigating having a romantic relationship for the first time since she was a teenager. (I didn't request Sonea/Regin, but would still enjoy something with them during or after the sequels. Actually, let me take this moment to say I noticed an Akkarin/Regin/Sonea tag exists on the archive, with zero works. I don't know how it would work, other than I'd like Sonea as the center; if you have an idea, I'd be interested in seeing it!) Missing shippy scenes, for Sonea/Akkarin; I enjoyed how physically affectionate they were, with the snuggling and wake up kisses on the road. Or an AU in which she doesn't lose Akkarin; what would their new lives look like? How would the Guild react to her if they had two black magicians available rather than one? I'd also be happy with a look at their domestic life. Or both the politics and the domestic! For more AUs: what if things don't line up so unfortunately the night they were caught after killing the Ichani, or Sonea's family never got kicked out of the House they were servants in, or higher magic was never banned? (Maybe it was just partially banned/more restricted?) What would she be like, and what would she do?
Feel free to include or mention Sonea’s other canon relationships, and any character you like for the work! The same goes for material from the sequel trilogy and the prequel novel.
(Note: My DNW of "unrequited love" does not apply to including Cery's unrequited love for Sonea, or Dorrien's initially-requited interest and later one-sided love for her. Don't worry about having to dodge these things if they come up in the story!)
Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Ship: Hun-Kame/Casiopea Tun (Gods of Jade and Shadow)
Casiopea Tun (Gods of Jade and Shadow)
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
I love this book so much, and Casiopea's ending in particular is one of my most heart-eyes endings ever, both because and in spite of the bittersweet joy. Adventures! I'd love post-canon adventures with her, whether it's New Orleans or somewhere else. What does she get up to, with or without Loray around? It'd be cool if her new language and necromancy powers got her into contact--or out of trouble--with other gods and demons. I could see the necromancy in particular drawing the attention of other death gods; maybe she uses it that way intentionally, or maybe it's not intended at all. Or hey, maybe there's a situation allowing her and Hun-Kamé to meet again. The way they were bound to each other, Casiopea making the tough calls, and the star-crossed nature of ship, are all wonderful. They can't be together for the sake of the world, and yet, the love endures. It works so well as a mythological romance, and I'd enjoy seeing more of it, whether through a meeting or in little gestures like Hun-Kamé wanting Loray to get Casiopea out of there at the end of the book. (My prompts so far revolve around Casiopea enjoying a full, adventurous life, but I'm also a sucker for afterlife reunions, so if you wanted to set a fic after she's had that life, and do a reunion like with Rose seeing Jack again in Titanic, you're welcome to do that too!)
(Note about DNWs: The afterlife prompt does not go against my "permanently dead requested characters (where they're not even a ghost/vampire)" DNW. With regard to my "permanent breakup" DNW, it doesn't mean I want you to imply that Casiopea and Hun-Kamé get back together, or ignore their canon breakup! Their breakup is really good. If the work isn't all about how the end is permanent and doesn't go out of the way to rule it out forever, I'm happy!)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Ship: Katara/Zuko (A:TLA)
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
I very much enjoy their interactions, and the parallel of how the Avatar represents hope to them, for different reasons, and they're both passionately driven by and committed to their goals with regard to him. And of course the unexpected recognition they find in mother-loss, with Zuko briefly allowing her to try connect with him, Katara being both moved and hurt by him in the space of minutes, and the prickliness of when he decides to support Aang. I love that she's angry with him and that he cares enough about what she thinks to commit to the bit once he settles on a solution to her anger at him. ("The Southern Raiders" is a great Katara episode for letting her find her own path herself, that's neither vengeance nor forgiveness, but it was very funny having Aang and Zuko try to sway her to one side or another based on what they'd like her to do.) Everything else that came after is good too. The tensions inherent in him being the representative of the nation that made her the last Southern waterbender are also interesting. They are just fun! I would love them post-canon, whether they're in a politics story or they have to have an adventure for some reason; or maybe just another reunion like the type they all have at the end of the show! But would also enjoy an alternate universe in which they start developing romantic interest/attraction during the show.
(Note: Their canon ships might not be the ships of my heart, but I'm fond of Mai and Aang is one of my favorite characters. It's okay if the ships just don't get together, or stay broken up after all the plot happens (for Mai and Zuko), or if they break up sometime post-canon. The "permanent breakup" DNW in my details is for requested ships and characters, not any and every ship that might appear in a work.)
Once again, thank you so much for looking at my requests! I look forward to anything you might make, and hope you have a good time with the exchange!
If you're considering making something for me and want to see some extra thoughts on my requests, or just my likes and DNWs in bullet lists, I hope this letter is helpful. But please, feel free to just go by my requested tags, my DNNWs (Do Not Wants), and your own heart! You don't have to look at this or use it at all. Thank you so much for being interested at all!
Gifts enabled are enabled on AO3 (where I am LittleRaven); treats welcome!
Likes:
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys. Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones. Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy:
- fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, illustrated fic, poetry, epistolary, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, 5+1 stories, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, road trips
- enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments
- bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings
- quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love
- politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming
- Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, Ahsoka’s fangs, connecting to the force together
- time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, time loops (including those which get reset with death, and where the person in the loop resets it purposefully by dying), time freezing
- undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games
- scars, suspense, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets
- trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy
- casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, growling, blindfolding, chains
- stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other
- spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing
- loneliness, mutual pining
- dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters
- us against the world
- ghosts
- rule 63'ing male characters (where they were always a girl)
- learning new skills
- gothic romance
- daemons (His Dark Materials-style)
Horror Likes:
- ghosts
- hostile alternate selves
- loneliness
- suspense
- scars
- time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, time loops (including those which get reset with death, and where the person in the loop resets it purposefully by dying), time freezing
- psychological horror
- isolation
- architecture that wants to keep you
- nature that wants to keep you
- gothic horror
- cosmic horror
- post-apocalypse scenarios
- dreams bleeding into reality
- hauntings
- cursed objects
- possession
Smut Likes:
- character focus in smut, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, the divine as sex
- cunnilingus, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, eating her out while holding her hand, multiple orgasms, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, learning new skills, kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
- trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection
- shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps
- sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse
- body heat sharing
- dreams
- pining, mutual pining
- ghost sex
- feeling each others' sensations during sex
- Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, Vulcan Mind Meld during on-your-knees cunnilingus
AU Likes:
Canon divergence
Period AUs - Regency (played straight or fantasy/science-fiction, in our world or another), 1920s, Jazz Age, Medieval, Renaissance, Byzantine Empire, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greece
Genres - planetary romance, fairy tale, magical girl, steampunk, pirate, high fantasy, noir
Other Canons - characters having daemons like in the His Dark Materials books, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, Star Trek, Jupiter Ascending, Silent Hill (2006), Clue, Annihilation (2018), Southern Reach trilogy, 30 Days of Night, The Mummy (1999-2001), Happy Death Day, Pacific Rim, Stardust (film or book)
IF Likes:
I use Windows 7 and Apple mobile devices. Most of my experience is with choice games--for example, like Alabaster, The Book of Guenevere, Affairs of the Court, visual novels like Oxenfree and Cinders, dating sims like Long Live the Queen and Magical Diary , and paper books where you turn to a page for every choice--but I’d be delighted with a parser game too. Puzzles, mazes, and timers aren’t a strength of mine, so I would enjoy a walkthrough if those are present.
Art Likes:
General:
any art style, rough sketches and clean line art both, color and composition to set mood, comics, scenery, single and group character poses, cute or actiony or romantic or moody or creepy, character expressions, body language, art of characters as tarot cards, dreams, in-universe art, characters with their loved ones (whether or not they're having a good time), characters with their enemies, characters doing the kind of thing they are good at in canon, lineart, lineless art, black and white/grayscale, bright colors, deep colors, subdued colors, pastel colors, monochrome, color highlights, anything with my AU likes
Poses:
non-explicit poses like characters kissing (on the mouth, the temple, the top of the head, hands, the cheek, etc), holding hands, hugging, carrying each other (princess carry, fireman, piggyback, shoulder rides), and pressing their foreheads together, petting their faces/hair, arms around shoulders/waists
explicit poses involving anything in my smut likes
DNWs:
If you have questions about any of these as they apply to a request, I welcome contact through the mod!
- bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead requested characters (where they're not even a ghost/vampire)
- mpreg
- detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia
- noncon (unless requested/prompted)—dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o,bestiality, oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, anal tearing, ass to mouth
- body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating
- animal harm, animal death
- rule 63’ing female characters
- bashing of characters or ships
- unrequited love (except if it's prompted, or if it’s only unrequited in a characters' head)
- permanent breakups unless prompted
- focus on requested characters in unrequested/unprompted ships, non-canon unrequested ships, unrequested/unprompted poly/open relationships
- stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship
- AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested/in list of likes)
- underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+)
- ageplay/infantilization; unrequested/unprompted humiliation
- sexuality/gender headcanons
- coronavirus
- incest (unless prompted/requested), selfcest (unless prompted/requested)
- necrophilia
- vore
- insects, arachnids
Black Magician Trilogy - Trudi Canavan
Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Sonea (Black Magician Trilogy)
Ship: Akkarin/Sonea (Black Magician Trilogy)
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
I'd love to know how she went about setting up the hospice at the end of the first trilogy: with Dorrien helping her, and with other healers coming forward--was she surprised?--and the reception she got from her prospective patients. I'd also love anything with her in between trilogies, whether handling a particularly difficult part of patient care, or Guild politics, or raising Lorkin, or something post-The Traitor Queen, after she's started to realize she can be less restricted than she thinks, and navigating having a romantic relationship for the first time since she was a teenager. (I didn't request Sonea/Regin, but would still enjoy something with them during or after the sequels. Actually, let me take this moment to say I noticed an Akkarin/Regin/Sonea tag exists on the archive, with zero works. I don't know how it would work, other than I'd like Sonea as the center; if you have an idea, I'd be interested in seeing it!) Missing shippy scenes, for Sonea/Akkarin; I enjoyed how physically affectionate they were, with the snuggling and wake up kisses on the road. Or an AU in which she doesn't lose Akkarin; what would their new lives look like? How would the Guild react to her if they had two black magicians available rather than one? I'd also be happy with a look at their domestic life. Or both the politics and the domestic! For more AUs: what if things don't line up so unfortunately the night they were caught after killing the Ichani, or Sonea's family never got kicked out of the House they were servants in, or higher magic was never banned? (Maybe it was just partially banned/more restricted?) What would she be like, and what would she do?
Feel free to include or mention Sonea’s other canon relationships, and any character you like for the work! The same goes for material from the sequel trilogy and the prequel novel.
(Note: My DNW of "unrequited love" does not apply to including Cery's unrequited love for Sonea, or Dorrien's initially-requited interest and later one-sided love for her. Don't worry about having to dodge these things if they come up in the story!)
Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Ship: Hun-Kame/Casiopea Tun (Gods of Jade and Shadow)
Casiopea Tun (Gods of Jade and Shadow)
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
I love this book so much, and Casiopea's ending in particular is one of my most heart-eyes endings ever, both because and in spite of the bittersweet joy. Adventures! I'd love post-canon adventures with her, whether it's New Orleans or somewhere else. What does she get up to, with or without Loray around? It'd be cool if her new language and necromancy powers got her into contact--or out of trouble--with other gods and demons. I could see the necromancy in particular drawing the attention of other death gods; maybe she uses it that way intentionally, or maybe it's not intended at all. Or hey, maybe there's a situation allowing her and Hun-Kamé to meet again. The way they were bound to each other, Casiopea making the tough calls, and the star-crossed nature of ship, are all wonderful. They can't be together for the sake of the world, and yet, the love endures. It works so well as a mythological romance, and I'd enjoy seeing more of it, whether through a meeting or in little gestures like Hun-Kamé wanting Loray to get Casiopea out of there at the end of the book. (My prompts so far revolve around Casiopea enjoying a full, adventurous life, but I'm also a sucker for afterlife reunions, so if you wanted to set a fic after she's had that life, and do a reunion like with Rose seeing Jack again in Titanic, you're welcome to do that too!)
(Note about DNWs: The afterlife prompt does not go against my "permanently dead requested characters (where they're not even a ghost/vampire)" DNW. With regard to my "permanent breakup" DNW, it doesn't mean I want you to imply that Casiopea and Hun-Kamé get back together, or ignore their canon breakup! Their breakup is really good. If the work isn't all about how the end is permanent and doesn't go out of the way to rule it out forever, I'm happy!)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Ship: Katara/Zuko (A:TLA)
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
I very much enjoy their interactions, and the parallel of how the Avatar represents hope to them, for different reasons, and they're both passionately driven by and committed to their goals with regard to him. And of course the unexpected recognition they find in mother-loss, with Zuko briefly allowing her to try connect with him, Katara being both moved and hurt by him in the space of minutes, and the prickliness of when he decides to support Aang. I love that she's angry with him and that he cares enough about what she thinks to commit to the bit once he settles on a solution to her anger at him. ("The Southern Raiders" is a great Katara episode for letting her find her own path herself, that's neither vengeance nor forgiveness, but it was very funny having Aang and Zuko try to sway her to one side or another based on what they'd like her to do.) Everything else that came after is good too. The tensions inherent in him being the representative of the nation that made her the last Southern waterbender are also interesting. They are just fun! I would love them post-canon, whether they're in a politics story or they have to have an adventure for some reason; or maybe just another reunion like the type they all have at the end of the show! But would also enjoy an alternate universe in which they start developing romantic interest/attraction during the show.
(Note: Their canon ships might not be the ships of my heart, but I'm fond of Mai and Aang is one of my favorite characters. It's okay if the ships just don't get together, or stay broken up after all the plot happens (for Mai and Zuko), or if they break up sometime post-canon. The "permanent breakup" DNW in my details is for requested ships and characters, not any and every ship that might appear in a work.)
Once again, thank you so much for looking at my requests! I look forward to anything you might make, and hope you have a good time with the exchange!
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