Ficlet Meme

[cest_what]

Cross-posting from tumblr, on the chance!

Give me 2-3 characters from one of the fandoms below, along with either:

* a trope (e.g. locked in together, unwanted telepathy, etc etc), or

* a “3 things" prompt (e.g. three secrets X kept from Y, three times X injured herself on stage, etc)

and I will write a ficletty thing that may or may not be shippy!

Fandoms

Chihayafuru
Free! | The Swimming Anime
Ookiku Furikabutte
Tsubasa/xxxHolic/Drug & Drop/Gate 7
Shingeki no Kyojin
Hikaru no Go
Harry Potter
Disney Animations (any combination from Mulan, Princess & the Frog, Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, Hercules, Tarzan, Little Mermaid)

AND ON MATURE REFLECTION I AM GOING TO ADD:

Adventure Time

Comments

[gloss]

Oh, oh! Hikaru and Waya, bodyswap???

[cest_what]

Done :) (Er, it kind of fell foul of my ship bias, I'm not sure what your feelings are on Waya/Isumi?)

[gloss]

I love Waya/Isumi, no worries! I'm just also the only person in the world who ships Hikaru/Waya as well. :D

Your piece really nailed the canon's balance of beautifully funny *and* quite melancholy. Thank you so much.

[cest_what]

They are super fun together, this is true. (There's one Waya/Shindou fic on AO3 that I love a bunch, I would definitely read more.) I'm glad you liked the fill! ♥

I've been thinking about bodyswap as a trope since I wrote it, actually. Because obviously I ducked out of it and wrote dramatic-irony POV-shenanigans instead, really just because the suite of tropes that let you explore a POV disconnect (telepathy, amnesia, sensory deprivation, etc), are the ones I've always been more drawn to, whereas bodyswap has never really appealed. But then I was trying to work out why, and what the probably appeal of bodyswap is, and it seems like two of the things it offers must be two-way nonconsensual intimacy and an external POV on self. Both of which are super appealing to me as tropes. So now I feel like I have to reassess the whole trope, and maybe consider writing it for real sometime.

/unnecessary ramble

[alias_sqbr]

Chihayafuru: Chihaya and Arata, locked in a room. Because they keep "happening" not to be able to talk to each other for long, it would be good to see the reverse :)