Dear NOFM writer!

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Hello NOFM writer! I’m sorry for the lateness of this letter and the sparseness of my sign up, assignments snuck up on me! I hope there’s something in here you can work with!

Likes: Hurt/Comfort, (LOVE h/c!) UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, getting it on in the locker rooms after matches, road trips, spur of the moment bondage, wall sex, sex wearing title belts, clothes sharing, breathplay, bedsharing, creative/incredibly destructive to reality uses of time travel, groundhog day loops, five things fic, missing scenes/episode tags, wing kink, title belt celebrations, sex pollen, supernatural goings on. Any rating, G rated fluff to explicit more than welcome, kayfabe only.

AUs: Spies, superheroes, noir, WWE Immortals 'verse, medieval (yay, knights and jousts and fealty,) soulmates ("wrestling soulmates" is a thing!) And especially soulmate AUs where being soulmates is a huge pain most of the time. I also really like canon divergence AUs.

DNWs: deathfic (unless undone by magic/time travel/etc! Then bring it on!) A/B/O, D/s with lots of negotiation.

NXT

Relationship: Aleister Black/Velveteen Dream

I love these two and the prickly moment of connection they managed to create at the end of that beautiful match. I would love anything set during the build up or after match to that – Aleister tracking Velveteen down to get back his vest, the antagonism boiling over into locker room hatesex as the match gets closer, that match creating a soulmate situation and neither of them knowing what to do with it. I’m a big fan of Aleister falling victim to some kind of magical mishap and Velveteen having to rescue him from it (or vice versa! That’s good too!) or Aleister essentially needing Velveteen as some kind of spell component. Aleister also has a title win to celebrate and I’m sure Velveteen knows how to party. I would also be very into Aleister getting hit by sex pollen and needing to trust Velveteen to get him through it even though that’s probably not the best idea. I find both of these guys fascinating and would love anything that gets into their heads.

Relationship: Nikki Cross/Adam Cole

Honestly, I ship this almost entirely based on that one time she attacked him and he whined about her pulling his hair. This is pretty much all hatesex and semi-affectionate stalking; Adam having to deal with her would be great, especially if his attempts to untangle himself from the situation only pull him in deeper. I would also really like her being unexpectedly nice to him and him not knowing what to do about it, especially if it’s for a reason that only makes sense to her. (Maybe he gets ambushed and it offends her? No one’s allowed to mess up his pretty face accept her?)

Relationship: Adam Cole/Bobby Fish/Kyle O'Reilly

I love these three together. I would love anything that covers them coming together as a faction, especially if it plays on their various past histories. I would be very into Kyle and Bobby having played a part in Adam’s post-BTE resurrection – ghost!Adam visiting them to get their help, just-dug-himself-out-of-a-shallow-grave!Adam showing up at Kyle or Bobby’s door, anything like that. I would also love Adam dealing with post-death trauma, especially if he’s pretending very hard there is no post-death trauma and his friends are humoring him. I’m so taken with how much they genuinely seem to like each other and how much they seem to adore Adam who basks in it like the vainglorious monster he is. And obviously post-win celebratory orgies are always on the table. (I especially love Kyle and am very into he and Bobby being their own couple within the OT3, I’ve shipped them since their reDRagon days.)

Relationship: Tommaso Ciampa/Johnny Gargano

What a mess these two turned into, huh! I love Walking Disaster Tommaso Ciampa so much and would love anything dealing with him and his desperate love/hate for Johnny. Happier times are great too (especially if you can see the shadows of what’s coming!) I love angst, give me all the angst of Tommaso being awful and in so much pain of his own making and Johnny trying to disengage but never quite being able to. I am also 100% fine with Candice being involved, the three of them having had an informal poly thing that slowly went sour is a big head canon of mine but I would like most of the focus to stay on Tommaso and Johnny (although Candice as an outside POV could be interesting!)

NJPW

Chase Owens

Chaaaaaaase, I love him so much and ship him with a bunch of people. For non-ship options: anything about him making the transition from essentially being Kenny’s guy when he first joined to being so tight with the BCOGs. How did he win them over ? Did Tama and Fale wake up one day and realize oh shit, we really like this kid? They’ve more or less let Chase drag them into picking a side in this mess despite their desperate attempt not to care and I’d love an inside view on what’s going on with the BCOGs. I would also love anything with Chase dealing with the current chaos in Bullet Club, especially since he’s been dragged into it further than he wanted to be. How do the rest of the BCOGs feel watching Chase put himself out there for Kenny? I’m a huge sucker for Tama and/or Fale (and the rest of the group, but those two especially) getting protective over Chase, especially since he wouldn’t ask them for that or expect it. I’m a big fan of the idea of Finn’s demon being an actual demon and thus being involved in the Bullet Club – has Chase met it? Ship options: (I am good with these being & or /! I just did not have enough slots for that)

Chase/Kenny: Kenny recruited Chase for Bullet Club, completely changing his life! Chase has such obvious heart eyes for Kenny whenever they team together! He’s had Kenny’s back through all this, even though that’s objectively a pretty terrible idea because Kenny’s life is a mess! I’d really love anything with this these two from any point in their relationship, especially if it plays up the varying degrees of unevenness there have been, from Chase owing Kenny so much to how almost pitifully grateful Kenny was when Chase proved to be a genuine friend when he’d felt like so many of his other friends had failed him.

Chase/Kota: They were so much fun tagging during that tour! I would love anything with Kota trying to get his head around teaming with Bullet Club and actually…not minding it, really? Or at least not minding it when it’s Chase? Kota’s bafflement that Chase wasn’t so bad was fun, as was his relentless trolling of Chase with over the too sweeting. (I would really love Chase finally getting that too sweet!) I would love these two bonding and finding something in each other, especially considering poor Chase had a pretty tough time that tour.

Chase/Cody: Give me some quality Cody menacing after all the meddling Chase has been doing. Now that he’s leader Cody has to make sure all his soldiers know their place, right? I would love anything with Cody being the most awful human being alive and Chase trying to deal with it, whether it be straight forward darkfic or h/c with Kenny or Kota or Tama or Fale finding out and putting a stop to things.

Chase/Tama: I really love Tama and he’s the one we’re heard the least from during all this. What does he think of Chase? Anything with these two would be great, from hanging out after a show to some h/c after a tough night to making sure that Chase knows that he can team with Kenny all he wants but he belongs to the BCOGs now.

Chase/Fale: These were so great during Tag League! I would love anything set during then – did Sami not target Chase during that kissing spree because Fale wasn’t having it? How did Fale deal with seeing Chase getting beat up? I would love anything with Chase getting hurt and Fale having a lot more feelings about it then he expected to. We’ve seen Fale take Chase under his wing – when did that start? What made Fale start to take special notice?

Obviously Bullet Club Orgies/Gang Bangs are 100% on the table as are any mix and matchings of those ships. I just really love Chase getting nice things. (Or not nice things if he’s getting Cody. Sorry, Chase.

Lucha Underground

Relationship: Pentagón Jr/Prince Puma>

Relationship: Pentagón Jr & Prince Puma & Vampiro

I would love absolutely anything with Vampiro mentoring either Puma or Pentagon with all the delicious manipulations that involves. We know now that Vamp had ulterior motives (although not all of them) while he was training Puma, but at the same time he did fulfill every promise he made to Puma! How deep did things go? When did he know he was going to do what he did at the end of the season? What did he really thing of his two students? I would love any glimpse into Vampiro’s thought process here, either during this latest part of the saga or earlier, when he was first training Pentagon, especially when he was in the shadows as the unknown maestro or after Matanza hurt Pentagon while Vamp watched.

And Pentagon/Puma has always been my hatesex OTP, so them getting even MORE connected this past season was fantastic. How connected to Vampiro was he still during all that? I’d love these two having a connection to each other through Vampiro’s magic, hating it but not able to shake it either. I love whenever these two are in the same room together, Puma with his need to live up to people’s belief in him and his spiral into despair after season one when he fails Konnan contrasted with Pentagon’s brash belief in himself and massive overconfidence. Anything with them fighting against each other despite being drawn to each other, or working together for whatever reason (feel free to go S3 AU here!) and drawing closer despite themselves. I’m a sucker for mentor drama so Puma dealing with Konnan’s ghost (literal or figurative) with Pentagon’s help or Vampiro doing some big dramatic sacrifice his students would be amazing. If anyone were ever made for hostile soul bonding it is Puma and Pentagon

Relationship: Angélico/Ivelisse/Son of Havoc

Ugh, my LU OT3, I miss them teaming so much. I’ll be happy with anything: fic set during the Trios tournament, afterward when they have the titles and are struggling to keep them and not kill each other in the process, post-S1 fic where they’re separated and come back together, AU fic where the tournament went differently or Pentagon decided to target one of them instead of Sexy Star, etc .And of course there’s always blowing off steam post-match. Are they still meeting up even though they’re not a Trios team any more? How is bored and laid up Ivelisse passing the time? And poor Angelico! Both he and Ivelisse are having such a rough year. I’d love if Havoc was the one who picked Angelico up from that alley after the Underground jumped him (who else is he going to call?) Move Angelico into Mom of Havoc’s house too, I’m sure there’s room! I’d love Havoc dealing with the messy emotions having Angelico around would bring up, a walking reminder of when Ivelisse was still in his corner and on his bike. Let’s see them relate to each other without there being a team or a third member. And for Ivelisse, this past season was all about Havoc’s past catching up with him – what did Ivelisse think of all that? Was she around for all that, and does she feel the pull to get involved again now?

Relationship: Aero Star/Drago

I really, really need Aerostar to save Drago. However you want that to happen, abuse of time travel, big dramatic sacrifice, Drago breaking free of Kobra Moon’s control for Aerostar, this last season was murder on my heart and I’d love for them to find their way back to each other. That aside, other things I love for these two: anything with Drago thinking about Aerostar while under Kobra Moon’s control (did she use Aerostar to break him somehow? How much does Drago remember? What was he really thinking when Pentagon broke Aerostar’s arm?) a story about how they met, especially if time travel’s involved and they meet each other out of sequence, post-title celebrations, Aerostar lurking around brainwashed Drago, and any kind of true form stories, with actual dragon Drago and what Aerostar looks like under his mask. And anything with Aerostar’s time travel, I love time travel.

Relationship: Dario Cueto & Matanza Cueto

These two have such a fascinating relationship, the Cueto brothers are the strange, violent heart of the Temple and I love the genuine bond there is between them. I’d love fic set during the S2 road trip last season when the two of them and Black Lotus were a terrible family in close quarters for a while, or set pre-Temple, with young Dario showing the first signs of who he would become and what part his brother would play in that. How much does Matanza comprehend of what’s going on? How much of him is the god? Do the god and the man talk in there, or are they fused into something new? Play what if with how things were left at the end of the season! I loved watching Dario get further and further in over his head all season and would love fic with Matanza dealing with the fallout of that, or delving further with Matanza fighting his darker impulses because he does love his brother – Dario’s seemingly genuine fear over the monster taking over was one of my favorite parts of their storyline this season.

TNA

Relationship: AJ Styles/Samoa Joe

Relationship: AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels/Samoa Joe

Relationship: AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels

That stretch of 2005-2006 where it seemed like every episode of Impact had some combination of AJ vs Daniels vs Joe is one of my favorite eras of wrestling, period. I would love ANYTHING set then or spinning out of then. I ship AJ/Daniels very hard, they’re one of my longest standing OTPs, and ship Joe with both, especially if he’s playing the other two against each other.

Post-Genesis fic, with guilty AJ having all kinds of feelings about watching Joe put Daniels in the hospital. Prime opportunity for bedside vigils here, especially with AJ not even sure what it is he’s feeling – he and Daniels weren’t ACTUALLY friends at this point but they’d fought so many times at that point there was that wrestling soulmate bond nonetheless. On Joe’s side, Joe winding AJ up until their title match a month later, using his feelings for Daniels against him – maybe that was the whole reason he’d turned on Daniels in the first place, he’d figured out the perfect way to get under Golden Boy AJ’s skin. (How things change! For AJ, anyway, Joe’s always been Joe.)

ANYTHING set during AJ and Daniels’ tag team era, a time cruelly cut short by TNA’s grudge against me personally. Everything from sneaking around backstage during tapings to the tension of knowing that this probably wasn’t going to last and someday AJ and Daniels would go back to being at each other’s throats. (A tension they share with #DIY, actually!)

Joe in general being scheming and traitorous and terrible.

Fic set during that post-glory days era when AJ’s halo started to slip. Did Daniels ever feel a little regret at pushing AJ to dirty his hands a little when it actually started to happen?