Dear Yuletide Writer!

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Ha, so you know what is apparently very important? Remembering to actually hit “post” after preview /o\ Many apologizes for lateness, I hope there’s still some useful things in here for you! I am very open from anything to gen to explicit, have no triggers and very few squicks so feel free to go wild. Very up for Yuleporn if there’s still time!

Likes: 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, fraught handholding (especially combined with the bedside vigiling) angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen, bloodplay, knifeplay, clothes sharing, getting it on in the locker rooms after matches, dramatic rescues/sacrifices, pining, rope bondage, breathplay, road trips, significant gestures, missing scenes/episode tags, time travel, Groundhog Day loops, True Love Saves the Day, 5 Things fics, crossroad deals/deals with the devil, any and all kinds of supernatural nonsense, wrestling soulmates (and pairings where one knows he isn’t the other’s soulmate and is okay with it.)

DNW A/B/O, facesitting, bathroom related bodily fluids. Kayfabe only, please and if you’re writing masked wrestlers in sexual situations I like the masks to stay on both for characterization reasons and because I kink on the masks quite a bit. (This goes double for Aerostar and Drago, since it’s debatable in LU canon whether the masks aren’t just their faces.!)

AUs: Medieval/feudal AUs, superhero AUs, spy Aus. I love antagonistic soulmates, especially the wrestling soulmate specific version where the bond seems to be formed during great matches whether the two would really rather that happen or not.

NJPW

Character:

Hiromu Takahashi

Sign-up Prompt: After Power Struggle I would love anything with Hiromu, from hard young lion days to this lead up to WK. I'm really into magical realism stuff with the Daryls, especially them looking out for Hiromu and his friends or stories from their POVs. I ship Hiromu very hard with WIll Ospreay, their feud had some of the best flirting. I'm especially fond of Will/Hiromu fic set during the Jay While in Chaos period, with Will and trouble and Hiromu at home in injured and climbing the walls about it, but I am down for fic about any point of their relationship, from the flirty early days to them being reunited now. I'm also a big fan of his hatesex vibe with Despey and all the history there, and would be very into fic about him and Dragon Lee dealing with Lee's CMLL exile after Lee let himself be ingobernable for once in his technico life. And I would love fic about Hiromu and the rest of LIJ, although I don't ship him with any of them. Did he hug Sanada when he first saw him, since he badly needed a hug after KOPW and Hiromu wasn't there to do it then? Does Evil teach him ~spooky~ magic? And I love him and Naito.

I’m so happy to have Hiromu back! Some more prompts:

- Outsider POV on Hiromu (or Hiromu/Will, or whomever) from Daryl & co.
- Again, I love Jay being the worst person imaginable to Will during the Chaos takeover so anything with Will showing up at Hiromu’s door obviously upset but not willing to go into it, Jay drugging Will and Will managing to get to Hiromu’s place before passing out, Hiromu hearing gossip from Naito or Evil that things are bad and sending Daryl to spy, etc. I am a big fan of distressed Will showing up at Hiromu’s door as a genre, you could say.
- Hiromu trying to cheer Will up during that rough patch during BOSJ or Despey when he was out hurt by sending indecipherable comics with no explanation. (I love Hiromu’s weird comics.)
- Anything with Hiromu not being quite human and frankly not even faking it very well. Maybe Will gets hurt and to only way to save him is for Hiromu to take him back into the feywild, or he made a deal with a youkai back during his young lion days because he felt like it was the only way to live up to Naito’s faith in him and it’s all coming home to roost.
- Speaking of, I love Naito and Hiromu’s relationship, although I don’t really ship them. (I ship Naito more with Bushi.) Any kind of LIJ slice of life, from welcoming Hiromu back to how they all kept in touch/checking in on him over the past year in the own ways. Episode tags are great here!
- I love Hiromu and Desperado’s toxic, twisty relationship and all the issues of identity and history it brings up. They know each other in a way no one else does, especially with Despey making himself into a whole other person and I would love anything that gets into that, the question of what makes the real person and what makes the mask. If Hiromu isn’t quite human, does Despey know? What would it take for him to ask Hiromu for a favor? If curse hits NJPW that wipes all the Brits on the roster from existence could they possibly work together long enough to bring back Will and ZSJ? XD

AEW

Characters: Penta & Fenix

Sign-up Prompt: I love the us-against-the-world energy Penta and Fenix have in AEW and how Penta is always picking the fights and then Fenix jumps in to finish them. Fenix is so protective of Penta and I can never get enough of it. I would love anything with something bad happening to Penta and Fenix getting into dark magic/time travel/reality warping etc to save him, or Fenix being so spiting bad about Matt stealing Penta's mask that one time that he goes over board with the revenge. I would also like anything where the reason Fenix takes so many crazy risks is because he feels he needs to do that to hang with his hyper charismatic brother, I like a little imbalanced adoration like that. I do ship them too, so feel free! I especially like one sided pining from Fenix and kinking on the masks, where it's okay to be attracted to masked and painted up Penta because it's different some how, the flimsier the justification the better. And LU crossovers are good, too! How does Fenix deal with a Pentagon who ISN'T his brother (since they are very not related in LU continuity.)

Watch any random Lucha Bros match and you’ll start noticing how often Fenix is enthusiastically finishing the fights Penta starts and how much time he spends hugging and hanging all over his brother. It is fantastic. Obviously I ship them quite a bit but that devotion is really what I’m after here. My favorite flavor of Luchacest is Fenix pining and throwing all of that energy into his matches, especially if he’s frantically trying to push those feelings down or rationalizing that as long as they’re masked up, then it would be…well, at least not as bad. I’m also fond of the LU version of Fenix where he’s an immortal leaking through so this version supernatural too; that dynamic where Fenix is a secretly a powerful immortal while his beloved older brother is fragile and mortal despite strutting around like he’s not would be a lot of fun.

Extra Prompts:

- Any kind of supernatural business with the masks, them being cursed, possessed, that kind of thing. Especially since Pentagon Jr was an identity AAA imposed on Penta that he then made very much his own – did he and that mask come to an agreement? And Fenix, if he does live up to his name was he born supernatural or did his mask bestow that? Does that mask push him to do crazy things, telling him he has to be like that to stay at Penta’s side?
- Fenix being spitting mad about Matt unmasking Penta during the ladder match and taking some supernatural revenge, especially if there are unintended consequences.
- Our Fenix falling into LU verse and meeting that Penta, or the two of them switching. (Especially if it’s S4 Fenix, which would be…a problem.)
- Post win, secretive, somewhat guilty locker room sex
- It comes out that Penta made a crossroads deal/bargained with a youkai while training in Japan/sold his soul some other way and now it’s coming due, and Fenix repeatedly keeps trying to throw himself on that mystic grenade without Penta knowing.
- Part of the magic deal with Fenix’s mask is that he gets visions of the future (the next “life” as it were) and lately they’ve all be terrible things happening to Penta and Fenix is getting a little frantic about it. (Or alternatively, he’s getting visions of all the terrible things that happened to LU Penta – after all when last we left things Penta was about to have some Aztec god troubles and that Penta didn’t have a devoted younger brother desperate to save him.)
- Refugee from the LU verse Dario showing up and forcing Fenix to help him by dangling the knowledge that another version of his brother is alone and in pain/deadly peril but Dario knows how Fenix can save him, or to give Fenix the heads up that whatever terrible thing happened that Penta will reverberate across the universes like a Crisis on Infinite Pentagons and this universe is next, maybe Fenix would want to know about that. (Aerostar getting visions/messages from his LU self and wanting to warn Fenix also works for this! Especially already knows Aerostar and probably feels some affection for him as a fellow death defying weirdo.

NXT

Characters: Aleister Black & Velveteen Dream

Sign-up Prompts: I love these two, please give me any spooky goings on with them. I'm especially into anything based around Aleister's attack and this current period of separation. Please bring on the angsty dream sharing and significant jewelry! I promise there is nothing too hokey, give me all the soul matey tropes and crossroad deals and big dramatic gestures, these two are both two extra for anything less. I am also fond of the idea that Aleister's dark room is in the Funhouse and would love Velveteen having to save him.

I say this every time, but I promise, there is no supernatural premise or trope too hokey for me. Magic soulbonds, ritual sex pollen, misaimed curses, spells that can only be broken by true love’s kiss, speaking to each other in dreams, I love it all, lay it on me. Embrace the hokeyness that lives within your heart here.

Extra Prompts:

- Any kind of fraught feelings about Aleister being attacked last summer – emotionally fraught secret bedside vigils, Velveteen going to truly stupid lengths to save Aleister, etc. FRAUGHT.
- Aleister showing up in Velveteen’s dreams or otherwise supernaturally helping him after the mugging by TUE.
- Velveteen saying/doing something he immediately regrets out of jealousy at not being called up and having to make up for it.
- Anything with the two of them being in contact or pining while separated now.
- H/C after Aleister’s loss to Tommaso at that Takeover
- Aleister getting himself injured and Velveteen either watching or getting a call about it (maybe from Ricochet.)
- Alternately, Velveteen getting himself hurt while Aleister is watching and Aleister having to do some risky magic to save him.
- That earring of Velveteen’s being more than just jewelry.
- Always risky with an ongoing story, but Aleister has been saying things like how he would like to “…Dream” and posting about exile, so any version of Aleister defecting to NXT, especially for Velveteen’s sake. (extra good if he makes an enemy of Finn in the bargain!)
- Anything with Velveteen dealing with the current darker, frankly a little crazy version of Aleister in his dark room of darkness.

Lucha Underground

Characters:

Aerostar & Drago

Sign-up Prompts: These two are my LU OTP, I will truly be happy with anything! I'm especially fond of Aerostar's doomed efforts to save Drago from the Reptiles and would love anything set in that era - I love time loops and other time travel tropes and an increasingly desperate Aerostar is perfect for it. I would also love Kobra Moon using Aerostar against Drago, either to break him or to keep him under control, feel free to go dark as long as things work out in the end. I would also love something pre canon! We know they met long ago and Aerostar knew about Drago's past with the Reptile tribe. Post canon is great too, especially since we'll never know how things turn out! Aerostar was doing some dark things there, what does Drago think? Is Aerostar trying to keep him out of things to protect him? If things start to get dire with the Gods, what do they do? I would love a war story.

I love them so much. I will be requesting this ship until the heat death of the universe.

Extra Prompts:

- Anything about how they met! I’m especially fond of them meeting out of sequence due to Aerostar’s time travel.
- Aerostar getting himself stuck in a time loop and Drago having to save him.
- Aerostar creating a paradox and getting himself erased from time because he thinks that’s the only way to save Aerostar form the Reptiles, and Drago having to set things right his freedom isn’t worth that price.
- That first night after Drago is freed.
- Anything dealing with true forms, with Drago being an actual dragon and Aerostar being an alien.
- Drago having to fly Aerostar’s ship.
- The first time Drago escaped the Reptiles and Aerostar’s part in it.
- Post-canon! We never do get to see how things end up. Especially fond of Aerostar trying to sacrifice himself to defeat the gods/keep Drago in the dark about what he’s up to and Drago having none of it, or everything going to hell and Aerostar having to come to this world and enlisting his other self to save their Dragos.
- Missing scene fic around the Best Of series, especially if that was the first time Aerostar and Drago had seen each other in a very long time.

Thank you for reading this very late letter! I hope your Yuletide goes great.