2017 Locker for Damien

[kayable]

Name (as you'd like it to appear in the subject line for your stocking): Damien

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh, Galactik Football, Prince of Tennis, Animorphs, League of Legends, Hunger Games, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Supernatural, Merlin, Homestuck.

Characters/Pairings/Moresomes:
YGO: Ryuuji Otogi (mangaverse)/Seto, Yami no Malik/Yami no Bakura,
Galactik Football: Rocket/Sinedd, Artegor/Aarch,
Prince of Tennis: Mizuki/Yuuta, Mizuki/Fuji, Mizuki/Ryoma, Momo/Kamio, Mizuki/Shinji, Kaidoh/Momo, Akutsu/Ryoma,
Animorphs: Visser Three/Elfangor, Visser Three/Ax, Tobias/Ax, Visser Three/Tobias, Rachel/Tobias
League of Legends: Vladimir/Talon, Talon/Zed, Darius/Talon
Hunger Games: Seneca Crane/Cinna, anything about past Tributes/what happens to Tributes after they become Victors
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Kylo Ren/Finn, Hux/Finn
MacDonald Hall by Gordon Korman: Bruno/Boots is canon and hilarious. Only exception to the 'likes' paragraph.
Supernatural: Kali/Gabriel, Hermes/Gabriel, Lucifer/Gabriel, Micheal/Gabriel (yes there's a pattern here)
Merlin: Merlin/Gwaine, Arthur/Gwaine, Lancelot/Gwaine, Uther/Merlin
Homestuck: Alpha Dave/Dirk, Caliborn/Dirk

Characters I like to read about for gen fic: Ryuuji, Mizuki, Ryoma, Shiji, Finn, Caliborn, Dirk, Gabriel, Gwaine and Cinna.

Likes: ...So here's where it gets messy. I like really dark, messed up, emotionally fucked over fic/art where characters are getting wrecked or coping with having been wrecked. Characters hating themselves for loving whom they do, and knowing it's a bad relationship. Narration that acknowledges what's happening isn't good instead of romanticizing it.

Gaslighting, mob/group, emotional manipulation, addiction, blackmail, guilt, coercion, abuse of authority, hatesex, dub/non con, all of that is awesome and would make me happy as long as the narration doesn't normalize it. I like my bad stuff to have the creep factor emphasized.

Dislikes: Animal abuse, a/b/o, romanticized rape, fluff, sweet happy relationships.

Anything else: Um. Sorry for having such dark tastes? ^^;; I will be happy with anything, I tried to put up a range of fandoms because I know my preferred pairings are pretty obscure! Art, fic, anything at all will make me happy :) And thank you for reading!


Reminder that NOTES are welcome too - just a nice little comment (either plain, or you can even type it up on a nice little graphic/image etc.) for the recipient.


(Comments are going to screened until the reveal on Feb 14. Lockers will be open until the end of Feb.)

Comments

[fickle]

I love this so much because it's an excellent premise executed beautifully with flawless characterization. I am a major, major sucker for AUs and this is just such an unusual one that still has all the important elements to keep the characters as themselves. The dialogue especially is good because it conveys their voices so clearly and shares info without exposition-dumping.

The idea of Seto as a dragon-collection with a dracary just pleases me on some deep, fundamental level. I can picture him strolling among the BEWDs, hands in his pockets, looking up at where they're perched on their crags and peering down at him in return. This little human, so small and so important.

And the 'dragons don't talk' part is interesting too because of what it implies - Seto isn't challenging the idea that dragons are sentient, just that they talk. Does that mean he believes they are sentient but choose not to converse with humans/don't have the right vocal chords for it? Because certainly if it's a physiology thing, it'd explain why he's so positive that Ryuuji cannot be a dragon.

Ryuuji being a shapeshifter is 100% perfect. It's a excellent reflection of how h changes chameleon-like when he's at school vs when he's with his father vs how he is afterwards vs Ryuuji with his father AND Yugi. He's either mercurial or an excellent actor and the bit about Ryuuji having such perfect self-control that he doesn't even flinch at Otogi-san's veiled cruelty is great. And Otogi-san in general is great because yes, of course he would be exploit Ryuuji's shapeshifting abilities however he can and the little implication of what might've happened if he'd tried to keep a secret is chilling.

Also Ryuuji's pride. I love Ryuuji's pride. I love Seto flashing a little hurt at Ryuuji like it's a membership card to some exclusive club and Ryuuji being smart enough to know that it's deliberate, that it's just another form of manipulation even at the same time that it's vulnerability and honesty. And I love love love the fact that Seto says "I could use someone like that", makes it sound like a business thing instead of charity but Ryuuji calls him out on not needing charity instead of saying he won't be used. Because of course he can be used. He's playing dragon for his father after all, isn't he.

Just. Man. Your prose is really sparse but really effective. The story's just so tight and at the same time, it gives away so much about the characters through how they interact and how they speak. All the hints of backstory are delicious and I am so very much in love with this verse and this fic.

Thank you tons and tons and TONS. ♥