Dear Press Start Exchange Creator,

[firebatvillain]

Dear Press Start Exchange Creator,

Thanks for writing or drawing! This is my first year participating in this exchange. I’m very excited about it! I hope you’re excited about it as well. I’m FireBatVillain on Ao3, DW, and Tumblr.

Aside from DNWs, the stuff I’m including in this letter is optional, but I hope you consider them as you work. Whatever you make, I’ll appreciate it regardless, and I look forward to whatever comes. Prompts are just suggestions.

Things I like:

Bittersweet moments, angry or sad endings with a spark of hope in them, and happy moments and endings. Good communication, wordplay, honor, pointless heroism or love even if it won’t succeed. I don't have strong opinions on canon-compliance. I also love fics that are allegories for other things or where there’s some kind of idea or lesson that’s left unsaid. I'm comfortable with and enjoy all levels of explicitness/maturity in fics and art.

Things I don’t like / DNWs:

In writing: Character bashing, mpreg, and extreme underage.

In art: Character bashing, mpreg, and underage.

Some other notes:

Unrequested characters, ships, and ideas are A-OK with me, as is explicit content. Please feel free to use whatever prompts you like and don’t feel constrained by my suggestions here. I do not mind darkfic.

Requests:

Request 1 - Fic or Art -  Aviary Attorney - Jayjay Falcon, Séverin Cocorico

For fic, I liked the interactions between Jayjay and Séverin, both in the initial phase of the game when they’re facing off as defender and prosecutor, and later on when Séverin’s life is on the line. A missing scene or epilogue (for the 4B ending) would be great! 

As for art, I’ve always found the most thrilling scene to be in Act 3, when they’re down in the catacombs, and Séverin is on trial at gunpoint, with Jayjay trying to defend him. Anything with these two would be great, though.

Request 2 - Fic -  聖剣伝説３ | Seiken Densetsu 3 | Trials of Mana - Hawkeye, Eagle

We don’t get a lot of time with Hawkeye and Eagle on screen in Seiken Densetsu 3. Right at the start of the journey, Belladonna kills him! I’d love to see a missing scene with these two, or an alternate story where Eagle lives, or a time Hawkeye reminisces on Eagle later, anything else about their friendship. Each of the characters is motivated by tragedy in some form or another, and the friendship between Hawkeye and Eagle is at the heart of Hawkeye’s.

Request 3 - Fic - Warhammer: Vermintide - Any

I’d love to see anything you’d like to write about the Ubersreik Five and/or their shadowy commander. The games themselves are masterful at revealing bits about the characters through dialogue, and we get the idea of the camaraderie they share and the trials they go through together, but of course most of this is is in the form of hints and winks and nudges. I’ll be happy with whatever you write, though if you’re looking for inspiration: I’ve always found the understanding of sorts that Bardin and Kerillian have to be pretty interesting, even if they’re always being a bit awful to each other.

Request 4 - Fic or Art - Advance Wars - Lash, Sonja

For fic, one thing that always struck me in AW2 is how Lash and Sonja inhabit a kind of similar role and a mindset. They see war as a game, and find strategy to be entertaining. Of course, this addressed a bit in A Mirror Darkly in the AW2 Yellow Comet campaign, but I’d like to see it expanded! How are they the same, and how are they different? What does Sonja or Lash think about this? Maybe a story that adds on to that? I don’t think Lash’s accusations are unfounded, either: Sonja definitely was using her soldiers as playing pieces to test the Orange Star COs in AW1, heh.

For art, anything with these two interacting, whether as enemies, as competitors, or as friends, would be interesting to me. Despite their differences, they’re two similar people and I think they’d have a lot to talk about, one way or another.

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Thanks for reading through! Hopefully this gives you some ideas. Avoiding the DNWs is significantly more important than any of this. Please consider this paragraph a blanket permission to ignore my requests other than DNWs, and do what makes something good, what inspires you, if that conflicts with these requests. I believe that whatever you create for these relationships, as long as you liked creating it, I'll treasure it.

Thank you.