Dear Sakura Exchange Creator,

[firebatvillain]

Dear Sakura 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.

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 - Chainsaw Man (Manga) - Denji & Hayakawa Aki & Power (Chainsaw Man Manga)

I love the friendship and familial relationship that these three share, however much it was orchestrated or set into motion by Makima, I found it heartwarming and special. I wish they could have had more of that. Something about that... in whatever form you can write, I'd appreciate it.

Request 2 - Fic - Fate/Zero - Diarmuid Ua Duibhne | Lancer/Artoria Pendragon | Saber (F/Z), Irisviel von Einzbern/Artoria Pendragon | Saber (F/Z)

Well I'll be the first to say that I think Saber's characterization in F/Z could have been a little better. BUT. I do appreciate the tragic nature of it, and the moments she has with Lancer and with Irisviel, before that was taken away from her. I love both these ships, both for their beauty and their tragedy (which perhaps is a theme for me), and any story about them, canon compliant or not, would be wonderful. Irisviel and Saber had a bit of time to spend together in Japan before the war, time that they were truly happy. And although Saber and Lancer only met on the battlefield, whether as foes or as allies, you could really sense the chemistry between them.

Request 3 - Fic - Naruto - Haruno Sakura/Yamanaka Ino (Naruto), Haruno Sakura/Nara Shikamaru (Naruto), Haruno Sakura & Tsunade (Naruto)

I am not a SasuSaku shipper, lol. I DO think that Ino and Sakura have more chemistry than Sasuke and Sakura, with their rivalry and friendship over the course of the story. Also, Sakura... you can do better than Sasuke... please. I also can appreciate a ShikaSaku ship, as I think these characters are both thoughtful types who can have some good interactions, and their personalities are different enough that there's a lot to explore there. Re: Sakura & Tsunade, I've always been interested in Sakura standing on her own two feet as a character - I am a perennial fan of the BAMF Haruno Sakura tag, so I'd love a story about Sakura's time learning from Tsunade.

Request 4 - Fic - 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった… | My Next Life as a Villainess (Anime) - Sophia Ascart/Katarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess)

So, this is obviously the best ship. Yes, everyone loves Katarina, and she's the best, but also, who can claim that they crossed worlds and dimensions to follow her? Sophia isn't just Katerina's bestie, she was willing to follow her into the next life. This should have been the endgame! In the absence of something like that, just something about the love that took her into a new world would be great.

Request 5 - Art - Chainsaw Man (Manga) - Denji & Hayakawa Aki & Power (Chainsaw Man Manga)

I would just love to see these 3 happy together again, having fun on the town or getting up to shenanigans in their apartment. They deserve it.

Request 6 - Art - 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった… | My Next Life as a Villainess (Anime) - Sophia Ascart/Katarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess)

As I said in my fic prompt for this fandom, I think this is should have been the real endgame ship. Sophia... she could transmigrate across worlds for Katerina. That's the truest love! I want to see that longing and devotion, somehow.

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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.