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Just Married Exchange 2021
Jun. 6th, 2021 02:17 pmHello dear author!
This is the very first time I can look back at a letter from an exchange from last year. I wrote my very first letter for Just Married 2021! Isn't that exciting! I even have two of the same fandoms.
I have just listed some DNWS, and my likes, as well as some initial thoughts, but feel free to take the prompts in any direction that you choose.
( General DNWS )
General likes
Angst with a happy ending, fluffy moments.
AUs - historical, fantasy, vampire, werewolf, in space, modern, zombie apocalypse.
Canon divergence or canon missing moments
Fix its
Time travel/time loops
Alternate first meetings, ugly or cute
Stranded together
In captivity together
Hitchhiking/stowaway situations
Men saving the damsel in distress
Men as knights in white armour (Maybe literally)
Enemies to lovers
unexpected tenderness
unexpected mercy
secrets/lies
betrayals
unexpected mercy
unexpected forgiveness
Smut likes
rough sex
awkward first time sex
oral
barebacking
sex in small spaces
shower/bath sex
sex in a car
semi-public
bdsm
bondage
I've picked the same tags for all requests *aside from an extra one for mass effect*. I've added a little about why I like each tag. Feel free to combine them if you wish. For all the tags I see the female as the mail-order spouse. I am happy for the fics to take place in canon or any au scenario you can come up with, maybe they're in outer space and the mail-order spouse has to travel in cryo to get to where they are meant to be, maybe they're in the wild west. It's up to you. I am also fine if the canons with powers, vampirism, elvishness stay like that or they are switched up to the more mundane. Also I'm totally fine if you add supernatural stuff like that to the mundane canons too. Whatever you want I'm up for it.
Mail-Order Spouse - Arrives Pregnant
For this tag I think that the person who is pregnant will try to hide the pregnancy, if it is in the early stages or feel like their suitor will send them away if they somehow found out. Maybe someone else finds out and blackmails them in someway. I think it would be great if when they found out - be that the first night they meet or later on that they would be understanding of it.
Alternatively they may want to initiate sex many times so that their husband thinks it's their child. Yet the husband is insisting that it isn't necessary.
I am also not opposed to them arriving heavily pregnant and their intended refuses them, leaving them with no way to get home and then another person steps in and helps them out by agreeing to take them in.
I love how you can play around with the betrayals, lies, secrets and feelings with this tag. Just take it in whatever way you want to :)
Mail-Order Spouse - Mistaken For Mail-Order Spouse and Goes With It
This one you can have some fun with. I imagine this to be somewhat like rescuing a damsel in distress. Maybe the person is stranded somewhere with no money and no hope and this situation will help them out. Maybe this person is on the run from criminals and wants somewhere to hide and sees this as the perfect opportunity. Maybe they even want to rob the person who mistakes them for a mail order spouse but then they end up falling for their target.
Mail-Order Spouse - Signed Up to Escape Abusive Family
I like this tag as it implies that the situation is so bad that they will leave it for an unknown. They feel like it couldn't possibly get any worse than it has been so they risk it all.
This tag could be combined with the above - maybe they stowaway on a ship or plane and somehow end up with some other mail-order spouses and just decide to go with it.
Maybe combine it with the first tag - Maybe they're leaving to escape from being subjected to rape and the consequences of that. Maybe they want their child to grow up away from that environment. Even though they don't know if they will continue to be subjected to that when they end up wherever they're going.
Game of Thrones
Jaime Lannister/Arya Stark
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth
Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark
Sansa Stark/Tyrion Lannister
Sansa Stark/Jaime Lannister
For Game of Thrones, I like how it is so political. How everything is done for gain, whether that is to have another army or to gain a seat at a place like Casterly Rock or Winterfell. I like how there are practically no rules. The violence, the gore, the betrayals, the lies, the deceit. Winterfell, King's Landing, The Wall, North of the Wall, Isle of Tarth and Essos intrigue me. Also, stories of travelling in the wilderness.
I'm open to practically any ideas for this canon. I love it all and have nothing more specific in mind. Go wild.
I like Brienne as she tries to not be what society deems as acceptable. She becomes a knight on her own merits. She is good at what she does even though it is not necessarily seen as correct. I like how she is strong yet also vulnerable.
Jaime started off as my most hated character but he turned out to be one of my favourites because of the way he evolved throughout the show. How he showed that he had a good moral compass. I love his commitment to family as well. How he helped Tyrion and went back to save his Sister despite what they had both done.
Sansa. From naïve little girl to Queen of the North. Learning from observing everyone's reactions around her. She remembers how they got power and it helped her get power too.
Sandor. He is a rough around the edges man who ultimately has a soft centre. I Love how he tried to stop worse things from happening to Sansa in King's Landing.
Tyrion. He is well read and so smart in contrast to a lot of characters who use their strength in fights. He uses wits and intelligence instead. He uses what he has and often comes out on top. And that is amazing.
Once Upon a Time
Emma/Killian Jones
I love how pretty much anything is possible in once upon a time. Almost any land imaginable can be visited and travelled to via different means. Portals, magic beans and curses. I like how there can be different versions of the same character based on the backstory they believe they have. True loves kiss having lots of powerful effects, enough to bring back characters from the dead or brink of death. It gets me every time. I love Storybrooke, the Enchanted Forest and Hyperion Heights.
Perhaps an au where Emma grows up in the Enchanted Forest and doesn't want to be a princess anymore and wants to escape from her situation and a way in which she can do this is by becoming a mail-order spouse.
For Emma. She truly is the saviour. Making all the correct decisions even if it hurts her in the process. I like how she good she is with Henry. So reluctant to believe in magic yet she does so when her family is in danger! One of the tags is particularly apt for her being pregnant with Henry!
For Captain Hook, Killian. I like how he evolved from being portrayed as a villain to becoming a love interest. I love it when he reverts back to piratey sayings. HIs revenge mission had been the focus of his life for so long and when he realised that wasn't all there was to life he became a better person.
The 100
Raven Reyes/Roan
Octavia Blake/Roan
Clarke Griffin/Roan
I love the 100 and how there are a lot of morally ambiguous decisions and how different groups of people are just trying to survive. I love the uneasy alliances and sometimes deadly situations and missions. I love how it alternates between space, ground, and underground with everyone doing what they can to make sure their people live. I absolutely love the conclave, the underground bunker and them heading off to space again.
Perhaps an au where Roan won the conclave and already has a spot in the bunker and needs a mail-order bride or several of them to warm his bed for the years in which he will be there.
Raven is amazing, she is so smart and I like her drive and determination. Raven being able to fix and create almost anything from nothing has always intrigued and wowed me. I would have loved to see her leave camp a bit more and I do think that she has a sense of adventure.
Octavia - now her journey is something I never said would have happened from episode one. To badass warrior, assassin and then leader. Her transformation was wonderful, yet also shocking and heartbreaking. I love her at any point during her journey.
Clarke - Leadership was thrust upon her and everyone looked at her for tough decisions to be made. I love her for that even though a lot of people around her didn't like certain decisions that she made.
Roan - He is an amazing character whom although can be quite deadly and downright scary, ultimately wants what is best for his people. I like how he went from his banishment back to position of power. And also how he didn't needless kill people when he could have *cough* conclave *cough*.
Harry Potter
Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Harry Potter is one of my oldest fandoms. I like the magicallness of it all, I like the immersion of it, how many spells, different classes there are. I like the Hogwarts Houses and how many different scenarios there are if you alternatively sort the characters. I also like how it goes quite dark quite quickly. The sport Quidditch intrigues me as do dark side wins AUs.
For this request I am open to pretty much anything. Maybe Hermione never got a letter to Hogwarts and sees a request for a mail order spouse (one that only witches can see) and then goes and learns all about magic. Maybe the request is a really cruel joke played on Severus to show that he'll never get someone to marry him even if he paid or provided for them.
Hermione is really smart, I do wonder why she wasn't sorted into Ravenclaw. She knows almost everything and is very driven with her studies. I love how she once stole from Severus Snape's potions stores. And now I remember why she's a Gryffindor. I like how she breaks the rules and tries to excel in areas which she has not yet learned. i.e. polyjuice potion making. I have her ingenuity.
Severus is such a great character, one who you don't quite know whether to trust or not. I like how he is a spy for both the light side and the dark side. And how he looked after and tried to prevent Harry from getting into trouble despite what his father did. I like how he is a legillimens.
Shadow and Bone
The Darkling/Alina Starkov
Nina Zenik/Matthias Helvar
Shadow and Bone is one of my newest fandoms. It's all very new and mysterious. I like the lore, the magic, how the fold was created, and the politics, the death threats, the kidnappings and almost assassinations'. I love it all.
Alina going from map maker to one of the most powerful Grisha's is great. Her ability to control her powers and loyalty to mal is inspiring. And I also love how attached she became to the darkling.
The darkling - his powers are incredible and a force to be reckoned with. I like how he has had a goal his whole life and is set on completing it. It might not be morally right but he is very determined and patient. And his seduction techniques are on point.
Nina - I love her. She is so sassy and forward, and her powers are great. She needed more time to shine.
Matthias - I like how awkward and not well versed with woman he is. Especially with Nina, he is super shy and doesn't quite know how to act.
Divergent
Eric/Tris Prior
What I like about Divergent is that it's a dystopian society which allows for the imagination to run wild. I like the idea of the different factions and how people are only supposed to fit into one. I like how the system is broken as people obviously fit into more than one. Yet, no one seems to be questioning it until the events of the movies/books unfold.
What I like about Tris is that she is brave and kind. She tries to be on the good side of the moral compass. She is also so very self sacrificing. I like that she doesn't give up. I like her determination.
What I like about Eric is that he is quite harsh and brash. He wants to train initiates to the best of his ability but his methods are unorthodox. They do the job though. I also see him trying to change himself to get Tris to like him or changing because of Tris.
Vampyre
Charlotte Ashbury/Jonathon Reid
The Vampyre universe is very gritty and dark, and there were a lot of morally grey and morally ambiguous things going on. I loved the vampires, vampire hunters, and ekon lore there. The warring factions using the city and underground as their playground.
Jonathon - I like him whenever he tries to make the morally good choices, but ultimately he will slip up or sense opportunities. It's great when he gives people what's coming to them. Though I don't mind him darker either.
Charlotte - From my first interaction with her I loved her. She is funny and full of banter and witty too. And ultimately her dream to become a vampire is good. Her way of asking Jonathon is Hilarious - as is his response.
Dragon Age
Fenris/Female Hawke
Iron Bull/Female Trevelyan
Dragon Age is such a great full or lore world. I'm fascinated by all the different cultures, the war between the templars and mages, and just about everything else. I love all the games!
Iron Bull - He is great and his romance option is spicy to say the least. He truly does care for his chargers and is a formidable foe. I would not like to go up against him.
Fenris - His background as a slave and hating mages because of it. I like his jadedness and his inability to trust easily.
Female Hawke - I love female hawke as a mage, but only because she can then have an uneasy start to a relationship with Fenris and then be avoiding the circle. The aspects of being a blood mage are also intriguing.
Female Trevelyan - I'm really fine for however you decide to align this character. A human noble being mixed up in everything fascinates me.
Mass Effect Trilogy
Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
There is so much going on in the mass effect universe, so many missions to go on and people to save. Any so many morally ambiguous choices to make. I particularly like the first contact war, Omega, and the citadel. I also like how many locations they can go explore and how Spectre status can get you anywhere in converstaions.
Possible ideas involve shepard either going into the batarian slave trade or becoming a mail order bride to one garrus varkarian. Shepard getting in over her head, not realising that the person who placed the add was a turian. And similarly garrus not realising that shepard is in fact not a turian. Maybe their species are still at war when this happens?
Female Shepard - I love how you can have a paragon or renegade or somewhere in between shepard. I tend to lean more towards paragon with a streak of renegade for the people who really deserve it. I also tend to lean towards a biotic shepard.
Garrus Vakarain - my friendly c-sec turian who dislikes all of the red tape. I love how he took up the mantle of archangel and imposed vigilante justice. That is so him.
*Marriage to save criminal from other punishment - Shepard is a known war criminal and Garrus agrees to marry her so that she doesn't have to face the turian justice system. Could be set in the first contact war.
This is the very first time I can look back at a letter from an exchange from last year. I wrote my very first letter for Just Married 2021! Isn't that exciting! I even have two of the same fandoms.
I have just listed some DNWS, and my likes, as well as some initial thoughts, but feel free to take the prompts in any direction that you choose.
( General DNWS )
General likes
Angst with a happy ending, fluffy moments.
AUs - historical, fantasy, vampire, werewolf, in space, modern, zombie apocalypse.
Canon divergence or canon missing moments
Fix its
Time travel/time loops
Alternate first meetings, ugly or cute
Stranded together
In captivity together
Hitchhiking/stowaway situations
Men saving the damsel in distress
Men as knights in white armour (Maybe literally)
Enemies to lovers
unexpected tenderness
unexpected mercy
secrets/lies
betrayals
unexpected mercy
unexpected forgiveness
Smut likes
rough sex
awkward first time sex
oral
barebacking
sex in small spaces
shower/bath sex
sex in a car
semi-public
bdsm
bondage
I've picked the same tags for all requests *aside from an extra one for mass effect*. I've added a little about why I like each tag. Feel free to combine them if you wish. For all the tags I see the female as the mail-order spouse. I am happy for the fics to take place in canon or any au scenario you can come up with, maybe they're in outer space and the mail-order spouse has to travel in cryo to get to where they are meant to be, maybe they're in the wild west. It's up to you. I am also fine if the canons with powers, vampirism, elvishness stay like that or they are switched up to the more mundane. Also I'm totally fine if you add supernatural stuff like that to the mundane canons too. Whatever you want I'm up for it.
Mail-Order Spouse - Arrives Pregnant
For this tag I think that the person who is pregnant will try to hide the pregnancy, if it is in the early stages or feel like their suitor will send them away if they somehow found out. Maybe someone else finds out and blackmails them in someway. I think it would be great if when they found out - be that the first night they meet or later on that they would be understanding of it.
Alternatively they may want to initiate sex many times so that their husband thinks it's their child. Yet the husband is insisting that it isn't necessary.
I am also not opposed to them arriving heavily pregnant and their intended refuses them, leaving them with no way to get home and then another person steps in and helps them out by agreeing to take them in.
I love how you can play around with the betrayals, lies, secrets and feelings with this tag. Just take it in whatever way you want to :)
Mail-Order Spouse - Mistaken For Mail-Order Spouse and Goes With It
This one you can have some fun with. I imagine this to be somewhat like rescuing a damsel in distress. Maybe the person is stranded somewhere with no money and no hope and this situation will help them out. Maybe this person is on the run from criminals and wants somewhere to hide and sees this as the perfect opportunity. Maybe they even want to rob the person who mistakes them for a mail order spouse but then they end up falling for their target.
Mail-Order Spouse - Signed Up to Escape Abusive Family
I like this tag as it implies that the situation is so bad that they will leave it for an unknown. They feel like it couldn't possibly get any worse than it has been so they risk it all.
This tag could be combined with the above - maybe they stowaway on a ship or plane and somehow end up with some other mail-order spouses and just decide to go with it.
Maybe combine it with the first tag - Maybe they're leaving to escape from being subjected to rape and the consequences of that. Maybe they want their child to grow up away from that environment. Even though they don't know if they will continue to be subjected to that when they end up wherever they're going.
Game of Thrones
Jaime Lannister/Arya Stark
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth
Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark
Sansa Stark/Tyrion Lannister
Sansa Stark/Jaime Lannister
For Game of Thrones, I like how it is so political. How everything is done for gain, whether that is to have another army or to gain a seat at a place like Casterly Rock or Winterfell. I like how there are practically no rules. The violence, the gore, the betrayals, the lies, the deceit. Winterfell, King's Landing, The Wall, North of the Wall, Isle of Tarth and Essos intrigue me. Also, stories of travelling in the wilderness.
I'm open to practically any ideas for this canon. I love it all and have nothing more specific in mind. Go wild.
I like Brienne as she tries to not be what society deems as acceptable. She becomes a knight on her own merits. She is good at what she does even though it is not necessarily seen as correct. I like how she is strong yet also vulnerable.
Jaime started off as my most hated character but he turned out to be one of my favourites because of the way he evolved throughout the show. How he showed that he had a good moral compass. I love his commitment to family as well. How he helped Tyrion and went back to save his Sister despite what they had both done.
Sansa. From naïve little girl to Queen of the North. Learning from observing everyone's reactions around her. She remembers how they got power and it helped her get power too.
Sandor. He is a rough around the edges man who ultimately has a soft centre. I Love how he tried to stop worse things from happening to Sansa in King's Landing.
Tyrion. He is well read and so smart in contrast to a lot of characters who use their strength in fights. He uses wits and intelligence instead. He uses what he has and often comes out on top. And that is amazing.
Once Upon a Time
Emma/Killian Jones
I love how pretty much anything is possible in once upon a time. Almost any land imaginable can be visited and travelled to via different means. Portals, magic beans and curses. I like how there can be different versions of the same character based on the backstory they believe they have. True loves kiss having lots of powerful effects, enough to bring back characters from the dead or brink of death. It gets me every time. I love Storybrooke, the Enchanted Forest and Hyperion Heights.
Perhaps an au where Emma grows up in the Enchanted Forest and doesn't want to be a princess anymore and wants to escape from her situation and a way in which she can do this is by becoming a mail-order spouse.
For Emma. She truly is the saviour. Making all the correct decisions even if it hurts her in the process. I like how she good she is with Henry. So reluctant to believe in magic yet she does so when her family is in danger! One of the tags is particularly apt for her being pregnant with Henry!
For Captain Hook, Killian. I like how he evolved from being portrayed as a villain to becoming a love interest. I love it when he reverts back to piratey sayings. HIs revenge mission had been the focus of his life for so long and when he realised that wasn't all there was to life he became a better person.
The 100
Raven Reyes/Roan
Octavia Blake/Roan
Clarke Griffin/Roan
I love the 100 and how there are a lot of morally ambiguous decisions and how different groups of people are just trying to survive. I love the uneasy alliances and sometimes deadly situations and missions. I love how it alternates between space, ground, and underground with everyone doing what they can to make sure their people live. I absolutely love the conclave, the underground bunker and them heading off to space again.
Perhaps an au where Roan won the conclave and already has a spot in the bunker and needs a mail-order bride or several of them to warm his bed for the years in which he will be there.
Raven is amazing, she is so smart and I like her drive and determination. Raven being able to fix and create almost anything from nothing has always intrigued and wowed me. I would have loved to see her leave camp a bit more and I do think that she has a sense of adventure.
Octavia - now her journey is something I never said would have happened from episode one. To badass warrior, assassin and then leader. Her transformation was wonderful, yet also shocking and heartbreaking. I love her at any point during her journey.
Clarke - Leadership was thrust upon her and everyone looked at her for tough decisions to be made. I love her for that even though a lot of people around her didn't like certain decisions that she made.
Roan - He is an amazing character whom although can be quite deadly and downright scary, ultimately wants what is best for his people. I like how he went from his banishment back to position of power. And also how he didn't needless kill people when he could have *cough* conclave *cough*.
Harry Potter
Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Harry Potter is one of my oldest fandoms. I like the magicallness of it all, I like the immersion of it, how many spells, different classes there are. I like the Hogwarts Houses and how many different scenarios there are if you alternatively sort the characters. I also like how it goes quite dark quite quickly. The sport Quidditch intrigues me as do dark side wins AUs.
For this request I am open to pretty much anything. Maybe Hermione never got a letter to Hogwarts and sees a request for a mail order spouse (one that only witches can see) and then goes and learns all about magic. Maybe the request is a really cruel joke played on Severus to show that he'll never get someone to marry him even if he paid or provided for them.
Hermione is really smart, I do wonder why she wasn't sorted into Ravenclaw. She knows almost everything and is very driven with her studies. I love how she once stole from Severus Snape's potions stores. And now I remember why she's a Gryffindor. I like how she breaks the rules and tries to excel in areas which she has not yet learned. i.e. polyjuice potion making. I have her ingenuity.
Severus is such a great character, one who you don't quite know whether to trust or not. I like how he is a spy for both the light side and the dark side. And how he looked after and tried to prevent Harry from getting into trouble despite what his father did. I like how he is a legillimens.
Shadow and Bone
The Darkling/Alina Starkov
Nina Zenik/Matthias Helvar
Shadow and Bone is one of my newest fandoms. It's all very new and mysterious. I like the lore, the magic, how the fold was created, and the politics, the death threats, the kidnappings and almost assassinations'. I love it all.
Alina going from map maker to one of the most powerful Grisha's is great. Her ability to control her powers and loyalty to mal is inspiring. And I also love how attached she became to the darkling.
The darkling - his powers are incredible and a force to be reckoned with. I like how he has had a goal his whole life and is set on completing it. It might not be morally right but he is very determined and patient. And his seduction techniques are on point.
Nina - I love her. She is so sassy and forward, and her powers are great. She needed more time to shine.
Matthias - I like how awkward and not well versed with woman he is. Especially with Nina, he is super shy and doesn't quite know how to act.
Divergent
Eric/Tris Prior
What I like about Divergent is that it's a dystopian society which allows for the imagination to run wild. I like the idea of the different factions and how people are only supposed to fit into one. I like how the system is broken as people obviously fit into more than one. Yet, no one seems to be questioning it until the events of the movies/books unfold.
What I like about Tris is that she is brave and kind. She tries to be on the good side of the moral compass. She is also so very self sacrificing. I like that she doesn't give up. I like her determination.
What I like about Eric is that he is quite harsh and brash. He wants to train initiates to the best of his ability but his methods are unorthodox. They do the job though. I also see him trying to change himself to get Tris to like him or changing because of Tris.
Vampyre
Charlotte Ashbury/Jonathon Reid
The Vampyre universe is very gritty and dark, and there were a lot of morally grey and morally ambiguous things going on. I loved the vampires, vampire hunters, and ekon lore there. The warring factions using the city and underground as their playground.
Jonathon - I like him whenever he tries to make the morally good choices, but ultimately he will slip up or sense opportunities. It's great when he gives people what's coming to them. Though I don't mind him darker either.
Charlotte - From my first interaction with her I loved her. She is funny and full of banter and witty too. And ultimately her dream to become a vampire is good. Her way of asking Jonathon is Hilarious - as is his response.
Dragon Age
Fenris/Female Hawke
Iron Bull/Female Trevelyan
Dragon Age is such a great full or lore world. I'm fascinated by all the different cultures, the war between the templars and mages, and just about everything else. I love all the games!
Iron Bull - He is great and his romance option is spicy to say the least. He truly does care for his chargers and is a formidable foe. I would not like to go up against him.
Fenris - His background as a slave and hating mages because of it. I like his jadedness and his inability to trust easily.
Female Hawke - I love female hawke as a mage, but only because she can then have an uneasy start to a relationship with Fenris and then be avoiding the circle. The aspects of being a blood mage are also intriguing.
Female Trevelyan - I'm really fine for however you decide to align this character. A human noble being mixed up in everything fascinates me.
Mass Effect Trilogy
Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
There is so much going on in the mass effect universe, so many missions to go on and people to save. Any so many morally ambiguous choices to make. I particularly like the first contact war, Omega, and the citadel. I also like how many locations they can go explore and how Spectre status can get you anywhere in converstaions.
Possible ideas involve shepard either going into the batarian slave trade or becoming a mail order bride to one garrus varkarian. Shepard getting in over her head, not realising that the person who placed the add was a turian. And similarly garrus not realising that shepard is in fact not a turian. Maybe their species are still at war when this happens?
Female Shepard - I love how you can have a paragon or renegade or somewhere in between shepard. I tend to lean more towards paragon with a streak of renegade for the people who really deserve it. I also tend to lean towards a biotic shepard.
Garrus Vakarain - my friendly c-sec turian who dislikes all of the red tape. I love how he took up the mantle of archangel and imposed vigilante justice. That is so him.
*Marriage to save criminal from other punishment - Shepard is a known war criminal and Garrus agrees to marry her so that she doesn't have to face the turian justice system. Could be set in the first contact war.
