FOR WILL Looking for castmates and cross-canon! I'm completely open to writing gen against anyone from Metaphor: ReFantazio. I'm also interested in AUing Will into other Atlus canons, such as Persona, Catherine, and the Shin Megami Tensei games. (I have a section in his journal which explains the general premise I'd be running with for that, but can change things up as needed.)
I'd love to play out scenarios of all sorts: scenes set during the course of the game, scenes that happen post-game, fix-it canon divergent scenarios where nobody dies, modern-day AU shenanigans, etc. I'm very into fluff, domestic slice-of-life, and hurt/comfort, but I'm equally fond of political drama, writing background NPCs, and complicated plots. As far as ships go, I really only ship Will with Strohl and Louis — I'm pretty open to other M/M castmate ships too, if you're super big on shipping and really want to make the boys kiss, but by default, I'll keep Will's other relationships platonic or intensely intimate without actually becoming romantic unless you specifically tell me that you'd like romantic content with Will.
If you do play Strohl or Louis, I have plenty of ideas I'd like to explore! I think it'll be better for both of us if we just bounce off each other on memes for a bit before launching into a huge PSL, but if you're interested in jumping straight into something plotty, here are some ideas for threads that I'd like to have:
THREAD IDEAS this is ugly and i'll fix it later. i'm just slamming this all down before i sleep. cw: slavery and incest below
▮ several different AUs... i like the idea of "will and the prince are separate people," usually in a context where i'd like to explore will's early game lack of value for himself + being willing to die for the prince's safety; i kind of want to explore "will is the prince's body double" or "will is the prince's whipping boy." that being said i can also do AUs where the prince was never cursed and thus will just continues on as the prince. i have enough prince icons for this. i'd be playing both will and the prince lmao
▮ i like the idea of strohl being one of very few noble children he's allowed to have as a friend, or louis as the child soldier / prodigy general being allowed to have an audience with him. alternatively, something like louis training the prince's body double??? grius is probably pissed about that but whatever grius.
▮ obviously i'm fine with playing out anything from the OU game as well. fleshing out the soiree would be a good one for both strohl and louis. i want to believe there was dancing!!!!! give me fancy party vibes!!!! i'm also here to explore will and strohl's intense sexual tension from the very beginning of the game... cute fluffy gauntlet runner cooking and shopping, etc.
▮ also very happy to do a louis joins the party and forden stays the main villain fix-it AU. i'm just open to a lot of AUs. imagine wtf louis would've cooked on the gauntlet runner. also we could do life in the elda village... life in the palace... we can mess with the timeline, change the ages they would've known each other, etc
▮ the cow boyfriend strohl memes are getting to me, okay. what if strohl and will on a farm. just hang a little bell around strohl's neck and set him free in the halian pastures. also, cute post-game general strohl stuff. i feel like he got bigger??? maybe it's the cape??? but i want will to remark on how strohl's gotten ripped and get him all flustered okay. he used to bitch about stairs
▮ tbh strohl probably still bitches about stairs
▮ generally open to darker themes: noncon/dubcon from louis at any point in the story, mutually insane bad end archdemon sex, will being sold as a slave (a rare elda!!) and either purchased/liberated by louis or rescued by strohl, etc. that being said i'm typically silly and not into whump for whump's sake, so darker plots should probably have a directive we're moving toward.
▮ still other flavors of AU... louis as hythlodaeus's bastard child deeply interests me as i feel it's a very valid alternative explanation for his behavior early on in the story... this would also make him will's half-brother and i think there's a lot to explore there. the public perception of the "rightful" candidate for the throne not being crown prince. full-blooded clemar vs half-blooded clemar/elda tribal tension type shit. i'm also here for half-brother incest in this scenario but it changes louis's motivations quite wildly so we'd probably have to plot a lot
▮ sometimes i think too much about the fact that the prince's initial conception of "will" — a young elda boy from the village who would have been his best friend and was strong, powerful, good with magic and a sword, etc... was just louis... i think we should do something with that. i have a lot of feelings
▮ i should probably stop here but i could keep going. pm me if you want to hear more of this madness
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▮ Slow tags are fine! I'm really busy a lot of the time, so I can be expected to tag at a snail-like pace of about 1-3 weeks per tag... but I'm always happy to chat about our threads and fandom stuff if you want an open line of communication, so please do reach out if you're okay with a slower pace.
▮ I prefer brackets, but prose is not a dealbreaker. I also prefer writing longer, meatier tags, but I can match shorter tags. It just sucks to keep you waiting a week for a short tag, but I can't boomerang most of the time unless it's just texting.
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