Lost Prince Character & Relationship Thoughts

These are my general thoughts on Lost Prince relationships and characters. If you've arrived here, it is probably from an exchange! Hello, and thanks for considering writing for me! I don't nominate every ship in every exchange, but these are my general thoughts about all the relationships I like.

I really loved the sense of methodical urgency throughout this book. They are planning and practicing and executing a plan, and then seeing the results of that plan's execution. Everyone has their part to play.

On the subject of The Rat's name, I like Jeremy or James if not everyone is calling him The Rat post-canon.

Frequent DNWs: (superceded by anything in the sign-up box)
Unrequested genderbending
Violence more than canon-typical
Focus on pregnancies and babies, Non-canonical children
Unrequested AUs
Incest Between Blood-relations, Unrequested Underage (underage romance between Marco/Rat okay), Major Character Death
Omorashi, Golden Showers, Piss, Scat
Police, Unrequested Punishment Themes
Non-canonical Caves and especially cave-ins
Polycule characters not accepting of some members of the polycule (basically, no one should be unhappy about the multipleness of the relationships)

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The Whole Family Together - Sometimes a family is A Secret Royal, His loyal retainer with big "If anything happened to Marco or Stefan I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself" energy, A boy who the author believes to be empirically the best boy ever to boy, and The boy who needed a role Marco & Stefan's life or his broken body would implode. And then they save Samavia and live in the palace being THE MOST INTENSE FOUR MEN WHO EVER LIVED.

Lazarus/Stefan - I'm pretty sure Lazarus would do anything at all for Stefan, like literally anything. And I think Stefan knows this and is very chill about it because why react to a fundamental truth of the world? I think they didn't have anyone else for a very long time and sometimes a secret prince just wants to be held or touched or have an extremely calm sexy time and Lazarus really would do ANYTHING.

Marco/The Rat - They save Samavia together! And along the way, they are just so fucking intense with each other, I cannot see a world where they don't stay intense with each other to the bafflement of nearly everyone around them. The Rat really reads to me as a kid who hasn't yet figured out you can be disabled and neurodivergent and gay and people will still like you. Marco just reads as a kid who needed a deeper friend and now that he found The Rat, he's not letting go, no matter what their relationship's shape takes in the future.

Marco/The Rat/Female OC - I mean, really, I don't see a world where Marco doesn't have to secure the succession. And, I also don't see a world where The Rat isn't very much inside Marco's marriage because, as previously stated, they're just so fucking intense with each other. I'd like to meet the woman who is into them both because she's also just that fucking intense, or who sees how happy The Rat makes Marco and wants them to have that happiness because who doesn't want them to be happy? Or, the most hilarious option, she informs Marco and the Rat that they ought to be together if they're not already because they're just THAT weird about each other, they really should fuck and take the UST out of it at least.

Stefan/Female OC - When he becomes king of Samavia, I just can't imagine people don't start to ask when he'll marry again and produce a spare. I like the idea of him being with a woman who can hold her own, maybe who was involved with Lighting the Lamp? Maybe she was part of the revolution within Samavia? I'd love if she is into Stefan for himself and didn't really expect to fall in love with the king himself. 

Stefan/Wife - Who is she? She's haunting the narrative, and we know basically nothing about her. How much was she involved in the plan to bring Stefan back to power? Did she entirely believe he was the descendant of the Lost Prince? Did she know Lazarus?

Nine Worlds Character & Relationship Thoughts

These are my general thoughts on Nine Worlds relationships and characters. If you've arrived here, it is probably from an exchange! Hello, and thanks for considering writing for me! I don't nominate every ship in every exchange, but these are my general thoughts about all the relationships I like.

Due to the nature of spoilers in this series, I've broken up my relationship prompts under expanding spoiler cuts by Lays of the Hearthfire versus Greenwing & Dart. If you don't know the emperor's secret name, you might not want to read the Lays spoilers. If you don't know who Jemis broke out of jail the first time, you might not want to read the G&D spoilers. Worldbuilding prompts are best if you have finished through the end of ATFOTS and all of G&D

Frequent DNWs: (superceded by anything in the sign-up box)
Anything about the Ouranatha
Unrequested genderbending
Focus on pregnancies and babies, Non-canonical children
Unrequested AUs
Violence more than canon-typical, Incest Between Blood-relations, Unrequested Underage Sex,
Omorashi, Golden Showers, Piss, Scat
Unrequested Punishment Themes (especially as relates to the Ouranatha)
Caves and especially cave-ins (mention of Kip's heart cave okay, but please don't rehash any of it)

Any individual person from any part of the series, I just want to see more of them. What is their day-to-day like? How do they cope with the changing world? Do they notice the world changing? What's their favorite food and why?

Lays of the Hearthfire Relationships

Eldo/Tully/Gaudy/Zaoul - They're the next generation of secretaries making Zunidh into a better world! Kip told Gaudy to take care of each other, and like, what if Gaudy REALLY took that to heart? How do each of their cultures handle romantic gestures, or the shapes of romantic/partnered relationships and what does the clash of their cultures look like between them all? I just love these 4 and I would love anything that shows them having more feelings for each other while also doing the incredibly hard work of the bureaucracy.

Ato/Féonie - In everyone throughout the Nine Worlds wandering in and out of legend, I really love the quiet sweet love story of Ato and Feonie! They just want to spend time together. She likes his friends! Buru Tovo clocked it, and ships it, too! What did Feonie tell Ludvic about how to court her that Ato took notes about? They're just falling in love and everyone around them knows it including HR, but probably not Kip. They had some time in Gorjo City while she was learning, and I'm certain Ludvic got lost at least some of that time.

Fitzroy/Kip - I love these two figuring out their entire thing, especially how careful they are with their feelings, and how that ends up getting in their way so much. They're the most competent people in most rooms and an absolute disaster in their personal lives and interactions, and I just eat it up! I like them together falling into and out of legend and finding they're always each other's soft place to land. I especially like them just casually kind-of marrying each other many times without it ever being called that.

Rhodin/Ludvic/Conju - They're just there in the background being hypercompetent, serving HR so perfectly, they're barely noticeable. And, the three of them work so well together, I'd love to think that a situationship grows roots over a thousand years. What do Ludvic and Conju think of Rhodin's conspiracy theories? How do Ludvic and Rhodin get Conju to take himself a little less seriously? When does Ludvic share his poetry with Conju and Rhodin? And, do these three do anything to push HR toward Kip? Feel free to add canonical additional partners to this group (Rhodin's hookups and Conju's boyfriends), or throw Kip/HR into the mix once they've settled into the Gorjo house!

Tor & Cora - I love that she's so oblivious and he's so charmed by that. I'd love if she could give him a hug someday and sit on his lap to tell him important things about the Vangavaye-ve since he'll be spending more time there now.

Kip & Gaudy - What about their relationship made Gaudy want to follow Kip to Solaara? How do they get along in the in-between scenes in canon? What does their correspondence look like after ATFOTS when Gaudy is still in the capital and working?

Zaoul & Eldo & Gaudy - I love them as coworkers and friends with such wildly different backstories! How do they find ways to work together that fit their home cultures and meld those pieces that work with pieces of the existing bureaucracy?

Tovo & Kip - I would love to see more of any age of their relationship. I think Tovo figuring out Kip/Fitzroy's fanoa relationship and poking Kip about it is ripe for more attention. I really love Tovo, just poking everything until resolves itself, and Kip needs a bit more poking.

Tovo & Tanea - They only know each other for a little bit, but I loved all the scenes from Portrait with them! Maybe she could write to him from Solaara?

Eritanyr/Tovo - CANONICALLY BAD IN BED, YOU SAY? Oh, please tell me all the details of Tovo being better at sex than the emperor he went to check out. I am so into hot as fuck Tovo and idiot prince Eritanyr.

Greenwing & Dart Relationships

Jack/Eleanor - Listen, I just think it would be both very funny and incredibly romantic to see this love square complete. Like, they were clearly compatible with the spouses they shared between them, and wouldn't that be an amazing way for them each to find some happiness again? She can comfort his tortured soul and he can help her with all the parenting, and they can kiss about how weird and hot the whole situation is.

Jemis/Roald - I love Roald putting on his act. I love Jemis being annoyed at that act and being so determined it must be a lie. I love their canonical only-one-bed and how much Jemis notices Roald's legs and how much Roald flirts with Jemis. Whenever Jemis figures out he likes Roald, how is he going to react?! What did he think when Jemis showed up in the forest after being gone for almost a week? I love loved Mr Dart clocking Roald's pining in SotBS, and I could totally see him getting involved in making Jemis see what's in front of him. (Although I do see many of the G&D relationships as QPRs, I would like Jemis/Roald to Not be in a group relationship with any additional friends.)

Jack and Jemis - The morning they just wander into town together in Plum Duff was one of my favorite moments in all of G&D. I love them finding how to have the relationship that was stolen from them all those years. Every moment of their interactions is so good. Every phase of their relationship we see in G&D is really interesting. I do prefer Jack to be actually around, and am less interested in their relationship pre-Whiskeyjack or Pre-Fall. How does Jack manage to actually explain what happened to him after the Gate of Morning? How often do they play Poacher? Does Jack ever tell Jemis what Olive and Mr Buchance said to him from the Lady's garden?

Hope & Mrs Etaris - I really love a woman who just wants to hyperfocus on her one thing. I want to see Hope finding more of the special stones in the barony! And, Mrs. Etaris going with her, or helping her find people who can tell her more about the stones she's already found! (Jemis or Hal can be around if needed, but I'm most interested in Hope and Mrs. Etaris.) What's up with that fuck-off big stone at the top of that peak!?! Are there others? What cool stones point up to the others? How does it go with Hope's name and the lawyers?

Solo Jack - I am so curious about what Jack cannot say about the Loessi Prison. How does he know the Lord of Purple and Gold is there? What did they do to him magically to bind him that way? Who else is held there? How did he escape after the Fall?

Solo Roald - When I say I love Roald putting on his act, I mean that I love that he seems so clearly to be putting on a mask in every facet of his life up until he arrives in Jemis's room in LiaM and then we are in on the masks. I just love when someone makes their own identity so fluid, they don't have to wear an actual mask to wear a mask. Roald has all the identity porn of being a superhero, and I love that about him. I'd love to see really anything you could tell me about what he gets up to, any time. Also, I could really ship him with just about anyone, so please do make him be ridiculous with anyone you like!

Worldbuilding Prompts Overall

-Somewhat interrelated are the Interim and Time after the Fall. When the Schooled magic fell apart, did the wild magic rush back in to fill the magical gaps? Is the Palace of Stars a sort of locus for time on Zunidh? Has HR's work on stabilizing the magic of Zunidh done anything to fix time since the Fall? And, with the Interim making everything so unhinged for that while, did the Lord & Lady Magi of the worlds have to exert their will on their worlds to resolve the issues in the interim?
-In G&D, Jemis often notices how the people who were adults before the Fall seem to have a different sensibility in many ways than his own generation (ie, Jack's more open feelings). What was it like to be a young adult in the age of Artorin? What was it like at court vs the provinces? And, with the levels of Schooled magic everywhere in the empire, did normal people think about how much magic was just everywhere, all the time?
-There are so many pantheons in this series! And they are getting INVOLVED in their worlds! What makes one of these deities choose a certain person to favor? How much urging along do favored people need? Does Roald know the Hunter, or is it only Jemis? How much does Vou'a talk to people who aren't his husband or Kip? Why does the Moon want Fitzroy SO badly?

Piranesi Character & Relationship Thoughts

These are my general thoughts on Piranesi relationships and characters. If you've arrived here, it is probably from an exchange! Hello, and thanks for considering writing for me! I don't nominate every ship in every exchange, but these are my general thoughts about all the relationships I like.

I loved the vibes of this book so much! It felt from the first pages like there were so many layered pieces of what was happening, between Piranesi's understanding of The House and what The Other knew versus Piranesi, it felt like there was just so much there to explore.

Frequent DNWs: (superseded by anything in the sign-up box)
Non-POC Piranesi/Matthew
Inhabitants of the House more naive than canon
Unrequested genderbending
Violence more than canon-typical
Focus on pregnancies and babies
Incest Between Blood-relations, Unrequested Underage, Major Character Death
Omorashi, Golden Showers, Piss, Scat
Police, Unrequested Punishment Themes
Caves and especially cave-ins

Solo Piranesi - I want to give him a hug, and have him show me his favorite statues. He's such a great protagonist, and I loved how he figured out so much but couldn't see everything himself because how would he have context for anything outside his sphere of understanding? Overall, for the differences between Piranesi & Matthew & Who He Was After Leaving The House, I'm very into the way his personhood fractured in those three specific places. The ending made it really seem that he's not Piranesi anymore, but also not Matthew, and I'm very interested in who he is now.

The House - It did feel almost sentient and I would love to see that explored as either a hallucination of its inhabitants or as magical truth. 

Laurence & Sylvia - The little bit of backstory we got about them was so interesting. She was so involved with everything and then just disappeared and he didn't seem to give a fuck about her. She drove him to go cruising and then like, waited in the car for him to finish? I'm so interested in their dynamic.

Piranesi & Matthew's Family - Who did they get back? Do they understand he's not the same Matthew they knew, nor the person he was in The House? Do they love him anyway? Does he love them with more than the part of him that is the sleeping Matthew?

Piranesi & Raphael - She saved him from loneliness, and is one of the only people who knows about The House. I liked the little bit of their relationship we saw in the ending, and would love to see more of that. I like that they have this very specific and internal thing in common, and they're basically strangers to each other. What does Raphael think of Piranesi being slightly different people before, during, and after his time in the House?

Piranesi/James Ritter - They're the only two people living who lived in the house for any length of time. I'd like to see them spend more time together, and be close while in the House or out. Piranesi can teach James to take care of himself in the House and James can actually be content there. 

Piranesi/Raphael & The House - I'm very curious about how Piranesi and Raphael continue to visit the House. I would like to see him showing her everything he loves and them falling in love through the House's influence. If the House is sentient, I feel like it would ship them as it would want happiness for Its Child.

Sylvia D'Agostino & the House - Sylvia could slip away whenever she wanted. She is probably one of the Dead. What happened to her? What did she think of it, besides probably loving it?

The House & Matthew Rose Sorensen - How did the House come to love Matthew? Did it make him forget himself on purpose because of his early distress? Did he find its beauty before he lost himself?

The House & Piranesi - Does the House love him as he claims? Is it actually sending him messages as he believes?

Laurence Arne-Sayles/James Ritter - Laurence just seems like he went full-on cult leader with James. How much did James go into it knowing what was happening? How much did Laurence do it on purpose? I love a charismatic predator getting his way, and Laurence is just the worst in that way. Did James enjoy any of it?

The Other/Piranesi - Piranesi seems to have a crush on The Other until he learns the truth, and even then, he's still charmed and awed by him. I'd like to see something set in the years when Val was using Piranesi. Did Val have any affection for Piranesi at all? Did he find ways to justify his treatment once Matthew disappeared and Piranesi was so besotted with The Other? I'm happy with either perspective, and any level of gaslighting or consent.