Dear Fairy Tale Creator,

Thank you for your interest. I hope you’ll find this letter helpful. There’s pairings and fandoms I might have to say a lot about, others not as much. That doesn’t mean I’d like them less than others. Quite the contrary, I just haven't been exposed to them enough to start gushing about them.

I picked 'Any' for freeforms in every request, even if I don't know half of those freeforms. However, with the theme of this exchange, I can't imagine being anything but delighted with whatever you chose as inspiration. Write where your heart and inspiration leads you to.

Generally, I love creation myths of all kinds. The big ones on how the world came to be and the smaller, regional ones of a giantess attempting to steal some sand and loosing some of that when having to flee and thus creating some hills; all those stories that explain why the world works as it does. Or just make up your own, epic or silly, of universal importance or just about why the bread always lands on the buttered side.

As for creatures, gimmeh all of them! Creepy, cute, canidae, reptilian, horned, winged, slimy, fishy, tentacly or just ethereal, two legs, no legs, 50 legs and hands…

Links and Dates

My Ao3 Profile: Stefanyeah(main)/Kelaino

Likes And DNW's

Likes

Cryptozoology
Road Trips and Travelling
The „Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass“ Trope
Polyamorous Relationships that work
Happy Endings
Crossdressing
Anthropomorphism: especially Tails and Claws, Wings and Feathers
Monsters aren't evil
Fun Pure Evil Villains
Super-Powered Evil Sides
Mad Scientists enjoying themselves
Friends with benefits and without further complications
Ragtag Bands of Misfits with the Power of Friendship
Heroes doing Heroic Shit while pulling Heroic Poses: Is it camp? Yes. Is it fun? FUCK YES!

DNWs

Permanent Death of requested Characters
Focus on Angst: You can use it like curry powder, a sprinkle adds an interesting flavour once in a while; as the main flavour, it’s just not the dish for me.
Sad and Bad Endings
Underage
Rape/ Non-Con: I'm very fine with dub-con (e.g. consent that wasn't explicitely given, both parties enjoying it in the end (even if they'd never admit to it), sexpollen-adjecent settings)
Watersports, scat, vomit
Cannibalism
Animal Harm/Cruelty: apart from big monsters beating the crap out of each other
Alcoholism: A drunken night of shenanigans followed by a drunken banging of each other is okay. Someone succumbing to it, just don’t.

Setting Likes…

…include, but aren’t limited to:

Mediaeval
Steampunk
Post-Apocalyptic
Vikings and anything roughly between the Romans and the Renaissance
Legends, Myths and Fairy Tales
And a sprinkle of Fantasy for that Extra Tasty Flavour is very much welcome

Setting DNWs

Both World and current Wars
Hopeless Dystopias
No-Powers AU

Art Likes

It's hard to say what I like. There’s so many styles and media in which to art. I like dark blue and I love lush, deep red. So, have fun with your own style or experiment. Just… don’t give me piggy rosy rose, please.

Smutty Likes

BDSM explorations: D/s, confident subs, stubborn subs, caring Doms, training, bondage, punishment, marking and biting, possession, begging
Tentacles. Tentacles are cool.
heat/rut and a/b/o dynamics
love and trust between partners
in case of monster loving: Apply the Harkness Test. ;)
And for good measure, here’s a rather extensive list of Kink List I’ve nicked from Smut4Smut.

I’m quite okay with violence and guts and blood splattered all over the interior. However, I don’t want my requested characters to get out of the whole ordeal broken or even seriously hurt. I’m also still trying to pinpoint the line between YAY! GORE! and EEEK! TOO REALISTIC! *faints* So, if you want to add violence, it’s safer to go absolutely Evil Dead 2-meets-Tarantino-over-the-top.

Onwards to Fandom Specifics

Some of the fandoms here are inspired by or directly based on existing legends and myths. Please, do not feel tied down by that in any way. If you want to put Godzilla into a 100 year sleep, only to be woken by ancient Greek Gamera’s loving kiss, go for it. Mix and Match to whatever fits your vision.

Hades

This fandom would lend itself rather easy to retell Greek legends, however I challenge you to put them into other myths and legends, too. ;)

The Elysian Edition (Asterius/Zagreus — Asterius/Theses/Zagreus)

I'm not exactly sure how it came to be that Asterius/Theseus/Zagreus has become something of my current OT3… Also, there’s not enough Asterius/Zagreus around yet. Fact.

I'd love a fun story with those idiots (Apart from Asterius. Bull Man is not an idiot.) Are Zagreus and Theseus forced to work together to save fair prince Asterius from the evil king's labyrinth? Does Asterius need Zagreus' help to break a curse? Has something broken into the underworld and past the Champions of Elysium?

The Time-Spanning Edition (Zagreus & Bearer of Secret Aspect)

I am somewhat puzzled that there seems to hardly be anything around that focuses on the secret aspects of the Infernal Arms. They're like an invitation to canonical crossovers.

The Canonical Edition (Megaera/Thanatos/Zagreus)

The Prince of the Underworld, a Fury and Death Incarnate walk into a fairy tale…

The God of War Threesome (Ares/Thanatos/Zagreus)

War walks into a fairy tale. The Prince of the Underworld and Death Incarnate are not amused. Or are they?

Horizon: Zero Dawn

GAIA and Sub-Functions (Sylens&APOLLO — Sylens & HADES — Aloy & GAIA)

I feel like Sylens and HADES have a kinda Faustian relationship.

Will Aloy find a way to restore GAIA? Maybe even just GAIA's 'mind' in a makeshift vessel? What would they talk about?

As for Sylens and APOLLO, I guess Sylens would move Heavens and Hell and overcome any fairy tale obstacle imaginable to restore the collected wisdom of the old world.

It's a Machine's Life (Aloy & Machine of Creator's Choice)

How could machines fit into the world of myths, legends and fairy tales? Would an AI that's based on a different mythology create different machines? Like if GAIA wasn't Gaia, but YMIR, how would those machines look like and behave towards humans?

If put in fairy tales, how would machines be tempted into assisting the heroine? Or in which way would the be monsters and obstacles to be overcome?

The Huntress and the Knight (Aloy/Erend)

If you can call Erend a knight at all…

I really enjoyed the missions you could play together with Erend. Their chemistry was a lot of fun.

Discworld - Terry Pratchett

Death & None — Death & Death of Rats: I just adore Death and that little Grim Squeaker.

Stand Still Stay Silent

Due to the nature of the story and some requested characters, I'll leave my character death DNW out for this fandom. (I'd still appreciate if you don't go and kill off everyone. ☠️)

The Ragtag Band of Misfits (Emil & Lalli & Mikkel & Onni & Reynir & Sigrun & Tuuri)

Fun and catastrophes on the road together with a Babylonian language mix. What could possibly go wrong apart from everything?

Family Issues (The Hotakainens)

One could think of them as a cursed family, almost. When nominating, I was thinking about Tuuri, Lalli and Onni, but of course, there's the family members in the Prologue or Ensi we could be hearing stories about.

Reluctant Friends and Goofballs (Sigrun & Any — Onni & Reynir)

Onni and Reynir are my friendship OTP. Their interactions simply spark so much joy.

As for Sigrun, I adore our most best goofball captain with surprising streaks of competence shining through. Which creatures could she encounter on her adventures?

The Evil Wizard one

What has the Kade been up after the little island has been deserted? Are there other Kades around in other parts of the world? How does the inner workings of a Kade look like? Is it similar to Sleipnope's collected minds and a place of despair and desolation or would it be a place of cold calculation and malice?

Shin Godzilla

Godzilla & None: Go wild with whatever you can think of. Does the deactivation plan fail? Is he going to wake again? What's up with that ominous last shot of his tail? Are we going to get an army of H.R-Giger-themed fairies swarming the world?

Crossover Fandom

Godzilla (Godzilla 1954) & Kiryu (Godzilla Millennium Series)

I feel there could have been done more with Kiryu being made from the first Godzilla's bones. More mayhem and destruction, more implications of life and death and it's natural course, more regrets and anger, maybe eventual forgiveness?

Godzilla & Gamera

The two poster kaijus of tokusatsu. What could they get up to together or against each other? Would they fight each other or be forced to work together to defend the Earth against dangers?

Shin Godzilla & God/ess of Creators Choice

This nomination was inspired by this video of Shin Godzilla mutating and mutating until he's literally hosting a new universe and becomes, well, God.

Of course, you don't have to go down that route. There's also the Rage Across Time comic, which has Godzilla single-handedly destroying the Greek pantheon in the second chapter.

Zagreus (Hades Game) & Godzilla (Godzilla in Hell)

This makes a lot more sense that you'd think at first and I'll never see enough of those two battling their way out of the Underworld. 😁

Cerberus (Hades Game) & Any

Best Boi just wants to have fun. ;)

Original Work

As usual with Original Work, I don't really have much to say about the pairings. They usually feel like prompts themselves, really.

The Monster Loving Edition

OF Pirate Captain/OF Sea Creature

OM Fisherman/OF Bioluminescent Water Creature

OM Shipwrecked Pirate Captain & OM Sea Creature that saves him

Ruthless Pirate Captain/ONB Sea Creature they attempt (and fail) to catch

Just apply the Harkness Test and we're fine. ;)

The Royal Runaway Edition

Runaway Heir to a Throne & Assassin sent to kill them

Runaway Heir to a Throne & Pirate Captain Helping them Escape the Kingdom

Why is the heir running away? Will they return or leave their kingdom to whatever fate?

The Magical Edition

Magical Tattoo Artist/Client That Wants to Ask Them Out But Just Keeps Getting Tattoos Instead

What is it that makes that tattoos magical? Do they bring luck or bad luck, fulfil wishes, reveal things hidden, move around and play out your favourite movie? Will the client ever muster up enough courage before they run out of empty skin?