pepperdoken | AU Exchange Letter 2019 (Reply)

Global DNWs: villain focused/villains as protagonists, modern au/dimension, information or events revealed in Boruto, permanent non-canon character death, non-canon tagged character death (unless it's a villain), extreme angst/grimdark, on-screen animal death, mention of animal death other than hunting for food, more than a two year age gap in romantic relationships between underage characters

Request 1: Dreaming of Sunshine

Characters/Relationships: Senju Tobirama (DoS), Group: Senju Tobirama & Nara Shikako (DoS), Uchiha Madara (DoS), Group: Uchiha Madara & Nara Shikako & Uchiha Sasuke (DoS), Group: Uchiha Madara & Nara Shikako (DoS), Group: Nara Shikako & Hatake Kakashi (DoS), Group: Nara Shikako & Uchiha Shisui (DoS), Group: Yamashiro Aoba & Nara Shikako (DoS), Group: Yamashiro Aoba/Mitarashi Anko (DoS), Group: Mitarashi Anko & Nara Shikako (DoS)
Fandom-specific tags: DOS: gardensverse, DoS: No Uchiha Massacre, DOS: Shikako has the Mokuton, DOS: Shikako is born in Shisui's generation, DoS: Watch!verse, DoS: Aoba lives through Hot Springs, DoS: Anko is sent on the Hot Springs mission with Shikako instead of Aoba

General tags: ALL: Alternate First Meetings, ALL: Animorphs AU, All: Canon Setting But Universe Functions On RPG-style Mechanics Of Hit-Points‚ Leveling-Up‚ Etc., ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed, All: Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies (Except the Bad Guys), ALL: Going back in time to fix the future, ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened, All: Met while captured together, ALL: Time Loop, ALL: Soulmates share a talent; soulbonding makes it better

Most of these tags are self explanatory, but if you go with deliberate time or dimensional travel to fix things, I’d like to see it be someone other than Shikako. That’s not to say I’d be unhappy to see it with Shikako, of course!

For gardensverse ideas, what if Shikako meets one of the tagged characters while captured?

Request 2: Log Horizon

Characters/Relationships: Akatsuki (Log Horizon), Group: Akatsuki & Shiroe (Log Horizon), Group: Akatsuki/Shiroe (Log Horizon), Shiroe (Log Horizon)

Fandom-specific tags: LH: Adventurers can log on/off at will post-catastrophe, LH: Always A Lander AU, LH: Someone reborn as a Lander in Theldesia's past instead of suddenly inhabiting their MMO avatar

General tags: ALL: Alternate First Meetings, ALL: Dragon AU, ALL: Dragon Transformation, ALL: Going back in time to fix the future, ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened, ALL: Major Canon Location is haunted, ALL: One character is a dragon, ALL: Persona game AU, ALL: Selkie AU, ALL: Soulmates share a talent; soulbonding makes it better

Shiroe’s real life appearance looks like a Persona game protagonist — so what would Log Horizon be like if it was a Persona game?

How else could Shiroe and Akatsuki have met?

Do things go terribly wrong, and if so, what? Who comes back to fix it and how?

I’m a sucker for “looks human but aren’t completely” characters. What if one (or both) are a selkie (or swan or other bird equivalent, with a feathered cloak), or a dragon? And in that case — is it something to do with Theldesia… or something that carried over from real life?

Request 3: Naruto

Characters/Relationships: Group: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara, Group: Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Madara, Group: Senju Tobirama & Senju Hashirama

General tags: ALL: Alternate First Meetings, ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed, ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened, All: Arranged marriage to bring peace between two countries/species on the verge of a war, All: Arranged marriage to resolve enmity/rivalry actually works leading to understanding/feelings, All: Met while captured together, ALL: Multiple Characters Travel Back in Time, ALL: Dragon Transformation, ALL: Selkie AU, ALL: Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married, All: Accidental Shapeshifter Marriage Due to Unknowing Theft of Animal Skin

Does Tobirama feel unsatisfied with the way things turned out, and decide to change things? Does Madara? Does Hashirama? Do they all time travel?

The Senju and the Uchiha aren’t exactly countries, but a marriage to bring peace might very well work. (Or not work, for that matter.) And either way — do Tobirama and Madara come to understand each other?

Request 4: Labyrinth