Black Emporium 2020

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Happy Black Emporium!

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter, I’m sure I’ll enjoy whatever you write. The prompts are only meant as inspiration if you would like ideas. I’m happy with any rating from gen to explicit, so even though I’ve included some smut prompts, please don’t feel obligated to write anything you’re uncomfortable with!

I mostly love this setting for its characters, their dynamics and banter and how at its best, we get to see them grow or change according to circumstance. I love them for how whole they feel, their weight and lives and histories beyond whatever interactions the PC might have with them. I prefer pro-mage runs and female or nb PCs (Warden, Hawke, Inquisitor).

I prefer to have happy and hopeful endings for everyone involved. A little bit of angst and pining and all can be fun, but I want to know everyone ends up happy! Also, any trans characters and headcanons are 100% approved!

I am happy with about anything for the ships listed, but also included some prompts. :) Obviously I’m not expecting you to go through every bullet point I list, but hopefully these are enough ideas to jumpstart something!




My DNWs
My squees (gen)
My squees (smut)

Leliana/Morrigan

Sigrun/Velanna
Sigrun/Velanna/Nathaniel Howe

Aveline/Isabela
Isabela/Merrill

Josephine/Vivienne
Anora/Vivienne

My DNWs

• noncon/dub-con
• Choking/breathplay or sexual situations where someone’s mouth or throat are being covered with a hand or gag
• Urine, scat, or other kinks related to bodily waste
• Women as subs to men unless specifically requested (women as subs to women or nb folk is okay)
• age play
• underage/aged down characters in sexual situations
• AUs unless specifically asked for in a prompt
• A/B/O
• Eggs/oviposition
• bestiality/sex with fantastic creatures that don’t have at least human-level intelligence
• Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or biphobia. If portraying trans or nb characters binding, please don’t depict them using bandages as binders
• Pregnancy or kidfic unless specifically asked for in a prompt
• If some of the ships I request have different canon ships for the characters involved, please write them as if the canon ship never happened or as if the people broke up amicably. I don’t want jealousy, toxicity, or character-bashing. (Playful teasing about character faults is okay, not “ugh I hate my ex”)

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My squees (gen)

• Playful banter and affection
• Cuddling, whether or not to stay warm! ;)
• Domesticity
• Loving attention to worldbuilding through food
• Holding hands
• Including background friendships and relationships
• Polyamorous relationships. If I requested Character A/Character B but also prompted Character A/Character C, I'd be very happy to receive Characters A/B/C in one big happy ship!
• Characters who build their romantic relationship on a solid bed of mutual trust and respect
• Unrequited pining that SURPRISE!!! turns out to be MUTUAL pining!!!
• Kisses on places other than the mouth (cheek, forehead, hand, etc)

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My squees (smut)

• Explicit consent/negotiation
• Spanking
• Bondage: I prefer rope, but adorable fuzzy handcuffs are good too ;)
• Toys (esp vibrators, dildos, and strap-ons)
• Magic during sex, if the setting allows! Whether a careful application of force magic to restrain, a tickle of ice to tease, or anything else that feels appropriate
• Tentacles
• Leaving marks during/after sex, love-bites, bruises, claw marks, mussed hair and makeup
• Xeno!!! If one party is alien or nonhuman, please play up the beauty in the monstrous, how attractive the human finds the other! I also like when the monstrous partner finds unusual things attractive in the human, because why do monsters necessarily find the same things attractive as humans?
• Size differences, not just size kink (but both are good!!! Also yes please lube with size kink!!!)
• Aftercare
• Penetrative sex where the person being penetrated isn’t necessarily seen as the ‘submissive’ one. Switch up the roles!!! Also a big shout for showing just how vulnerable blowjobs really are, because that’s trusting very sensitive junk between someone’s teeth!!!!
• Lovingly detailed oral sex, especially cunnilingus
• Safewords being used, respected, and being used to take a break from a scene without necessarily signaling the end to sex
• Fisting, but only in F/F or F/M ships where the male partner’s receiving. I prefer the fisting to be sweet and gentle, with emphasis on size and fullness rather than anything rough!
• Pegging
• Wet and messy sex

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Leliana/Morrigan

They have three games worth of history and exploits, paths twining and intersecting in unexpected ways, and I think they could have some fascinating stories. Plus just… I love them, I love how we get the chance to see them grow and change over the course of the different games, would love to see them recognize those changes in one another and be able to hold one another up as mirrors, recognizing the choices they have made. They always had that tension in Origins, but in a shifting world they’re also one of each other’s few points of familiarity by Inquisition.

• Maybe a hardened Leliana realizes that Marjolaine was part of a trend, part of her own attraction to Dark Troubled Women, but at least Morrigan is always honest in her own way. Some simmer, some tension, maybe some rough pushing up against a tree in the middle of the forest and harsh words and grinding, then it becomes an ongoing thing with Morrigan. Nothing like killing a woman’s mother or ex-lover to spark a flame, right?
• Maybe something softer, Leliana and Morrigan reuniting at Halamshiral during Inquisition and catching up on all the missing years, regrets and well-wishes and a desire not to waste any more time, and instead to pursue who they’ve really wanted all along.
• What if Morrigan had given Leliana her ring during Origins, and they kept in touch through letters and chance meetings during all that time after? I’m imagining Leliana recognizing that despite her barbs, Morrigan’s really been quite sheltered, all her prickliness a way of masking her own uncertainty, and Leliana recognizes that from her own first years as a bard. Morrigan likes lovely things, and Leliana gives her jewelry, dainty sweets from the market, and otherwise tries (gently) to show her that there’s a whole world beyond Flemeth’s swamp.
• If you want to go straight-up smut, Morrigan and Leliana could probably have a lot of fun with magic during sex. *cough cough*

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Sigrun/Velanna

My fave babes from Awakening!!!! I really love their personality contrast. They're both outcasts, but have still thrown themselves full-heartedly into defending the people they have sworn to protect. Plus they’re both outsiders to human society, and I think they would have a lot of common ground over mocking nobility.

• Velanna is startled by how new everything is to Sigrun, and finds herself teaching Sigrun the names of different plants, or marking the constellations for her.
• When Velanna has trouble thinking of how to write her Dalish stories, she practices by telling them to Sigrun.
• They’re at a party, and Velanna won’t dance. She keeps insisting that it’s stupid, it’s frivolous, she has no desire to dance… and then Sigrun finds that Velanna actually doesn’t know how to dance and is afraid of looking foolish. Sigrun teaches her, makes a bigger fool of herself, or just dances in private with her later, maybe. Something adorable. :)
• Bonus points if Velanna uses plant magic for bondage purposes!!!

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Sigrun/Velanna/Nathaniel Howe


I love their dynamics and the ways they play off one another. Plus all of them joining the Wardens at the same time must make for a heck of a bonding experience, right? I love them as a rowdy, squabbling family, the kinds of friends who live so closely together that people constantly assume they are in love until— surprise!-- they realize they are! I imagine them as a fairly evenly balanced triad, with all of them sharing equal interest in each other.

If you make references to the Hero of Fereldan, I would prefer F!Tabris or F!Brosca.

I'm happy to fold most of the prompts from Sigrun/Velanna over to this, as long as Nathaniel is added. :)

• Warden business in the Deep Roads together!
• I am always down for that classic “oh no we lost a tent/bedroll and all have to huddle to stay warm” while traveling
• Nathaniel and Velanna both developing a crush on Sigrun and thinking it's going to be a love triangle, so they're each ready to sacrifice themselves to make the others happy (“I know I'm prickly/dour, they would be much happier together than I would make them”) before realizing the error of their ways :p
• Smut-wise, I imagine Sigrun as the most energetic and likely to initiate. Cue teasing that she's lucky she has two lovers, or else she'd exhaust them!
• Bonus for femdom and Velanna using plant magic for bondage purposes!

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Aveline/Isabela

I love their prickly antagonism and the ways in which they show their affection even when they clash. They’ve had very different experiences which have shaped who they are, and I love when that’s honored and reflected. I’d rather not have hate-sex for them or a one night stand or anything where it’s presented as a dare or a bet, but instead where they realize that they have a lot of sexual tension and respect beneath their barbed words. They will always have each other’s backs even when they’re at each other’s throats. I would prefer the fic to be kind to Donnic, even if he’s not included.

• After they both betray Hawke in the Fade, maybe they sit down and talk it out? Isabela can’t resist taunting Aveline about how they’re both selfish after all, and then is surprised when Aveline actually agrees?
• Every time Isabela visits Aveline, she INSISTS on not knocking. Please give me shenanigans as she sneaks in through the window, picks the lock (“Really should have bought better locks, big girl!”), or otherwise surprises and exasperates Aveline!
• Isabela isn’t used to being able to trust others to watch out for her in a fight, so maybe she’s shocked when Aveline deliberately takes a hit that was meant for her? Especially if Aveline gets injured! Isabela is absolutely stunned, and while caring comes awkwardly to her, she tries her best while Aveline recovers.

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Isabela/Merrill

I love these two, I love every single one of their banters, I love how Isabela calls her ‘kitten’ and Merill’s starry-eyed at Isabela’s stories, and how Isabela carefully tailors them to give only the best and brightest bits of her colorful history. I absolutely adore them in any and all contexts, either as BFFs or datemates. They just!!! Merrill always seems to bring out the best in Isabela, a generosity and warmth that surprises even Isabela. I always feel like they have each other’s backs. Plus Merrill is so bright and smart and can be absolutely terrifying and dangerous and I feel like Isabela recognizes and respects that part of Merrill too. I just want my two fave ladies interacting, gosh. Gimme all the warm fuzzies.

• I'd love something sweet and warm set during DA2, with Isabela teaching Merrill cards or Merrill serving tea and dessert at her home. Or Isabela and Merrill playing dress-up with ridiculous hats? (Or if you want to go a little more explicit, admiring hidden tattoos and piercings?) Whatever it is, I want to know they're 100% there for each other and have a warm, established dynamic.
• What do Isabela and Merrill do in the years between DA2 and Inquisition? Does Isabela go on the run and take Merrill with her? Does Merrill refuse, staying with the alienage and making Isabela promise to return when she can? Do they exchange letters or mementoes?
• If you choose to write smut, I see Merrill as a very gentle top, and a lot of her ‘orders’ are things like “I would like if you spanked me!” and Isabela happily obliging. Bonus points for Isabela using or teaching Merrill ropework!
• Smut likes: I hc Merrill as a bit of a size queen, and she enjoys strap-ons very much! (Both having them used on her and on her lover.)

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Josephine/Vivienne

Two elegant, well-dressed women used to navigating high society??? Well, sign me up! I see a genuine enjoyment of one another’s company, especially with Vivienne appreciating someone else who appreciates the finer things in life and understands the nuances of status and style, and Josephine having little opportunity to match wits with someone else who understands the intricacies of the Game in Skyhold.

• Tea, cakes, and cordial gossip about the goings-on of nobility or the Inquisitor’s companions?
• Perhaps Josephine admires Vivienne’s grace on the practice field, and Vivienne points out that elegance and economy of motion aren’t restricted to a dance floor? (Bonus if Vivienne then takes Josephine dancing!)
• A shared spa day, with soaks and massages and sweet fruity drinks!
• I would love to see Vivienne using her skills as a Knight Enchanter to mop the floor with Otranto while dueling for Josephine’s hand!
• Bonus: I would love Vivienne meeting the family and having Yvette absolutely gush over her, while trying to embarrass Josie!

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Anora/Vivienne

Anora’s a rose among thorns, and Vivienne is so absolutely Orlesian. And a mage. A double whammy, especially if the Inquisition just happened to side with the mages at Redcliffe, right? I imagine there would be a lot of wary respect and possibly tension, but also a lot that they could admire in one another. Perhaps even love? (I prefer Anora as Fereldan’s Queen, ruling without a spouse in this ship.)

• After the Inquisition recruits the mages, the Inquisitor needs to send a diplomatic envoy to smooth things out with Queen Anora. Vivienne is part of that envoy, and strikes an accord with Anora?
• Perhaps Anora and Vivienne have met before, while Vivienne was Celene’s Court Enchanter? Vivienne would have taken it upon herself to impress the visiting royals, and made a striking impression.
• Anora is Fereldan. Fereldans love dogs. Vivienne...does not. Shenanigans ensue!

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