Hello! I'm also primeideal on Ao3. This is an all-Stormlight Archive signup, and I'm requesting both fic and art for all ships! Some of the freeforms will lend themselves more to certain ships than others, but feel free to mix and match.
Requested ships:
- Dalinar Kholin/Navani Kholin
- Hesina/Lirin
- Kmakl/Fen Rnamdi
- Lunamor/Tuaka
- Masha-daughter-Shaliv/Szeth-son-son-Vallano
- Palona/Turinad Sebarial
- Renarin Kholin/Rlain
- Shallan Davar/Adolin Kholin
General art likes:
- black and white art
- bright/bold colors
- traditional or digital art
- objects that represent/are strongly associated with characters
- fantastic/speculative worldbuilding elements
- in-universe artifacts/sketches that the characters might have drawn (similar in spirit to the snippets between chapters, although I'm not expecting Shallan-level expertise!)
General art dislikes (please don't consider these binding DNWs: if your interests or preferences lie strongly along these lines then feel free.)
- pastel-heavy palettes
- deliberately wildly disproportionate/chibi-like characters
- completely non-representational art
General fic likes:
Anything leaning into the weird worldbuilding, culture, and magic of Roshar! For this exchange, I'm mostly imagining something canon-compliant, but if you have AU ideas (Dalinar lives? Shallan and Adolin don't get separated?) feel free.
DNWs:
- explicit sex (but fade-to-black or innuendo is fine), explicit depictions of genitalia in art
- eye trauma
- underage characters having sex
- rape/noncon
- second person POV (in "normal" prose, happy with it in IF or the like)
- moralizing/didactic stories (characters Learning An Important Lesson about the value of tolerance, etc.)
- non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics (Dalinar complains about the squabbling princedoms: fine; Dalinar complains about the squabbling princedoms and this is a metaphor for the 21st century US Congress: no thanks.)
- character bashing
- cliffhanger endings
- themes of cynicism or futility, or that the (canon's) main plotlines "are for nothing"
Requested Prompts:
- Historical - Bard Immortalizes Wedding In Ballad To Couple's Delight Or Embarrassment
- You know Wit would. And knowing him it would wind up as a traditional ballad in another place/time/somewhere else in the Cosmere. Or maybe the listeners adding to their traditional list of songs.
- Supernatural - Familiar/Magical Companion's POV on Human's Spouse
- Doesn't literally need to be from the other character's POV, but something about the developing relationships between the spouse and the spren/other being. Adolin and Pattern? Shallan and Maya? Masha interviewing Nightblood for her book? The Sibling and the Stormfather bickering about how humans are the worst, and now they're inlaws?
- Wedding - Marriage Traditions in Different Cultures
- Do peakspren ever show up to crash Horneater weddings? Palona is wearing a Herdazian marriage garment--more about that! What does a traditional Shin wedding look like for Masha and Szeth?
- Wedding Ceremony - Magic-related accidents during wedding
- A/B Read In-Universe RPF About Their Wedding
- Epistolary media coverage/social media reaction/etc.
- In-Universe Rumors About A/B Secret Marriage
- These would work well for Dalinar/Navani. (Especially "oh no Dalinar can read now, so much for secret women's documents.") But also, are there rumors about Renarin/Rlain? What do the common people of Thaylen think of the Prince Consort?
- Widowed - Marrying Sibling's Widow
- Established Marriage - Old Married Couple
- Established Marriage - Partners Can’t Keep Their Hands Off Each Other Even After Years Together
- Fen and Kmakl definitely have this effect on people as they're pushing seventy.
- Anniversary: Tenth
- We know ten is a very important number in Roshar lore. For Palona/Sebarial, their anniversary will be right around the end of the "timeskip" between books five and six--what's changed on Roshar in that time? Shallan and Adolin's will be slightly earlier than that--are they celebrating even when apart, or is Shallan working on a completely different calendar by now? Navani reflecting on most of ten years without Dalinar? The other couples, presumably having somewhat more mundane times to celebrate in?
- Proposal - Post-canon
- I imagine Masha is the one who proposes to Szeth and it takes a while for him to be convinced "this is real, she doesn't see me as the Assassin in White, she knows who I am and loves me exactly as I am." But anything about how they got together!
- Marrying for Love - Getting Married After Having Been Together For Many Years
- Proposal - "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow So Let's Get Married Today"
- Something finally convinced Palona and Sebarial that they should make it official. Is Sebarial just worried about the class difference, and all the other social changes convinced him it wasn't a big deal? Did they just want a really great wedding night before the battle of champions? What happened?
- Wedding - First Legal Marriage Of Its Kind
- Political Marriage - Emergency Same-Sex Marriage Exception to Avert Imminent War
- We know that Alethkar/Urithiru has some form of same-sex marriage (Drehy and his husband), but maybe the idea of same-sex marriages (or formal long-term relationships in general?) is new to the listeners. Either way, Renarin/Rlain are going to get a lot of questions from both cultures. What happens then?
- Wedding Ceremony - Watching A Friend/Family Member Get Married
- Especially for Adolin/Shallan, there's so much going on there. How are Shallan's brothers feeling? Do they recognize Chanarach? What's going on with her? Adolin chose to wore Kaladin's gift sword among the dozens other gift swords he had--what's with that?
- Established Marriage - Slice Of Married Life During Wartime
- Lunamor and Tuaka have six kids--what's it like for her when she's waiting for news? Hesina and Lirin worried about their boys? Learning that they're going to have another baby and dealing with that shock during everything else that's going on? Being doctors at Urithiru?
- Newlyweds - Helping New Spouse Settle Into Their New Clan/Village/City/Country
- Hesina isn't originally from Hearthstone--what was the culture shock like for her? Where do Renarin and Rlain wind up geographically and what adjustments do they have to make?
- Established Marriage - Expectant Couple Prepares for Baby
- What are the pregnancy traditions for Horneaters? Hesina and Lirin, either earlier in their marriage with Kaladin and Tien, or later with Oroden?
Again, don't feel limited to these specific prompts, anything involving these characters and tropes will be great. Thank you for creating for me!