HQSS 2018: Dear Creator

(Updated: September 4th, 2018)

Hi Creator!

Thank you so much for spending time creating something for me. I’ve broken this letter down into general likes/dislikes, and then a section on Haikyuu!! specific stuff.

The letter doesn’t cover everything that I like (My AO3 bookmarks may give you more ideas, but I’ve been meaning to update them because they’re currently a mess) and please don’t feel pressured to fit your creation to everything I like!

Thanks so much again for creating something for me! I’m so excited to see what you create! Thank you again!

(Note: Most of this letter was copied from previous exchanges I’ve participated in.)

General Themes I Like:

Platonic Relationships – I love friendship. Gen fics are my jam. I’m always a sucker for platonic cuddling, hair ruffling, and just people being protective/supportive of each other. Hair ruffling and forehead kisses are like my ultimate weakness.

Families of Choice/Found Family/Team as Family – This is pretty much my favorite trope of all time. People choosing to be each other’s families and just platonically loving each other is my favorite thing in the entire world.

Trust – I love fics that focus on the trust and building of trust between two (or more) characters. People accepting the unconditional love and trust of another person and realizing it’s real is one of my favorite things.

Communication – I really love this theme. People talking out their issues and trusting each other with their entire being, just gives me the all the feels. I especially love when people have to deal with their (and each other’s) insecurities and have to be vulnerable to each other.

Happy Endings – I just want them to be happy in the end. I can take angst (and I especially love Emotional Hurt/Comfort), but I really need happy endings for the characters.  

AUs/Tropes I Like:

Breakfast Club AU – I feel like I’ve read every Breakfast Club AU in every fandom that I’m in (and even a couple in fandoms I’m not in). (For context, Breakfast Club is a 1980s movies about 5 very different kids that get detention and by the end of the day become friends with each other) I love this for the same reason I love the “families of choice” theme – a bunch of misfit kids finding family in each other.

Famous/Not Famous AUs – I really love when one person is famous/rich and the other isn’t and they have to navigate their relationship amongst this. This connects into the theme of trust and communication that I mentioned earlier. At one point I wrote this really long thing on tumblr about it.

Protective/Supportive Friends – I love friends defending each other and supporting each other no matter what. Characters finding, building, and accepting unconditional friendship is wonderful.

If none of these float your boat – I also like band AUs, mundane magic AUs, and characters all having to be roommates with each other.

DNWs:

I feel like most of these are pretty self-explanatory:  

• Rape/Non-con
• Incest
• Character Death
• PWP/Explicit Sex
• Graphic Violence
• Unhappy Endings (Feel free to include some angst, but please, please let the fic end happy).

Haikyuu!! Specific:

I love pretty much every single character in Haikyuu!! I don’t even have an OTP because I think that almost every ship is great and wonderful on their own merits I love Captain Squad and Setter Squad and every single team dynamic in the show. Some other favorite groups of mine are the Karasuno First Years (who are my favorite!) and the Second Gen Captain Squad. If you chose to write about any of these characters/groups, I’d be happy.

Honestly though, every character/relationship dynamic in the series is gold.

I had a really hard time trying to pick characters for this because I literally kept changing my mind, but here are some that I like:

Karasuno First Years: I love the Karasuno First Years in every combination. I’d really love a fic where they’re just interacting in some way. It could be canon or post-canon or an alternate universe – I just really love the five of them and their relationships with each other. I think especially as they spend more time together that they would have a really great friendship. (Feel free to put ships in, I’d just also like to request all of them interacting somehow.) I’m also Karasuno trash, so if you want to put cameos from the rest of the team, that would be great too!

Second Gen Caps: I sometimes forget how much I love the Second Gen Captains, because I read so much Captain Squad, but the interactions between the Second Gens is always portrayed so well. This is kind of similar to this entire letter in which, I just want to see them hanging out and being friends with each other.

Setter Squad: I really love the idea of setter squad interacting with each other. I especially like interactions between Kenma, Akaashi, Oikawa, and Suga. I think that all four characters play off each other really well. (I also love the rest of the setters in HQ!! (especially Moniwa), so feel free to include them too!)

Team-fic in general really floats my boat – especially when we get to see how they work together, and why each team makes such a good team. Karasuno is probably my favorite team, but I have soft spots for all of them, especially Nekoma, Fukurodani, and Datekou.

Also, feel free to include side-ships or background ships! I’m really not that picky about them!