QZGS Secret Santa Letter

Thank you for creating for me! I’m so excited to see what you choose to make! All the words I’ve written here are for inspiration only; I’m sure I’m going to love whatever you come up with. :)

Treats are also always welcome.

Table of Contents

• SFW Likes/DNWs
• SFW Prompts
• NSFW Likes/DNWs
• NSFW Prompts

GENERAL LIKES
Characters being in communities | Established relationships | Complicated relationships | Compassion and kindness | Hurt/Comfort | Displays of skill | Politics, puzzle-solving, and mysteries | Fight scenes | Teaching/mentorship | Loyalty, fealty, devotion | Trauma and recovery | Bodies (fat/muscles/scars/etc) | Meaningful touch | Queer characters (inc. ace/aro/trans) | Wingfic | The environment/nature/a sense of place | Atypical narrative structures and POV: 1st person, 2nd person, epistolary, poetry, nonlinear, in-world texts, etc.

ART LIKES
Winged characters! | Tarot, dream imagery, and other symbology | Space, the ocean, and other vast environments | Characters being relaxed/happy | Snuggling with partner(s)/friends | Interacting with animals | Action poses | Characters examining artifacts/plants/other neat things | Dramatic lighting! Soft pastels! Vivid color and highlights! Black and White/Grayscale pieces! They're all good!

DNWs

• Death of any character (references to SMQ's death are fine but idk why they'd come up with the prompts I wrote)
• Character bashing (herein defined as: making any single character awful/the devil with zero redeeming qualities according to the narrative. canon-typical in-universe dislike of Liu Hao is fine. xD)
• Ship bashing (herein defined as: saying any ship is awful/abusive/gross. if you don't like a ship just don't write it; I love gen!)

Things I love in QZGS fanworks:

• In-game Glory worldbuilding and PvE shenanigans! Questlines and boss lore and all that good stuff!
• Battlefic! I love tactics and strategy and fight scenes!
• Anything focusing on teamwork, team bonding, and team members supporting each other
• Competence porn: show me these extremely skilled people doing all the incredible things they're great at!

Some fun AUs for fic/art inspiration:

• Wuxia/Xianxia AU!
• An AU where players get powers/traits based on their in-game avatars (superheroes/urban fantasy?)
• Infinite Flow AU
• Transmigration into avatars/otherwise entering the world of Glory
• In SPACE!/general space opera shenanigans
• PacRim AU (building/piloting jaegers! the drift!)

PROMPT ONE

I'd love something about any combination of Qiu Fei, Sun Xiang, and Tang Rou! They're all Ye Xiu's Battle Mage heirs, but they come by that status in different ways and have different stylistic ticks and different relationships to the game and Ye Xiu. What's it like when they interact? Do other people ever group them together? What's it like to spar with each other? What kind of friendship/rivalry do they have with each other?

Ship-wise I'm super into Tang Rou/Sun Xiang (fiery and dedicated rivals) and also enjoy Sun Xiang/Qiu Fei (shadow plays!). I haven't thought much about Tang Rou/Qiu Fei or the entire group as a trio but if that makes your brain go !!! I would be so hype to see what you create!

Gen is also great, of course! Always love cross-team friendships and rivalries that push everyone involved to greater performances and displays of skill. Also love them being dorks and nerds and doing things that aren't Glory for a change.

(I also love thinking about them all being trans! I prefer Qiu Fei as a trans man and Tang Rou and Sun Xiang as trans women.)

ART SUGGESTIONS

• Player + Avatar interactions of any sort!
• Sun Xiang and Qiu Fei's shadow play stuff could be super cool for art!
• I think it'd be cute to see any of them kissing each other
• Hanging out and playing some console video game (mario kart? smash? some other multiplayer game I'm not thinking of?)
• Or anything else that the above prompt inspires for you!

PROMPT TWO

I'd love something about Misty Rain! I adore Chu Yunxiu, Li Hua, and the Shu twins. The team dynamic is so juicy: Shu Keyi and Shu Kexin are brought in as a media stunt, but they make the team composition much worse due to how the team becomes a bunch of ranged glass cannons with no tank or melee control class. Anything exploring that would be great!

Some ideas:

• One/both of SKY and SKX change classes to give Misty Rain a better team composition. What class(es)? How hard is it to switch? Does it work? How mad is the media about this?
• CYX’s experiences as a female captain heading up a woman-heavy team in the overall male-dominated GPA.
• Li Hua and CYX’s partnership.
• Battlefic! :D I love battlefic and Misty Rain's situation makes it super interesting.
• Something exploring the ways in which SKY and SKX are in fact different people even if they market themselves as a matched pair.
• I’d be into CYX/Li Hua and CYX/either Shu twin, if you want to write something shippy for this prompt!
• Team bonding experiences, or something else focusing on Misty Rain's struggles to figure out how to integrate SKY and SKX.

(I did write a CYX/Misty Rain-centric longfic, and if you’re inspired to create something that remixes Castles in the Sky [or otherwise draws inspiration from that fic, like illustrating a scene in it or expanding on a scene I skimmed over] I would be thrilled, but doing so is absolutely not necessary. I’d love seeing your take on MR and its players! My fic is, however, a source of more ideas/feelings that I have about CYX and her team!)

(Trans things: I headcanon Li Hua as a trans man, and I’d be super interested in either/both of the Shu twins being trans in any direction!)

ART SUGGESTIONS

• Player + Avatar interactions!
• Visualizations of media ads for SKY/SKY/Misty Rain in general!
• SKY and SKX relaxing/leaning on each other
• Cool team pose full of determination
• Or anything else from the above prompt which inspires you!

PROMPT THREE

I'd love some next gen fic! For this prompt, I'm leaving out Team Happy (they get plenty of focus) and focusing on rookies in other teams: Song Qiying, Guo Shao, Gai Caijie, Qiu Fei, Mi Xiuyuan, Bai Shu, Qin Muyun, Lu Hanwen.

These characters don't get much screen-time (Mi Xiuyuan in particular is mostly a "yeah, this character exists"), and honestly I'd just love more about any of them. How do they integrate into their teams? What's it like for them to be raised towards leadership? What are their strategic goals? How do they bond and become friends?

I don't have as many specific thoughts here because I'm asking for a broad group of characters. Please believe me when I say that anything focusing on this group of characters will delight me! Also, feel free to sell me on new rarepairs by combining any of these characters together in whatever configuration compels you!

ART SUGGESTIONS

• Player + Avatar interactions!
• Hanging out and having fun together! (getting bubble tea together? playing other video games together? snowball fight? something else?)
• Post-All-Stars puppy pile
• Peer mentorship (clustering around a computer/VOD pointing out places they could improve?)
• ngl very few of these characters get much art so just having cool designs for any of them + their avatars would be INCREDIBLE
• Or anything else from the above prompt which inspires you!

See the nsfw section of my general exchange letter for more details about my nsfw likes!

All SFW likes/DNWs also apply to NSFW works!

KINK/SEX LIKES
Non-Sexual Kink | Communication | Marking/Claiming | Control (and d/s) | Sensation play | Mouths and Teeth (biting and oral!) | Clothing Kink/Clothed Sex | Alternate Erogenous Zones | Nonhuman Genitalia | Semi-Public Sex | Rough Sex | Sex Toys | Magic (or the equivalent) | Multiple orgasms | Edging and overstimulation | Foreplay and aftercare

NSFW ART LIKES
Body hair, especially pubic hair | Shibari/intricate bondage | Collars and Cuffs | Visible hickeys/bite marks | Lifting clothing up/pushing clothing out of the way/shoving hands down pants | Bathing/showering together | Hair-pulling/grabbing

DNWs
Rape/non-con (dubcon's fine) | Spanking | Rimming | Vomit, scat, piss | Daddy kink, ageplay, or other age/family-dynamic-based kinks

PROMPT ONE

Please write any ship suggested by my SFW prompts doing fun NSFW things! :D

I like both kink and sex, either together or separate, and I'm happy to see characters doing kink/sex even if they aren't interested in a typical romantic/sexual relationship; friends can have NSFW fun too!

Some QZGS-specific prompts:

• Having sex while playing Glory (cockwarming/oral preferred. getting off on being on voicechat with other players and needing to pretend they aren't having sex at the same time would be particularly fun!)
• Kinking on pretending to be their avatars while fucking, or generally kinking on wearing their avatars' outfits
• Cross-team quickies/hook-ups at the stadium (in a closet/bathroom/etc)
• Getting aroused by on-stage victory (specific subset: knowing this would happen and thus preemptively locking one's dick up so that there's no visible boner)
• Hand/finger kink

PROMPT TWO

Mo Fan/Su Mucheng/Fang Rui!

I like all parts of this triad on their own, and together I find the idea even more delightful. I think that Su Mucheng deserves to be fucked by Fang Rui’s golden right hand, and I’d be interested in seeing Mo Fan’s preference for watching and only acting at decisive moments applied to sexual situations. (SMC/FR fucking and enjoying MF’s watchful presence, only to have MF bring one/both of them off?)

I think that there’s a lot of opportunity for the three of them to have a lot of fun together! Laughing while having sex would be lovely! Honestly, anything you do with this trio would be great, since it's a bunch of rarepairs mashed together to make an even rarer triad.

(If you’re interested in writing trans characters: Fang Rui as trans masc or a he/him butch lesbian would be fantastic, I enjoy Su Mucheng being a trans woman, and Mo Fan being agender would be super fun.)

(If you want to write a SFW fic with this group instead I'd be equally delighted but all my thoughts about them are NSFW so it goes here.)

ART SUGGESTIONS

• Su Mucheng as the middle of a FR/SMC/MF sandwich. Maybe sitting on Mo Fan's lap while Fang Rui kneels in front of her giving her oral/fingering her? Or the other way around!
• Mo Fan fully clothed and touching himself while FR/SMC are naked and fucking
• Or something else inspired by the above prompt!