Sugardy Candy

Dear Yuletide Author

Thank you for writing a fic for me! My main fandom these past year has been MDZS | Untamed, but it's such a massive fandom that it doesn't qualify for Yuletide anymore, which also reminds me to show some love to the other fandoms I've been putting to one side. I should add that these are only suggestions, so if you have a better idea, feel free to write as the muse takes you. These are just my ramblings. So... here goes:

1) Tokyo Crazy Paradise

In one sense, it's pretty scary to think that TCP was supposedly set in 2020 (this very year) and it was supposed to be a more brutal but technologically advanced world. Now we're here and... hm, some escapism in TCP's projected future isn't bad. My favourite couple, Tsukasa and Ryuji have now gotten together and it would be cool to see how are they managing their lives as adults. I would love to see a future where they're still grappling with Tsukasa's essential set-up as a cop/cop-wannabe and Ryuji's duties as Sandaime, despite their devotion to each other. If they have children, please do not have either parent come across as ultra-cutesy (it was cool only when Kamo-san did it), but where they wryly acknowledge "you cop, me gang leader, let's do this as a team".

If there is some (more) tension where Tsukasa acknowledges her own gender confusion (either as something in the past or ongoing), that would really be great, but it is not necessary.

2) History 3: Make Our Days Count

I have only one requirement for this: it must be an AU, where that horrid event which shall remain unsaid did not happen. I want a future where they're both grad students and TAs, or both are tenured professors. Especially a fic where their respective students are rivals (maybe Xiang Hao Ting and Yu Xi Gu each specialised in a different discipline) and each group has a tiny bit of crush on them, but because rumour on campus is that they're attached and (horrors! even married) and their fans adore them too much to be disrespectful in any way. It's all very soft and sweet and fantasy-like, just the right balm for the cruelty that was canon.

3) History 3: Trapped

Much as I love the male characters in this series, one character that has always intrigued me is Zuo Hongye. She's passionate yet really rational at the same time, and she's surrounded (from her perspective) by idiot men. How did she feel when she realised that she was in love with Gu Daoyi (and also the age gap between them)? Not to mention when she realised that her adopted brother Tang Yi is interested in Meng Shao Fei, a cop? And she still has to run a company while massaging a lot of men's egos, when really, she could do so much more if all these men just did stopped deluding themselves (referring to you, Gu Daoyi) or harbouring secret revenge plots (you, Tang Yi). I would love an introspective piece, or a casefic where either Gu Daoyi or Tang Yi (or Meng Shao Fei) try to 'protect' her while some gang-related matter comes down, when Zuo Hongye could have solved the problem with her business acumen in a fraction of the time.

4. Nirvana in Fire

I've always wondered what happened to the Yans, as they don't seem to appear in Nirvana 2. So, I'm looking for fic that sheds a bit of light on what happened with Yan Yujin, after the battle where they accompanied Mei Changsu on his swansong. It would be also interesting to explore, along the way, if he (and Xiao Jingrui) ever found out if MCS was Lin Shu, or they continued to know him only as MCS all along. Preferably also a fic that shows how clever YYJ really is, as well as show his upright moral character: perhaps he came to assist MCS on some jianghu matter, or to solve a trading dispute that involved Da Liang in some way.

Bonus is if Marquis Yan came along for the ride. They had a rocky start as father and son, but in NiF they became such a strong team, and it would be great to see that relationship again.

DNWs: Violence solely for the sake of violence, especially scenes of violence against women.