Dear Creator [IHX 19]

 Dear Creator,

Hello! Firstly, thank you for taking the time to create a gift for me!! I really appreciate your time and effort. I promise whatever you do, I'll absolutely adore it. The list below are guidelines for what i enjoy, but it's not complete by any means. If you want more sense of what i'm all about, my tumblr is @cheswirl. 

Here's a little general background on me n sports

I'm in uni partially for a bachelors in graphic design, and partially for an athletic training license. When i'm done with undergrad, I'll go directly into a graduate program for my masters in athletic training. basically, it's sports medicine. so like, injury prevention, pain monitoring, what the term implies. I tend to get super technical w treatment of injuries whenever I watch a sports anime, and it aggravates me to no end when the athletes are depicted hiding their injuries (read: daiya). 

In the future I want to work with the USA Olympic Diving team. Diving is by far my favorite sport. My favorite of the nominated is volleyball. I'm currently working with a softball team. 

I actually don't play any sports. I'm not athletic at all, hah. I've been doing athletic training since high school. I haven't played a sport since soccer, and I stopped in early elementary? But! I do love them, so much of my life involves sports right now. 

And about me in general

I live for AUs, especially in a magical/witch or superhero setting. I'm not super into the more gritty AUs, like mafia/organized crime settings, for example. Star wars and Pokemon are always good picks too!!

I'm definitely not a nsfw person. I'm actually pretty sex-repulsed, so try and avoid this. Any mentions of encounters in passing that aren't detailed should be fine. 

Some tropes I really like: fake relationships, the reluctant protagonist, the stoic/happy-go-lucky pair, partners in crime, soulmates !


Daiya no Ace

Mannnnnn I have such a love/hate relationship with this series. For example, I hate how it depicts athletes constantly hiding their injuries bc they think immediately if they're injured a little bit = they have to sit out, which usually isn't the case at all. It's definitely not a cultural thing either, I've read up on case studies abt Japanese high school sports to confirm this. It's just Terajima ... depicting it wrong!!

But I do like that we get characters that read up on treatment stuff and offer to help, since I've never seen that in any other sports anime before. But yeah uh. Hnnnnn. I wanna take these boys aside and jus tell them treating the injury means it gets better faster!!

Anyway rant over. I love Daiya and I love baseball. I don't think I'll ever be comfortable working w a baseball team bc the nature of the players always seems to be extreeeeeme extroverts, and I am very introverted. Like. Think a whole team of Sawamuras. Yikes right. 

But that's why it's so fun to experience teams through anime! I don't dislike a single baseball player in Daiya. Not one. My favorites are Mei, Miyuki, Ryou, and Seto. I definitely prefer the snarky characters, aha. I also like all the girls!!! I love. Girls.

My pairings are Misawa, somewhat Itsumei, Kuraryou, and Kurawaka! I have a soft spot for kurawaka, definitely.

I don't have any preferences, so you're more than welcome to grab off the general section. These are specific suggestions to the sport.

I'd love to see a team rivalry competition that involves things besides baseball. Whether it's still athletic, like weight lifting, or comedic, like who can build a human pyramid the fastest, or more absurd, like a scavenger hunt. 

I absolutely live for humor. If you make me laugh I will love you forever. I can't really write humor (if I do it comes out dry af) so I appreciate when someone can. 

Any pairing fic, I love fluff! I write angst all the time, so I gotta be in a certain mood if I'm gonna read it. If it's platonic, give me prank pulling on upperclassmen/lowerclassmen/dormmates!!


Haikyuu

Hq is the fandom I always come back to no matter how long it's been since I've had interaction w canon material. I live for the characters and the humor. I also love volleyball. I love it. 

My favorite characters are Kenma, Akaashi, Yukie, Oikawa, Yachi, and Semi. Theres a theme here huuh. I identify really strongly w kenma, so if you wanna do anything introspective w him, that's completely fine w me. The character trope here is definitely the character that works hard despite the results falling short. Yukie is by far my favorite!! (Did I mention I like girls yet///)

I like kuroken as either romantic or platonic! i also looooove yamayachi as either as well, i jus love their dynamic in general! others include tensemi, iwaoi, bokuaka, kuroaka.

My favorite team is fukurodani! write about literally any of them or all of them and you're set !

Again, these sport-specific suggestions are just suggestions. Definitely don't have to go off of them.

I am a firm believer that the final national match will be between fukuro and karasuno ! Do with that what you will.

I have such a soft spot for iwaoi's dynamic. The childhood friends trope is so goooooood so playing off of that would be amazing. Either platonic or romantic, and any pair of characters, no matter if the trope is canon or not. (kuroken is another one but iwaoi's dynamic still outranks them)

Olympic AUs!!!! I live for these. Throw ocs in there. Make an all-star team of hq chars. Write them as spectators critiquing olympic volleyball players from the stands or tv at home. Making it to the olympics goals. Anything like that. 

ALSO third year karasuno first years is good. Give me co-captains kageyama and yamaguchi. Give me head manager yachi. Give me hinata still as the shortest club member despite being one of the oldest. Give me all the feels.

Kuroko No Basket

My favorite sports anime of all time. I watched it back in high school back when i thought i hated basketball. I still don't enjoy it to the extreme, but I like it more now than I used to. I watch this anime once a year, the full three seasons + specials. it's very dear to my heart.

I relate a lot to Furihata, but my all-time favorite character is Aomine. I also generally like any character that makes me/the audience laugh. SO, takao, kuroko, midorima, etc. 

I know i mentioned before abt angst, but I really like stories that depict the mental state of knb characters. So if you can pull off a really good fic abt Aomine being clinically depressed? Go for it, I'll eat that shit up. Akashi having MPD? Sure sure. Midorima w OCD? Yea yea.

Aokuro holds a very special place in my heart. I love their potential romantic dynamic. I also love their canonical platonic development, even if it hurts a lot! It's worth it in the end. Kisekuro is also very cute, tho I tend to lean more on the platonic side. Akafuri is also very good. I really, really like Midoaka, tho.

This is where any sort of Star Wars AU would be amazing. Anything w GoM bonding is also good. (+ Momoi. Or, if you include Momoi. Sometimes i count her as a GoM.)

The fake dating AUs for either comedic purposes or to get-out-of-a-situation purposes are good w these characters. Especially if you wanted to play it as two friends doing the other a solid? Yes. It definitely doesn't have to end up romantic to be good.

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So that's about it! If nothing on the list suits your tastes, jus go thru my tumblr, I'm sure you'll find something! If there's a show I'm into that you wanna do an AU of, absolutely go for it!! And again, thanks for creating something for me !