Dear Holly Poly 2023 Creator
Nov. 1st, 2023 07:26 amHello dear creator! Welcome to my letter! First of all, treats are welcome, and gifting is open on AO3. I would prefer fic or vid (where it's applicable) as main gift, but treats of any kind are welcome
Sidenote: I do not mind if you add other relationships to them. I also like Ace/Ziin, Ace/Win, Sara/Neon, Sae/Neon, Kyuun/Neon, Keiwa/Daichi, Michinaga/Tooru, Tsumuri/Win, Tsumuri/Sara, Tsumuri/Neon. So the polycule can expand to these directions as well, but the focus should be the OT4
Fandom-specific DNW: no sedoretu AU or any kind of setup where not all of them are in love with everyone
Kamen Rider Decade
Tsukasa/Daiki/Natsumi/Yuusuke - What is it about all-rider OT4s that make me incredibly unwell? And I'm just getting started. I'm always fascinated by painful resurrections - resurrections that hurt, and maybe there is an air of oh for fuck's sake not again.
Tsukasa needs to rest. Regretfully he is horrible at it.
Also would love to see them in random AR worlds just having Shenanigans. Also maybe Tsukasa should get damseled sometimes so the others can rescue him. That sounds fun
Fandom-specific-DNW: it's fine to aknowledge ZiO vs Decade, just have Tsukasa come back somehow. Also I headcanon Daiki as trans, so while you don't have to mention it, do not make him explicitly cis, please.
Kamen Rider Revice
Hiromi/George/Olteca - The Demons OT3 is everything to me, truly. Battle Familia crawled into my brain and didn't let go since. Please talk to me about them. Love Hiromi and his horrible boyfriends being horrible. Would love to see Hiromi chew George out for being on Zein's side in Outsiders because what the fuck, George. Olteca should be terrible about it, really. Even in AUs, Olteca should also be terrible.
Also feel free to play with Olteca's names - I'll never get tired of him dragged kicking and screaming into redemption and if you can find a way for him to switch to referring to himself, or others referring to him as Makoto instead of Olteca. Significant Name Changes are my JAM.
Daiji/Kagero/Muramasa - I'm just fascinated by the idea of Muramasa surviving, and trying to figure out his place in the world. And Daiji trying to help, Kagero being kind of a nuisance and then something... forms? Bonus if Muramasa thinks he's just a replacement because they cannot get Hiromi. As long as the ending is happy!
Hana/Sakura/Tamaki/Hikaru - more all rider OT4s yes. Would love to see a scenario where all four of them can transform (which would mean Hikaru would have to get a new form, probably). Fascinated by their different layers of identity issues here especially, and an investigation of them
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
Kuroto/Emu/Kiriya - listen. These three are terrible and I'm obsessed with them. Okay, mostly Kuroto is the terrible one. Still love him though. Can take place post-Genms in terms of Kuroto having a HumaGear body, but I'd like you to ignore the Zein plot for this one. Also a soulmate AU would be delightfully messed up for them! Would love to see it.
Graphite/Taiga/Hiiro - give me the messy rebounds, repressed jackasses, and all of that just imploding into a delightful mess where they still can't help being attached. Give me.
Kamen Rider W
Shotaro/Philip/Akiko/Ryu - in my heart they count as an all rider OT4, because Akiko should be Skull. Would love to see that happen. Would love to see them being married and domestic and raising their daughter. Also the four of them fighting together as three Kamen Riders is always fun. They all lost so many things, but they found each other, and I think that's beautiful
Fandom-specific DNW: I headcanon Shotaro and Philip both as trans. You do not have to mention it, but do not make them explicitly cis, please.
Kamen Rider Zi-O
Sougo/Geiz/Tsukuyomi/Woz - even more all-rider OT4s yes. God I am FASCINATED by these four so much, the way there is so much history and yet so little. The complicated memories of the future and seeing Sougo in the past for who he is. Lets Tsukuyomi remember too, please! Also don't let Woz be alone, get back there you bitch. They make me feel many, many emotions. Woz's own feelings slowly morphing to the others, and especially Sougo. Geiz ending up forgiving Woz, and god, EVERYTHING about him and Sougo. Tsukuyomi's and Sougo's powers should be examined more me thinks, and especially Woz's constant nonsense.
Also if you can find a way to somehow add Hiryuu to this mess, because I'm always here for the messiness between him and Sougo, I'd be so, so, so happy.
Kamen Rider Zero-One
Fuwa/Naki/Horobi/Yua - I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a while and not just because this would be another all-rider-OT4. Fuwa and Yua's dynamic through the whole show is great, Fuwa and Naki live in my head rent-free (pun totally intended), I loved Fuwa and Horobi's Heated Drama, etc. I think all of them have a great dynamic figuring it out with each other. I do not see the MBJR (besides Horobi and Jin) as familial, so do with it as you please. Maybe post vcines Naki is back in Fuwa's head to recover, and Yua gets to house Horobi? Two bodies and four personalities would be a lot of fun, I think. Or just anything! The four of them kicking ass together! (Also, they/them pronouns for Naki, please, thank you.)
Izu/Aruto/Jin - I really don't have a lot of thoughts apart from "I just think they are neat" about this one. They are adorable, they are cute, I think they deserve to be happy.
Fuwa/Aruto/Horobi - Fuwa finding Aruto's jokes funny is peak dynamic, I think. And as previously mentioned, I love Fuwa and Horobi's Heated Drama, and I also love the dynamics between Horobi and Aruto as the story goes on. Also Horobi is a Dad(tm), I think he would also appreciate Aruto's jokes.
Feel free to make a tangled web from the above mentioned ships, truly.
Fandom-specific DNW: either ignore the vcines, or fix them as none of them are dead, please. Thank you.
Kamen Rider Build
Sento/Ryuga/Misora/Sawa/Kazumi/Gentoku - The Build OT6 has my heart, has my soul, I love them dearly. You know their last night in the Old World, on the roof? Moments like that are always welcome. I love that period in the New World, where only two of them remember - love the idea of their subconscious still pulls them towards each other, a pull of fate none of them can explain. The yearning, the pining, and then they finally get their memories back---
But I'd also love to see them as a crew of a spaceship. Because I love them.
Baccano!
Ennis/Firo/Melvi - Look. Look. I just want Melvi to be happy. And this idea have fascinated me for a while. All three of them have identity issues - Ennis finding her own place as her own person, Firo dealing with his internalized issues, and Melvi finding a way for himself now that he cannot fulfill what he was created for. I want to see it.
Nice/Jacuzzi/Felix/Chané - they are just so important to me, all four of them. And how even if the others would have doubts of how this would work, Felix's endless confidence is always there. Love to see it. Thank you
Fandom-specific DNW: do not call Felix by his old name at all. I know Chané is allowed to call him that, and maybe he'd allow Nice and Jacuzzi to do so as well, you can mention it if you like, but if you write it, please refer to him as Felix, once he picks that name. I also headcanon him as trans - do not have to mention it, but do not make him explicitly cis. Also I headcanon Ennis and Firo as ace, so no sexual content with either of them
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Ryoken/Windy/Windy's Origin - Okay so Ryoken/Windy is my rarepair OTP and I can't help it. I love bitter and angry interpretations of Windy's Origin the most. I especially love the idea that the accident got him so injured he is practically a ghost in Link VRAINS now, the only place he can live at - and he is MAD about it. Tell me about them. ALSO - feel free to add Jin and Lightning to this! Ryoken/Windy/Jin/Lightning is a big OT4 of mine, so feel free to add them (I just forgot I haven't nominated them. Whoops.)
Flame/Takeru/Ryoken/Windy - I just think all of them have fun dynamics with each other, and I want to see it. Post-canon nonsense and dealing with all layers of guilt present here is always fun.
Fandom-specific DNW: if post-S3, have all the Ignis come back to life. No demonizing Lightning, he should have a second chance too. If you write background ships, I don't want any of the following ships without each other: Ai/Yusaku, Flame/Takeru, Jin/Lightning, Earth/Spectre. Aqua with either Aoi or Miyu works, but I prefer OT3. I also strongly would prefer for you to not ship Ryoken and Windy about each other either, or, as it's a rarepair, please at least don't make it COMPLETELY out of the question.
General things I like:
Bickering, bantering
Battle couples/moresomes
Sparring leading to making out
Porn With Plot
Soulmate AUs (especially if they are unconventional - say, you fall in love with someone who is not your Soulmate, and going against societal expectations, and of course exploring poly soulmates)
Romance, love and fluff and kisses and cuddles
That italicized oh, especially if followed with oh no or oh fuck
characters looking at themselves and going “really?!?!! we have to develop feelings for them?!?!!?”
"oh the idiots are out early… oh shit it’s MY idiot” dynamic
codependency. characters who’d let the world burn, as long as they can be together
okay, so maybe they will probably do the right thing - provided their lover is safe first.
chaotic gremlins or originally evil characters forcibly made behave, because they got attached to a ray of sunshine and THIS WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER IF THEY HADN’T BEEN INFLICTED WITH MORALS GODDAMNIT
fantasy AUs - dragons and magic and all of it
Sci-fi AUs - especially to the style of Firefly, spaceships with small crews traveling alongside each other. Maybe all falling in love with each other, during the long times in deep space
sedoretu AU
Pacific Rim AU
I love “weird” romances. One of them is a sentient spaceship. Or a robot. Or one of them is possessing the other. I love some good ol’ fashioned monsterloving too.
Hurt/comfort
General DNW:
cheating, any shape or form
character bashing
animal death/abuse. if it’s say, an adventure story where giant spiders attack the cast, and they have to kill it, that’s fine, but any other way, no
A/B/O
noncon (Dubcon is fine)
unrequited love
sad endings, unless otherwise specified.
homophobia, transphobia, even internalized - no struggling with sexuality or gender identity. there’s enough of that IRL, i want to see this part of the relationships be smoother in fiction. same goes for anti-poly sentiments
Nonhuman characters being changed into humans in an AU. If say, you change an AI into a demon in a fantasy setting or vice versa, that's fine, but not changing them into humans.
For videos I'd prefer not having spliced-in-sex-scenes (you know, the kind where you find scenes from other shows that are easy to pass off as the characters in question - as impressive as they are (and they are!), that's not what I'm looking for now).
Kamen Rider Geats
Ace/Neon/Keiwa/Michinaga - Look. These four are a disaster but they are so real to me. So incredibly real to me. I'll never get tired of fics post-canon where the other three look at Ace and go "get the fuck back here, you asshole". I'll never get tired of them fighting together. They all went through so much, and I need them to heal together. Also been fascinated the idea of a Dragon Age AU these days, especially as I headcanon Michinaga as Tsukasa's and Daiki's son from Decade (we will GET TO THEM in this letter). Ace and Michinaga being runaway mages, Neon being in a case of her family trying to hide her magic, and maybe Keiwa being a templar forced to face with the fact that he is serving a horrible system? Would live to see it. Also would love to put them in space. Mass Effect AU and biotics? Or a Firefly-esque one where they are maybe runaways/smugglers srifting through the darkness of space together in a dodgy spacecraft?For videos I'd prefer not having spliced-in-sex-scenes (you know, the kind where you find scenes from other shows that are easy to pass off as the characters in question - as impressive as they are (and they are!), that's not what I'm looking for now).
Kamen Rider Geats
Sidenote: I do not mind if you add other relationships to them. I also like Ace/Ziin, Ace/Win, Sara/Neon, Sae/Neon, Kyuun/Neon, Keiwa/Daichi, Michinaga/Tooru, Tsumuri/Win, Tsumuri/Sara, Tsumuri/Neon. So the polycule can expand to these directions as well, but the focus should be the OT4
Fandom-specific DNW: no sedoretu AU or any kind of setup where not all of them are in love with everyone
Kamen Rider Decade
Tsukasa/Daiki/Natsumi/Yuusuke - What is it about all-rider OT4s that make me incredibly unwell? And I'm just getting started. I'm always fascinated by painful resurrections - resurrections that hurt, and maybe there is an air of oh for fuck's sake not again.
Tsukasa needs to rest. Regretfully he is horrible at it.
Also would love to see them in random AR worlds just having Shenanigans. Also maybe Tsukasa should get damseled sometimes so the others can rescue him. That sounds fun
Fandom-specific-DNW: it's fine to aknowledge ZiO vs Decade, just have Tsukasa come back somehow. Also I headcanon Daiki as trans, so while you don't have to mention it, do not make him explicitly cis, please.
Kamen Rider Revice
Hiromi/George/Olteca - The Demons OT3 is everything to me, truly. Battle Familia crawled into my brain and didn't let go since. Please talk to me about them. Love Hiromi and his horrible boyfriends being horrible. Would love to see Hiromi chew George out for being on Zein's side in Outsiders because what the fuck, George. Olteca should be terrible about it, really. Even in AUs, Olteca should also be terrible.
Also feel free to play with Olteca's names - I'll never get tired of him dragged kicking and screaming into redemption and if you can find a way for him to switch to referring to himself, or others referring to him as Makoto instead of Olteca. Significant Name Changes are my JAM.
Daiji/Kagero/Muramasa - I'm just fascinated by the idea of Muramasa surviving, and trying to figure out his place in the world. And Daiji trying to help, Kagero being kind of a nuisance and then something... forms? Bonus if Muramasa thinks he's just a replacement because they cannot get Hiromi. As long as the ending is happy!
Hana/Sakura/Tamaki/Hikaru - more all rider OT4s yes. Would love to see a scenario where all four of them can transform (which would mean Hikaru would have to get a new form, probably). Fascinated by their different layers of identity issues here especially, and an investigation of them
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
Kuroto/Emu/Kiriya - listen. These three are terrible and I'm obsessed with them. Okay, mostly Kuroto is the terrible one. Still love him though. Can take place post-Genms in terms of Kuroto having a HumaGear body, but I'd like you to ignore the Zein plot for this one. Also a soulmate AU would be delightfully messed up for them! Would love to see it.
Graphite/Taiga/Hiiro - give me the messy rebounds, repressed jackasses, and all of that just imploding into a delightful mess where they still can't help being attached. Give me.
Kamen Rider W
Shotaro/Philip/Akiko/Ryu - in my heart they count as an all rider OT4, because Akiko should be Skull. Would love to see that happen. Would love to see them being married and domestic and raising their daughter. Also the four of them fighting together as three Kamen Riders is always fun. They all lost so many things, but they found each other, and I think that's beautiful
Fandom-specific DNW: I headcanon Shotaro and Philip both as trans. You do not have to mention it, but do not make them explicitly cis, please.
Kamen Rider Zi-O
Sougo/Geiz/Tsukuyomi/Woz - even more all-rider OT4s yes. God I am FASCINATED by these four so much, the way there is so much history and yet so little. The complicated memories of the future and seeing Sougo in the past for who he is. Lets Tsukuyomi remember too, please! Also don't let Woz be alone, get back there you bitch. They make me feel many, many emotions. Woz's own feelings slowly morphing to the others, and especially Sougo. Geiz ending up forgiving Woz, and god, EVERYTHING about him and Sougo. Tsukuyomi's and Sougo's powers should be examined more me thinks, and especially Woz's constant nonsense.
Also if you can find a way to somehow add Hiryuu to this mess, because I'm always here for the messiness between him and Sougo, I'd be so, so, so happy.
Kamen Rider Zero-One
Fuwa/Naki/Horobi/Yua - I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a while and not just because this would be another all-rider-OT4. Fuwa and Yua's dynamic through the whole show is great, Fuwa and Naki live in my head rent-free (pun totally intended), I loved Fuwa and Horobi's Heated Drama, etc. I think all of them have a great dynamic figuring it out with each other. I do not see the MBJR (besides Horobi and Jin) as familial, so do with it as you please. Maybe post vcines Naki is back in Fuwa's head to recover, and Yua gets to house Horobi? Two bodies and four personalities would be a lot of fun, I think. Or just anything! The four of them kicking ass together! (Also, they/them pronouns for Naki, please, thank you.)
Izu/Aruto/Jin - I really don't have a lot of thoughts apart from "I just think they are neat" about this one. They are adorable, they are cute, I think they deserve to be happy.
Fuwa/Aruto/Horobi - Fuwa finding Aruto's jokes funny is peak dynamic, I think. And as previously mentioned, I love Fuwa and Horobi's Heated Drama, and I also love the dynamics between Horobi and Aruto as the story goes on. Also Horobi is a Dad(tm), I think he would also appreciate Aruto's jokes.
Feel free to make a tangled web from the above mentioned ships, truly.
Fandom-specific DNW: either ignore the vcines, or fix them as none of them are dead, please. Thank you.
Kamen Rider Build
Sento/Ryuga/Misora/Sawa/Kazumi/Gentoku - The Build OT6 has my heart, has my soul, I love them dearly. You know their last night in the Old World, on the roof? Moments like that are always welcome. I love that period in the New World, where only two of them remember - love the idea of their subconscious still pulls them towards each other, a pull of fate none of them can explain. The yearning, the pining, and then they finally get their memories back---
But I'd also love to see them as a crew of a spaceship. Because I love them.
Baccano!
Ennis/Firo/Melvi - Look. Look. I just want Melvi to be happy. And this idea have fascinated me for a while. All three of them have identity issues - Ennis finding her own place as her own person, Firo dealing with his internalized issues, and Melvi finding a way for himself now that he cannot fulfill what he was created for. I want to see it.
Nice/Jacuzzi/Felix/Chané - they are just so important to me, all four of them. And how even if the others would have doubts of how this would work, Felix's endless confidence is always there. Love to see it. Thank you
Fandom-specific DNW: do not call Felix by his old name at all. I know Chané is allowed to call him that, and maybe he'd allow Nice and Jacuzzi to do so as well, you can mention it if you like, but if you write it, please refer to him as Felix, once he picks that name. I also headcanon him as trans - do not have to mention it, but do not make him explicitly cis. Also I headcanon Ennis and Firo as ace, so no sexual content with either of them
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Ryoken/Windy/Windy's Origin - Okay so Ryoken/Windy is my rarepair OTP and I can't help it. I love bitter and angry interpretations of Windy's Origin the most. I especially love the idea that the accident got him so injured he is practically a ghost in Link VRAINS now, the only place he can live at - and he is MAD about it. Tell me about them. ALSO - feel free to add Jin and Lightning to this! Ryoken/Windy/Jin/Lightning is a big OT4 of mine, so feel free to add them (I just forgot I haven't nominated them. Whoops.)
Flame/Takeru/Ryoken/Windy - I just think all of them have fun dynamics with each other, and I want to see it. Post-canon nonsense and dealing with all layers of guilt present here is always fun.
Fandom-specific DNW: if post-S3, have all the Ignis come back to life. No demonizing Lightning, he should have a second chance too. If you write background ships, I don't want any of the following ships without each other: Ai/Yusaku, Flame/Takeru, Jin/Lightning, Earth/Spectre. Aqua with either Aoi or Miyu works, but I prefer OT3. I also strongly would prefer for you to not ship Ryoken and Windy about each other either, or, as it's a rarepair, please at least don't make it COMPLETELY out of the question.