Birdhouse In Your Soul

Dear Pine4Pine Writer:

Thanks for checking out my letter. Order below is first, some general notes about this exchange, second a list of the ships and tags I've chosen with specific prompts, and finally my general trope/kink preferences.

First, general exchange-specific notes: I don't have any hard DNWs, and I'm comfortable with fanworks of any rating. I am requesting either requited feelings or unrequited feelings for all of my chosen ships except for the MUNCLE 2015 OT3 - requited feelings only for Illya/Gaby/Napoleon, please. For the other relationships, please do feel free to make the feelings ambiguous or unrequited on the part of the non-pining character!

For freeform-matching exchanges I tend to throw out some ideas that seem interesting rather than exhaustively listing the types of fic I want to recieve. Please don't feel limited by my chosen freeforms if you have an idea that incorporates the overall exchange theme of pining and you think it fits with my general preferences or prompts.

My requests, by fandom:

Carnival Row (TV)
Tourmaline Larou/Vignette Stonemoss (Tourmaline pining)
feelings requited or unrequited

• Wing Grooming
• Watching Them from Afar
• Character A pines for their former lover
• Character A pining after brief fling years ago while Character B has moved on
• Character A pining silently so Character B won't feel guilty for not returning their affections
• Hurt/Comfort
• Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
• Character Prefers Pining For Aesthetic Reasons
• Soulmate AU - A is pining B’s soulmate but B is not A's
• Physical Intimacy While Pining
• Trying to Ignore Feelings While Forced to Work in Close Quarters With Person of Their Affection

I quite enjoyed this show and Tourmaline is hands down my favorite character. I love her pragmatism and how it intersects with her artist's soul. I love how much she clearly loves Vignette and wants good things for her, but also thinks she's a total idiot half the time. I love that she's a sex worker who draws each and every one of her clients. I think it's clear that she canonically pines for Vignette, even though she tries to make sure Vignette has her opportunity to reunite with her Great Lost Love Philo.

Vignette and Tourmaline share close quarters and physical intimacy a lot in S1, and depending on how things go in S2 that might continue as they work together while trapped in the Row. After seeing Tourmaline's face as Vignette tried to leave with Philo I think it could be a very hard thing for her to deal with in many ways.

Game of Thrones (TV)
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (GoT) (Jaime pining)
feelings requited or unrequited

• Arranged Marriage
• Arranged Marriage - to other people
• Character A doesn't realise they're pining
• epistolary pining
• Jealousy - Feeling Like They're Being Replaced and/or Unwanted
• A pines for B after B refuses to kill A when they ought to
• Pining while having wounds tended
• Pining while huddled together for warmth
• Hurt/Comfort
• Pining while imprisoned

Jaime Lannister is an unbelievable dumbass (and I love him so much). Jaime/Brienne has been a ship of mine for 20 years now, and while GoT S8 was a disappointing realization of the ASOIAF story for me in some ways, some of their interaction was very satisfying for my soul.

For this ship arranged marriage tropes are always fun (to each other or other people), or post-canon AUs where they're separated and Jaime's pining from afar (Casterly Rock, Essos, prison, etc). "A pines for B after B refuses to kill A when they ought to" is in particular very "them" canonically, as is Jaime totally oblivious to his jealousy of other people who interact with Brienne.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (Napoleon pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (Illya & Gaby pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (all pining)
feelings requited ONLY

• A and B are together but pine for C to join them
• A B and C pine obliviously for each other
• A B and C are each convinced the other two are about to get into a relationship
• A attributes B & C's flirting to cultural differences
• Character A pining silently so Characters B & C won't feel guilty for not returning their affections
• Character C Pines For Characters A & B Who Are Together - Leads to Polyamory
• Character C Pines For Characters A and B
• A matchmakes B and C while pining for them both
• pining for character in a relationship leads to OT3
• A Pining for B also Starts Pining for B's Partner C
• Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Pining character doused with truth serum
• A & B attribute C's flirting to cultural differences
• Cover story complicates hidden feelings
• Pining while having wounds tended
• Pining while huddled together for warmth
• Pining while sharing a bed
• Pining while tending someone's wounds
• Pining while trapped together
• Hurt/Comfort

I love these dumb disaster bisexual spies so much. I like a lot of different ways for them to come together as a trio, but I'm particularly a bit weak for Napoleon trying to either matchmake or nobly stay clear of Illya and Gaby's slap-slap-kiss relationship but being reluctantly enamored of them both. On the other hand, Illya and Gaby carefully negotiating a tentative relationship despite all their cultural and political baggage and still realizing there's something missing in the person of their too-handsome, self-assured partner and trying to figure out how to reel the playboy Napoleon before he realizes he's caught in is good stuff, too. All three of them being oblivious and ridiculous is also awesome, and the farcical notion of each believing the other two are perfect for one another would be hilarious.

Setting-wise, feel free to go with any kind of ridiculous trope that spy shenanigans might set them up for as a backdrop for sharing those feelings - blizzards, daring rescues, trapped by the bad guys, truth serum, woozy from drugs, etc.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV)  
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo (Napoleon pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo (Illya pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo (both pining)
feelings requited or unrequited

• Cover story complicates hidden feelings
• Hurt/Comfort
• Pining character doused with truth serum
• Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Pined-for character reveals feelings to pining character while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Pining while tending someone's wounds
• Pining while having wounds tended
• Pining while huddled together for warmt
• Pining while sharing a bed
• Pining while trapped together

I saw the film first, but have been enjoying watching the show and falling for these somewhat different characterizations of Napoleon and Illya. I love their effective and fond working relationship and honesty with one another, as well as their rather droll, restrained sense of humor at the same time that they're always willing to sacrifice for each other in the face of danger. I mostly chose situational prompts for these two, since spy shenanigans and THRUSH always serve as good catalysts for interpersonal drama!