Just Unrequited Letter

What I love:
* I love pining, especially on the PoV of the piner. Lots of angst! Can be from the point of view of the other person, though, f they understand the situation
* I love dialogue: mundane, double meanings, epic love confessions with a bad ending...
* Romantic tropes like sharing a bed, pretending to date, but make it one-sided.
* Focus on the supernatural elements of the worldbuilding.
* Skilled characters
* Admiration / Hero worship / Actual worship turning into love
* Ethical dilemmas (love vs ethics, hurting the person you love by telling the truth vs lying to them, etc)
* Unrequited love manifests as submissive tendencies (sexually or not) or self-sacrificing tendencies
* Unrequited love becomes violent and/or self-destructive
* While it doesn't work for every ship, I love smut and pining while fucking and angsty masturbation!

Do Not Want:
* All kinds of AUs except canon divergence. Even in canon divergence, I'd rather characters keep their canon personality and most of their history
* Love at first sight. Mention of any character being in love/lust of another only for their looks.
* Cheating (emotional cheating of the A gets with C to get over B who doesn't want them is alright, so is poly)
* Unrequested non-canon ships.
* Mentions of pregnancy.
* Medical themes (especially syringes), non-canon injuries with lasting effects, pandemics.
* Any non-canon apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic universe. Focus on mass death in general. Non-canon character death except if requested in a prompt.
* Character bashing (especially of an alternate romantic interest)
* Underage sex under 14 yo (can be mentioned as backstory only if canon)
* Accidental/Arranged Marriage, De-Aging, Gender or sex swap, soulmates/soulmarks (soulbonds are okay)
* Trans headcanons, gender as a theme.
* Humor based on misunderstandings, incompetence or humiliation (all these things can be in the fic, but not funny)

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