No True Pair

Title: wanting and having
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Pairing/characters: Ruka/Sayori
Rating: PG
Warnings: Somewhat TWT, though set after the time skip. Uh, girl/girl action?
Prompt: Sayori & Ruka, Tyrant

( These are the fates that await them. )

Title: strange and so surreal
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Pairing/characters: Aidou+Yuuki, Kaname/Yuuki
Rating: PG
Warnings: Unrequited love. Set during the latter portion of the time skip.
Prompt: Aidou & Yuuki, Only If For A Night

( “Aidou-senpai? Hello~ Aidou-senpai~” )

Title: rain(drops)
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Uta no Prince-sama
Pairing/characters: Masato/female!Ren
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Het via genderswap. Non-graphic sexual content.
Prompt: Ren helps Masato out of those wet clothes...
Author's Notes: I…totally did not plan on this when I started writing. Where’d the genderswap come from? Not that that’s a bad thing, just. Unexpected.

( Not once had Masato ever regretted that night. )

Title: request
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Criminal Minds
Pairing/characters: Spencer/Dawn
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Humor. Post BtVS S7 (ignores the comics).
Prompt: Dawn and Spencer, the price you pay for miracles

( It was not the first time - nor would it, unfortunately, be the last if his luck continued to run the way it did - that Spencer had woken in pain, blood, and imprisonment next to a frightened hostage. )

Title: compare and contrast
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Vampire Knight(/Kingdom Hearts)
Pairing/characters: Faith, Yuuki
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Vague spoilers for VK.
Prompt: Faith and Yuuki, pick your poison
Author's Notes: Not directly related to, but set in the same ’verse as ear(less).

( “I don’t think I’m the kind of vampire you think I am.” )

Title: (war)drobe
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Danny Phantom
Pairing/characters: Jazz/Sam (Though it comes off more gen than anything. *is fail*)
Rating: G
Warnings: None, unless you count the implied girl/girl thing.
Prompt: Jazz tries on Sam's clothes
Author's Notes: These two? Impossible. They demanded I create a whole backstory for them before I could start writing. None of it even comes into play here! (TT^TT)

( “I know they’re not your style, but you need something to wear while your stuff’s in the wash.” )

While voting will continue for the rest of July, I thought you might like to know that at this point, I've received 12 different (sets of) votes!

It's been fun watching the votes come in and seeing how varied they are.

Currently, the three most requested prompts (with 5 votes each) are:

1 and 2 can communicate without saying a word
1/9, in a threesome with any other character from your list
5 and 1 as the main characters in a fairy tale

Thank you everyone who's voted so far! I'm looking forward to seeing how this will all turn out. :D (and thinking about what my sign-ups list(s) will be too)

The prompt-choosing process for Round 10 will basically work like so:

Collected here are all the prompts from rounds 1-9. Each round features 28 prompts. Peruse all the cool past prompts we've had and leave a comment here listing 1-28 prompts you'd most like to see back.

The 28 prompts that receive the most votes will make up our set for Round 10. Voting begins now, July 18th and will continue until August 1st, at which point we will hold whatever vote-offs necessary. As mentioned in my previous post, general posting amnesty will continue until Round 10 sign-ups begin.

Disregard the numbers given in each particular prompts - they will be reshuffled once our new set is chosen to mix everything up anew (so before sign-ups this round you'll have an idea of what prompts we'll be using, but not how they'll wind up character-wise).

Comments will be screened so no one has to see your choices (although if you want your votes to be public, just let me know - there's no rule against getting a voting block going to get any particular prompt(s) in either ^^;). Anyone is free to vote whether you know yet if you'll be playing or not (just like sign-ups). :D

…And if nobody participates you're all going to get stuck with the 28 I chose (see my comment). (so, uh, vote accordingly! XD;)

[You need only vote in one location- DW or IJ- I'll tally the results from both sides up together (I'm just leaving my vote in both places as an example)]


Thank you!

( Prompts, prompts, and more prompts!!! )

Aaaah, I haven't said anything here for a long time...! But it's great to see some amnesty fics continue to be posted!

Since Round 10 will be: "Back by Popular Demand!" Those interested will be helping take part in choosing which of our past things to bring back. I plan on getting some information about that up soon (sometime this month, hopefully next week?), but the amnesty period will continue until sign-ups actually start so you've still got some time to get things in.


(uh, so, basically, just letting you know that the wheels are still turning here at No True Pair)

Title: wea(ken)ed
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Pairing/characters: Ichiru/Zero
Rating: PG
Warnings: Alternate history/divergence thingy. BL, twincest. Ichiru.
Prompt: Ichiru & Zero, "Blood Roses"
Author's Notes: Set within the same AU as my Yuuki/Ruka fics Arise From Loving and Occasion.

( Being of frail health did not mean that Ichiru was powerless. )

Title: ear(less)
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Warehouse 13/Loveless(/Kingdom Hearts)
Pairing/characters: Soubi/Ritsuka, Claudia
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: The “ear” talk. Implied BL.
Prompt: Claudia (Warehouse 13) and Ritsuka (Loveless), this conversation never happened

( Ritsuka had been embarrassed before. )

Title: Shopping List
Author/Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Fullmetal Alchemist x Tales of Legendia
Pairing/characters: Scar+/Fenimore
Rating: G
Warnings: slight FMA ending spoilers
Word count: 663
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Scar & Fenimore, with a cherry on top
Author's comment: For this crossover, Fenimore is an Ishvalan. :D

( Anything you desire (courtesy of Havoc's) )

Title: Tea and Sweets
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Puella Magi Madoka Magica x Tales of Destiny
Pairing/characters: Akemi Homura & Leon Magnus
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Homura & Leon, tea for two

( Do you like sweets as much as I do? )

Title: Die for Love, Dream of Poppies
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Suikoden III x Tales of Legendia
Pairing/characters: Sarah & Fenimore
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Sarah & Fenimore, the language of flowers

( Aren't they beautiful? )

Title: Loyalty and Patriotism
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Fullmetal Alchemist x Tales of Destiny
Pairing/characters: Major Miles & Leon Magnus
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Leon & Miles, the language of flowers

( What do you pledge your highest allegiance to? )

Allow me to remind you how I teased you all with this idea back in February:

...Remember all those old sign-ups you have sitting around?
...Those fics you started and never finished?
...That art you drew but never finished coloring?

Anything you ever made for No True Pair (or wanted to make, but haven't yet), but never posted here will be fair game!

I apologize in advance that this event sort of favors those who have played at No True Pair in the past. However, even if you never signed up for any of the past rounds, Round 6, the 2010 Holiday Challenge, was different and all prompts left in it are fair game for anyone, old or new!

( Anticipated (?) questions: )

Please feel free to ask any questions/get whatever clarification you need (this is new, and I'm me, so I probably forgot something important and/or obvious)!


...As for what comes next... Well, looking at those past prompts, perhaps you're seeing some you wish you'd been around to use? ...Perhaps you've noticed a few you'd like to try again with different characters?

Keep an eye on old prompts you like, because I'd like to celebrate the longevity and fun of No True Pair by having Round 10 be (either completely or in part, depending on your inclinations): Back by Popular Demand!

...More information/inquiries about this forthcoming (including scheduling for the next round- I'd like this 'one amnesty to rule them all' period to be decently long, so maybe the next sign-ups will be in August???)

Complete as of 4/1/2012. :)

( All the posts (IJ & DW), separated by prompt: )

46 awesome posts have gone up here this round!

The most "popular" prompts (based on how many times they were filled)? They were a lot of equally popular prompts (at least at this point) each filled 3 times!

Fandoms represented (including those present in crossovers): 17 [+ original works!]
[Including: Kiddy Grade, Final Fantasy X, Dragon Age (2), Tales of Vesperia, Final Fantasy VII, Baccano!, Suikoden Tierkreis, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy V, Portal, Homestuck, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Suikoden III, Tales of Legendia, Final Fantasy XII, Fullmetal Alchemist, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together]

And a round of applause please:

...the most prolific member this round was kalloway with 28 Kiddy Grade fics (this means kalloway wrote a fic for every prompt this round)! (Wow! That's insanely awesome!! (Surely this is a No True Pair first?!) Tell all your friends who are into Kiddy Grade!) (Kalloway, I want to hear your secret method for pulling this off! :D)

A big thank you and congratulations go out to our wonderful participants thus far: kalloway, vieralynn, person4, sincere, gnome, rinyula, mako_lies, sirvalkyrie [with me added, that's 9!]

There was a great variety of art and fic posted! I want to encourage all of you to continue to post anything you write/draw for these prompts up until the beginning of sign-ups for the next round! (information regarding the complete and total posting amnesty forthcoming)

Title: Take a Break
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Final Fantasy XII x Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Pairing/characters: Ashe & Ravness
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Ashe & Ravness, the warmth of the sun
Artist's comment: For no special reason, sort of fits together with Siesta

( Warriors at rest. )

Title: Siesta
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Baccano! x Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing/characters: Czeslaw Meyer & Scar
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Czeslaw & Scar, the warmth of the sun
Artist's comment: For no real reason, matches up with Take a Break

( They deserve to take it easy. )

Title: There May Be Cake
Artist: rinyula
Fandom: Portal/Homestuck
Pairing/characters: Dave & GLaDOS
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very minor amounts of blood
Prompt/challenge you're answering: GLaDOS & Dave, "Let's try that again"
A/N: Background texture ripped directly from this screenshot.

( Let's try that again. )