Rule 63 Exchange 2020

Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I’ve requested fic and art, and G and E ratings, for all fandoms. I’m within_a_dream on AO3. My general interest in rule 63 is twofold: examining the way characters’ arcs and backstories would change if they were a different gender (especially in historical fandoms), and "my male faves would be way hot as women" (I’m only requesting male characters r63’d into women this round). I’ll probably have more prompts for the former just because I have more to say about that, but feel free to roll with either or both of those in a gift! And if you matched to me on art, I hope the plotty prompts aren’t intimidating - I will be so happy to receive any art of my faves as women, I do not at all require a long plotty comic to suit my more plotty prompts.

Feel free to include any unrequested ships unless I have them in my DNWs! I am a massive multishipper. I welcome any unrequested rule 63-ing of male characters into any gender in addition to my requested characters, and unrequested rule 63ing of female characters into nonbinary characters (would prefer you don’t genderbend them to men). Trans characters (both rule 63’d characters as trans women, and canonical characters as trans instead of cis) are welcome! I like fluff, smut, angst, and pretty much any other genre, and any rating from General to Explicit. You are welcome to include major character death, rape/noncon, graphic violence, or underage in any fills (feel free to break both my heart and my requested characters).

For fic, I have no preference on what you do with names. Go for the closest feminine version of their canonical name, choose a popular fanon rule 63 name if there is one, pick a completely unrelated name, keep their canonical name….whatever you’d like!

I tend to assume that characters in historical fandoms are crossdressing/passing as men in my fic prompts because that’s where my idle daydreams about rule 63 AUs usually start, but you are welcome to ignore those aspects of the prompts and write them living as women if you prefer! I am also totally fine with rule 63’d characters who have complicated views of their gender/lean more genderqueer than cis woman (adapted to historical understandings of both of those concepts in the relevant eras), I just don’t want to read them as trans men for this exchange.

DNWs

• Pregnancy/childbirth


• Trans characters having PIV sex (exception: PIV sex post-gender reassignment surgery is fine!)
  
• Loss/removal of genitals


• Oviposition


• Unrequested m/f ships involving rule 63’d characters (i.e. ships that would be m/m without the rule 63).

General Fic Likes

• Casefic


• Whump


• Hurt/comfort


• 5+1 fics


• truth-serum or truth-spell-induced confessions of emotions (or fever- or injury-induced confessions for non-fantasy canons!)

General Art Likes

• Any art styles or mediums!


• Crossdressing (especially for my r63’d historical characters)


• Blood, bruises, injuries


• Lingerie


• Casual physical contact between ship members or friends

Smut Likes

• Het and f/f anal


• Fisting (vaginal or anal)


• Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella


• Silly sex scenes or comedic sex fails


• Roleplay (both serious roleplay and roleplay that the characters are goofy with)


• Sex pollen


• Rough sex


• Gunplay

Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly
Genre tag: Always a 63

For this fandom, I would also enjoy reading my requested romantic ships as platonic!

In general, I am just fascinated by what a female Ben would look like, and how her life would be different. I like to imagine her passing as a man to attend medical school in Paris, and returning home to New Orleans under her new identity, but feel free to choose any backstory you’d like if that doesn’t tickle your fancy. I also like to imagine she would still be bulky and imposing (and that this would help her in passing as a man), although probably less so than canon Ben. Gender and race and the way they impact people are such a big part of the books, I’d love to see how a female Ben’s relationships with her family and friends would change and how her outlook on life would change. If you are writing her as passing as a man, I’d love to see how having to hide her gender would impact her life (and the new depth that would add to her trepidation about returning to New Orleans, and the freedom she felt in Paris).

Characters/Ships

• F!Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January – I love these two so much and I will love anything about their relationship as f/f. Would be particularly interested in seeing at what point she told Rose she was a woman. One facet of their canon relationship that would be complicated with an f!Ben AU is their inability to have biological children...I wonder if they would want to find a way to adopt children in this AU, or if they would be happy as childless.


• F!Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January/f!Hannibal Sefton – Everything for Ben/Hannibal and Ben/Rose still goes. This isn’t specific to an F!Ben AU, but I’d love to see how they all end up together : do they start out as established Ben/Rose adding Hannibal? Established Ben/Hannibal adding Rose? All three of them coming together at once? I’m also interested in what f!Hannibal’s life would look like – a cis woman Hannibal would have a very different pre-canon lifestyle and her path to America would probably be different, and a trans woman Hannibal would add an interesting dimension to her leaving her past life behind


• I requested f!Ben/Rose/Hannibal in the previous round, and I’d be very happy to receive that this time as well!

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Genre tag: Always a 63

Fandom-specific DNW - modern AUs

Characters/Ships

• F!Amis de l'ABC & None – hello yes please give me the gang of female revolutionaries! Crossdressing, openly living as women, or a mix of both is good for me. I’d be interested in both an exploration of how this might change their political views or actions, or just slice of life about f!Les Amis. (I’m not requesting any specific ships but I’m down for shipfic about any combo of Les Amis if you want to write or draw it!) Artwise specifically, I’m always a sucker for barricade art, including death scenes. I only nommed/requested F!Les Amis for simplicity’s sake, but I’d also love to see some of the cast as nonbinary! I’d just prefer that no one stays a man


• F!Marius Pontmercy & None – Marius has been one of my faves since I read the Brick in 10th grade, and I’d love to see a female Marius. I could see her deciding to live as a man after leaving Gillenormand’s house, or I’d love to see how a Marius presenting as a woman would fit into the plot of Les Mis. Really I would just love to see a female Marius in all her ridiculous, passionate, dorky glory.


• F!Marius Pontmercy & Jean Valjean – I’d love to see how Marius being a woman would change Valjean’s opinion of her. Assuming he knows Marius is a woman, is he happy to see Cosette with a friend/companion her own age, or does he still have the same worries as in canon (whether or not he realizes Marius and Cosette are romantically involved)? I’d also love to see Valjean discovering Marius is a woman when he rescues her from the barricade, and your take on how that might change the progression of the end of the book (or if it doesn’t change much!)


• F!Marius Pontmercy & F!Jean Valjean – the same prompts from F!Marius & Valjean apply, but with an f!Valjean as well, I’d love to see how this might change their relationship. Feel free to delve into how a female Valjean’s backstory might differ! I would also be very into a comedic fic where both Marius and Valjean are trying to prevent the other from realizing they’re actually a woman, without realizing the other "man" is actually a woman


• F!Marius Pontmercy/Cosette Fauchelevent – I love these nerds and so desperately want to see them as lesbians. I would especially love it if f!Marius idealizes Cosette just as much as canon Marius does, handkerchief and all. I’d also love to see when Marius tells Cosette she’s a woman if you’re writing a Marius who’s passing as a man, or how long it takes Cosette to realize she’s in love with an f!Marius who’s living as a woman. For art, I’m always a sucker for their first meeting or their wedding day (f!Marius being dapper in a suit, yes please!)


• F!Valjean & Cosette – canon Valjean is very unfamiliar with what a young woman might want out of life, and I’d love to see how that might be different with a female Valjean. I’d also love to see how this Valjean’s backstory might differ from canon. (Did she disguise herself as a man after getting out of prison to escape the notice of the police? I confess I don’t know much about how female prisons would differ from male prisons in the era of the book, and you are welcome to use knowledge/research to answer that as much or as little as you want). I love Valjean parenting Cosette in canon and would love more of that from a rule 63 AU.

Magnificent Seven (2016)
Genre tag: Always a 63

I have my own "everyone is AFAB" AU for Mag7, with specific background headcanons for everyone, so if I am less specific about backstories here than in my other fandoms it is only because I’m trying to avoid overly influencing you with my Very Specific Ideas for my own AU because I want to see other people’s takes.

Ships/Characters:

• F!Goodnight Robicheaux/F!Billy Rocks – I love this ship and would love them even more (if that’s even possible) as f/f. I’d assume f!Goodnight enlisted in disguise as a man, which might add an interesting dimension to her postwar guilt and PTSD. I could see Billy as living openly as a woman and taking advantage of the way people underestimate her because of that (and if you go with that, I’d love to see what [probably gross and racist] assumptions people make about her relationship with Goodnight), or passing as a man as well.


• F!Vasquez & None –


• F!Joshua Faraday/F!Vasquez – Vasquez’s backstory (what little we know of it) as an outlaw gets even more interesting to me with f!Vasquez. Living on the run with such a high bounty on your head would be even more dangerous as a woman. Or maybe she committed whatever her crime was while living as a man, in which case I’d love to see her justification for not going back to presenting as a woman to escape the bounty (or maybe she does go back to living as a woman, and has to deal with the frustration of gender expectations, although that would somewhat complicate her joining the M7). I would also love to know just what her crime and backstory are (in this AU, I have a soft spot for her killing her would-be rapist or rapist, but anything goes). For Faraday, I must admit that the drunk asshole character type is a lot sexier to me as a woman. Unlike most of my historical fandom prompts, I could see Faraday living as a woman more than I could see her passing as a man. I’d love to see a cantankerous asshole f!Faraday just like in canon, beating everyone at cards and shooting anyone who makes too much of a fuss about her gender. I would also love to see how this might affect how her relationship with Vasquez develops. I am down for canon-compliant deaths, but also very into fic where Faraday survives the explosion with serious injuries and has to deal with burn scars and maybe missing body parts


• F!Magnificent Seven & None – I just want a gang of women saving Rose Creek, you guys. I’d love to see a variety in terms of passing as men vs living as woman, etc, and am interested in how the characters’ backstories would change. I’m down for gen or literally any possible ships among the 7 (although I am especially partial to giant polyships involving some or all of the cast). I only nommed/requested F!Magnificent Seven for simplicity’s sake, but I’d also love to see some of the cast as nonbinary! I’d just prefer that no one stays a man.


• F!Magnificent Seven & Emma Cullen – I am very into Emma interacting with a group of women who are doing things she maybe never imagined were possible for herself. I’d especially love to see Emma maybe deciding that, post-battle, being confined to Rose Creek as a widow is not what she wants out of life, and joining the Seven (in an everyone-lives AU) or the survivors of the Seven (in canon-compliant fic/art) on further adventures. Gen is great, shipping Emma with literally any of the Seven (or multiple of them!) is also great

Hadestown – Mitchell
Genre tag: Always a 63

I’ve only seen the latest production live, but I’ve listened to both cast recordings and the original 2010 concept album so feel free to mix and match

For this fandom, I have fewer plotty ideas that are specific to a r63 AU and more thoughts like – I love the musical so much and it would be super hot if everything was lesbians as well. I love the aesthetic of the show’s stage setting, and the cyclical nature and sense of inevitability in the storyline. In fic, if you want to write something that specifically draws on that cyclic feeling using time-loop tropes, I will love it! I’d also be interested in fleshing out the setting more than we get in the stage show – all of the synopses and ad copy say it’s postapocalyptic, but we don’t really get to see much of that in the story, just some hints of it, and I’d love a deeper exploration of the setting.

Ships/Characters

• F!Orpheus/Eurydice – I love how Orpheus is "touched" and kind of off in his own world but still changes things through his music and walks through hell to get his wife back, and I love how absolutely in love he is with Eurydice, and he would be both even more relatable and also very hot as a woman. I just want some Hadestown f/f!

Any Old Diamonds – K. J. Charles

Genre Tag: Always a 63

Ship

• F!Jerry Crozier/F!Alec Pyne – I love these two in canon, and the only way to possibly make them better would be to make them femslash. For Alec: I’d love to see how a female Alec’s relationship with her siblings would change. Her working for a living would be much more objectionable to her brother, although I’d love to see her keep working as an illustrator (maybe using a male pseudonym). For Jerry – are the Lilywhite Boys in this AU the Lilywhite Girls? Is Jerry disguising herself as a man for work, or stealing as a woman? How would her scheme with Alec differ with a female Alec? Alternatively I am very down for some f/f smut about these two, especially featuring their canonical kinks.


• F!Templeton Lane/Susan Lazarus – Another ship where admittedly a large part of my motivation is "damn, this would be hot as femslash!" I’m also really interested in how f!Templeton’s backstory would change. Her father’s reaction to her relationship with Susan would be incredibly different, and I’d love to see how that would go. I could also see an f!James Vane entering the underworld after her return from wherever her father sent her disguised as a man, although her as an openly female thief would also be great fun. Her as a trans woman would also add an interesting dimension to her canon backstory.


• F!Jerry Crozier & F!Templeton Lane – I am very into these two as the Lilywhite Girls instead of the Lilywhite Boys. Or perhaps they’re so difficult to catch because they sometimes rob their targets while presenting as men and sometimes while presenting as women? I have some backstory ideas for f!Jerry and f!Templeton in my previous ship prompts, and really I would just love to see some heists with rule 63ed Lilywhite Boys.