The Golden Sun One-Shot Service

V. S. Windheart, Akachi, Daito Dei Gratia, Empress Dotdotdot, Super Sheba, and Yoshimi Takahashi

All right, here's my latest crazy idea. I've decided to start a service where you, the readers, can request one-shot fics through your reviews that will be written by yours truly. The way this will work is on a first-come, first serve basis. If you want a one-shot about a certain subject, then leave a review stating as much information as you wish me to have on hand. For instance, you could outline the whole plot or simply say you'd like, for example, an Isaac/Mia fic.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Daito Dei Gratia has offered his services! Daito technically is an "in case" author, who will be writing whatever the remainder of us don't feel comfortable writing, until he finishes the excellent "Petition of Repetition." Super Sheba has also joined our party (cue special Golden Sun music)! Her list of rules is also below.

In between updates to The Golden Sun One-Shot Service, I seriously recommend that you go check out the other authors' works. In other words, do so or die a very slow, painful death. ^_^ Okay?

Before I explain much further, I'd like to lay down a few of my personal rules and guidelines.

Vyctori's Rules: No Windshipping, hentai, ecchi, lemon, or incest fics. Also, no requests for fics specifically made to bash a certain character (not even Alex!). And, if you want a romance fic, no pairings with a greater than fifteen year age difference (Piers is excluded from this rule).

I tend to discourage fics where I write you in as the main character, especially as a romance. If you really want a fic written this way, I'll send it to you privately when I get a chance, however, not only will they be slower to write, but I won't post it here on ff.net.

Also, I'd prefer if you didn't ask for a rape fic or a death/murder fic, because those are very difficult to write and tend to upset me. However, if you've got your heart set on this, then I'll write it. Death fics involving Conservato and Babi are encouraged (I'm not even sure if I'm joking on this one).

So now that I've said what I won't do, what will I do? Virtually every genre, for one thing. Keep in mind that I almost exclusively write romances, so you'll probably get best results if you request something along those lines. I also will write yaoi, yuri, slash, and shounen/shoujo ai. But I've never written a non-heterosexual pairing before, so my first efforts might be fairly bad. I'm trying to keep an open mind, though.

Basically, I'll write anything that doesn't break one of my personal rules (even a Mia/Agatio fic 0_o;;;), so long as it's between G and PG-13, or a very light R. This whole collection has, for now, a PG-13 rating, just to be safe (since I don't know what you lot are going to request).

Just to let you know, these are my favourite pairings for romance: Saturos/Menardi, Sheba/Felix, Jenna/Garet, Jenna/Piers, Isaac/Mia, Karst/Puelle. So if you request a fic about one of these couples, you'll be in my good books!

Remember that if you request a very unusual pairing, it will take longer for me to come up with a good plot and post it. Requesting a Felix/Sheba will get your fic written much faster than a Saturos/Piers (because the logistics would just about finish me).

Also, one very important note: DO NOT PELT ME WITH STUPID REQUESTS JUST TO SEE WHAT I WILL AND WILL NOT WRITE! If you're asking for something, you should have a genuine interest in seeing the story written. If not, you're just wasting my time and yours.

Yoshimi's Rules And Regulations: First off, no ecchi, hentai, lemons, yaoi, yuri, incest, or anything beyond a PG-13. No pure romance either; that's what the others are strong at. No death stuff, or I'll make myself cry. No character bashing; only poking some friendly humour at them.

What I will do is humour (mainly). That's what I do best. Self-insertions are allowed, but no romance between yourself and another. Give a good description of how you'd like to be portrayed. If you'd like other authors to be involved, they'll have to review themselves and give the okay. Any romance will have to be very slight (e.g. The characters are already together and they don't do much).

You'll have to be specific. For example, whether to put it in script or normal writing mode, whether you think the antagonists are evil, any special opinions on certain things that you want involved, the plot, of course, any characters that need to be/shouldn't be in the story. Anything not mentioned pretty much means you give me the right to use my imagination, which can be a scary thing, let me tell you.

Empress Dotdotdot's Rules: No hentai/ecchi/citrus, no incest or rape fics. Nothing beyond a PG-13 rating. She also has trouble with Piers/Mia romances—give those to me, Vyctori. Occasionally, Windshipping, but only if she's in the mood. She will do death/suicide fics and sometimes murder fics.

Daito Dei Gratia's Rules And Regulations: I'll write anything but yaoi and mudshipping. The rating cannot be below PG. NO CHARACTER BASHING and SELF-INSERTIONS. I'll do all couples but Isaac/Mia, Garet/Jenna, Garet/Mia, Piers/Mia, and Proxshipping since there are two Proxshippers already.

I like unique pairing but I do have limits mind you. I'm very good at writing angst, romance, action, and stuff most authors are afraid to write like death fics and incest. I probably won't write humour.

Important note: I'm sort of the "in case" author of the staff so I only write when needed. Also I have the right to refuse to write at all.

Super Sheba's Rules: 
 
1) I like to write Mudshipping, Proxshipping, Flameshipping, 
Felix/Sheba shipping (though I will write Windshipping; I have nothing against that).  I'll write other stuff if you ask, but the fic may come out faster if it's one of those pairs.
 
2) No guy/guy, girl/girl pairings, hentai, incest, or rape
 
3) No limes or lemons
 
4) I like to keep it to PG unless it is for violence.
 
5) No self-insertions
 
I'll write almost anything else unless I can find no ideas to make a fic out of it.
 
Akachi's Rules: I won't do lemons, hentai, or ecchi. I will do just about any pairing, as well as any genre, excluding the stuff stated above.

The pairings I am good with are: Garet/Jenna, Isaac/Mia, Jenna/Picard, Picard/Hama, Karst/Agatio, Karst/Felix, and Saturos/Menardi, not necassarily in that order. And I'm neutral on the Felix/Sheba/Ivan love triangle, so any Windshipping stories will be fine for me to write. And if a reader/reviewer wants an incest story that badly, I'll do it, though I can't guarantee it'll be good, because I find the concept disgusting.

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So there you go. I'll do one, possibly two one-shots a week, since I still have other fics I'm writing. I tend to have a lot of things on the go, so don't be disappointed if it takes a while for me to get your fic out. Some really difficult one-shots to write might take up to two weeks. Don't despair if I'm a little slow—unless your request was obviously to get on my nerves, I haven't forgotten about your fic, and you'll see it soon.

Any questions?

Oh, and to tide you over until I write up the next person's request, the next chapter is a one-shot I just recently did as a thank you to Empress Dotdotdot, called "Embraces."

Don't forget to request a one-shot, and review normally, too. I like reviews. A lot. If you don't review, I may have to get my muse, Menardi, to start threatening you all. Okay? ^_^