Incest Mini-Challenge: A Family Affair 2024

[almach]

Some people say the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup… but personally, even though I'm a coffee lover, waking up to new fanworks for one of my beloved incest ships is even better! Do you feel the same way? Do you have incest ships or themes in mind for at least one of your Yuletide requests this year? Then A Family Affair, the Yuletide mini-challenge for works featuring incest, is for you!

Selfcest, clonecest, adopted/stepfamily incest, one-sided attraction, "AU where they're related", cousin incest in historical canons where it's not a taboo, and so on are on-topic for this challenge if you feel like they are. We're not going to police what counts as "incest-y enough".

How do I participate?

Leave a comment on this post linking to your Yuletide letter (if applicable) and letting people know what fandoms and characters you're requesting and what kinds of incest you're interested in receiving gift works about. At a minimum, you should include:

• Your AO3 username
• A link to your Yuletide letter (or a mention of the fact that you don't have one, just so we know you didn't forget the link)
• A list of the fandoms and characters you're requesting that are relevant to this challenge, and what incest ships you're interested in for them

It's also a good idea to include some more details about what you'd like to receive. Consider answering some or all of the following questions, especially if you're signing up without a letter:

• What kinds of familial relationships are you interested in (mother/son, twincest, etc.)? (You might think it's obvious from who the characters are, but some people might be reading the comments looking to pick up a new canon!)
• Do you want to receive works with explicit sexual content?
• Do you want to receive works where the characters are underage?
• What kind of relationship dynamics are you interested in (romantic fluff, consensual-but-angsty, dubcon, grooming, noncon, etc.)?

If you want to advertise your requested fandoms as being particularly rich in incest potential, or even containing canon incest, please do! If you've written a promo post for your fandom, this is a great place to link to it (and if you haven't written one yet, it's not too late!).

How do I tag the works I make for this challenge?

When you post a work for this challenge, tag it "Yuletide Family Affair" so other interested participants can easily find it. You're also encouraged to use a non-Yuletide-specific freeform tag that describes the type of relationship(s) in the work (for example, "Brother/Sister Incest", "Parent/Child Incest", or just plain "Incest").

Comments

[nothing_so_divine]

AO3: NothingSoDivine
Yuletide Letter: N/A
Relevant Fandoms: Bucchigiri?! (anime), Gokurakugai (manga)

First fandom: Bucchigiri?!
For this fandom, the incest stuff is nearly as canonical as it gets. The show could basically be described as "Intricate Rituals: the anime" — it's one of those shonen punch-em-up things that's unapologetically homoerotic about it (it's by the same director as Sk8 the Infinity, if that gives you an idea of the vibes; think Sk8 but juvenile delinquents instead of skateboarding, and also there's genies for some reason). The protagonist, Arajin, has a very loud and emphatic (perhaps too emphatic, ifyouknowwhatimean) crush on the only female character in the whole show besides his mom: his beloved Mahoro-chan. Unfortunately for Arajin, Mahoro has eyes for only one man: her big brother Marito.

Canonical bro-con crimes Mahoro has committed towards big bro Marito include: an ungodly amount of thirst; tricking anyone who has a crush on her into fighting him so she can thirst over him even harder; taking and subsequently ogling pics of him shirtless and/or sleeping; and hiding under his bed to listen in on him and his boyfriend juvenile delinquent gang lieutenant's conversation. (Marito, by contrast, seems to like Mahoro an entirely normal amount. It is arguably the most normal thing about him.)

There have been some great fics so far leaning into Mahoro's one-sided obsession, but the world could always use more. I also haven't seen much in the way of reciprocation; while the obsession is decidedly one-sided, I'd be interested to see something where Marito is also interested in Mahoro, whether that be because he's attracted to her, he just likes the attention, or whatever else you can think up. (That has the potential to get very dark; I wouldn't mind.)

There's also room for a potentially incestuous reading of the relationship between secondary protagonist Matakara and his beloved onii-chan, if you'd rather explore that; Mitsukuni wasn't nominated for the tagset, but I'm open to receiving fics with him in them, as long as Matakara's there too. As far as I can remember, Mitsukuni never actually shows up in the show outside of brief flashbacks, but his absence looms over Matakara throughout, and Matakara's got a whole thing going on re: relating to Mahoro, so there's lots of space to play. (Based on what happens in the show, this also has the potential to get very dark; and again, I wouldn't mind.)

Explicit and underage are an enthusiastic yes from me, but I would prefer for sexual content to stay above the puberty threshold. My most significant DNWs are AUs, Major Character Death, breeding kink, and so-called 'issuefic', i.e. anything that focuses or dwells on political or philosophical subjects.

Second fandom: Gokurakugai
Gokurakugai itself doesn't have much in the way of incesty vibes, but one of my requests is for a fic exploring the relationship dynamic between the teenaged protagonist, Alma, and his handler, Tao, in whatever way the writer wishes. In canon, it's mentioned or at least implied that Alma reminds Tao of her long-lost little brother; if someone wanted to take that implication and run with it in a surrogate-sibling-incest-y direction, I would eat that up. If someone wanted to read their dynamic as more parental and make it incest in that direction, I'd eat that up too.

Again, I'm very on board with explicit and underage content. For this request, I have no DNWs whatsoever.

Treats are welcome for all my requests!