AU: A is a human, B a member of a species bred specifically to be sex pets, just genetically different enough from humans to not legally count as such. A doesn't really want one but takes B in and has to put up with B hanging all over them, which seems funny/annoying at first. B seems perfectly happy, but as B learns to speak and pass for human, A realises how fucked-up their species' lives really make them...
No onscreen underage, please, ageing up is fine. Could be romantic or platonic. Would rather no canon characters involved are outright villainous, just oblivious - OC villains are cool.
Bonuses; 1) I like England/America or Germany/Italy ship-wise, and just about any combo platonically as long as B's suitably obliviously happy, but leaning to Japan & South Korea, America & South Korea, France & Canada, and I'd love to have Prussia involved somehow. 2) A and B never have sex even if it's shippy and ifwhen B's able to consent - asexual A would be perfect. 3) B's species needs some kind of obvious physical differences from humans, preferably modifications designed to both improve their "primary purpose" and to make them immediately visibly distinguishable. Being smaller and frailer than humans is obvious. Cat ears has been done, maybe something else.
Any, dub/noncon issues, slave/pet AU deconstruction.
No onscreen underage, please, ageing up is fine. Could be romantic or platonic. Would rather no canon characters involved are outright villainous, just oblivious - OC villains are cool.
Bonuses;
1) I like England/America or Germany/Italy ship-wise, and just about any combo platonically as long as B's suitably obliviously happy, but leaning to Japan & South Korea, America & South Korea, France & Canada, and I'd love to have Prussia involved somehow.
2) A and B never have sex even if it's shippy and ifwhen B's able to consent - asexual A would be perfect.
3) B's species needs some kind of obvious physical differences from humans, preferably modifications designed to both improve their "primary purpose" and to make them immediately visibly distinguishable. Being smaller and frailer than humans is obvious. Cat ears has been done, maybe something else.