telm_393

Dear Chocolatier,

Hello hello! Thank you so much for writing for me. Please know that when I say that my specific prompts are extremely optional and my likes are, in fact, prompts, I really mean it. I chose these fandoms and these relationships in the fandoms because I really want to read about them, the end, and I love everything in my likes, so if you want to write something based on a certain like that I didn't so much as mention in the section of my letter you were assigned to, I'll be thrilled. (It’s totally fine if you don’t even read the section of my letter that corresponds to what you were assigned!)

Also, if you like a part of a prompt for another ship with or without the same character, you should totally go for it. I'm also happy with having different requested groupings in one story.

Some sections of this letter are longer than others, and some ships have more prompts. Why? Because I just had more ready-made prompts and so on for those, or I just really felt like rambling about that particular thing, or I wanted to clarify my clarifications. Also, I know that this is a 300 word minimum and I am not even kind of expecting anything over 300 words. I say this because several of the prompts are for longer stories, but self-contained parts of those stories, either at the beginning or in the thick of them or aftermath, are much appreciated too. 

Also, I know my prompts and likes skew whumpy. If you’re not into that, don’t worry about it. I’ve tried to include less extreme prompts, and I’ll stress again that you can definitely just go from something in my likes, which include things that I think are lighter.

Here we go!

- Hurt/comfort. I am a big fan of the comfort, but the hurt can be dark (or not dark) as you want. 

- Friendship

- Sickfic, from on-death’s-door sickness to not as bad as that

- Protectiveness, overprotectiveness, and having to let go of overprotectiveness because it's not helpful to the protected person.

- Complicated relationships

- Caretaking (up to and including taking care of a character who can't take care of themselves) and caretaker fatigue

- Give and take/mutual support between characters, even if one is pretty messed up or just less worldly/more naive than the other one(s).

- Mental health issues

- Sanity slippage/full mental breakdown

- Stoic/strong characters breaking down

- Crying

- Recovery

- Trauma (over anything, as dark as you want--past abuse, non-con, torture, etc.)

- Memory issues (up to and including dementia)

- Eating disorders

- Self-harm

- Loved ones supporting each other through anything even if they're not sure how or if they mess up a bunch

- Delusions and hallucinations, especially delusions

DNWs

- Smut/PWP/fic that is rated E because of sexual content/porn

- Broken bones. (Ribs are fine.)

- Incest

- Internal injuries due to rape.

- Character bashing. (Nothing that could be classed as "X character unfriendly".)

- Ship bashing or kink bashing.

- Unrequested shipfic. (It's fine to mention canon relationships and/or romantic entanglements, and to have romantic relationships in the background.)

- Genderswap/always-another-gender/suddenly-another-gender

- Gender headcanons, including pronoun changes.

- Characters schooling each other on social justice issues. (Think soapboxing for paragraphs at a clueless character.) 

- Ace headcanons.

- Autistic headcanons.

- Chronic physical illness headcanons. 

- Pregnancy/oviposition/things growing inside of people.

- Kids who are not canon characters.

- Characters betraying each other.

- Bestiality 

- Public humiliation

- Seasonal fic

- Unrequested non-canon-divergence AUs 

- First person

- Furries

- Guro (gore is fine, just pull back if you get to Cannibal Holocaust levels)

Opt-in: Anything that’s not in my DNWs. (Note that I have fandom-specific DNWs for It.)

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It (Movies - Muschietti)

I watched It: Chapter 1 and liked it a lot. Then I watched It: Chapter 2 and fell absolutely in love with the characters and the story and the Power of Friendship. 

Fandom-specific DNWs: Time travel or time loops or general time shenanigans. Richie not being gay. Mike not being over 18 in a Mike/Pennywise situation. Abusive, unsympathetic Leroy or Denbroughs.

Ships-wise, if you want to include stuff in the background or within one of the gen groupings, I really like Bill/Mike (that's one of my actual requested ships, though), and I'm good with Ben/Bev, Richie/Eddie, Patty/Stan, and Audra/Bill in a situation where Bill/Mike doesn't happen. (I'd prefer no endgame Myra/Eddie, though.) I am also perfectly happy with any married parents being together, if it comes up at any point.

If you're going for post-canon, I am happy with canon-compliant fic, or with Eddie living, or with Stan AND Eddie living. I'd rather Pennywise stay dead, though. 

On to the pairings!

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MIKE HANLON/PENNYWISE

I'm putting this particular pairing first because it's kind of also a prompt for the later sections and I come back to it in later sections. It allows for amazing whumpy backstory and/or h/c potential for Mike, and aftermath fic would be great. Please do not assume that this means I’m not happy with just Mike/Pennywise or no Mike/Pennywise having happened or being mentioned at all.

I do not see this pairing as consensual, because Pennywise is a supernatural alien being who murders children and is essentially the bane of Mike's existence, whereas Mike is Mike, but honestly, if you want to write consensual Mike/Pennywise...I'm listening. (Or if you want the consent more dubious/seemingly more dubious.) I'm not looking for outright evil!Mike who helps Pennywise with his murdering, though, and would prefer even a Stockholmed Mike to be anti-murder and torture.

I know I requested no graphic sex scenes, which includes non-con, and that still stands. Fade to black, aftermath, creepy badtouching, general creepiness, no-touching-but-definitely-sexualized-threats, and anything but explicit-due-to-sexual-content is a-okay.

(Note that when I say Pennywise, Pennywise = IT, so he can be in non-Pennywise form, though Pennywise form would be preferred, but he can shift and so on.)

Specific prompts if you’d like them:

- AU where Pennywise is a human serial killer who kidnaps Mike when Mike's a (not underage) teenager! His getting rescued would be great but absolutely not necessary. (Any of the others can be kidnapped too, if that’s where your heart takes you.) He could be stuck with Pennywise for a really long time, or not that long. I just think it would be an interesting parallel to his staying in Derry.

- AU where Pennywise kidnaps Mike in canon (second movie canon, though pre-second movie when not all of the Losers have moved away would be interesting) and bad things happen! Rescue optional.

- For either of the previous AUs: Mike slowly going mad while with Pennywise and maybe developing Stockholm syndrome. 

- Sidenote: as stated before somewhere, the aftermath of Mike's kidnapping by Pennywise would be a great fic for this or any of the other groupings too. 

- Mike slowly going mad while in Derry during his canon 27 years, and either hallucinating or actually seeing figments of It. Or both, actually. Pennywise visiting in his dreams and menacing taking place (and potentially escalating to full non-con). 

- Stealing someone else’s brilliant idea: Pennywise taking Mike’s form to menace him! Fucked up not-really-self-cest. Maybe it leads to serious issues with dissociation? 

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BILL DENBROUGH/MIKE HANLON

My OTP. :) I very rarely have OTPs, but I came out of Chapter 2 shipping Bill/Mike hard and I'd really love anything about them post-Chapter 2 especially. During is also good. Or something about them remembering a past relationship that they had. Getting together fic would make me happy, but I also really like established relationship fic! I just really liked their chemistry and the way that they connected and Mike’s devotion to Bill and Bill’s devotion to Mike (he saved his life~) and I want them to make out and be in love and stuff. 

Specific prompts if you want them:

- Dealing with nightmares/night terrors after Derry. 

- Dealing with grief and trauma.

- Mike and Bill have had very different experiences with Derry in that Mike’s the one who remembered for all those years and stayed, and Bill didn’t. Does Bill feel guilty about that? I mean, it’s Bill. He definitely feels guilty about that. Maybe it leads to some codependence, especially if Mike’s mental health kind of actually gets worse now that it’s all over and/or he gets depressed.

- Conversely/in addition to Mike remembering, Bill getting all those memories back can’t be easy, not to mention having gone through even more trauma. And he forgave himself for what happened to Georgie, but did he, though? I mean, yeah, he did, but probably that guilt didn’t go all the way away. 

- Bad things happened to either or both of them in the 27 years they weren’t together and either is reluctant to tell the other about whatever bad thing happened? 

- Maybe…they get a cat…and don’t name it Stanley or Eddie. (Unless Stanley and/or Eddie are alive, in which case that would be funny.) No but seriously, an ugly stray cat who loves them. 

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MIKE HANLON/PATRICIA BLUM URIS/STANLEY URIS

- I saw this in the tagset and boy oh BOY am I down for it. I'm thinking post-Chapter 2, Stan lives? Something along those lines? How does it happen? Does Mike come around to visit and then kind of not leave? Does Patty slowly fall for him? Did Stan already have feelings for him from way back when, or is it new? How might the others react? I'd love getting-together or established relationship for this.

Other specific prompts:

- Mike keeps thinking that Stan's dead. It's kind of a problem. Do with that what you will.

- Patty trying to understand what Stan and Mike have been through and make sense of Stan’s suicide attempt, and knowing she’ll never quite be able to, but she loves them a lot. 

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BILL DENBROUGH & MIKE HANLON & BEN HANSCOM & BEVERLY MARSH & RICHIE TOZIER 

- So what did Bev see when she saw all of their deaths? Were they all suicides? Can they all be suicides? They don’t have to be. But still. Maybe they were and she’s scared that it could still happen. 

- Everyone lives together in an Unrealistic Codependent Roommate Situation In A Big Codependence Mansion and tries to deal with their grief and their trauma. There are nightmares. The world after It is surreal and fucked up to them and they’re the only ones who really understand. (But also there’s Mike, who never had the chance to make a life outside of Derry and that sucks and he doesn’t want to talk about it.)

-  The others visit Ben and Bev, who still have their own issues even though they are in love.

- Getting to know each other again. Maybe they discover that they’ve already basically been trying to keep in touch in some way even if they didn’t know it—watching interviews, stand-up, Bev’s fashion shows, reading Bill’s books, etc. (And Mike obviously has been keeping up.)

- Outsider POV social media stuff? Fans discovering a connection between these different celebrities? Richie 

(- Tbh, Eddie can live/you can consider an & Eddie Kaspbrak tacked onto this if your heart wants it. Same goes with Stan. I just didn’t request all the Losers because I’m mostly asking for post-Chapter 2 fic.)

The Good Place

MICHAEL & JASON MENDOZA

I like all of the canon ships, so any of them are fine to include. Also, I REALLY love Jason/Janet. I think their relationship is really sweet and supportive, and I enjoy them. I also like Janet & Michael's friendship a lot. 

I'm really into Jason and Michael's relationship, and season four has reminded me of that. Jason clearly looks up to Michael and likes and trusts him (Michael's a ten! He's only not an eight because he was torturing them!), and Michael gives off such Exasperated Dad Vibes with Jason. It delights me. I also think that Michael definitely has an overprotective (and/or condescending) streak towards Jason that I think is really interesting, what with leaving him out of the loop or underexplaining things and going "it's okay" instead. Mostly, though, I think that the relationship's really sweet, and Michael is demonically doing his best, and so is Jason. 

Also, set this in any season, or in some future where they're in the Real Good Place, or some random divergence from canon, or a mundane human AU. Whatever. I know the canon is ongoing and hell knows where it’s gonna go.

I love the rest of Team Cockroach, so including them in significant ways is totally fine and even encouraged. 

Prompts if you want them:

- Michael taking care of a de-aged Jason. 

- Jason dealing with Earth Trauma (for example, his entire childhood) and Michael attempting support (that is hopefully not erasing his memories, though I’m sure he’d want to). Some problems can't be solved with a lollipop in the shape of a Transformer. 

- The tables turning. Michael gets hurt (maybe the Bad Place gets to him and it takes a while to rescue him?) and Jason helps him. (Or is generally protective.) 

- Both Jason and Michael getting kidnapped/caught by the Bad Place and tortured. (Also rescue and recovery is good.)

- Michael being protective. Jason secretly or not-so-secretly thinks Michael's a better dad than Donkey Doug. (Michael definitely thinks Michael's a better dad than Donkey Doug.) 

- The changes in the way Michael relates to Jason from one season to another--from sneering impatience to sincere fondness and wanting to help him and feeling for him. 

Knives Out (2019)

This movie was so damn funny, and I came out of it thinking about how great Marta was and how much fun the investigators were. I wanted like a million hours of Lt Det Elliott and Trooper Wagner being buddies, with Blanc also there for some reason, being ridiculous(ly competent), and also Marta. 

Everyone else was also hilarious, but those characters really captured my heart, with Elliott being kind of world (or maybe just coworker) weary and work-focused, and Blanc being all intense but also super weird, and Wagner being overenthusiastic and eager to please, and Marta being a genuinely good person and a good nurse...(I may or may not have absolutely teared up when Blanc assured Marta that she hadn't killed Harlan at all.)

Anyway, this movie was a lot of fun and the characters just jumped out at me and it was so fast-paced and interesting and genuinely moving, I loved it. 

(I wasn’t very good at thinking of specific prompts for this, so I’m mostly just writing the things I like about the groups.)

Lieutenant Elliott & Trooper Wagner 

Benoit Blanc & Lieutenant Elliott & Trooper Wagner 

Benoit Blanc/Lieutenant Elliott & Trooper Wagner

Benoit Blanc/Lieutenant Elliott

- I loved the parts of the movie that showed Elliott being so weary of his dramatic or overly enthusiastic coworkers, like how he attempted to soldier on while Blanc plunked at the piano or rolled his eyes when Wagner proudly gave the title of that Lifetime movie. I also liked the bit where Wagner’s chattering about how, like, the statues all have to do with Harlan’s books and Elliott’s like “yes that’s very interesting,” and how he’s willing to go with Blanc but not too far. 

Weary he may be, but he is also tolerant and professional. In any case, I liked those dynamics. I don’t know if he’s actually partnered with Trooper Wagner or what, but also I don’t care about realism so let’s go with that. Buddy cops! 

And then if Blanc is there too, I would so love to see Blanc just…constantly waltzing into the precinct and consulting on cases. And occasionally not even consulting. He’s just there. Why? No one knows. Maybe he’s bored. Maybe he’s snooping for his own cases. Maybe crazy cases just seem to follow Elliott and Wagner around.

And then, if you want to go for the last grouping, maybe Blanc is also drawn to the precinct because he may or may not have feelings for Elliott. Wagner enthusiastically approves, not that his approval is needed. Possibly Wagner outsider POV of Blanc/Elliott would be cute, but he does not have to be involved. 

Benoit Blanc & Marta Cabrera & Lieutenant Elliott & Trooper Wagner 

- Basically everything above applies but also Marta. I love Marta. Marta is a wonderful human being and should totally make friends with Elliott and Wagner (honestly I can see her getting on with both of them) and private detect with Blanc. She should. So…something like that? Where she’s also getting used to the whole “being rich now” thing. And everything that happened to her in the movie, because all of that must’ve been traumatic. She nearly got killed! 

Maybe it could involve crazy cases following Elliott and Wagner around or Blanc and Marta taking all these crazy cases and Elliott and Wagner being their go-to’s at the precinct.

Incidentally, any whump for any of the characters here would be so appreciated. Whump from the likes above? Assault? Gunshot wounds? Elliott or Blanc declaring love due to a near-death experience? Elliott or Blanc declaring love due to someone else’s near-death experience? Marta dealing with PTSD and/or depression? Down for that. (Unadulterated lighthearted friendship or not-really-antagonistic relationships would be just as loved.) 

Some clarifications:

I expand on some of the tags I chose for each fandom, but please note that any things I ramble about related to those tags are suggestions, and if you like some things I suggest and don't like others, go ahead and pick and choose. If your muse is going somewhere that doesn't fit anything I said, then be free! My likes are also there to guide you, potentially.

In the end, the tags are the prompt, as are the characters or groups I chose. If a certain tag seems like it would “work” better for a certain character or group of characters than another, but you want to write it for another character or group, go for it! If I wouldn’t be happy with that particular interpretation, I wouldn’t have requested those characters and groupings in the same request. If there’s a group tag, you can choose any character to get the brunt of the darkness, even if I don’t mention them, or spread it out. Also, if I expand on a tag and don’t mention a character you want to write about, go for it anyway.

There are tags I don't expand on in each fandom, but that's just because I don't have anything specific to say about them. I'll be thrilled with you writing about any of the characters, groups, or freeforms I chose.

When it comes to context...dream up any premise you want. Why did this character have a mental breakdown? Torture? Delirium? Guilt? Accumulated stress from years of abuse? One of the other freeform tags? Something I haven’t thought of? You choose! Make it as twisted as you want, I dare you!

Some fandom sections are also longer than others. This is not a sign that I want one fandom more or less.

If you want to use more than one tag at a time (including character/group tags), feel free!

If you want to write an Eldritch fic with all of the tags I chose for a fandom, go for it. If you matched on a single tag and want to write a fic based around it, go for that too. And anything in between.

Writer, please dig deep into your id and write something you love, and I'm sure I'll love it too.

Likes:

Hurt/comfort--I'm a big fan of the comfort, but the hurt can be as dark as you want (non-con, abuse, torture, etc.) and given that this is a darkfic exchange, doesn’t have to work or happen at all. | Hopeful/bittersweet endings, though unhappy endings are fine. Endings that aren’t technically happy but end up okay for the characters themselves are great too. Ambiguous endings also. Basically any endings. | Literally sleeping together | Mental health issues | Sanity slippage/full mental breakdown | Memory loss/memory issues, up to and including dementia | Loyalty, protectiveness, loved ones supporting each other through anything and even if they don't know how or screw up a bunch | Grief/mourning | Characters never fully recovering from trauma, but adjusting to a new normal with support from their loved ones. Given that this is a darkfic exchange, no recovery from the trauma at all is great too, as is completely botched comfort. | Delusions and hallucinations, especially delusions. Characters being unsure of or confused about what is real. | Dealing with past trauma, canon or not | Characters having complicated feelings about each other | Caretaking and caretaker fatigue. | Twisted and fluffy feelings | I’d prefer no total woobification, but breaking characters is A+ and I am actually quite into psychological regression if it's periodic/doesn't go into full 100% infantilization

DNWs:

Smut/PWP/sexual or non-sexual kink/fic that’s E-rated due to sexual content | Broken bones. (Ribs are fine.) | Amputated limbs. | Gore is fine, but if you’re at Last House on the Left or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Cannibal Holocaust levels, pull back, please. | Character bashing. (Nothing that could be classified as “X character unfriendly”.) | Unrequested shipfic. (It’s fine to mention canon romantic relationships/romantic entanglements.) | Ship bashing or kink bashing. | Genderswap/always-another-gender/suddenly-another-gender | Gender headcanons, including pronoun changes. | Characters schooling anyone, especially each other, on social justice issues. | Strong focus on character’s sexuality | Autistic headcanons | Furries | Bestiality | Pregnancy/oviposition/things growing inside of people | Requested characters betraying each other | Public humiliation

Umbrella Academy

G: The Hargreeves Siblings (UATV)

G: Luther Hargreeves & Vanya Hargreeves (UATV)

Luther Hargreeves (UATV)

Ben Hargreeves (UATV)

In this fandom, I guess I’d prefer post-canon or canon divergence.

I do like the idea of weirdly domestic Hargreeves fic where they have space to breathe and try not to process their trauma and fuck up constantly and either share a mansion or apartments or hotel rooms. So, like, an AU where the apocalypse actually didn’t happen, or just post-canon with a mission that allows for some more breathing room (but also space for missions where characters can get hurt). So basically, diverge from canon or go with canon, I just have one DNW for this fandom: I do not want fic where the adult-bodied Hargreeves were also de-aged.

I would also prefer that whump not be focused on Klaus, but if that’s your jam, go for it.

I love how messed up the Hargreeves siblings are and how much they screw up with each other and resent each other but still do care about each other. I’d be really interested in unhealthy overprotectiveness. Deeply unhealthy, codependent relationships also. If Ben is alive again, I think it would be really interesting to have his resurrection be traumatic for him and/or his siblings (or some of his siblings, or one of his siblings) be overprotective to his detriment.

For Luther and Vanya, I’m just really into their relationship. It’s been so screwed up by the end of the show, and I just want to see how it could heal or fall apart even more. Maybe they’re both wary of each other. Maybe they kind of hate each other. Maybe they’re just sad. A pre-canon AU where they team up with each other for some reason and run away together would be cool too. I’d like to see either of them suffering or getting captured and tortured, and it would be really interesting with both of them.

Note: I am cool with Allison/Luther.

Aftermath of Torture

Caretaker Fatigue

Characters bond in traumatic circumstances - Maybe they’re captured and tortured. Maybe they’re the only two survivors out of all their family.

Descent into Madness, Mental Breakdown, Sanity slippage/ deterioration of mental health - Anything with these would be amazing, either due to outside circumstances or because the character is just not well. Ben breaking down after being resurrected in some way would be really interesting.

Character A pretends they don’t notice Character B’s descent into madness - Character A could be more than one sibling, that would be fine. Maybe it’s everyone with Ben, or just one of the siblings, like Klaus, who knows Ben better than anyone and knows that something is very wrong but also his brother is alive again and he doesn’t want to accept it.

Character is incapable of caring for themselves - Either definitely true or what the other characters perceive.

Only two left alive - Well, this would definitely be interesting with Luther and Vanya, and would be super interesting mixed with any of the other tags. (Of course, you can do this with any of the other siblings too.)

Trapped together

Terminal Illness - Maybe Luther’s body starts slowly rejecting the serum. Maybe Ben’s resurrection is just temporary. Maybe one of the characters just gets really, really sick.

Recovery is painful and slow

Suicide Attempt Fails, Suicide Watch - I’d love to see this with any of the Hargreeves siblings, and the other siblings being rather helpless and not being able to actually aid in recovery and maybe just drugging the suicidal character or restraining them or rumoring them. Maybe Luther, who’s horrified by his body and deeply guilty and feeling directionless, attempts suicide and Vanya finds him and watches him? Sedates him? Maybe Ben really cannot handle being alive again and tries to kill himself? Or any of the other siblings. I’d just really love seeing the Hargreeves completely fucking up here, unhappy ending welcome.

Unrelenting hurt/eventual comfort

The Good Place

G: Janet & Michael (The Good Place)

G: Tahani Al-Jamil & Chidi Anagonye & Jason Mendoza & Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

G: Tahani Al-Jamil & Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)

G: Team Cockroach (The Good Place)

I know settings have changed significantly, and you can do whatever you want when it comes to that. Set fic in season one, two, three, AU season four, whatever. Canon divergence AU at any point is fine. Everyone’s human and alive/mundane AU, also fine. And also my pet AU where people actually do end up in the Real Good Place and that’s where they go. Pre-canon also.

I believe that season four will be coming out as this exchange goes on. I will be following it, so don’t worry about spoilers or adding elements or even characters from season four.

Rape to Break Character’s Will/Spirit - Sounds like something the Bad Place would do…

Rape Aftermath, Rape Recovery

Aftermath of Torture, Torture Recovery - Did someone end up in the Real Bad Place? Is it a canon divergence where Michael’s torture by Shawn is more messed up?

Recovery is painful and slow

Sanity Slippage/deterioration of mental health - Is it because of torture? Is it sheer stress?

Terminal Illnesses - Super, super sad human AU?

MCU

Group: Scott Lang/Sam Wilson (MCU)

Sam/Scott will always be my OTP. Always and forever. Even if they haven’t interacted that much in canon. There’s always canon divergence or canon AU or filling in the blanks on the time they did spend together.

I adore all the other characters that surround Scott and Sam. Including the rest of Team Cap or various other Avengers or the other Ant-Man characters is welcome.

I like Sam as a not-necessarily-as-put-together-as-he-seems kind of guy with his own issues, and would never say no to Sam whump. (That said, I would never say no to Scott whump either. Or whump for both of them.)

I’d be happy with an established relationship or get-together where whatever terrible thing that happens brings Sam and Scott together.

Only Two Left Alive - Is this a post-apocalyptic AU? Are they the only two human beings left alive on the planet? Are they the sole survivors of something that wiped out most superheroes?

Characters bond in traumatic circumstances - Captured and tortured together? Completely isolated together?

Torture Recovery - Maybe there’s codependence?

Character Is Hiding Aftereffects of Trauma - Sam was Snapped. Scott was stuck in the Quantum Realm. Maybe they’re both mentally not well at all but don’t want anyone to know.

Mental Breakdown, Sanity slippage/deterioration of mental health, Character A pretends they don’t notice Character B’s descent into madness - Post-Endgame, Sam and Scott are happy together, so either try to ignore their partner’s slow deterioration (maybe because of trauma, maybe a mental illness is manifesting, maybe the quantum realm really messed Scott up) and cover it up when other people are around—like if it’s Sam, Scott has to actively try to deal with the press and Sam’s superhero friends. If it’s Scott, Sam has to lie to Scott’s daughter and his ex-wife and her husband. Or they’re captured together and one doesn’t want to believe that the other is breaking down.

MCU

Sam Wilson

For Sam, I love his relationships with anyone, so if you want to include, idk, Bucky or Steve or other members of Team Cap, that’s great! I would like Sam as the whumped party, though, and other characters trying to help. Sam completely on his own would be great too. Also, I’m fascinated with his relationship with Riley, so including that would be awesome.

I liked Endgame, and anything post-Endgame where he’s dealing with being Snapped and/or his new responsibilities as Cap and/or missions gone extra wrong would be great. Old Steve is welcome.

Solitary Confinement

Psychological Torture, Torture Recovery - Could be of any stripe, could be in addition to the solitary confinement, could be solitary confinement in itself. Post-Endgame, Sam is captured and tortured while acting as Cap?

Character Survived Their Adventures/Ordeal But Will Never Be The Same Again

Descent into Madness, Sanity Slippage, Mental Breakdown - This could go super well with solitary confinement or torture. A completely isolated Sam slowly losing his mind…

On the other hand, it could very well be Sam falling into mental illness and his mental health slowly deteriorating due to being Snapped or stress.

Mentally Unstable Character is Aware of Their Instability - I really like the idea of Sam knowing that he’s slipping but not being able to do anything about it because of his pride or total lack of access to any help (like if he’s been isolated). Also a post-torture Sam back in the “real world”, getting help from his friends but knowing he’s different now and that his reactions to things aren’t normal and that he’s hallucinating and so on…

Hallucinations of a loved one - I’d love to see this with Riley in any situation.

DC’s Arrowverse

John Constantine (DC's Arrowverse)

G: John Constantine & Charlie (Arrowverse)

G: John Constantine & Zari Tomaz (Arrowverse)

This can be before or after season four—if it’s Zari and John, maybe they could “meet” again. It could also be a total canon divergence at any point.

I’m totally fascinated by John’s issues. He’s been hospitalized before, he snapped completely in the messed-up timeline he made to save Dez, he’s mentally unstable and knows it, but the Legends are way too stubborn to not try to help.

On the other hand, if you want to write another one of the characters going through the scenarios in the freeform tags and John being in the position of trying to…help?…that would be super interesting too.

I also think that any of these characters stuck together would be really fun, and also torture. John getting into a really bad situation and trying to hide exactly how bad it was even as his mental health starts deteriorating from the stress would be fun. Same goes for any of the other characters. I love Charlie and John’s relationship and John and Zari’s relationship and the relationship between all three, and something that takes place in the altered timeline would be great. A canon divergence after that altered timeline where it turns out that John’s still not well would be great too.

Aftermath of Torture, Torture Recovery - John is significantly less lucky in Hell? He’s just captured and tortured, no Hell needed? Zari or Charlie is captured and John saves them? Zari or Charlie and John get captured and tortured together and have bonded painfully after the fact?

Rape Aftermath, Rape Recovery, Rape to Break Character’s Will/Spirit, Rape to Break Character’s Will/Spirit Fails to Do So - Really could be the same as the aftermath of torture/torture recovery prompt.

Character is incapable of caring for themselves

Sanity Slippage, Mental Breakdown, Mentally unstable character aware of their instability, Psychosis, Relapse into severe mental illness - Characters are captured together and start breaking down, or one breaks down more than the other? Character’s captured on their own and breaks down? John’s been better, but stress ends up sending him back to Ravenscar levels of crazy?

Suicide Attempt Fails, Suicide Watch

Recovery is painful and slow

Caretaker Fatigue

Dear writer,

Thank you for writing for me! If you want to write a story based off of one of my more specific likes or by mixing and matching my likes, I’ll love it, and if you get an idea that at least brushes any of my likes and doesn’t hit a DNW, go for it. Please don't feel constrained by any specific prompts. They're quite frankly all over the place, and if you find something in them that you like, scoop it out, and if you don't find anything you like, don't worry about it and write whatever you want.

I know that there aren't a lot of details here, but I hope there's enough. 

Note: I really don't care if you include background ships, canon or non-canon, as long as they don't overshadow the requested groupings.

Likes:

- Hurt/comfort, especially when the comfort is focused on more than the hurt, though the hurt can be as dark as you want. 

- Comfort after nightmares is nice, though

- Get together fic

- First kisses

- Literally sleeping together

- Established relationships

- Bittersweetness

- Happy endings

- Mental health issues 

- Memory loss/memory issues

- Loyalty, protectiveness, loved ones supporting each other through anything and even if they don't know how to support each other or screw up a bunch

- Grief/mourning

- Recovery from trauma (it doesn’t have to be a full recovery, I love reading about characters finding a new normal)

- Characters finding out secrets about each other and characters hiding things from others because they’re ashamed and afraid that they’ll be judged, and then acceptance

- Dealing with past trauma (this can include canon or non-canon abuse and non-con, anything you want)

- Characters getting pets, any kind of pets (please don't kill the pet)

- Angst with a happy or hopeful ending

- Joyful fluff where everyone's just happy and that's that

- AUs! Canon AUs, post-apocalyptic AUs, mundane AUs--coffee shop, single parent AU where they're the parents of their canon kids or the adoptive parent of one of the other MCU characters who's de-aged...go wild!

DNWs:

- unrequested smut/PWP

- character bashing (nothing that could be classed "X character unfriendly")

- ship bashing or kink bashing

- genderswap/always-another-gender/suddenly-another-gender

- gender headcanons

- strong focus on a character's sexuality

- autistic headcanons

- characters schooling anyone, especially each other, on social justice issues

- first person POV

- non-canon kids

- pregnancy of all kinds

- chatroom fic

- crossovers

- interactive fic

- poetry

- when it comes to Rhodey, if you're writing him post-Civil War please do not have his mobility-related disability disappear  

NOTE: There are Endgame spoilers after the cut, as well as expansion on the groupings, which are:
Scott Lang/Sam Wilson
James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Nebula
Maggie Lang/Scott Lang/Jim Paxton
Maggie Lang/Scott Lang/Jim Paxton & Cassie Lang

Dear Trick or Treat writer,

Thank you for writing for me! All of my prompts are optional. If you want to write for any of the fandoms just by mixing and matching my likes or just plucking one of the likes from my list, I’ll love it. If your ideas suddenly go in unexpected directions, go with it (as long as it doesn’t hit a DNW).

DNWs

• Non-con or dub-con between canon characters
• Explicit sexual content (I do not count description/depiction of sexual attraction, making out, heavy petting, or fade to black explicit sexual content)
• Character bashing 
• Broken bones
• A/B/O
• Oviposition
• Unrequested AUs
• Genderswap 
• First person POV
• Shipfic/fic based around romance

Likes

• Hurt/comfort, especially when there’s more focus on the comfort than hurt
• Darkfic 
• Mental breakdowns/sanity slippage
• Illnesses (physical and mental)
• Sickfic
• Torture and/or non-con aftermath and/or recovery
• Aftermath of and/or recovery from pretty much any kind of trauma imaginable really (abuse, assault, violence in general…whatever you want)
• Dark pasts and repression/suppression of the emotional consequences of those dark pasts (you can go for pretty much anything that doesn’t hit a DNW for those dark pasts—past abuse of any kind, self-harm, serious illness, suicide attempts, go nuts)
• Heart-to-hearts/characters baring their souls to each other
• Protectiveness
• Devoted friendships and loyalty
• Found family, especially dysfunctional found families

All of those likes apply no matter the tone of the canon. I love angsty/dark/h/c fic for light-hearted/comedy canons, is what I’m saying. That's why I chose 'trick' for all my canons! Also, I know that we matched on characters, but if you want to include any other main characters from whichever canon as major or minor characters, I'm all for it! As you can tell from my likes, I love friendship. 

I'm asking for just fic for all of these. For the canons I only have 'trick' chosen for, I'd be happy to get treats that are...'treats'! Also, I know that some of these canons are ongoing and will be airing new episodes during the writing period--don't worry, if you want to include something from the new material, I'll be keeping up!

Also also, some of these fandoms have more prompts than others. That says nothing about how much I want the fandom, only that I had more prompt ideas for it. I also know that some of the characters have more prompts than others. If we matched on a character I almost didn't mention, that was not on purpose and I promise I love the character as much as any other. 


FANDOMS

Trial & Error (2017)

Trick OR Treat
Any

[There are some spoilers for season 2 here.]


On a shipfic note--I like Carol Anne/Josh, though I'd still rather fic not be romance-focused. You can include Princess Anne or not. 


Trick ideas:

- Anne's grandmother's death and Anne's discovery of her inappropriate emotional expression!

- Anne's conditions in general! If you want to go scary with it, maybe she develops a new one, and it's...particularly frightening.

- There are actually vampires in East Peck!

- Dwayne's mother died two months before he was born. In the podcast, we figure out that she actually died two weeks before he was born, and biology is a lie. So, Dwayne was literally born in a morgue to a dead woman...there has to be some kind of horror plot to come out of that. Hell, even just a retelling of the story of his birth would be horrifying! Maybe it's also left him with some abilities. Talking to the dead stuff, etc. I'm just spitballing here, just do with it what you will.

- There's a zombie apocalypse! Turns out East Peck is kinda the place to be. Carol Anne's great at zombies.

Don't be afraid to go full dark humor with these if that's where it takes you, or to go melancholy/dark/whatever with one of the treat ideas.


Treat ideas:

- Okay, but, concept: a firm Halloween party! There are only three people in the firm, yes, but they make it work. Who decides that they're going to have a Halloween party? Is it Dwayne? Does Josh secretly love Halloween and get super, super into it? Is Carol Anne invited, and does she actually come?

- What's trick or treating like in East Peck? What's Halloween in general like in East Peck? Do their thoughts on witchcraft and sorcery in general inform their opinion? 


- Taking Anne's daughter out trick or treating!


- Taking Princess Anne trick or treating over the years! 

- You don't have to do something Halloween focused! Maybe have Josh go antiquing, possibly with company, because there's no way he doesn't scour flea markets and thrift shops and antique shops for his grandma interior design. Where on earth did he find that tea set? Does Carol Anne judge his interior design choices?

Or give Dwayne a boyfriend, because that would be cute. (In that situation, you can go ahead and write Dwayne/OMC shipfic. Maybe one of the cameramen falls for him, much to Cameraman's dismay and the dismay of all his colleagues, everywhere.)

- Seriously, any of my likes can act as a prompt, either for a trick or a treat.

Ghosted (TV)

Trick 
Max Jennifer
Leroy Wright

[Vague spoilers for the entire series here.]


Well, this is a perfect canon for this exchange, because obviously.

Note if you decide to set it during canon: I know that the continuity is a little confusing with the retool, and you can set it anywhere you want, even though I'd slightly--but only slightly, because I would love anything for this show--prefer you set it pre-retool (when LaFrey is director and there's the monster of the week plot, you can include the last episode aired too) and kinda ignore everything else. 

I love these two characters as friends and partners, so if you want to write friendship, please go for it. 

Specific prompts:

- Anything about Leroy and his partner and how it was for Leroy to lose him.

- Leroy's partner comes back wrong.

- Bad run ins with very scary monsters. 

- The aliens finally invade!!! And anything based off of the plot of the last episode aired, actually. Aliens in general. 

- The alternate universes where only Max and Leroy were able to maybe save the world from the aliens. 

- Remember that any of my likes can act as a prompt.


Midnight, Texas

Trick 

Lemuel Bridger
Chuy Strong

I'm going to put the 'any of my likes can act as a prompt' disclaimer here before I even get to the prompts, because there aren't that many prompts. So, any of my likes can act as a prompt. Lem/Olivia, Chuy/Joe, and Bobo/Fiji are all a-ok with me. 

- What about that time Chuy went into his demon form and was like that for three years? You can go full shipfic for Chuy/Joe if you want. Did they move to Midnight soon after that incident? What caused Chuy to change anyway?

- Lemuel's years as a vampire before meeting Xylda, becoming more and more unhappy with the whole 'killing people' thing, getting to Midnight, meeting Olivia...basically, I loved "Lemuel, Unchained" and I want even more backstory for him. (Shipfic with Olivia is fine if you're writing about Lem.)


Chicago Med

Trick 
Connor Rhodes

Note that I like all the other main characters (plus I have a huge soft spot for Latham), and I'd be very happy to see them in a fic, but I'd rather there not be any shipping. Mentions of canon romances are fine, but it would be cool if you'd place this at a point where Connor's single, though you can definitely have the aftermath/emotional fallout of his romantic relationship/s play a part in the story.


- The ED is haunted! Or the OR is haunted! Med is haunted! Connor is haunted, and he's starting to wonder if he's losing his mind! Maybe he is! It's not up to me to decide!

- What happened the night Connor's mother killed herself? Anything about his mom's suicide would be super interesting, actually. 

- Mental illness runs in Connor's family, and he's not spared. You can go full suicide attempt if you want, honestly, but if you do I'd prefer at least a little h/c. 

- I know I'm really banging this in, but any of my likes can act as a prompt and I'll be absolutely thrilled if you go for one of them.

Dear Chocolatier,

Thank you for writing for me! All of my prompts are optional. If you want to write for any of the fandoms just by mixing and matching my likes or just plucking one of the likes from my list, I’ll love it. If your ideas suddenly go in unexpected directions, go with it (as long as it doesn’t hit a DNW).

DNWs

• Non-con or dub-con between canon characters
• Explicit sexual content (I do not count description/depiction of sexual attraction, making out, heavy petting, or fade to black explicit sexual content)
• Underage
• Character bashing 
• Heavy focus on pregnancy 
• Original characters in major roles
• Broken bones (except broken ribs, those are fine)
• A/B/O
• Oviposition
• Unrequested AUs
• Genderswap 
• First person POV

Likes

• Hurt/comfort, especially when there’s more focus on the comfort than hurt
• Darkfic 
• Mental breakdowns/sanity slippage
• Illnesses (physical and mental)
• Sickfic
• Whump
• Self-sacrifice
• Torture and/or non-con aftermath and/or recovery
• Aftermath of and/or recovery from pretty much any kind of trauma imaginable really (abuse, assault, violence in general…whatever you want)
• Dark pasts and repression/suppression of the emotional consequences of those dark pasts (you can go for pretty much anything that doesn’t hit a DNW for those dark pasts—past abuse of any kind, self-harm, serious illness, suicide attempts, go nuts)
• Heart-to-hearts/characters baring their souls to each other and making tortured confessions to one another, possibly about things that happened in their Dark Pasts
• Crying
• Caretaking
• Protectiveness
• Character bathing/washing another character or changing another character’s clothes or helping them bathe/wash/change because for whichever reason the other character is just too fucked up to do it themselves
• Devoted friendships and loyalty
• Found family, especially dysfunctional found families

Note that if you want to include more than one requested relationship, go for it, and it’s fine if one relationship ends up having more screen time than the other. That’s totally okay when it comes to the relationships that have several characters too. Basically, if you find that you’re putting more emphasis on one relationship than another, don’t worry about it.

Also, all of these likes apply no matter the tone of the canon. I love angsty/dark/h/c fic for light-hearted/comedy canons, is what I’m saying. 

I’m requesting fic for everything. 

And that’s it! Thanks again! Also, sorry about the slightly wonky formatting with the cuts.