Chocolate Box Exchange 2020

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!

 

 

LIKES

 

- 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.)