Horror Exchange 2020

Hi! Thanks for writing for me, natch. If none of my prompts speak to you, please make up literally anything you want that has a couple of my likes and requested characters and one of the types of horror I chose, because I will love that. Live your best writing life. 

I would love fic for any of these characters/groups and for any of these fandoms, so don't worry if it seems like I focused on one thing over another. Or if some prompt got weirdly specific. The TUA section is shorter and that's just because I rambled less, not because I wouldn't be pleased to get it. Just mine whatever you want from the prompts and the letter or just the likes. Seriously, if you don't even read the actual prompts for whatever fandom you matched on and use the horror type plus one or more of my likes as prompts, I'll love it.

Also, I know I didn't choose a lot of different kinds of horror. It's mostly because I really love breakdowns and loss of sanity and sanity slippage, so I gravitate towards psychological horror. But I'm not averse to other kinds of horror, including violence. 

LIKES:

- Memory loss/memory issues, up to and including dementia

- Twisted and fluffy feelings

- Mental health issues

- Sanity slippage and full mental breakdowns

- Delusions and hallucinations, delusions especially

- Characters and those around them not knowing what's real and what isn't, especially if they have weird lives 

- Suicide attempts and suicide watch

- Outsider POV and/or multiple POVs of the same situation

- 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 horror exchange, doesn’t have to work or happen at all.

- Characters never fully recovering from trauma, but adjusting to a new normal with support from their loved ones. HOWEVER, given that this is a horror exchange, no recovery from the trauma at all is great too, as is completely botched comfort. In fact, the horror could be in that! 

- 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.

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

- Characters having complicated feelings about each other

- Caretaking and caretaker fatigue, as well as codependency related to that. 

DNWs:

- Parasites. I am very afraid of parasites, particularly parasitic insects or worms. I cannot overstate how afraid of them I am. 

- Mental illness being entirely the fault of supernatural factors in that the character would go back to normal once supernatural factors are removed AND/OR the character isn't actually unstable, everyone just assumed they were because they could perceive the supernatural. I'm totally fine with characters being right about some things that sound "crazy," but I still want them to have mental health issues, not just be perceived as having them even though they're actually perfectly fine and dandy mental-health-wise.

- Smut/PWP/fic that’s E-rated due to sexual content

- Unrequested setting change AUs -- canon divergence AUs are fine

-  Broken bones. (Ribs are fine.) 

- Amputated limbs. 

- Character bashing. (Nothing that could be classified as “X character unfriendly”.) 

- Unrequested shipfic. (It’s fine to mention or feature canon romantic relationships/romantic entanglements as long as the plot doesn't hinge on them.) 

- 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.

- Furries

- Bestiality

- Characters turning into human-animal hybrids (note: Luther Hargreeves is the exception, because canon)

- Characters becoming animals

- Pregnancy/oviposition/things growing inside of people

- Requested characters actually betraying each other 

- Public humiliation

- Eye horror

- Character death except for when specified

- Characters becoming evil/working against their loved ones for any reason, including brainwashing

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Type: Psychological Horror
Type: Medical Horror

Solo: John Constantine
Solo: Ava Sharpe
Behrad Tomaz (Tarazi) & Zari Tomaz (Tarazi)

I love all of the Legends and am happy with any canon pairings. I'd prefer season 4 or 5 Legends, and obviously season 5 if you're writing about Behrad. (Ray and Nora can be there or not if you're going with season 5.)

Season 5 isn't quite over yet, but I'm perfectly fine with diverging from canon at any point or just jumping right over whatever happens in the finale to "the back half of season 5 Legends are together again and doing timeline stuff, yay!" Same goes for diverging from canon at any point in season 4 too. Basically, everyone just being on the ship together and Legending it up is good for me.

And if you want to make this compliant with whatever happens during the finale, you go. 

Basically, I would really enjoy sanity slippage in this fandom, and I'd love for the team to be there. I have a soft spot for Legends family even in the worst situations. 

I do like Ava/Sara, so you don't have to hold back on that if you don't want to. I also like Zari 2.0/John, so, same there. I also like Zari 1.0/Nate. Actually I'm good with any canon pairings. 

- When it comes to medical horror, I think it'd be interesting with anyone, but I'd love to see it as like a "scientists experimenting" thing. Someone finds out that Ava's a clone and just can't help themselves? Rescue is optional, but I think that aftermath fic has pretty good potential to be horrifying in itself. 

- Then, with Behrad and Zari, and especially Behrad here--he knows he's "supposed" to be dead in two whole entire timelines, but they brought him back in the one he's alive in. How does he feel about that? Considering that this is a horror exchange, I'd imagine that the answer is "extremely fucked up." I think there's definitely space for sanity slippage in that, and the quieter horror of Zari watching as the brother she worked so hard to save breaks down. (I'd prefer this with Zari 2.0 if you only want one Zari.)

- Then there's also the potential for two Zaris no matter how that shakes out in the finale. Maybe if both Zaris end up in one body (but as two separate selves, Firestorm-style), her body can't actually take it? I'm fine with this ending in death for her, and body horror elements. Or both Zaris come back but start deteriorating physically or mentally really quickly, or one does and the other doesn't. And Behrad kind of...watches and has to deal with that. Helplessness and all.

- I think that for psychological horror, something having to do with isolation and sanity slippage for John, who is already not exactly mentally healthy, would be interesting, in a kind of ironic "huh, sometimes it's not so great to be completely alone, who knew?" Basically, solitary confinement and/or solitary confinement aftermath horror. 

- Also I feel like something around memory loss for any of these characters would be fascinating. And just their teammates watching from the outside and not being able to do anything. Or fucked up memory stuff where they don’t consistently remember their teammates or that certain things that have happened are over and so on, and keep reliving things but not in a supernatural/induced way, they just keep forgetting.

- Or basically anything, honestly, this is just spitballing. And you can use any of the less character-specific prompts for any character. 

It (Muschietti)

Type: Psychological Horror
Type: Monster Horror

Mike Hanlon & Pennywise

Solo: Mike Hanlon

I love Mike Hanlon and I love all of the possibilities there are for horror with those 27 years he spent in Derry. I'm into the idea of fic during the 27 or after those years, but things are still messed up for him. I would really like something delving into his "relationship" with Pennywise over those years, while It was subtly manipulating his reality and Mike's own grasp on reality was slipping too. And then there's a couple of AU prompts. 

Basically my only ship is Bill/Mike, but I love friendship between him and any and all of the Losers.

I'm okay with sexual creepiness, just nothing explicit. 

(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.)

Prompts:

- 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, though I think there could definitely be a horror story in an aftermath situation too. 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. Note that I'm not looking for outright evil!Mike who helps Pennywise with his murdering, and would prefer even a Stockholmed Mike to be anti-murder and torture.

 

- Sidenote: as stated before somewhere, the aftermath of Mike's kidnapping by Pennywise would be great grounds for horror too imo, dealing with the aftermath of terrible things. 

 

- Mike slowly going mad while in Derry during his canon 27 years, and It managing to stalk him even when It's asleep just because It's always on his mind and may be poisoning his mind too. 

- Mike dealing with being in Derry while knowing that the place corrupts adults, and that not helping his mental health at all.

- Mike still being haunted by Derry after leaving even though It is, in fact, gone, and his friends trying to help him but...it's pretty dire. (And scary.) Basically Mike's mental state deteriorating after It is gone too. Memory loss or gaps in memories or consistently forgetting what's real and what isn't, or what's over and done with, would be amazing. 

 
The Umbrella Academy

Type: Psychological Horror
Type: Body Horror
Type: Medical Horror

Solo: Luther Hargreeves
Luther Hargreeves & Vanya Hargreeves

So, I mean, Luther's literally had body horror and medical horror happen to him in the show, and I would love some exploration of how fucked up that is, and especially how it affects him not just when he's by himself but when he's around others. (A no apocalypse universe is totally fine, but I do not want fic where the adult-bodied Hargreeves were de-aged too.)

Prompts:

- A loving, horrifying depiction of how utterly fucked up what happened to Luther is and how he feels about it. 

- Luther's body slowly rejecting the serum could be super fucked up. What could happen to him in that situation? 

- Luther snapping and self-mutilating to try and "fix" himself, and/or trying to kill himself. I think it would be interesting to do this in a situation where some or all of the other siblings are involved and at a loss for what to do, so they maybe end up drugging him or rumoring him or something. (Maybe Vanya tries her hand at sedation...) I would like to see the Hargreeves totally fucking up when Luther breaks down, basically. Unhappy endings welcome. 

- Luther and Vanya getting captured and tortured and experimented on. Talk about forced sibling bonding.