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Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m [archiveofourown.org profile] fencesit on AO3!

You may notice that I have less details or prompts for some fandoms/ships/mediums than others. Please don't take this as an indication that I want those things any less than other things! And: please don't feel like you need to follow one of my prompts to keep from disappointing me. I've provided all the information below in an attempt to help my creator feel confident in producing a gift for me, but if prompts and extra details don't work for you then feel free to ignore them.

DNW:

  • unrequested AUs
    • canon divergence is okay
    • I would like ninja to still be ninja and cultivators to still be cultivators
    • Something like "Airplane-bro made a cultivation otome game instead of writing a cultivation stallion novel" or "Konoha was never founded" in Naruto — I consider those technically canon divergence rather than straight AUs.
  • cannibalism or vore
  • necrophilia (ghost sex is fine)
  • sounding
  • rimming
  • bodily waste
  • spitting
    • including spit as lube, but oral is fine
  • car crashes/traffic violence
    • car crashes: also includes buses, trucks, other similar roadway transportation vehicles.
    • other forms of transit disaster are fine (eg, airplane crash, shipwreck, train derailment)
    • if I'm requesting a canon set in space/scifi canons/etc, spaceship crashes are fine as long as the ships are more like airplanes or cruise ships (long term, chartered, lots of people) than they're like cars (daily commute, 1-4 people, etc)
  • detailed or graphic descriptions/depictions of wounds, medical procedures, torture, etc.
    • Lots of blood is fine, mention of specific injuries are fine.
    • Writing: If you start describing which exact parts of the body are now in new places, that's probably more detail than I want. Think the difference between telling me A has split B's stomach open with a sword and telling me which of B's organs are falling out.
    • Art: Cuts, wounds and blood are fine; I would prefer no detail beyond that. No muscle, viscera, gore or exposed bones.
  • corrective rape
  • unrequested noncon
    • casefics where characters investigate cases involving OC victims being sexually assaulted are fine, but still DNW noncon porn in those cases
  • anal tearing or other serious injury during sex
  • incest (mentions of canonical incest are fine)
  • sex scenes with underage (under 18) characters
    • feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
    • I have a different DNW on this topic for my Tim&/Jason DCU Comics request; see below.
  • permanent noncanonical character death of requested characters
  • the rotting undead/zombies
    • magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
  • unrequested crossovers
    • including using characters from other canons as stand-ins for OCs, even if the character or their appearance in the fic is very minor.
    • including borrowing worldbuilding/magic systems/artifacts/alien races/etc.
    • definitely fine for characters to know about or reference anything you think it's reasonable for them to have consumed as media, e.g. modern mundane characters have probably heard of Star Wars.
  • real-world politics, crimes, and current events
  • unrequested trans headcanons, narratives focused on transitioning, transphobia or gender dysphoria as sources of hurt/whump/angst

Naruto DNWs/clarifications

  • Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto

SVSSS DNWs/clarifications

  • characters finding out that they're fictional
  • the rotting undead/zombies clarification: TLJ kind of falls into this category but I love him and he can definitely show up even where I haven't specifically requested him! Please gently skirt around any gross details about his poor sad plant body — mentions of his limbs falling off are fine, but description of why exactly they won't stay attached is best left implied.

DCU DNWs/Clarifications

  • DNW: For the Tim&/Jason request — on screen sex of any kind involving characters below 18, except Tim/Jason (who can have on screen sex with each other when 16+)
  • incest clarification: I don't consider Jason/Tim to be incest for the purposes of this DNW.

Person of Interest & Blue Castle DNWs/Clarifications

  • DNW: Requested characters with non-human parts (wings, horns, tails, cat ears, for example); requested characters as partially-human, partially-animal species (mermaids, centaurs, or werewolves that don't fully transform into a 4-legged wolf, for example)
  • Knots are okay in Blue Castle

Likes

Fic likes:

  • Canon divergence
    • Different first meeting
    • Fix-it
    • For Want Of A Nail — a small change shifts the outcome of canon's plot significantly
  • Communication
    • when A says something to B and B knows them so well that B can translate what A really meant
    • when A can't bring themself to admit/ask something but it's okay because B already understands
    • when A knows something is wrong/has happened to B because B deliberately did or did not do something unusual (eg, coming home to find only half the dishes washed and knowing B must have left the house in a rush; seeing B drinking coffee and knowing that means they didn't sleep the night before)
  • Miscommunication
    • the absolute best best BEST version of this is when two characters TRY to communicate and fail because, through no fault of their own, they each are working under wildly different baseline assumptions and do not realize it — for example because they were raised very differently and haven't realized how that impacts their point of view about the topic.
    • related to the above, maybe tied with it: when characters enter an argument with such different perspectives that they don't even realize they aren't arguing about the same thing
    • I usually like it when miscommunication is resolved, when people learn to understand each other. It can be really fun to drag that out for some angst or hurt/comfort though.
  • Change or reversal in relationship
    • realizing someone has more respect/loyalty/love for them than they had previously guessed
    • thinking someone is out to get them or hates them only to realize that's not the case
    • strangers to allies; team to family
    • friends to lovers; friends-with-benefits to lovers; casual hook up to lovers
    • enemy to caretaker; enemy to friend; enemy to lover; friends to enemies to lovers
    • friends to enemies to friends; friends to FAKE ENEMIES BECAUSE SUBTERFUGE REASONS to friends
    • I usually like these to end on a positive note because I have a soft nougat center that likes happy endings, but if you think you can have the requested relationship end the fic in a bad state (eg enemies, divorced/broken up) and still have the end of the fic feel hopeful/nice for both of them, I'm game to receive that fic!
  • Time travel
    • especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
    • time loops
    • I massively prefer travel to the past over travel to the future
    • I'm not really interested in characters meeting/talking to other versions of themself.
    • In canons where it makes sense for characters to be secret or have strict infosec rules, I love it when characters keep time travel secret.
    • Do you want to write something where something really bad happened to the character had to go back in time to prevent the bad thing? I'm definitely into the kind of plotty fic that would result from you figuring out what happened exactly and the character's detailed plan to prevent it, but if you'd rather write something more character/relationship focused I'm so, so good with the bad terrible future being deliberately vague.
    • Please see further time travel likes under the special section where i've shoved all the freeform tags I like!
  • Dimension travel
    • Character from canon timeline is misplaced to an alternate dimension where things are better/worse
    • Character from alternate dimension where things are better/worse visits the canon timeline.
    • I like it both when the dimension travel is permanent and when it's temporary. Trying to find their way home is fun, but trying to settle into their new normal also rules!
  • Worldbuilding
    • fake/fantasy politics/science and explorations of systems/relationships (eg magic systems, fictional governments or economies, the local gossip network)
    • character backstory, noodle incidents, references to past canon or noncanon events, a sense of history between two (or more) characters
    • vivid/specific details that relate to things like where a character is, what that location is used for, why, and how the character feels about it
  • Plot
    • casefic/missionfic
    • investigations/mysteries
    • characters with specific goals or problems to solve (finding some treasure, getting a glass of water, murdering their nemesis)
    • monster/murder/crime-of-the-week type plots
  • Friendship and loyalty
    • the enemy of my enemy is my friend
    • making friends under unusual circumstances
    • A being uncertain of or surprised by how deep B's loyalty runs
    • found family
    • friends reconnecting after being out of contact for a long time
    • signs of familiarity/intimacy, like knowing each other's habits really well or feeling comfortable touching them/being touched in a society where that's notable
  • Hurt/comfort and angst
    • Physical or emotional hurt
    • I will die for enemy to caretaker
    • I like it when the hurt is more or less solved: wounds given medical attention, hurt feelings directly addressed/soothed, poison cured, previously hurt character now certain that the worst at least is over.
    • I love it when there are several layers of hurt that need to be either struggle through by the hurt character or revealed to/by the comforting character, especially when they need different kinds of or combined comfort. (For example, A thinks they're just going to help B with some light medical care but discovers B needs help with some kind of emotional hurt or B will just get hurt again and worse)
    • I don't have a preference for which requested character is hurt vs comforted. Maybe both/all of them!
    • See H/C likes list below for types of hurt and comfort I like.
  • Forced proximity/(non-sexual) intimacy
    • characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other
    • handcuffed together; magically prevented from moving a certain distance apart
    • there's only one bed; sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
    • captured together; working together in enemy territory/against a common enemy
    • wilderness survival; huddling for warmth; canadian shack (doesn't have to be literally in canada or literally a shack)
    • force to team up to handle the same problem (eg investigation or project)

Ship likes:

Unless otherwise stated, I don't have a preference for top/bottom, dom/sub, etc.

Besides stuff listed in this section, anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too! Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated and pre-relationship shipfic — if you just put the characters together and show that they care about each other then I don't even need kissing or anything, really, which I think can work well for fandoms where characters are frequently in life-or-death situations or need to be professional. Not that kissing isn't welcome! Just, I am extremely easy to please on the "Is this shippy enough?" front.

My favorite thing to see in any ship fic (ok, gen fic too, but let's focus) is any kind of conflict, tension, or change. These are all related/arguably the same thing, but there are a lot of different flavors you might prefer as a creator, so here are a few thoughts:

Conflict

Specifically (since this is the ship likes section) conflict between the ship or about how the ship feels for each other. I do love plotty fics with other kinds of conflict, though, like the ship working against a third party.

Consider:

  • A and B are on opposite sides of a fight/political issue, or have opposing ideological views/morals/ethics; they might come to a compromise, agree to disagree, or one might convince the other over to their side of things
  • One of them is in love, or thinks they should fuck, or thinks they should get married for politics; the other isn't in love/doesn't want to fuck/isn't wild about arranged political marriages. Fight!!! (Or seduce!!!) (Or both!!!!) until they get together.
  • Everything A knows about B, or everything A has been taught about how the world works, says falling in love with B is a bad idea. They're sure they're only going to get their heart broken, or they're sure it will get them killed, and so on — so they fight their own feelings every step of the way.

Tension

Tension usually comes from conflict, but it's really about suspense. Will [good thing] happen? Will [bad thing] happen? Give characters things they're afraid might happen — make them full of dread and worry. Or give them things they want desperately — make them full of hope and anticipation.

Consider:

  • Can A trust B, or will B betray them? Will B kill A, like B has threatened/attempted in the past, or will this time be different?
  • Can B be honest with A, or will A hate them once A knows the truth?
  • Should A confess to B? Does B want romance, or only sex? Will B get tired of A — can A keep B's interest?
  • Will A and B have sex, or is their relationship not there yet? Will A be able to restrain themself from fucking B on the nearest stable surface, or will A lose control of their desire? Will A be able to make sex good for B, or will A disappoint? Will B let A make the sex tender and romantic, or will B rebuff A's more tender feelings? Will B let A make the sex kinky/rough/etc, or is that a step too far for A?

Change

A lot of the time change in a shipfic can come from resolving the conflict/tension. Like, enemies->conflict resolved->now they're lovers) but I also love it when characters in a ship learn new things about each other (so the "change" is a change in prospective, because they have new information), or when a character's experiences have changed how they relate to the other person in the fic (which could either be a plotty conflict/source of tension or a resolution to the conflict/tension!).

Consider:

  • A's always thought B hates them, but suddenly they learn something that makes them think that might not be the case.
  • A can tell something bad happened to B recently, tries to figure out what it was, gains new perspective on who B is while investigating, and therefore falls in love
  • A and B are strangers at the start of the story, but lovers by the end of it

Ship tropes:

Marriage

Honestly marriage is just my forced proximity like but turned up to 11. I love how being married changes how society interacts with a character — suddenly their reputations are linked, their attendance at social events expected together, etc. I mean, I love a marriage fic that struggles with the physical proximity of it (sharing a bed, sharing a house) but the social aspect of being kind of unable to escape your spouse even when not physically together is so, so delicious. I also love how many marriage tropes force characters to consider (or commit to) spending their whole lives together without even knowing each other. That places a lot of pressure on a relationship, and forces characters into perhaps treating each other differently than they otherwise might have.

I have a bunch of specific marriage freeforms in a list below but some of my favorites are...

  • Marriage of convenience
  • Forced marriage
  • Arranged marriage
  • Accidental marriage (especially magically enforced)
  • A helping their new spouse B settle into a new household/new culture

Forced shippy proximity/sexual intimacy

My favorite thing of all is when both characters are forced into it but both secretly want it, or are glad to have an excuse, or start out upset but eventually decide it's not that bad/was actually useful/they actually liked it.

I especially like when A and B would never normally expect to be forced together like this, when they have to go to help to the person of last resort/to a person who they think hates them.

Specifics:

  • Fake dating/marriage for plot/action/politics reasons
    • I want the stakes to be higher than "mom won't stop asking me when I'll find an SO" and the higher the better
    • kissing so the bad guys won't notice us, fake married so we can investigate this murder, etc
  • Soulbonds (but not soulmates)
    • unable to move a certain distance apart
    • feeling each other's emotion
    • accidental soulbond forming because they felt the exact same thing at the exact same moment.
  • Medically necessary touch/sex
    • magic poison that will kill them if they're not fucked/brought to orgasm on the regular
    • sex pollen & sex pollen aftermath
    • characters cursed to feel pain if they stop touching
    • for magic reasons touch starvation is now literal so they'll die if they're not touched enough

Jealousy/obsession/possessiveness where the object of it doesn't mind or is really into it

  • Especially great when it comes with protectiveness
  • Love it when the object of jealousy/possessiveness/etc is reassured by it
  • A and B both equally obsessed with each other

Smut likes

I don't expect/need smut in my shipfic, but if you like writing shipfic with smut, here is the section for you! \o/

When I like smut, it's because the sex the characters are having is complicated by something beyond just physical attraction/wanting to make each other feel good/wanting to orgasm. It's not that I don't like those things as an aspect of smut, but what's most important to me is definitely that there's something else going on.

That other thing going on might be something like...

  • extremely emotionally charged sex, like when characters start a physical fight that turns into sex, or start fucking because it's the only way to comfort each other, or think this is the last time they'll be able to get together. Sex as an emotional catalyst; sex as a force of change in a relationship; sex as the only allowable form of comfort/intimacy.
  • dubcon, where one or both of them try to pretend they don't want it but are both really into it by the end. Fuck-or-die, coercion, undernegotiated kink, blackmailed into it by a third party, A mistakenly believes they're being threatened into sex by B
  • sex as plot, like where the characters start off as fuckbuddies but end up actually dating/in love, or one character needs to be dominated or fucked by the other for medical reasons or mental health reasons or contrived plot reasons.

I wouldn't say that shipfic that builds up to the ship having sex and then fairly immediately ends is a dislike, because it's not like I haven't read fics with that kind of plot that I enjoyed. I'm interested/invested in sex scenes that have a narrative purpose and are solving, complicating, or directly resolving the conflict/tension in the fic. If the tension in the fic has been about "A hopes B will fall in love with him" and B says he loves A before they fuck, then the plot sometimes feels like it's all wrapped up before they get undressed. Maybe instead they can fuck before B confesses (so A can wonder if it's just sex between them) or earlier A can worry that B won't find him attractive (so B can show A how hot A is during the sex) or something like that.

Anyway, you're probably also here for a list of kinks and other specifics. I have no preference about what words you use for bodyparts — I like it when they fit the POV character's narration/voice, so that's up to you to decide.

I'm willing to read an extremely wide range of kinks/sex acts if the rest of the fic is otherwise very related to my interest, but here are some for you to consider including:

  • anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercrural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, toys
  • overstimulation and edging, orgasm delay/denial
  • bondage — handcuffs, spreader bars, honor bondage, and honestly pretty much anything in the general category of restricting someone's movement during sex
  • domination/submission
    • gentle or rough, pre-negotiated or not.
    • I love when characters accidentally/spontaneously discover that they want to submit to their partner(s).
  • somnophilia, either pre-consented to or with the sleeping character immediately into it as soon as they find out.
  • these things if they do not draw blood: spanking, belting, caning, other types of impact play
  • dirty talking, slut shaming, praise kink
  • half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not, uniform kink with canonical uniforms
  • size difference, size kink, large insertions
  • unrealistic refractory periods, come inflation
  • breeding kink, pregnancy (including mpreg), lactation
    • it's hot for characters to talk about making kids, to try to get pregnant, or to actually be pregnant, but I'm not interested in birth or childcare
    • no preference for how mpregnancy works, how the baby would eventually get out, etc.
  • if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.

Casefic/Crime Likes

I'm not a huge fan of trying to guess the twists and turns of a mystery as it unfolds, so you can totally make that kind of casefic for me but the effort might be a little wasted. I love seeing characters plan and scheme, or correctly predict their enemies! I love when a case/mission/heist is a great excuse for competence porn, and I love it when characters are forced to team up against their will to accomplish a common goal, such as solving/committing/covering up a crime.

Cases(/etc) are a great way to explore worldbuilding and an amazing way to see characters either doing their job or getting into trouble way over their heads. Or sometimes both! I also really like it when, over the course of an investigation or something, a character has to learn something about themselves or someone they've teamed up with. Cases(/etc) that bring up interesting backstories/make characters bond! Cases(/etc) that make characters confront uncomfortable truths about themselves!

Below are some crimes and crime settings I would enjoy. Please adjust these for "would that exist in canon?"-ness — I wrote these originally for Batman casefic reasons, so they're pretty focused on real-world laws and places, but for secondary world canons like Naruto not all of this stuff would exist/be relevant. Land of Fire doesn't have McMansions specifically, for example, but I would still love a fic where Naruto characters do or investigate crime in a huge, poorly constructed house, and I'd love to hear your thoughts about why Land of Fire might have big terrible houses like that!

Crimes

I've got nothing against a fic that uses established villains, but maybe you're looking to branch out! I'm pretty into the idea of getting a fic with some more mundane detective work, smaller crimes, and little injustices that get to be solved by our heroes. Or, you know, our heroes could...commit some of these crimes!

  • Insurance fraud
  • Mail crimes (porch pirates, sure, or a case that involves someone deliberately withholding/stealing someone's normal mail, or a case that involves sending threatening letters)
  • Wage theft
  • Tree law violations (eg, someone cuts down a tree that isn't on their property)
  • Embezzlement (especially if it's from a source that a requested character has cause to care about)
  • Stalking (for creepy sex reasons? for intimidation reasons? for well-intentioned but hey-this-still-freaked-me-out reasons?)
  • Harassment (sexual or otherwise)
  • Illegal gambling
  • Bribery
  • Counterfeiting
  • Product tampering
  • Corporate espionage
  • Fish & Wildlife violations (eg, hunting out of season)
  • Murder or serious violence in genuine self-defense
  • Building code violations (from "uh oh, they built this wrong" to "hey wait this building should have been made ADA compliant!")
  • Smuggling/illegal ownership of mundane non-drug and non-firearm things — for example food delivery workers buying super cheap importing electric bikes with batteries that don't meet required- by-law safety standards, or illegal aftermarket window tinting on cars.
  • Destruction/vandalism of art in a museum, gallery, public installation, or private home

Probably not all of these can carry a full casefic all on their own, but they could be an inciting incident! I like it when investigations snowball because characters don't mind their own business. For example, character sticks his nose into wage theft at a diner -> oops that was the tip of the iceberg and now he's embroiled in an investigation about [much worse crime].

Also, there are some crimes that I'm kind of interested in seeing tackled/mentioned, but I'm a little worried that the resulting fic will be a huge bummer — for example, civil rights violations, voter suppression, and police brutality. For these kinds of crimes, if you include them, I would really like justice to be served as completely as possible. For example, I definitely don't want to ask you to ignore that police often behave badly in various ways, right, but also real life is so depressing and I would love for my gift to be some kind of escape.

Also also, here's a list of crimes that you might need me to opt-into: rape/sexual abuse (of original characters only, unless otherwise requested), child abuse/neglect, human trafficking, all kinds of drug-related stuff, domestic violence, dog fighting, kidnapping, hostage situations, bombings (including via mail), assassination, terrorism (if because of issues not related to real world politics).

Settings

I love a good abandoned warehouse as much as the next person (seriously, you can just use a warehouse for Crime Locations™) but here are some non-abandoned warehouse locations where crimes or crime investigating could happen!

  • An empty big box store, or a usually-empty big box store that's about to be/is currently/just recently was used as a Spirit Halloween location.
  • Department of Transportation snowplow storage facility
  • Off-season recreation or hospitality location (I think abandoned amusement parks are a little too common, though. Maybe something like: ski resort in the summer, sleepaway camp during the school year, kayak rental business during the winter)
  • Housing development left incomplete due to personal, local, or national misfortune
  • Empty McMansion, possibly already falling apart due to poor construction
  • Off-season farmer's market location
  • An ice rink, or other sports recreation facility, maybe currently not in use because the government cut funding, the private owners were threatened, the villain of the story faked a need for asbestos removal, etc.
  • A stone and tile store, especially the section where they have lots of countertop slabs stacked up for storage and display
  • A landscaping business, especially one with lots of piles of rocks lying around
  • A woodworking shop, or factory that deals with wood products, or a lumberyard
  • An infrequently-used Gotham convention center
  • A very minor historical landmark (for example, the house of some famous Gothamite — perhaps it's been turned into a small museum!)
  • A wedding venue, or related site (the bridal suite of a hotel; the kitchens of a defunct catering business; a beautiful room often rented out for receptions)
  • Knock off Chuck-E Cheese (with animatronics please?? :D)
  • Academic facilities such as sheds adjacent to sports fields, dormitories or academic buildings currently empty in preparation for a remodel, sheds adjacent to sports fields, littled-used or off limits underground passages between adjacent buildings, archival space, or places facilitating the study of biology and related fields (eg, botanical gardens, barns/kennels, greenhouses)

Hurt/comfort likes!

Physical hurt

  • in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone, blood loss, gunshots wounds in canons with guns....pretty much anything non-permanent (or which you feel safe handwaving with canon's level of medical attention)
  • poisonings or venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
  • hands too shaky to complete task; forcing exhausted character to get some sleep

Emotional hurt & angst

  • self esteem issues; thinking no one loves/wants them; legitimately being in a situation where that's true at the start of the fic
  • isolating themself; thinking they're not good enough for friends/family; thinking they don't deserve to have good things happen to them
  • touch starvation; going a long time without talking to anyone
  • (normal) starvation; food insecurity
  • not knowing who to trust; fear of or actual betrayal
  • character convinced no one would help even if they asked (but someone does help!)
  • character convinced there will be no rescue (but there is a rescue!)
  • usually powerful character is helpless due to drugs (and at the mercy of someone they don't trust? :D)
  • cynical/pessimistic/distrustful characters being proven wrong by things turning out better than they could have hoped for — for example:
    • "I could never be loved!" -> Is absolutely loved
    • "We could never have peace." -> Peace is had
  • injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
  • lying so that the other will accept comfort or help

Comfort

  • Medical attention! I am not really bothered by medical accuracy or handwaving of exact details, although I like characters taking others' injuries seriously and definitely don't mind the narrative doing so as well...and I like a lot of the incidental things that come with medical attention, like:
    • Character giving medical attention paying close attention to not hurting injured character more than necessary
    • Injured character being relieved someone they've been fighting with cares that they're hurt
    • Injured character waking up to someone sitting vigil
  • Cuddles, hugs, arms over the shoulder, hair pets, other nice touches especially when unexpected
  • ...but if the canon setting or the characters' canon relationship means touching would be unusual, I love when that's emphasized or even a significant barrier to recieving comfort
    • For characters who commit or witness a lot of violence, I love it when giving or receiving physical touch feels or legitimately is dangerous
    • I love it when characters can't immediately relax or trust kind touches
  • Being listened to
    • Having someone hear them out about something after multiple people have been too busy or interested to listen
    • Having someone believe they're telling the truth when other(s) have accused them of lying
    • Telling someone their boundaries, or things they don't like, or other important information...and then having the boundaries respected, the things they don't like avoided, the important information remembered.
  • Being given help
    • After they've given up hope, or from a source they never considered
    • Expecting to be hindered or scolded, only to be asked, "What do you need?"
    • Someone notices they're struggling and assists them without asking, or making them pay upfront, or even expecting a favor in return

Marriage likes!

(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!

  • Misunderstandings and surprises!
    • Accidental Marriage due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
    • Accidental/unexpected soulbond is cultural equivalent of marriage
    • Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
    • Character Thinks Their Spouse is Trying to Kill Them (but they aren't! or not anymore at least lol)
    • Deathbed Wedding And Unexpected Survival
    • Proposal recipient thought they were just a fling
    • Mistakenly Thinking Your Spouse Hates You
  • Conflict and overcoming conflict!
    • Accidentally Married Someone You Hate
    • Arranged marriage to end conflict
    • Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
    • Marrying an Enemy to Keep Them Close
    • Marrying Someone You Don't Like to Save Them From a Worse Fate
  • Marriage As Political Tool!
    • Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives
    • Marriage As Clemency At Public Execution
    • Suspected or Confirmed Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery
    • Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
    • Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
  • Second marriages and/or trauma recovery with the help of a spouse!
    • Divorced Arranged Marriage Spouse must Marry Back Into The Family
    • Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
    • Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
    • Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
    • Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse
  • Other iddy shit!
    • Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir
    • Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
    • Marriage to Satisfy Life-Debt / Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
    • Character Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
    • Family Won't Pay Bride Price/Dowry So They Have To Find Someone Who Will Marry Them For Free
    • If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Marry Your Spouse
    • If Character A Can't Have Their Loved One They'll Marry Younger Sibling B (& Fall In Love With B)

Time travel Likes!

(sorry these are all Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!

  • Time Travel Fix-It
    • Peggy Sue (Mental Time Travel to Past - Replacing Past Self)
    • Altering Canon or Backstory
    • Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
    • Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
    • fixing one's own mistakes
    • Time travel to save a friend or loved one
    • Trying To Change The Timeline By Saving Someone
  • Mishaps & Complications
    • Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help
    • Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass
    • Time Traveling To A Different Time Than The One You Meant To Travel To
    • Attempted Time Travel Sends Character To Another World Instead
    • Time Travel Fix-It - Time Traveler Fixes Things By Accident
    • Time travel inadvertently reveals past secret
    • Accidental Time Travel To The Past
    • One character likes other character's past self way more than they expected
  • Enemies
    • Falling in love/making friends with a past version of an enemy
    • Enemies Travel Back In Time Together
    • Fixing the Timeline Requires Saving An Enemy
    • Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
    • Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
  • Time Loop
    • Unexpectedly Living With The Consequences Of Actions During Final Loop
    • Groundhog Peggy Sue
    • Strangers Meet During Shared Time Loop
    • Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop
    • Looping character trying to save another character's life
    • Time loop where character makes things worse before making them better
  • Misc.
    • Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created
    • Time Travel To The Past Destroys Original Timeline
    • Can't Time Travel To A Time You're Already Alive In
    • Adjusting to a Different Era
    • Outsider POV Of Strange Events Caused By Time Travel
    • Outsider POV Of Time Traveler(s)
    • Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption
    • Introducing Advanced Technology/Medicine/Sanitation to the Past

Naruto

Fandom note: As a quick reminder, references to Boruto are in my DNWs — I haven't seen it, so that content would be wasted on me. On a related note, the end of Naruto, with Kaguya and stuff, didn't really do much for me, so I'm happy to pretend Madara was the final villain and/or ignore most of the end of the series and just let ninja be ninja.

Requested ships:

  • Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
  • Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Madara
  • Senju Hashirama & Uchiha Izuna

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

For fic remixes of my fic, I'm happy to get remixes that change the ship, so please feel free to browse all of my Naruto fic, not just the ones for my requested relationships.

For recursive fic of my fic, I'd prefer not to get fic that breaks up the main ship. Please feel free to borrow the worldbuilding/premise of any of my Naruto fics, though! (for example, maybe seen and unseen, in which the Uchiha are a clan of ghost hunters?)

Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara

This ship has just SUCH good potential for tension, conflict, politics, and iddy, iddy goodness. They're from two warring clans! They're at the center in a crazy shift in ideology and warfare! Listen, I could gush about them forever.

Tobirama and Madara have a really interesting contrast (eg, Tobirama has a strong leaning towards analysis and systems...and meanwhile Madara is like a big huge hot mess of All The Feelings) and the fact that they were probably raised very differently and definitely raised on opposite sides of a longstanding conflict is hella good. Their thoughts on the village, their approaches to problem solving, and even probably their very fundamental belief systems are extremely different and that's the kind of thing that can lead to really interesting tension. What they do have in common (Hashirama, losing brothers, wanting to protect their clans, each at some point in some way genuinely believing in Konoha, probably PTSD from the whole child soldier thing) makes for an interesting foundation to build a relationship.

I'd love something that explores how hard it is for them to trust each other, especially when vulnerable. Any kind of focus on ninja being cautious, dangerous, suspicious, sneaky, and etc.I don't need/want them to be grimdark edgelords who assassinate kids once a week or anything, but just kind of...a general awareness that they've been at war their whole lives against the kind of enemies who use illusions, poison, infiltration, subtle manipulation, and any other means necessary to achieve their goals! I love that shit.

Ship likes:

  • either or both whumped
  • physical or emotional h/c
  • enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
  • either or both of them being socially isolated from their respective clans
  • either or both of them having poor marriage prospects despite their status/power
  • a slow building of trust and intimacy, especially around being physically vulnerable, sharing potential weaknesses re: their clans, and Tobirama making eye contact with Madara's Sharingan

Timelines: I definitely like things set before the village comes together, in AUs where Izuna lived to see the village come together, or in relatively canon-compliant situations where Tobirama killed Izuna. The world is your oyster. I'm somewhat less interested in anything set after Madara leaves the village, but only because I like happy endings; if you think you can make it work please go for it.

Prompts:

  • forced to work together — hired by the same person, imprisoned together by bloodline thieves, trapped in a time loop. stranded far from home in an inhospitable wilderness
  • arranged marriage — arranged well before founding to stop the war between their clans (in which case Tobirama is basically a hostage!) or arranged after peace to facilitate the founding of the village (in which case Tobirama is slightly less of a hostage) or arranged after founding in an attempt to unify the village. (Maybe Izuna is dead and it's a really rocky road to getting the ship together. Maybe Izuna is alive and hating every minute of this.)
  • Tobirama travels back in time and, knowing that killing Izuna ultimately caused more problems than it solved, decides to try out a different solution.
  • Madara travels back in time and figures Tobirama won't kill Izuna if Madara manages to seduce him first.
  • Izuna dies in a manner unrelated to the Senju — don't get me wrong, I'm fine with Izuna being alive or with him being dead the way he canonically died, but also Madara's grief is really delicious and I would love a fic that explores it with this ship without having the awkward "and also, Tobirama did the killing" part of things.
  • For politics reasons, Madara and Tobirama keep running into each other in places where they can't afford to fight. A third party they both have reason to believe is a significant threat leads them into an enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend relationship that eventually develops into something more.
  • Unexpected rescue; unexpected mercy — Tobirama and Madara are enemies, but they both have significant relationships with Hashirama, who wants peace between their clans. What if one of them is given the option to leave the other to die but instead performs a (possibly ill-advised rescue)? What if one of them had the chance to kill or imprison the other, but decided not to?
  • I am fucking bananas for city planning details. What if they had to work together to plat Konoha? Or discuss building codes and civilian vs ninja traffic priorities? And then they fell in love????
  • Characters team up to investigate something — I would love something spooky or nonspooky where they go on a mission and have to figure out a mystery, find a killer, track down drug traffickers, investigate the recent rise in littering and jaywalking...you know, whatever! As far as paranormal/supernatural things go I would love a ghost but a spirit or demon or whatever would be cool too.
  • Madara is injured or poisoned and Tobirama knows that Hashirama would want him to help.
  • Tobirama is undercover somewhere for some reason and runs into Madara...who for some reason plays along with Tobirama's ruse.
  • Dimension travel — One of them takes a trip to a strange place. A verse where Tobirama died and Izuna lived? A verse where peace never happened? A verse where the Senju formed the village but the Uchiha didn't join?
  • Enemies to allies/friends — any of these excellent freeforms: Enemies Forced To Work Together, Enemies to Allies - Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together, Exciting People You Meet In Prison, Former Enemies Stranded Far From Home Become Friends
  • learning to trust each other — speaking of after the village is founded! Clans full of child soldiers trying to form a new society of fellow child soldiers with whom they've been in a bloody war as long as anyone can remember is a GREAT way to explore how/if ninja ever really trust each other. I mean, or set it before the village and have them need to trust each other to get through a join mission. Anything along these lines would be so delicious.

Uchiha Madara/Haruno Sakura

What I really like about this ship is a chance to explore the Warring Clans Era (or the village founding era!) in comparison to the future that Sakura comes from. Konoha winds up with a lot of problems, but I think it's also probably an inconceivably improved situation compared to the Warring Clans experience, and I really love the idea of Madara as a worn-down idealist who thinks even peace with the Senju might not be possible meeting — and falling in love with! — Sakura, who not only knows peace is possible but who probably had lots of ideas about how to improve the Konoha of the future!

I also think this ship has a ton of great potential for tension and trust issues, assuming Sakura made it far enough into the events of canon to meet Madara as an enemy. Also, if you want to make Madara sad or hurt, and maybe make Sakura OP or emphasize her crazy good future healing skills, I would be very into that.

I would prefer that Sakura and Madara be roughly the same age (like, both teenagers) or at least both roughly adults even if one is older.

Worldbuilding I would love to see explored:

  • What's Madara's reputation like in the Warring Clans Era? How do clans besides the Senju view the Uchiha?
  • How does Sakura's medical knowledge differ from the medical knowledge of the era? How did having access to the knowledge of many clans and village-supported research influence medical knowledge in Konoha?
  • How do Sakura's combat techniques differ from the common techniques of the era? How does her knowledge about chakra, strategy, etc match up to what the Uchiha know? Would also love something that touches on Sakura being raised in relative peacetime.
  • Sakura grew up in a place where she had close friends in lots of different clans and she was encouraged to make strong bonds of friendship with them. What kind of societal norms (especially in relation to personal space, food sharing, gossiping, technique sharing, shows of trust) did she grow up with that are different from the societal norms of the Warring Clans Era?

Prompts:

  • Stuck in the past alone, Sakura needs to make a living while she waits for the village to be founded/start accepting random citizen applications, but taking missions without a clan is a terrible idea...so she works as a healer instead. This somehow brings her in contact with Madara.
  • Stuck in the past with a Konoha comrade of your choosing, Sakura is brought into a clan by her teammate! When it becomes clear that an arranged marriage would really smooth the clan's entry into Konoha, Sakura volunteers to be the bride...only to really regret it when the groom turns out to be Madara.
  • Madara is captured by bloodline thieves! Sakura rescues him.
  • Sakura's goal for coming back to the past was to preemptively murder Uchiha Madara. Unfortunately, she's now met pre-going-crazy Madara and he's hot and sympathetic and wants kids to stop fucking dying unnecessarily and, oops, murder is looking less and less like a good solution...
  • The village has been founded! Sakura can finally join! It turns out it's really weird for her to be in Konoha as it's coming together, and extra weird for there to be so many Uchiha around, and double extra weird to keep turning the corner and finding Uchiha Madara standing around talking to people.
  • Uchiha Izuna is dying and won't let a Senju heal him...but Sakura conveniently isn't a Senju!

Senju Hashirama & Uchiha Izuna

Izuna was so against peace and so unwilling to trust Hashirama that he literally died for it so I would LOVE to see him be Like That with Hashirama. Maybe they do a sort of enemies-to-friends thing where Izuna realizes he's wrong...or maybe Izuna remains staunchly certain that Hashirama is his enemy! I would honestly enjoy either. Overall any kind of focus on how terrifying Hashirama is to other ninja/Izuna in particular would be wonderful, as well as any look at the sort of general suspicion and caution required in the warring clans era! Like, is it hard for Hashirama to trust Izuna? Is helping Izuna a difficult choice, despite Hashirama's dream?

I would enjoy anything from Hashirama and Izuna becoming friends despite Izuna's best efforts to Hashirama having to injure or kill Izuna for the sake of the village, so really go where your heart takes you!

Timeline: Pretty much anything would be good, pre- or post-village founding, but I usually like for characters to be 12 or older just because I don't find children very interesting to read about? On the other hand they're off being child soldiers at that age, so maybe it'd be good! I trust you.

Prompts:

  • Okay hear me out Hashirama rescuing Izuna from people trying to steal his eyes.
  • Or both of them captured and having to escape together.
  • Izuna could be injured and Hashirama could heal him whether he likes it or not.
  • Hashirama defeating Izuna in a fight or capturing him and izuna being surprised by how well Hashirama treats him/by Hashirama keeping him alive at all.
  • Any situation where they have to collaborate.
  • Any situation where Izuna is forced to trust/rely on Hashirama or has not worry about Hashirama taking advantage of some weakness.
  • ...sorry this is so short! I've basically just requested it for two freeform exchanges so I don't have a good prompts list built up yet. You can read the Gen Freeform Exchange prompts here and the Hurt/Comfort Exchange prompts here.


The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Fandom note: I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.

Requested relationships:

  • Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
  • Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)

Shipping: I don't mind references to LBH/SQQ, but I would prefer to avoid having it be a major part of any story because it's easy to find content for. If you are writing a story that would benefit from being able to mention it, I also like YQY/Shen Jiu (especially when it's unresolved or one-sided), SXY/TLJ, MBJ/SQH, SJ/LQG, and SY/LQG. I'm not interested in stories primarily about cheating.

Requested mediums:

  • Fanfiction

For fic remixes of my fic, I'm happy to get remixes that change the ship, so please feel free to browse all of my Naruto fic, not just the ones for my requested relationships.

For recursive fic of my fic, I'd prefer not to get fic that breaks up the main ship. Please feel free to borrow the worldbuilding/premise of any of my SVSSS fics, though!

General SVSSS prompts

There are some things I always want in every SVSSS fic and it seemed easier to list them here than to repeat them in every section!

  • Exploration of Airplane's shitty worldbuilding brought to life. What holes has the System filled in surprising ways? How often to characters from later plots show up earlier on account of being real people now? Do the various mcguffins that LBH runs into in PIDW turn up and cause problems? Also, I'm really into background details about how things work, including the sects, An Ding specifically, the demon economy, what it means for MBJ to be the Demon King of the North, etc.
  • Exploration of Airplane's shitty wife plots. Dumb, dramatic, unresolved, full of gratuitous fucking, plagued by soap opera levels of drama and overrun with people who don't have two brain cells to rub together...it's a really great way to work in tropes, a really great way to bring up PIDW, and even a wonderful source of conflict!
  • Exploration of Airplane's exciting flora and fauna. All of the monsters in SVSSS are SO cool and I would love to see more of them! How are their parts used? Are some of them native and others have wandered over from the demon realm? Are any of them nice, or kept as pets?
  • Alternate universe - role swap — the peak lords are demons and the demons are human cultivators.
  • Alternate universe - different PIDW — For example, what if Airplane was developing an indie video game instead of writing a novel. Was it supposed to be a gay dating sim but whoops Airplane could only get funding for terrible het content? A farming/mining/resource management sim but all the NPC relationship drama kept getting in the way? An open world RPG but Airplane didn't have the money to develop any of the story branches besides the marry-lots-of-wives-and-torture-a-dude bad ending that whoops everyone thought was a good ending?
  • Canon divergence - different transmigration — Airplane or SY or both transmigrate into different bodies, at different times, etc.
  • Canon divergence - fix it — literally any kind of fix it even if it has nothing to do with the requested relationship. Eg, if you want to have SQH and SJ get together in a series of events that happens to swerve into fixing SXY's death, I am so 100% there for that. Bonus if time travel.
  • Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt— I love the idea of saving someone's life meaning always being connected to them, and I think that this is exactly the kind of convoluted trope Airplane-bro would have written in for wife #450 without necessarily thinking through the consequences. For this canon, a cultural thing or a magic thing would be equally fine with me, because I think it's very interesting when it's cultural (especially if sometimes life debts can be satisfied in other ways but in this particular case it has to be marriage for some reason!) but I also think there's plenty of room in the canon worldbuilding to make it a You're Now Married Because Magic Says So sort of thing.

Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)

I love Shang Qinghua so much and as much as I love Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun, my favorite part of the Airplane extras was 100% the mission to the haunted well. What a disaster team! I love them! The Cang Qiong Peak Lords are politically powerful and a very formidable force and ride-or-die for each other...but emotionally speaking they're also a MESS and I am so here for it. None of these people understand each other. None of these people like each other, I'm pretty sure. I just want to read more about them being simultaneously the tops of their respective fields and also complete trainwrecks.

For Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua specifically, I'm really interested in how SQH knows way, way more about SQQ than SQQ would ever expect or want him to know, and how for years and years SQH looks at SQQ and things "I know how you die" but doesn't think he can stop it. I really loved that part in the Airplane Extras where SQH tries just a *little* to avert LQG's death by giving SQQ weird advice and I'd love to see him step up his interventions more and more, pushing against the boundaries set by the System, until he actually maybe succeeds. And makes a friend! Maybe.

Prompts:

  • SQH accidentally or on purpose switches places with YQY during whatever situation led to YQY and SJ's canonical reunion. SJ still saves his life — or SQH manages to dodge! — and then SQH has to convince SJ to come to Cang Qiong.
  • On a joint mission, SQH recognizes that the people who called on them for help are entering into the very beginning of some future horribly tragic wife plot. He insists on getting involved. SQQ is not happy.
  • Canon divergence: SQH figures out how to weaponize SQQ's spiteful, vicious nature against the Huan Hua Palace Master early on and accidentally solves the plot by arranging for SQQ and the Palace Master to be enemies. (MBJ is very impressed, probably.)
  • SY doesn't transmigrate, things go terribly wrong, and SQH decides to travel back to the past to fix things. Somehow.
  • SQQ's terrible reputation ultimately became a really big problem for SQQ and for the sect, so SQH starts fixing it. SQQ notices.

Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)

....a separate section for the / ship, yes! This is kind of a ridiculous ship and definitely a disaster waiting to happen BUT ALSO...it makes sense. SQQ is cold, scary, prideful, and beautiful! Meanwhile SQH gave up on having any dignity well before he and SQQ met, doesn't really care if other people are dignified, is surprisingly competent when he's not being an idiot or playing dead like a coward, and knows so many things. This would be the weirdest fuckbuddies and/or romance ever, but I think it would work! At least for awhile! Maybe in secret!

For this ship I'm definitely okay with them not being serious about each other and/or breaking up by the end of the fic, although if you want to try and get them to some kind of happy ending I definitely wouldn't complain.

Prompts:

  • Tropey nonsense — handcuffed together, there's only one bed, accidental soulbonds, huddling for warmth, etc!
  • SQQ needs a dual cultivation partner for medical reasons or something and picks SQH under the (completely correct) assumption that he'll at least be able to bully SQH around. But then, oh no, he catches...the feelings.
  • I would love something that explored Shang Qinghua's public reputation, and especially if he has any kind of reputation for pulling strings and manipulating things (surely someone eventually figures out that he sabotaged the previous An Ding Head Disciple?) or else something where SQQ travels back in time from a PIDW-y verse and finds that SQH is...different from how he remembered.
  • All Peak Lords need to symbolically marry another Peak Lord and SQQ picks SQH in a moment of spite and panic when it looks like he might get stuck with YQY.

DCU (Comics)

Fandom note: I'm very new to reading DC Comics, but don't care about spoilers for comics or other Batman media. I don't have a particular favorite (or hated, lol) continuity at this point, so whatever you're most interested in is fine. Feel free to give me recs! I'm not really interested in any of the various live action Batman adaptations or any of the video games, but I also don't need anything you make me to be carefully scoured to remove references to non-comics things.

Also, there's a Batman likes/prompts section at the bottom of this letter because I just had a lot to say about it.

Requested relationships:

  • Tim Drake & Jason Todd
  • Tim Drake/Jason Todd
  • Solo: Mrs. McIlvaine (DCU)

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

General Batman Likes/Prompts

It seemed kind of silly to try and work all of this into every Batman-related section in this letter so here is a special section that applies to my comics requests and to the crossovers. You can also find some casefic/crime likes in my likes section.

Fanon/Characterization

Generally speaking, I'm at worst ambivalent about most common fanon in this fandom, and the fanon I'm not into isn't usually something I dislike enough to keep me from enjoying a fic that's otherwise crafted with care. I'm going to spare us both from me trying to provide a comprehensive list, but if you want to know my opinion on something specific, please feel free to ask via the mod!

I read a wide variety of fic and like multiple interpretations of these characters! Nothing below is comprehensive, but instead just me wanting to mention some things you might only want to give if they're opted-in. If you're already set on your characterization and fanon opinions, then I encourage you to just skip this part. Ultimately, I'm most excited for your take on these characters and their relationships.

Click here for thoughts on characterization/fanon if you want that

Tim: I love it when Tim is sharp and confident, and I also like it when his life is soooo hard and he is so, so sad. I'm not bothered by popular fanon that rearranges his family situation to be really sucky and neglectful, but I also like it when they were okay-but-not-great parents. I like it when Damian's treatment of Tim and Tim losing Robin and so on are a major source of pain and angst for Tim, including when he leaves or tries to leave the batfamily because of it, but I also super enjoy when Tim and Damian (and Dick!) have reconciled. I'm into Tim having low self worth as a source of hurt for hurt/comfort because that's just really iddy to be honest, but I also love when Tim has a really thick skin and doesn't want or need approval from anyone else because he knows he's right/capable/skilled. I'm kind of into Tim having bad self preservation instincts, but my actual favorite is when he's absolutely 100% competent enough to pull off his insane, risky-sounding plans...and usually the trouble comes from his plans going too well. My fave Tim interpretations often give Tim very high walls and very guarded and very controlled, so when he does break down or show weaknesses it feels extra juicy. I'm not really into Tim being a coffee addict, but if he is going to get like 7 shots of espresso into a single drink I would love to see the other people at the coffee shop get annoyed at how fucking long that would take.

Jason: I'm ambivalent about Pit Madness —Jason could have a magic sickness that's like a partial possession, or he could just have some extra trouble regulating his emotions because of the Lazarus Pit exposure, or he could just be traumatized and emotionally fucked. Whatever works for you! I like it when Jason is working his way back into the batfamily and I also like it when he's at odds with them for both philosophical and personal reasons; I like a Red Hood who still kills a bunch and a Red Hood who's gradually become nonlethal. I like it when Jason feels a connection to Crime Alley and wants to protect it. It's okay when Jason is a great cook who loves making food and is amazing at it, but I'd actually be really charmed with a fic that shows him struggling with life skills he didn't get to develop between being a homeless child, having a butler, being dead, etc.

What I would love most of all is detective!Jason, especially post-Death. How does he use his Batman training as Red Hood? What kind of investigative tools does he carry on his person? I'm also interested in his ability to do long-term planning and maneuver his enemies into specific actions (eg, knowing he could wind Black Mask up enough to break the Joker out). It's really iddy as fuck that Jason is a big buff fighty guy who kicks ass, but it's even MORE iddy that he's smart and trained in more than just violence.

Bruce: I'm here for pretty much anything from Bruce being a good dad who makes honest mistakes to him being an absolutely terrible parent who stops just short of deliberate abuse. I don't find "Bruce is abusive and wrong for letting any minors be vigilantes ever" very compelling because I think it kind of goes against the conceit of the canon (which is that, you know, superheroes doing violence is helpful and good) but I'm definitely into other explorations of how he's failed his kids in large or small ways, if that's relevant to what you want to write. Or he can just be trying his best and mostly succeeding! Make this batfamily as functional or dysfunctional as you want. Oh, also, if you're really not that into Bruce being Tim/Jason/etc's dad and like him more as a mentor figure for either/both of them, that's also fine.

Talia: i don't have many strong preferences about Jason's relationship with Talia except that if they have had sex I usually prefer that it be portrayed in a negative light (although it's definitely okay if Jason doesn't realize how fucked up it was). Otherwise, Talia could be Jason's real good mom or totally evil and manipulative or something nice and complex in between!

Dick: To be honest, what I would most love is for no one to find it surprising that "Dick" is a name people can have. Also, feel free to give him a non-cop job, I guess.

Worldbuilding

If it works with the story you want to tell, I'd love an emphasis on:

  • cover stories
  • information security
  • contingencies
  • whatever other stuff you can come up with about the logistics of vigilanteism (or crime lording, depending on what Jason is up to!)

I'd love a story where being so emotionally charged, apathetic, or otherwise compromised that you use a fellow vigilante's real name out in the field is treated as a huge deal, even when other very pressing things are going on. I like it when being a vigilante is something treated with weight, when it's dangerous and requires caution. I'm not really into grimdark settings, I don't want things to be hopeless or full of misery, and I definitely don't mind comic book logic (such as, the idea that glasses are enough to keep Superman's identity secret, lol) but I like the tension of things not being too easy and I love the implied competence of the Batfamily being really great at what they do despite significant challenges. Like, if being a vigilante were easy, everyone would be doing it, so it's really great to read a fic where it's hard work.

I'd also love something that touches on the interpersonal aspects of being a vigilante, especially in Gotham compared to outside of it: what kind of standards are there for professionalism between vigilantes in Gotham vs heroes elsewhere in the world? How does working with a fellow Bat/Bat-trained hero differ from working with other people?

If you're sitting here like, "I love worldbuilding, wish this section were longer!" then maybe you'd be interested in reading my 2024 FIAB prompts for WB: Public Opinion/Rumor About The Wayne Family and WB: Gotham City Building Code here

Tim Drake & Jason Todd

Obviously you will see below that I ship these two, but I'm also interested in a really broad range of potential gen works about them. Enemies! Strangers! Family! Weird co-workers! Maybe several of those at the same time/in the same fic! I'm interested in works in which they get along and in which they don't. They could know each other well, or know each other hardly at all, or know each other just well enough to misunderstand each other. (Okay, if you've read my likes, then you know I would LOVE IT if they misunderstand each other.)

I usually like works where the characters end the work feeling at least a little more positive about each other than they ended, but if you are super into writing something where they totally fail to actually improve their relationship, go for it.

If you're writing hurt/comfort, I have no preference for who is hurt vs comforted. I tend to enjoy stories about adults and teenagers more than children, but I've definitely enjoyed fics about pre-Robin Tim being a little boy detective before — generally, I just need characters to have agency to stick their noses in things and get in trouble.

Prompts:

  • Tim is framed for murder in his civilian identity. For reasons (media attention? everyone else is out of Gotham? everyone else thinks Tim really did it?) Jason is the only one who can clear Tim's name.
  • Jason kills someone to save Tim from murder, torture, and/or rape...in some circumstances where it might actually get pinned on Jason's civilian identity. Tim helps cover it up.
  • Tim kills in self defense, or to save Jason's life. He and Jason work together to cover up the murder.
  • Jason and Tim meet overseas during Jason's Lost Days training travel, either before Tim debuts as Robin (maybe his training goes even more awry than it does in canon?) or in an AU where Tim isn't Robin and is overseas for other reasons. Tim helps Jason investigate/defeat/steal from/etc his terrible evil teacher du jour.
  • Tim travels back in time to stop the end of the world, or some other terrible event. Knowing that his plan to stop whatever it is will require crossing a lot of lines, Tim decides Jason is the only Bat he can ask for help.
  • Jason travels back in time and arrives just before, during, or just after the Titans Tower fight.
  • While Jason is out of town, Tim notices something going wrong with one of the operations Jason runs/on one of the streets Jason has control of. Tim seeks to stop/fix/unfuck/investigate whatever it is without undermining Red Hood's reputation. (For the purposes of fulfilling the & tag, I'd be satisfied with a fic where Tim does this without Jason's permission and just thinks about Jason a lot and learns a lot about Jason and then Jason shows up at the end for one scene, but I'd also enjoy Tim doing it with Jason's permission and calling him with updates all the time.)

Tim Drake/Jason Todd

Enemies to lovers, vigilante coworkers to lovers, strangers to lovers, fuck buddies to lovers, friends to lovers — I am very simple, I just want something where their relationship starts one way and then changes massively, or where they're lovers but struggling to adjust to the new status quo.

It's literally so delicious that Jason's tried to kill Tim multiple times, especially combined with Tim being so invested in Batman and Robin from a young age. I love those panels in Lost Days where Jason has put up pictures of Tim-as-Robin up on his wall. I'd love to see more obsession from either or both of them, and especially I would love to see that obsession manifesting as hatred/anger/other negative emotions at the beginning of a story, only to become more positive by the end.

I'd love to see a story where one of them argues the other over onto their side of the murder-or-jail debate. I'd love to see a story where one of them fears they'll be betrayed or otherwise hurt by the other. I'd love to see them chose to rely on each other, or be forced to do so due to circumstances.

If you're writing hurt/comfort, I have no preference for who is hurt vs comforted. If you're writing sex, I have no preference about who does what to who. I don't consider this ship incest for the purposes of my incest DNW, but also wouldn't mind a shippy story where they consider each other brothers/talk about being family if you're into that. Given their canon age difference, I'm comfortable with Tim and Jason having sex as long as Tim is at least 16.

Prompts:

  • Anything from my Jason & Tim prompts above!
  • Both of them need to stake out the same place several nights in a row, but there's one one very small place to hide while performing surveillance. Both of them need to be there, for Reasons. The forced intimacy ratchets up the tension between them — and maybe Jason needs a little extra help staying grounded in such a claustrophobic space.
  • One of them needs a +1 for some kind of undercover/investigative work that will involve a lot of fake dating nonsense or other forced intimacy. The other is the only choice, for your pick of reason(s): because he's the only one who's not busy, because he's the only one who said yes/volunteered, because through circumstances he was in exactly the right place at the right time to step into the role, because someone else bailed and sent him instead, etc.

    "What kind of fake dating/forced intimacy nonsense setting would you enjoy?" I hear you asking! Well...
    • BDSM club
    • Reality TV or gameshow where for reasons they need to come off as married or dating
    • Some crime ring situation where having a date is desirable
    • Couple's retreat suspected of being a funnel for cult membership
  • Tim's been receiving incredibly viable, specific threats in his civilian life. He needs someone to play bodyguard until he figures out where the threat is coming from...and talks Jason into doing it, either under a civilian identity or (for some reason) as Red Hood. Jason gets a really up close and personal look at Tim's civilian life, and they grow closer as a result...much closer.
  • Jason and Tim team up to take down a magic user, who hits them with some kind of forced proximity curse.
  • Red Hood and Red Robin have been getting along great professionally, and maybe Tim and Jason have even had some post-patrol hook ups...and then they risk just one little civilian meet up, some photos of it get all over a tabloid that's particularly obsessed with Tim Wayne, and suddenly everyone wants to know about Tim Drake's mysterious boyfriend.
  • Jason is being targeted by someone, and Tim finds out. He doesn't think Jason will trust his intel, so he sets out to investigate/protect Jason in secret.
  • Tim goes missing. He and Jason have been working together closely, so his deadman's switch contingency plan is set to alert Jason that he needs to be checked on.
  • Tim thinks he and Jason are fucking on the regular because [untrue reason]. Jason thinks [something else also untrue].
    • Tim's untrue reason might be something like: because it's convenient and nothing else, because it's another way for Tim to be useful, because Jason still wants to hurt him but fucking him is more acceptable, because Jason sees it as a way to exert dominance/control over Tim
    • Jason's also untrue thing might be something like: he thinks they're both genuinely into each other but hiding it from the others because Jason's not yet getting along with anyone else, he thinks it's hate sex on Tim's part but it's not, he thinks Tim knows about his feelings for Tim and is happy to string Jason along for easy sex, he thinks Tim is testing his self-control or trying to prove Jason can be trusted.
    • (Or come up with your own!)
  • Because reasons, one of them has to fuck/otherwise violate other...or watch others do worse. Depending on your preference:
    • They're strangers, or practically strangers, or enemies, but Jason knows he'll at least leave Tim/Robin in once piece. Maybe they manage to fake it. If relevant, maybe Tim recognizes him/figures out Red Hood is Jason Todd and immediately trusts him.
    • Tim would prefer this not happen, but given the alternatives it's fine. Maybe he's even subtly manipulated the situation to make sure it's Jason (who he trusts) rather than anyone else. Unfortunately, there's no reason to communicate his consent to Jason until after the fact.
    • They're actually already fucking and trust each other, so the worst part is being nonconsensually watched/doing extremely unnegotiated kink.
    • Someone who doesn't know the whole situation misunderstands what happened and does something like assuming Jason cornered and raped Tim for his own reasons rather than at gunpoint or whatever.

Mrs. McIlvaine (DCU)

Okay, listen. Listen. Mrs. Mac is a really minor character and pretty much never shows up with her canon characterization in fic. And just like I say about a lot of other things in my fanon likes/preferences at the end of this letter, I'm pretty much okay with most popular Batman fanon. I found this tumblr post (which you should be able to read even without an account) that summarizes fanon vs canon if you need a refresher.

You can write about fanon Mrs. Mac, or canon Mrs. Mac, or canon-Mrs. Mac-based-solely-on-that-tumblr-post, or you could get crazy and invent new fanon (suggestions for this below), whatever you're into. I'm requesting this because there's a fine and upstanding tradition of nosy old ladies in the mystery/procedural genre, and I think Mrs. Mac deserves her time to shine. I'm not here to fuss over details, I'm here to see an old lady commit, cover up, and/or investigate crime(s).

It's important to me that Mrs. Mac have lots of agency and lots of things that she's competent at. I'd still be into her getting into trouble and needing to be rescued (her skillset doesn't need to include being an escape artist or kicking ass) but for example I'd love to see emphasis put on her being very organized, very detail-oriented, extremely practiced at various kinds of social interactions, great at keeping her head during alarming circumstances, etc etc etc. If things are going to go wrong for her, I'm more interested in seeing it be because she succeeded too well or couldn't possibly have had all the information she needs, rather than a result of her experiencing bad luck or making stupid decisions.

Mrs. Mac can be trans, if that interests you! I'd be most interested in her being happy with whatever level of transition she's at — I really like trans characters who are happy where they're at. In addition to just liking old trans characters, I really enjoy the fun extra backstories and character details that Mrs. Mac being trans might open up, as well as being interested in how it would probably change the way she relates to the world. It would be really neat if Mrs. Mac transitioned later in life after doing some kind of traditionally masculine job, because then when she's investigating stuff she could, like, use her knowledge of the years she spend working that job to help her! Of course, it would still be fine if you don't make her trans and she just happened to have previously held a job in a male dominated field! But I think a really interesting character arc for Mrs. Mac could be that she set aside [traditionally masculine job/interests] when she transitioned, and now many years later she's really happy with where she's at and slowly realizes that she can still [like fixing cars/be a hardboiled detective/etc] and it doesn't validate that she's still Mrs. Mac.

In addition to the stuff below I'd also be into works that touch on:

  • Mrs. Mac's canonical warm relationship with Jack and Dana OR Mrs. Mac's fanon unwarm relationship with Jack and Janet
  • logistics of housekeeping for a very rich family (including: Does Mrs. Mac supervise landscapers and repair men? Does she work closely with the Drakes' personal shopper, if they have one, or with any personal assistant(s)?)
  • whether the Drakes are new money or old money, and what the wealth difference is between the Drakes and Bruce,
  • Mrs. Mac's relationship with Tim...but specifically I'd be interested in something that touches on Tim's grief and how canon!Mrs. Mac might comfort him about that, since god he seems like he needs that.
  • Loyalty vs pragmatism when it comes Mrs. Mac being an employee. In the comics, Tim and Jack give her extra money from selling Tim's car so she can go home, which is honestly beyond what she probably reasonable expected. I'm always interested in the struggle between forming a close personal relationship and keeping in mind professional standards and realistic expectations for what an employer/employee does and doesn't owe, especially when the personal relationship does manage to overcome the professional hurdles. I'd love to see something where either the Drakes prove how much they care for Mrs. Mac before she leaves their lives forever or where Mrs. Mac is the one who shows how much she cares.

Additional alternative character interpretations for your consideration/amusement:

  • Mrs. Mac has a long and shocking criminal background, but either retired into housekeeping so she could stay busy without all that stress or had to start a new life (as a housekeeper) to hide from her many, many criminal enemies and/or the law,
  • Mrs. Mac was secretly a vigilante for awhile in her youth — not with the tech and masks and drama that Batman favors, but something simpler, less technically complex and maybe more impulsive. Worldbuilding often seems to act like Bruce doing what he's doing is basically unprecedented, but there could be a long history of people engaging in vigilante justice!
  • Mrs. Mac used to be a private detective, or someone else who had reason to solve lots and lots of crime.
  • Mrs. Mac is a mystery or true crime writer.
  • Mrs. Mac apparently canonically prefers taking Amtrack over flying. Could it be that Mrs. Mac...likes trains? :D Maybe she's a trainspotter. Maybe she used to work on a train.

It's my preference that Mrs. Mac genuinely care about (or at least have no specific ill-will towards) Tim...or at least that she end the fic that way. She could totally start out all "bah, kids these days!" and then come to realize that Tim's pretty great by the end of the fic if that's a character arc that interests you.

Crime Prompts:

  • Something is going on between Bruce Wayne and Tim. Jack says it's nothing to worry about, but Mrs. Mac just can't let it go. She's going to find out, and if it's as bad as she thinks it might be...maybe she'll do something drastic.
  • Tim has gone missing. Mrs. Mac has the skills to find him, and no way to know that Batman is already on the case.
  • Mrs. Mac fucking kills the Joker. Does she plan it out? Is it a crime of opportunity, or maybe done in defense of herself or Tim (or Robin, who she doesn't know is Tim?)? Does she try and succeed in covering it up? Maybe you'd be interested in writing about a court case where she's being tried for murdering him!
  • Some non-Mrs. Mac person hired by the Drakes (eg: a private chef, a driver, a contractor redoing the kitchen, a gardener/landscaper, etc.) is up to no good! Mrs. Mac sets out to find proof, but gets into a lot more trouble than expected.
  • Something from Mrs. Mac's mysterious past catches up to her. She tries to hide it; Tim (+ Jack?) try to figure it out.
  • Mrs. Mac finds out that Tim is Robin instead of Jack. Does she agree to keep it secret from Jack? Does she accept that it's a mistake she has to let Tim make, only to one day find herself on a desperate, self-assigned mission to help Robin when no one else can?
  • In his civilian ID, Tim kills someone in self defense (or in defense of Mrs. Mac's life). She helps him cover it up. Maybe she even helps him hide it from Batman.
  • Assuming you're willing to shove the canon timeline aside: Jason decides to scope out Tim's home prior to the Titan's Tower fight. Mrs. Mac notices, but what could Red Hood be casing the house for?
  • Mrs. Mac loves her job, but she can't stop herself from being curious about her employers. She discovers that Jack (and/or Janet, depending on how you feel about the canon timeline) is doing something illegal that she finds morally repulsive. She decides she must gather evidence, and then figure out how who to give it to.
  • Mrs. Mac solves a crime aboard an Amtrak train. Maybe Tim (and Jack and Dana?) is travelling with her for reasons and they solve it together, or maybe Mrs. Mac is travelling alone. She could call Tim to ask him trivia questions relevant to her investigation! Or Robin could coincidentally end up already involved in the crime!
  • After Jack dies, Mrs. Mac hears (From Tim? Via tabloids? From Dana?) that Tim has gone to live with "his Uncle." but...Tim does not have an uncle. Right? Surely she'd know if there was an uncle. Mrs. Mac investigates.

Please feel free to use a non-Mrs. Mac POV (for example, Tim or Bruce or Alfred) as long as the fic is still about Mrs. Mac doing/covering up/investigating/being suspected of crime.

Crossover Fandom - DCU/Leverage

Fandom note:

  • Leverage: I'm most interested in something set during or after the original show, but I do like the new show too.
  • DCU: I'm very new to reading DC Comics, but don't care about spoilers for comics or other Batman media. I don't have a particular favorite (or hated, lol) continuity at this point, so whatever you're most interested in is fine. Feel free to give me recs! I'm not really interested in any of the various live action Batman adaptations or any of the video games, but I also don't need anything you make me to be carefully scoured to remove references to non-comics things.
  • Also, there's a Batman likes/prompts section at the bottom of this letter because I just had a lot to say about it.

Requested relationships:

  • Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU)
  • Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Tim Drake (DCU)

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

Other notes:

  • As also mentioned in my AO3 sign up, I'd be happy to receive a gift that focuses mostly on just one requested Leverage character and one requested DCU character (eg, an Eliot & Jason fic or a Parker & Tim fic) but it seemed silly to nominate all those possible combinations.
  • Setting-wise, I'm most interested in works where the Leverage crew has always existed the same universe as Batman.
  • Background Parker/Hardison or Eliot/Parker/Hardison welcome! I really like these ships, but didn't want to bake it into the tag and make a creator have to fit it in, since I'll enjoy totally gen interactions too.
  • I'd prefer that Parker and Hardison stay unpowered and instead just be very, very competent. If you want to give Eliot some kind of understated meta power (healing factor, extra strong, enhanced senses) then I could be into that, although I'm also okay with him just being very good at punching people.

Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU)

I'm really interested in the way the Leverage crew's turn from selfish lives of crime (and, in Eliot's case, violence) to helping people would interact with Jason's whole...everything. Like, the street kid → Robin → assassin training → crime lord who beheads people → antihero trajectory of it all! I'd love to see them grappling with each others' morals and life experiences. Also, I'd love to see them interact professionally, with Jason as Robin or as Red Hood — ideally working together, but they could start as enemies! Also, I'm really interested in the Leverage characters reacting to how young Jason is for most of the Robin/assassin training/early crime lordin' things.

Prompts:

  • One of the requested Leverage crew owes Talia Al Ghul a favor; she cashes it in to get Jason training from one of them, or maybe travel paperwork from Hardison. Maybe Jason investigates this new teacher Talia has sent him to, or maybe the Leverage crew investigates him, or maybe Jason gets wrapped up in whatever the Leverage crew are doing. Possibly, the Leverage crew could recognize that this kid REALLY looks like Bruce Wayne's supposedly dead kid.
  • The Leverage crew is asked to help get Sheila Haywood arrested, but everything starts to go wrong when the fucking Joker shows up. They're not even near Gotham!
  • Someone feeds the Leverage crew a false story about being mistreated by Bruce Wayne/his company, including maybe implying that Bruce Wayne is abusing his new, formerly homeless adopted son Jason. Maybe it's a really solid lie and they have to uncover the truth, or maybe they immediately know they're being lied to but still investigate or run a con to figure out why. Also, you know, do a wellfare check on Jason. Just in case.
  • In the middle of a job, the fucking Red Hood shows up! The Leverage crew initially thinks this is a disaster...but maybe they have an unexpected ally in Jason, if he can work out what they're doing?
  • Catwoman as a point of contact between Jason and the Leverage crew — she puts Jason in contact with them when he needs help with something, or she contacts him on their behalf when they need help. Maybe Eliot is hurt and the team needs a fill-in hitter. Maybe Jason has found a complex crime ring of some kind, and can't take it down without a crew. Maybe one or multiple Leverage team members have been captured and need rescuing, and the non-captured ones are scrambling to find back up. (Selina is welcome to come along with Jason if that works with your plot and you're interested in writing her! Or you could leave her out and have Jason and the Leverage crew reach out for help in some other way.)

Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Tim Drake (DCU)

I kind of feel like Tim would be unusually delighted by what the Leverage team gets up to, and I also feel like they'd make some pretty untrue assumptions about Timothy Drake, and that just seems so delicious to me. I also think Tim would make a great Mastermind and, professionally speaking, would be very interested to know that a team like the Leverage team exists.

Something i really yearn for in Batman fic is more works where white collar crime is relevant, or basically anything where the crime that's being solved/stopped is more complex than muggings/physical assault, trafficking, and various gang stuff. Not that I dislike those things (and not that I don't understand why some crime fightin' is easier to put into the background of fics than others) but I think Tim's computer focus and openness to unorthodox methods of problem solving and inability to keep his nose out of other people's very interesting business would make him a really natural fit for a Leverage-type plot! The Leverage crew often ends up getting people arrested, after all.

Prompts:

  • The Leverage crew is asked to run a job against Drake Industries. Maybe Jack and Janet are the marks, or maybe it's someone else in the company. Tim gets involved...or maybe Tim is the one who asked them for help!
  • Tim runs into the Leverage crew while he's on his Brucequest. Maybe they recognize him while he's coincidentally somewhere they're running a job, and they look into why Brucie Wayne's adopted son is all the way overseas, alone. Maybe he runs into them as Red Robin while breaking into a place. Maybe Eliot clocks the assassin trio stalking them, and then the Leverage crew winds up helping Tim complete his search for Bruce without getting sucked into Ra's Al Ghul's whole..thing.
  • Tim notices the Leverage crew running a con either in Gotham or when he's elsewhere on a business trip.
  • Tim investigates a crime that leads him to the Leverage crew. He must ascertain whether this is a normal crew of criminals who he should stop, or if they really are doing good and count as vigilantes.
  • A job the Leverage crew is doing suddenly takes a this-needs-professional-vigilante-help turn (for example, because it involves a supervillain) and for some reason Tim is the vigilante it's easiest to contact.
  • The Leverage crew was already a little in over their heads with their current job busting some kind of illegal auction, but then, uh oh, Robin is put up for auction. They have to figure out how to save him, and hope Robin won't turn around and try to arrest them after they manage it.

Crossover Fandom - Tim Drake (DCU)/Remy LeBeau (X-Men Comics)

Fandom note:

  • X-Men comics: I have a deep love of the ugly 90s art in old X-Men comics and have read a lot of Gambit comics, but I'm not really fussed about if you have or not. Feel free to draw on the animated show! I'm not interested in the live action movies.

    If you'd like to dip your toes in very lightly, I really like Uncanny X-Men #350 (Remy gets abandoned to die in Antarctica after a dark secret from his past is revealed! feat. 90s art) and X-Men Origins: Gambit (Remy tries to get married and fucks it up bad) - the later is definitely the easiest to jump into being, of course, an origin story.

    If you'd like to dip your toes in slightly more, Deadpool v. Gambit is really fun and I super liked All-New X-Factor
  • DCU: I'm very new to reading DC Comics, but don't care about spoilers for comics or other Batman media. I don't have a particular favorite (or hated, lol) continuity at this point, so whatever you're most interested in is fine. Feel free to give me recs! I'm not really interested in any of the various live action Batman adaptations or any of the video games, but I also don't need anything you make me to be carefully scoured to remove references to non-comics things.

    Also, there's a Batman likes/prompts section at the bottom of this letter because I just had a lot to say about it.

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

Tim Drake (DCU)/Remy LeBeau (X-Men Comics)

Remy is like a connaisseur of bad romance decisions and I would love to see him make some of those at Tim. A plotty fic where they just flirt at each other, a tropey shipfic, a casefic with strong romance subplot...whatever's so good, I just want to see them interact!

Tim and Remy could be strangers that become friends, enemies that turn into allies, acquaintances who suddenly find themselves with opposite goals, or whatever other combo you think would be interesting! I like a lot of tension and change in my ships, so ideally they'll start one way and end another. I'm also interested in miscommunication based on Tim and Remy coming from very different backgrounds/looking at problems with very different problem-solving methods.

In terms of canon timelines (if comics canons could even be said to have those lol):

  • On Tim's end I'm particularly interested in fic set during his Brucequest or while he's Red Robin.
  • I'm not super interested in fics set while Tim is Robin unless at the very end of that time just because, like, I would like to have my shippy goggles on even if you write gen, and that will be hard for me to do if Tim is like 14.
  • On Remy's end, I really like post-Antarctica fics (fics set after Uncanny X-Men #350 and before Remy rejoins the X-Men later) or fic set before Remy joins the X-Men at all, but I'm open to other timelines too.
  • I am really, really not fussed about Exact Comics Timeline Accuracy, so you can just go with your heart on ages, order of events, which characters are doing exactly what, etc.

For the crossover setting, I have a slight preference for DCUverse as a setting over Marvel, but I'm open to either for sure. I think it would be easier to just yeet one character into the other character's world via dimension travel, but I'd also be interested in something like an AU where Remy is a meta thief in DCUverse or whatever. There could maybe be a neat connection between the Theives Guild/Assassins Guild situation and the League of Assassins!

PS I wrote these prompts for Casefic Exchange...you really don't need to focus on the casefic/heistfic aspect of things.

Prompts:

  • Somehow, Remy ends up in DCUverse!
    • Remy needs to figure out where he is/how to get back/what to do; maybe he does a lot of crime about it.
    • Tim could end up in charge of investigating where Remy came from, how to return him, how he got there, how to prevent more people from arriving, etc.
    • Maybe the case conclusion is that they can fix/figure out [thing that yoinked Remy to a new dimension] but, it's not possible to sent Remy home!
  • Tim is flying solo on his Brucequest! He needs to break into a museum or gallery or something to find Bruce-related evidence. Remy is also breaking in at the same time.
    • Maybe a fic focused on the heist one of them is planning, and how the other one complicates it — for example, one of them clocks the other planning their break-in at the same time and needs to figure out wtf is up with this other guy. They could meet while both scoping out the museum in person and maybe flirt over some art!
    • Or maybe they don't know about each other until they're in the middle of their respective break-ins. Things could go wrong in a not-caused-by-incompetence way (for example, they've both got good plans, but got in each other's way? Ra's deliberately snitches on Tim as per canon?) and they need to either A) escape and then re-plot a heist together or B) complete their already-in-progress crimes and then figure out how to get away with it together.
  • For reasons, Remy gets dragged into helping with Brucequest.
    • Maybe Tim decides things will go faster if he just hires some professional heisting help
    • Maybe Tim is having an ill-advised one night stand with Remy when the assassin trio (mistakenly thinking Tim is alone in his hotel room) try to blow Tim up.

Crossover Fandom - Leverage/Person of Interest

Fandom note:

  • Leverage: I'm most interested in something set during or after the original show, but I do like the new show too.
  • Person of Interest: No special notes for this fandom!

Requested relationships:

  • Parker (Leverage) & Sameen Shaw (Person of Interest)
  • Parker (Leverage) & Lionel Fusco (Person of Interest)
  • Parker (Leverage) & Joss Carter (Person of Interest)
  • Parker (Leverage) & Harold Finch (Person of Interest)

Requested mediums:

  • fanfiction
  • vids

Other notes:

  • Since Leverage ran until 2012 and POI started in 2011, there's definitely some possibly overlap there if you stick exactly to both shows canon timelines? And A) I would be into that if you wanted to put in the work, very into it! but B) I would also equally enjoy a fic where you didn't fuss about exact dates, and probably wouldn't notice any errors. So basically, do whatever you want!
  • shipping: Background canonical ships, or Parker/Hardison/Eliot (which is canon. to me.), or Reese/Finch would be fine. Please don't write me anything where my requested characters are focused on watching or helping a / ship get together, though — I want a work that's about the gen relationship between my requested characters.

Below I've talked generally about Parker and a little about each of my requested characters because that seemed simplest, but here are some general thoughts:

  • Meeting when Parker is in the middle of a solo heist or a job with the Leverage team.
  • Team Machine assumes Parker (and/or Parker's team) is a threat to their number of the week.
  • Leverage team working for The Machine
  • Pre-canon or post-canon for either is just as good as mid-canon!
  • Feel free to leave canonical deaths in place but also feel free to fixit them.
  • I love minor/recurring Leverage characters (Detective Bonanno, Amy Palavi, Taggart & McSweeten, etc!) and minor/recurring Person of Interest characters (Zoe, Leon, Shaw's partner who immediately beefs it right after we meet him, etc!) and would be delighted to see them show up in the fic if you have room/reason for them!
  • ...also I didn't really talk about them at all below but I feel like I should register that I like Root and Reese a lot! I just knew I wouldn't have enough ideas about them to give them their own letter sections, so I left them out of my noms. But they're great!

Vid prompts & likes:

I would really love a constructed reality vid for this crossover! My fic prompts and selected freeforms involve a lot of rescuing and such, which I would love, but to be honest I will be so impressed by any constructed reality vid you make that I will be extremely happy with any plot or whatever. Also, honestly, I don't even need it to focus on any of my requested relationships. Any kind of vid with some part of the original Leverage team and Team Machine would be wonderful. I'd also really enjoy some kind of fake trailer.

If you are instead inspired to make a more traditional vid set to music, perhaps comparing one character from Team Machine and one Leverage character or something like that, then that also sounds wonderful!

Here are some vid likes I wrote mostly for the set-to-music kind of vid, if those are helpful.

I like vids that match the energy of the music they're set to! Fast cuts and lots of them for long songs, more lingering shots for slow or contemplative songs. I enjoy when cuts or actions (punches, shutting doors, setting things down, etc) match up with the beat, it's very satisfying. I am of course enamored when, if possible there's a close relationship between the literal or emotional meaning of the lyrics being sung and what's happening in the vid. I like it when scenes that happened far apart in canon are juxtaposed to emphasis some kind of relationship or shared characteristic — parallels, sure, but also something like cutting together several examples of characters helping each other in different ways, or going from a scene where they trusted each other to a scene where they betrayed each other for extra contrast! That's delicious.

In terms of specific effects, I've rarely met a vid I didn't like and would encourage you to follow your artistic vision. I don't mind added sound effects or footage taken from other sources.

In terms of music, I'd rather a song that perfectly fits than something that matches what I usually listen to, so live your dreams if you have something in mind. If you do want to know what I listen to, I frequently listen to: The Mountain Goats, Lord Huron, Regina Spektor, Talking Heads, The Oh Hellos, Frightened Rabbit, Spoon, Gregory Alan Isakov, Florence & The Machine, Paramore's After Laughter and This Is Why albums, David Byrne and St. Vincent's collab album Love This Giant.

Parker

Parker is my favorite character and I focused on her for these nominations because even though I love the other Leverage characters (and would love to see them show up!) I think Parker's skill set is the one that Team Machine really doesn't have, at least not at the level Parker can bring! I also think since she's always sneaking into places she's in a great position to find people who need rescuing or who need help doing a rescue, and I don't know if you can tell this from my freeforms but...I really like rescues!

Things I'm interested in seeing explored about Parker:

  • Her pre-Leverage heists! One of the PoI characters could hire her or she could just get tangled up in PoI drama. Maybe an example of how working with other people went badly for her before the Leverage team?
  • The beautiful character development we see in canon where she becomes a team player! And starts caring! About people! And right and wrong! (But still not about the law, lol.)
  • What Parker got up to between Leverage seasons when the gang was split up and Hardison couldn't find her.
  • You know that scene in the first episode of Season 4 where Parker and Eliot are trapped in the ice cave and they can't bring the corpse with them and Eliot talks to Parker about doing the hard things because Hardison, Sophie, and Nate can't? Yes. That. That is my favorite scene in the whole show. I love it so much.
  • Post-canon Parker being a mastermind! Running jobs! Maybe being even more scary than Nate!

Joss

I sob like a baby over Joss every time I watch PoI so first of all if you're into her not dying like she did in canon let me assure you I am also into that. In fact, I'm into it even if you decide to focus on one of my other requested relationships, because I do just love Joss a lot. Her story arc and slowly becoming friends with Reese and taking justice into her own hands was really compelling and matches up really well with a lot of the themes of Leverage.

  • I'm interested in seeing Joss deliberately work with Parker to break the law and other explorations of Joss's position as pretty much the only good cop in NYC.
  • Maybe Parker could interact with her while pretending to be an FBI agent?
  • Maybe Joss hears about the Leverage team and decides to hire them to help with something?
  • Would love for Joss to get caught up in one of the Leverage team's job — her deliberately playing along would be great, but it would also be great for her to think she's honestly in deep shit because Parker or one of the other members of the Leverage Team is very convincingly faking that they're dangerous people willing to do whatever they have to.
  • In terms of rescue, obviously Joss could be rescuing any random civilian or a member of Team Machine, but also I would be interested in something with her son!

Fusco

I think Fusco would find Parker really frustrating in a very delightful way and yet also would probably really vibe with Leverage's whole Thing because he loves bending the rules. Fusco's character development is probably the best of any show I've ever seen and I LOVE seeing him reluctantly dragged towards being a more moral person, which I think would make him and Parker an interesting match up!

  • Ok, Joss with Parker pretending to be an FBI agent would be good, but Fusco? Oh my god. The sheer comedy potential of Fusco working with FBI Special Agent Haden.
  • Would love to see Fusco get wrapped up in one of the Leverage team's jobs as well! Everything I suggested with Joss would also be excellent with Fusco, but also I think Fusco is way more likely to allow himself to be shoved right into the deep end of playing along with a con than Joss is, without necessarily requiring all the details, so I'd love to see something where the Leverage team desperately needs an actual cop to play along with some shit and Hardison points out Fusco as the most likely to do some crooked shit.
  • I think post-canon Fusco will be in a really tough place, and I'd love an exploration of that. Does the Machine ever call him with numbers? If it does, does he struggle to rescue them? If it doesn't, does he wish it would?
  • In terms of rescue, obviously Fusco could be rescuing any random civilian or a member of Team Machine, but also I would be interested in something with his son! Meanwhile, Parker could definitely be rescuing a client or Leverage team members, but a minor character would also be welcome! Even a character who wouldn't necessarily expect a rescue from Parker.

Shaw

When I think about Shaw I go !!!!! in my heart. She's so great and I love her. My favorite Shaw moment is tied between (1) that scene in "Razgovor" where Finch tries to get her to go get medical attention and she's like "You can't bench me for just one mistake!" (2) that time she shot out a dude's kneecaps in the dark through a wall and then immediately in the next scene has rewarded herself with a steak, which she is eating with only a knife. She's perfect.

  • Shaw takes the hitter position to Parker's thief/mastermind! Equally interested in this being a preplanned thing or an impromptu team up.
  • Post-canon Shaw is desperately in need of a team! Joining the Leverage team would be excellent, but so would Shaw only realizing she needs a team after getting into trouble she needs the Leverage team's help getting out of.
  • I think of any of my requested match ups these two would have the hardest time trusting each other, which would make them working together really deliciously full of tension.
  • In terms of rescue, I would love any of Team Machine, Gen, Michael Cole, or even for it to be Shaw who's getting rescued and for the injured character who needed help doing the rescue to be someone else!

Finch

And finally Finch! I think Parker working with Finch would provide a really interesting comparison to Parker and Hardison working together and to Finch and Reese working together. I really love what a private person Finch is, how much he holds himself apart from people before Reese gets under his skin, the way he sets to his task of rescuing numbers for years and does it alone if he must and risks his life when necessary. He's great!

  • I think Finch has really great, interesting risk/reward choices so I would LOVE to see him get in over his head either accidentally or deliberately, and I'm equally interested in Parker having to help him or him having to help Parker.
  • Alice White's number comes up. Or another of Parker's aliases!
  • What if Finch has hired Parker to steal something for him before?
  • Post-canon Finch being just unable to keep from sticking his nose into things would be wonderful. Grace could show up too!
  • In terms of rescue, a member of Team Machine or the Leverage team would be great, of course, or Grace, or a number/client, or Leon again, etc!

Crossover Fandom - DCU/Leverage

Fandom note:

  • Leverage: I'm most interested in something set during or after the original show, but I do like the new show too.
  • Gravity Falls: I haven't read the Book of Bill. I wouldn't mind spoilers for it, but I'm also not really interested in Bill Cipher playing a big part in fills for this request.

Requested relationships:

  • Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls) & Eliot Spencer (Leverage)
  • Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) & Eliot Spencer (Leverage)

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

Other notes:

  • Setting-wise, I'd like the Leverage universe and the Gravity Falls universe to be the same universe, rather than there being any kind of dimensional travel. Otherwise, a story could happen in Gravity Falls or not.
  • Background Parker/Hardison or Eliot/Parker/Hardison welcome! I really like these ships, but didn't want to bake it into the tag and make a creator have to fit it in, since I'll enjoy totally gen interactions too.
  • I'd prefer that Eliot and the rest of the Leverage crew be mundane — previous interactions with supernatural/magic/weird stuff would be fine, but I'm not looking for like "Sophie is secretly a witch" or anything like that.

Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls) & Eliot Spencer (Leverage)
Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) & Eliot Spencer (Leverage)

Eliot dealing with children is always THE BEST and I would love to see him deal with these children specifically as well as have to deal with weird magic stuff! I'd enjoy magic being a total surprise to Eliot, but would also enjoy Eliot knowing it exists but usually avoiding it. Mostly I'm really here for the character interaction, though — Mabel and Dipper are each frustrating in their own way and also will not stay out of danger no matter how much Eliot tells them to and I just think it'd be fun to see them team up!

I also just think Eliot dealing with magic bullshit could be really funny. Like, okay, I don't really want a fic that tries to make the magic funny, but rather where the juxtaposition between how ridiculous and weird Gravity Falls' magic system is and how serious and competent and professional and dangerous Eliot is leads naturally to some humor, if that makes sense? Like, the funny part for me is not the magic doing wacky things, but instead Eliot being like "well this magic threat near this kid is weird as fuck but I will be taking it 150% as seriously as I would take someone aiming a gun at a kid since I don't even know what this magic bullshit does" if that makes sense. The Leverage crew are so competent, so it would be really satisfying to see Eliot's competence stretched to its limits...and really funny to see it recontextualized by Eliot like, I don't know, throwing down with a manotaur or something.

And! Speaking of competence! I'd love love love to see either or both Pines siblings get to show their own competency in weird magic bullshit. You could even age them up a little if you want, to give them even more experience than they have in canon, although I definitely want them to be significantly younger than Eliot still.

Other members of the Leverage crew or the Gravity Falls cast welcome to make an appearance, and Mabel and Dipper could both hang with Eliot if you would prefer.

Prompts:

  • The Leverage crew could be in Gravity Falls to deal with the Northwests.
  • Mabel and/or Dipper meets Eliot while on a Pines Family Vacation of some sort.
  • Whoops, Mabel and/or Dipper poked the wrong magic thing and got transported very far away! Luckily, Eliot is a responsible adult who will definitely figure this out.
  • Maybe Mabel or Dipper (or both) have to help Eliot out of a tight spot?

Crossover Fandom- SVSSS/Naruto

Fandom note:

  • SVSSS: I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.
  • Naruto: As a quick reminder, references to Boruto are in my DNWs — I haven't seen it, so that content would be wasted on me. On a related note, the end of Naruto, with Kaguya and stuff, didn't really do much for me, so I'm happy to pretend Madara was the final villain and/or ignore most of the end of the series and just let ninja be ninja.

Requested relationships:

  • Luo Binghe (SVSSS - MXTX)/Haruno Sakura (Naruto)
  • Luo Binghe (SVSSS - MXTX) & Haruno Sakura (Naruto)

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

Other notes:

  • Setting-wise, I think it probably makes most sense for Narutoverse and SVSSSverse to be different dimensions, but I'm open to other options if you think you can make them work. I'm much more interested in Sakura being in SVSSS settings than LBH being in Naruto settings.
  • Shipping:
    • If you're writing LBH/Sakura, mention of LBH's crush on SQQ is fine but otherwise I'd prefer the shipping focus stay on my requested ship.
    • If you're writing LBH & Sakura, I don't mind references to LBH/SQQ, but I would prefer to avoid having it be a major part of any story. I wouldn't mind a subplot where Sakura and some other canon SVSSS character are interested in each other or get together.

Luo Binghe&/Haruno Sakura

I really don't have a preference for gen vs ship for these two because I think either could be really interesting! I'm interested in Luo Binghe getting some of that good ol' Leaf nin friendship treatment, in an older and wiser Sakura dealing with a very pretty boy she can have a more grown-up crush on, and/or in LBH hurt/comfort. I find OP Sakura power fantasies very iddy, so please feel free to lean into that if you agree — but I also really like it when a fic emphasizes that Sakura's best weapon his her big big brain. Sometimes a Sakura power fantasy can just be about her being smart as hell and I respect that. But, you know, she could also punch people. God I love Sakura.

RE ages/timelines: for the & tag, any age whether they're not useless toddlers would be great. For the / tag I'd like Sakura and Luo Binghe to be roughly the same age or both roughly adults.

Prompts:

  • Sakura reborn as Ning Yingying or other Cang Qiong disciple: I love reincarnation SO MUCH. I genuinely have no preference on if Sakura takes NYY's place or not — I think it would be really interesting, but I also think it'd be cool for her to be a Qian Cao disciple or something! I'm really interested in Sakura's POV of Cang Qiong, because there's no way she'll be able to keep from measuring it against Konoha, and if you like worldbuilding then please pile it on and tell me all the ways this society is strange in comparison to the Narutoverse society, I will eat that up with a spoon.
  • equally annoyed/threatened by the same low-stakes problem: lack of hot water for bathing at hotel/inn, murder mystery where the murderer is clearly not going to be a threat, held captive by incompetent assholes, they're both falsely accused of the same crime or related crimes and must figure out whodunnit, both massively inconvenienced by a natural disaster
  • equally annoyed/threatened by the same high-stakes problem: lost their powers and are in mortal danger, must navigate wilderness with limited supplies/magic, held captive by innovative assholes, lost in the Endless Abyss together, dealing with the search/rescue/other logistics following a massive natural disaster
  • one of them rescues the other: LBH gets to be OP in his canon so I confess I lean towards Sakura being the one to provide the rescue, but on the other hand LBH is so OP it is a little hard to imagine that he'd be injured and need help! Still, through the power of contrived Airplane plots I think anything is possible — or maybe you could just make LBH young!
  • Sakura being utterly untroubled by LBH's demonic heritage: given the wild things Sakura is used to her comrades and enemies being able to do in Narutoverse, I think she'd be like "huh cool a useful bloodline limit" about it, no matter how much other cultivators have told her that demons are evil or whatever. Speaking of which, I'd love Sakura's Konoha-born POV on demon society.
  • dubcon: I'd love for them to get caught up in some stupid horny subplot — sex pollen, fuck-or-die, rituals that can't be completed without sex, mating instincts, and so on. Sakura could be super into LBH already and glad for the excuse, or very reluctant but ultimately super turned on by it. LBH welcome to have a knot or other fun xeno genitalia things going on because of his demon heritage. My "when does it becomes too noncon?" line for this ship is that I'd like both participants to come out of the experience having ultimately had nice orgasms, not super upset that it happened, and willing to maybe fuck each other again in the future. No-No-Extremely Yes welcome.

Person of Interest

Fandom note: POI is great, but I don't really have anything else to say about it lol.

Requested mediums:

  • fanfiction
  • vids

Requested character:

  • Lionel Fusco

Lionel Fusco

Fusco is my favorite character on TV ever and I would just love anything about him! His redemption arc is so wonderful and his interactions with other characters are always fantastic.

In general in this fandom, I like: rescuing people, struggling with the Machine's personhood, Fusco's character development, the extreme found family feels, the NYC setting, the episodic number-of-the-week nature of early seasons and the complex scifi-y plots of the later seasons.

Vid prompts & likes:

Anything that touches on Fusco's changing relationship with others or with his own morality over the course of the show would really be great. Fusco working with people! Fusco making terrible choices! Sad things happening! Fusco slowly changing into a good guy, somewhat against his will! All of those things would be great subjects for a vid. Or maybe you have some strong Fusco feelings about something else because you also love Fusco? Make a vid about those, then! \o/

I like vids that match the energy of the music they're set to! Fast cuts and lots of them for long songs, more lingering shots for slow or contemplative songs. I enjoy when cuts or actions (punches, shutting doors, setting things down, etc) match up with the beat, it's very satisfying. I am of course enamored when, if possible there's a close relationship between the literal or emotional meaning of the lyrics being sung and what's happening in the vid. I like it when scenes that happened far apart in canon are juxtaposed to emphasis some kind of relationship or shared characteristic — parallels, sure, but also something like cutting together several examples of characters helping each other in different ways, or going from a scene where they trusted each other to a scene where they betrayed each other for extra contrast! That's delicious.

In terms of specific effects, I've rarely met a vid I didn't like and would encourage you to follow your artistic vision. I don't mind added sound effects or footage taken from other sources.

In terms of music, I'd rather a song that perfectly fits than something that matches what I usually listen to, so live your dreams if you have something in mind. If you do want to know what I listen to, I frequently listen to: The Mountain Goats, Lord Huron, Regina Spektor, Talking Heads, The Oh Hellos, Frightened Rabbit, Spoon, Gregory Alan Isakov, Florence & The Machine, Paramore's After Laughter and This Is Why albums, David Byrne and St. Vincent's collab album Love This Giant.

In addition to the classic set-to-music vid format, I'd also really enjoy a constructed reality vid where there's a canon divergence or an episode ends differently or Fusco is stuck in a timeloop or...whatever you're inspired and able to create!

Fic prompts:

  • Fusco is pretty sure he's 100% exactly perfectly the wrong member of the team to be stuck in this time loop trying to save [character of your choice], but he's not a quitter. He's going to get this right. (Or: Fusco peggy sue time travels back to an earlier point in his life. It's up to him to help change things! He has to save everyone! This is so much pressure!!!)
  • Instead of falling in with HR, Fusco meets Finch or Reese some other way. Or go even more AU! He could meet Shaw or ROOT at a different time! I love canon divergence AUs so go wild.
  • What's it like for Fusco to try and help numbers alone? Post-series welcome!
  • We see Fusco have plenty of awkward conversations with people he tried to kill or wronged and honestly I eat them up with a spoon you can't go wrong.
  • What do other people think about Fusco? What does Fusco think about other people?
  • Alternate Universes: I'm really attached to the premise of the show (saving people whose deaths were deemed irrelevant, Fusco being a corrupt cop, etc) but there is something just so, so delightful to me about Fusco having to deal with spooky supernatural things and/or magic.
    • I would love something that adds a fantastical element onto canon and opt into the following:
      • demons
      • vampires
      • ghosts
      • werewolves (with full wolf transformation, instead of a half-wolf man-shaped werewolf situation please
      • curses & other magic
    • I would also enjoy a more fantastical setting! I'm pretty attached to this being set in a city (as opposed to somewhere rural) but it could be a fantasy city where Fusco is a member of the city guard or something and the Machine is a new god that Finch created (possibly in defiance of some state religion?) which prophesizes people who will be in trouble and lets Team Machine change their fate.

Blue Castle

AO3 matching tag: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery

Fandom note: You can read this novel for free here!

Requested medium:

  • Fanfiction

Requested ships:

  • Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling

Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling

Blue Castle is already full of tropey marriage-y goodness for this ship but I just really want more! I would love something canon-compliant or something canon-divergent. I really like the canon setting/time period, but I also definitely won't nitpick anything I read for anachronisms!

I really love how Valancy opens up over the course of the book first on her own and then because she has Barney's love and support. Seeing her get to bust out of her terrible life and leave her awful family behind was great! I also really like the way social classes play a part in the book, and how Valancy looks past them and past other societal pressures, and how eventually it turns out that the class divide in the relationship is actually the reverse of what everyone assumed! I also really like Barney and his insecurities and his complete inability to hear his wife praise his writing to his face, lmfao.

Freeforms:

  • Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out By Someone Else
  • Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
  • Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
  • Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
  • Person's Hand In Marriage Auctioned Off To Highest Bidder
  • Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
  • Family Won't Pay Dowry So They Have To Find Someone Who Will Marry Them For Free
  • If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Marry Your Spouse
  • If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Propose To Your Spouse
  • Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse

Prompts:

I'm really interested in alternate ways they could have ended up married! for example...

  • Instead of Barney marrying her so she won't have to die while alone and miserable with her family, he could marry her to save her from having to marry someone else.
    • Perhaps this other person is notably and unmistakeably the kind of man who'd murder his wife, although Barney can't prove it, so he feels he must try to help Valency get out of her engagement to the man.
    • Perhaps this is an AU where families can auction their daughters' hand in marriage off to the highest bidder; for reasons Barney feels compelled to bid for her. (Perhaps she mentions to him her dread at being bought by some stranger!)
    • Perhaps this is an AU where Barney needs a wife, possibly for business reasons but maybe for magic reasons.
  • Or perhaps Barney could be Valency's second husband! And maybe that second husband was even worse to her than her family was.
    • Maybe Barney knows immediately that her first husband didn't treat her kindly, or maybe it needs to be discovered.
    • Maybe this is an AU where you need to secure a new husband before you can divorce your current husband (either across the board or because Valency would chance some terrible fate if she were unmarried)
    • Maybe Valency is a widow, and they simply fall in love — possibly they keep meeting at the bookshop, or in the woods, or so on. After all, with her first husband dead she would be free and alone for the first time.
  • Maybe they could meet and get married earlier!
    • Valency's anxiousness and depression hit her harder at a younger age; a doctor recommends sending her away to one of those seaside/lakeside spa places where you can bathe and relax etc. Barney happens to be visiting at the same time.

Also...AU settings!

I love the general setting of the book (a rural small town, with Valency's family being very proper and established in the local area) and the basic role of Valency and Barney in the book (Valency as a neglected daughter from a family that doesn't appreciate her; Barney as the son of a very rich man who's retreated into nature and art) so I don't want anything that strays too far from what the book has set up, but...

  • things you could add on top of the setting of the book:
    • D/S as a biological imperative/part of society
    • Omegaverse (prefer alpha/omega pairs. also, I like it when everyone has dual genitalia regardless of their gender presentation)
    • Like canon, but Barney is a werewolf (prefer his werewolf form to be fully a wolf, not a wolfman situation. If he is fully a wolf, they can totally fuck when he's transformed.)
    • Like canon, but with magic (for example, still set in Deerwood in the early 1900s, but Valency is cursed, or Barney is writing magical treatises in addition to or instead of nature books)
      • special note: since I DNW "unrequested AUs" — "canon with magic" is a very broad possible AU to opt into! I'm sure I'll like whatever you come up with...as long as you don't give Barney or Valency any animal/non-human parts. No wings, horns, tails, cat ears, etc. Don't make them mermaids or centaurs. Full transformation/shapeshifting into an animal is fine, though, I just don't want any mixing.
  • ways you could change the setting — I would definitely want a setting where Valency marrying a man her family doesn't know/approve of is just as shocking if not more so as it is in canon, and I love formal social manners and such.
    • Deerwood as a remote planet in an already sparsely populated starsystem or something. A rural setting but IN SPAAACE :D What kind of space manners and space social expectations might they have in place of the 1900s rural Canada ones we see in the book?
    • A historical AU, but set in a different part of history or in a different part of the world — Regency England, or Deerwood as a town on the American frontier, or even (although you would have to rename everyone and everything, of course) a retelling set in historical China or something.
    • Vaguely European-themed vaguely-historic setting, with or without magic — something where Barney could be a secret prince, or Dr. Redfern could be rich for steampunk inventions, or where you could make up some fun new social rules for Valency to break.
    • Chinese-themed vaguely-historic setting, with or without magic — same as above, but also maybe with cultivators?
  • If you think an AU setting you'd like to create for is like what I've suggested above but not explicitly listed, please feel free to ask me!

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