Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m fencesit on AO3! I'm requesting mostly fic but some art and mostly both tricks and treats. You can see details about that in each fandom section!

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! I very much desperately want everything I've requested. 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 writer 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
- obviously the crossovers and non-canon divergent AUs I'm requesting may involve some adjustment of the world the characters live in, which is fine! I would like ninja to still be ninja and cultivators to still be cultivators and so on, though.
cannibalism or vore
necrophilia (ghost sex is fine)
PWP
sounding
rimming
bodily waste
suicide/suicidal ideation
- it's fine for a time looping character to kill themself to start a new loop, if that's a mechanic you want to include, as long as they're doing it to deliberately reset the loop rather than in hopes of dying for good.
- please see specific clarifications for The Untamed in that section.
vehicle accidents
detailed or graphic descriptions/depictions of wounds, medical procedures, torture, etc.
unrequested explicit noncon
- Implied/referenced is fine!
anal tearing or other serious injury during sex
incest (mentions of canonical incest are fine)
sex scenes with underage (under 18) characters or adults being attracted to minors
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
permanent noncanonical character death of major canon characters (except villains)
dissociation, which includes:
- derealization — An alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.
- depersonalization — The persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings/body aren't real.
- If you're writing a character who's literally having an out of body experience (like, because they're a ghost and something else has taken over their body) or dealing with an actual fake world (like, because they're trapped in a magical illusion) then that's okay.
the rotting undead/zombies
- magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
- please see SVSSS and The Untamed sections for clarification notes.
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.

Black Box DNWs/clarifications

DNW: erotic fanworks of any kind; characters can have sex and you can write me an explicit fic, but I don't want porn.
Please disregard my dissociation DNW for this canon.
Please consider me to be opted-in to canon-typical levels of dubcon/noncon.

Naruto DNWs/clarifications

Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto

SVSSS DNWs/clarifications

Focus on SQQ/LBH, but it's fine in the background
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! 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.

The Untamed DNWs/clarifications

plot/characterization drawn from other related canons — I haven't read MDZS yet, am behind on the donghua, etc. I don't mind smaller worldbuilding details or character information being pulled from the novel where it doesn't contradict The Untamed, but I will get confused if you blend the events of the two canons!
suicide/suicidal ideation clarification:
- the suicides in the show are fine to mention/have happen/include on-screen, but I don't want anything written from the POV of those characters in that moment
the rotting undead/zombies clarification: Obviously, the show has puppets, not zombies...but okay, they're kind of basically exactly obviously zombies, lmao, and to be honest I do love necromancy as a narrative element despite being squeamish and weak.
- You can stick with show-canon "they were just puppets!"/"Wen Ning was only mostly almost dead!" if you want!
- or you can have them be zombies, but I really do DNW the "rotting" part of this DNW — please let your undead be either freshly killed, magically preserved, or past the point of rotting (eg, skeletons, ghosts!).
- (if you just don't mention decomposition I will happily never consider it even when it should be happening!)

Harry Potter DNWs/clarifications:

Kill Lockhart if you want.
I am opting into Lockhart being either victim or rapist
I am actually okay with Lockhart being attracted to minors ~15 years or older, but don't want underage porn or a story that focuses on it.

Strange Trails DNWs/clarifications:

rotting undead/zombies — this canon has pretty strong themes and arguably canonically undead characters! I do not want to DNW those characters being undead, but I really do DNW the "rotting" part of this DNW — please let your undead be either freshly killed, magically preserved, or past the point of rotting (eg, skeletons, ghosts!).
(if you just don't mention decomposition I will happily never consider it even when it should be happening!)

Likes

General fic likes:

Canon divergence
slice of life, canon-compliant fic, missing scenes from canon
time travel
- travelling to the past, fix-its, time loops, and lots else — but I have a separate list for my time travel likes because I just have so many!
dimension travel (eg from the canon timeline to a divergent timeline)
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 & angst
- in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone isn't sticking out, blood loss....pretty much anything non-permanent and not too gorey or with the gore skimmed over. special mention for Naruto-esque eye loss where it's traumatic and bad but the eye can just be put back in if they find a good medic.
- also as implied by my DNWs I'm not a big fan of sickfic but I love huddling for warmth and hypothermia fic!
- poisonings and venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
- in terms of emotional hurt: self esteem issues and unexpected mercy! Special mention for everything below.
- 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
- aftermath of captivity, torture, rape, isolation, etc.
- injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
- lying so that the other will accept comfort or help
- hands too shaky to complete task
- forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
forced (non-sexual) intimacy
- characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other — see my Hate Exchange letter!
- handcuffed together
- sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- captured together, working together in enemy territory
unconventional formats/POVs
- 5+1
- drabble series
- outsider POV
- second person POV, especially if it's thematically relevant
- I'm not really into letters or social media fics, but articles, essays, textbooks, mission/case records, and wikipedia entries are all great.
- I've never received interactive fiction/CYOA before but I'm down to try it!
- I'm open to a mix of text and images and I view works with the creator's skin enabled. I do sometimes download my gifts or read them on mobile, however, so I appreciate when unconventional works use tricks like display:none (explained in this tutorial in the "What do I do if the Creator's Style is hidden?" section) which also makes works with HTML/embedded pictures more accessible!
magic (in already-fantastic settings)
- curses
- garbage-tier magical items
- extra senses
- worldbuilding around learning/doing magic

Time travel likes!

Time travel to the past (the character's past or the canon's past if the canon has interesting things happening way back when!)
Time Travel Fix-It (Peggy Sue, altering canon or backstory, altering a non-canonical disaster)
Mishaps & Complications (fixing things by accident, reliving the aftermath of old mistakes, accidentally going too far back, getting in trouble because their foreknowledge has made them act suspiciously, can't time travel to a time they're already alive in)
Enemies (making friends with the past version of an enemy, traveling back in time with an enemy and having to work together, having to save an enemy to fix the timeline, trying to convince a current enemy that actually they'll be allies in the future)
Time Loop (groundhog peggy sue, working with an enemy to solve the loop, making things worse before making them better)
I like stories about characters making their way back to their usual place, but I also like stories about characters staying or being stuck! I don't mind if the conclusion of the time travel is left to my imagination, either, so don't feel like you must conclusively establish it either way.
I love it when worldbuilding comes into it! Firstly I am interested in how canon events might be reframed to show us new and interesting angles, and secondly if the character(s) have gone very far back I'm very into characters adjusting to their new era, exploring technological/societal differences, and introducing advanced technology/medicine/magic/saniatione!
I love it when I get a new and interesting POV of something! Anything from a character having to overhaul their understanding of a conversation upon having it a second time to outside POV of the time traveler or the strange things they've caused to happen.

Horror Likes!

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

A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
Aftermath of Torture
Being Polite About Eldritch Genitals Which Are Too Much For Human Eyes To Behold
Belated Realization That Your Jerk "Friends" Tricked You Into This Horrifying Situation
Betraying Someone to Save Them from a Worse Fate
Building layout changes sometimes
character convinced no one would help even if they asked
character convinced there will be no rescue
Character(s) are totally done with this ghost bullshit
Characters are all alone in the middle of nowhere with no one able to help
Fucking around with the Ouija Board was a bad idea
Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
Mannequins That Move When a Character Looks Away
People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
Physically impossible spaces/buildings
Principle of object permanence is violated
Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
Seen only out of the corner of your eye
Sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
Time Loop - Character Keeps Looping The Day of Their Death
Time Loop - Friends and/or Loved One(s) Die Again and Again
Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
Time Travel - Character(s) Learn Dark Secret They Didn't Know at the Time
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Save Each Other From Horrific Fates
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs and at the Mercy of Someone They Don't Trust

Ship likes:

Anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too of course. Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated 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.
Slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers — The slower the better. FWB-to-lovers is also great.
Characters who have history with each other — established relationships are good, but what I really love is feeling like the characters know each other well and think about each other often. In characters who are already friends, that probably looks like, say, knowing what kind of coffee the other person likes. In characters who were enemies, they probably know each other’s weaknesses and faults really well.
Arguments where each person thinks the conversation is about something subtly different — I mean, misunderstandings in general are great for tension, but I like it when characters are trying to communicate but they’re coming from perspectives so different that they can’t even argue without clarification.
Casual physical affection — a lot of my ships involve people who have massive or very specific personal bubbles, so seeing the way the characters touch each other when they’re not already in Kissing Mode is really great.
Pining, especially longstanding they-could-never-want-me pining — the id wants what the id wants and what the id wants is characters with low self-worth. Bonus points if it's tied up in some kind of misunderstanding about their relationship (eg, "They hate me!" or "I'm ugly!") or their differing rank/species/wealth/etc.
When their hands touch and other very understated moments of romantic or sexual tension — aaaaaaa I don't even have words for how much I love this, if you include it I will wail happily at you about it in my comment, possibly at length.

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)

Marriage likes but for hate ships!

Accidentally Married Someone You Hate
Disastrously Incompatible Political Marriage
Forced to Marry Enemy
Marriage of Mutual Loathing
Marrying an Enemy to Keep Them Close
Political marriage that makes everything worse
political marriage where one partner plans to kill their spouse
Character A Plots to Marry and Murder Character B
Character Thinks Their Spouse is Trying to Kill Them (and their spouse totally is)
When Character A Married Character B They Weren't Expecting to Be Shared With B's Family
Suspected or Confirmed Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery

Smut likes

I don't usually request smut but if you want to include it then I don't mind. I know that that's kind of an extremely bland and unenthusiastic way to start out but it's, uh, really honest, at least? I'm usually after character interaction, plot, or worldbuilding with my requests, but getting a sex scene along with other stuff definitely wouldn't ruin a gift. Overall, I want you to feel free to write sex if you would enjoy doing so/if you think the fic will be better with it! I'm generally just enthused by my writer getting to have fun writing something they're proud of, you know?

There are obviously some things I do like, and I know some folks really enjoy tailoring their fic (i'm one of them!) so...

Consensual

Extremely emotionally charged sex — No matter what kind of sex acts they do, I really love when the sex has a lot of feelings involved, especially if it's sad emotions or desperation or part of some hurt/comfort or whump.
Sex that's very directly relevant to the plot or character arcs — I love sex scenes where I learn more about a character or relationship. Is 'character driven smut' a thing? Because if so, that's my favorite. And also porn with plot.
anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, strapons, 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
praise kink, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, trust and sex otherwise overloaded with emotion
magic/super powers being used in fun and inventive ways
clothing/uniform kink, half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not.
hair petting, cuddling, lazy mornings in bed, touch starvation
size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
pregnancy, including mpreg — impregnation porn and pregnant sex welcome, eggpreg and het mpreg are also fine. And while we're talking about it, narratively speaking I love a fic where being pregnant/mpregnant is upsetting because the character didn't plan for it, thinks their partner doesn't want it, conceived in a nonconsensual or dubiously consensual way, can't afford it, etc, all of which could be comforted away with or without sex. I'm not much for birthing scenes.
probably other things that I'm forgetting! I'm pretty open to a bunch of things that aren't on the above list or mentioned in my DNWs, and if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.

Nonconsensual (when requested!)

Humiliation — whereas with consensual sex I like pretty much any kind of emotions, for noncon scenes humiliation from the POV of the victim is pretty much bulletproof, and I also very much enjoy the POV of anyone watching or indeed even orchestrating the humiliation. Public or private are both enjoyable!
anal and pegging, including women on the recieving end, PIV, fingering, strapops, toys (esp hidden under clothing!)
bondage — everything listed above, and also any other kind of bondage you can think of, including predicament bondage
feminization (both of men and of tomboyish women), forced clothes wearing
size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
breeding, pregnancy and mpreg, oviposition
tentacles, knotting, and xeno
If you have a kink you're thinking about including and you're unsure, please don't be afraid to ask via the mods! Clarify that it's for a noncon scene, as that will probably change my answer.

Art Likes!

soft colors, and also specifically moss green and all shades of purple, especially for slice-of-life and domestic pictures
lineless art and thick lines and messy lines!
dramatic lighting, especially if the moment is tense or dangerous
cartoony styles
realistic styles
movement and foreshortening
crosshatching, stippling, visible brushstrokes, and other techniques that let me see what the artist physically did with their pencil/brush/digital equivalent
that thing where it's all back and white or greyscale except for one (1) color
art that explores the minutiae of a character's life, like what exactly is on their bookshelf or in their bag
comics and pictures-with-text! for comics, I sometimes have a hard time following very complex panel layouts and also sometimes a really hard time deciding if I'm supposed to read in left-to-right or right-to-left, but otherwise all comics are good comics.

Black Box - Jennifer Egan

AO3 matching tag: Black Box - Jennifer Egan

Fandom note: This is absolutely my favorite short story and I'm very jazzed to receive it. You can read it for free here at The New Yorker, unless you've read all of your free articles already this month, in which case you can read it via the Wayback Machine. It's about a lady spy!

For this fandom (and crossovers involving this fandom) I am suspending my dissociation DNW, as it's a canonical part of the spy training in the story and I don't want any potential creators to feel they have to navigate around it.

Requested medium(s):

fanfiction
fanart

Requested character(s):

Narrator (Black Box - Egan)
Husband (Black Box - Egan)
Alpha Beauty (Black Box - Egan)
Designated Mate (Black Box - Egan)
First Host (Black Box - Egan)
New Host (Black Box - Egan)

Shipping note: Really, anything goes! Per my DNW I am not interested in smut for this fandom, though — you can certainly write an explicit fic and characters can have sex, but I'm not looking for anything erotic.

Other requested tag stuff:

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic
Trick - Art
Trick - Fic

Black Box art prompts

I would love to see Black Box's words juxtaposed over whatever you draw
Some visuals I'd love to see: the isolated beach, the speedboat trip, the Alpha Beauty clutching her baby, and the helicopter.
I'd be absolutely thrilled to receive art in any style, of course, so please don't take this as like... a demand for anything more than just a sketch in your preferred style! But if you're up for including any of the following, I've always imagined that Black Box visuals would include one or more of the following: extremely high contrast, all the way up to and including using only black and white; low-to-no saturation except for one very saturated/bright color, and I know red is a classic but with the tech focus maybe blue would be fun; lineless art; art where some or all characters have no/low detail faces; art from the Narrator's POV.

Black Box fic prompts

Outsider POV on canon events.
An AU where the Alpha Beauty is with the same spy program as the Narrator and they team up, or honestly just anything where they're allies. I really loved the exchange in part 29 where the Alpha Beauty calls the Designated Mate a bastard for leaving the Narrator behind and I just... want more!!
How does the Narrator deal with coming home? How does her husband deal? Maybe the Narrator is encouraged to continue to use the thought transcriptions for therapeutic journaling reasons.
What was training like for the Narrator? Does she help train further women when she gets home? Anything that handles what this program does before and after missions would just be great.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

AO3 matching tag: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

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

Requested medium(s):

fanfiction

Requested character(s):

Dream Demon (Scum Villain)
Gōngyí Xiāo (Scum Villain)
Míng Fān (Scum Villain)

Shipping note: There are some ships I'd like in particular for some of these characters and I'll mention them in those sections. Ships that involve SQQ or LBH are fine, whether SQQ and LBH are broken up or not.

Other requested tag stuff:

Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.

SVSSS fic prompts

This fandom has eaten my life and I am just dying to receive interesting gen, rarepairs, outside POVs of canon events, etc. Things I would particularly love to see in this canon include:

Time/dimension travel involving the characters I've selected
Mission/case fic, especially hunting ghosts, especially if it involves characters who don't get along.
Subverted wife plots, either ones extrapolated from canon or made up off the top of your head
Related to the above, you know... soulbonds, sex pollen, love pollen, empathic bonds, magically handcuffed together... I'd love all that good good wacky trope shit that can be blamed on Airplane-bro.
Worldbuilding, weird magic shit, cultivation theory, etc.

Dream Demon

Poor Dream demon gets no respect... I love this grumpy dude. Anything with him would be great, but consider specifically:

Dream Demon's POV of any canon event(s), but I'd be especially interested in his POV of the Endless Abyss (He probably had to guide Binghe through that, right?) or digging through Shen Qingqiu or Qiu Haitang's memories.
What kind of dream stuff did he and Luo Binghe get up to in the Demon Realm after they escaped the Abyss?
What if Dream Demon had dug into Shen Qingqiu or Qiu Haitang's memories earlier?
Gen: DD & LBH, DD & NYY, DD & Original NYY, DD & SQQ, DD & Original SQQ, DD & Sha Hualing, DD & Mobei-jun, DD & Qiu Haitang
Ships: I can't think of any ships I'd want for this character so gen would be really good but if you have a rarepair ship then I trust you go for it.

Gongyi Xiao

Maybe my favorite minor character!!! He's so great. I love how much he respects SQQ and I love the part he plays in the books, except for the part where he beefs it TT_TT so I would really love a fix-it where ZZL doesn't murder him, if you're up for it! Or at least for him dying to not make it into the fic, if you want to write something canon-compliant set before his death.

An AU where he and SQQ straight up escape together instead of him wandering off and getting murdered, and then things go at least better enough for GYX to survive the experience.
GYX's POV of LBH at any point in canon.
GYX having taken to heart SQQ's lesson about not killing things you don't have to and about some demons being fine.
GYX time travel or timeloop
Something where GYX defects from Huan Hua Palace and joins Qing Jing.
GYX & any of the Cang Qiong disciples
GYX falls into the Abyss with LBH
Gongyi Xiao investigates hinky stuff at the Huan Hua Palace.
Gen: Any gen match up would be great, but definitely interested in: GYX & LBH, GYX & SQQ, GYX & ZZL, GYX & the young palace mistress
Ships: I'd definitely be interested in GYX/LBH.

Ming Fan

Ming Fan really interests me because he's kind of uhhh a huge asshole at the beginning of the book but from what we see of him later it seems like he's probably matured, probably partially because of SQQ|SY's direct influence on him and Qing Jing Peak and partially because of canon events. I really, really want his character explored in literally any fashion.

Canon POVs: Ming Fan during the years Luo Binghe was presumed dead and SQQ was mourning, Ming Fan's POV of SQQ being arrested and dying, Ming Fan's POV of post-canon stuff, Ming Fan and Ning Yingying and other desciples dealing with SQQ's change in personality.
In the Airplane extras (can you tell I was rereading them as I wrote this letter lmao) it's mentioned that Ming Fan's family has a tea farm and that SQQ sent a bunch of high-quality tea leaves to Bai Zhan. First of all, this is cute, but second of all, a Ming Fan POV of any part of that would be great.
Original Ming Fan welcome! I know he died in PIDW so something exploring that canonical death would be fine.
Also, anything about the way Shen Jiu as Peak Lord influenced him compared to Shen Yuan.
Does anyone ever talk to Ming Fan about how dangerous purposefully giving a false cultivation manual to someone is? Does Ming Fan ever regret it? It's basically on the level with attempted murder (or so one of the SJ extras implies) and I just... wonder if Ming Fan even knew that when he gave LBH the wrong cultivation manual?
Ming Fan backstory! He's from a rich family that gives him gifts and iirc maybe visits him. Is he a first son, meant to go back to the family after getting educated on Qing Jing, only to become too committed to helping SQQ to go back? Is he instead a second son, with no inheritance waiting for him?
Gen: MF & LBH, MF & Original LBH, MF & SQQ, MF & Original SQQ, MF & NYY, MF & YYX, MF & LQG
Ships: I don't have any for Ming Fan! Gen please.

Gravity Falls

AO3 matching tag: Gravity Falls

Fandom note: I think I've seen/read most of the extra content for Gravity Falls, so if you want to write something that incorporates things from the web shorts or something that's fine! If you end up basing your work on something it turns out I haven't seen, I'm fine with that too.

Requested medium(s):

fanfiction

Requested character(s)/ship(s):

Celestabellebethabelle (Gravity Falls)
Ghost-Eyes (Gravity Falls)
Gompers (Gravity Falls)
Hand Witch (Gravity Falls)
Invisible Wizard (Gravity Falls)
Multi-Bear (Gravity Falls)
Rock That Looks Like A Face Rock (Gravity Falls)
Shape Shifter | Experiment #210 (Gravity Falls)
Steve the Giant Tree-like Behemoth (Gravity Falls)
The Gremloblin (Gravity Falls)

Shipping note: Background pairings are fine, but per my DNW no shipfic except, of course for possibly writing about Hand Witch's quest for love.

Other requested tag stuff:

Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.

Gravity Falls fic prompts

I love the main cast, obviously, but lately I've been craving some minor characters! I don't mind any of the main cast showing up, but I'd also love to see things set away from the main cast, before canon, during the fall/winter/spring after canon while the Pines are gone... Gravity Falls is an amazing setting with amazing side characters and I just wanna explore them.

Most of these are extremely minor characters, so let's maybe do them nice and quick:

Celestabellebethabelle — I love this annoying pony. I'd love to see her punking Ford back in the day (I mean, I assume unicorns are unfairly long-lived, too?) or trying to get back at those girls who roughed her up! Or, maybe... I mean, unicorns are valuable, surely? Maybe someone captures her to use for parts and she needs to be rescued! Everyone loves a dramatic rescue. Bonus points if it's also an minor set of characters doing the rescuing like... idk, Wendy's friends?
Ghost-Eyes — I would love to see Ghost-Eyes use his philosophy degree. Or something set during Weirdmageddon, or post-canon... also, anything about him and Gideon Gleeful's friendship! How'd they meet?
Gompers — I love this weird goat and I would love anything even weirder about him. Like... I would love someone to discover that Gompers is not just a goat. Or anything from the trivia section on the wiki. Is Gompers cursed into being an immortal goat by some witch? Also, the idea of Stan with a baby goat is really cute.
Hand Witch — I love the Hand Witch and I would love for her to find love! Or to curse some folks, or both. How do things go with that handsome hiker? Also, hey, do you think Hand Witch and Multibear live on the same mountain? Are they neighbors? Does Hand Witch have to deal with the manotaurs? I would also love a 5+1 fic about 5 relationships that didn't work out for Hand Witch and one that did.
Invisible Wizard — Really just anything about the invisible wizard! Who probably should not be kissing Grenda and also maybe has lipstick? I would be very easy to please on this front because I have, like, no ideas. I just love this set of jokes.
Multi-Bear — Multi-Bear is my favorite minor character. I would love to see him being friends with Grenda and Candy post-canon or otherwise hanging out with people.
Rock That Looks Like A Face Rock — Where did rock that looks like a face rock come from? Could it be supernatural? Is the fact that tourists can't remember that it's a rock that looks like a face some kind of curse?
Shape Shifter | Experiment #210 — My favorite villain! Very spooky! Got its ass kicked by Wendy! Possibly still gonna unfreeze some day and need its ass kicked again! Please spook me with the past adventures of this creature or the further adventure of this creature, I love him. Also, are there other shapeshifters?
Steve the Giant Tree-like Behemoth — Steve stole Ford's car and once threw a deer at him. Very rude! Maybe life was rough for Steve in the 80's. Has it improved since? Does he like Stan any better? What about Mabel and Dipper? Wendy almost got send to work at her cousin's logging camp for the summer... do you think the logging camp or Wendy's father have ever run into Steve while lumberjacking, and if so how'd that go?
The Gremloblin — I love this monster and I would love anything about it. How did Ford encounter it? How did Dipper capture it? Does it ever long to look into another being's eyes without causing them unimaginable terror? Does it every have to get glasses like its father?

Naruto

AO3 matching tag: Naruto

Fandom note: I'm not very familiar or very interested in the end of the series, but feel free to borrow whatever you need from it for your fic! Per usual I don't want any Boruto content, and also I should maybe mention I haven't read any of the light novels so details from those might confuse me.

Requested medium(s):

fanfiction

Requested character(s):

Senju Tobirama (Naruto)

Shipping note: I would be extremely pleased with gen, and have listed ships I'm interested in below.

Other requested tag stuff:

Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.

Senju Tobirama

Tobirama is one of my favorites for being ruthless and brilliant and SO much fun to whump.

In general in Naruto fic I love:

Time travel. Literally any kind or amount of time trave in any form, including time loops! Peggy Sue is a favorite, but physical is fine too
Canon divergence, for want of a nail, & fix-its!
No Uchiha massacre, or Uchiha massacres where the only part of the clan died and the people who are left have to deal with Itachi having Done That.
Worldbuilding about inter- and intra-clan politics
Worldbuilding about inter- and intra-village politics
Worldbuilding about jutsu, ninja career paths, the average civilian life of Hidden Village residents, how the hell the village dealt with their police department dying suddenly down to the last person, etc.
Found family, team-as-family, the newest generation surpassing the last not just in strength but also in kindness/mercy/knowledge/loyalty.
Interaction with minor characters and even OCs.

Tobirama-specific prompts:

Please just whump and them comfort him in whatever way you want.
Also I'm very sure he overworks and is underappreciated.
On the less iddy side of things, I'd love to see anything about the village coming together, including city planning, negotiating treaties, etc. I love logistics and worldbuilding AND I would love the emotional parts around that — like, the moment Hashirama realizes that Tobirama is genuinely helping this thing happen even though he doesn't trust the Uchiha.
Anything about Tobirama setting the Konoha Military Police up!
Obligatory Naruto time travel prompt: Tobirama goes back in time and doesn't kill Izuna, which absolutely makes things worse.
Gen pairings: Tobirama & Hashirama or their other brothers, Tobirama & Madara, Tobirama & Izuna, Tobirama & Mito, Tobirama & Kagami, Tobirama & time travelling character of your choice
Ship: I like Tobirama/Madara and Tobirama/Mito a lot! Tobirama/Izuna is good too but I love it when they hate each other, mostly. Tobirama/Sakura, Tobirama/Kakashi, or Tobirama/Kisame also welcome.

Harry Potter

AO3 matching tag: Harry Potter - JK Rowling

Fandom note: I would strongly prefer no details from the Fantastic Beasts movies and more mildly I have a soft spot for Epilogue, What Epilogue? fic, but neither of those are a deal breaker for me and you should use or discard pieces of canon as you see fit!

Requested medium(s):

fanfiction

Requested character(s):

Gilderoy Lockhart
Gilderoy Lockhart's Victims

Shipping note: A great deal of things you could/are likely to write about Gilderoy Lockhart would take place during or before second year for Harry, Hermione, etc, and if that's the case I would prefer no shipping beyond the canonical crushes (eg, Ginny's embarrassing thing for Harry, lmao) for characters below 5th year. If you're following one of my prompts that would make them older and you want a ship, I've leaned towards Harry/Hermione, Harry/Draco, Hermione/Ron, Harry/Luna but would welcome any combination of characters that you like! Or no pairings, that's fine too.

As far as shipping Lockhart goes, uh, honestly all I can think of is that he was probably up to hinky stuff in his personal life just like he was hinky in his professional life, and I don't mind that being explored. Non-hinky is fine too, though! If you have a rarepair, I would love to be convinced.

Finally of course you might be writing literally any canon characters or you might be writing OCs. I'm fine with canon character/OC and OC/OC. Basically, as long as the plot is focused around Lockhart, please feel free to live your ship dreams!

Other requested tag stuff:

Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.

Why Lockhart

I am interested in two kinds of fic here:

Fic where Gilderoy Lockhart is the main character.
Fic where Gilderoy Lockhart is the main subject, but maybe doesn't actually appear.

I was suddenly overcome with a passionate and surprising need for Lockhart fic while writing my letter for the first round of UFE, and I've been requesting him ever since because Gilderoy Lockhart is a very interesting character! An excellent and stunning character! And also a horrible person, which just makes him better. Lockhart annoys his coworkers, endangers his students, ruins lives, lies, steals, probably cheats when possible, focuses only on himself, gives absolutely ludicrously terrible advice........... what more could you want to write about? Also, his various crimes were never made public and his victims never found, informed, or compensated, which is such a wonderful dangling tread to pull.

If you're looking for direction on my favorite characters — because some people do! — you really can't go wrong with Hermione, Luna, Harry, Draco, Ron, Sirius, or the Weasley twins... but really I'm here for Lockhart content! I would be delighted to receive different characters, OCs, and/or extremely minor canon characters. I have received fic for this prompt using characters not on that list and it was amazing. Whoever your fave is, whoever you think is most interesting? I'm sure they'll be great!

Prompts in which Lockhart is a character

Lockhart stealing someone's memories or interacting with someone whose memories he stole.
Poppy Pomfrey: not pleased that Lockhart vanished all the bones in Harry's arm.
Lockhart regains his memory and stands trial.
Lockhart comes to teach at Hogwarts a different year! I would be especially interested in Harry & co being older.
Lockhart never comes to teach at Hogwarts and instead the whistle gets blown on him erasing people's memories when he tries it on some character of your choosing. (Suggestions in case you need 'em, but really anyone is fine: Charlie, Bill, Hermione, Luna, Harry, Draco, Lupin.)
Someone travels back in time to do something unrelated like destroy horcruxes, but still takes time out of their busy schedule to deal with Lockhart.
I would also love something where post-Book 2 Lockhart breaks out of the hospital and investigates himself, discovering along the way that he's a scoundrel and a fraud.
My AU Ex letter has elaboration on these canon divergence tags:
- Gilderoy Lockhart escapes his teaching term unscathed; his crimes are uncovered later
- Gilderoy Lockhart's crimes uncovered via investigative journalism
- legal inquiry into Lockhart/Lockhart's injury; Ron & Harry testify
- Gilderoy Lockhart teaches during Harry Potter's 5th year instead

Prompts in which Lockhart does not necessarily have to appear

People love to complain to Dumbledore about Lockhart.
Molly Weasley's reaction to learning that this author she was kinda embarrassingly infatuated with tried to erase Ron and Harry's memories.
For that matter, the conversations Ron probably had to have with, at minimum, his parents and Dumbledore about what Lockhart's been up to.
Post-canon, someone (Ron and/or Harry and/or Hermione?) tries to find all of Lockhart's victims.
In the above-mentioned AU about Lockhart not teaching at Hogwarts, one or more characters investigate him and uncover his crimes. (Golden Trio welcome, would have a soft spot for Luna being included, and for a really wild minor character match up, maybe it could be Rita Skeeter?)

Freeforms from Jump Scare 2020

Amnesiac Investigates Themself And Accidentally Exposes All Of Their Terrible Crimes
Amnesiac's Slow Realization That They're A (Non-Literal) Monster
Exploring The Horrific Implications Of A Man Who Can And Will Erase Anyone's Memories
Requested Character Is The Threat Other Characters Are Trying To Escape
Trapped In Scary Situation With Only The Worst Character As Backup
Unqualified Fraudster Gets In Over His Head; Exciting Monsterfucking Ensues
Unqualified Fraudster Gets In Over His Head; Has To Ask Someone Competent For Help

The Untamed

AO3 matching tag: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Fandom note: I'm not into the book or the donghua so per my DNW please stick to show canon for plot points, character beats, etc. I don't mind the inclusion of smaller details/worldbuilding from MDZS, though. I've seen Fatal Journey (the Nie bros movie) but I haven't seen the Wen Ning movie yet.

Requested medium: fanfiction

Requested character:

Lan Qiren
Nie Huaisang
Jiang Disciple Happy Not to Be Murdered by Wei Wuxian at Nightless City
Lil Apple

Shipping notes: I'd be very very happy with LQR gen. I don't mind LWJ/WWX in the background, but don't want shipfic focused on them for this request. If you want to ship LQR, I would be interested to try LQR/NHS!

Other requested tag stuff:

Trick - Fic
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Lan Qiren

LQR is a really fascinating character to me because he largely functions as an antagonist and as the voice of the traditional/conventional cultivation that WWX largely rejects. I love that he's frequently in conflict with our protagonists and that he's a very strict and kinda disagreeable person and I would just really enjoy either a canon-compliant character study or some kind of plotty fic where LQR can really shine!

If you're desperate for more of my feelings about The Untamed, please see my AU Ex letter — I didn't request Lan Qiren but it covers my feelings about basically everything else.

Does LQR ever seriously consider WWX's argument about obstruction vs redirection? If not, what would make him do so?
What if LQR visited the Burial Mounds while WWX and the Wen Remnants were there?
LQR and WWX have a talk during the Sunshot Campaign.
LQR's opinion of Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao
I don't usually like characters meeting themselves...but what do you think a post-canon LQR would have to say to a LQR from pre- or mid-canon?
LQR has a problem and only WWX can solve it.
LQR meets the Ghost General and it's underwhelming because Wen Ning is in the middle of being bullied by children or rabbits or a donkey or something.
...LQR reacts to the juniors coming home with a donkey.
Gen: LQR & WWX, LQR & any of the juniors, LQR & Jiang Cheng, LQG & any Lan
Ships: I'd love to try out LQR/NHS

Nie Huaisang

So much sneaking! So much lying and laying low! I love that NHS figured JGY out and then had to very carefully plot to take him down, and I would love to see what he'd do with a headstart to save his brother and oust JGY from his position of power. I really just would love to see him interact with literally anyone, including Nie sect OCs.

Prompts:

I would love to know what he was up to during and immediately after the Sunshot campaign and I am definitely all for canon divergence where he has to stick his nose into things earlier.
NHS's experiences becoming head of the Nie clan after NMJ died — did the clan struggle to accept it at all?
What if NMJ had actually died during that final Sunshot Campaign battle?
NHS has to ask someone for help in his plot against JGY.
NHS learns demonic cultivation as part of his plot against JGY
Gen: I really mean it literally anyone!! I'm sure you can thing of NHS & Various Cast Memvber
Ships: I would be very, very happy with gen, but I would also enjoy NHS/WWX, NHS/WWX/LWJ, NHS/JYL, or even NHS/Wen Qing.

Jiang Disciple Happy Not to Be Murdered by Wei Wuxian at Nightless City

This guy delights me so much. And also makes me very sad. I have both feelings very strongly and it's delicious. I don't really have any specific prompts, I just really want fic from his POV or where he features heavily! Canon compliant angstfest would be fine, or you could bless me with some kind of fix it. Either way, I'm really into him remembering WWX fondly and wanting WWX to remember him and the sect fondly. It's very wholesome, right up until it's tragic.

Lil Apple

This stupid donkey....what a gift.

Prompts:

Lil Apple fights a ghost
Lil Apple hangs out with the Juniors
Lil Apple dies (gently while sleeping of old age!) but is full of resentful donkey energy and sticks around to haunt WWX, which WWX very much enjoys.
Lil Apple makes friends with some rabbits
Lil Apple makes friends and/or enemies with Lan Qiren.
Cloud Recesses are attacked while Lil Apple is there! The attackers are not prepared to deal with Lil Apple's donkey wrath, however.
Lil Apple time travels, kicks ass, gets to meet Jiang Yanli

"Polo"

AO3 matching tag: "Polo" (Comic by alligatestheartisan)

Fandom note: This is a 10-panel comic available on tumblr here about a demon and a guy! It's basically a joke that's also a comic but I think it has interesting implications. You can view it here.

Requested medium(s):

fanfiction

Requested character(s):

Marco ("Polo")
Polo ("Polo")

Shipping note: Literally whatever you want is fine.

Other requested tag stuff:

Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic
Do not ignore my fic/art and trick/treat preferences for extra gifts.

"Polo" fic prompts

In General....

I would love Marco & Polo or Marco/Polo! I'd also love either worldbuilding or a more emotional/character-focused look at things. Or both! I love how Marco handles the situation calmly despite his alarm and I love how Polo is embarrassed by it, so I'd love something character-focused and emotional, but porn would be good too.

What would Polo have done if he had gained ownership of Marco's soul?
Is there ever a day when Marco does say Polo's name?
Presumably "Marco" is Marco's true name, which Polo has now said to Marco, possibly thereby granting Marco his soul, or the demon equivalent thereof. If that's the case, what does owning this demon's soul mean for Marco?

If you want to write shipfic for this ship, I would specifically enjoy: UST, pre-ship, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, FWB-to-lovers, pining, when their HANDS TOUCH AAA, huddling for warmth, soulbonds (but preferably not soulmates)

If you want to write smut for this ship, I would specifically enjoy: xeno (including weird dicks, tentacles, etc), oviposition, mpregnation, porn with feelings, no-no-yes noncon, sex magic & rituals, size kink. If you want to write Marco has having or gaining both sets of genitals (against his will or otherwise) I'd be into that.

Here are some tags I selected for this fandom for Jump Scare 2020:

Being Followed Home In The Dark
Being Polite About Eldritch Genitals Which Are Too Much For Human Eyes To Behold
Competently handling the horrifying thing
folk horror
Haunted area is trying real hard but failing to scare
Paranormal Casefic
Soulbonded To An Ancient Monster
Stalked by Non-Human Entity

Polo

Maybe you want to write something just focused on Polo!

Who told Polo about the "Marco Polo" call-and-response?
Did they know that Marco's name is Marco and that it might backfire?
Why does Polo need/want to own a soul?
Does he go and try the Marco Polo trick on anyone else after Marco turns him down?
What other stupid tricks has Polo tried in order to get his hands on someone's soul?

Marco

Maybe you want to write something just focused on Marco!

Are there other strange things in the forest? Are any of them more dangerous/more scary/less polite than Polo?
Does Marco tell anyone about his encounter with Polo?
Perhaps Marco isn't as normal as he seems! He could be a wizard or something.

Strange Trails - Lord Huron

AO3 matching tag: Strange Trails - Lord Huron (Album)

Fandom note: I adore this album so much and I just really want whatever sparks for you from the album! You can find the album in a YouTube video here, on Spotify, and probably elsewhere. The lyrics can all be found on Genius.

Requested medium(s):

fanart

Requested character(s):

Buck Vernon (Strange Trails)
D. Redmayne (Strange Trails)
H.W. Justine (Strange Trails)
Johnnie (Strange Trails)
The Phantom Riders (Strange Trails)
Remy Fusil (Strange Trails)
Buck Vernon (Strange Trails)
The World Ender (Strange Trails)
Claude Fox (Strange Trails)
Louisa (Strange Trails)
Narrator of "Way Out There" (Strange Trails)
The Fool The Narrator Is Addressing In "The Yawning Grave" (Strange Trails)
Narrator of "The Yawning Grave" (Strange Trails)
Someone For Whom "The Yawning Grave" Is Traditional (Strange Trails)

Shipping note: Whatever ships you want! Anything you think is interesting. I like M/M, M/F, and F/F.

Other requested tag stuff:

Trick - Art
Trick - Fic
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Fandom-specific DNWs:

None!

Strange Trails art prompts

I seem to remember that a lot of Lord Huron's Instagram posts were black and white ink sketches, and I would love to see anything in that kind of style — I'm also just a huge fan of work produced for inktober, so please feel free to double up on challenges as long as you don't mind keeping the sketch for me held back until creator revels, of course!
I love the visuals in "Until the Night Turns" about the end of the world, a visitor, a sign in the midnight sky, etc.
The Phantom Riders, especially Johnnie, are favorites of mine! I'd love to see art that captures the wild and reckless and unrelenting feeling of "Hurricane", the events of "Dead Man's Hand", etc. (Although per my DNW: please do not actually illustrate the motorcycle accident in "Dead Man's Hand", I'm more interested in the events that occur after Buck Vernon rolls up on a dead body.)
Floral motifs + "La Belle Fleur Sauvage" = perfect
"Fool For Love" was the first song I heard off this album and any visuals from it — Buck Vernon's imagined life with Lily? His fight with Big Jim? — would be amazing.
Really anything would be wonderful!

Strange Trails fic prompts

(To be clear: I've grouped characters but only because I think I have a lot of similar things to say about them/related prompts, not because I absolutely expect all characters grouped together to be written together!)

Buck Vernon and Louisa

Buck Vernon is listed as the narrator for Dead Man’s Hand, Fool For Love, Cursed, and Louisa.

Dead Man's Hand has a really excellent, contained story about Buck Vernon trying to lay a dead guy to rest and I would just adore seeing any part of it written out narratively! I love the interpretation that the dead man is Johnnie (and I think that "there ain't no thrills in the afterlife" matches up very very well with lines in "Hurricane"!)
If you maybe don't want to write something as described in the song (which would be very reasonable) I'd love to see something where Buck and the dead man meet again.
Lily's point of view of Fool For Love would be great — what does Buck look like to her?
Buck's situation in Cursed seems extremely dire! How does he escape it — or is Cursed about Louisa, and Buck doesn't escape so much as eventually get too ensnared to escape? If so, maybe he could eventually be rescued by his friend the dead man?
Also, finally Lousia! An interpretation of the song where Buck is just being hyperbolic about how much he loves and appreciates Lousia would be good, of course, but if you're up to write about something where Lousia is a literal necromancer who raised Buck from the dead following the events of Fool For Love I'd adore that.

Francine Lu and Claude Fox

Francine Lu is listed as a narrator for Love Like Ghosts, Meet Me in the Woods, and The Night We Met. Meet Me In The Woods is also listed for Claude Fox. I'd love to know more about their relationship and more about Francine in general, who according to liner notes on The Night We Met is "an older woman who sings in a bar." (Also, her last name might be Lou? I don't actually own this album physically and the Genius notes vary.)

I'd love to get a fic about the night Francine and Claude met! I would also love to have it include time travel — does Francine tell herself not to right along with Claude, as the song suggests? To or from where was that ride?
I think there are a lot of really interesting ways to interpret these three songs (and maybe parts/themes of other songs) into fic and I don't want to do too much analysis to block anyone in, but I'd love anything that explores which of these two had the unrequited love, which of them left and saw terrible things and then came back changed, etc.
(Okay, also, I love the use of ghosts as a metaphor for love and I would also love something where one of them can see ghosts! I love the lines "All the spirits that I know I saw / Do you see no ghost in me at all?" for meaning something like "I see love everywhere, do you really think that I can't love?" while also basically meaning "Do I seem to have no soul?" especially in the context of some kind of romantic/sexual relationship.)

D. Redmayne, Johnnie, the Phantom Riders, and the World Ender

D. Redmayne and the Phantom Riders are listed as narrators for Until the Night Turns, Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme), and The World Ender.

I would love to see a scene of the "visitor from the great beyond" coming to give the vision described in the first two verses and also the ensuing push to stay up until the world ends.
Johnnie is presumably a Phantom Rider and I really like the interpretation that he's both the dead man in Dead Man's Hand and that he's The World Ender — I know there's a comic book that kind of contradicts that interpretation, but Johnnie's POV in Hurricane matches up so wonderfully with the dead man's reasons for not wanting to be buried.
I'd also just love something about Johnnie coming "right on back" for the "little darlin'" the chorus is directed at.
It's not really clear how the Phantom Riders and the World Ender and Johnnie are exactly meant to relate, and I'd really love any kind of interpretation of it. I'd be interested in anything that handles the lines "I was 6 feet down, but something raised me up / Sent back for to lift my curse / I’m gonna get me a taste of some chaos first" — what curse? What lifted him up? If Johnnie isn't the World Ender, does he maybe have similar power, and can he oppose the World Ender? It seems like he might just to feel alive.
The narrator for Meet Me in the Woods isn't directly related to the events of Until the Night Turns, Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme), and The World Ender, but I think the theme of coming back wrong and etc would be very interesting to play with.

Remy Fusil

Remy Fusil is listed as the narrator of La Belle Fleur Sauvage.

Remy is on a probably doomed quest for a legendary immortal beauty! What a dumbass.
I would love to know more about the immortal goddess this song describes and about Remy who thinks he can "pluck" her so that he can "love" her and then have her in his grave with him. I kind of suspect that this immortal lady up on her mountain will not be about that plan at all. Does Remy die? Does he get a darkened heart and phantom pains?
I also love that this ties into other themes on the album about going to places you shouldn't go, seeing places you shouldn't see, and getting yourself into trouble via love.

H.W. Justine

H.W. Justine is listed as the narrator of Frozen Pines. I don't have as many prompts for this song but It's actually my favorite on the album!

It's just so haunting and lonely and mysterious? The isolation and uncertainty are top-notch and I would love any fic that captured those.
I wonder who H.W. Justine/the narrator is waiting for, and what happened to them, and why all their friends are maybe dead, etc.
My brain has been on ghosts a lot recently and this song always makes me think the narrator is maybe a ghost.

Narrator of "Way Out There"

"Way Out There" is listed as traditional, but it has a very strong narrator! I would be interested in the narrator being connected to the characters whose POVs are explored in other parts of the album, but I would also be interested in something that only concerns itself with the one song. Whatever you like best!

I think that the themes of wandering/travel, and "running through life and cruising toward death" are very relevant to the rest of the album, and I also definitely think its position between "Cursed" and "Lousia" are very interesting! Okay, I'm beginning to think that I won't really have anything helpful to say in this section because just pointing at things and saying, "My! How interesting! Make me a fic about that!" is a bit useless. I'm simply very curious about the narrator! Tell me some things about him or her!

The Fool The Narrator Is Addressing In "The Yawning Grave" and the Narrator

This first person address of some person who's apparently SERIOUSLY fucked up has got me SO desperate to know more and I deeply hope you will indulge me in answering questions like:

Who is the fool and what rule(s) did they break? Did they know they were breaking the rules? Did they know the consequences?
Who and what is the narrator???? Omg. A god or spirit? A guardian of some kind? Something else entirely?
What is the yawning grave, what kind of evil things are in the darkness, and what exactly will the reckoning entail?
I am IN LOVE with the narrator straight up being like "I am coming for you" and very desperate to know if you think the narrator is one of the evil things being brought or if the narrator wants to stop the evil things or what.
The narrator seems, you know, very inhuman, so I wonder if the fool simply didn't recognize the warnings and "omens and all kinds of signs"?

Someone For Whom "The Yawning Grave" Is Traditional

"The Yawning Grave" is listed as traditional on the album rather than having a narrator like most of the other songs, and so of course my mind is all abuzz asking: for whom is this song traditional, and what are their other traditions like, and what do you think they're supposed to understand from a traditional song like this? (Is it possible that the song itself is some kind of warning/omen/sign?)

I'd be equally pleased to have you create some totally new characters and circumstances as I would be to have you work this request in with the other actual Strange Trails characters.