Trick or Treat Letter 2023

Sep. 13th, 2023 07:23 pm
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Trick or Treat 2023 Letter

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Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

Table of Contents



General Likes and DNWs

General Likes
  • Character studies and introspection
  • Loneliness and isolation
  • Angst
  • Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
  • World-building, backstory, and character development.
  • Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
  • Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
  • Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
  • Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
  • Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
  • Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
  • Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
  • Repression and stoicism
  • Descriptions of scars
  • Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
  • Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
  • Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
  • Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
  • Time Loops
  • Older characters finding love.
  • Age gap relationships
  • I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
  • Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
  • Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
  • Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
  • Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
  • Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes
  • Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
  • Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
  • Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
  • Comfort Sex
  • Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
  • Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
  • Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
  • Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
  • Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
  • Threesomes
  • Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs
  • Omegaverse
  • Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
  • Dubcon involving unaroused characters
  • Unrequested Incest
  • Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
  • Scat and waterplay
  • Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
  • Underage
  • Het anal sex
  • Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
  • Fisting
  • Lactation kink
  • Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
  • Focus on AIDS/HIV

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Ash vs Evil Dead

Requested Ships: Ash Williams
Ship: Pablo Simon Bolivar & Kelly Maxwell & Ash Williams
Ship: Pablo Simon Bolivar/Kelly Maxwell/Ash Williams
Ship: Ruby Knowby/Kelly Maxwell
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

For the record, I’ve just finished season 2 of the TV series, but I’m burning through the series pretty quickly, so should certainly have finished it by reveals (and possibly even by the end of sign-ups). Please don’t worry about spoilers, and I apologise in advance if I miss anything in my request). I also haven’t consumed the games, comics or the more recent films, so while I don’t mind spoilers, feel free to disregard them.

I am such a sucker for a reluctant heroes who are much more noble than they want or pretend to be, and for characters who pretend to be more assholish than they are. Not to mention undergoing whump and bucketloads of trauma, and Ash hits all of this spot-on. I very much appreciate that we repeatedly get to see him dragged to the end of his tether and a little bit beyond, and I am very much here for those moments when he’s sweating and terrified and drenched with blood.

I am fascinated by the way his character evolves over the course of the films and the TV series, and while I don’t love everything about the show what I do love is how damaged he is by everything he’s gone through and everything he’s lost, and the way he’s trying to be a selfish asshole and never quite 100% succeeding because he cares more than he wants to. (If that’s not your take, by the way, then please don’t worry: part of the joy of fanfiction for me is seeing the way other people interpret characters so go with your headcanons if you want)

There are so many contradictions in his character: the womanising vs how he’s actually pretty damn romantic whenever he gets the chance, and the whole thing about him being dumb, when he is demonstratively NOT stupid AT ALL – he converted his trashed car so that it could be steam-powered ffs! My personal headcanon is that he was an engineering student working at S-Mart to put himself through college, which may or may not be supported by canon (haha, since writing this I’ve started on the comics, and YEP, engineering degree XD), but either way I love the insights those apparent contradictions give us – his almost supernatural competence when it comes to fighting Deadites vs the whole accidentally reading from the Necronomicon while high to impress a girl thing, the way his mistakes seem to come from spiralling despair and depression, the womanising coming from not wanting to get close to anyone because they almost inevitably die horribly, and the prospect of a career just being yet another thing he’s lost because of everything that happened. It’s all a mix of whump and grief and regret that will never fail to hit me in a very tender spot, and I would love to see any of that explored.

I ship him with basically everyone, and also just about every permutation of Ash/Pablo/Kelly, so if you want to write smut or ship-fic, then you have just about an open book there. I also love Kelly so much – she’s fast become one of my favourite characters, and I love her dynamic with Ruby. And just in general, I really, really love the dynamics of the relationship between Ash, Pablo and Kelly, him making the deal with Ruby purely to save them, and all the day to day mundanities of life on the road living in his trailer, and the way Kelly and Pablo feel a little like facets of Ash’s character – with Pablo being the way he used to be, mostly a normal young man, maybe a little more sensitive and quiet than most (okay, YMMV hugely on that, but that’s my take XD), while Kelly is the way he is now, a traumatised badass who is pissed as hell. I love her so freaking much, and find myself adoring her and her dynamic with Ash more with every episode I watch.

Optional Prompts

  • That time the evil clone goes back in time to have questionably consensual sex with a younger version of Ash, who never realises it’s a clone and so just assumes he’s inevitably going to turn into a bit of an asshole. Which… might explain a lot.
  • A 5+1 Things fic looking at anything you want it to. Five people Ash has slept with, five encounters with a Deadite, five times he tried to destroy the Necronomicon, Five times Ash got drenched in blood, etc.
  • Bathing/Washing – Because they sure do get grimy a lot in canon. Here for hurt/comfort, or just moments of respite when he gets the chance, however briefly, to get clean.
  • - Taking the original trilogy and the TV show in mind, I'm amused by the way each instalment contradicts the canon in one that went before. Like it only being Ash and Linda who went to the cabin in ED2, and the TV series (so far anyway) ignoring that whole sleeping too long element at the end of Army of Darkness. But what if they're all true, and each discrepancy can be put down to an alternate universe? What happens if the barriers between those universes start to break down?
  • More film references. One of the things I love about the series, particularly series 2 are all the nods to other films, like Christine, Mad Max, and Back to the Future. Spoof some more films, particularly horror. The Thing? Halloween? Nightmare on Elm Street?
  • Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live any more – I’d love to see the aftermath of trauma explored, what happened in Elk Grove after Ash’s return, the death of his girlfriend and sister, and his doomed attempts at trying to rebuild his life. Just rip my heart out please. And CHET, because woooow, that’s a relationship where there’s clearly a shit-ton of baggage. I headcanon Chet as having been in love with Ash since High School, with him sleeping with Cheryl as a kind of substitute for her brother, so yeah: that’s going to be an interesting bit of backstory right there.
  • Ash has to fake being evil for reasons.
  • Character resigned to loneliness finds unexpected intimacy with other(s) – I love Ash’s relationship with Pablo and Kelly so much, how tightly knitted they’ve become in so short a time, the whole travelling together, the way they’ve all lost something. I ship it, but I’m here for the gen relationship too – the protectiveness and the loyalty and the way that it kind of feels like he has a family again, and ow my heart ow.
  • Competence Kink - Character A Annoyed By How Hot They Find Character B’s Competence – Ahha, :D. I’ll admit I have Ruby in mind for this, but competence kink in general is a good fit for him, and especially the disconnect between people’s first impressions of him and the way he is in action. That speech he gives Kelly in the first episode about how ‘sure, he doesn’t look like much now, but wait a while...’ and her ‘oh. Oh no’ moment. XD
  • Going undercover in a cult that worships the Deadites.
  • Ash’s relationship with Sheila back in the Middle Ages left her pregnant, resulting in the establishment of a secret society dedicated to hunting demons. Although their priorities may have got a little mixed up over the centuries.
  • A Burn Notice crossover! (Note that so far I've only watched season 1 of Burn Notice, and I'm not sure how far I'll get in it by reveals, so I'd prefer no major spoilers, please. ETA: This doesn't apply to Sam's backstory or to the Fall of Sam Axe) Mistaken identities. The trio jumping to the conclusion that the evil hand has regrown Ash again and trying to kidnap/kill Sam necessitating another rescue by Michael and Fi until deadites complicate matters. Sam and Ash having to pose as each other for plot reasons. Or alternatively, maybe Sam just wakes up hungover in Ash's body one day and has to pretend to be him while he figures out what the hell's going on, who these people are, and what the fuck happened to his hand. Fudge the timelines however you need to to make this happen. :D Oh, and I should add that I am very, very here for Ash/Sam, with an Ash from any point in the timeline from the first film onwards.
  • Bodyswap - for any combination of the characters really, but especially the threesome of Ash, Kelly & Pablo, and for Kelly and Ruby. This is an issue that may or may not have to be solved through sex.
  • Pablo gets sex pollened, meaning that Ash and Kelly have to help him get through it (but end up getting it on with each other a little bit as well).
  • For Ruby/Kelly, a canon divergence where they team up earlier than in canon, or where they're working together for a longer period of time, perhaps because Baal's plans play out over a longer period of time or because it takes them longer to rescue Ash from the hospital. Maybe Kelly gets sick of Jacksonville so takes a break and ends up meeting up with Ruby and they have to work together.
  • Ruby and Kelly go on a shopping spree. Because oh god, Ruby's *wardrobe.* And maybe something something demons but also I am completely here for the clothing porn and retail therapy.
  • Ruby and Kelly as a battle couple.
  • For Ruby/Kelly (although feel free to use this prompt for other pairings) sex in the blood of their enemies
  • Everyone gets to meet their evil puppet selves. In fact, what about a whole evil puppet related casefic? Or body swap, where they find themselves trapped in the bodies of their evil puppet selves while the evil puppets are puppeting it up with their real bodies?
  • Ruby helps Kelly work through the whole being possessed by Eligos thing, whether that means the underlying trauma which she never dealt with due to being on the road with Ash, or something less serious like sex-pollen esque symptoms.
  • Ruby and Kelly get stranded in the 80s and have to live their lives out until the future happens. Possibly without actually having to age.
  • (Note that I haven't started on season 3 yet, but:) The evil Ruby we see towards the end of season 3? Her paired with an evil version of Kelly, please.
  • Supernatural pregnancy -- Ruby accidentally gets Kelly pregnant. Is it a monster? Is it a real baby? Or maybe they won't know either way until the baby comes.
  • No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me - Evil!Ruby > Kelly
  • Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted - Again for Evil!Ruby/Kelly. And while my first thought was Ruby tending to Kelly, it occurs to me that there's no reason it couldn't be the other way around, with Kelly determined to at least try to talk Ruby back to the good side.

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Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)

Requested Ships: Charles Siringo/Tom Horn
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

This is going to be a bit of a shorter request, mainly because I’m throwing it in last minute, but please don’t think that means I want this any less. These films, starting with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the 2023 version), which is followed up by the sequel Butch vs Sundance, aren’t perfect by any means, but I found them a lot of fun to watch, the first one especially. They’re free on Tubi, but I’m not sure if they’re available elsewhere yet – I had to use a VPN to access them. I enjoyed the first film more, although I did appreciate a lot of what the second film tried to do, (and ftr I ship the Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid/Etta Place OT3 too).

Horn is only in the first film and I was a little disappointed with how the sequel defanged Siringo a little – he wasn’t nearly as much as a bastard as he was in the first film. OTOH that bit where he slams Sundance into the bars of the cell? HOT. (Also the whole section where Siringo and Sundance are travelling together and all the testing his loyalty stuff? I’m not quite sure it pulled off what it was trying to do, but I would have been very very into what it was trying to do had it managed to do it, so I think of it fondly for that reason alone. Kiiiiinda shipping Siringo/Sundance a little bit too, ngl. XD)

Charles Siringo/Tom Horn

Oof, the height difference alone. *hearteyes* But I also adore their dynamic so much: in their first scene together, Siringo approvingly watching Horn beat the shit out of someone for the crime of stealing a chicken. Giving him a badge and turning Horn into his monster on a leash, standing back and watching him work: all of that is golden. The potential for loyalty kink is delicious, and it’s all the better for how Siringo is actually barely in control of Horn a lot of the time, with innocent people getting hurt as a result, but even so Horn remains completely loyal to Siringo throughout.

I would love to see that whole dynamic dug into, and I am so fucking here to see them having a sexual relationship, possibly one that reflects their dynamic onscreen – Siringo having maaaaybe bitten off more than he can chew, and not quite being in control, but at the same time doing his damndest to maintain the appearance of being in control.

Siringo fascinates me – why is he so intent on bringing Cassidy in? Does it just come down to him being obsessed with the law? I’m also really drawn to the question of morality, and the way his association with Horn leads to him compromising his moral values. (Or not. Maybe he really was always just that much of a bastard, and Horn gave him the excuse). In other words, if you want to go to town on a character study, then please, please do, but ftr I would also be happy with pure indulgent smut.

The theme of apparently dead people turning out not to be dead at all comes up repeatedly, so what about an AU where Horn survives, and is only thought to be dead, whether for handwavy reasons or because Siringo thought that if he was thought to be dead, he might be able to use him to outwit Butch.

Optional Prompts

  • Pure indulgent smutfic. I’d especially love to see something exploring Siringo’s potential feelings of being out of control, and having unleashed something he’s maybe not quite ready to deal with. Also for this pairing I’m especially here for sex under the stars, rough sex, oral sex, campfire sex, scar worship/comparison, and a potentially repressed man getting borderline dubconned while at the same time being very into it.
  • Something set during the second film which digs into how Horn’s canonical death provides Siringo with a further motive to bring Cassidy in, particularly if they were lovers. (It’s fine for Horn not to appear in the fic.)
  • One thing I really did like about the second film was Siringo and Sundance travelling together, and Siringo’s attempts to win Sundance over to his side. Assuming Horn’s still dead, maybe they recognise that the other is attracted to men, and Sundance figures out what Siringo’s relationship with Horn really was, adding a whole interesting layer to the relationship Siringo’s trying to build between them, especially if Sundance is playing up the UST, whether or not they actually sleep together.
  • Alternatively, how would the second film have played out if Horn had survived? Perhaps if he’s there while Siringo is travelling with Sundance?
  • Prison break! Horn did survive the first film after all, and breaks Siringo out of jail after the end of the second. What happens? Do they go after Cassidy? How does the whole having the law turned against him affect Siringo’s moral worldview?
  • Hurt/comfort -- they both survive the end of the first film, but are both wounded and have to patch each other up.
  • A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice – With A being Horn. :D Go hard on the loyalty kink, and it’s fine to handwave whatever canon events you need to or ignore them completely.
  • Zombie AU – I always love zombies, and there isn’t nearly enough zombie apocalypse stuff set in alternative time periods. Potentially as an excuse to force Siringo to work with Butch and the rest of his gang.
  • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting – I’d love to see the version of Siringo recruiting Horn where they met before, potentially as an anonymous one night stand (although it doesn’t have to be) – maybe he isn’t sure if Horn recognises him, but turns out he does, which leads to complicated feelings. (or just sex. That’s good too.)
  • Give me Siringo’s version of the story, in which he very much sees himself as the hero. Is it a case of unreliable narrator, or is he well aware of all the terrible things he’s done, but sees them as a necessary price to pay? (First person and epistolary works, maybe a memoir written in prison are particularly welcome here.)
  • I’d love something digging into their onscreen dynamic, exploring how Siringo really feels about Horn's propensity for violence and the way his own moral code is compromised, or if he was just secretly always that much of a bastard and Horn just gave him the excuse. Also here for him being taken aback by how drawn he is to Horn because of how good he is at killing.
  • Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – The tag speaks for itself. :D Here for all the loyalty kink. and for Horn unexpectedly being genuinely loyal to Siringo, even though he might not always obey him
  • One character shaves another's face with a straight razor – Ideally Horn shaving Siringo, but the alternative is good too. Bring this about however you can, whether Siringo’s hands have been injured, or maybe they’ve already slept together and this is just an extension of that intimacy. If there’s an undercurrent of mild threat to the shaving and Siringo isn’t entirely comfortable with it, then all the better.
  • Only One Bed – Or maybe there is another room and it’s in the brothel next door, so everyone’s expecting Horn to take it, including Siringo (and maybe Horn himself), but actually he ends up sharing Siringo’s room and bed instead and trying to pass it off as being because of his moral uprightedness which literally no one believes for a minute.


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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

I don’t know what it says about me that I find the tattoo-parlour scene in particular distractingly hot (probably nothing good XD), but the reason why I ship these two can almost certainly be traced to that scene.

The bit where having terrorised Billy, Bob dances around him and then just straight up throws himself into his lap? And then, THEN, still sitting in said lap, he goes on to nestle his head against Billy’s chest while still menacing him and waving a gun around? Mmmph. The gun kink, the dancing, the casual touching and violation of personal space, the apparent total confidence in whatever the fucking hell his sexuality is, the gun kink... Oh GOD did I mention the gun kink? MORE OF THAT SORT OF THING PLEASE.

I am here for anything that explores their relationship, with Dinosaur Bob as the semi-smart, marginally more pulled-together one, and Creepy as the subservient tagalong one who looks to Bob and defers to him in just about everything. They’re simultaneously menacing but ultimately so tragically pathetic, and I just want to see more of their dynamic. I ship them so hard too: Creepy has a bad case of hero-worship when it comes to Bob, and Bob is, uh, clearly pretty comfortable getting up close and personal with other men.

Tropewise, for these two, I especially like anything where they’re in some way in denial about their sexuality, whether it’s a case of situational homosexuality, ‘no homo’ bro-sex, gay chicken, pining while having sex that definitely isn’t gay, or sex under the influence (look, they’re basically off their tits on meth for the entirety of the film, so if they’re having sex that’s probably inevitable), but there is almost no fic for this fandom, and nothing for these two, so anything goes. Is there a degree of internalised homophobia or have they just never really thought that hard about it? Or alternatively, maybe they’re both just fine with their sexualities actually, even if they’re keeping it on the downlow because their boss would very definitely not approve. (For the record their boss only appears in cut-scenes and the only cut scene I’ve been able to watch is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd-tTmLLxIU&t=1s)

Maybe a canon-divergent fic where Bob gets shot but not killed outright, so Creepy has to look after him. I have no idea what hurt/comfort would look like for these two, but damn do I want to see it. :D Or maybe a pre-canon scene that investigates whatever the fuck they were up to before they showed up at Watty’s place. Also gun kink. Aaaaall the gun kink. I like how vaguely submissive Creepy is towards Bob, and the more you can capture Dinosaur Bob’s physicality the better as far as I’m concerned.

Finally I get such Sketchy and Skeezy from Z Nation vibes from them, (the one smartish one, one goofy one dynamic, the criminal behaviour, the homoerotic undertones, the meth) to the point where I’m semi-wondering if they were the inspiration for Sketchy and Skeezy. so if you want to do a Z Nation crossover, then PLEASE DO, whether they run into anyone in the main cast, or Sketchy and Skeezy, or a fusion where they take over the Sketchy and Skeezy roles. Or just a zombie apocalypse wholly unaffiliated with Z Nation.

Optional Prompts

  • Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
  • 'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
  • "We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.

  • A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
  • Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
  • First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
  • Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
  • The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
  • Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
  • Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
  • Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
  • They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
  • AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
  • A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
  • Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
  • Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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    Re-Animator

    Requested Ship:
    Herbert West/Dan Cain
    Requested Freeforms:
    You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
    You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

    Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with Dan or Herbert being nonconned (onscreen or otherwise) by a third party for the purposes of whump or hurt/comfort.

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    I fell absolutely head over heels in love with the first Re-Animator film from the first moment I saw it – it’s so much damn fun to watch, funny, gory, obscene, and I think Herbert West might actually be one of my favourite characters in anything ever (and while I have some reservations about the sequels I do really like them both). As for Dan/Herbert, I shipped it right from the scene where they bring the cat back, and specifically from the moment where they’re side by side with weapons in hand, although with Herbert hanging back a little bit and clinging onto Dan’s shirt, because obviously.

    The way from that moment they’re just… together, and there’s no way Dan is going to do anything other than help Herbert. I love that, and I love the way Dan sticks with Herbert through thick or thin (right up until the moment that he doesn’t, but more of that in a minute). So many things about this ship are tailor-made to my id: the combination of earnest/obsessive and likeable/abrasive, the constant touching with Herbert grabbing Dan at every single opportunity (this in particular just freaking delights me XD), the potential for hurt/comfort and protectiveness, and a complicated mixture of loyalty, manipulation, and betrayal that will get me every damn time.

    I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

    I know it’s a deleted scene, but I find it really interesting that it doesn’t seem to be the prospect of having to give Dr Hill the credit for his work that gets Herbert to break the hypnosis, but Hill threatening Dan’s life. And the way he immediately abandons their current work to switch focus onto making the Bride to stop Dan from moving out. On the one hand, it’s a terrible manipulative thing to do, but on the other hand… *eyes* And also, what the hell was Herbert’s ultimate plan with the Bride anyway? How did he see that whole thing panning out long-term, beyond a short-term fix to keep Dan from leaving?

    And then there’s the third film. While I have reservations about it, Dan turning state’s evidence on Herbert actually isn’t one of them. I am a complete sucker for complicated relationships, and I actually really love the way it shifts the balance of their relationship, especially considering the unfortunate consequences and the hellhole of a prison Herbert ends up getting thrown into. The way it hints at the way he’s suffered without ever quite going into details (the years in solitary), along with that moment when the warden hits him… and Herbert’s very deliberate act of revenge on the warden, which I firmly believe is something the Herbert of thirteen years previously would not have contemplated in a million fucking years, just shows how much the experience has changed him. That, and the way he reacts when Howard calls him doctor when they first meet. Mmph. It’s all very painful in a way that hits me right in the id.

    I’m also delighted by how differently Herbert acts towards Howard, particularly at the end of the third film, where he comes across Howard cradling Laura’s head, looks at him for a moment, and then just effectively shrugs and yoinks his ID card. It’s a detail that brings home just how important Dan is to him. As far as I’m concerned, at the end of the 3rd film he is 100% going off to find Dan, and I would love something that explores them meeting again post-canon, and how the dynamics between them might shift with a Herbert who’s hurt at the betrayal and bruised by everything he’s been through and a Dan who’s not quite so naive and trusting.

    Optional Prompts

    • 5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
    • Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
    • Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
    • Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
    • Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
    • Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
    • Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
    • Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
    • Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
    • You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
    • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
    • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
    • Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
    • Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
    • Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
    • Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
    • A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Requested Ships:
    Quark/Brunt
    Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt, Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt
    Odo/Weyoun
    Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6 (ST: DS9)
    Requested Freeforms:
    You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
    You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

    DS9 is easily my favourite Star Trek series. I love all the shades of grey, the complicated questions of morality it raises, everything to do with the Dominion War and the Cardassians and the damn Ferengi. One of my favourite things about it is how it deals with the overturn of the status quo on a planetary scale, whether on Bajor, Cardassia, in the Dominion, and even on Ferenginar. I love what this series did with the Ferengi so, so much. They could just have been comic relief, but instead they’re so much more complicated than that. Partly it’s because the whole Ferenginar plotline ties in with the themes of the rest of the series, but it’s also because Quark is actually one of the most complicated characters in the whole show. I particularly love the way he’s used to comment on the Federation, and on humans in particular. His speech to Nog about how humans are only wonderful and friendly so long as their bellies are full in the Siege of AR-558 gives me the shivers.

    Quark/Brunt

    These two had my enemy-shipping heart right from the moment Brunt got his Nausicaan goons to beat Quark half to death. *hearteyes* They are so, so shippy I can’t even: from how ridiculously unsubtle the show was about the subtext at the end of Ferengi Love Songs, to the air-kiss Quark blows him in Profit and Lace, to basically everything that happens between them in Body Parts. Brunt spending a small fortune purely to fuck Quark over, turning up in his quarters and reclining on Quark’s couch as he talks gleefully about his plans planning on defiling Quark’s remains (and that moment of ‘what do I do with my hands?!’ panic when Quark suddenly moves closer to him?)… yeah, um, that… that right there is a Ferengi who might just be up for some contract renegotiation.

    It’s fascinating how much their relationship shifts throughout the series, going from entirely antagonistic to some degree of them being willing to work together even though Brunt’s ultimately always out for himself. There’s actually a lot of common ground between them – compared to just about everyone else in his family Quark’s a traditional Ferengi (or at least he wishes he was a traditional Ferengi), and it’s probably only because of his very non-traditional mother (Ishka, you glorious creature, you <3<3<3) that they end up at odds. I’m fascinated by the question of what makes a good Ferengi, and by Quark, who despite his first appearances as an amoral little schemer actually has a pretty strong moral code, and I found their reactions to the changes on Ferenginar in The Dogs of War, with Quark being outraged and Brunt much more pragmatic, pretty damn interesting, given how very, very bound to tradition Brunt’s been throughout the series. Granted he’s seen the changes first hand, and is trying to suck up to and manipulate Quark, but still… (and as an aside, that bit when he drops to his knees and kisses Quark’s hand? *eyes*)

    I’d love to see anything from any moment of their relationship, from the early days when Brunt is so obsessed by (and horny for) Quark that he’s willing to do virtually anything to destroy him, to later when Brunt is more focused on his own gain and becoming Grand Nagus himself, to a post-canon fic which focuses on how their relationship might develop after the end of the series and the massive sweeping changes on Ferenginar. Similarly, tone-wise I’d be delighted with anything from UST and pining (one-sided or mutual), to hate-fucking, to something more genuine, and anything on the enemies-to-lovers to enemies-to-enemies-who-fuck scale.

    Explore the worldbuilding – how progressive is Ferenginar when it comes to gay relationships? (and repression, denial, and internalised homophobia on one or both their parts is always welcome.) Alternatively, maybe Ferengi are actually pretty relaxed about it when it comes to casual relationships (this is where my headcanon leans these days tbh. It’s the only way the ‘Always have sex with the boss’ Rule of Acquisition really makes sense), or in the context of an M/M/F poly relationship because at least that solves the question of who pre-chews the tube grubs? In theory at least...

    It’s also fine to write about their mirror universe counterparts instead, whether the story is focused on the actual mirror universe versions (and canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, btw), or something that involves pining while fucking the mirror-universe counterpart of the object of your affections, or a selfcest threesome (We barely saw Mirror!Quark, but Mirror!Brunt is such a sweetheart and I just want him to have nice things. D:). I also really, really love the look of (male) Ferengi clothing, so if you want to go all-out on clothing porn, then please do, as well as exploring any avenues of clothed or clothed/unclothed sex you might want to go down.

    Optional Prompts

    • 'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
    • Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
    • Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
    • Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
    • Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
    • A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
    • 5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
    • Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
    • So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
    • Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
    • Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

    Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

    Mirror!Brunt is such a sweetheart. Pottering around the ship preparing tube grubs for everyone! Honourable and decent and loyal! Quietly and respectfully pining for Mirror!Ezri, knowing that his feelings will probably never be reciprocated, and being a little bit sad about that, but it doesn’t matter because he values her friendship and their partnership above everything else!

    And then there’s Brunt. XD

    Brunt is genuinely terrible in so many ways. He’s the worst, and I have loved him right from the first moment he was twitchy about Ishka wearing clothes. <3<3<3 I’m so charmed by the difference between him and his mirror counterpart, and I just want him and Mirror!Ezri to hook up however it comes about, and whether it’s just a one-off or something more long-lasting. Maybe she needs him to pretend to be Mirror!Brunt to pull something off. Or maybe she finds herself in the non-mirror universe and runs into him in Quark’s, and is, uh... taken aback? Fascinated? Weirdly charmed?... by this absolute dick with the face of the dead partner she really was very fond of. He’s sexist and greedy and treacherous, and she can’t trust him as far as she can throw him, but maybe she finds herself drawn to him. And while Mirror!Brunt was far too self-effacing to proposition her, the same is very definitely not true of regular Brunt. Maybe it’s just because she really misses her Brunt, or maybe it’s because regular Brunt reminds her more of herself, or maybe it’s just because she’s horny and he’s there, idk.

    As for the OT3, I cannot say how delighted I am by the idea of the two Brunts meeting. I can’t tell which of them would be the more horrified at meeting the other one. I’m not quite sure how the threesome would come about, but man, do I want to see it. Is it a one-off, or is the OT3 threesome the catalyst that actually gets Mirror Brunt/Mirror Ezri together?

    And while this should go without saying, canon divergent fics are very welcome here. The poor Ferengi never seem to get much of a chance in the Mirror universe. (I’m also curious what Ferenginar is actually like there).

    I headcanon Mirror Ezri as bisexual and read Mirror Brunt's comment about her being picky when it comes to men as relating to Quark and Brunt being Ferengi. References to her relationships with Mirror Leeta and the Intendant are welcome, and the requested ships absolutely do NOT have to be end-game (although I would prefer the fic to focus on them.) Look, I just find the idea of these two treacherous bastards hooking up hot as fuck, even if it's just temporary, and I'm both amused and heartbroken at how Mirror Brunt might react to finding out that actually she will make an exception for at least one Ferengi male and it's the terrible evil mirror universe version of himself who is the literal worst.

    Optional Prompts

    • Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
    • Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
    • Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
    • A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
    • Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
    • Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
    • Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
    • proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

    Odo/Weyoun

    Go with any Weyoun you want, whether past, present, or future. In the relaunch novels, Odo creates a ninth clone to act as his aide, and while I’m not otherwise tied to the canon of the relaunch novels, as far as I’m concerned, Odo bringing Weyoun back absolutely happened, and that is a hill I will die on. :D

    I've shipped Odo/Weyoun pretty damn hard right from Weyoun's first episode, and Weyoun 6 sacrificing himself and then dying in Odo’s arms certainly didn’t make me ship them any less. There's a lot to dig into with this relationship: the complexities of the Vorta and their inbuilt loyalty to Changelings, the potential for changes to the way the Vorta are created and how that might affect the Dominion, Odo's blind spot for his people, and the fact that they're both capable of leading very long lives. Even when almost every other solid Odo’s known in his life has passed on, Weyoun could potentially still be around, and there are a lot of possibilities there.

    There’s also a moment in A Time to Stand when Weyoun 5, gloriously insincere arsehole that he is, talks about the habitat ring echoing with the sound of happy children, but this is a man who’d knowing preside over wiping out the population of entire planets, and of course the Vorta don’t have children or childhoods in the usual way, and that’s probably something else the Dominion have taken away from them. It’s pure nightmare fuel.

    I have a lot of feelings about everything that happens between them both in Faith, Treachery and the Great River, and what it says about both their characters. That story Weyoun 6 tells Odo about the origins of his people, and the way Odo seems to take it as kindness when actually what the Founders did was at the very least mass enslavement, and possibly even something akin to genocide? The suggestion that the Vorta are powerful is laughable, given that their entire purpose, over and above their own wellbeing, is to serve the Founders, and Odo of all people should know that. Would he have thought of himself as powerful when he was facilitating the Cardassians on Terok Nor? (Yeah, I wasn’t kidding about having a lot of feelings about that episode. XD) There are a lot of interesting parallels to be drawn, and I do very much appreciate Odo’s blind spot when it comes to his people though.

    Optional Prompts

    • DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
    • A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
    • A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
    • Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
    • Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
    • character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
    • a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
    • Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
    • A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
    • Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
    • Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
    • Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

    Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

    Because a passing stray thought that Mirror Brunt and Weyoun 6 should hook up got into my head and then refused to go away. Which I can understand, because because fucking hell, yes. I have absolutely no idea how it would work or how it would come about, but goddamn do I want it to happen.

    As ships go, this is absurdly self-indulgent, but at the same time there are some potentially really interesting dynamics and parallels to be drawn between them. They're both more sympathetic versions of more or less antagonistic characters, both desperately loyal to another person with whom they have a somewhat one-sided relationship, (and they're both adorable tragically doomed cinnamon rolls. D:) Maybe Weyoun finds himself stranded in the Mirror universe – is the fact that it isn’t his universe provide a loophole that allows him to override his inbuild loyalty to the Dominion? (Keevan shows that not all Vorta are unquestionably loyal, which suggests that Weyoun is just like that, unswervingly terrifyingly loyal, whether it’s to the Dominion or to Odo, and I love him all the more for that) Does he immediately set out to try to find a way back to his universe, or to find the wormhole in the Mirror universe? How does Mirror Odo complicate matters?

    There are countless things I’d love to see here, and explore it however you want, but I do really love the idea of him gradually coming to terms with being stranded in the Mirror universe, and even though it’s a grimdark hellhole, realising he’s better off there, even though he’s conflicted about staying. And as for Mirror Brunt, mmph, these two sweethearts would be absolutely perfect for each other. Just get them together and make them kiss, however you have to do it. And maybe they’re both pining for other people at first, but gradually they catch feelings for each other. They’re both so lovely: they deserve some happiness.

    Optional Prompts

    • Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
    • Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
    • Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
    • Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
    • Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
    • Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
    • Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
    • Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
    • Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
    • Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
    • Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
    • Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
    • on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
    • Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
    • Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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    Would You Rather (2012)

    Requested Ships:
    Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick
    Shepard Lambrick & Iris
    Shepard Lambrick/Iris
    Requested Freeforms:
    You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
    You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

    Note on my DNWs: It’s fine to include references to the attempted rape in canon. Anything up to and including extremely dubious consent is fine for this canon.

    Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

    Fucked-up Lambrick family dynamics please! :D While the film itself doesn’t do too much digging into the Lambrick family, it sets up a lot of hints that seem like they’d be very fun to dig into. Like, what the deal is with the Lambrick Foundation, and everything to do with the games, past, present and future. And especially the relationship between Julian and his father, which I find deeply uncomfortable to watch but in an extremely satisfying way (much like the film itself XD). Julian is a terrible excuse for a human being, but it’s pretty clear at least part of the reason he’s so sadistic and screwed up and ultimately a cringing little worm (that bit where he’s cowering under the table much to Shepard’s contempt? Oof) is because of having Shepard as a father. And god, Shepard: from his first appearance where he’s putting on the thinnest veneer of philanthropy possible to the way he manipulates the proceedings of the game, terrorising basically everyone except Bevans? Even when things are going wrong, he’s never less than in control. He’s a genuinely terrifying villain and an absolute blast to watch.

    Every moment Shepard and Julian interact is gold, and I would very much like to know more about their relationship. There are some interesting wrinkles there: the whole thing about Shepard being glad that Julian’s finally taking an interest in the Foundation, the question of what happened with Julian’s mother, the way Shepard reacts when he finds out about Julian’s attempt to sexually assault Iris, and whatever happens between them off-screen when Shepard excuses himself to talk to Julian… It shouldn’t be that hard for Julian to live up to his father, right, and yet he keeps failing and disappointing his father again and again, and yeeeeah, I’m not sure Shepard Lambrick is a man you really want to disappoint.

    I’d love to see exploration of other games, whether in the past or the future, alternative ways the game in the film could have gone, what Julian’s childhood was like, what happened to his mother, how the whole thing came about in the first place. Even just a fic exploring the day-to-day running of the Foundation, which might seem entirely normal on the surface, but with occasional glimpses behind the curtain to suggest that something is very, very badly wrong, like glimpses of ex-players who are now working for the Lambricks. How many of them are morally compromised in the way that Dr Barden was, and how many have willingly, even eagerly, embraced everything Shepard had to offer?

    I’m fascinated by the way Shepard manipulates everyone around him (including his family?), and the way he seems to be building up this network of people who are complicit in murder, and what his motivations for doing that might be. Or the consequences of the game we see in canon: what will Iris do next given her reason for playing is now gone? Will she make use of Shepard’s patronage any way or turn against him?

    And then there’s Lucas. Watching the film for the first time, I was convinced he was going to turn out to be the other Lambrick brother, and to have been a ringer in on it all along. It would probably have been too obvious a twist, but story-wise and character-wise the possibilities are delicious, and I am so so here for Lucas and Julian as siblings with a fucked-up codependent relationship: Lucas as the golden child, the one who has the guts to actually take part in the games himself, risking genuine physical pain and potential harm (short of death because they've been rigged just enough) because that’s what his father’s ‘rules’ call for, with Julian as the weaker son who can never live up to his father’s legacy. (The film ultimately doesn’t really bear this out, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the eye injury could have been faked, and maaaaybe the death too if you squint. And hey, that's what AUs are for.)

    It throws an interesting spin on Julian’s bitterness, and on some of Lucas’s behaviour in the game, and the possibility that he too is pushing back against his father. Or maybe the reason he gives the others a chance to run is to give Julian the chance to go after her, because because he’s doing it for his brother or because he knows how his father will react. I particularly love the idea of Shepard taking a hands-off approach to discipline, but manipulating them into punishing each other instead.

    If you do go this route, I am absolutely here for Lucas and Julian having an incestuous relationship. Perhaps one which they think their father doesn’t know about, although actually not only does he know about it, he’s quietly done everything in his power to encourage it. (Or for extra fucked-up vibes, Lucas knows their father knows, but Julian doesn’t.)

    Optional Prompts

    • Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
    • Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
    • Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
    • Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
    • Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
    • A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
    • Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
    • What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

    Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

    And then there’s my Iris &/ Shepard requests. Whether entirely platonic or shippy (in whatever form that takes) or something in between, these have so much potential to be utterly fucked up and uncomfortable in a way that very much appeals to me. Given Shepard’s ongoing relationship with Dr Barden at the start of the film, it can be assumed that he makes a habit of taking a continuing interest in the winners of his games, and his ‘Call me Shep’ at the end of the film (*shiver*) suggests that it’s going to be the same sort of situation with Iris, and that he’s going to follow her career through college with an eye to manipulating into a position where she can be of some use to him. And oh dear fucking god, that’s creepy.

    The situation at the end of the film throws that completely out of joint though, and I go back and forth on which way she might go. Her primary reason for taking part in the game has gone, but it’s also one of the few things that Shepard isn’t responsible for, and I could go either way on whether she chooses to take advantage of Shepard’s patronage or not.

    And Shepard himself is such a bundle of conflicting emotions. On the one hand, he’s a fucked-up, sadistic, manipulative arsehole who gets a kick out of psychological and physical torture (he’s just enjoying himself so much), but on the other hand he really does seem to run the games by a certain set of rules and maybe a sick sort of honour, which almost makes him more terrifying in a way. I’m thinking of the moment when he apologises to Iris for Julian’s behaviour – in a way that touch on her shoulder makes my skin crawl more than the attempted rape. It’s all very messy and uncomfortable, and one of the reasons why I love this fucked up little film so much, aside from how tense and claustrophobic it is.

    What if the situation leads him to take even more of an interest in her than he usually would? Or perhaps his additional interest is in reaction to something she does? Maybe every now and then one of the players of the game does something to genuinely surprise him, and something about her draws him to her, to the point, perhaps, where he starts to shape her into a potential protoge. (Which Julian isn’t exactly happy about naturally).

    As for the shippy version a lot of the appeal of this is how deeply fucked up it would be, and the deal with the devil vibes it would have, and Iris telling herself that she’s going into it with her eyes open because she knows what a monster he is, and finding herself in way over her head anyway. What does it take for this to come about?

    Optional Prompts

    • Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
    • Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
    • Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
    • Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
    • Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
    • Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
    • Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
    • Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
    • Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
    • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
    • Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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