Multifandom Tropefest 2022 letter (WIP)
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flo_neljaHello, cool writer!
What I love:
* Humor, angst, smut, tragic emotions, tropey plots.
* Focus on the supernatural elements of the worldbuilding.
* Skilled characters
* Ethical dilemmas (love vs ethics, hurting the person you love by telling the truth vs lying to them, etc)
* I love dialogue, mundane, double meanings, epic love confessions...
Do Not Want:
* All kinds of AUs except canon divergence or low-key supernatural AU. Even in these, I'd rather characters keep their canon personality and most of their history.
* Love at first sight. Mention of any character being in love/lust of another only for their looks.
* Cheating (emotional cheating of the A gets with C to get over B but it doesn't work is alright, so is poly)
* Unrequested non-canon ships.
* Mentions of pregnancy, lactation (Characters thinking about having kids are alright, just not the physical details)
* Medical themes, injuries with lasting effects, pandemics, syringes.
* Any non-canon apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic universe. Focus on mass death in general. Non-canon character death except if requested in a prompt.
* Character bashing (especially of an alternate romantic interest)
* Underage sex under 14 yo (can be mentioned as backstory if canon)
* Accidental/Arranged Marriage, De-Aging, Gender or sex swap, soulmates/soulmarks (soulbonds are okay)
* Humor based on misunderstandings or incompetence
7 Seeds
Ango/Ryou/Tendou Matsuri (7 Seeds)
Aramaki Takahiro/Gengoroh (7 Seeds)
Aramaki Takahiro/Kagurazaka Mitsuru/Samejima Fubuki (7 Seeds)
Ango/Ryou (7 Seeds)
Altered States - Hallucinations
Alternate Universe - Professional Athletes
Confessions - Love Confessions
Dimension Travel - Lotus-Eater Machine
Friends to Lovers
Ghosts - Dead character haunts other character(s)
Hurt/Comfort - Carrying injured/sick character
Hurt/Comfort - One character comforts another after a nightmare
In Denial - Denial of Feelings
Intimacy - Huddling for Warmth
Pining - Pining while in a sexual relationship
Protectiveness - A is a badass; B is protective of them anyway
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Trauma - Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
Love in this canon: Trauma and overcoming trauma, giant spiders and other weird creatures, discovering poly is an option, survival with competence kink.
Some prompts:
* Aramaki/Gengoroh, raising giant spiders. Even baby giant spiders, that would be cute. Silk! Probably not drugs! And it makes me think...
* For any of these ships, some new plant or insect that works as sex pollen.
* Centered on Aramaki/Gengoroh, but actually negociation a big poly pile with also Akane, Ayo and Mansaku. Bonus if Ban (who has no sense of society, and also, knows his genetics) comments that small-to-average poly piles are the best way to redistribute genetics.
* Ryou->Ango pining, after they were chased from their team and before meeting Team Summer B. badass survival or emotional breakdowns.
* Unhealthy coping mechanisms: "I can't believe you tried to rape this girl, I will kill her so that you're not tempted to do it again" is a very unhealthy one. Can Ryou do worse? Probably.
* Post-canon, Matsuri/Ryou on the ship, how it doesn't stay conventional very long with Ryou who has an untold crush on Ango and Matsuri that's very aware of that (she just wants the situation to be clear, but also, Ango is hot, so she doesn't mind poly)
* In a spider illusion or a fever dream or a real AU: Takahiro/Fubuki/Mitsuru in a sports manga universe. What could have happened without the apocalypse
* Takahiro, during his 15 years of loneliness, being still haunted by Mitsuru and Fubuki
* Since I'm talking about hauntings: Shigeru is an option for the ships with Ango (as a friend. probably).
Haikyuu!!
Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma
Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou
Can't stop thinking about it - other characters assumed they were dating
Confessions - Love Confessions
Forced Proximity - THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED
Intimacy - Bed Sharing for Comfort After a Nightmare
Intimacy - Huddling for Warmth
Pining - guilt over enjoying friendly hugs/physical closeness too much
Pining - Sharing a bed while mutually pining
Love in this canon: Pining, annoying teen hormones, volleyball, fluff
DNW for this canon: noncon or dubcon
So in my headcanon by canon time Kuroo likes Kenma and Kenma likes Hinata but you're free to any happy ending for whomever you want, including poly V. Just don't bash the character you don't write :D But if you just want to write pining that goes nowhere, it's very good too!
Horatio Lyle
Horatio Lyle/Lin Zi (Horatio Lyle)
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Forced Proximity - THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED
Forces proximity - trapped together
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting
Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control
Mind Control - Fighting It
Mind control - forced to fight loved one
Pining - Character A thinks B isn't serious about them despite heavy flirting and subsequently pines
Pining - Character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pining - One character thinks the other is unbearably hot but entirely unattainable
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Trauma - Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
Undercover - Undercover as a couple
What Happened Last Night? - Woke Up in Bed Together
Love in this canon: Snark, light-hearted adventures, forced to work together except they actually love it, science and magic, Tseiqin mind control
I love the kids! If you can include them in the story, go! Though I would like it better if it was not their PoV.
Optional prompts:
* Undercover - Undercover sa a couple : For a con? For a political tactics? It's perfect. Lin would have so much fun and Horatio would be so embarrassed.
* Anything about Horatio's trauma about Tseiqin mind control, Lin trying to help, maybe making things worse.
* Or new villains with new mind control, I'm all for it too.
* Horatio is sick. Lin might care about him but she will complain about the weakness of humans all the time. Horatio tries to engineer remedies with chemistry. It won't go well.
Hyakki Yakoushou (manga)
Aoarashi & Iijima Ritsu (Hyakki Yakoushou)
Aoarashi/Iijima Ritsu (Hyakki Yakoushou)
Iijima Ryou | Kagyu/Kichou (Hyakki Yakoushou)
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Deal with the Devil
Dreams - Dreams bleeding into reality
Dreams - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
Enemies to Lovers - attempt at manipulation leads to feelings
Enemies - Enemies Forced to Work Together - Needing Help From A Villain To Defeat Another Villain
Enemies With Benefits
Possessiveness - Possessive Behaviour
Sex Pollen
What Happened Last Night? - Woke Up in Bed Together
Love in this canon: supernatural mystery, complicated relationships, contrast between human and youkai ways of thinking, mix of subtle horror and subtle humor.
Marvel Comics
616 Douglas Ramsey/616 Warlock (Marvel Comics)
616 Erik Lehnsherr/616 Bennet du Paris (Marvel Comics)
616 Erik Lehnsherr/616 Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
616 Karolina Dean/616 Xavin (Marvel Comics)
616 Kitty Pryde/616 Illyana Rasputin (Marvel Comics)
Bonding - Magic related character and science related character finding common ground
Captivity - Captured together
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal mystery
Confessions - Love Confessions
Dimension Travel - Having To Impersonate Alternate Evil Version of Self
Dreams - Dreams bleeding into reality
Enemies - Enemies Forced to Work Together - Needing Help From A Villain To Defeat Another Villain
Ghosts - Dead character haunts other character(s)
Jealousy - A can't hide feelings after seeing B kiss someone else
Loyalty - Kneeling
Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control
Mind Control - Character is not aware they are being mind controlled
Mind Control - Fighting It
Pining - Unrequited Feeling
Sex Magic - Using magic powers for sex
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
I adore Claremont era, with all the cheesy tropes and mind control everywhere. I just love this version of the character. But there also are some more recent versions that I adore, Bendis Era for Kitty and Illyana, the Wells/DNA run of the New Mutants, and Carey writes a delightful Xavier and I loved his interaction with Magneto.
Kitty/Illyana: I love everything about Illyana fighting her dark side. My favorite thing is Limbo having weird influences on her, or making weird magical accidents happen. I also like Kitty being a science and pop culture nerd. I love them having adventures, or trying to have some normal activities. 5Mundane use of Illyana's demon powers is always darkly fun)
I love their friendship, so in my head the romance is in addition, not instead. To me Illyana is in love with Kitty, but it can be one-sided, or Kitty can be in denial. If it's mutual, I love better get-together than established relationship.
I love canon divergence, from the multiple comics using this concept, or your own, if it keeps the core relationship. Evil!Illyana is very okay if it's magical influence, I'm not big about evil!Kitty.
Underage sex is okay if they're the same age, more than 14, and not implied being experienced already.
Doug/Warlock: Here again, I love one-sided, with Warlock being totally smitten, or it can get requited. If it's mutual, I love better get-together than established relationship.
I love superhero adventures, just them together, without a team. I also love the old New Mutants team a lot.
Every reference to the canon sequences of Doug dying, then being back under mind control, and Warlock saving him, will make me incredibly happy. Also, Warlock's weird "Douglock" persona can so easily been read as shipping.
I love everything that uses Doug's powers, and Warlock's alien side, that can be sometimes creepy even if he's such a fluffball.
I also love how Doug's powers can allow him to rewrite Warlock's very being - probably as a trust thing, not some evil thing, but you know, mind control is a thing that happens in this verse.
You can use canon divergence AUs as long as the core relationship is still here! Canon ones (like Age of X) or your own.
Please ignore the love triangle with Danger and everything that happened in "Hunt for Wolverine".
Xavier/Magneto: They have so long an history! And I can even take everything that happens out of any timeline, just having them be enemies who love each other very much, you know? Or alternate timelines. As long as the core relationship is here, I'll be glad.
More interactions in their first encounter are good (no bashing of Gabrielle please, I adore her). Times where they worked together, times where they were enemies, times where Magneto was stable, or at his worst. I like Xavier not being totally an asshole (but still a bit, he's himself), and having big moral qualms with brainwashing (he can still do this, but is very desperate situations)
Magneto being "dead" and Xavier having a copy of him in his head during the nineties was awesome.
But really, any moment in the timeline (Excalibur 3 was sure something)! Including right now, they're not close enough emotionally to my tastes in the Hickman run even when they're allies.
Exodus/Magneto: Give me the shameful crush Exodus has on Magneto (it wasn't meant to be romantic! Also it leads nowhere!). Can be in the nineties or more recent content.
Optional prompts:
* A character being haunted by the ghost of their loved one after a (temporary) death. How do ghosts work when you're in world where death can be temporary? Do they stay? Can you meet your own ghost? Or is the ghost disappearing good news because it means the person is back? Do they remember what they did as a ghost?
* Kitty helps Illyana to fight some of her demons, real ones and metaphorical ones at the same time.
* Illyana's subconscious mind casts small spells to change Kitty's feelings (especially during some Limbo travel). She doesn't realize at first the happy romance she has been living was never true.
* Just Illyana pining and Kitty being totally oblivious workd too, if you take them as kids.
* For Doug/Warlock: I was screaming a lot at the "I love you and you are breaking my heart" from the third New Mutants series, so yeah, everything about this or aftermath of this. Happy fic where they discover that it's requited, probably implying language powers? Good. Angstier follow-up to this scene where Doug feels so sorry that he will offer anything warlock wants as an apology? Good.
* I love how they fully trust each other, the edge in Warlock being so powerful and controlling it, of Doug who, when they're fused, could easily rewrite everything Warlock IS since it's code and he knows how to rewrite it (did it for Magus) but he won't.
* Xavier and Magneto forced to ally is always delightful. Usually it's against a human who hates mutants, what about something really Eldritch for once?
* Mundane use of powers at any time where Xavier and Magneto live together and are so domestic.
* Exodus' angst about his loyalty to Magneto not being 100% pure (with him having taken a vow of chastity and all)
* You know the arcs where the Shadow King is just here, not as one of the two characters, but possessing someone and slowly transforming people into their worst selves. This, but with Magneto's desire for control, and Exodus' formerly very restrained lust. (it would be especially evil if Xavier is the possessed one)
Mo dao zu shi
Wei Wuxian & Wen Qing (MDZS)
Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning (MDZS)
Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn & Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín & Wēn Qíng (MDZS)
Bonding - Nerds Binding over science
Bonding - Magic related character and science related character finding common ground
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Ghosts - Dead character haunts other character(s)
Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control
Resurrection - Character Is Resurrected But Came Back Wrong
Sex Magic - Tenderly and desperately fucking someone back from the brink of death
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Love in this canon: Mad science! I love that in the book Wei Wuxian really invented demonic cultivation, and Wen Qing really invented the golden core transfer.
Necromancy in general, from the point of view of the necromancer or the undead. The very special and intimate relationship between the necromancer and the undead, whether you imagine that Wen Ning has a crush on Wei Wuxian (I do!) or not (but this is far from being the only interesting part of their relationship).
Optional prompts:
* Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing bonding about having been discouraged to try new types of cultivation. Wen Qing is a bit worried that she is bonding about this with Wei Wuxian.
* Wei Wuxian falls ill on the Burial Mounds, or pushes himself too much, Wen Ning and/or Wen Qing take care of him. Maybe with bonus flashbacks of the Lotus Pier, and what changed, and what didn't.
* Wei Wuxian + Wen Ning and/or Wen Qing taking care (amiably or not) of a specific supernatural phenomenon or ghost that's a bother on Burial Mounds.
* Wen Ning hearing that Wei Wuxian has come back after years of imprisonment, just from a far away music.
* Ghost Wen Qing trying to save Wen Ning from his emprisonment during the time skip.
* If you're inclined to write Wen Ning/Wei Wuxian smut, Sex Magic - Tenderly and desperately fucking someone back from the brink of death is good.
* So is Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control. We know that Wei Wuxian can unconsciously influence Ghost General!Wen Ning. Also, he feels really guilty and has rape fantasies. Accidents could happen.
Our flag means death
Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Israel Hands (OFMD)
Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands (OFMD)
Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez (OFMD)
Action & Combat - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
BDSM - under-negotiated or unnegotiated but mutually enjoyed D/s dynamic
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Fake/Pretend Relationship - While Mutually Pining
Heists & Schemes - Teaming Up For A Heist
Hurt/Comfort - Character Lets Themself Get Tortured or Abused to Protect Other Character
In Denial - Denial of Feelings
Loyalty - unquestioning willingness to do crimes for other person
Kink - Fighting Kink - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them
Love in this canon: Pre-canon, crushes and pining while trying to have an adventure/action scenes, badass/competent characters (even if it doesn't exclude cracky or terrifying situations where it doesn't help)
Optional prompts:
* Exploring a ghost ship (can be actually haunted or just look like it)
What I love:
* Humor, angst, smut, tragic emotions, tropey plots.
* Focus on the supernatural elements of the worldbuilding.
* Skilled characters
* Ethical dilemmas (love vs ethics, hurting the person you love by telling the truth vs lying to them, etc)
* I love dialogue, mundane, double meanings, epic love confessions...
Do Not Want:
* All kinds of AUs except canon divergence or low-key supernatural AU. Even in these, I'd rather characters keep their canon personality and most of their history.
* Love at first sight. Mention of any character being in love/lust of another only for their looks.
* Cheating (emotional cheating of the A gets with C to get over B but it doesn't work is alright, so is poly)
* Unrequested non-canon ships.
* Mentions of pregnancy, lactation (Characters thinking about having kids are alright, just not the physical details)
* Medical themes, injuries with lasting effects, pandemics, syringes.
* Any non-canon apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic universe. Focus on mass death in general. Non-canon character death except if requested in a prompt.
* Character bashing (especially of an alternate romantic interest)
* Underage sex under 14 yo (can be mentioned as backstory if canon)
* Accidental/Arranged Marriage, De-Aging, Gender or sex swap, soulmates/soulmarks (soulbonds are okay)
* Humor based on misunderstandings or incompetence
7 Seeds
Ango/Ryou/Tendou Matsuri (7 Seeds)
Aramaki Takahiro/Gengoroh (7 Seeds)
Aramaki Takahiro/Kagurazaka Mitsuru/Samejima Fubuki (7 Seeds)
Ango/Ryou (7 Seeds)
Altered States - Hallucinations
Alternate Universe - Professional Athletes
Confessions - Love Confessions
Dimension Travel - Lotus-Eater Machine
Friends to Lovers
Ghosts - Dead character haunts other character(s)
Hurt/Comfort - Carrying injured/sick character
Hurt/Comfort - One character comforts another after a nightmare
In Denial - Denial of Feelings
Intimacy - Huddling for Warmth
Pining - Pining while in a sexual relationship
Protectiveness - A is a badass; B is protective of them anyway
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Trauma - Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
Love in this canon: Trauma and overcoming trauma, giant spiders and other weird creatures, discovering poly is an option, survival with competence kink.
Some prompts:
* Aramaki/Gengoroh, raising giant spiders. Even baby giant spiders, that would be cute. Silk! Probably not drugs! And it makes me think...
* For any of these ships, some new plant or insect that works as sex pollen.
* Centered on Aramaki/Gengoroh, but actually negociation a big poly pile with also Akane, Ayo and Mansaku. Bonus if Ban (who has no sense of society, and also, knows his genetics) comments that small-to-average poly piles are the best way to redistribute genetics.
* Ryou->Ango pining, after they were chased from their team and before meeting Team Summer B. badass survival or emotional breakdowns.
* Unhealthy coping mechanisms: "I can't believe you tried to rape this girl, I will kill her so that you're not tempted to do it again" is a very unhealthy one. Can Ryou do worse? Probably.
* Post-canon, Matsuri/Ryou on the ship, how it doesn't stay conventional very long with Ryou who has an untold crush on Ango and Matsuri that's very aware of that (she just wants the situation to be clear, but also, Ango is hot, so she doesn't mind poly)
* In a spider illusion or a fever dream or a real AU: Takahiro/Fubuki/Mitsuru in a sports manga universe. What could have happened without the apocalypse
* Takahiro, during his 15 years of loneliness, being still haunted by Mitsuru and Fubuki
* Since I'm talking about hauntings: Shigeru is an option for the ships with Ango (as a friend. probably).
Haikyuu!!
Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma
Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou
Can't stop thinking about it - other characters assumed they were dating
Confessions - Love Confessions
Forced Proximity - THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED
Intimacy - Bed Sharing for Comfort After a Nightmare
Intimacy - Huddling for Warmth
Pining - guilt over enjoying friendly hugs/physical closeness too much
Pining - Sharing a bed while mutually pining
Love in this canon: Pining, annoying teen hormones, volleyball, fluff
DNW for this canon: noncon or dubcon
So in my headcanon by canon time Kuroo likes Kenma and Kenma likes Hinata but you're free to any happy ending for whomever you want, including poly V. Just don't bash the character you don't write :D But if you just want to write pining that goes nowhere, it's very good too!
Horatio Lyle
Horatio Lyle/Lin Zi (Horatio Lyle)
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Forced Proximity - THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED
Forces proximity - trapped together
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting
Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control
Mind Control - Fighting It
Mind control - forced to fight loved one
Pining - Character A thinks B isn't serious about them despite heavy flirting and subsequently pines
Pining - Character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pining - One character thinks the other is unbearably hot but entirely unattainable
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Trauma - Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
Undercover - Undercover as a couple
What Happened Last Night? - Woke Up in Bed Together
Love in this canon: Snark, light-hearted adventures, forced to work together except they actually love it, science and magic, Tseiqin mind control
I love the kids! If you can include them in the story, go! Though I would like it better if it was not their PoV.
Optional prompts:
* Undercover - Undercover sa a couple : For a con? For a political tactics? It's perfect. Lin would have so much fun and Horatio would be so embarrassed.
* Anything about Horatio's trauma about Tseiqin mind control, Lin trying to help, maybe making things worse.
* Or new villains with new mind control, I'm all for it too.
* Horatio is sick. Lin might care about him but she will complain about the weakness of humans all the time. Horatio tries to engineer remedies with chemistry. It won't go well.
Hyakki Yakoushou (manga)
Aoarashi & Iijima Ritsu (Hyakki Yakoushou)
Aoarashi/Iijima Ritsu (Hyakki Yakoushou)
Iijima Ryou | Kagyu/Kichou (Hyakki Yakoushou)
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Deal with the Devil
Dreams - Dreams bleeding into reality
Dreams - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
Enemies to Lovers - attempt at manipulation leads to feelings
Enemies - Enemies Forced to Work Together - Needing Help From A Villain To Defeat Another Villain
Enemies With Benefits
Possessiveness - Possessive Behaviour
Sex Pollen
What Happened Last Night? - Woke Up in Bed Together
Love in this canon: supernatural mystery, complicated relationships, contrast between human and youkai ways of thinking, mix of subtle horror and subtle humor.
Marvel Comics
616 Douglas Ramsey/616 Warlock (Marvel Comics)
616 Erik Lehnsherr/616 Bennet du Paris (Marvel Comics)
616 Erik Lehnsherr/616 Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
616 Karolina Dean/616 Xavin (Marvel Comics)
616 Kitty Pryde/616 Illyana Rasputin (Marvel Comics)
Bonding - Magic related character and science related character finding common ground
Captivity - Captured together
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal mystery
Confessions - Love Confessions
Dimension Travel - Having To Impersonate Alternate Evil Version of Self
Dreams - Dreams bleeding into reality
Enemies - Enemies Forced to Work Together - Needing Help From A Villain To Defeat Another Villain
Ghosts - Dead character haunts other character(s)
Jealousy - A can't hide feelings after seeing B kiss someone else
Loyalty - Kneeling
Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control
Mind Control - Character is not aware they are being mind controlled
Mind Control - Fighting It
Pining - Unrequited Feeling
Sex Magic - Using magic powers for sex
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
I adore Claremont era, with all the cheesy tropes and mind control everywhere. I just love this version of the character. But there also are some more recent versions that I adore, Bendis Era for Kitty and Illyana, the Wells/DNA run of the New Mutants, and Carey writes a delightful Xavier and I loved his interaction with Magneto.
Kitty/Illyana: I love everything about Illyana fighting her dark side. My favorite thing is Limbo having weird influences on her, or making weird magical accidents happen. I also like Kitty being a science and pop culture nerd. I love them having adventures, or trying to have some normal activities. 5Mundane use of Illyana's demon powers is always darkly fun)
I love their friendship, so in my head the romance is in addition, not instead. To me Illyana is in love with Kitty, but it can be one-sided, or Kitty can be in denial. If it's mutual, I love better get-together than established relationship.
I love canon divergence, from the multiple comics using this concept, or your own, if it keeps the core relationship. Evil!Illyana is very okay if it's magical influence, I'm not big about evil!Kitty.
Underage sex is okay if they're the same age, more than 14, and not implied being experienced already.
Doug/Warlock: Here again, I love one-sided, with Warlock being totally smitten, or it can get requited. If it's mutual, I love better get-together than established relationship.
I love superhero adventures, just them together, without a team. I also love the old New Mutants team a lot.
Every reference to the canon sequences of Doug dying, then being back under mind control, and Warlock saving him, will make me incredibly happy. Also, Warlock's weird "Douglock" persona can so easily been read as shipping.
I love everything that uses Doug's powers, and Warlock's alien side, that can be sometimes creepy even if he's such a fluffball.
I also love how Doug's powers can allow him to rewrite Warlock's very being - probably as a trust thing, not some evil thing, but you know, mind control is a thing that happens in this verse.
You can use canon divergence AUs as long as the core relationship is still here! Canon ones (like Age of X) or your own.
Please ignore the love triangle with Danger and everything that happened in "Hunt for Wolverine".
Xavier/Magneto: They have so long an history! And I can even take everything that happens out of any timeline, just having them be enemies who love each other very much, you know? Or alternate timelines. As long as the core relationship is here, I'll be glad.
More interactions in their first encounter are good (no bashing of Gabrielle please, I adore her). Times where they worked together, times where they were enemies, times where Magneto was stable, or at his worst. I like Xavier not being totally an asshole (but still a bit, he's himself), and having big moral qualms with brainwashing (he can still do this, but is very desperate situations)
Magneto being "dead" and Xavier having a copy of him in his head during the nineties was awesome.
But really, any moment in the timeline (Excalibur 3 was sure something)! Including right now, they're not close enough emotionally to my tastes in the Hickman run even when they're allies.
Exodus/Magneto: Give me the shameful crush Exodus has on Magneto (it wasn't meant to be romantic! Also it leads nowhere!). Can be in the nineties or more recent content.
Optional prompts:
* A character being haunted by the ghost of their loved one after a (temporary) death. How do ghosts work when you're in world where death can be temporary? Do they stay? Can you meet your own ghost? Or is the ghost disappearing good news because it means the person is back? Do they remember what they did as a ghost?
* Kitty helps Illyana to fight some of her demons, real ones and metaphorical ones at the same time.
* Illyana's subconscious mind casts small spells to change Kitty's feelings (especially during some Limbo travel). She doesn't realize at first the happy romance she has been living was never true.
* Just Illyana pining and Kitty being totally oblivious workd too, if you take them as kids.
* For Doug/Warlock: I was screaming a lot at the "I love you and you are breaking my heart" from the third New Mutants series, so yeah, everything about this or aftermath of this. Happy fic where they discover that it's requited, probably implying language powers? Good. Angstier follow-up to this scene where Doug feels so sorry that he will offer anything warlock wants as an apology? Good.
* I love how they fully trust each other, the edge in Warlock being so powerful and controlling it, of Doug who, when they're fused, could easily rewrite everything Warlock IS since it's code and he knows how to rewrite it (did it for Magus) but he won't.
* Xavier and Magneto forced to ally is always delightful. Usually it's against a human who hates mutants, what about something really Eldritch for once?
* Mundane use of powers at any time where Xavier and Magneto live together and are so domestic.
* Exodus' angst about his loyalty to Magneto not being 100% pure (with him having taken a vow of chastity and all)
* You know the arcs where the Shadow King is just here, not as one of the two characters, but possessing someone and slowly transforming people into their worst selves. This, but with Magneto's desire for control, and Exodus' formerly very restrained lust. (it would be especially evil if Xavier is the possessed one)
Mo dao zu shi
Wei Wuxian & Wen Qing (MDZS)
Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning (MDZS)
Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn & Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín & Wēn Qíng (MDZS)
Bonding - Nerds Binding over science
Bonding - Magic related character and science related character finding common ground
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Ghosts - Dead character haunts other character(s)
Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control
Resurrection - Character Is Resurrected But Came Back Wrong
Sex Magic - Tenderly and desperately fucking someone back from the brink of death
Trauma - Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Love in this canon: Mad science! I love that in the book Wei Wuxian really invented demonic cultivation, and Wen Qing really invented the golden core transfer.
Necromancy in general, from the point of view of the necromancer or the undead. The very special and intimate relationship between the necromancer and the undead, whether you imagine that Wen Ning has a crush on Wei Wuxian (I do!) or not (but this is far from being the only interesting part of their relationship).
Optional prompts:
* Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing bonding about having been discouraged to try new types of cultivation. Wen Qing is a bit worried that she is bonding about this with Wei Wuxian.
* Wei Wuxian falls ill on the Burial Mounds, or pushes himself too much, Wen Ning and/or Wen Qing take care of him. Maybe with bonus flashbacks of the Lotus Pier, and what changed, and what didn't.
* Wei Wuxian + Wen Ning and/or Wen Qing taking care (amiably or not) of a specific supernatural phenomenon or ghost that's a bother on Burial Mounds.
* Wen Ning hearing that Wei Wuxian has come back after years of imprisonment, just from a far away music.
* Ghost Wen Qing trying to save Wen Ning from his emprisonment during the time skip.
* If you're inclined to write Wen Ning/Wei Wuxian smut, Sex Magic - Tenderly and desperately fucking someone back from the brink of death is good.
* So is Mind Control - Accidental Mind Control. We know that Wei Wuxian can unconsciously influence Ghost General!Wen Ning. Also, he feels really guilty and has rape fantasies. Accidents could happen.
Our flag means death
Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Israel Hands (OFMD)
Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands (OFMD)
Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez (OFMD)
Action & Combat - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
BDSM - under-negotiated or unnegotiated but mutually enjoyed D/s dynamic
Case Fic - exploring a strange and mysterious location
Case Fic - Paranormal Mystery
Fake/Pretend Relationship - While Mutually Pining
Heists & Schemes - Teaming Up For A Heist
Hurt/Comfort - Character Lets Themself Get Tortured or Abused to Protect Other Character
In Denial - Denial of Feelings
Loyalty - unquestioning willingness to do crimes for other person
Kink - Fighting Kink - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them
Love in this canon: Pre-canon, crushes and pining while trying to have an adventure/action scenes, badass/competent characters (even if it doesn't exclude cracky or terrifying situations where it doesn't help)
Optional prompts:
* Exploring a ghost ship (can be actually haunted or just look like it)
