Trick-or-treat 2025 exchange letter
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flo_neljaHello, writer! I'm glad we share a fandom. I'm excited for this exchange ! Happy Halloween ! :-D
I love adventure with monsters, I love psychological horror, I love dark smut (including noncon, I love noncon) or dark UST, I love horror atmosphere like in classic ghost stories, and in some fandoms spooky crack is very good too.
Horror themes I love: Necromancy, ghosts (real, illusions, metaphorical), mind control or any kind of mind alteration (one of my very favorite tropes, gen or shippy), nightmares, black magic, possession, deals with the devil (real or metaphorical), mad science, creatures (fairies, most fantastic animals...), corruption of heroes / falling from grace, very powerful beings trying to be nice but ending up at best being creepy, at worse hurting people.
Lighter (or not) spooky themes: Supernatural investigation, a character disguised as a monster meets a real monster by accident, human/non-human romance, forced to ally with an enemy against a terrifying threat. I also love the "maybe magic maybe mundane" atmosphere. I love spiders.
Art likes: Spooky black and white (or black and white + one color), tarot cards, art nouveau, a character with their head on the other's lap, background symbolism, hands (holding hands, kissing hands, holding someone, grabbing someone), kneeling (for etiquette reasons, for a proposal, for bdsm reasons, for begging). Spiders and supernatural creatures.
DNWs: Character bashing even of unrequited characters, most alternate universes (except for 1) canon divergence 2) secretly-a-creature AU, 3) fairy tale AU), unrequested incest, character death except mentioned otherwise, accidental/arranged Marriage, de-aging, gender or sex swaps, trans headcanons except mentioned otherwise, soulmates/soul marks, cheating, sci-fi zombies (I love vodou zombies or fantasy zombies, not contagious ones), pandemics, love at first sight, extreme underage (under 14yo), characters being less resourceful/clever/skilled/cautious than in canon, post-apocalyptic.
Animorphs
Aftran 942 (Animorphs - KAA)
Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Animorphs - KAA)
Estrid-Corill-Darrath (Animorphs - KAA)
Mr. Tidwell (Animorphs - KAA)
Tobias (Animorphs - KAA)
I love the dark themes of these books, but also, sometimes, I want so much the characters to get a break that I also selected Treat,
Aftran and/or Mr Tidwell: Anything about the Yeerk Liberation Front (I didn't mention Illim, he's welcome of course).
Mr Tidwell: Maybe some teaching with foreshadowing?
Aftran: I love Aftran/Cassie, also, I'm curious about her life as a whale.
Estrid: I love a mad scientist, especially a morally complicated one, especially if it's a girl, it's still rare. So anything about science would be good.
Ax and/or Estrid: Anything about the war, about Andalite society. Maybe different opinions about the peace in the middle of the last volume? Romance between them is cool but not mandatory
Ax: I would also like to see more of his childhood, before the canon.
Ax and/or Tobias: Their relationship is my life, Ax being kind of shy about ritual friendship, more of them learning that they're related I can't believe it's a missing scene. Or more of keeping each other company while they were living in the woods.
Tobias: In addition to Ax, I'm interested about all his family feelings (more of when he thought Visser 3 was lost family? More thinking about Elfangor?) I'm intrigues by the peace period in the last volume, does he totally cut tie with Loren, or did she die offscreen? Since she's not mentioned at all in his decision of leaving the humans world. I love his romance with Rachel, of course, if it's here it's good, but it's better to me if it's not the full fic.
Fullmetal Alchemist 2003
Lust (FMA 2003)
Ship: Lust/Scar (FMA 2003)
Ship: Sloth & Wrath (FMA 2003)
Sloth (FMA 2003)
Wrath (FMA 2003)
I love the Homunculi in this version, and how they're built as replacements they aren't, and how they have complicated, buried feelings, probably no memories but it's not totally clear. I love angst, love horror smut, love introspection, love slice of life.
I love that Izumi and Sloth basically swapped their kids.
Lust's moments of sexual tension with Scar are some of my fave parts in this series. Don't hesitate to go canon divergence for them.
Marvel 616
Illyana Rasputin (616)
Ship: Kitty Pryde/Illyana Rasputin (616)
Ship: Danielle Moonstar/Rahne Sinclair (616)
Illyana: Anything about Limbo would be very good, there is potential about demons!
Kitty/Illyana: I love it as teens or now, one-sided from Illyana's side or reciprocated, complicated or just accepting being soulmates. I just don't want it to be too cute or domestic, at least a bit of superheroism or comfort is better.
Dani/Rahne: For them I love better the fluffy side!
I adore the eighties first arc of the New Mutants. I also like fairy tale AUs where Illyana can be anon-mutant witch or Rahne a non-mutant werewolf.
Claremont era is my fave, but it's not exclusive, if you're referencing a specific arc, tell me which one in the notes, and if I haven't read it, I sure can!
Les Misérables
Éponine Thénardier (Les Mis Book)
Gavroche Thénardier (Les Mis Book)
I love to see them interact, but it's not an obligation at all! In the book, Gavroche gave Eponine tickets for plays, maybe talking about one of these plays with ghosts or supernatural elements?
If you go for supernatural: I love them both as ghosts, Eponine either being a vengeful ghost, either being company for Azelma, Gavroche still helping his little brothers or just keeping being a revolutionary menace after death.
For non-supernatural
Mo Dao Zu Shi
Ship: Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning (MDZS - MXTX)
Wen Qing (MDZS - MXTX)
I love that in the book Wen Qing canonically is the inventor of the Golden Core transfer, she's not only a healer but also a scientist, someone who creates new things. Something focused on this side of her character would be nice!
But I also love her as an older sister (fic about when she and Wen Ning were kids is extra nice), as someone who doesn't approve of the politics of her clan but doesn't feel she has power to do something about it, as the administrator of a refugee group...
Canon divergence where the Jin actually try to use her skill instead of just humiliating her/killing her are welcome.
I'm not especially interested in any romance with her.
Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning: I love when it's complicated because necromancy, but if you want to write about Wen Ning's crush when he was alive I'm all for this too. Can be Buried Mounds slice of life, local ghosts. Can be after Wei Wuxian's death too (he heard him from so far) or even during, just Wei Wuxian's feelings when he was a prisoner.
I don't want to break Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, you can make a love triangle or you can not mention it at all or you can have Wen Ning's feelings be completely one-sided, all is good for me.
Nevermore
Ship: Annabel Lee/Lenore (Nevermore Webcomic)
Ship: Montresor/Will (Nevermore Webcomic)
Duke (Nevermore Webcomic)
Eulalie (Nevermore Webcomic)
Lenore/Annabel: anything before they died is good. It can be slice of life, getting to know each other, talking about anything, with Lenore or "Leo". It can also be dark and dramatic, like your headcanons on how the died.
Eulalie: She was a supernatural investigator! She seemingly saw things with her friends! Can be about one of these childhood adventures - with or without foreshadowing, or about what she tried to do in the murder house after (before she got to tutoring). If you like better to write her with Nevermore, I would like more of her friendship with Berenice, maybe first encounters?
Duke: He's cool, he makes me laugh. I would love more of his circus show from when he was alive, or more of his friendship with Lenore and/or Pluto, or angst about when he was trapped in teh wall.
Will/Montresor: I love every version of their labyrinth adventures, I love Will angst (possibly with internalized homophobia), I love more of Montresor's trauma after he saw Will die. I don't want fics where they met when they were alive, the timeline doesn't work with my headcanons.
Our Flag Means Death
Ship: Israel Hands/Edward Teach (OFMD TV)
For this fandom, I love things that are just a bit supernatural, like, it changes nothing on the characters' priorities, everything happens the same, but supernatural exists! Ghosts, ghost ships, sea gods, vodou zombies (not in a racist way, of course). Izzy being a ghost, or coming back from the dead (probably not in a fluffy way) is very much welcome. I don't want AU where he doesn't die though, if you don't want it to happen, there's lot of room in the timeline before!
If you're not into supernatural stuff, any kind of tense situation, where they might emotionally hurt each other, is good. Just more of the serious part of the canon. If you want things that seems supernatural but they're actually revealed not to be, it's very good to me too.
Penny Dreadful
Ship: Ethan Chandler/Dorian Gray/Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
Ship: Mina Harker/Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
Ship: Vanessa Ives/Mina Murray (Penny Dreadful)
Ship: Victor Frankenstein/Henry Jekyll (Penny Dreadful)
Mina/Vanessa: It was nominated two times, I ask for both to match with as many people as possible, and also to show that it can be young girl Mina or vampire Mina, both are very good to me. Can be just UST and angst and character study. Can include theories about how much of Mina vampire!Mina is, the show was not very satisfying about it.
Frankenstein/Jekyll: Jekyll always struck me as having a crush on Victor, I love backstory in mad science for them, I love Jekyll pining during the Lily arc, I love him snapping post-canon.
Ethan/Dorian/Vanessa: They're all flirting with each other, and I would have liked it to go somewhere. Can be only flirting but in a scene where they're all here, can be smut, can be supernatural adventures (Dorian loves to try his lovers' hobbies in canon)
Tinker tailor soldier spy
Ship: Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Book)
I will enjoy moment in the timeline, the years of uni, as young spies during WW2, the older version before or after the betrayal, and as we're talkign about spooky if you want to go post-canon and have Jim talk to Bill's ghost it's all goos to me too.
Trigun
Elendira the Crimsonnail (Trigun manga)
Legato Bluesummers (Trigun manga)
Midvalley the Hornfreak (Trigun manga)
Ship: Legato Bluesummers/Millions Knives (Trigun manga)
Zazie the Beast (Trigun manga)
I love the power dynamics among the Gung-Ho Guns a lot. Can be dark, can be funny as long as it's in character, can be cruel or can even be some understanding. These ones are my faves, but you can use the others.
I love Legato's devotion to Knives more than I can say.
I love adventure with monsters, I love psychological horror, I love dark smut (including noncon, I love noncon) or dark UST, I love horror atmosphere like in classic ghost stories, and in some fandoms spooky crack is very good too.
Horror themes I love: Necromancy, ghosts (real, illusions, metaphorical), mind control or any kind of mind alteration (one of my very favorite tropes, gen or shippy), nightmares, black magic, possession, deals with the devil (real or metaphorical), mad science, creatures (fairies, most fantastic animals...), corruption of heroes / falling from grace, very powerful beings trying to be nice but ending up at best being creepy, at worse hurting people.
Lighter (or not) spooky themes: Supernatural investigation, a character disguised as a monster meets a real monster by accident, human/non-human romance, forced to ally with an enemy against a terrifying threat. I also love the "maybe magic maybe mundane" atmosphere. I love spiders.
Art likes: Spooky black and white (or black and white + one color), tarot cards, art nouveau, a character with their head on the other's lap, background symbolism, hands (holding hands, kissing hands, holding someone, grabbing someone), kneeling (for etiquette reasons, for a proposal, for bdsm reasons, for begging). Spiders and supernatural creatures.
DNWs: Character bashing even of unrequited characters, most alternate universes (except for 1) canon divergence 2) secretly-a-creature AU, 3) fairy tale AU), unrequested incest, character death except mentioned otherwise, accidental/arranged Marriage, de-aging, gender or sex swaps, trans headcanons except mentioned otherwise, soulmates/soul marks, cheating, sci-fi zombies (I love vodou zombies or fantasy zombies, not contagious ones), pandemics, love at first sight, extreme underage (under 14yo), characters being less resourceful/clever/skilled/cautious than in canon, post-apocalyptic.
Animorphs
Aftran 942 (Animorphs - KAA)
Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Animorphs - KAA)
Estrid-Corill-Darrath (Animorphs - KAA)
Mr. Tidwell (Animorphs - KAA)
Tobias (Animorphs - KAA)
I love the dark themes of these books, but also, sometimes, I want so much the characters to get a break that I also selected Treat,
Aftran and/or Mr Tidwell: Anything about the Yeerk Liberation Front (I didn't mention Illim, he's welcome of course).
Mr Tidwell: Maybe some teaching with foreshadowing?
Aftran: I love Aftran/Cassie, also, I'm curious about her life as a whale.
Estrid: I love a mad scientist, especially a morally complicated one, especially if it's a girl, it's still rare. So anything about science would be good.
Ax and/or Estrid: Anything about the war, about Andalite society. Maybe different opinions about the peace in the middle of the last volume? Romance between them is cool but not mandatory
Ax: I would also like to see more of his childhood, before the canon.
Ax and/or Tobias: Their relationship is my life, Ax being kind of shy about ritual friendship, more of them learning that they're related I can't believe it's a missing scene. Or more of keeping each other company while they were living in the woods.
Tobias: In addition to Ax, I'm interested about all his family feelings (more of when he thought Visser 3 was lost family? More thinking about Elfangor?) I'm intrigues by the peace period in the last volume, does he totally cut tie with Loren, or did she die offscreen? Since she's not mentioned at all in his decision of leaving the humans world. I love his romance with Rachel, of course, if it's here it's good, but it's better to me if it's not the full fic.
Fullmetal Alchemist 2003
Lust (FMA 2003)
Ship: Lust/Scar (FMA 2003)
Ship: Sloth & Wrath (FMA 2003)
Sloth (FMA 2003)
Wrath (FMA 2003)
I love the Homunculi in this version, and how they're built as replacements they aren't, and how they have complicated, buried feelings, probably no memories but it's not totally clear. I love angst, love horror smut, love introspection, love slice of life.
I love that Izumi and Sloth basically swapped their kids.
Lust's moments of sexual tension with Scar are some of my fave parts in this series. Don't hesitate to go canon divergence for them.
Marvel 616
Illyana Rasputin (616)
Ship: Kitty Pryde/Illyana Rasputin (616)
Ship: Danielle Moonstar/Rahne Sinclair (616)
Illyana: Anything about Limbo would be very good, there is potential about demons!
Kitty/Illyana: I love it as teens or now, one-sided from Illyana's side or reciprocated, complicated or just accepting being soulmates. I just don't want it to be too cute or domestic, at least a bit of superheroism or comfort is better.
Dani/Rahne: For them I love better the fluffy side!
I adore the eighties first arc of the New Mutants. I also like fairy tale AUs where Illyana can be anon-mutant witch or Rahne a non-mutant werewolf.
Claremont era is my fave, but it's not exclusive, if you're referencing a specific arc, tell me which one in the notes, and if I haven't read it, I sure can!
Les Misérables
Éponine Thénardier (Les Mis Book)
Gavroche Thénardier (Les Mis Book)
I love to see them interact, but it's not an obligation at all! In the book, Gavroche gave Eponine tickets for plays, maybe talking about one of these plays with ghosts or supernatural elements?
If you go for supernatural: I love them both as ghosts, Eponine either being a vengeful ghost, either being company for Azelma, Gavroche still helping his little brothers or just keeping being a revolutionary menace after death.
For non-supernatural
Mo Dao Zu Shi
Ship: Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning (MDZS - MXTX)
Wen Qing (MDZS - MXTX)
I love that in the book Wen Qing canonically is the inventor of the Golden Core transfer, she's not only a healer but also a scientist, someone who creates new things. Something focused on this side of her character would be nice!
But I also love her as an older sister (fic about when she and Wen Ning were kids is extra nice), as someone who doesn't approve of the politics of her clan but doesn't feel she has power to do something about it, as the administrator of a refugee group...
Canon divergence where the Jin actually try to use her skill instead of just humiliating her/killing her are welcome.
I'm not especially interested in any romance with her.
Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning: I love when it's complicated because necromancy, but if you want to write about Wen Ning's crush when he was alive I'm all for this too. Can be Buried Mounds slice of life, local ghosts. Can be after Wei Wuxian's death too (he heard him from so far) or even during, just Wei Wuxian's feelings when he was a prisoner.
I don't want to break Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, you can make a love triangle or you can not mention it at all or you can have Wen Ning's feelings be completely one-sided, all is good for me.
Nevermore
Ship: Annabel Lee/Lenore (Nevermore Webcomic)
Ship: Montresor/Will (Nevermore Webcomic)
Duke (Nevermore Webcomic)
Eulalie (Nevermore Webcomic)
Lenore/Annabel: anything before they died is good. It can be slice of life, getting to know each other, talking about anything, with Lenore or "Leo". It can also be dark and dramatic, like your headcanons on how the died.
Eulalie: She was a supernatural investigator! She seemingly saw things with her friends! Can be about one of these childhood adventures - with or without foreshadowing, or about what she tried to do in the murder house after (before she got to tutoring). If you like better to write her with Nevermore, I would like more of her friendship with Berenice, maybe first encounters?
Duke: He's cool, he makes me laugh. I would love more of his circus show from when he was alive, or more of his friendship with Lenore and/or Pluto, or angst about when he was trapped in teh wall.
Will/Montresor: I love every version of their labyrinth adventures, I love Will angst (possibly with internalized homophobia), I love more of Montresor's trauma after he saw Will die. I don't want fics where they met when they were alive, the timeline doesn't work with my headcanons.
Our Flag Means Death
Ship: Israel Hands/Edward Teach (OFMD TV)
For this fandom, I love things that are just a bit supernatural, like, it changes nothing on the characters' priorities, everything happens the same, but supernatural exists! Ghosts, ghost ships, sea gods, vodou zombies (not in a racist way, of course). Izzy being a ghost, or coming back from the dead (probably not in a fluffy way) is very much welcome. I don't want AU where he doesn't die though, if you don't want it to happen, there's lot of room in the timeline before!
If you're not into supernatural stuff, any kind of tense situation, where they might emotionally hurt each other, is good. Just more of the serious part of the canon. If you want things that seems supernatural but they're actually revealed not to be, it's very good to me too.
Penny Dreadful
Ship: Ethan Chandler/Dorian Gray/Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
Ship: Mina Harker/Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
Ship: Vanessa Ives/Mina Murray (Penny Dreadful)
Ship: Victor Frankenstein/Henry Jekyll (Penny Dreadful)
Mina/Vanessa: It was nominated two times, I ask for both to match with as many people as possible, and also to show that it can be young girl Mina or vampire Mina, both are very good to me. Can be just UST and angst and character study. Can include theories about how much of Mina vampire!Mina is, the show was not very satisfying about it.
Frankenstein/Jekyll: Jekyll always struck me as having a crush on Victor, I love backstory in mad science for them, I love Jekyll pining during the Lily arc, I love him snapping post-canon.
Ethan/Dorian/Vanessa: They're all flirting with each other, and I would have liked it to go somewhere. Can be only flirting but in a scene where they're all here, can be smut, can be supernatural adventures (Dorian loves to try his lovers' hobbies in canon)
Tinker tailor soldier spy
Ship: Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Book)
I will enjoy moment in the timeline, the years of uni, as young spies during WW2, the older version before or after the betrayal, and as we're talkign about spooky if you want to go post-canon and have Jim talk to Bill's ghost it's all goos to me too.
Trigun
Elendira the Crimsonnail (Trigun manga)
Legato Bluesummers (Trigun manga)
Midvalley the Hornfreak (Trigun manga)
Ship: Legato Bluesummers/Millions Knives (Trigun manga)
Zazie the Beast (Trigun manga)
I love the power dynamics among the Gung-Ho Guns a lot. Can be dark, can be funny as long as it's in character, can be cruel or can even be some understanding. These ones are my faves, but you can use the others.
I love Legato's devotion to Knives more than I can say.
