Dear Fic In A Box Creator
AO3 name: Alley_Skywalker
Dear Fic-In-A-Box Creator
First, I would like to say thank you for the time and effort that you are willing to put into creating for me! Length of fandom sections or the order the fandoms are in no way indication of how much I want fic for any given fandom; I would be absolutely delighted to receive fic in any of the fandoms I asked for. I've tried to provide some details on the sorts of things I like (and don't) and give prompts for each of my fandoms/ships.
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Game of Thrones
Fandom-specific DNWs: For Theon ships - fics set during the Ramsay/Reek period. Post-Ramsay (i.e. post escape with Sansa) is ok. Ramsay/Theon. Also, please no to the sort of Robb-survives-the-Red-Wedding AUs where everything in Theon’s storyline stays the same but Robb survives the Red Wedding and then they are brought back together when Robb takes back the North, etc along those lines. If he survives in some major AU where Theon doesn't defect/never goes to Pyke or Theon's storyline goes differently re: getting captured by Ramsay (e.g. he goes with Asha to Deepwood Motte or something) then that's fine. Also please no reunited-in-the-afterlife fics for Theon/Robb.
To clarify my general DNWs, I realize that there is a lot of torture/violence/gore in this fandom, and it’s fine to mention anything that happens in canon (e.g. Boltons flaying people, Stannis burning people) and non-graphic descriptions of canon-typical violence. I just don’t want graphic/prolonged descriptions/scenes.
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I have so many feelings about this ship but also so many of them are really sad? Because, realistically, this relationship is kinda toxic. I’m not saying that in like a Purity Police way or anything, but just the power dynamics, and the fact that Robb is not above employing them when it suits him/when he’s ticked off, means that there is a lot of tension and angst and shit involved - it’s not just fluff and Cute ™. Also Alfie certainly chose to play this a Certain Way where Theon is basically making heart eyes at Robb the whole time. And Robb….never really reciprocates and is kinda cold/distant a lot? Like he sort of is generally reserved here, but it’s kinda jarring when Theon seems to desperately be giving his all - it reads a bit like unrequited love. Although! My favorite way to go here is that Robb is just kind of repressed/unable to deal with his feelings or whatever and never says the things he means/feels. Or maybe (if they’ve got a FWB type thing going) takes it for granted and just assumes that Theon knows his feelings, completely failing to understand that Theon does not actually expect for love and affection to be handed to him and does in fact need it spelled out.
Like, ok, Theon has self-guilt trips in canon about his defection (and other shit he did, admittedly) and that’s plenty explored in fic. But I’d love some Robb angst! Robb pining uselessly (and guiltily. angrily?) after Theon defects, being baffled by why Theon walked away from him, and pissed off, but then actually taking a moment to think through the why and realizing all the ways in which he’d screwed up with this relationship (and just how hurtful things like the Bran incident and the “not your duty, not your house” putdown would have been). I’m open to various takes on what their relationship was beforehand. Maybe Robb is repressed and didn't fully realize his feelings until after Theon left. Maybe Robb was repressed but realized his feelings but knew fuck all what to do with them, not to mention how to express them. Maybe they were casual and never managed to have like A Conversation about their feelings/relationship. Maybe they were lovers and Robb is really confused/pissed at first but then slowly realizes that they hadn't been communicating well/things had been off for a while. (Maybe the fact that Robb never directly addressed the hostage issue after his father died and before sending Theon to Pyke put a strain on things?)
Or you know something lighter would be amazing too! Mutual pining that does get resolved and ends up in them getting together. Banter and being really awkward about their feelings. Worrying about each other’s safety now and again during the war (especially Robb worrying about Theon). (Because, ok, IDK if this will make sense, it does in my head, but like…I’m a lot more invested in Robb being in love with Theon, regardless of whether he manages to confess it or not, than vice-versa, but it’s also important to me that the feelings are actually requited/they’re both in love with each other.)
The mandatary hurt/comfort prompt (lol) - Robb having (another) break down the night he finds out his father is dead and Theon comforting him. Maybe with unexpected tenderness. Could be they’re mutually pining too or could be this is when they end up kissing for the first time. But really, any hurt/comfort scenario you can think of would be great! I especially love the interplay of hurt/comfort and pining! For example, the idea of the pining character receiving care and comfort from someone they’re in love with and both desperately wanting/needing that comfort and realizing how hard it is to keep their feelings under control (and maybe ultimately failing to) when they’re in a more vulnerable state. And in reverse: the tenderness and stress of caring for the object of their affection and wanting to be even MOAR sweet but also feeling like they need to hide it. With someone who seems to have as difficult a time with communicating and processing feelings as Robb, this can all be extra fun! (And I think I’d especially prefer his POV here.) Maybe also an AU where Theon decides to go back to Robb instead of defecting to his family, but he’s hurt in the “escape” from Pyke/on his way back and shows up in camp in pretty bad shape and Robb’s got to deal with both the practicality of the political situation this leaves them in while also providing comfort/care for Theon…and pining (maybe especially hard and guiltily as he realizes how much Theon’s decided to give up for him).
For some extra drama and whump - I love those “captured together” scenarios where the ship has to provide care/comfort for each other after interrogation/torture or them being forced to watch each other’s interrogations or getting one of them to do/say something with the threat of hurting the other. (Per my DNWs I don’t want really extreme or gory torture, nothing Ramsay-esque, but like…characters getting generally beat up some is ok; being threatened with more extreme torture is also ok.) If they’re pining during - extra great! If there’s dramatic escapes and/or politics or whatever also involved - even better!
Would love some kind of AU where Theon makes some smarter choices, e.g. sacks Winterfell, grabs Bran and Rickon, and goes to Deepwood Motte to join Yara/back to the Iron Islands with them as hostages. The really tense negotiations with Robb, or facing off against each other in battle somehow. (The conflict! Also I just want Theon in command and kicking ass, lbr *sigh*.) A fortune reversal where Robb ends up a POW in this AU at whatever stronghold Theon/Theon and Yara are holding. Would love them to get a chance to work out their shit where they are on a more equal footing - and both being forced to confront their mistakes (Theon obviously defecting, but Robb having to come to terms with what position Theon really was in with his family and how he was definitely not sensitive enough to that). Any kind of ending here you want (though I’d very much prefer Theon not dying) - happy (somehow…) or bittersweet or even sad.
I generally love fortune reversal AUs for them! For example:
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Fandom-specific DNWs: For Theon ships - fics set during the Ramsay/Reek period. Post-Ramsay (i.e. post escape with Jeyne) is ok. Ramsay/Theon. Also, please no to the sort of Robb-survives-the-Red-Wedding AUs where everything in Theon’s storyline stays the same but Robb survives the Red Wedding and then they are brought back together when Robb takes back the North, etc along those lines. If he survives in some major AU where Theon doesn't defect/never goes to Pyke or Theon's storyline goes differently re: getting captured by Ramsay (e.g. he goes with Asha to Deepwood Motte or something) then that's fine. Also please no reunited-in-the-afterlife fics for Theon/Robb.
To clarify my general DNWs, I realize that there is a lot of torture/violence/gore in this fandom, and it’s fine to mention anything that happens in canon (e.g. Boltons flaying people, Stannis burning people) and non-graphic descriptions of canon-typical violence. I just don’t want graphic/prolonged descriptions/scenes. If it’s a fic that’s set post-Ramsay, I realize/expect that Theon’s trauma from that experience will feature in some way, but I’d rather not have very graphic flashbacks, etc, or for it to be the entire/overwhelming focus, and if that means setting the fic further in the future, that’s totally fine by me.
Minors-under-16/adults DNW is waived for Robb/Theon, although I'd very much prefer that Robb is at least 15 when anything reciprocated happens/Theon develops romantic feelings for him. Robb can have a crush as early as seems reasonable, though :).
Not a DNW-related thing, but more a general Theon thing: for post-Ramsay fic that's set further out into the future (post-war, etc), I really-really love the fanon that Theon's hair eventually starts growing back in dark/black. (Let him have nice things ahhh!!)
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The ship that seems to have come out of nowhere, but wouldn’t it be nice for Theon to have a happy ending with a nice ironborn boy? And you can't tell me Tris wasn't just made for some delicious pining. (But...he really does need to get over Asha for his own good, so here's his chance lol.)
While I'm down for canon-compliant, post-canon fic for these two, here are some AUs I love the idea of:
Theon Greyjoy & Robb Stark; Theon Greyjoy/Robb Stark
Ok, so given their age difference in the books (some 4 and a half years) I especially like the more platonic older/younger brother dynamic for the book version of these two. And ahhh I would really, really love some childhood fluff or hurt/comfort or even some angst. How close they are in the books is a bit ambiguous. We never get Robb’s POV at all, though he clearly trusts Theon at least in a professional capacity, and Robb is the one person Theon regrets hurting with his defection to his family/from the Starks. (I mean, to be clear, I don’t think he owed the Starks anything, including Robb, but canonically Theon has regrets about it, specifically when it comes to Robb.) But it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to say they were at least kind of close, to the extent their age difference and general difficulty of the situation allowed.
So…how do they get there? Is it Robb following around the new older boy and being a cutie that finally breaks through Theon’s defenses? Does Theon just really, really need a friend so he doesn’t go crazy and Robb’s the best option, but then they end up bonding? Really any cute childhood adventures would be great - especially anything with Theon in a (perhaps unwilling/unintentional) mentorship role. (And ahaha how annoyed Cat would be that her Pride and Joy has taken a shining to this Suspicious ™ Greyjoy boy who’s a bad influence.) Actually, maybe something about Theon being a bad influence on Robb, but like in a mostly harmless way - teaches him how to sneak out, teaching him not-quite-age-appropriate stories/jokes/things about sex. For a more hurt/comfort angle (!!!) - tiny Robb really attaching to Theon, just deciding this is his older brother now so he’s gonna like crawl into his bed when he has a nightmare or conscript him into telling him stories when he’s unwell, and all the while Theon is like “I really did not sign up for this shit” but secretly he’s really, embarrassingly soft for this stupid child. (But also - I think there’s implications that Theon sometimes has nightmares about the siege of Pyke, and those were probably more intense when he was much younger so…an unexpected role reversal?)
For something more sad…Ned taking Theon to executions and making him squire is just fgbsdfhklgfh. So like…Ned taking Robb to his first execution when he’s maybe just a little older than Bran was his first time (so maybe 8) and then Theon has to go too and it’s also his first one. And they’re both really shaken, but for different reasons (Theon doesn’t have his laugh-about-everything-always defensive mechanisms worked out yet) and kinda take comfort in each other in a way. Or…maybe at some point when they’re both in the teenage/pre-teen era, there’s some troubling news from the Islands and the boys jump the gun with panic and whether or not The Time has come for Ned to take Theon’s head. (And maybe they try to run away/escape…)
But I’m also totally into stories from when they’re older/canon-era, and a more romantic slant on their relationship is also welcome. Feel free to use any of the prompts in the above GoT section that I gave for them with either a platonic or romantic slant (most of them should be workable for book canon and dynamics as well, and I think the tensions between them/in their relationship are similar ultimately, even if book!Robb is younger and thus reads softer and Theon doesn’t give off quite as strong unrequited love vibes as in the show, and just generally there is a shift in dynamic due to the age gap).
Dagmer Cleftjaw & Theon Greyjoy
Don’t we all wish Dagmer was Theon’s dad instead of Balon? Ahah. No, but seriously, I love how warm and familiar this relationship feels, how comfortable they are with each other after all these years. Like, everyone else is suspicious or derisive or indifferent to Theon after all his time away, and Dagmer is just…not. He looks at him and sees that kid he trained, the one he’d clearly cared about and still supports and stands by. He knows Theon really well, sees through his facades, and Theon doesn’t even really find this embarrassing, even in the hypersensitive state he’s in during ACOK. And every memory Theon seems to have of Dagmer is largely positive - that’s so rare for him! No wonder he’s sort of “adopted” Dagmer as his uncle.
I would love anything about them, really. I love explorations of Theon as a child pre-rebellion. (And I hold to the opinion that while the Greyjoys were always a highly dysfunctional family, Theon wasn’t especially miserable as a kid either. Likely, he had a good relationship with Asha, if hindered a bit by age and gender difference, and was probably more ignored by his father than disliked or anything. His mother loved him; he had friends. Aeron was a different person back then too, so he might have gotten along with him well enough as an uncle. Like, his memories of his brothers are clearly bad, but that doesn’t seem to spread generally to everything and everyone else on the Islands.) But anyway, yes - anything about Theon’s childhood and Dagmer’s role in it. Feel free to bring in any other Greyjoys and other ironborn families as you like!
But I would also enjoy something about when Theon comes back to Pyke. Maybe Dagmer’s POV on the situation. What does he think about Theon now that he’s grown up? Does he make any active attempts to mentor Theon through the drama with his father/men/overall situation of being a bit of an outsider, or does he expect this to shift into more of a friendship between adults? If they are reunited after Theon’s time with Ramsay, how does that all go?
Here’s a somewhat elaborate AU idea I’m really fond of: Basically Alannys prepares for the eventuality of them losing the Pyke siege/war with the mindset that if they lose the Northerners are gonna kill Balon’s sons or at least take them hostage indefinitely so she arranges for Theon to be hidden outside the castle/be smuggled out at some point if it looks like they’re definitely going to lose. Theon is to hide until things calm down then make his way to a pre-agreed upon location. (Maybe she sends Asha too, or maybe they figured no one would care about her because she’s a girl.) Anyway the other part of the plan is that they tell the Northerners that Theon died during the siege (e.g. died in the South Tower collapse) But they also figure they can’t be caught in the lie right away or like if it’s revealed Theon is alive they’d come back for him. So, Alannys also makes a deal with Dagmer that he’ll raise Theon on the islands but in hiding, basically, as Theon Pyke. So that’s the set up - but how do things go after this plan is successful? This can be taken in a more light/comedy direction: the Theon and Dagmer (mis)adventires. But also can be far more serious and angsty: Theon having to deal with being in hiding essentially/living as a bastard, them having to adjust to this new life even if they see it as temporary (and how much is Dagmer prepared for the fact that raising a kid is not the same as just training/mentoring him?), Theon growing up and learning to lead on a local/minor level but always looking forward to going back to reclaim his birthright. Where does this leave him and Asha? Does she sneakily come visit? Does Balon still make her his de facto heir and how does Theon deal with that? Or is she taken hostage instead of Theon and how does he deal with the emotional fallout from that?
Asha Greyjoy & Theon Greyjoy; Theon Greyjoy & Maron Greyjoy
Sooo Theon’s family is all kinds of weird and screwed up. I mean Euron is his uncle, just that… But I do sometimes think that how bad/miserable his family life was pre-Balon’s Rebellion gets a bit exaggerated. We have every indication that his mother loves him, and there’s no reason to think that Balon hated him even before he was taken away to the North. Balon’s not a warm kind of guy, but his treatment of Theon in ACOK seems mostly spurred by the fact they’re estranged/haven’t bonded in many years, Balon’s suspicious of him, and feels like Theon no longer fits into the Ironborn ways. It’s perfectly possible that they had a much more promising, if not particularly affectionate, relationship when Theon was a child. I mean, he was at the very least expecting his father to be happy to have him back and all. Maybe he and Asha weren’t close but it becomes apparent later on that they do love each other - the circumstances and context of their reunion in ACOK just sucked. I can certainly see them as teasing, squabbling children, who nonetheless care intensely about each other as siblings tend to.
Rodrik we know Theon had no good relationship with, but what about Maron? Equally bad or something more in between? Was there ever a time when he idolized his brothers? We don't have a concrete canonical age for Maron but people well versed in the Greyjoy family trivia have advised that he's probably around five years older than Theon, which makes sense to me and is basically my headcanon. So, with that framing, it's interesting to me how the age difference there is about the same as what he has/will have with Robb, except Maron is older and Robb is younger. It's also interesting to me that Theon describes Rodrik as being physically abusive and Maron as just mean and a liar. I wonder if maybe there was a time when Theon and Maron were closer, but then Maron got older and was more interested in following Rodrik/trying to impress his older brother? Is Theon extra bitter about maybe some mean things Maron said/some lie he told because he felt left behind or betrayed by his brother? I would love an exploration of a more complicated relationship between them than just "Theon's brothers were abusive and that's it." I would just love some worldbuilding around this family and Theon’s childhood with them - especially Maron and Asha.
Alternatively, if you’d like, one of my fanciful wish lists for WOW is like…Theon helping overturn the kingsmoot and endgame for the Greyjoy siblings being Asha as Queen of the Iron Islands and Theon as her top commander, getting to live his best Ironborn life and be happy for once, gah. (Or even them being co-rulers?!?!)
Theon Greyjoy/Jeyne Poole
Preliminarily, I will say that I don't mind if you age Jeyne up a couple of years if it's needed for timeline things. (I read her as 15-ish in ADWD anyway. There's nothing to say she's not a little bit older than Sansa.) ANYWAY, I love this ship both for thematic reasons and also just as a straight up love story - the desperation, the shared angst, the heroic/daring escape, and the chance to find happiness and understanding in each other! And, really there are so many things about them but the one that’s underappreciated I feel like is Jeyne’s pre-series/AGOT era crush on/attraction to Theon. (She likes older guys, clearly, ok. That’s not an abnormal teenager thing lol.) And, of course, then when she meets him again he’s not nearly the attractive, dashing boy he used to be, but he saves her - he saves her when before he probably paid her no attention at all. And it’s like…it’s that story of the girl who grew up in her prettier/better-off/more popular bff’s shadow getting the guys she’s always wanted, and yet…not really? Because it’s not exactly a fairytale and Theon is not the boy he used to be (and yet…in some ways he still is.)
But anyway, I just want some of them falling in love and being in love. Idiots to Lovers if great for them. as is pining. What were they up to during the war? Would love to see Jeyne meeting Asha and maybe some other Theon knows/who are part of his life (what do they think of her? Who does he tell them she is/what is she to him?). What kind of life do they build together? (Do they adopt a child? Or, fuck it, canon is vague enough about this that it’s not strictly speaking acononical/AU to say that Theon still has the ability to procreate, if you catch my drift. Let them have a whole bunch of babies lol.) Does she stick with him from the moment they escape or are they separated at some point and then find each other later/after the war? Also, while I would enjoy fluff for them and definitely want a happy ending with this ship, the whole thing doesn’t have to be fluff. There can be angst and drama, both of the romantic sort and the We Are At War With Zombies/Euron type. (inevitably, their mutual trauma and trauma recovery will likely be a theme, but I’d rather the trauma/PTSD aspect not be the only/overwhelming aspect of the fic.)
For art: Would love some romantic beach scenes, sunsets. Would also love a scene from their wedding. Family scenes/portraits would be awesome too!
Gerris Drinkwater/Quentyn Martell
I love Quent! I love that he’s sensitive and thoughtful and self-aware, but also intelligent and determined and actually quite brave (though foolishly so sometimes).
I would love to see something from their youth together, lots of banter and what shenanigans they might have gotten up to. Their first kiss. OMG, Quent’s perpetual social awkwardness and how much worse it would be if he were confronted with having romantic feelings and needing/wanted to reveal them - that would be an amusing scene. I admit to really enjoying the Prince/King and His Servant/Squire/Knight/What have you (knight, in this case) trope. Loyalty kink and hurt/comfort are your friends. If you just default to those two in their most iddy form I’d be perfectly content.(E.g. an AU where Quent survives the dragons incident but it still hurt and hurt/confort ensues.) Would love some angst with Gerris dealing with Quent's death, maybe with flasback's to their life back in Dorne. I would be so interested in an AU where Quent lives and succeeds in his mission somehow and goes back to Dorne victorious with Dany as his bride and there’s politics and pining and jealousy (and plot, but that's optional, though maybe more feasible with the 5k min? :D) and stuff. I’d eat that up with a spoon!
Quentyn Martell/Sansa Stark
Love both of them and I think they could be very happy together. This could be an AU where Quent doesn’t die and they meet either post-canon/endgame or at some point before that (Sansa escaping from KL and going to Dorne or something). With this, as with the following AU scenario, there is really great potential for some fun intrigue/politics/worldbuilding, and that's always exciting, especially with a world as detailed and brimming with just this kind of thing as ASOIAF. I have to admit, though, that when I think about this ship, I typically think of a pre-canon arranged marriage AU. Say, Ned and Doran had arranged Quent’s and Sansa’s marriage for any reason you like, honestly, even if it's very handwavy. This can be slow burn + politics or, for more romance focus, slow burn + dorks (falling) in love, especially nice if it's got more of a humor/comedy of errors tilt rather than a sappy fluff tilt. I feel like early Sansa would both bulk a little at Quent very clearly not being the Shining Knight she had always dreamed of/imagined for her husband but would also appreciate his kindness and sweet personality. And, of God, Quentyn would be such an awkward mess around a pretty girl xD
Romeo and Juliet
Fandom DNWs: V-formation for the Montacrew OT3 that’s centered on Benvolio (v-formation centered on Mercutio or Romeo is fine, though I prefer everyone-with-everyone OT3); age difference within the Montacrew that's greater than 2 years between oldest and youngest.
I don't particularly care how you deal with Romeo/Juliet. They can break up or never meet or whatever really - whatever works best for the particular story. Feel free to handwave as needed.
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Benvolio/Romeo/Mercutio
Romercutio and Romvolio - my two fave ships in this fandom - and the Montacrew friendship all wrapped up into one ship - what could be better! I'm happy with all genres/tones here - fluff, angst, hurt/comfort. romance. I really just feel like this threesome should get more love from the fandom. I'm afraid my prompts are subpar here, but really, I would enjoy pretty much anything with these three as long as there's genuine love and affection involved.
So how did they get together? Did their friendship pretty naturally transition into a relationship or was there more negotiation/uncertainty? Did one pair get together first (Romvolio? Romercutio?) and then bring in the third member? (Was there any angst/insecurity from said third party initially?) The getting together can happen pre-canon or in a canon-divergence AU (like, after the duel).
I'd love any kind of cuteness and banter and fluff really. Teenage shenanigans with kissing :) On the flip side - anything exploring these three being really Soft and affectionate but also kinda dysfunctional because they all have their own baggage which they can’t always (or ever) communicate/talk about property (because teenagers, lbr). Mercutio being a nuisance of every and any kind and the boys having to deal with that/him. (Including any kind of post-duel caretaking and hurt/comfort.
Any kind of hurt/comfort, frankly, with any of the three as the hurt party (though I probably prefer Romeo or Mercutio). Anything from scrapes with Capulets to abusive/overwhelming (physically or emotionally) home/family situations. (Though, I see the Montague parents as more emotionally demanding/neglectful/manipulative, etc, than physically abusive.) Maybe one of them is kidnapped and the others have to find a way to get him back or they're all kidnapped together by the Capulets (for some reason, idk, surprise me, lol) and have to find a way to escape. (Some violence in this situation is fine - people getting beaten up, etc, just not like...really extreme/gruesome torture.)
Post-canon angst, where Mercutio and Romeo come as ghosts one night shortly after the play's events to say a final goodbye to Ben. Or maybe Ben can't see them (at first?) but strange stuff keeps happening to/around him or he gets help somehow in otherwise hopeless situations but can't figure out how/from who, and tries to find out. (This is the sad ghosts/haunting prompt.)
For art: anything cute/adorable, cuddle piles, holding hands, nature settings, bright colors, quiet/intimate or domestic moments, teasing each other, setting up for some prank or getting into some kid of mischief. Just anything sweet/fun and happy - three dorks being adorable. For sadness: Benvolio going to their graves and the boys lingering nearby (or maybe trying to comfort him whether or not he can see them) as ghosts.
Harry Potter
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One of the things I've always loved in the HP universe was the era of the First War. I've got a lot of headcanons about it, but I enjoy reading other's takes on aspects of it as well. It was clearly such a tense time, and the war was ramping up as Severus, Regulus and their classmates were still in school. We don't know too much about the first war era, and about Severus' cohort of young(er) Death Eaters, but we do know some things. Obviously we know a lot about Snape, and we know some about Regulus (he did not see/feel the need to rebel against his family the way Sirius did and they apparently had a...complicated relationsihp at the least, but he eventually defected). We know Barty was and stayed extremely loyal despite his father being a very anti-Voldemort and we know Evan was skilled enough to wound Moody in combat/a duel and he died laughing (though I read it as like bitter desparation/dark humor rather than insanity). But we don't really know how exactly the Death Eaters were organized, to what extent they were organized (similar to the Order? Karkaroff says most of them didn't know every other person who was or wasn't a Death Eater, but I imagine people suspected, and how much do we trust Karkaroff anyway?).
How did they train? What were their missions? I'm really interested in the war worldbuilding part of things. But I'm also interested in the more social - Pureblood Society, especially - part of worldbuilding. These boys are all purebloods, save Severus. (Note, btw, that I headcanon Evan as being the same age as and friends with Severus, and, IIRC, Avery and Mulciber are Sev's school friends canonically.) Also, don't feel limited to just the four characters in each group - include anyone else you want from that cohort: e.g. Wilkes, etc, all/any combination of the boys in both group. Hell, make up some OCs if you'd like and/or include some of the older Death Eaters - Dolohov, Rookwood, Lucius - as mentors or family friends or commanding officers, or just people they know and have to deal with.
I really love themes and stories of friendship and loyalty, as well as explorations of how those are tested by war. Also explorations of how people come to extrimism. Who is there because they really believe this shit? Who is there for more practical reasons? Who is there because that's what their friends and family are all doing and/or out of a sense of duty to someone/something? Are there ideological debates they have? How does someone like Regulus, who stops believeing in the Cause or perhaps just stops believing in Tom Riddle's/Voldemort's leadership. feel and deal with having to betray his friends? (Or a similar question, but for Snape. Let's assume young Severus did have some genuine friendships, even if they didn't mean as much as his love for Lily or save him from being bullied.) I want to see some boys being friends and growing up togther and doing dumb teenage things together and fighting a war together and ending up torn apart by the world and/or their own choices. Or, you know, some subset of those things.
Remus Lupin/Evan Rosier
I think what I like the most about this pairing is the possibilities and impossibilities that it presents. Different houses, backgrounds, ideologies etc and to see how that can work together would be wonderful. I suppose it would start as an accident of some sort or perhaps a bet or a set up and then evolve into something more. Maybe a situation where they're forced to work together to insure their own survival or something of that sort, and then they end up appreciating things about each other they never thought they would.
My personal headcanons re: Evan add to the whole potential opposites attract thing, as in my head, Evan is the happy, extroverted, attractive, popular kid from a rich, happy family. And then there's Remus who's quiet and a bit dorky and forced to be a bit secretive even if that wouldn't be his first choice. I can definitely see Remus as a bit awkward as a teenager, with a depressive streak which he suppresses to keep up with James and Sirius, who love him but tend to be oblivious. And I can see Remus being drawn to Evan like a moth to a (very dangerous) flame and Evan seeing something he likes and going after it, Houses and sides of barricades be damned. But, of course, I'd love to see other interpretations of them as well.
I think both of them are too dedicated to their respective causes to ever switch sides which, I suppose, would preclude a happy ending but I think that's the beauty of this ship - it can be so deliciously psychologically messed up and complicated. It's all about war and hate and desire and could-have-beens.
I would love some background/worldbuilding around pureblood/wizarding society and the day-to-day of the First War, as well as the more exciting/dramatic parts of it (missions, stake-outs, battles, etc).
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GENERAL STUFF'
Relationsihps/Sex/Ratings:
Likes:
- Outside of any ships I ask for specifically, I'm good with slash, het or fem for background ships!
- All ratings up to R.
- A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex.
- Mutual pining, especially if it's secretly requited pining and the parties think it's unrequited. (Unrequited pining is nice too.)
- Complicated relationship dynamics, love triangles, relationships that take some effort/time to work, loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings, etc in this vain.
- UST. Eventually resolved is probably better than not, however, not a must-have.
- Conversely from the above - romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other.
- Kissing, hugging, holding hands, non-sexual physical contact in general.
- Praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile. Works especially well with characters who are deeply insecure. I’m generally fond of other related things, such as body worship, partners being encouraging during sex in a very sweet, reassuring way, etc).
- Threesomes/moresomes and polyamory, unless specifically requested/prompted.
- Incest (unless specifically requested or explicitly canon; this DNW does not include cousins).
- Parings with large age disparity (over 15 years) unless specifically requested.
- Minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults; one-sided teenage crushes on adults are fine. I'd rather not read about teenagers under 16 having sex, even if both are 14/15, but romance/kissing and some groping and whatnot is fine; references to off-screen sexual experimentation/sex is fine if it's something that fits the characters/story.
- NC-17 and PWPs.
- Healing cock.
- BDSM, omegaverse, and most kink. (NOT included in this: foreplay; bantery/lighthearted roleplay for the purposes of foreplay; preferences for a certain sexual position, fascination with a partner’s physical trait, such as, e.g., preferring redheads or virgins or younger partners or being fascinated by someone’s shoulders; rough/aggressive/desperate sex or outside-of-bedroom inequalities that transfer into the bedroom, even though there may be pining down of wrists or some other element that could be considered a kink or part of BDSM; anything specifically listed as a “like”).
- Foot fetishes (I know I said liking specific body parts is fine, but this is the exception).
- Humiliation (both sexual and not).
- Non-con/rape (dub-con that leans toward/ends up as consensual is ok).
- Mpreg.
Genres/Themes (and such):
Likes:
- Angst, drama. (Please don’t try to use this as a challenge to see how many angst/dark tropes you can fit into a single fic. I have no issue with dark themes, angst is my crack and things like character death don’t bother me, but if it feels like it’s just a marathon of horrible things happening…that’s a little too intense for me. Exceptions apply if a specific prompt calls for dark!fic or similar endless angst.)
- Humor is fun too, but I like it more as an element in the story rather than a story that sets out to be funny first and foremost.
- Hurt/comfort!!!
- LOYALTY KINK! Themes of loyalty and devotion in general. Protectiveness.
- Related to the above, I enjoy explorations of divided/conflicted loyalties in various contexts.
- Friendship, family (dynamics), platonic love.
- Backstories, especially childhood fics.
- Fluff, banter, cuddling/snuggling, kissing, general adorableness (and adoration!).
- Well-rounded characters, characters with emotions/sympathetic motives; the “other side of the story”.
- Politics, intrigue; plot (if you already happen to be that way inclined).
- Worldbuilding, especailly in fantasy and historical settings.
- Crack!fic, parody.
- AUs that subvert the universe or drastically change the setting (eg: setting a modern fandom as a fairytale, turning a historical fandom all Sci-Fi, Coffee Shop/College AUs, etc. This includes stuff like A/B/O and inserting magic/supernatural elements into a non-magic/supernatural universe).
- Crossovers
- Time travel.
- Apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios, regardless of whether done as an AU or some kind of post-canon possibility thing. (Exception for when this setting is explicitly canon.)
- Character bashing. (Especially with requested characters.)
- Horror; graphic gore.
- Torture. (Mentions are fine if torture is something that happens in canon. BUT no deaths/executions by torture - eg: drawing and quartering - whatsoever.)
- Humiliation; any sort of glorification of bullying.
- Ccross-dressing; genderbending/genderswap; non-canonical genders and gender headcanons in general.
- Narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love with each other.
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Game of Thrones
Fandom-specific DNWs: For Theon ships - fics set during the Ramsay/Reek period. Post-Ramsay (i.e. post escape with Sansa) is ok. Ramsay/Theon. Also, please no to the sort of Robb-survives-the-Red-Wedding AUs where everything in Theon’s storyline stays the same but Robb survives the Red Wedding and then they are brought back together when Robb takes back the North, etc along those lines. If he survives in some major AU where Theon doesn't defect/never goes to Pyke or Theon's storyline goes differently re: getting captured by Ramsay (e.g. he goes with Asha to Deepwood Motte or something) then that's fine. Also please no reunited-in-the-afterlife fics for Theon/Robb.
To clarify my general DNWs, I realize that there is a lot of torture/violence/gore in this fandom, and it’s fine to mention anything that happens in canon (e.g. Boltons flaying people, Stannis burning people) and non-graphic descriptions of canon-typical violence. I just don’t want graphic/prolonged descriptions/scenes.
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I have so many feelings about this ship but also so many of them are really sad? Because, realistically, this relationship is kinda toxic. I’m not saying that in like a Purity Police way or anything, but just the power dynamics, and the fact that Robb is not above employing them when it suits him/when he’s ticked off, means that there is a lot of tension and angst and shit involved - it’s not just fluff and Cute ™. Also Alfie certainly chose to play this a Certain Way where Theon is basically making heart eyes at Robb the whole time. And Robb….never really reciprocates and is kinda cold/distant a lot? Like he sort of is generally reserved here, but it’s kinda jarring when Theon seems to desperately be giving his all - it reads a bit like unrequited love. Although! My favorite way to go here is that Robb is just kind of repressed/unable to deal with his feelings or whatever and never says the things he means/feels. Or maybe (if they’ve got a FWB type thing going) takes it for granted and just assumes that Theon knows his feelings, completely failing to understand that Theon does not actually expect for love and affection to be handed to him and does in fact need it spelled out.
Like, ok, Theon has self-guilt trips in canon about his defection (and other shit he did, admittedly) and that’s plenty explored in fic. But I’d love some Robb angst! Robb pining uselessly (and guiltily. angrily?) after Theon defects, being baffled by why Theon walked away from him, and pissed off, but then actually taking a moment to think through the why and realizing all the ways in which he’d screwed up with this relationship (and just how hurtful things like the Bran incident and the “not your duty, not your house” putdown would have been). I’m open to various takes on what their relationship was beforehand. Maybe Robb is repressed and didn't fully realize his feelings until after Theon left. Maybe Robb was repressed but realized his feelings but knew fuck all what to do with them, not to mention how to express them. Maybe they were casual and never managed to have like A Conversation about their feelings/relationship. Maybe they were lovers and Robb is really confused/pissed at first but then slowly realizes that they hadn't been communicating well/things had been off for a while. (Maybe the fact that Robb never directly addressed the hostage issue after his father died and before sending Theon to Pyke put a strain on things?)
Or you know something lighter would be amazing too! Mutual pining that does get resolved and ends up in them getting together. Banter and being really awkward about their feelings. Worrying about each other’s safety now and again during the war (especially Robb worrying about Theon). (Because, ok, IDK if this will make sense, it does in my head, but like…I’m a lot more invested in Robb being in love with Theon, regardless of whether he manages to confess it or not, than vice-versa, but it’s also important to me that the feelings are actually requited/they’re both in love with each other.)
The mandatary hurt/comfort prompt (lol) - Robb having (another) break down the night he finds out his father is dead and Theon comforting him. Maybe with unexpected tenderness. Could be they’re mutually pining too or could be this is when they end up kissing for the first time. But really, any hurt/comfort scenario you can think of would be great! I especially love the interplay of hurt/comfort and pining! For example, the idea of the pining character receiving care and comfort from someone they’re in love with and both desperately wanting/needing that comfort and realizing how hard it is to keep their feelings under control (and maybe ultimately failing to) when they’re in a more vulnerable state. And in reverse: the tenderness and stress of caring for the object of their affection and wanting to be even MOAR sweet but also feeling like they need to hide it. With someone who seems to have as difficult a time with communicating and processing feelings as Robb, this can all be extra fun! (And I think I’d especially prefer his POV here.) Maybe also an AU where Theon decides to go back to Robb instead of defecting to his family, but he’s hurt in the “escape” from Pyke/on his way back and shows up in camp in pretty bad shape and Robb’s got to deal with both the practicality of the political situation this leaves them in while also providing comfort/care for Theon…and pining (maybe especially hard and guiltily as he realizes how much Theon’s decided to give up for him).
For some extra drama and whump - I love those “captured together” scenarios where the ship has to provide care/comfort for each other after interrogation/torture or them being forced to watch each other’s interrogations or getting one of them to do/say something with the threat of hurting the other. (Per my DNWs I don’t want really extreme or gory torture, nothing Ramsay-esque, but like…characters getting generally beat up some is ok; being threatened with more extreme torture is also ok.) If they’re pining during - extra great! If there’s dramatic escapes and/or politics or whatever also involved - even better!
Would love some kind of AU where Theon makes some smarter choices, e.g. sacks Winterfell, grabs Bran and Rickon, and goes to Deepwood Motte to join Yara/back to the Iron Islands with them as hostages. The really tense negotiations with Robb, or facing off against each other in battle somehow. (The conflict! Also I just want Theon in command and kicking ass, lbr *sigh*.) A fortune reversal where Robb ends up a POW in this AU at whatever stronghold Theon/Theon and Yara are holding. Would love them to get a chance to work out their shit where they are on a more equal footing - and both being forced to confront their mistakes (Theon obviously defecting, but Robb having to come to terms with what position Theon really was in with his family and how he was definitely not sensitive enough to that). Any kind of ending here you want (though I’d very much prefer Theon not dying) - happy (somehow…) or bittersweet or even sad.
I generally love fortune reversal AUs for them! For example:
- Robb growing up a hostage on Pyke instead of the other way around, or being captured in an ironborn raid in a ‘verse where the rebellion never happened/Theon was never a hostage. (I’ll note that I believe that if Theon grew up with his family he would have had a good relationship with his sister and a decent one at least with his father. It would have probably been a Tywin-and-Jaime type situation if he was the heir and, if his brothers were still alive, he would have probably just been a bit ignored in favor of them, but not mistreated as such. A lot of the tension between Theon and his family in canon is because of the hostage situation/he had been away for so long.)
- Theon never goes to Pyke and is with Robb at the Red Wedding. Everything happens as in canon, but the boys manage to escape. Robb is now a king without the majority of his army whom everyone believes dead (and probably depressed because he just lost even more people he loved). So what do they do? (I guess not exactly fortune reversal, since Theon has still been written off by his fam. But! Actually, I would love some twist that while they’re hiding out, Balon dies. Theon decides to go home to try to reclaim his birthright and Robb comes along because he’s kinda got nowhere else to go at the moment. Cue them teaming up with Yara to get rid of Euron and Robb fighting for Theon’s cause for a change. Maybe Yara ends up as Queen or she and Theon as co-rulers and Theon goes back temporarily with Robb to help him reclaim the North. Or maybe Sansa and Jon have already reclaimed the North while they were busy with Euron and Robb stays with Theon on the Islands, leaving Sansa to rule in Winterfell?) (Re: Robb's wife in this scenario: I'm ok with them never getting married and maybe the Freys just go ahead with the RW even though Robb's the groom because they figured the Lannisters have more to offer after all or whatever. But they can also get married and she dies at the RW - maybe she was Robb's rebound because he and Theon fought/broke up for some reason, e.g. Robb not addressing the hostage situation until he's forced to.)
- Theon defects but doesn’t take Winterfell. He’s mired in winning back his father’s approval which is hard and sucks and he misses Robb but is maybe kinda making progress if not with his dad than with his people, when they hear about the RW. Balon decides to make a renewed strike at the North while it’s so weak, so they capture the Dreadfort, maybe while the majority of Bolton forces have gone to siege Winterfell. Meanwhile, Robb has survived the RW but has been taken prisoner by Ramsay… (I realize it doesn’t make a ton of sense for them to go for the Dreadfort because it’s on the other coast, but feel free to handwave this.)
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Fandom-specific DNWs: For Theon ships - fics set during the Ramsay/Reek period. Post-Ramsay (i.e. post escape with Jeyne) is ok. Ramsay/Theon. Also, please no to the sort of Robb-survives-the-Red-Wedding AUs where everything in Theon’s storyline stays the same but Robb survives the Red Wedding and then they are brought back together when Robb takes back the North, etc along those lines. If he survives in some major AU where Theon doesn't defect/never goes to Pyke or Theon's storyline goes differently re: getting captured by Ramsay (e.g. he goes with Asha to Deepwood Motte or something) then that's fine. Also please no reunited-in-the-afterlife fics for Theon/Robb.
To clarify my general DNWs, I realize that there is a lot of torture/violence/gore in this fandom, and it’s fine to mention anything that happens in canon (e.g. Boltons flaying people, Stannis burning people) and non-graphic descriptions of canon-typical violence. I just don’t want graphic/prolonged descriptions/scenes. If it’s a fic that’s set post-Ramsay, I realize/expect that Theon’s trauma from that experience will feature in some way, but I’d rather not have very graphic flashbacks, etc, or for it to be the entire/overwhelming focus, and if that means setting the fic further in the future, that’s totally fine by me.
Minors-under-16/adults DNW is waived for Robb/Theon, although I'd very much prefer that Robb is at least 15 when anything reciprocated happens/Theon develops romantic feelings for him. Robb can have a crush as early as seems reasonable, though :).
Not a DNW-related thing, but more a general Theon thing: for post-Ramsay fic that's set further out into the future (post-war, etc), I really-really love the fanon that Theon's hair eventually starts growing back in dark/black. (Let him have nice things ahhh!!)
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- Fanart - My headcanon for Theon (essentially Garrett Hedlund in Eragon). My headcanon for Tris Botley (essentially Toby Regbo in Reign or The Last Kingdom). I loved Sophie Turner as Sansa so that's what I see for book!canon in my head too. I don't really have a specific headcanon for Asha, Quentyn or Gerris. Don't really have one for Robb either, but don't see Richard Madden for book!Robb. Not married to any headcanons of Jeyne, but Hailee Steinfeld, as seen in Romeo and Juliet (2013), is a good reference point.
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The ship that seems to have come out of nowhere, but wouldn’t it be nice for Theon to have a happy ending with a nice ironborn boy? And you can't tell me Tris wasn't just made for some delicious pining. (But...he really does need to get over Asha for his own good, so here's his chance lol.)
While I'm down for canon-compliant, post-canon fic for these two, here are some AUs I love the idea of:
- Theon makes somewhat better decisions after defecting from Robb to his family (a choice which, in and of itself I completely understand and support, let’s just say straight up) and either never takes Winterfell or takes Winterfell but leaves shortly after with Bran and Rickon as hostages… And then he has to deal with his internal conflicts and also earning his people’s/family’s trust even though he kind of resents having to, but Dagmer’s right that like…his ability to bond with them was disrupted by the time he was away. (Not that Balon is right or not a complete asshole. But also maybe if Theon brings some Stark kids as hostages, things will go at least a tiny bit better there - although, maybe on the other hand he kinda hates the idea of having to take these kids as hostages just to impress his dad, because he knows how much the hostage thing sucks). What does this have to do with Tris? I mean basically, whatever the plot backdrop is, part of Theon finding his place on the Iron Islands and in the ironborn war efforts would, in this case, also involve him and Tris falling in love. (Bonus points if they at some point bond over their first loves (Robb and Asha, respectively) being people who don’t love them back.)
- AU where Tris is one of the men of Theon’s crew when he goes raiding and takes Winterfell. (Do things still happen as in canon and they're doomed or is Tris able to counteract Ramsay's bad influence/keep Theon from spiraling so completely?)
- Balon dies unexpectedly (bc who cares about Balon lol) just prior to Theon’s arrival on Pyke and either Theon takes his place as heir (and does the alliance with Robb) or, hell, maybe Asha beats him in a Kingsmoot or whatever (although, I’m not sure how the kingsmoot would happen with a clear line of succession but whatever), but once she’s won, she’s less intent on alienating him than her father was, and decides to go along with the proposed alliance. Or! Maybe they don’t do the alliance and go to war with he North anyway but things pan our differently with Theon’s decision-making. So, Theon and Tris go to war together…and fall in love.
- AU where Theon is never taken hostage - because Balon wins the rebellion or because the rebellion never happens - and he and Tris get together. They both seem like people who aren’t perfect fits for the Ironborn culture and maybe this pulls them together. Maybe, if Theon had stuck around, Tris would fall in love with a different Greyjoy sibling ;) (Though, I’ll say that I don’t think Theon’s relationship with his father, or Asha, would have been so strained if the hostage thing didn’t happen. I’d imagine him and Asha growing up pretty close and then with Balon…it would likely be complicated, given what kind of person Balon is, but far more within reasonable bounds than what we get in ACOK.)
Theon Greyjoy & Robb Stark; Theon Greyjoy/Robb Stark
Ok, so given their age difference in the books (some 4 and a half years) I especially like the more platonic older/younger brother dynamic for the book version of these two. And ahhh I would really, really love some childhood fluff or hurt/comfort or even some angst. How close they are in the books is a bit ambiguous. We never get Robb’s POV at all, though he clearly trusts Theon at least in a professional capacity, and Robb is the one person Theon regrets hurting with his defection to his family/from the Starks. (I mean, to be clear, I don’t think he owed the Starks anything, including Robb, but canonically Theon has regrets about it, specifically when it comes to Robb.) But it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to say they were at least kind of close, to the extent their age difference and general difficulty of the situation allowed.
So…how do they get there? Is it Robb following around the new older boy and being a cutie that finally breaks through Theon’s defenses? Does Theon just really, really need a friend so he doesn’t go crazy and Robb’s the best option, but then they end up bonding? Really any cute childhood adventures would be great - especially anything with Theon in a (perhaps unwilling/unintentional) mentorship role. (And ahaha how annoyed Cat would be that her Pride and Joy has taken a shining to this Suspicious ™ Greyjoy boy who’s a bad influence.) Actually, maybe something about Theon being a bad influence on Robb, but like in a mostly harmless way - teaches him how to sneak out, teaching him not-quite-age-appropriate stories/jokes/things about sex. For a more hurt/comfort angle (!!!) - tiny Robb really attaching to Theon, just deciding this is his older brother now so he’s gonna like crawl into his bed when he has a nightmare or conscript him into telling him stories when he’s unwell, and all the while Theon is like “I really did not sign up for this shit” but secretly he’s really, embarrassingly soft for this stupid child. (But also - I think there’s implications that Theon sometimes has nightmares about the siege of Pyke, and those were probably more intense when he was much younger so…an unexpected role reversal?)
For something more sad…Ned taking Theon to executions and making him squire is just fgbsdfhklgfh. So like…Ned taking Robb to his first execution when he’s maybe just a little older than Bran was his first time (so maybe 8) and then Theon has to go too and it’s also his first one. And they’re both really shaken, but for different reasons (Theon doesn’t have his laugh-about-everything-always defensive mechanisms worked out yet) and kinda take comfort in each other in a way. Or…maybe at some point when they’re both in the teenage/pre-teen era, there’s some troubling news from the Islands and the boys jump the gun with panic and whether or not The Time has come for Ned to take Theon’s head. (And maybe they try to run away/escape…)
But I’m also totally into stories from when they’re older/canon-era, and a more romantic slant on their relationship is also welcome. Feel free to use any of the prompts in the above GoT section that I gave for them with either a platonic or romantic slant (most of them should be workable for book canon and dynamics as well, and I think the tensions between them/in their relationship are similar ultimately, even if book!Robb is younger and thus reads softer and Theon doesn’t give off quite as strong unrequited love vibes as in the show, and just generally there is a shift in dynamic due to the age gap).
Dagmer Cleftjaw & Theon Greyjoy
Don’t we all wish Dagmer was Theon’s dad instead of Balon? Ahah. No, but seriously, I love how warm and familiar this relationship feels, how comfortable they are with each other after all these years. Like, everyone else is suspicious or derisive or indifferent to Theon after all his time away, and Dagmer is just…not. He looks at him and sees that kid he trained, the one he’d clearly cared about and still supports and stands by. He knows Theon really well, sees through his facades, and Theon doesn’t even really find this embarrassing, even in the hypersensitive state he’s in during ACOK. And every memory Theon seems to have of Dagmer is largely positive - that’s so rare for him! No wonder he’s sort of “adopted” Dagmer as his uncle.
I would love anything about them, really. I love explorations of Theon as a child pre-rebellion. (And I hold to the opinion that while the Greyjoys were always a highly dysfunctional family, Theon wasn’t especially miserable as a kid either. Likely, he had a good relationship with Asha, if hindered a bit by age and gender difference, and was probably more ignored by his father than disliked or anything. His mother loved him; he had friends. Aeron was a different person back then too, so he might have gotten along with him well enough as an uncle. Like, his memories of his brothers are clearly bad, but that doesn’t seem to spread generally to everything and everyone else on the Islands.) But anyway, yes - anything about Theon’s childhood and Dagmer’s role in it. Feel free to bring in any other Greyjoys and other ironborn families as you like!
But I would also enjoy something about when Theon comes back to Pyke. Maybe Dagmer’s POV on the situation. What does he think about Theon now that he’s grown up? Does he make any active attempts to mentor Theon through the drama with his father/men/overall situation of being a bit of an outsider, or does he expect this to shift into more of a friendship between adults? If they are reunited after Theon’s time with Ramsay, how does that all go?
Here’s a somewhat elaborate AU idea I’m really fond of: Basically Alannys prepares for the eventuality of them losing the Pyke siege/war with the mindset that if they lose the Northerners are gonna kill Balon’s sons or at least take them hostage indefinitely so she arranges for Theon to be hidden outside the castle/be smuggled out at some point if it looks like they’re definitely going to lose. Theon is to hide until things calm down then make his way to a pre-agreed upon location. (Maybe she sends Asha too, or maybe they figured no one would care about her because she’s a girl.) Anyway the other part of the plan is that they tell the Northerners that Theon died during the siege (e.g. died in the South Tower collapse) But they also figure they can’t be caught in the lie right away or like if it’s revealed Theon is alive they’d come back for him. So, Alannys also makes a deal with Dagmer that he’ll raise Theon on the islands but in hiding, basically, as Theon Pyke. So that’s the set up - but how do things go after this plan is successful? This can be taken in a more light/comedy direction: the Theon and Dagmer (mis)adventires. But also can be far more serious and angsty: Theon having to deal with being in hiding essentially/living as a bastard, them having to adjust to this new life even if they see it as temporary (and how much is Dagmer prepared for the fact that raising a kid is not the same as just training/mentoring him?), Theon growing up and learning to lead on a local/minor level but always looking forward to going back to reclaim his birthright. Where does this leave him and Asha? Does she sneakily come visit? Does Balon still make her his de facto heir and how does Theon deal with that? Or is she taken hostage instead of Theon and how does he deal with the emotional fallout from that?
Asha Greyjoy & Theon Greyjoy; Theon Greyjoy & Maron Greyjoy
Sooo Theon’s family is all kinds of weird and screwed up. I mean Euron is his uncle, just that… But I do sometimes think that how bad/miserable his family life was pre-Balon’s Rebellion gets a bit exaggerated. We have every indication that his mother loves him, and there’s no reason to think that Balon hated him even before he was taken away to the North. Balon’s not a warm kind of guy, but his treatment of Theon in ACOK seems mostly spurred by the fact they’re estranged/haven’t bonded in many years, Balon’s suspicious of him, and feels like Theon no longer fits into the Ironborn ways. It’s perfectly possible that they had a much more promising, if not particularly affectionate, relationship when Theon was a child. I mean, he was at the very least expecting his father to be happy to have him back and all. Maybe he and Asha weren’t close but it becomes apparent later on that they do love each other - the circumstances and context of their reunion in ACOK just sucked. I can certainly see them as teasing, squabbling children, who nonetheless care intensely about each other as siblings tend to.
Rodrik we know Theon had no good relationship with, but what about Maron? Equally bad or something more in between? Was there ever a time when he idolized his brothers? We don't have a concrete canonical age for Maron but people well versed in the Greyjoy family trivia have advised that he's probably around five years older than Theon, which makes sense to me and is basically my headcanon. So, with that framing, it's interesting to me how the age difference there is about the same as what he has/will have with Robb, except Maron is older and Robb is younger. It's also interesting to me that Theon describes Rodrik as being physically abusive and Maron as just mean and a liar. I wonder if maybe there was a time when Theon and Maron were closer, but then Maron got older and was more interested in following Rodrik/trying to impress his older brother? Is Theon extra bitter about maybe some mean things Maron said/some lie he told because he felt left behind or betrayed by his brother? I would love an exploration of a more complicated relationship between them than just "Theon's brothers were abusive and that's it." I would just love some worldbuilding around this family and Theon’s childhood with them - especially Maron and Asha.
Alternatively, if you’d like, one of my fanciful wish lists for WOW is like…Theon helping overturn the kingsmoot and endgame for the Greyjoy siblings being Asha as Queen of the Iron Islands and Theon as her top commander, getting to live his best Ironborn life and be happy for once, gah. (Or even them being co-rulers?!?!)
Theon Greyjoy/Jeyne Poole
Preliminarily, I will say that I don't mind if you age Jeyne up a couple of years if it's needed for timeline things. (I read her as 15-ish in ADWD anyway. There's nothing to say she's not a little bit older than Sansa.) ANYWAY, I love this ship both for thematic reasons and also just as a straight up love story - the desperation, the shared angst, the heroic/daring escape, and the chance to find happiness and understanding in each other! And, really there are so many things about them but the one that’s underappreciated I feel like is Jeyne’s pre-series/AGOT era crush on/attraction to Theon. (She likes older guys, clearly, ok. That’s not an abnormal teenager thing lol.) And, of course, then when she meets him again he’s not nearly the attractive, dashing boy he used to be, but he saves her - he saves her when before he probably paid her no attention at all. And it’s like…it’s that story of the girl who grew up in her prettier/better-off/more popular bff’s shadow getting the guys she’s always wanted, and yet…not really? Because it’s not exactly a fairytale and Theon is not the boy he used to be (and yet…in some ways he still is.)
But anyway, I just want some of them falling in love and being in love. Idiots to Lovers if great for them. as is pining. What were they up to during the war? Would love to see Jeyne meeting Asha and maybe some other Theon knows/who are part of his life (what do they think of her? Who does he tell them she is/what is she to him?). What kind of life do they build together? (Do they adopt a child? Or, fuck it, canon is vague enough about this that it’s not strictly speaking acononical/AU to say that Theon still has the ability to procreate, if you catch my drift. Let them have a whole bunch of babies lol.) Does she stick with him from the moment they escape or are they separated at some point and then find each other later/after the war? Also, while I would enjoy fluff for them and definitely want a happy ending with this ship, the whole thing doesn’t have to be fluff. There can be angst and drama, both of the romantic sort and the We Are At War With Zombies/Euron type. (inevitably, their mutual trauma and trauma recovery will likely be a theme, but I’d rather the trauma/PTSD aspect not be the only/overwhelming aspect of the fic.)
For art: Would love some romantic beach scenes, sunsets. Would also love a scene from their wedding. Family scenes/portraits would be awesome too!
Gerris Drinkwater/Quentyn Martell
I love Quent! I love that he’s sensitive and thoughtful and self-aware, but also intelligent and determined and actually quite brave (though foolishly so sometimes).
I would love to see something from their youth together, lots of banter and what shenanigans they might have gotten up to. Their first kiss. OMG, Quent’s perpetual social awkwardness and how much worse it would be if he were confronted with having romantic feelings and needing/wanted to reveal them - that would be an amusing scene. I admit to really enjoying the Prince/King and His Servant/Squire/Knight/What have you (knight, in this case) trope. Loyalty kink and hurt/comfort are your friends. If you just default to those two in their most iddy form I’d be perfectly content.(E.g. an AU where Quent survives the dragons incident but it still hurt and hurt/confort ensues.) Would love some angst with Gerris dealing with Quent's death, maybe with flasback's to their life back in Dorne. I would be so interested in an AU where Quent lives and succeeds in his mission somehow and goes back to Dorne victorious with Dany as his bride and there’s politics and pining and jealousy (and plot, but that's optional, though maybe more feasible with the 5k min? :D) and stuff. I’d eat that up with a spoon!
Quentyn Martell/Sansa Stark
Love both of them and I think they could be very happy together. This could be an AU where Quent doesn’t die and they meet either post-canon/endgame or at some point before that (Sansa escaping from KL and going to Dorne or something). With this, as with the following AU scenario, there is really great potential for some fun intrigue/politics/worldbuilding, and that's always exciting, especially with a world as detailed and brimming with just this kind of thing as ASOIAF. I have to admit, though, that when I think about this ship, I typically think of a pre-canon arranged marriage AU. Say, Ned and Doran had arranged Quent’s and Sansa’s marriage for any reason you like, honestly, even if it's very handwavy. This can be slow burn + politics or, for more romance focus, slow burn + dorks (falling) in love, especially nice if it's got more of a humor/comedy of errors tilt rather than a sappy fluff tilt. I feel like early Sansa would both bulk a little at Quent very clearly not being the Shining Knight she had always dreamed of/imagined for her husband but would also appreciate his kindness and sweet personality. And, of God, Quentyn would be such an awkward mess around a pretty girl xD
Romeo and Juliet
Fandom DNWs: V-formation for the Montacrew OT3 that’s centered on Benvolio (v-formation centered on Mercutio or Romeo is fine, though I prefer everyone-with-everyone OT3); age difference within the Montacrew that's greater than 2 years between oldest and youngest.
I don't particularly care how you deal with Romeo/Juliet. They can break up or never meet or whatever really - whatever works best for the particular story. Feel free to handwave as needed.
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- Fanart - PG-13 or lower for art, please. I really love bright colors but really, as long as the piece is "well lit" I'll be pretty happy. Also, please no very graphic violence/injuries. Blood in general is fine, but no detailed gore. This is probably the closest to my headcanon of Romeo but feel free to use yours as well. Leonard Whiting from the 1968 adaptation is always a good choice and actually so is Federico Marignetti. Here are some of my headcanons re: Mercutio casting. But also feel free to use your own headcanons - I will say, though, that I see him with brown or dark hair, or ginger if you like, but just not blond. Don't have a specific headcanon for Benvolio, though again, probably not blond. If you would like to base it off the 2019 Toho white cast of RetJ I'd be very into that too!
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Benvolio/Romeo/Mercutio
Romercutio and Romvolio - my two fave ships in this fandom - and the Montacrew friendship all wrapped up into one ship - what could be better! I'm happy with all genres/tones here - fluff, angst, hurt/comfort. romance. I really just feel like this threesome should get more love from the fandom. I'm afraid my prompts are subpar here, but really, I would enjoy pretty much anything with these three as long as there's genuine love and affection involved.
So how did they get together? Did their friendship pretty naturally transition into a relationship or was there more negotiation/uncertainty? Did one pair get together first (Romvolio? Romercutio?) and then bring in the third member? (Was there any angst/insecurity from said third party initially?) The getting together can happen pre-canon or in a canon-divergence AU (like, after the duel).
I'd love any kind of cuteness and banter and fluff really. Teenage shenanigans with kissing :) On the flip side - anything exploring these three being really Soft and affectionate but also kinda dysfunctional because they all have their own baggage which they can’t always (or ever) communicate/talk about property (because teenagers, lbr). Mercutio being a nuisance of every and any kind and the boys having to deal with that/him. (Including any kind of post-duel caretaking and hurt/comfort.
Any kind of hurt/comfort, frankly, with any of the three as the hurt party (though I probably prefer Romeo or Mercutio). Anything from scrapes with Capulets to abusive/overwhelming (physically or emotionally) home/family situations. (Though, I see the Montague parents as more emotionally demanding/neglectful/manipulative, etc, than physically abusive.) Maybe one of them is kidnapped and the others have to find a way to get him back or they're all kidnapped together by the Capulets (for some reason, idk, surprise me, lol) and have to find a way to escape. (Some violence in this situation is fine - people getting beaten up, etc, just not like...really extreme/gruesome torture.)
Post-canon angst, where Mercutio and Romeo come as ghosts one night shortly after the play's events to say a final goodbye to Ben. Or maybe Ben can't see them (at first?) but strange stuff keeps happening to/around him or he gets help somehow in otherwise hopeless situations but can't figure out how/from who, and tries to find out. (This is the sad ghosts/haunting prompt.)
For art: anything cute/adorable, cuddle piles, holding hands, nature settings, bright colors, quiet/intimate or domestic moments, teasing each other, setting up for some prank or getting into some kid of mischief. Just anything sweet/fun and happy - three dorks being adorable. For sadness: Benvolio going to their graves and the boys lingering nearby (or maybe trying to comfort him whether or not he can see them) as ghosts.
Harry Potter
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One of the things I've always loved in the HP universe was the era of the First War. I've got a lot of headcanons about it, but I enjoy reading other's takes on aspects of it as well. It was clearly such a tense time, and the war was ramping up as Severus, Regulus and their classmates were still in school. We don't know too much about the first war era, and about Severus' cohort of young(er) Death Eaters, but we do know some things. Obviously we know a lot about Snape, and we know some about Regulus (he did not see/feel the need to rebel against his family the way Sirius did and they apparently had a...complicated relationsihp at the least, but he eventually defected). We know Barty was and stayed extremely loyal despite his father being a very anti-Voldemort and we know Evan was skilled enough to wound Moody in combat/a duel and he died laughing (though I read it as like bitter desparation/dark humor rather than insanity). But we don't really know how exactly the Death Eaters were organized, to what extent they were organized (similar to the Order? Karkaroff says most of them didn't know every other person who was or wasn't a Death Eater, but I imagine people suspected, and how much do we trust Karkaroff anyway?).
How did they train? What were their missions? I'm really interested in the war worldbuilding part of things. But I'm also interested in the more social - Pureblood Society, especially - part of worldbuilding. These boys are all purebloods, save Severus. (Note, btw, that I headcanon Evan as being the same age as and friends with Severus, and, IIRC, Avery and Mulciber are Sev's school friends canonically.) Also, don't feel limited to just the four characters in each group - include anyone else you want from that cohort: e.g. Wilkes, etc, all/any combination of the boys in both group. Hell, make up some OCs if you'd like and/or include some of the older Death Eaters - Dolohov, Rookwood, Lucius - as mentors or family friends or commanding officers, or just people they know and have to deal with.
I really love themes and stories of friendship and loyalty, as well as explorations of how those are tested by war. Also explorations of how people come to extrimism. Who is there because they really believe this shit? Who is there for more practical reasons? Who is there because that's what their friends and family are all doing and/or out of a sense of duty to someone/something? Are there ideological debates they have? How does someone like Regulus, who stops believeing in the Cause or perhaps just stops believing in Tom Riddle's/Voldemort's leadership. feel and deal with having to betray his friends? (Or a similar question, but for Snape. Let's assume young Severus did have some genuine friendships, even if they didn't mean as much as his love for Lily or save him from being bullied.) I want to see some boys being friends and growing up togther and doing dumb teenage things together and fighting a war together and ending up torn apart by the world and/or their own choices. Or, you know, some subset of those things.
Remus Lupin/Evan Rosier
I think what I like the most about this pairing is the possibilities and impossibilities that it presents. Different houses, backgrounds, ideologies etc and to see how that can work together would be wonderful. I suppose it would start as an accident of some sort or perhaps a bet or a set up and then evolve into something more. Maybe a situation where they're forced to work together to insure their own survival or something of that sort, and then they end up appreciating things about each other they never thought they would.
My personal headcanons re: Evan add to the whole potential opposites attract thing, as in my head, Evan is the happy, extroverted, attractive, popular kid from a rich, happy family. And then there's Remus who's quiet and a bit dorky and forced to be a bit secretive even if that wouldn't be his first choice. I can definitely see Remus as a bit awkward as a teenager, with a depressive streak which he suppresses to keep up with James and Sirius, who love him but tend to be oblivious. And I can see Remus being drawn to Evan like a moth to a (very dangerous) flame and Evan seeing something he likes and going after it, Houses and sides of barricades be damned. But, of course, I'd love to see other interpretations of them as well.
I think both of them are too dedicated to their respective causes to ever switch sides which, I suppose, would preclude a happy ending but I think that's the beauty of this ship - it can be so deliciously psychologically messed up and complicated. It's all about war and hate and desire and could-have-beens.
I would love some background/worldbuilding around pureblood/wizarding society and the day-to-day of the First War, as well as the more exciting/dramatic parts of it (missions, stake-outs, battles, etc).