oh look it's rare pair fest
Hello lovely Rarepairfest anon,
Apologies, I meant to have my letter up by now with prompts and DNWs and such, but I am running slightly behind schedule. There will be actual relevant, useful stuff here by end of day July 3, I promise.
ETA: Wow, yay, way to totally blow that deadline.
Unless you would describe the level of angst or kink in your story as "heavy", keep sexualized characters 18+ and you're fine.
Bulletproof, guaranteed wins:
* Courting. Failboat courting. Succeeds-despite-itself courting. Oblivious-mutual-pining courting.
* Competence, praise, and the adorable messes who kink them.
In no particular order, my thoughts on the pairings:
ASOIAF
Brienne/Margaery - The Lady and her Knight. Maybe Brienne wins Margaery’s favour or pledges her service. Maybe Margaery plays squire. Maybe Brienne’s what Margaery does while her husband’s doing her brother. Or maybe Brienne’s the missing piece in the sedoretu that finally lets Loras/Renly/Margaery get married.
Dunk/Aegon - Maybe how Dunk finally gets properly knighted. Maybe Egg gets curious while they’re on the road. Maybe Dunk plays King’s Consort like for reasons. Maybe Egg’s been courting an oblivious Dunk forever and now he’s finally catching a clue. Alternatively, there’s no one else around with A goes into heat and, um, whoops, married/mated/bonded.
Danaerys/Drogo - You know how Jason Momoa posts shoutouts to Emilia Clarke on Instagram? That. Canon that. I just want super supportive Drogo cheering Dany on and holding her flower while his boo fucks ‘em up. Alternately, Khal Drogo dads the dragons.
Elia/Lyanna/Rhaegar - A proper Targaryen marriage. Rhaegar doesn’t open up their marriage, he brings Lyanna to their bed. Any sort of triad setup here would be awesome, especially if there’s Elia/Lyanna.
Jon Con/Oberyn - Maybe Jon’s all hung up on Rhaegar until Oberyn fucks him out of it. Maybe they’re two _____ in a ______. Or maybe this is how Oberyn spends his time at Elia’s wedding. 1000 per cent here for Oberyn, wherever you want to take him.
Joanna/Tywin/Aerys - Maybe it’s not just Joanna Aerys wants at the bedding. Maybe Tywin’s never sure the children are his. Maybe Joanna is a hotwife. Maybe Tywin takes a dick. Bonus points if Tywin plays submissive in bed to curry favour with the king and accidentally finds out he likes it.
Batman
Tim Drake is both a competence kink in a cape and an adorable mess, and he clearly has a praise kink. I have no actual prompts for most of these pairings, just like heart eyes at the prospect there might be more fic for them in the world.
Sorry, this one’s my sticking point. I have no prompts, just mad love for all the possibilities of all these pairings and extreme curiosity about what someone else might make of them. I’d love something with Tim when he’s a bit older doing BAMF CEO things with Bruce or Lex or Ra’s, but I’d also love something about him and Roy (and maybe Jay) taking Pokemon Go out on patrol so really, I’m flexible as shit, write something that amuses you. I keep trying to wrap my head around Tim/Midnighter and like I have zero ideas, period, but I am fascinated by how that might go.
Crossover
All the old Clint prompts still apply, I will love the someone moves into Clint’s building AU forever. Lucky and Aimee and the Tiny Simones, man, awkward meet-the-found-fam at the potluck.
Clint/Hal - Courting and/or fighting crime, like I don't care put Hal in Bed-Stuy or stick Clint on the JLA, everything is amazing. maybe Cint runs afoul of the multiverse somehow and lands in DC 'verse and he exists primarily to give Hal someone to flirt with and to piss Ollie off. or like Hal's favourite show is Dog Cops & he's in New York mostly to troll the Avengers but like hey, that archer's pretty great, anything you do with these two will be awesome, how can it not be?
Clint/Bucky - Two emotional fuckwits in love. Hilarious professional disasters. Unfortunate run-ins with someone’s rogues. Inappropriate workplace shenanigans. Really, anything. I just love the thought of Bucky kind of coming out of his shell some and someone being around to kick Clint’s ass a little when he needs it without sort of being the everything that lets Clint avoid dealing with his own shit. Plus, they’d be ridiculous and snarky and hot once they got comfortable with each other, right?
Clint/Bruce (EMH) probably looks a lot like MCU!Bruce but like I love EMH!Hulk madly and the thought of Hawkguy and Lucky and EMH!Hulk doing shit in Brooklyn is fantastic, but Clint has canonically turned a fishing sim into an all-out manhunt, so what happens when he goes actual fishing on Banner’s day off?
JLA
Bruce/Hal - I just need them kind of being assholes to each other but like assholes with feelings, okay? Hal giving Bruce shit about his everything and Bruce being surprisingly patient with Hal’s shit. Maybe Bruce gets a power ring. Maybe Hal goes out to patrol Gotham. Also, Hal and Alfred tag-teaming to make Bruce follow regular sleep/eat patterns or deal with the batkids would be awesome.
Pacific Rim
I love them all so much and I tried so hard to find actual prompts for you but like seriously, training fic/life as badass Jaegar pilots fic/the problems with trying to date in the Shatterdome fic would be so cool. Or, you know, whatever PWP strikes your mood, ngl these people are hot and I am totally down to watch them bang.
Raleigh/Hercules/Mako - When you save the world, you can do anything you want. Honestly, who’s left to stop them? Anything at all about the power trio here coming into their own post-canon would be awesome.
Chuck/Hercules - There are no secrets in the drift. Chuck spends the end of his adolescence mentally-linked to his father; it goes about as well as you might expect. Or, you know, no one else is around when Chuck’s heat starts up.
Hercules/Stacker - Discipline’s never been their problem; it’s always been letting go. How did they spend their last night before the apocalypse? Were they drift compatible?
X-Men ATM
I requested Pietro/Kurt, Kurt/Warren, Scott/Kurt, Pietro/Scott, but really, any combination of that puppy pile would be so great.
Pietro - Peter! I love how matter of fact he is about his powers, and how unapologetic he is for using them. That’s pretty rare for this series. He’s so comfortable in his own skin and I’d love to see that rubbing off on the others. You know that kid's got a millions ways to use his powers he's never going to admit to an authority figure and he always looks like he's having a great time using them.
Scott - Scott Summers is always so great but Apocalypse Scott is adorable, holy shit, I could watch that boy stumble his way to leadership for six seasons and a movie, no problem. I love how hard Scott tries to be the best person he can and how he takes his shit seriously and I love how that came through even in baby Scott and all his rookie missteps.
Kurt - He’s such a sweetheart. Like, he’s so brave even when he has every reason not to be and he can’t hide his powers at all, though he clearly desperately wants to, and in a bunch of ways, he seemed maybe most afraid of himself. All I want for him is someone to come along and teach the boy trust, preferably through cuddles.
Kurt/Warren - Because Warren just looked so lost after that fight and let’s be real, Kurt didn’t look much better. Some sort of healing h/c would be rad.
Apologies, I meant to have my letter up by now with prompts and DNWs and such, but I am running slightly behind schedule. There will be actual relevant, useful stuff here by end of day July 3, I promise.
ETA: Wow, yay, way to totally blow that deadline.
Unless you would describe the level of angst or kink in your story as "heavy", keep sexualized characters 18+ and you're fine.
Bulletproof, guaranteed wins:
* Courting. Failboat courting. Succeeds-despite-itself courting. Oblivious-mutual-pining courting.
* Competence, praise, and the adorable messes who kink them.
In no particular order, my thoughts on the pairings:
ASOIAF
Brienne/Margaery - The Lady and her Knight. Maybe Brienne wins Margaery’s favour or pledges her service. Maybe Margaery plays squire. Maybe Brienne’s what Margaery does while her husband’s doing her brother. Or maybe Brienne’s the missing piece in the sedoretu that finally lets Loras/Renly/Margaery get married.
Dunk/Aegon - Maybe how Dunk finally gets properly knighted. Maybe Egg gets curious while they’re on the road. Maybe Dunk plays King’s Consort like for reasons. Maybe Egg’s been courting an oblivious Dunk forever and now he’s finally catching a clue. Alternatively, there’s no one else around with A goes into heat and, um, whoops, married/mated/bonded.
Danaerys/Drogo - You know how Jason Momoa posts shoutouts to Emilia Clarke on Instagram? That. Canon that. I just want super supportive Drogo cheering Dany on and holding her flower while his boo fucks ‘em up. Alternately, Khal Drogo dads the dragons.
Elia/Lyanna/Rhaegar - A proper Targaryen marriage. Rhaegar doesn’t open up their marriage, he brings Lyanna to their bed. Any sort of triad setup here would be awesome, especially if there’s Elia/Lyanna.
Jon Con/Oberyn - Maybe Jon’s all hung up on Rhaegar until Oberyn fucks him out of it. Maybe they’re two _____ in a ______. Or maybe this is how Oberyn spends his time at Elia’s wedding. 1000 per cent here for Oberyn, wherever you want to take him.
Joanna/Tywin/Aerys - Maybe it’s not just Joanna Aerys wants at the bedding. Maybe Tywin’s never sure the children are his. Maybe Joanna is a hotwife. Maybe Tywin takes a dick. Bonus points if Tywin plays submissive in bed to curry favour with the king and accidentally finds out he likes it.
Batman
Tim Drake is both a competence kink in a cape and an adorable mess, and he clearly has a praise kink. I have no actual prompts for most of these pairings, just like heart eyes at the prospect there might be more fic for them in the world.
Sorry, this one’s my sticking point. I have no prompts, just mad love for all the possibilities of all these pairings and extreme curiosity about what someone else might make of them. I’d love something with Tim when he’s a bit older doing BAMF CEO things with Bruce or Lex or Ra’s, but I’d also love something about him and Roy (and maybe Jay) taking Pokemon Go out on patrol so really, I’m flexible as shit, write something that amuses you. I keep trying to wrap my head around Tim/Midnighter and like I have zero ideas, period, but I am fascinated by how that might go.
Crossover
All the old Clint prompts still apply, I will love the someone moves into Clint’s building AU forever. Lucky and Aimee and the Tiny Simones, man, awkward meet-the-found-fam at the potluck.
Clint/Hal - Courting and/or fighting crime, like I don't care put Hal in Bed-Stuy or stick Clint on the JLA, everything is amazing. maybe Cint runs afoul of the multiverse somehow and lands in DC 'verse and he exists primarily to give Hal someone to flirt with and to piss Ollie off. or like Hal's favourite show is Dog Cops & he's in New York mostly to troll the Avengers but like hey, that archer's pretty great, anything you do with these two will be awesome, how can it not be?
Clint/Bucky - Two emotional fuckwits in love. Hilarious professional disasters. Unfortunate run-ins with someone’s rogues. Inappropriate workplace shenanigans. Really, anything. I just love the thought of Bucky kind of coming out of his shell some and someone being around to kick Clint’s ass a little when he needs it without sort of being the everything that lets Clint avoid dealing with his own shit. Plus, they’d be ridiculous and snarky and hot once they got comfortable with each other, right?
Clint/Bruce (EMH) probably looks a lot like MCU!Bruce but like I love EMH!Hulk madly and the thought of Hawkguy and Lucky and EMH!Hulk doing shit in Brooklyn is fantastic, but Clint has canonically turned a fishing sim into an all-out manhunt, so what happens when he goes actual fishing on Banner’s day off?
JLA
Bruce/Hal - I just need them kind of being assholes to each other but like assholes with feelings, okay? Hal giving Bruce shit about his everything and Bruce being surprisingly patient with Hal’s shit. Maybe Bruce gets a power ring. Maybe Hal goes out to patrol Gotham. Also, Hal and Alfred tag-teaming to make Bruce follow regular sleep/eat patterns or deal with the batkids would be awesome.
Pacific Rim
I love them all so much and I tried so hard to find actual prompts for you but like seriously, training fic/life as badass Jaegar pilots fic/the problems with trying to date in the Shatterdome fic would be so cool. Or, you know, whatever PWP strikes your mood, ngl these people are hot and I am totally down to watch them bang.
Raleigh/Hercules/Mako - When you save the world, you can do anything you want. Honestly, who’s left to stop them? Anything at all about the power trio here coming into their own post-canon would be awesome.
Chuck/Hercules - There are no secrets in the drift. Chuck spends the end of his adolescence mentally-linked to his father; it goes about as well as you might expect. Or, you know, no one else is around when Chuck’s heat starts up.
Hercules/Stacker - Discipline’s never been their problem; it’s always been letting go. How did they spend their last night before the apocalypse? Were they drift compatible?
X-Men ATM
I requested Pietro/Kurt, Kurt/Warren, Scott/Kurt, Pietro/Scott, but really, any combination of that puppy pile would be so great.
Pietro - Peter! I love how matter of fact he is about his powers, and how unapologetic he is for using them. That’s pretty rare for this series. He’s so comfortable in his own skin and I’d love to see that rubbing off on the others. You know that kid's got a millions ways to use his powers he's never going to admit to an authority figure and he always looks like he's having a great time using them.
Scott - Scott Summers is always so great but Apocalypse Scott is adorable, holy shit, I could watch that boy stumble his way to leadership for six seasons and a movie, no problem. I love how hard Scott tries to be the best person he can and how he takes his shit seriously and I love how that came through even in baby Scott and all his rookie missteps.
Kurt - He’s such a sweetheart. Like, he’s so brave even when he has every reason not to be and he can’t hide his powers at all, though he clearly desperately wants to, and in a bunch of ways, he seemed maybe most afraid of himself. All I want for him is someone to come along and teach the boy trust, preferably through cuddles.
Kurt/Warren - Because Warren just looked so lost after that fight and let’s be real, Kurt didn’t look much better. Some sort of healing h/c would be rad.