Rare Pairs Exchange
This letter is the Hotel California: you can come in, but you might never leave. Lots of talking, lots of prompts. So please rest assured that most things mentioned here are not must-haves. I'm an omnivore in terms of fanwork consumption, and came up with prompts because it was difficult to specify more general tropes when I would give a lot of things a shot. So if you have a specific idea you're dying to use, please use it! If you get inspired by one of these prompts but would like to take a different direction with it than specified here, absolutely go ahead. I hope you enjoy making the fanwork and I'm sure I'll love it.
For Do Not Wants that might be likely to come up, please avoid:
- for the X goes evil prompts, please don't have them go and indiscriminately kill and torture or become otherwise brutally violent.
- Non-canon character deaths, except where requested. and even then feel free to swing things around for a happy ending.
- Rape. It's part of the backstory in Mad Max for a lot of characters, so references to rape there are fine, but please no focus on it.
- Cannibalism as anything more than a brief mention.
- Cheating/infidelity
- Fisting
- sex involving characters under 16.
- Age play
Pacific Rim
Hannibal Chau/Newton Geiszler - because they shouldn't really be together but actually work out pretty well. Hannibal should be beyond this dumbass nerd, but seems to have a streak of dumbass nerd in himself, since that eye injury makes it look like he also tried Drifting with a kaiju. Newt should be terrified of this giant unpredictable gangster, and he is, but also busts into his place shouting at him.
That trope with Newt semi-transforming into a kaiju? I love that trope. Now Hannibal can too.
Crack or relatively serious crack: Baby Otachi imprints on Newt, and Hannibal wants it alive to make sweet cash moneys out of. Ta-da, world's unlikeliest adoptive family.
Role-reversal: scientist Hannibal and gang boss Newt.
I heard Newt was supposed to be evil in the sequel (dunno if that's still true now that it's been confirmed as happening, though.) I'd love something where the Anteverse affected him and now he grows increasingly amoral, and maybe it's his turn to loom over Hannibal for once? Or they become partners in crime.
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Prince Rabadash/Susan Pevensie - I have wondered for years how this guy fooled most people into thinking he was decent. He was a violent, heinous brat, so how did Susan get to the point of marriage and how was there so little for anyone else to pinpoint as wrong? He must have been careful and charming. Maybe his real good side came out - what are those good traits? They still had very different ways of viewing things, though, like him being raised to think Narnia is full of demons. Seriously, how did this dude made the trip work so well for himself and what did Susan like about him.
Wooing and courtship, with hints of things going wrong juuuust out of solid perception. It would be cool to see Susan courting back, too, both of them at their fanciest.
Meeting again later, when he's Rabadash the Ridiculous/the Peacemaker.
Rabadash stumbles out of Narnia-verse and into our universe at some point when Susan is more or less the age he knew her at, or at least still recognisable to him even if she's older, and they meet again. Fudge with timelines as much as you like, even though that doesn't strictly align with how Narnia works.
They do get married, and Susan needs to figure out a way to get out of the situation or change it for the better. But please, no Susan being his slave as is a mentioned possibility.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Malik/Rishid - right in the loyalty kink. I think I prefer them in anime-verse, where Malik at least seems to appreciate that Rishid carved his own face up as a promise to him instead of laughing evilly about it, but I do not even know. Love the ship either way. As long as there are elements of that literal need between them due to the bond that keeps Malik more-or-less himself, love that grew since they were young, that for a long time they were servant & master as well as brothers, and Rishid's desperation to belong.
I can take as many variations on Rishid's tattoos being redrawn as cute lil hearts as the world can give me. Or if there's a quote that would work for portraying their relationship, rewriting the tattoos as that is great too.
Ancient Egypt version Malik/Rishid. Everyone else gets a preincarnation, so can they! If Malik is still an Ishtar, is he actually enthusiastic about swearing himself to the Tombs in order to help the heroic, now tragically nameless Pharaoh? Is Rishid the one with qualms or just ready to follow?
Malik going wild once he's free of the Tombs, going after many kinds of experiences. Does Rishid get dragged along? Is he the safe haven to go home to?
Other times when Rishid has had to subdue the other Malik and knew something was even more wrong with Malik than the obvious.
Fantasy AU. Loyal soldier meets master magician, maybe? I dunno really, I just think they'd be cool in a fantasy AU.
Anything with Malik draping himself in gold and jewels. Maybe Rishid is helping him put them on, maybe Malik's draping him in his turn...
Years post-series, Rishid has another family, Malik pines.
Malik is born a girl, and Mr Ishtar declares Rishid will take the Pharaoh's memory. How does their dynamic change?
Mai/Valon - they are a train wreck and I love that. I can't help but think that they slept together once or twice and Valon fell hard while Mai was nowhere near wanting a romantic situation. I like them as two people desperate for meaning and wishing they had a real connection (with Mai in Valon's case, and anyone in Mai's case), or as them going in opposite directions, learning and changing and figuring out what they want, and if they meet each other again, finding that they could have something together.
The apocalypse happens, they are the only two people from their groups that can find each other. (At least at first.)
Magic (cards, Orichalcos, Millenium Items, whatever) accidentally binds them together somehow. Shared thoughts, or shared pain, or whatever you can come up with. Body swap would also work.
Cool badass bikers of the apocalypse posing.
Meeting years later, having ended up in absolutely unexpected places.
That headcanon of sleeping together once or twice - that would be great to get a fanwork for.
Really ridiculously sweet art. In fic that wouldn't work for me, but a snapshot moment of getting along perfectly in art would be cool.
Anything involving hanging out with their Duel Monsters, and maybe thinking about what the choice of monsters says about the other person.
Crossover or fusion with Mad Max: Fury Road or Good Omens. Not both at once, please, because the mind boggles. But the apocalyptic biker thing has traction with other universes!
Good Omens
His accountant had polished her meat and two veg off in under fifty seconds, and had spent the rest of the meal staring at the plate, the cutlery, and from time to time at her fellow diners, in a manner that suggested that she was wondering what they'd taste like, which was in fact the case. -- Good Omens, pg. 62, Corgi edition.
^ Frannie. That's very nearly it for this character, and it really made me want more about the quietly wrong life of an accountant to a horseperson of the apocalypse.
Famine/Frannie - Does she not notice the kind of thoughts Famine tends to inspire are dreadful, as some kind of supernatural effect he has? Does she just not mind the hunger much? On Famine's side, he seems to like her what with giving her a laptop as a personal present, and he is possibly the most human of the Four Horsepersons - maybe he'll also try out romance if given the opportunity.
Something where Frannie gets increasingly sharp the more time she spends in company with Raven Sable, in looks and in personality. Where does it end for her?
5 strange things that have happened when Frannie was around Raven, and possibly, 1 time he thought he ought to protect her from it.
Famine takes a long time to manifest again as (something like) a person. Frannie helps, on purpose or inadvertently.
Gifts they have given and received between each other.
What an ancient anthropomorphic personification might see in an ordinary (?) human being.
Frannie/Mary Hodges - so yes, I'm fascinated by the idea of Frannie, and I friggin love Mary Hodges, earnest, ditzy, unstoppable business force. The way she figured her life out is one of my favourite bits for how she shrugs off a lot of things she's been told and accepted about herself, and goes for what she wants. They've both been involved with strange things on the darker side of life and the supernatural, and both have kind of accepted it. I want them to meet on a business retreat or something and fall in surprisingly terrifying love.
Wellll there is the bit where Mary decides to have an orgasm if she ever gets the opportunity. Here it is! She could love sex, not be much bothered about it, or a mix of both.
They get mixed up with the supernatural again, in a dangerous way. In their inimitable styles, they handle it.
Mary has apparently seen "a lot of life in her thirty years". Backstory catches up to her and affects her relationship with Frannie.
Dealing with Frannie's relationship with food together. Some describe it as fraught, but the truth is it's just plain weird.
Meeting while Mary is still a nun, who tries to lure Frannie to the dark side because she thinks she probably ought to (but might get lured right back in an entirely different direction, without expecting it).
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Nick Fury/Natasha Romanov - in Iron Man 2 I went nuts about how they actually acted as if they liked each other, because Fury and Natasha were pretty much the last two people I expected to see being sweet that way and in the diner scene of IM2 they were. TWS upped this magnificently. I see it as a pretty weird relationship with familial, professional, and friendly feelings (and then romantic too for this request, natch) but one that absolutely works for them, full of love and support even if it's also full of secrets; most days they feel like it all balances out well.
Nick has turned double agent in his time. That was why he could accept Natasha's story and wholeheartedly give her a chance, even if he did it with due care and security.
Putting together the roster for the Avengers Initiative, Fury tries to put aside personal feelings about Natasha from what such a team might need, since he has a fair idea of what it might mean to her to be presented as a hero out in the open rather than a spy always sent out to do the dirty work.
Figuring out what they are after the Hydra reveal - the same kind of monsters? - and how they feel about each other after the fakeout death.
On a mission together.
Natasha trying to thank Fury for her place in SHIELD using sex. Maybe it works? Maybe he says later, when it's not going to be the worst idea ever?
Inordinately cute art. Like, sharing one soda with two straws. Vegging out on the couch together. Natasha taking things she needs out of Nick's pockets without asking because she knows exactly what's there. Dancing.
Bucky Barnes/Peggy Carter - It could be a lot of fun and I love them both, so them together brings up only good thoughts. Probably it's that whole vibe of your classic lady's man getting his flirt on in the usual way but it having not the smallest effect, until a different way of relating emerges. And I want to see why these two soldiers fight, what drives them, and how it works when they're on the same side. Steve/Bucky/Peggy is welcome, but I'd still prefer focus on how the Peggy/Bucky side of things could work out.
I'm really into the idea of a Pacific Rim fusion with Jaeger pilots Peggy & Bucky and I don't know why. But so into it.
Going down to the rifle range for friendly competition between each other and against other duos. They are the champions.
A Howling Commandos mission where Peggy joins in.
Dancing.
Crossdressing.
1940s Bucky Cap (maybe in conjunction with Steve?), who she works more closely with due to being in charge of the initial training.
Spy Peggy infiltrates a dirty operation that might be biting off more than it can chew. Bucky could be a part of the operation at a lower level and unaware of the worse things they do, or could only be there to try and get a friend out of it. (Probably not Steve, unless Steve is also trying to infiltrate the deeper levels.)
Bucky Barnes/Jane Foster - this is another case of liking both characters and thinking they would jive in a fun way. Bucky's intense enough that he could jolt Jane out of science mode and get himself on her radar, and she's intense enough that I think he'd appreciate how much time she can spend self-contained without needing too much input from his side. But I also think he'd get a bit of a kick taking care of her ("put down the data, Jane") - he seems to have a protective and caring streak.
Both of them in space (via the Guardians? Accident with Tesseract/Aether?). I think they'd enjoy it so much they'd be a good team. Bucky kind of pretends the whole thing operates on pulp sci-fi rules and it works surprisingly well, and Jane is all about working out the principles everything around her runs on.
1940s mad scientist Jane, working with Dr Erskine or Howard Stark, meets pre- and/or post-Zola Bucky.
Post-TWS Bucky is still not particularly OK. At some point he winds up in a position to spend a lot of time with Jane - maybe a rescue after remnants of Hydra target her, maybe more of a stuck-in-a-lift situation - and he finds some solace in the fact that she doesn't even notice any of his weirdness. Nothing he does really phases her. In some ways she might be even weirder herself.
Both of them trying to spruce up as they realise they like each other. Awkward and adorable. Darcy and possibly Intern Ian might be doing double-time work here.
Clint Barton/Pietro Maximoff - They were reaching a point of juuuuuust getting along and it made me want them to get there. I think that Clint is one of the best-equipped people to try and help the twins even before he properly trusts them - stable in personality but always taking chances, giving them the benefit of the doubt and accepting that they really were willing to help despite having made huge mistakes with Ultron. Take the way he encourages Wanda and his history with Natasha. And Pietro was so chuffed about seeing SHIELD come to help that I want him to get the opportunity to join it and try to make the kind of contribution to the world and his country he always wanted to, minus the obsessive need for revenge that masked the better sides of his nature. So there's him with something he'd really like to accomplish, and Clint, who he already has an odd spark of connection with, tries to help him get there ...
No killing the other Bartons, please. Open relationship, AU where they're Clint's sister-in-law and nephews/niece by his currently missing brother Barney, or an AU where they don't exist.
Pietro reacting to the fact that the new baby was named Nathaniel Pietro.
They continue to have a dumb rivalry that doesn't really need to exist. But eventually the prizes for winning start to be things like kisses, blowjobs, and dinner dates.
Training together, including finding ways for Clint to get around Pietro's powers - Clint's still paranoid about people being turned against their teammates, and Pietro & Wanda need to show that they are trustworthy; showing weaknesses is one way to do that. Lots of building up to trust.
Annoying everyone else with dumb jokes they can't stop laughing at.
The experiments on Pietro (maybe Wanda too) suddenly throw out strange side-effects. Clint helps take care of him (them).
Jane Foster/Loki/Thor - It's okay if not all relationships in the triad are romantic, as long as there's a sense they're all in it together. I do prefer Jane/Thor as romantic, because they're cute as anything. With Loki/Jane anything works - getting along unreasonably well, the romance no one saw coming, enemy-allies, etc. etc. Thor/Loki can bounce off each other as you please in AUs, but if it’s canonverse, I prefer it as a mixed-up ball of love and loathing inclined towards epic explosions and normal brotherly interactions (+ a potential urge to mack on each other if you want to go there). Please god no Loki-as-Odin/Thor. Platonic mindfuck is cool, but while I'm down with Thor having socially unacceptable feelings about his brother, his dad is a different story.
I also prefer there to be minimal relation to Norse myth. It's hard to buy for the MCU versions. Exception: I love it when Loki is parent to a bunch of weird monster kids.
Loki grows up on Jotunheim and they all meet due to politicking with new kid on the inter-realm-relations block, Midgard.
The Aether leaves Jane with powers and then Things Happen. She might become a superhero! Or there is totally/semi/temporarily evil Jane. Dark Aether Queen Jane and her two soldiers/prisoners/pets makes for a nice image (whether she's in a fancy outfit or still dressing in flannel).
Outrageous domesticity that doesn't even have to answer the question of why they're all getting along or explains it via AU; canon is not going to make them all happy, so fandom is good for indulging that urge. This goes triple for art, where something like all three sitting around in their pyjamas braiding hair = joy in my heart. Kidfic/art would also work for this request.
Loki nabs and mind controls Jane through Avengers and various messed up emotions ensue (no mind control sex, please).
Bonding through fighting Thanos.
Jane Foster/Darcy Lewis - They're an odd couple what with different attitudes and interests, and it charms me that they stuck together for years. Is it more fun than being apart? Does it feel like no one else gets their lives? Maybe Darcy just can't find a new damn job in the US or UK, but she and Jane are relieved to some extent because it gives an excuse to stay with each other.
Jane's research into finding ways to cross time and space cause something unexpected to happen - random portal, suddenly being on the opposite side of the planet, sex pollen from the great beyond.
If there's any fanfic romance classic you might want to employ for these two, go for it - abovementioned sex pollen, a/b/o, pretending to be dating, accidentally married, sharing a bed And Also Feelings, etc.
Sharing iPod earbuds to listen to music together. Or to science podcasts (whether or not Darcy is asleep is up to you).
They go into space and meet the Guardians or Xandarians - Jane has a connection to the Aether, after all, and infinity stones are now a hot topic in the galaxy. Darcy insists on getting a ray gun. A little rescuing one another could go nicely here.
Dark Aether Queen Jane/Darcy. Is Jane seriously evil or amoral in a way that ends up kinda hilarious? (Possibly Darcy encourages her in going cutthroat to get grant money. And yes! Fight that little weasel who keeps ragging on your work in that one journal!)
Mad Max
General notes and prompts:
Getting the characters into new outfits, especially the wives and Furiosa (for the latter, I'd love to see included the speculation here, that part of her outfit comes from the same cloth as the wives are given). AU or canonverse.
Playing with names/titles, since the characters have names that could have as much to do with how others perceive them as to what they were called when they were born. New names building up around them, being determined to keep the ones they have no matter what others say, reclaiming their current names if they actually dislike them, deciding on brand new names. I have a headcanon that Joe had a hand in naming at least some of the wives so they would be candidates for all this especially.
Art-wise + wives-wise, you can't go wrong with focus on their hair. That's a lot of pretty hair.
With Nux requests, feel free to add Capable/Nux as part of a poly arrangement. With Capable requests, feel free to add Angharad/Capable as part of a poly arrangement.
For keeping War Boys alive longer than canon indicates is likely (quite aside from surviving the movie's various explosions) you could make it so their living conditions caused them to be sick. I've seen tuberculosis named as something that could account for Nux's symptoms and that could be recovered from.
Angharad/Furiosa - So, the exchange about Angharad's leg wound. Angharad seems impatient with the question being asked at all and is keeping herself poised instead of complaining or even limping much; is Furiosa actually being kind by asking, even though she takes the opportunity to hammer home a hard lesson? Something I love about this movie is that the wives are not the far-too naive ones vs. worldly wise everyone else - even though they are sheltered and in some ways overly idealistic, they get to question and challenge others as well as learning from them - and I think this ship would make for a good way of exploring that. They're strong and tough in different ways, as well as empathetic and caring, and they could help each other and keep each other guessing.
Ruling the Citadel together.
Comforting Furiosa after the dream of the Green Place comes to nothing.
Teaching each other new things.
Furiosa never got kidnapped. The wives escape the Citadel some other way (Miss Giddy?) and happen on the Green Place or the Vuvalini after they'd been driven to survival in the desert, and negotiate entry into the group. And eventually, Angharad wants to know how the courtship rites work (wink wink, nudge nudge).
Angharad becomes a complete daredevil or was one before capture. She kept doing whatever was necessary with her gigantically pregnant body, no muss no fuss, and I can see her still being that way after the need to get free is over. Furiosa thinks it's pretty cool.
Superhero AU.
Angharad/Capable - Interviews have said that Capable was Angharad's biggest supporter and best friend, and she definitely does her best to be at Angharad's side in the movie. I'd love something where she is the first to be second and damn proud of it - motivated by loyalty, respect, and maybe even strategy (if she sees that Angharad really could be the leader they all need) as well as love. But also a lot of love. Practicality + sincere and genuine affection is my jam.
Ruling the Citadel together.
Angharad becomes a complete daredevil or was one before capture. She kept doing whatever was necessary with her gigantically pregnant body, no muss no fuss, and I can see her still being that way after the need to get free is over. Capable isn't sure if this is cool or terrifying.
Capable coming into her own as a leader and thinking about Angharad in retrospect. I like to think that in the movie she was trying to take more of a lead and keep a cool head for the others' sakes once Angharad had died, and in order to keep Angharad's ideals alive.
They are thrown back in time and decide to help save the world from nuclear death or/and guzzoline wars.
Capable plays the piano in the Vault to help Angharad relax ... or as the wives' version of the Doof Wagon, a soundtrack to inspire their own war.
Angharad helping Capable dye her hair. Is it a moment of intimacy? Anger, because it's being done on Joe's orders? Finding a way to make it about defying Joe, rather than making themselves more beautiful for his pleasure?
Reading to each other.
Werewolf AU.
Capable/Nux - Romantic, platonic, or 'who knows' portrayals are all fine. She was willing to reach out despite a multitude of reasons not to, he was so floored he could do nothing but accept and reciprocate, and I love to see what might have come from it - good and bad, difficult and easy, as their different beliefs find ways to work together and change.
When Capable makes the Vuvalini gesture after Nux's final "Witness me", she actually does catch his spirit. Ghost relationship ensues with lots of cute-creepy.
Homestuck fusion where Nux is Capable's patron troll. Palerom or redrom develops.
Riding out across the salt instead of turning back to the Citadel. Please no downer ending! Lots of gruelling journeying is fine, but don't have everyone go and starve to death.
Rictus doesn't rip up the War Rig, Nux follows the team. How does he deal with hanging out with the body of a debunked God? How do he and Capable take part in the rebuilding of the Citadel society - is he the War Boy who brought the Wives back home after all, or is Furiosa still the major factor in having the team accepted onto the lift? ...I wouldn't actually mind if this one had a downer ending, so long as it's not for the entire Citadel. Maybe Nux just can't deal with the way everything changed after all.
A different wife goes to be lookout and finds Nux - how does she treat him, and what does it mean for how the rest of the group and Capable treat him?
Another possible bad end story: AU where Nux gets the reward for some reason (not for impeding the wives' escape) of Joe personally taking him to the gates of Valhalla. Which means ritual sacrifice. Capable is there to sort of act as a valkyrie, and has about ten terrible minutes to try and be kind to Nux. No comfort sex, please. Something can happen in the nick of time to derail the ceremony, but also, not.
Immortan Nux, sort of. Four times the gates were open to him and he turned away! A legend builds around this, whoops.
Anything about what happened between them in canon, filling in the times between the moments we got to see. I'd love to see the rest of the conversation in the look-out or Nux comforting her about there being no more Green Place (there was a scene like that - here are a few seconds of it).
Toast/Slit - two doses of anger, aggression, and violence for the price of one! I just want them to fight and snipe and accidentally get each other really well, and should they start fighting on the same side the other side needs to be prepared for total onslaught, take no prisoners.
Both of them are still working on the "we are not things" line of thinking. Toast stills talks about herself and to a certain extent the other wives as commodities ("Don't damage the goods", her remark about Angharad's wounded leg) - is that because it's how she expects others to see her? She's internalised being a "thing" that much? And Slit probably doesn't really see or want to see any particular problem with what Immortan Joe did to everyone.
Modern AU with gangster Slit needing the help of lawyer Toast. Or they're both lawyers coming up against each other.
Showing off their matching knuckledusters.
Assigned to help each other adjust to the brave new world they're making - Slit has to help with driving/fighting lessons, Toast has to help with reading/stop killing everybody lessons. And together they figure out new philosophies for themselves.
Toast is with him mostly as a test to herself - what can she take, in this world she's no longer used to?
Max/Nux - Max bringing him a boot was a weird, surprising, and heart-warming moment after they'd been violent and impersonal (depersonalised!) up to that point. And then there was Nux listening to the redemption vs. hope conversation between Max and Furiosa - he came down on the side of hope during the decision to take over the Citadel, opposite to Max in his approach but not in a way that made him seem like he was meant to be wrong. There's a sense of both of them going through similar things, or being almost at different points of the same line of development, and it makes me feel like they could be so good to and for each other.
Immortan Nux, sort of. Four times the gates were open to him and he turned away! A legend builds around this, whoops.
Nux's attitude and the way some of his thought patterns feel empathetically familiar help inspire Max to genuinely hope in time.
Or maybe he helps Max realise that in this case the redemption vs. hope word games comes down to pretty much the same thing and it screws with Max's head whole and entire cos he's not ready yet to think that way. There's also the opposite tack - I am sure the redemption talk made a dent in Nux's brainwaves as well, and that would also be interesting to investigate, since he might have a degree of regret about all his and his cohorts' violence ("We're not to blame!"). How did that fit in with his faith and would guilt mess him up once he's free? Since Max walks with the burden of striving for redemption, maybe he could help there.
Them being nice to each other a whole lot, especially if it's kind of by accident. Bringing each other stuff because they thought it would be appreciated, practical, personal, or affectionate.
In the course of the Citadel's society being changed to get away from the current levels of toxicities, Max becomes a role model for Nux. Plus hero worship.
Working together. To protect the Citadel, on a car, building shelter/a statue/equipment/whatever, having a clothes-repairing session.
Or to go to a different, disturbing place, Nux getting possessive over his v. good delicious crazy blood bag. It's good luck and he is so fond of it. Maybe an AU where the wives escape later on so that he has longer-term access to Max, or Nux gets completely turned around by the sandstorm and has to drive around with Max for longer.
Furiosa/Valkyrie - It's been twenty years but the Valkyrie still knows her, still loves her, still claims her as one of theirs. I am just dying for backstory. Clearly Furiosa made a big impression. And what is the impression on Furiosa's side?
I'd love to see them as kids - playing together, learning, hunting, riding, farming. Bonus: Furiosa's clan name is based on a real animal, and Swaddledog is old but still game for cuddles with the girls.
The mourning rituals for Furiosa (and Mary Jo Bassa, and others that might have been captured), public and private, for Valkyrie.
Good-natured fights about the negatives and positives of a motorbike instead of 2000 horsepower of nitro-boosted war machine (or whatever Furiosa drives post-movie).
Semi-love at first sight that's about projection as much as tender feelings. Furiosa remembers the tower among the dunes, the names of her closest family, and the gestures more than she remembers this woman who ran to meet her. But she's already halfway in love. Or the other way around! The days have been brutal and there have been many since she last knew a home; Valkyrie has been lonely for the clamour of people she once loved around her. She barely knows this woman's face anymore but her words hit a soft spot deep inside.
Furiosa has in the past helped to capture a wife for Joe. Confessing this puts a big old dampener on proceedings.
The Dag/Cheedo - I adore how she and the Dag are at each other's sides. It looks like they share a single pair of gloves, which, omg, adorable. And have another gif set. More of that intense support and sharing of personal space, and almost a desperation to be together, please. The Dag seems like she could have a somewhat nervous personality as well, being singled out as a weirdo via her name, her spending a lot of time crouched up, and with the way she's chewing her fingernails as the lift ascends at the end of the movie, so it's not just Cheedo who appreciates the support.
Sharing clothes aside from that cloth-wrap glove, despite proving to have very different tastes.
Taking care of the Dag's baby together. Or if the Dag really can't take caring for Joe's child, finding a different family for the baby.
How they grew to be the closest to each other out of all the rest.
The Dag is captured and assessed as a feral - keep muzzled! (She bit Nux when he first broke into the War Rig, after all.) Joe isn't sure if he should take her as a wife because she might not count as mentally healthy enough to suit him, but maybe his current wives can tame her... She and Cheedo bond, and all the wives conspire to make her seem even less useful to Joe.
Sharing a moment of victory and planning after cutting off the chastity belts. Sex is a fraught topic between all of them, but these two do want to give it a try someday, at least.
The Dag has magic powers. (This might get sexy sometimes.)
Honestly a fanart that just exploits their absolute lack of personal space with them being all touchy and clingy and huggy, that would be a+ excellent.
Flower crowns. Flower crowns in this fandom make me all verklempt about the Keeper of the Seeds' plant bag finally being used as she hoped it would, the Green Place plan working, and things getting better for everyone in the Citadel. And The Dag, of course, has access to the flowers.
Capable/Cheedo/The Dag/Toast - their support of each other was something I really loved. It could have been easy to be disgusted with Cheedo for trying to go back, but they understood it was partly grief and helped her. It could have been easy to distrust Capable for keeping the secret of Nux, but they went along with her assessment of him and took him into the team after the initial distrust. They understand each other at deeply intimate levels and act together almost on automatic. One thing - the fanon of the Wives becoming known as the Sisters post-movie is great, but would prefer not to have that happening in this case where they're all getting together. I dunno, I'd feel awkward with it.
They are thrown back in time and decide to help save the world from nuclear death or/and guzzoline wars.
Riding out across the salt instead of turning back to the Citadel. Please no downer ending! Lots of gruelling journeying is fine, but don't have everyone go and starve to death.
The Dag has magic powers. (This might get sexy sometimes.)
Getting Gas Town and the Bullet Farm under control. Maybe some of them have to go live there and find it practically bizarre not to be in the others' spaces 24/7.
Coming up with new designs to tattoo over Joe's brand.
PWP with everybody focusing on Cheedo. Probably the cuddliest sex ever, if Toast doesn't lose patience.
Remembering Angharad. And making room for Capable to remember what was growing between her and Nux.
I've read Toast was supposed to be a bit of an odd one out among the wives (and no wonder, between Cheedo and The Dag clinging to each other and Angaharad and Capable forming a little team). I'd love to see something either bringing her more into the fold, or an exploration of how she likes and hates standing a little apart, what she does to encourage and discourage it.
The Dag/Slit - the Dag seems like she would take Slit seriously not at all, any attempt at intimidation would be water off a duck's back and sometimes an invite to fight back, and for Slit I think those are sure ways to get his attention and make him try hard to get the other person's. PS: feel free to have Cheedo/The Dag too, though I'd prefer no Cheedo/Slit/The Dag.
The Dag is captured and assessed as a feral - keep muzzled! (She bit Nux when he first broke into the War Rig, after all.) Somehow she turns it around for herself until she becomes a War Boy. In the course of all this, she catches Slit's eye. Maybe he picks up she's not the kind of believer she ought to be and gives her grief, leading to rivalshipping?
They talk (argue) religion and spirituality. Perhaps she truly believes in different gods and fights for them, perhaps he loses his mind about how she's faithless up until she's really in trouble and will go for any port in a storm.
Slit is haunted by Immortan Joe. Literally. It's not the experience he would have thought. The Dag is the only one of the wives who believes him, but the War Boys/Pups who believe him might be a problem...
Slit is nowhere near high-ranked enough to wear a flower crown, but make no mistake, he is going to try and get there. The Dag makes up a ranking for him to work his way up (she's messing with him).
The Dag can do magic and performs some on Slit, on purpose or by accident.
For Do Not Wants that might be likely to come up, please avoid:
- for the X goes evil prompts, please don't have them go and indiscriminately kill and torture or become otherwise brutally violent.
- Non-canon character deaths, except where requested. and even then feel free to swing things around for a happy ending.
- Rape. It's part of the backstory in Mad Max for a lot of characters, so references to rape there are fine, but please no focus on it.
- Cannibalism as anything more than a brief mention.
- Cheating/infidelity
- Fisting
- sex involving characters under 16.
- Age play
Pacific Rim
Hannibal Chau/Newton Geiszler - because they shouldn't really be together but actually work out pretty well. Hannibal should be beyond this dumbass nerd, but seems to have a streak of dumbass nerd in himself, since that eye injury makes it look like he also tried Drifting with a kaiju. Newt should be terrified of this giant unpredictable gangster, and he is, but also busts into his place shouting at him.
That trope with Newt semi-transforming into a kaiju? I love that trope. Now Hannibal can too.
Crack or relatively serious crack: Baby Otachi imprints on Newt, and Hannibal wants it alive to make sweet cash moneys out of. Ta-da, world's unlikeliest adoptive family.
Role-reversal: scientist Hannibal and gang boss Newt.
I heard Newt was supposed to be evil in the sequel (dunno if that's still true now that it's been confirmed as happening, though.) I'd love something where the Anteverse affected him and now he grows increasingly amoral, and maybe it's his turn to loom over Hannibal for once? Or they become partners in crime.
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Prince Rabadash/Susan Pevensie - I have wondered for years how this guy fooled most people into thinking he was decent. He was a violent, heinous brat, so how did Susan get to the point of marriage and how was there so little for anyone else to pinpoint as wrong? He must have been careful and charming. Maybe his real good side came out - what are those good traits? They still had very different ways of viewing things, though, like him being raised to think Narnia is full of demons. Seriously, how did this dude made the trip work so well for himself and what did Susan like about him.
Wooing and courtship, with hints of things going wrong juuuust out of solid perception. It would be cool to see Susan courting back, too, both of them at their fanciest.
Meeting again later, when he's Rabadash the Ridiculous/the Peacemaker.
Rabadash stumbles out of Narnia-verse and into our universe at some point when Susan is more or less the age he knew her at, or at least still recognisable to him even if she's older, and they meet again. Fudge with timelines as much as you like, even though that doesn't strictly align with how Narnia works.
They do get married, and Susan needs to figure out a way to get out of the situation or change it for the better. But please, no Susan being his slave as is a mentioned possibility.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Malik/Rishid - right in the loyalty kink. I think I prefer them in anime-verse, where Malik at least seems to appreciate that Rishid carved his own face up as a promise to him instead of laughing evilly about it, but I do not even know. Love the ship either way. As long as there are elements of that literal need between them due to the bond that keeps Malik more-or-less himself, love that grew since they were young, that for a long time they were servant & master as well as brothers, and Rishid's desperation to belong.
I can take as many variations on Rishid's tattoos being redrawn as cute lil hearts as the world can give me. Or if there's a quote that would work for portraying their relationship, rewriting the tattoos as that is great too.
Ancient Egypt version Malik/Rishid. Everyone else gets a preincarnation, so can they! If Malik is still an Ishtar, is he actually enthusiastic about swearing himself to the Tombs in order to help the heroic, now tragically nameless Pharaoh? Is Rishid the one with qualms or just ready to follow?
Malik going wild once he's free of the Tombs, going after many kinds of experiences. Does Rishid get dragged along? Is he the safe haven to go home to?
Other times when Rishid has had to subdue the other Malik and knew something was even more wrong with Malik than the obvious.
Fantasy AU. Loyal soldier meets master magician, maybe? I dunno really, I just think they'd be cool in a fantasy AU.
Anything with Malik draping himself in gold and jewels. Maybe Rishid is helping him put them on, maybe Malik's draping him in his turn...
Years post-series, Rishid has another family, Malik pines.
Malik is born a girl, and Mr Ishtar declares Rishid will take the Pharaoh's memory. How does their dynamic change?
Mai/Valon - they are a train wreck and I love that. I can't help but think that they slept together once or twice and Valon fell hard while Mai was nowhere near wanting a romantic situation. I like them as two people desperate for meaning and wishing they had a real connection (with Mai in Valon's case, and anyone in Mai's case), or as them going in opposite directions, learning and changing and figuring out what they want, and if they meet each other again, finding that they could have something together.
The apocalypse happens, they are the only two people from their groups that can find each other. (At least at first.)
Magic (cards, Orichalcos, Millenium Items, whatever) accidentally binds them together somehow. Shared thoughts, or shared pain, or whatever you can come up with. Body swap would also work.
Cool badass bikers of the apocalypse posing.
Meeting years later, having ended up in absolutely unexpected places.
That headcanon of sleeping together once or twice - that would be great to get a fanwork for.
Really ridiculously sweet art. In fic that wouldn't work for me, but a snapshot moment of getting along perfectly in art would be cool.
Anything involving hanging out with their Duel Monsters, and maybe thinking about what the choice of monsters says about the other person.
Crossover or fusion with Mad Max: Fury Road or Good Omens. Not both at once, please, because the mind boggles. But the apocalyptic biker thing has traction with other universes!
Good Omens
His accountant had polished her meat and two veg off in under fifty seconds, and had spent the rest of the meal staring at the plate, the cutlery, and from time to time at her fellow diners, in a manner that suggested that she was wondering what they'd taste like, which was in fact the case. -- Good Omens, pg. 62, Corgi edition.
^ Frannie. That's very nearly it for this character, and it really made me want more about the quietly wrong life of an accountant to a horseperson of the apocalypse.
Famine/Frannie - Does she not notice the kind of thoughts Famine tends to inspire are dreadful, as some kind of supernatural effect he has? Does she just not mind the hunger much? On Famine's side, he seems to like her what with giving her a laptop as a personal present, and he is possibly the most human of the Four Horsepersons - maybe he'll also try out romance if given the opportunity.
Something where Frannie gets increasingly sharp the more time she spends in company with Raven Sable, in looks and in personality. Where does it end for her?
5 strange things that have happened when Frannie was around Raven, and possibly, 1 time he thought he ought to protect her from it.
Famine takes a long time to manifest again as (something like) a person. Frannie helps, on purpose or inadvertently.
Gifts they have given and received between each other.
What an ancient anthropomorphic personification might see in an ordinary (?) human being.
Frannie/Mary Hodges - so yes, I'm fascinated by the idea of Frannie, and I friggin love Mary Hodges, earnest, ditzy, unstoppable business force. The way she figured her life out is one of my favourite bits for how she shrugs off a lot of things she's been told and accepted about herself, and goes for what she wants. They've both been involved with strange things on the darker side of life and the supernatural, and both have kind of accepted it. I want them to meet on a business retreat or something and fall in surprisingly terrifying love.
Wellll there is the bit where Mary decides to have an orgasm if she ever gets the opportunity. Here it is! She could love sex, not be much bothered about it, or a mix of both.
They get mixed up with the supernatural again, in a dangerous way. In their inimitable styles, they handle it.
Mary has apparently seen "a lot of life in her thirty years". Backstory catches up to her and affects her relationship with Frannie.
Dealing with Frannie's relationship with food together. Some describe it as fraught, but the truth is it's just plain weird.
Meeting while Mary is still a nun, who tries to lure Frannie to the dark side because she thinks she probably ought to (but might get lured right back in an entirely different direction, without expecting it).
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Nick Fury/Natasha Romanov - in Iron Man 2 I went nuts about how they actually acted as if they liked each other, because Fury and Natasha were pretty much the last two people I expected to see being sweet that way and in the diner scene of IM2 they were. TWS upped this magnificently. I see it as a pretty weird relationship with familial, professional, and friendly feelings (and then romantic too for this request, natch) but one that absolutely works for them, full of love and support even if it's also full of secrets; most days they feel like it all balances out well.
Nick has turned double agent in his time. That was why he could accept Natasha's story and wholeheartedly give her a chance, even if he did it with due care and security.
Putting together the roster for the Avengers Initiative, Fury tries to put aside personal feelings about Natasha from what such a team might need, since he has a fair idea of what it might mean to her to be presented as a hero out in the open rather than a spy always sent out to do the dirty work.
Figuring out what they are after the Hydra reveal - the same kind of monsters? - and how they feel about each other after the fakeout death.
On a mission together.
Natasha trying to thank Fury for her place in SHIELD using sex. Maybe it works? Maybe he says later, when it's not going to be the worst idea ever?
Inordinately cute art. Like, sharing one soda with two straws. Vegging out on the couch together. Natasha taking things she needs out of Nick's pockets without asking because she knows exactly what's there. Dancing.
Bucky Barnes/Peggy Carter - It could be a lot of fun and I love them both, so them together brings up only good thoughts. Probably it's that whole vibe of your classic lady's man getting his flirt on in the usual way but it having not the smallest effect, until a different way of relating emerges. And I want to see why these two soldiers fight, what drives them, and how it works when they're on the same side. Steve/Bucky/Peggy is welcome, but I'd still prefer focus on how the Peggy/Bucky side of things could work out.
I'm really into the idea of a Pacific Rim fusion with Jaeger pilots Peggy & Bucky and I don't know why. But so into it.
Going down to the rifle range for friendly competition between each other and against other duos. They are the champions.
A Howling Commandos mission where Peggy joins in.
Dancing.
Crossdressing.
1940s Bucky Cap (maybe in conjunction with Steve?), who she works more closely with due to being in charge of the initial training.
Spy Peggy infiltrates a dirty operation that might be biting off more than it can chew. Bucky could be a part of the operation at a lower level and unaware of the worse things they do, or could only be there to try and get a friend out of it. (Probably not Steve, unless Steve is also trying to infiltrate the deeper levels.)
Bucky Barnes/Jane Foster - this is another case of liking both characters and thinking they would jive in a fun way. Bucky's intense enough that he could jolt Jane out of science mode and get himself on her radar, and she's intense enough that I think he'd appreciate how much time she can spend self-contained without needing too much input from his side. But I also think he'd get a bit of a kick taking care of her ("put down the data, Jane") - he seems to have a protective and caring streak.
Both of them in space (via the Guardians? Accident with Tesseract/Aether?). I think they'd enjoy it so much they'd be a good team. Bucky kind of pretends the whole thing operates on pulp sci-fi rules and it works surprisingly well, and Jane is all about working out the principles everything around her runs on.
1940s mad scientist Jane, working with Dr Erskine or Howard Stark, meets pre- and/or post-Zola Bucky.
Post-TWS Bucky is still not particularly OK. At some point he winds up in a position to spend a lot of time with Jane - maybe a rescue after remnants of Hydra target her, maybe more of a stuck-in-a-lift situation - and he finds some solace in the fact that she doesn't even notice any of his weirdness. Nothing he does really phases her. In some ways she might be even weirder herself.
Both of them trying to spruce up as they realise they like each other. Awkward and adorable. Darcy and possibly Intern Ian might be doing double-time work here.
Clint Barton/Pietro Maximoff - They were reaching a point of juuuuuust getting along and it made me want them to get there. I think that Clint is one of the best-equipped people to try and help the twins even before he properly trusts them - stable in personality but always taking chances, giving them the benefit of the doubt and accepting that they really were willing to help despite having made huge mistakes with Ultron. Take the way he encourages Wanda and his history with Natasha. And Pietro was so chuffed about seeing SHIELD come to help that I want him to get the opportunity to join it and try to make the kind of contribution to the world and his country he always wanted to, minus the obsessive need for revenge that masked the better sides of his nature. So there's him with something he'd really like to accomplish, and Clint, who he already has an odd spark of connection with, tries to help him get there ...
No killing the other Bartons, please. Open relationship, AU where they're Clint's sister-in-law and nephews/niece by his currently missing brother Barney, or an AU where they don't exist.
Pietro reacting to the fact that the new baby was named Nathaniel Pietro.
They continue to have a dumb rivalry that doesn't really need to exist. But eventually the prizes for winning start to be things like kisses, blowjobs, and dinner dates.
Training together, including finding ways for Clint to get around Pietro's powers - Clint's still paranoid about people being turned against their teammates, and Pietro & Wanda need to show that they are trustworthy; showing weaknesses is one way to do that. Lots of building up to trust.
Annoying everyone else with dumb jokes they can't stop laughing at.
The experiments on Pietro (maybe Wanda too) suddenly throw out strange side-effects. Clint helps take care of him (them).
Jane Foster/Loki/Thor - It's okay if not all relationships in the triad are romantic, as long as there's a sense they're all in it together. I do prefer Jane/Thor as romantic, because they're cute as anything. With Loki/Jane anything works - getting along unreasonably well, the romance no one saw coming, enemy-allies, etc. etc. Thor/Loki can bounce off each other as you please in AUs, but if it’s canonverse, I prefer it as a mixed-up ball of love and loathing inclined towards epic explosions and normal brotherly interactions (+ a potential urge to mack on each other if you want to go there). Please god no Loki-as-Odin/Thor. Platonic mindfuck is cool, but while I'm down with Thor having socially unacceptable feelings about his brother, his dad is a different story.
I also prefer there to be minimal relation to Norse myth. It's hard to buy for the MCU versions. Exception: I love it when Loki is parent to a bunch of weird monster kids.
Loki grows up on Jotunheim and they all meet due to politicking with new kid on the inter-realm-relations block, Midgard.
The Aether leaves Jane with powers and then Things Happen. She might become a superhero! Or there is totally/semi/temporarily evil Jane. Dark Aether Queen Jane and her two soldiers/prisoners/pets makes for a nice image (whether she's in a fancy outfit or still dressing in flannel).
Outrageous domesticity that doesn't even have to answer the question of why they're all getting along or explains it via AU; canon is not going to make them all happy, so fandom is good for indulging that urge. This goes triple for art, where something like all three sitting around in their pyjamas braiding hair = joy in my heart. Kidfic/art would also work for this request.
Loki nabs and mind controls Jane through Avengers and various messed up emotions ensue (no mind control sex, please).
Bonding through fighting Thanos.
Jane Foster/Darcy Lewis - They're an odd couple what with different attitudes and interests, and it charms me that they stuck together for years. Is it more fun than being apart? Does it feel like no one else gets their lives? Maybe Darcy just can't find a new damn job in the US or UK, but she and Jane are relieved to some extent because it gives an excuse to stay with each other.
Jane's research into finding ways to cross time and space cause something unexpected to happen - random portal, suddenly being on the opposite side of the planet, sex pollen from the great beyond.
If there's any fanfic romance classic you might want to employ for these two, go for it - abovementioned sex pollen, a/b/o, pretending to be dating, accidentally married, sharing a bed And Also Feelings, etc.
Sharing iPod earbuds to listen to music together. Or to science podcasts (whether or not Darcy is asleep is up to you).
They go into space and meet the Guardians or Xandarians - Jane has a connection to the Aether, after all, and infinity stones are now a hot topic in the galaxy. Darcy insists on getting a ray gun. A little rescuing one another could go nicely here.
Dark Aether Queen Jane/Darcy. Is Jane seriously evil or amoral in a way that ends up kinda hilarious? (Possibly Darcy encourages her in going cutthroat to get grant money. And yes! Fight that little weasel who keeps ragging on your work in that one journal!)
Mad Max
General notes and prompts:
Getting the characters into new outfits, especially the wives and Furiosa (for the latter, I'd love to see included the speculation here, that part of her outfit comes from the same cloth as the wives are given). AU or canonverse.
Playing with names/titles, since the characters have names that could have as much to do with how others perceive them as to what they were called when they were born. New names building up around them, being determined to keep the ones they have no matter what others say, reclaiming their current names if they actually dislike them, deciding on brand new names. I have a headcanon that Joe had a hand in naming at least some of the wives so they would be candidates for all this especially.
Art-wise + wives-wise, you can't go wrong with focus on their hair. That's a lot of pretty hair.
With Nux requests, feel free to add Capable/Nux as part of a poly arrangement. With Capable requests, feel free to add Angharad/Capable as part of a poly arrangement.
For keeping War Boys alive longer than canon indicates is likely (quite aside from surviving the movie's various explosions) you could make it so their living conditions caused them to be sick. I've seen tuberculosis named as something that could account for Nux's symptoms and that could be recovered from.
Angharad/Furiosa - So, the exchange about Angharad's leg wound. Angharad seems impatient with the question being asked at all and is keeping herself poised instead of complaining or even limping much; is Furiosa actually being kind by asking, even though she takes the opportunity to hammer home a hard lesson? Something I love about this movie is that the wives are not the far-too naive ones vs. worldly wise everyone else - even though they are sheltered and in some ways overly idealistic, they get to question and challenge others as well as learning from them - and I think this ship would make for a good way of exploring that. They're strong and tough in different ways, as well as empathetic and caring, and they could help each other and keep each other guessing.
Ruling the Citadel together.
Comforting Furiosa after the dream of the Green Place comes to nothing.
Teaching each other new things.
Furiosa never got kidnapped. The wives escape the Citadel some other way (Miss Giddy?) and happen on the Green Place or the Vuvalini after they'd been driven to survival in the desert, and negotiate entry into the group. And eventually, Angharad wants to know how the courtship rites work (wink wink, nudge nudge).
Angharad becomes a complete daredevil or was one before capture. She kept doing whatever was necessary with her gigantically pregnant body, no muss no fuss, and I can see her still being that way after the need to get free is over. Furiosa thinks it's pretty cool.
Superhero AU.
Angharad/Capable - Interviews have said that Capable was Angharad's biggest supporter and best friend, and she definitely does her best to be at Angharad's side in the movie. I'd love something where she is the first to be second and damn proud of it - motivated by loyalty, respect, and maybe even strategy (if she sees that Angharad really could be the leader they all need) as well as love. But also a lot of love. Practicality + sincere and genuine affection is my jam.
Ruling the Citadel together.
Angharad becomes a complete daredevil or was one before capture. She kept doing whatever was necessary with her gigantically pregnant body, no muss no fuss, and I can see her still being that way after the need to get free is over. Capable isn't sure if this is cool or terrifying.
Capable coming into her own as a leader and thinking about Angharad in retrospect. I like to think that in the movie she was trying to take more of a lead and keep a cool head for the others' sakes once Angharad had died, and in order to keep Angharad's ideals alive.
They are thrown back in time and decide to help save the world from nuclear death or/and guzzoline wars.
Capable plays the piano in the Vault to help Angharad relax ... or as the wives' version of the Doof Wagon, a soundtrack to inspire their own war.
Angharad helping Capable dye her hair. Is it a moment of intimacy? Anger, because it's being done on Joe's orders? Finding a way to make it about defying Joe, rather than making themselves more beautiful for his pleasure?
Reading to each other.
Werewolf AU.
Capable/Nux - Romantic, platonic, or 'who knows' portrayals are all fine. She was willing to reach out despite a multitude of reasons not to, he was so floored he could do nothing but accept and reciprocate, and I love to see what might have come from it - good and bad, difficult and easy, as their different beliefs find ways to work together and change.
When Capable makes the Vuvalini gesture after Nux's final "Witness me", she actually does catch his spirit. Ghost relationship ensues with lots of cute-creepy.
Homestuck fusion where Nux is Capable's patron troll. Palerom or redrom develops.
Riding out across the salt instead of turning back to the Citadel. Please no downer ending! Lots of gruelling journeying is fine, but don't have everyone go and starve to death.
Rictus doesn't rip up the War Rig, Nux follows the team. How does he deal with hanging out with the body of a debunked God? How do he and Capable take part in the rebuilding of the Citadel society - is he the War Boy who brought the Wives back home after all, or is Furiosa still the major factor in having the team accepted onto the lift? ...I wouldn't actually mind if this one had a downer ending, so long as it's not for the entire Citadel. Maybe Nux just can't deal with the way everything changed after all.
A different wife goes to be lookout and finds Nux - how does she treat him, and what does it mean for how the rest of the group and Capable treat him?
Another possible bad end story: AU where Nux gets the reward for some reason (not for impeding the wives' escape) of Joe personally taking him to the gates of Valhalla. Which means ritual sacrifice. Capable is there to sort of act as a valkyrie, and has about ten terrible minutes to try and be kind to Nux. No comfort sex, please. Something can happen in the nick of time to derail the ceremony, but also, not.
Immortan Nux, sort of. Four times the gates were open to him and he turned away! A legend builds around this, whoops.
Anything about what happened between them in canon, filling in the times between the moments we got to see. I'd love to see the rest of the conversation in the look-out or Nux comforting her about there being no more Green Place (there was a scene like that - here are a few seconds of it).
Toast/Slit - two doses of anger, aggression, and violence for the price of one! I just want them to fight and snipe and accidentally get each other really well, and should they start fighting on the same side the other side needs to be prepared for total onslaught, take no prisoners.
Both of them are still working on the "we are not things" line of thinking. Toast stills talks about herself and to a certain extent the other wives as commodities ("Don't damage the goods", her remark about Angharad's wounded leg) - is that because it's how she expects others to see her? She's internalised being a "thing" that much? And Slit probably doesn't really see or want to see any particular problem with what Immortan Joe did to everyone.
Modern AU with gangster Slit needing the help of lawyer Toast. Or they're both lawyers coming up against each other.
Showing off their matching knuckledusters.
Assigned to help each other adjust to the brave new world they're making - Slit has to help with driving/fighting lessons, Toast has to help with reading/stop killing everybody lessons. And together they figure out new philosophies for themselves.
Toast is with him mostly as a test to herself - what can she take, in this world she's no longer used to?
Max/Nux - Max bringing him a boot was a weird, surprising, and heart-warming moment after they'd been violent and impersonal (depersonalised!) up to that point. And then there was Nux listening to the redemption vs. hope conversation between Max and Furiosa - he came down on the side of hope during the decision to take over the Citadel, opposite to Max in his approach but not in a way that made him seem like he was meant to be wrong. There's a sense of both of them going through similar things, or being almost at different points of the same line of development, and it makes me feel like they could be so good to and for each other.
Immortan Nux, sort of. Four times the gates were open to him and he turned away! A legend builds around this, whoops.
Nux's attitude and the way some of his thought patterns feel empathetically familiar help inspire Max to genuinely hope in time.
Or maybe he helps Max realise that in this case the redemption vs. hope word games comes down to pretty much the same thing and it screws with Max's head whole and entire cos he's not ready yet to think that way. There's also the opposite tack - I am sure the redemption talk made a dent in Nux's brainwaves as well, and that would also be interesting to investigate, since he might have a degree of regret about all his and his cohorts' violence ("We're not to blame!"). How did that fit in with his faith and would guilt mess him up once he's free? Since Max walks with the burden of striving for redemption, maybe he could help there.
Them being nice to each other a whole lot, especially if it's kind of by accident. Bringing each other stuff because they thought it would be appreciated, practical, personal, or affectionate.
In the course of the Citadel's society being changed to get away from the current levels of toxicities, Max becomes a role model for Nux. Plus hero worship.
Working together. To protect the Citadel, on a car, building shelter/a statue/equipment/whatever, having a clothes-repairing session.
Or to go to a different, disturbing place, Nux getting possessive over his v. good delicious crazy blood bag. It's good luck and he is so fond of it. Maybe an AU where the wives escape later on so that he has longer-term access to Max, or Nux gets completely turned around by the sandstorm and has to drive around with Max for longer.
Furiosa/Valkyrie - It's been twenty years but the Valkyrie still knows her, still loves her, still claims her as one of theirs. I am just dying for backstory. Clearly Furiosa made a big impression. And what is the impression on Furiosa's side?
I'd love to see them as kids - playing together, learning, hunting, riding, farming. Bonus: Furiosa's clan name is based on a real animal, and Swaddledog is old but still game for cuddles with the girls.
The mourning rituals for Furiosa (and Mary Jo Bassa, and others that might have been captured), public and private, for Valkyrie.
Good-natured fights about the negatives and positives of a motorbike instead of 2000 horsepower of nitro-boosted war machine (or whatever Furiosa drives post-movie).
Semi-love at first sight that's about projection as much as tender feelings. Furiosa remembers the tower among the dunes, the names of her closest family, and the gestures more than she remembers this woman who ran to meet her. But she's already halfway in love. Or the other way around! The days have been brutal and there have been many since she last knew a home; Valkyrie has been lonely for the clamour of people she once loved around her. She barely knows this woman's face anymore but her words hit a soft spot deep inside.
Furiosa has in the past helped to capture a wife for Joe. Confessing this puts a big old dampener on proceedings.
The Dag/Cheedo - I adore how she and the Dag are at each other's sides. It looks like they share a single pair of gloves, which, omg, adorable. And have another gif set. More of that intense support and sharing of personal space, and almost a desperation to be together, please. The Dag seems like she could have a somewhat nervous personality as well, being singled out as a weirdo via her name, her spending a lot of time crouched up, and with the way she's chewing her fingernails as the lift ascends at the end of the movie, so it's not just Cheedo who appreciates the support.
Sharing clothes aside from that cloth-wrap glove, despite proving to have very different tastes.
Taking care of the Dag's baby together. Or if the Dag really can't take caring for Joe's child, finding a different family for the baby.
How they grew to be the closest to each other out of all the rest.
The Dag is captured and assessed as a feral - keep muzzled! (She bit Nux when he first broke into the War Rig, after all.) Joe isn't sure if he should take her as a wife because she might not count as mentally healthy enough to suit him, but maybe his current wives can tame her... She and Cheedo bond, and all the wives conspire to make her seem even less useful to Joe.
Sharing a moment of victory and planning after cutting off the chastity belts. Sex is a fraught topic between all of them, but these two do want to give it a try someday, at least.
The Dag has magic powers. (This might get sexy sometimes.)
Honestly a fanart that just exploits their absolute lack of personal space with them being all touchy and clingy and huggy, that would be a+ excellent.
Flower crowns. Flower crowns in this fandom make me all verklempt about the Keeper of the Seeds' plant bag finally being used as she hoped it would, the Green Place plan working, and things getting better for everyone in the Citadel. And The Dag, of course, has access to the flowers.
Capable/Cheedo/The Dag/Toast - their support of each other was something I really loved. It could have been easy to be disgusted with Cheedo for trying to go back, but they understood it was partly grief and helped her. It could have been easy to distrust Capable for keeping the secret of Nux, but they went along with her assessment of him and took him into the team after the initial distrust. They understand each other at deeply intimate levels and act together almost on automatic. One thing - the fanon of the Wives becoming known as the Sisters post-movie is great, but would prefer not to have that happening in this case where they're all getting together. I dunno, I'd feel awkward with it.
They are thrown back in time and decide to help save the world from nuclear death or/and guzzoline wars.
Riding out across the salt instead of turning back to the Citadel. Please no downer ending! Lots of gruelling journeying is fine, but don't have everyone go and starve to death.
The Dag has magic powers. (This might get sexy sometimes.)
Getting Gas Town and the Bullet Farm under control. Maybe some of them have to go live there and find it practically bizarre not to be in the others' spaces 24/7.
Coming up with new designs to tattoo over Joe's brand.
PWP with everybody focusing on Cheedo. Probably the cuddliest sex ever, if Toast doesn't lose patience.
Remembering Angharad. And making room for Capable to remember what was growing between her and Nux.
I've read Toast was supposed to be a bit of an odd one out among the wives (and no wonder, between Cheedo and The Dag clinging to each other and Angaharad and Capable forming a little team). I'd love to see something either bringing her more into the fold, or an exploration of how she likes and hates standing a little apart, what she does to encourage and discourage it.
The Dag/Slit - the Dag seems like she would take Slit seriously not at all, any attempt at intimidation would be water off a duck's back and sometimes an invite to fight back, and for Slit I think those are sure ways to get his attention and make him try hard to get the other person's. PS: feel free to have Cheedo/The Dag too, though I'd prefer no Cheedo/Slit/The Dag.
The Dag is captured and assessed as a feral - keep muzzled! (She bit Nux when he first broke into the War Rig, after all.) Somehow she turns it around for herself until she becomes a War Boy. In the course of all this, she catches Slit's eye. Maybe he picks up she's not the kind of believer she ought to be and gives her grief, leading to rivalshipping?
They talk (argue) religion and spirituality. Perhaps she truly believes in different gods and fights for them, perhaps he loses his mind about how she's faithless up until she's really in trouble and will go for any port in a storm.
Slit is haunted by Immortan Joe. Literally. It's not the experience he would have thought. The Dag is the only one of the wives who believes him, but the War Boys/Pups who believe him might be a problem...
Slit is nowhere near high-ranked enough to wear a flower crown, but make no mistake, he is going to try and get there. The Dag makes up a ranking for him to work his way up (she's messing with him).
The Dag can do magic and performs some on Slit, on purpose or by accident.