Hi! If you're writing for me, you clearly have excellent taste in media and I will love anything you write for me. I mean that. I'm not picky at all. There are exactly three things I would rather not get as a gift and those things are: incest (including adopted), underage and child abuse. That's it. If that's all you wanted to know, feel free to stop reading now. If you'd like a better idea of my likes and dislikes as well as prompts for various fandoms, keep reading.
My previous letters are
here and my Ao3 account is
here.
I'd prefer not to read anything too depressing or too porny, but do whatever best fits your story. I'm not a big fan of grim darkness of the far future, but bittersweet is fine. I'm not really into plotless romance.
In general, I prefer something to be happening physically as well as emotionally. It can be something as simple as a roadtrip or as intricate as a timetravel plot.
Feel free to go as trope-y as you want. (I have this thing for fics where a ridiculous concept is played entirely straight.)
I don't really OTP or NOTP ships, so if you want to write femslash, dudeslash, het, poly or whatever, go ahead. I've indicated some things I 'ship', by which I mean 'I would be interested in seeing how a romantic relationship between these characters would unfold', but you will notice that this applies to a lot of different and contradictory pairings and if you ship something else, go ahead and write that instead.
I love love love canon-divergent AUs, but I'm not a fan of setting-displacement AUs. More "what if Bruce Wayne died when his parents were shot?" than "They are now all baristas!", if you will. (One notable exception to this is fandom AUs. I fucking love fandom AUs.)
Worldbuilding! I love worldbuilding. I love the worlds of these canons so so so much and anything exploring would be so great.
I have this great, enduring love for folklore and faytales, myths and legends and the power of stories. I would love love love in-universe legends or canon-as-a-fairytale fic or anything along those lines.
By contrast, I also fucking love science and think it's amazing. If you wanted to write about any of the characters (especially Rose, Al Jabr and Cosima) geeking out over since, it would be awesome (especially is they were together to do so).
Crossovers are more than fine with me, so long as i am familiar with all the canons involved.
Friends-to-enemies, enemies-to-friends and people-with-conflicting-motives-having-to-work-together are some of my favourite tropes.
FRIENDSHIP FIC I fucking love friendship fic. It's my favourite kind of fic.
Please ignore or use any and all parts of this letter you want to.
Spoilers for each series abound below this point. I will assume you are as far as along in each as it is possible to be at this time (Good Man Friday for the Benjamin January series, the completed series for Bloodhound Files, Demon Knights and Locke & Key, issue 3 for Loki: Agent of Asgard and episode 1 of season 2 for Orphan Black).
Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly (Any: Benjamin January, Rose Vitrac, Hannibal Sefton, Ayasha January, Olympe Corbier)
I've been reading this series and I love it so much! I've
a tag for my reactions to the books and reading those will probably give you a good idea of what I like about it. (Hint: it's everything.) I really love all the characters, but my favourite is Rose, especially Science!Rose. I just really love her thrist for knowledge and her love for books. My favourite books is Days of the Dead, followed closely by Dead Water.
I'd love a story about Ben learning medicine surgery. In particular, I was intrigued by his remarks about corpse stealing in Good Man Friday, so if you wanted to write corpse-stealing shenanigans, that would be more than fine with me. I am also intrigued by the fact that Ben and Baron Samedi had an amicable relationship in Graveyard Dust, so, you know, Ben + Samedi friendship fic would be great.
I want to know about Rose's school, any of them, be it the ones she taught at or the ones she learned at. I'd love to read her first meeting with Hannibal. I'd love a fic about Rose having adventures while Ben is away or fic dealing with the Underground Railway.
Where did Hannibal go before New Orleans? What about the fic where he meets ben and Ayasha in Paris? I would love to have him teach classes at Rose's school (either of them).
We don't know much about Ayasha, but I really love what we do know. Tell me more about her! Is she really "a desert witch, inexplicably masquerading as a housewife" (Ran Away)? Has she ever been hired to make the costumes for the opera? Or even just her being flirty with the people at the brasserie across the street. (Sidenote: I really liked Daniel ben-Gideon, and would love it if he showed in some capacity.)
Olympe is fascinating and I love the way she contrasts with Marie Laveau in the way they relate to the loa. Marie sees them as other faces of the Catholic God while Olympe rejects that interpretation entirely. I like that Ben recognises that her knowledge as a voodooienne is as valuable as his own as a surgeon. I'd love to know more about her relationship with her husband and her children, too, also Minou and Ben (I'm not a big fan of Livia). Olympe + Rose investigating together would be excellent.
The Bloodhound Files - D. D. Barant (Any: Jace Valchek, Charlie Aleph, Alexandra Addams, Gretchen (Bloodhound Files), Saladin Aquitaine (Bloodhound Files) )
I've been (re)reading this lately and my posts with reactions can be found in
this tag. The things I love most about this series are Jace, her take-no-shit-and-no-prisoners attitude and her friendship with Charlie. (I'm firmly convinced that, while Charlie allen might have felt romantic love for Jace (still not convinced, btw), Charlie Aleph never did and never will.) Jace and Charlie being platonic us-against-the-world partners is all I want from canon and boy, does it deliver.
I love Jace and how terrible at feelings she is. I would have preferred if she'd never gotten together with Cassius/he didn't have feelings for her. I vaguely ship her with Stoker and Tair, but not the extent that I ship Jace/Azura, which granted, isn't very far. I would love the continuing adventures of Jace Valchek in Thropirelem, or fic set in between books. What about a fic where Las Vegas stays stuck in Night's Shining Jewel? Or a fic dealing with Jace being the 'aunt' to the golem race? What's a day in Jace's dojo like? Jace having a talk with Inari about guns and weapons in general would be great too.
He's a golem POWERED BY A T-REX! I will never get tired of how cool that is, except Charlie himself is somehow cooler than that, what with his suits, his dry wit and his swing dancing. I would love friendship fic with Jace, maybe they go dancing? Or him interacting with Xandra or filling it for Jace at her dojo, that would also be great. Or maybe fic about Amy. Does he still see her? Or hey, maybe Charlie could mentor Billy "I just drive the truck" Beta at living a normal life. Or the AU where he does become Police Chief of the Golem State of Nevada, or broing it up with the Quicksilver Kid or any kind of Charlie fic.
AleXandra! She listens to obscure human bands like U2 Sons of Vox, pretends to be a zombified corpse for fun and wears razor blades embedded in her skull. I would love fic about her bonding with music with Jace, or fic about why she's so opposed to Gretchen (does she get stuck babysitting Anna?) or fic dealing with what happend to her Uncle Pete.
I'm curious about how Gretchen became a vampire and what we got in canon only made me more curious. I want to know how she deals with sharing the time-debt for Anna with Cassius, who might be her friend, but is still her boss. Did watching the video at the end of Dying Bites really make her insane the way the books sometime hint at? (Her last name is Petra, by the way, since I forgot when I nominated.)
I have to admit that I expected to have time to get back and change Saladin Aquitaine to another nomination, because it was late, I was tired and I couldn't remember Azura's name. (Look, that empty nomination slot was taunting me, okay?) But now that I'm stuck with him, i have to admit there's a lot of potential for fic with him. He's the son of Saladin and Eleanor of Aquitaine! He was a superhero! He talks to mountains! What's any of that like? What was his relationship with Gretchen like? What about an AU where he doesn't die? Was he still in contact with the rest of the Bravo Brigade?
Demon Knights (Al Jabr, Horsewoman, Sir Ystin)
Previous letters for this fandom can be found in
this tag. These three are my favourite characters from this canon, but I love everyone. Also, you don't have to feel obligated to write me fic with the three of them in it, although that would be brilliant.
Al Jabr/Science OTP! I swear that's my favourite thing thing about Al Jabr: how much he loves science and how smart he is. I would absolutely love the further adventures of Al Jabr in History. As far as I'm concerned, Al Jabr became immortal after the events of issue 22 and I will not hear anything else. So yes, tell me about Al Jabr! Tell me about being a religious man and a man of science. Tell me about being the only mortal among immortals. Tell me about the thirty years we never got to see. Tell me about his travels before he got into Little Springs. tell me about his relationships with the other Demon Knights. Does he and Madame Xanadu ever stop fighting about magic vs science? How does he feel about Exoristos coming to his defense in the tavern, before the dragons attack? I headcanon him and Horsewoman as BFFs pretty hard, btw.
HORSEWOMAN! I love how no-nonsense she is, yet while still having a sense of humour. I love that she is the best archer in the world and that her superpower has nothing to do with that and everything to do with horses. I love how pragmatic she is and her interactions with Al Jabr are gold. I'm sad we never got to see that much of her and I wasn't too happy with the way issue 22 impacted her. Tell me about Horsewoman: before little Spring, in the timeskip, after the canon ended. Is there such a thing as an annual Demon Knights reunion? Is she jealous of the fact that Ystin's horse can fly? What are her feelings on the Mongol invasion of Europe? (Look, they are all archers on horseback, okay.) How old is she? Horsewoman and famous horses in History! I want all the stories where she goes on a roadtrip with Al Jabr through History and they write a guidebook.
The Shining Knight is very shiny and that's part of why I like him so much. He's so shiny and the knightiest knight to ever knight and it is glorious. (I interpret him as FtM, but I'm cool with any interpretation where he isn't a woman.) I want to hear about his visions and how, since they always happen the exact same way, he always wakes up shouting "Demon Knights!" at the top of his lungs and the awkward situation that puts him in. Does he know Horsewoman talks to Vangard? Tell me about the years after the fall of Camelot, between his long sleeps beneath the ground, about how he became more warrior than knight. Had he met a Morgan before canon? (All my love if he knew the Morgane of Breton legends, where she isn't evil.) I would also love the dark AU where they don't find the Grail in time and Ystin falls in Cain's thrall.
Locke & Key (Any: Kinsey Locke, Jordan Gates, Jamal Saturday, Jackie Veda, Dodge | Echo)
I've written
a whole bunch of letters for this fandom. I would absolutely love anything at all that you wanted to write for me. Wordbuilding fic would also be awesome!
I'd love fic about Kinsey using the Keys to become a superhero or to cope after the events of canon. I'd love for her to strike up a friendship with Erin after the canon.
Jordan! I feel like Jordan got the short end of the stick, because she never got to understand what was going on with Dodge and the Keys (but i did love that she got to go out on her own terms), so maybe and AU where they let her in on the secret?
I would love to read about Jamal and Scot praking everyone ever, possibly with the help of the Keys.
Speaking of people who should have been let it on the whole Key thing: Jackie! Jackie definitely deserved to know. i would also love an AU where she survives the ending. (Also, I ship her and Kinsey a little.)
Dodge is an eldritch abomination from beyond Lovecraft, yet deep down all he wants is a family that won't try to kill him. What about an AU where he wins, or when where he gets therapy or one where Echo stays a girl at the end of Welcome to Lovecraft, the way she apparently did in the TV pilot?
Loki: Agent of Asgard (Verity Willis)
SCIENCE! And the power of stories and what does it mean that she can see through any lie? Obviously that makes her the perfect foil for Loki, but can she tell when people are lying even when they think they're telling the truth? How does her power work? I really want her to have exciting adventures with Loki and be BFFs to the ends of the Earth (and hey, if they rescue Leah while they're there, that is more than fine with me). Maybe they could go rob a bank or a casino? Team-up with Lorelei time! I would also love for her to interact with other Marvel comics characters: Doctor Doom, Kate Bishop, Cassie Lang, Valeria Richards, Rogue, Ilyana Rasputin, Sif, the Warrior Three, whoever you want!
Orphan Black (Any: Sarah Manning, Alison Hendrix, Felix Dawkins, Delphine Cormier, Cosima Niehaus)
I finished watching all that was available of this show
yesterday, so I'm not sure yet what I want from this fandom, aside from everything. So have a few prompts, but really, do what your heart tells you.
I'd love Sarah and Art on a low-pressure case, being friends and partners. I'd love an AU where Sarah and Helena were both raised by Mrs S.
Alison saves Aimsley, or Alison finds out about her husband, maybe he does confess in the basement. I love her relationship with Felix.
I would love fic of Felix babysitting Alison's kid and dressing them up in drag. How did he convince her son to go for it? Felix goes undercover as Alison's acting coach. Does he have a painting of Katia Obinger?
Delphine and her divided loyalties are very interesting to me, so more of that would be good. I'd be interested in an AU fic where she's sent to monitor a non-Cosima clone, maybe Sarah? How did she end up involved with Neolution?
Cosima/Science OTP! (Sorry, Delphine.) I want all the fic of Cosima doing science. I also wonder if coming out to the world as clones wouldn't be the best way to fight the patent: it's illegal to own human beings, after all.
Thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you enjoy writing your fic as much as I'll enjoy reading it.
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