Fandom5k Letter

[linndechir]

Dear Fandom5k Writer,

Thank you for writing for me and having a look at my letter. My letters always get very long, but I prefer listing a lot of stuff I like and giving you plenty of things to choose from rather than just listing two things I like and making you despair if you hate those two things. Obviously I don't expect you to include every single thing I mention in this letter, that wouldn't even be possible. I've got some general likes and dislikes listed - those are the important parts. They're followed by a list of kinks I like, should you feel inclined to write porn, and then some fandom-specific prompts, but if those don't work for you - as long as you include a thing or two that I like and don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me. :D

Please don't get hung up on the "genres" I requested. I just picked some that sounded closest to the kinds of fic I like, but I'd really rather you simply used my prompts and general likes to write a fic than worry about whether or not your fic really fits one of those genres. Since this is a 5k minimum exchange: I love plotty casefics and the like, but I'm equally fond of long getting together fics that explore the characters' relationship in greater detail, without necessarily needing a big complicated plot, or fics that explore how that relationship develops over time. I'll also gladly take 5k of porn as long as that porn also tells me something about the characters' relationship. I'm not really into super fluffy curtainfic, though. 5k of my ship banging is good, 5k of my ship sitting on the couch and cuddling isn't really my thing.

Some fandom-specific sections turned out longer than others, but that's only because I had more ideas for these fandoms. I would be absolutely delighted to receive a fic for any of these fandoms. :D

I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.



Things I like to read about:

• first time/getting together: UST finally getting resolved after long pining, but also antagonistic hate sex or casual hookups that are only later followed by feelings
• developing relationships: relationship conflicts after the characters got together, trying to figure out how to make things work, some things maybe not working at first, temporary breakups, basically anything that doesn't assume that first time sex -> perfect relationship
• porn with feelings/porn that says something about their relationship
• enemies to lovers, partners to lovers
• reluctant allies grudgingly starting to like each other
• non-verbal expressions of affection
• familiarity, intimacy, characters getting to know each other better (their habits, their hangups etc.) or already knowing each other extremely well
• pre-canon/background stories
• post-canon fic
• canon divergence
• casefic
• moral dilemmas, characters having to question or go against their principles/do things they're ashamed of
• loyalty, devotion, trust, but also trust/commitment issues
• obsessive, codependent, complicated relationships
• unhealthy relationships that should be a trainwreck, but work for the characters involved
• us-against-the-world
• villains/sociopaths in love, bad guys who would literally burn down the rest of the world for each other
• jealousy, possessiveness
• age differences
• competence, characters being smart and skilled and good at what they do; characters with different skill sets complementing each other
• hurt/comfort (after injuries/exhaustion, not so much with illness)
• angst: self-doubts, guilt, shame, internalised homophobia, nightmares, fears, self-destructive tendencies, alcohol abuse ...
• infidelity (not between my requested ships, but one half of my ship cheating on their previous partner with the other half of my ship)
• underage is dandy for all my ships that are related or met when one or more of them were still underage, although I'd prefer if the characters were at least 15ish by the time they have sex with anyone (sexual fantasies when they're younger are fine)
• I like darker elements (violence, murder, noncon/dubcon, manipulation, depression - as long as it's not on my DNW list), but I'd prefer a happy or semi-happy ending. Feel free to make me bawl my eyes out, but please cheer me up again afterwards.

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Do Not Wants:

• character death of characters I like/requested (random side characters or antagonists dying is fine)
• serious illnesses, permanent injuries (blood and wounds that will heal again are fine, addiction is fine)
• completely tragic/bleak endings
• animal death/cruelty
• genderbend of any kind, mpreg, A/B/O, characters being werewolves/vampires/anything than what they are in canon
• unrequested ships (including canon ships)
• unrequested crossovers or fusions
• complete AUs (canon divergence is fine, but please no high school AUs, coffee shop AUs, in space AUs, groundhog day AUs etc.)
• permanently unrequited love or permanent breakups for my ships / gen or pre-slash for any of my / requests
• unnecessary epithets, please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character - don't make me read about the blond kissing the mage who's kissing the taller man
• 1st and 2nd person fic
• non-canon sexualities/gender identities (e.g. characters written as trans or asexual), except for characters being gay or bi even if they aren't in canon
• porn DNWs: detailed kink negotiation, safewords for scenes that don't involve consent play (and frankly I'm not even into reading about safewords if there is consent play); scat, watersports, coming in pants, crossdressing, feminisation, body modification, ageplay/infantilisation, xeno (shouldn't come up with what I've requested anyway, but you never know)

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Kinks I generally like to read about:

• anal, oral, fingering, rimming, intercrural, and frottage are all great
• biting, bruising, marking, branding
• asphyxiation/choking/breathplay
• rough/angry sex, hate sex, fighting/sparring leading to sex
• rough/brutal kissing, holding the other person's mouth open while kissing them, lots of biting while kissing
• dressed sex, dressed/naked, clothes kink (suits, uniforms, gloves, boots etc.), neat characters being dishevelled for once, casual characters cleaning up nicely
• size kink, strength kink, manhandling, wall sex
• D/s (I strongly prefer casually developing kink over minutely negotiated, formalised BDSM; if anything under-negotiated kink is a plus for me)
• bondage, chains, ropes, collars
• spanking, flogging, riding crops
• gun play, knife play, blood play
• consent play
• dirty talk (both the praising and the humiliating kind), voice/accent kink
• banter, teasing
• hand kink; fisting
• stubble/beard burn
• messiness (sweat, come play, dishevelled hair/clothes)
• characters being overwhelmed, begging for more, becoming speechless ...
• sex on tables, against walls, on the floor, on a chair, in the shower ... (sex in beds is great, too)
• masturbation/fantasising about the other before getting together
• competence kink, admiration
• praise kink
• scars and their history
• oral fixation (while smoking, drinking, talking ...)
• sharing cigarettes, clothes, food ...
• sleep-related themes: waking each other from nightmares, falling asleep on each other's shoulder etc.

The Accountant

Christian Wolff/Braxton

• first time fic, whether it's set in the past or post-movie. For this ship, probably with a ton of angst and pining - Chris who's already aware of how different he is and that wanting to fuck his brother is hardly normal, and who's worried about taking advantage of Braxton's willingness to do anything for him. Brax who's equally worried about talking Chris into something he might not really want. I love how complicated and messed up any relationship would be between them, and how they'd both still find themselves unable to have an even remotely serious relationship with anyone else.
• when did they start wanting each other? did anything sexual happen between them in the past? when they were teenagers, or when they were both in the Army? If yes, was that maybe one of the reasons why Chris didn't contact his brother for ten years - he thought Braxton would be better off without him, that he could lead a normal life without Chris around to make things weird? Of course Braxton would be furious about that, since he's been pretty miserable without Chris.
• I love failures of communication between them, in both directions, but also ways in which they understand each other better than anyone else: Brax who knows all of Chris' hangups and habits and needs, Chris who finds Brax so much easier to read and get along with than most other people.
• post-movie fic in which they meet up again as planned. Maybe they stay together for a while because they both had to burn their previous civilian identities. Maybe they work together for a bit. Maybe they don't work together and just meet up sometimes.
• recurring kink for me, but voyeurism, especially Chris watching Brax with other men, both because he thinks he can't have Brax and because Chris doesn't have the most active sex life himself and likes to live vicariously through his brother. Can be either Brax talking Chris into being in the same room with them, or Chris watching Brax through binoculars from another building, whether it's with or without Brax's knowledge.
• I liked Dana a lot and wouldn't mind her appearing in the fic, but I don't ship Chris/Dana.
• anything about their respective relationships with their father and how that influences their relationship with each other: Braxton seems a lot more resentful and bitter about the way their father raised them, while Chris doesn't really seem like he's angry at their father for how he raised them (possibly because his father died saving his life, so Chris might feel like he still owes him). I could also see some conflict arising out of the fact that Chris still does the "exercises" their father had him do (the noise and bright lights), and Braxton would want him to stop because he's aware of how much their father fucked them both up.

Dragon Age

Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford

I love how much of a guilt- and PTSD-ridden mess Cullen is, that mixture of anger and fucked-up-ness on the one side and the sweetness on the other. I love how passionate Dorian is while still so often hiding his feelings behind his wit and some jokes. I love that their respective issues are a great recipe for intimacy issues and misunderstandings. I'm really into the idea of them being friends who stumble into bed together and have mindblowing kinky sex, and then they both catch feelings while both being convinced that the other one couldn't possibly be interested in an actual relationship (Dorian because he thinks he can't have a loving relationship with a man, Cullen because he thinks he's too much of a mess to inflict on anyone). But I'm also interested in different takes on how they might get together - if you'd rather write long pining while they flirt casually but think the other one isn't actually interested, I'd gladly read that, too!

• I will read a thousand first time fics for this ship, I'm not even kidding. Whether it's UST and pining until they both break, or casual fucking after chess games while they both do their best to convince themselves that no feelings are involved (and of course neither wants to admit to any feelings because the other one is clearly just in it for a friends-with-benefits arrangement, not for love), I'll take it.
• I headcanon that Cullen is still irrationally terrified of mages whether he wants to or not. I'd imagine that a mage from Tevinter who wasn't taught to obey (ex-)Templars his whole life must be even more terrifying. Cullen being torn between his attraction to Dorian and his fear of mages, wanting him but also not really wanting to be alone with him because an irrational part of his brain can't help but go "but what if he decides to hurt me?" 
• related to that: this ship is just made for the filthiest D/s, if you want to write some porn for me. Cullen topping Dorian hard because it's the only way he can get past all his fears of sleeping with a mage; actual Templar/mage roleplay because Dorian can't believe that mages are really treated that way in the south (but he finds it kind of intriguing, you know, since he never had to live through it); slave roleplay because pretending to be a slave is probably the single most humiliating thing Dorian can think of (and Cullen would feel horrible for how much he's into the idea of owning Dorian and doing what he wants with him); and if you throw in actual consent play and Dorian pretending soooo hard that he doesn't want this at all, I'll be the happiest person in the universe
• but also: Cullen who's afraid of hurting him, so he lets Dorian order him around, kneels and worships him, does exactly what Dorian wants him to do and nothing more ...
• I'm definitely a sucker for hurt/comfort wth these two: either getting badly injured in a fight, or anything related to Cullen's lyrium addiction/withdrawal (maybe he kisses Dorian shortly after Dorian drank a lyrium potion, and that really fucks with his recovery). Or something related to Cullen's experienes in Kinloch Hold or Dorian's bad relationship with his father.
• generally, if you want to write something fluffy, I'd love to see all the different ways they find to take care of each other
• my kingdom for internalised homophobia and also general intimacy-related issues: Dorian who never thought he'd really find love rather than just brief distractions, and Cullen who may not have the same hangups about loving a man, but who thought he was simply too broken to fall in love, let alone to deserve being loved by someone else
• I really adore post-canon fic in which Cullen follows Dorian to Tevinter for whatever reason: reunions are great (especially if they never even talked about their feelings back in the south, and Dorian just assumed they wouldn't see each other again), Cullen being horribly uncomfortable in Tevinter (that place wouldn't help his issues with mages at all) and just kind of clinging to Dorian is great; Dorian and Cullen arguing because they disagree about so many things is great (e.g. Dorian still being pretty nonchalant about slavery and Cullen not being cool with having a bunch of slaves serve him in Dorian's house - I'm not really into super anti-slavery Dorian, tbh, I like him having a big blind spot about that)
• I love outside POVs, so any and all outside POVs on the weirdness that is the southern ex-Templar and the Tevinter mage falling in love would be super cute. Especially if it's someone from/in Tevinter. (I'd totally read a fic about them from Dorian's father's POV, while we're at it.)
• basically, you know how I mentioned in my general likes that I love unhealthy relationships that should be trainwrecks but work incredibly well for the people involved? This ship is definitely one of those. :D

Dorian Pavus & Halward Pavus

I'm a sucker for difficult father-son relationships with lots of complicated, painful feelings. What fascinates me about their relationship is that - despite the absolutely horrifying shit Halward tried to do to Dorian, I'm not trying to downplay that - they still love each other and care about each other. Dorian still calls his father "a good man" and Halward does seem genuinely interested in reconciling, even if he might well still think that he was doing the right thing to "help" Dorian. What makes their relationship so heartbreaking, to me, is precisely the fact that Dorian loved and admired and respected his father, that he got much of his goodness and his sense of morals from his father, and I'd love to see that explored more.

I am not interested in fics that paint Halward as a cardboard villain or insist that Dorian should simply never talk to him again. I don't think their relationship will ever recover entirely from what Halward did, but I am interested in seeing them actually interact and trying to find some common ground again. I also don't want to read a fic that focuses on Halward's death.

My OTP for Dorian is Cullen/Dorian and if you wanted to include that in any way, I'd be super happy (seeing Cullen and Halward interact could be really interesting; I don't think Cullen would feel particularly forgiving if he ever found out about the blood magic thing). If you don't ship them, that's totally fine, too, but I'd rather not read about Dorian in a relationship with someone else. I'm fine with mentions of him sleeping around in Tevinter, but I don't want to read about Dorian/Inquisitor or Dorian/Bull or Dorian/any other canon character.

• I'd love to read a version of their conversation in Redcliffe, after the Inquisitor left them alone. What exactly did they talk about? Did Halward manage a semi-decent apology? Did Dorian manage to make him understand why he joined the Inquisition? Dorian mentions a couple of things afterwards in his conversation with the Inquisitor, but I'd love to get more details.
• and following up on that, since they tentatively reconciled, what did they agree on for the future? Do they write to each other in the following months? I'd rather not get 5k of only epistolary fic, but some letters could be interesting.
• Dorian mentions in Trespasser that he saw his father a few times while he was in Tevinter (if they reconciled, of course). Like with the scene in Redcliffe, I'd love to see how those meetings went. Dorian coming home and getting involved in politics is what Halward wanted, even if Dorian probably made it damn clear that he's still not going to get married, not now or ever. I'd just love to see the awkwardness of those meetings - those attempts at rebuilding something that was pretty hopelessly broken by that attempted blood magic ritual and everything that preceded it.
• politics! I love political scheming. Dorian has a lot of his ideals from his father, so I can well see them being on the same wavelength politically in a lot of regards. Maybe they try to work together on some new law or whatever while their personal relationship is still horribly frayed - things like political discussions during which they almost forget how mad they are at each other, interspersed with angry sniping when they remember. :D
• feel free to bring up how Dorian's relationships with men fit into all this, whether it's Dorian/Cullen or Dorian banging one of his Lucerni buddies or Dorian still going to brothels every now and then ... Halward who still hates it and maybe tries to get Dorian to be more discreet, Dorian who makes a point of not being discreet just so his father won't get any ideas that Dorian might change his mind about marrying ...
• I always thought it was a pity that canon kills Halward off so quickly after Dorian returned home because that means less potential for awkward, complicated, messed up post-canon conversations! So, if you wanted to write me an AU in which Dorian gets started on his whole Lucerni business post-Trespasser while his father is still alive and kicking, that would be fascinating. Maybe Halward agrees with some of Dorian's ideas, but worries that he's too careless and might endanger himself. Maybe Halward tries to support him behind the scenes because he doubts Dorian wants his help. Maybe they very much disagree on some other things and argue a lot about those.
• one option for this: In canon Halward pretty obviously sends Dorian away during Trespasser to bring him to safety during whatever it was exactly that got Halward assassinated. So what if Dorian realised that trouble was brewing, refused to go south to attend the Exalted Council, and he and his father had to work together to deal with their political enemies?
• as the prompts above show, I'm mostly interested in fics set after the whole blood magic ritual incident. However, if you want to set part of the fic pre-canon - Dorian's childhood or teenage years, Dorian as a young man, Halward teaching him about magic or politics, moments when Dorian made him proud, moments when things started going to shit between them, anything set during the time when Halward had Dorian locked up at their home - I'd definitely be interested in that! I'd just rather not only get pre-canon moments in the fic.

Fast and the Furious series

Deckard Shaw/Owen Shaw

I have so much love for these obsessive, evil, ruthless bastards who don't give a damn about anyone except each other and who'd burn down the whole world for each other. This ship is just made for loyalty kink, codependency, aggressive possessiveness and protectiveness, vengeful fury, and us-against-the-world. I'm cool with many different interpretations of their relationship, just as long as they do both love each other: complete obsessive incestuousness since they were teenagers (I'm perfectly fine with underage), some kind of estrangement somewhere along the way and then a later reconciliation, years of obsessing over each other before they finally man up and fuck … Pre-canon and post-canon are both great. I also love Owen being a manipulative shit and Deckard knowing it, but not really minding at all.

I'm not here for the latest movie's weird retcon of "oh, the Shaws aren't really all that bad". I like that they're evil bastards and I'm not interested in any redemption stories.

• Deckard is 8 years older than Owen, so Owen was still a kid when Deckard joined the military: how did that go? Was there any resentment on Owen's side? Did he just have a big case of hero worship, since he followed his brother's example as soon as he could?
• at what point did they go from big brother/little brother to equals?
• how did they both manage to get kicked out of the SAS? Did they fuck up? Did one of them fuck up and the other followed him into exile, so to speak? Did they get blamed for someone else's mistake? Did they get greedy and start making money on the side? Or anything about that time the military sent a ton of Special Forces guys to kill Deckard and they failed?
• post-canon fic: either Deckard breaking out of prison and being there while Owen recovers, or Owen waking up from his coma and getting back to his feet and breaking his brother out of prison (I'd prefer if Owen didn't have any permanent health issues from his coma; it's an action movie, people can survive horrific injuries with not much more than a few scars, right?). How does almost dying/getting locked up change their relationship? Roaring rampage of revenge y/y? (While I like the protagonists of the F&F movies, I'm not so emotionally attached to them that I wouldn't happily read about the Shaw brothers getting their revenge against them.)
• any kind of first time fic would be great. When did the incestuous obsession with each other start? When they were still pretty young? Did teenage Owen somehow manipulate his big brother into giving him what he wants? I'm fine with underage as long as Owen is at least 15ish by the time they actually sleep with each other, and I'm cool with Owen fantasising about his brother/being all around inappropriate towards him even when he's younger. Or did it only start when they were in the military together and Deckard saw Owen more as an equal than as his little brother? Did it only start after they got kicked out of the military?
• for this pairing I love obsessive pining, voyeurism before they get together (i.e. watching each other screw other people), possessiveness/jealousy ("I will kill you if you ever let anyone else fuck you" and the like), rough sex, completely obsessive incestuous codependency, being horrible people to everyone but each other, delighting in each other's horribleness, delighting in each other's badassery, sweaty rough sparring, gun/knife play, kinking on being brothers - basically go kinky if you like.

The Hateful Eight

Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren

I love their initial antagonism, I love that they have every reason to hate and despise each other, and yet they still end up working together and trusting each other. I love that for all his hatred, Mannix almost seems to admire Warren from the start and is surprisingly respectful towards him at times ('please, Major, let me shoot that ugly bastard' comes to mind).

There is so much potential for their relationship if they survive, so I'd love to read any fic in which they do survive (somehow, I don't care how medically implausible it is) and maybe partner up as bounty hunters or see each other every time Warren shows up with new bounties (if we assume that Mannix actually is the new sheriff of Red Rock). And they're the weirdest, most mismatched pair of sort-of-friends ever and constantly confuse people around them, and they grow closer without ever entirely getting over their antagonism and their disagreements, probably switching between 'aw, I'm starting to like him' and 'I'm going to murder him if he doesn't shut his goddamn mouth' twice per conversation. And eventually they end up sleeping with each other. Maybe because they share a bed/blankets in the next cold winter and that leads to more? Maybe because they're angry at each other and fighting about something and that leads to more? Maybe one of them gets injured again and the other takes care of him and there's some gentler affection going on? (Please let's pretend Warren only got shot in the upper thigh or, idk, got one ball shot off and the rest is still intact.)

I usually love switching for all my ships, but I figure that any kind of sexual encounter between them would have Warren in charge, simply because there's no way Warren would ever let any man, let alone a white man, top him in any way. Plus, Mannix clearly has a bit of a submissive streak and is so very eager to please. I'm okay if this turns out a bit dub-con-y, with Warren somehow getting Mannix to do things he's reluctant to do (as long as he ends up enjoying himself, he might just feel terrible about it). I'm okay with both rougher, more antagonistic interpretations of their relationship and with gentler stuff that focuses more on their shared experiences and how much they owe each other. Or ideally a combination of both. :D

• post-canon fic in which they somehow survive - I think most of my prompts go in that direction (please let's pretend Warren only got shot in the upper thigh and everything is still intact? or, idk, he got one ball shot off, but the rest is still there)
• maybe Mannix was less injured and manages to patch Warren up, and they weather the storm together until someone finds them? Warren dealing with the fact that Chris Mannix of all people saved his life, twice.
• Sheriff Mannix and bounty hunter Warren having a drink every time Warren brings in a bounty and slowly developing the oddest friendship
• the two of them working together as bounty hunters (with lots of competence kink and being turned on by the other one being so damn good at killing people, while also being disgusted when remembering where the other one learnt to kill so well)
• antagonistic friendship where they get along great at times and want to strangle each other at others
• protectiveness, loyalty kink, especially if they're surprised by how much they've grown to care about each other
• anything about Warren's or Mannix's past: where Warren grew up, how he escaped (I'm assuming that's what's happened), his time in the Union army and afterwards; Mannix's family, his childhood as the runt of the litter, how obsessed he is with his father (daddy issues!), his war experiences, the Mannix Marauders ... Feel free to have them meet old friends or old enemies in your fic.
• them being amoral bad guys who are both awful in their own way - they're not nice or good people and I like that
• hate sex; or huddling for warmth leading to sex; or post-battle sex in the blood of their enemies/bounties ...
• for porn: I usually don't have fixed top/bottom preferences, but in this particular case, I doubt Warren would be okay with not being completely in charge of anything that happens between them. And Mannix seems to be pretty okay with letting Warren call the shots.
• kinks: uniform kink, scars, D/s, Warren ordering Mannix around and getting off on the way Mannix calls him "sir", humiliation kink, daddy issues (Warren teasing Mannix in bed with how disappointed his father would be in him if he could see him right now), size kink, restraints, a bit of spanking/flogging, discipline/punishment, gun play, knife play, boot kink, rape roleplay (Mannix can't admit what he wants, but he's fine with letting Warren take it as long as Mannix can pretend he doesn't want it), dirty talk, praise kink (because Mannix can be such a good boy) ...
• dubcon with Warren manipulating Mannix into doing things he's not 100% okay with, although I'd prefer if Mannix ended up enjoying it, even if he feels very ashamed about it
• shame, internalised homophobia, guilt: I doubt Mannix is happy with being attracted to men, I don't know if Warren is; either way they're both probably very unhappy with being attracted to this particular man
• forgot to nominate it this time, so feel free to disregard this, but I'd totally read a Hateful Eight/Magnificent Seven crossover, if you know both canons and feel like writing it; Mannix would probably freak out at least as much about meeting Robicheaux as he did when he met General Smithers, Robicheaux would play Mannix like a fiddle, Warren would roll his eyes and probably also try and fail to get Robicheaux to pull on him, Billy would be amused by Mannix and probably keep a close eye on Warren in case he tries anything. Or maybe Warren and Chisolm know each other and Warren can't believe that Chisolm is friends with Goodnight Robicheaux of all people.

내부자들 | Inside Men (2015)

Ahn Sang-goo/Woo Jang-hoon

This movie is such great fun, all the intrigue and scheming and revenge plotting, and of course I have a massive soft spot for characters with very different morals and ideas about how the world is or should be working together. I love how Jang-hoon, the "good guy" of the two, the righteous, principled one who believes in justice, is also a rude dick who seems to antagonise people just because it's fun and people suck, while Sang-goo, the violent, fairly ruthless gangsters, is much more amiable (unless you cross him, of course). I love how their relationship starts completely antagonistic and turns so much friendlier in absolutely no time, how quickly Sang-goo decides to trust him, basically putting his life in his hands (and so shortly after finding out another person he trusted fucked him over and betrayed him), I love how their initial insulting each other quickly turns into much friendlier banter, how they keep teasing each other. And, you know, how the movie basically ends with them deciding to go on a date because that's totally something you do with people on the other side of the law whom you don't even know all that well. ;D

Sang-goo's hand is exempt to my "no permanent injuries" DNW, by the way, I don't want you to retcon or fix that. But I'd still prefer that nobody lose any further limbs, except maybe their antagonists in prison. ;)

• I could read a hundred different post-canon getting together fics about them: how do things continue between them after that last scene? Do they jump each other's bones that very night because they've been flirting almost since they met? Do they proceed to have months or years of slow-burning UST and pining while they become friends and meet up for dinner all the time and tease each other and banter and neither of them wants to ruin that by making the first move? Does it take some kind of outside element like one of them getting hurt for them to get over each other? Does one of them maybe make the first move, but gets rejected (because the other one is repressed or whatever reason), and they only get together much later?
• if you want to write something plotty: the post-credit scene heavily applies that Lee&co aren't done yet, so what if they are let out of prison a few years later and want to get back at them?
• all the banter and insulting each other, including in bed. Also, how that banter gets friendlier over time, how Jang-hoon's insults slowly turn into endearments (he already says "gangster" in the fondest voice at the end of the movie).
• maybe some conflicts arising out of the whole "lawyer and gangster" thing? Maybe Jang-hoon can live with a certain amount of illegal stuff he knows Sang-goo is up to, but there are lines he won't let him cross (at least not to his knowledge)? Maybe Jang-hoon gets somehow dragged into one of those deals, like someone thinking it'd be a great idea to abduct Sang-goo's BFF/lover to blackmail him? Of course Sang-goo would burn everything down to get him back and Jang-hoon would be fucking furious that was even necessary.
• I love repression and denial in fics, especially for characters like these two. I could see it for either one or both of them: I can see Sang-goo as fairly relaxed about his sexuality because he's a gangster who does what he wants anyway, but I could also see him having a lot of masculinity hangups and being in complete denial about wanting men. I can see Jang-hoon not giving a fuck because he strongly believes all people should be equal (though he'd still be incredibly closeted, of course), but I can also see him being completely repressed because he knows how much anything like that would hurt his career and his dream of a successful, normal life. I could see a total top clash where they're both willing to sleep with a man, but neither is willing to bottom because they'd consider that "more gay". Additionally, I could see Sang-goo having some issues about anyone staring too much/touching his right arm, and Jang-hoon just not giving a shit because he still wants him more than anyone else.
• I really enjoyed those scenes with Jang-hoon's father, how much those two bitch at each other while still clearly caring a lot, and also how incredibly polite and respectful Sang-goo is to him (because he does have manners, unlike some people ;)). So if you felt like including him, and what he thinks about his prickly asshole of a son befriending the gangster he stashed at his place that one time, that could be great.
• I'm mostly into post-canon fic for these two, but I also wouldn't mind some kind of canon divergence where some part of their revenge/justice plan goes wrong and they have to improvise, although I would prefer a happy ending.
• if you want to write smut: suit porn, rough sex, manhandling, roughness, lots of banter in bed, competitive sex, arguing about who gets to top or maybe convoluted deals ("if you blow me, you get to fuck me") even once they're both enjoying pretty much all of it, lots of body worship (Sang-goo's tattoo and insanely perfect muscles, and maybe also petting the stump of his arm), sauna sex, spanking (maybe Sang-goo gets tired of Jang-hoon being a rude little shit), and really any of the kinks I listed above.
• I could definitely see some fluffier things for them, too, especially once they are together: nice dinners, Sang-goo getting Jang-hoon gifts and Jang-hoon complaining about it, visiting his dad again and hanging out by that lake, actually running off to the Maldives to spend a week doing nothing but sprawling around drinking Mojitos ... I'd prefer not to get 5k of domestic fluff only, but I'd be very okay with some fluffy elements in a fic that also has other things going on.

And that's it! I hope that something in this letter works for you, a prompt you find interesting or a trope you enjoy writing. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, no matter which fandom we matched on! :D

Thanks!

linndechir

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