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Hi! Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm very excited to see what you come up with, and I'm sure I'll like whatever you make.
Don't worry about whether you're sticking close enough to the requested horror type, or whether your story is horror enough. If the story wanders, that's fine. The prompts are also for suggestions only and not meant to confine you to only writing those ideas. I'm fine with something short and atmospheric rather than plotty.
General likes: Hurt/comfort, friendship and enemies-to-friends (+ occasionally to lovers), case fic, sharing small spaces (beds, hotel rooms, tents, spaceship escape pods), banter, characters caring about each other, nightmares, aftermath of traumatic events, domesticity, cuddling/snuggling (of either a gen or shippy variety), AUs.
Horror likes: Spooks, chills, big old houses or creepy woods or abandoned spaceships with Bad Things half-seen out of the corner of your eye. Seemingly normal or too-perfect settings (suburbia, small towns, offices, etc) with something Very Bad underneath. Normally cute/cuddly things (bunnies, unicorns, etc) that turn out to be vicious and terrible. Mild body horror, such as heads turning around backward or jaws unhinging, or characters being modified in mad science experiments against their will. Creepypasta and urban legends. Characters banding together to fight evil. Bravery in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. Having to go to the afterlife to bring back a dead person, especially at great cost. Evil doppelgangers (and subsequent attempts to rescue the replaced person/figure out who the replaced people are). Unreliable narrators, e.g. the narrator IS the doppelganger and doesn't know it. Rituals and magic, especially being performed by characters who don't really know what they're doing but are Just That Desperate. Characters meeting their AU counterparts from a worse dimension. Werewolves and shifters, especially (for horror purposes) with some body-horror elements to the transformation.
Horror DNWs: Insect-related horror - I'm fine with casual mention of insects, swarms of flies, etc.; I just don't want detailed descriptions of insects crawling on people and laying eggs in people and so forth. Graphic descriptions of decomposition or cannibalism. (As with insects, these could be background elements in a larger scenario, e.g. the characters finding a decayed dead body in the woods, but I'd prefer not to have these elements focused on.) Very graphic and splattery body horror, e.g. detailed descriptions of a character being flayed alive or having parasites hatch inside them. Pregnancy-related horror. Actual coronavirus or apocalypses based on worldwide pandemics (but characters e.g. having a fever or similar symptoms is fine). "The good guy main character was evil all along" reveals (but fine if it's a mirrorverse-type AU or very recent replacement, and "our" characters are still around - I love the evil doppelganger trope, I just don't love it if it's in the context of the character being retconned as evil throughout the events of actual canon).
Because this is a horror exchange, I'm fine with an ambiguous or dark ending, deaths of requested characters, etc. However, you don't need to give me a dark ending just because it's a horror exchange - everyone can make it out fine and be okay! A story that is centered around recovering from trauma and nightmares from a horrific experience that happened pre-story would also be fine with me.
Horror things that are triggery for some people that I'm okay with: Needles, characters trapped in institutions, suffocating/drowning/being buried alive, self harm/suicide attempts, rape, permanent disability.
Additional note on sex: I ticked "Not emphasizing sexual content" for all of these, but I'm fine with graphic sex, it's just not what I'm mainly interested in. But if there's something like a sex ritual or ship consummation or sex horror or whatever, details are fine; I won't be put off by it.
Fandoms:
The Defenders
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand
Horror types: Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Gothic Horror, Institutional Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Science-Fiction Horror, Survival Horror
Feel free to include other characters if it works with the story - especially Colleen, Misty, and Joy - and I'm also good with Danny/Colleen!
So there are any number of tropey horror situations that they could end up in, especially in the post-canon era when they're running around having adventures anyway, and could be anywhere in the world. Maybe they end up in a haunted house, or in an idyllic Murder Village, or stalked by something in creepy woods; or they accidentally open a gateway to a dimension full of eldritch horrors and have to close it, or one of them gets possessed by something, or has to be pulled out of the afterlife, or Comes Back Wrong. Feel free to put them them into any kind of tropey horror situation, from something light like hunting Bigfoot in creepy woods for handwavy reasons, to dark and chilling with demonic possession and rituals and Did We Really Make It Back Or Not?
You could go back in time - maybe the kids play with a Ouija board and raise something they have to deal with, or discover something weird and terrible in their neighborhood or while on vacation in the Hamptons. Late-90s or early 2000s kid Danny, Ward, and Joy having to deal with a Stephen-King-esque or Stranger Things type adventure without having their parents find out would be great! (Especially with the underlying awfulness in Ward's case that he's dealing with a horrifically abusive situation that the others don't know about - although if we're going slight AU here, maybe they do find out.)
I also like AUs, and a lot of Ward's canonical backstory lends itself well to a Gothic or horror scenario. Maybe things with Harold are even more off the rails than in canon; Harold was replaced with some kind of eldritch horror, or Harold's ghost is haunting Ward and has to be exorcised. They'd also work well in a classic Gothic horror scenario from the 1800s or the 1920s, etc. - either on its own as an AU, or as some kind of timeslip thing where modern-day Ward is in direct touch with a past ancestor of his who is in a similar situation, and maybe they can make things go better in both timelines ... or not!
Or you could go off in an AU direction with Danny's backstory that goes more horror than fantasy - instead of landing in a mystic city in the Himalayas, Danny ends up in an eldritch-horror dimension, or gets adopted by demon hunters, or comes back with the ability to see ghosts. Danny as some kind of ghost whisperer or demonslayer, strung out and terrified of his powers, with Ward having to help him, perhaps?
Torchwood
Gwen Cooper & Jack Harkness & Owen Harper & Toshiko Sato
Gwen Cooper/Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato
Horror types: Body Horror, Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Gothic Horror, Medical Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychologica Horror, Science-Fiction Horror, Survival Horror
You don't have to focus on all the team members equally. If it helps any, Owen is my favorite (by a very slight margin) and I have a particular soft spot for Owen interacting with Ianto or Tosh, but I really love all of them and I'd be happy wherever the character focus lands.
So Torchwood lends itself very well to horror and in fact, the show has a number of episodes that explore horror tropes canonically. You could even do a missing scene or tag to one of those episodes - maybe they're all having nightmares from "Countrycide," or the celluloid creatures in "Out of the Rain" aren't as gone as everyone thought.
But in general, anything Torchwood investigates could easily be horror-themed. You can give it a sci-fi twist, as canon usually does, or just leave it vague. Maybe the ghosts in the haunted house or the monsters in the woods are really supernatural instead of alien tech, for example. Torchwood also lends itself really well to creepy, atmospheric horror, or all kinds of basic horror tropes; feel free to throw anything at them that you want to. Haunted buildings, creepy carnivals, or being stalked in the woods (or around the streets of Cardiff) by something eldritch all seem perfectly suited to their world.
The show's many canonical deaths are another angle for horror. Tosh and Owen sticking around as ghosts after their death and being able to see ghosts around the hub, for example. Or maybe the current team find themselves being haunted by Jack's previous team, the ones who died on New Year's 2000.
Considering what UNIT and Torchwood One are/were both like, someone being taken and experimented on is always a possibility. I would love a story about UNIT getting their hands on undead Owen and the team having to get him back! Or Ianto could turn out to be the recipient of experiments from his time at Torchwood One, or maybe it turns out that he was partly converted like Lisa and has been hiding it.
I could also really go for an apocalypse AU for these characters; apocalypse survival tends to break down physical and emotional barriers and lead to cuddling/snuggling/sex. Also feel free to repurpose the plot of your favorite Twilight Zone episode or other horror media and inflict it on them. It all seems like stuff that would happen to them.
MCU
Carol Danvers/Yon-Rogg
Loki & Thor
Bruce Banner & Brunnhilde | Valkyrie & Heimdall & Loki & Thor
Horror types: Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Institutional Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Science-Fiction Horror, Survival Horror
If you're writing the group option, you don't need to focus on all members of the group equally if the story doesn't go in that direction. I'm just thinking 'the gang on the Statesman,' basically, and I'd be happy with wherever the focus lands.
So: space horror! Creepy abandoned spaceships! Ghosts in space! Survival on terrifying planets! Space is full of terrors, especially long-inhabited space in a universe that canonically also has magic and alternate dimensions.
I basically love all of the various space-horror tropes: mysterious Mary Celeste type spaceships (maybe completely abandoned, maybe with crew members you can talk to but a clock obviously counting down to being Trapped Here Forever), hyperspace accidents and associated weirdness, monsters hunting you when you're all trapped on a spaceship with nowhere to go, crashing on alien planets, time loops, the aliens that seem nice but really really aren't, etc.
When Loki is involved, there's also a whole new range of possibilities, including shenanigans with basic reality itself. Getting lost in alternate dimensions? "Breaking" reality and having to fix it? Maybe things are bleeding through into our reality from elsewhere; maybe something is unraveling that only Loki is aware of and can fix. Maybe Thor (or someone else) has been replaced with a doppelganger and Loki is the only one who can detect it. Maybe Loki is a doppelganger and the only person who notices a difference is Thor (or someone else).
As for the Carol/Yon-Rogg option, I really like their twisty/painful backstory and the complicated interplay of trust issues, betrayal, and genuine affection underlying it all. You could throw them into a basic horror scenario like one of those mentioned above - it might be really fun to watch them try to get out of something that can't be punched out of, since Carol by now has gotten used to being able to punch her way out of things; but what if reality itself is the problem? Maybe they land in a road-not-taken AU in which things are very different; maybe there are ghosts, or doppelgangers (would one of them know if the other one was possessed or changed? maybe they're the only one who does know?); maybe they get trapped between realities and have to get back out again. Or it could just be a straightforward survival-on-a-creepy-planet scenario - maybe none of Carol's powers or Yon-Rogg's tech works, throwing them back on their original military training.
You can deal with IW/EG and the Snap from a horror standpoint if the story goes that way, but I am A-OK with ignoring it completely or fixing it.
Canon-specific DNW: Mundane no-power AUs (but canon-divergent AUs or adding AU elements to canon is fine, like making someone a werewolf).
There is an exception to this, which is the characters being made to think they're in a no-powers AU but actually, slowly figuring out that they're trapped in some kind of Matrix-like setting, hallucinating, etc. I really like that kind of mindfuck and I think it might work particularly well with any of these characters, if they know they're supposed to have powers or be an alien or whatever, but they're in a perfectly normal mundane setting and some part of their brain is telling them it's really, really wrong.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson & Helmut Zemo
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson/Helmut Zemo
Horror types: Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Institutional Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror
This show has a bunch of great dynamics, but this was the one I came out wanting ALL THE FIC for. I really love the general dynamic of the Villain Among the Heroes, cooperating for reasons of their own, and this really hit those buttons. I have seen this dynamic described on Tumblr - not for these specific characters, but in general - as a villain who is not redeemed so much as domesticated, and that made me laugh and also, yes. I love that it's a mix of plain expediency (they need each other's help) and slowly developing warmth that they would probably deny is there at all. (It's totally there. "I've decided not to kill you" is Zemo's love language. Well, that and feeding people.)
I'd be happy to have other characters included, such as Sam's family (Sarah and the kids having to deal with Zemo would be amazing; does Sam make him sleep in the boat to keep him out of the house?) and Sharon, all of whom I also love.
Feel free to throw them into any kind of tropey horror situation with no particular explanation for how they all ended up together if it breaks the flow of the story. Maybe they broke Zemo out, maybe he escaped, who knows! And Zemo, with his wide-ranging knowledge and careful, clever mind, might be quite useful for investigating a Murder Village or a monster or some other form of awfulness. Sam and Bucky might have brought him along, or else he just turns up in the middle of the situation and figuring out why Zemo is there is part of what they have to resolve.
This canon and the Raft situation seem tailor-made for institutional or supernatural horror - with Zemo, with Bucky, with Sam, or with all three. Maybe something is stalking the prisoners in the Raft. Maybe the prisoners are being experimented on, and Sam and Bucky have to rescue Zemo or break in to help the prisoners. You could get into Bucky's trauma from being the Winter Soldier, or Sam's from his Raft experience - if there are experiments running there, maybe he was experimented on too. One thing I love about these three is that they all have incredible amounts of very different trauma, all of which could interact in painful ways, especially under the stress of having to deal with a horror situation.
Anything in the TFATWS section of Scioscribe's letter (except the brainwashed-Sam one or the Us fusion) is something that I would like as well.
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Hi! Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm very excited to see what you come up with, and I'm sure I'll like whatever you make.
Don't worry about whether you're sticking close enough to the requested horror type, or whether your story is horror enough. If the story wanders, that's fine. The prompts are also for suggestions only and not meant to confine you to only writing those ideas. I'm fine with something short and atmospheric rather than plotty.
General likes: Hurt/comfort, friendship and enemies-to-friends (+ occasionally to lovers), case fic, sharing small spaces (beds, hotel rooms, tents, spaceship escape pods), banter, characters caring about each other, nightmares, aftermath of traumatic events, domesticity, cuddling/snuggling (of either a gen or shippy variety), AUs.
Horror likes: Spooks, chills, big old houses or creepy woods or abandoned spaceships with Bad Things half-seen out of the corner of your eye. Seemingly normal or too-perfect settings (suburbia, small towns, offices, etc) with something Very Bad underneath. Normally cute/cuddly things (bunnies, unicorns, etc) that turn out to be vicious and terrible. Mild body horror, such as heads turning around backward or jaws unhinging, or characters being modified in mad science experiments against their will. Creepypasta and urban legends. Characters banding together to fight evil. Bravery in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. Having to go to the afterlife to bring back a dead person, especially at great cost. Evil doppelgangers (and subsequent attempts to rescue the replaced person/figure out who the replaced people are). Unreliable narrators, e.g. the narrator IS the doppelganger and doesn't know it. Rituals and magic, especially being performed by characters who don't really know what they're doing but are Just That Desperate. Characters meeting their AU counterparts from a worse dimension. Werewolves and shifters, especially (for horror purposes) with some body-horror elements to the transformation.
Horror DNWs: Insect-related horror - I'm fine with casual mention of insects, swarms of flies, etc.; I just don't want detailed descriptions of insects crawling on people and laying eggs in people and so forth. Graphic descriptions of decomposition or cannibalism. (As with insects, these could be background elements in a larger scenario, e.g. the characters finding a decayed dead body in the woods, but I'd prefer not to have these elements focused on.) Very graphic and splattery body horror, e.g. detailed descriptions of a character being flayed alive or having parasites hatch inside them. Pregnancy-related horror. Actual coronavirus or apocalypses based on worldwide pandemics (but characters e.g. having a fever or similar symptoms is fine). "The good guy main character was evil all along" reveals (but fine if it's a mirrorverse-type AU or very recent replacement, and "our" characters are still around - I love the evil doppelganger trope, I just don't love it if it's in the context of the character being retconned as evil throughout the events of actual canon).
Because this is a horror exchange, I'm fine with an ambiguous or dark ending, deaths of requested characters, etc. However, you don't need to give me a dark ending just because it's a horror exchange - everyone can make it out fine and be okay! A story that is centered around recovering from trauma and nightmares from a horrific experience that happened pre-story would also be fine with me.
Horror things that are triggery for some people that I'm okay with: Needles, characters trapped in institutions, suffocating/drowning/being buried alive, self harm/suicide attempts, rape, permanent disability.
Additional note on sex: I ticked "Not emphasizing sexual content" for all of these, but I'm fine with graphic sex, it's just not what I'm mainly interested in. But if there's something like a sex ritual or ship consummation or sex horror or whatever, details are fine; I won't be put off by it.
Fandoms:
The Defenders
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand
Horror types: Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Gothic Horror, Institutional Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Science-Fiction Horror, Survival Horror
Feel free to include other characters if it works with the story - especially Colleen, Misty, and Joy - and I'm also good with Danny/Colleen!
So there are any number of tropey horror situations that they could end up in, especially in the post-canon era when they're running around having adventures anyway, and could be anywhere in the world. Maybe they end up in a haunted house, or in an idyllic Murder Village, or stalked by something in creepy woods; or they accidentally open a gateway to a dimension full of eldritch horrors and have to close it, or one of them gets possessed by something, or has to be pulled out of the afterlife, or Comes Back Wrong. Feel free to put them them into any kind of tropey horror situation, from something light like hunting Bigfoot in creepy woods for handwavy reasons, to dark and chilling with demonic possession and rituals and Did We Really Make It Back Or Not?
You could go back in time - maybe the kids play with a Ouija board and raise something they have to deal with, or discover something weird and terrible in their neighborhood or while on vacation in the Hamptons. Late-90s or early 2000s kid Danny, Ward, and Joy having to deal with a Stephen-King-esque or Stranger Things type adventure without having their parents find out would be great! (Especially with the underlying awfulness in Ward's case that he's dealing with a horrifically abusive situation that the others don't know about - although if we're going slight AU here, maybe they do find out.)
I also like AUs, and a lot of Ward's canonical backstory lends itself well to a Gothic or horror scenario. Maybe things with Harold are even more off the rails than in canon; Harold was replaced with some kind of eldritch horror, or Harold's ghost is haunting Ward and has to be exorcised. They'd also work well in a classic Gothic horror scenario from the 1800s or the 1920s, etc. - either on its own as an AU, or as some kind of timeslip thing where modern-day Ward is in direct touch with a past ancestor of his who is in a similar situation, and maybe they can make things go better in both timelines ... or not!
Or you could go off in an AU direction with Danny's backstory that goes more horror than fantasy - instead of landing in a mystic city in the Himalayas, Danny ends up in an eldritch-horror dimension, or gets adopted by demon hunters, or comes back with the ability to see ghosts. Danny as some kind of ghost whisperer or demonslayer, strung out and terrified of his powers, with Ward having to help him, perhaps?
Torchwood
Gwen Cooper & Jack Harkness & Owen Harper & Toshiko Sato
Gwen Cooper/Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato
Horror types: Body Horror, Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Gothic Horror, Medical Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychologica Horror, Science-Fiction Horror, Survival Horror
You don't have to focus on all the team members equally. If it helps any, Owen is my favorite (by a very slight margin) and I have a particular soft spot for Owen interacting with Ianto or Tosh, but I really love all of them and I'd be happy wherever the character focus lands.
So Torchwood lends itself very well to horror and in fact, the show has a number of episodes that explore horror tropes canonically. You could even do a missing scene or tag to one of those episodes - maybe they're all having nightmares from "Countrycide," or the celluloid creatures in "Out of the Rain" aren't as gone as everyone thought.
But in general, anything Torchwood investigates could easily be horror-themed. You can give it a sci-fi twist, as canon usually does, or just leave it vague. Maybe the ghosts in the haunted house or the monsters in the woods are really supernatural instead of alien tech, for example. Torchwood also lends itself really well to creepy, atmospheric horror, or all kinds of basic horror tropes; feel free to throw anything at them that you want to. Haunted buildings, creepy carnivals, or being stalked in the woods (or around the streets of Cardiff) by something eldritch all seem perfectly suited to their world.
The show's many canonical deaths are another angle for horror. Tosh and Owen sticking around as ghosts after their death and being able to see ghosts around the hub, for example. Or maybe the current team find themselves being haunted by Jack's previous team, the ones who died on New Year's 2000.
Considering what UNIT and Torchwood One are/were both like, someone being taken and experimented on is always a possibility. I would love a story about UNIT getting their hands on undead Owen and the team having to get him back! Or Ianto could turn out to be the recipient of experiments from his time at Torchwood One, or maybe it turns out that he was partly converted like Lisa and has been hiding it.
I could also really go for an apocalypse AU for these characters; apocalypse survival tends to break down physical and emotional barriers and lead to cuddling/snuggling/sex. Also feel free to repurpose the plot of your favorite Twilight Zone episode or other horror media and inflict it on them. It all seems like stuff that would happen to them.
MCU
Carol Danvers/Yon-Rogg
Loki & Thor
Bruce Banner & Brunnhilde | Valkyrie & Heimdall & Loki & Thor
Horror types: Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Institutional Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Science-Fiction Horror, Survival Horror
If you're writing the group option, you don't need to focus on all members of the group equally if the story doesn't go in that direction. I'm just thinking 'the gang on the Statesman,' basically, and I'd be happy with wherever the focus lands.
So: space horror! Creepy abandoned spaceships! Ghosts in space! Survival on terrifying planets! Space is full of terrors, especially long-inhabited space in a universe that canonically also has magic and alternate dimensions.
I basically love all of the various space-horror tropes: mysterious Mary Celeste type spaceships (maybe completely abandoned, maybe with crew members you can talk to but a clock obviously counting down to being Trapped Here Forever), hyperspace accidents and associated weirdness, monsters hunting you when you're all trapped on a spaceship with nowhere to go, crashing on alien planets, time loops, the aliens that seem nice but really really aren't, etc.
When Loki is involved, there's also a whole new range of possibilities, including shenanigans with basic reality itself. Getting lost in alternate dimensions? "Breaking" reality and having to fix it? Maybe things are bleeding through into our reality from elsewhere; maybe something is unraveling that only Loki is aware of and can fix. Maybe Thor (or someone else) has been replaced with a doppelganger and Loki is the only one who can detect it. Maybe Loki is a doppelganger and the only person who notices a difference is Thor (or someone else).
As for the Carol/Yon-Rogg option, I really like their twisty/painful backstory and the complicated interplay of trust issues, betrayal, and genuine affection underlying it all. You could throw them into a basic horror scenario like one of those mentioned above - it might be really fun to watch them try to get out of something that can't be punched out of, since Carol by now has gotten used to being able to punch her way out of things; but what if reality itself is the problem? Maybe they land in a road-not-taken AU in which things are very different; maybe there are ghosts, or doppelgangers (would one of them know if the other one was possessed or changed? maybe they're the only one who does know?); maybe they get trapped between realities and have to get back out again. Or it could just be a straightforward survival-on-a-creepy-planet scenario - maybe none of Carol's powers or Yon-Rogg's tech works, throwing them back on their original military training.
You can deal with IW/EG and the Snap from a horror standpoint if the story goes that way, but I am A-OK with ignoring it completely or fixing it.
Canon-specific DNW: Mundane no-power AUs (but canon-divergent AUs or adding AU elements to canon is fine, like making someone a werewolf).
There is an exception to this, which is the characters being made to think they're in a no-powers AU but actually, slowly figuring out that they're trapped in some kind of Matrix-like setting, hallucinating, etc. I really like that kind of mindfuck and I think it might work particularly well with any of these characters, if they know they're supposed to have powers or be an alien or whatever, but they're in a perfectly normal mundane setting and some part of their brain is telling them it's really, really wrong.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson & Helmut Zemo
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson/Helmut Zemo
Horror types: Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Institutional Horror, Monster Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror
This show has a bunch of great dynamics, but this was the one I came out wanting ALL THE FIC for. I really love the general dynamic of the Villain Among the Heroes, cooperating for reasons of their own, and this really hit those buttons. I have seen this dynamic described on Tumblr - not for these specific characters, but in general - as a villain who is not redeemed so much as domesticated, and that made me laugh and also, yes. I love that it's a mix of plain expediency (they need each other's help) and slowly developing warmth that they would probably deny is there at all. (It's totally there. "I've decided not to kill you" is Zemo's love language. Well, that and feeding people.)
I'd be happy to have other characters included, such as Sam's family (Sarah and the kids having to deal with Zemo would be amazing; does Sam make him sleep in the boat to keep him out of the house?) and Sharon, all of whom I also love.
Feel free to throw them into any kind of tropey horror situation with no particular explanation for how they all ended up together if it breaks the flow of the story. Maybe they broke Zemo out, maybe he escaped, who knows! And Zemo, with his wide-ranging knowledge and careful, clever mind, might be quite useful for investigating a Murder Village or a monster or some other form of awfulness. Sam and Bucky might have brought him along, or else he just turns up in the middle of the situation and figuring out why Zemo is there is part of what they have to resolve.
This canon and the Raft situation seem tailor-made for institutional or supernatural horror - with Zemo, with Bucky, with Sam, or with all three. Maybe something is stalking the prisoners in the Raft. Maybe the prisoners are being experimented on, and Sam and Bucky have to rescue Zemo or break in to help the prisoners. You could get into Bucky's trauma from being the Winter Soldier, or Sam's from his Raft experience - if there are experiments running there, maybe he was experimented on too. One thing I love about these three is that they all have incredible amounts of very different trauma, all of which could interact in painful ways, especially under the stress of having to deal with a horror situation.
Anything in the TFATWS section of Scioscribe's letter (except the brainwashed-Sam one or the Us fusion) is something that I would like as well.
This entry is also posted at https://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1389293.html with
comments.