Dear Id Pro Quo Creator - 2020 Letter
Dear Id Pro Quo Author,
I am so excited! Thank you so much for choosing any of these things to write for me. I’m so looking forward to reading what you create. This letter is here in case you would find it useful, not as a set of instructions; please don’t feel bound to any prompt. Please also disregard any variation in the length of these sections. I want all of these ships so much.
Likes
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.
Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, scars, suspense, undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka’s fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other, spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together, mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, ghosts, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
Smut Likes
character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, the divine as sex, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps, sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse, body heat sharing, dreams, pining, mutual pining, ghost sex, feeling each others' sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
DNWs
bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, dead Ahsoka (unless it's older Force Ghost Ahsoka and/or Ahsoka and Anakin being Force Ghosts together), mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)-dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o, rule 63’ing female characters, body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), unrequested/unprompted ships unless otherwise specified in a request/prompt (though mentions are okay), stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship, m/m outside of m/m/f ships, focus only on m/m interactions, a story where the f/f or m/f is secondary to the m/m, AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested), underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+), ageplay/infantilization, unrequested/unprompted humiliation, bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, actually "mad" Daenerys, anal tearing
Star Trek: The Original Series - Prime Universe
Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Smut - Huddling for warmth leads to life-affirming fantastic sex - After getting into this fandom I read online that Vulcans have hotter body temperatures than humans. That seems like it has potential...
Huddling For Warmth - See the note above.
Captivity - hurt/comfort between fellow captives leads to sex
Hurt/Comfort - Captured and tortured together & doing their best to help each other through it
One character wearing the other's clothes leads to feelings realisation
Stuck in a Blizzard (TOGETHER)
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading
Powers - Character is overwhelmed by their telepathy
Telepathy - forced proximity where they have to stay close together
Soulmates - telepathic bond
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
This is mostly something we see in the background, but I love it. The little flirtation, the way he seems to enjoy her teasing him, that they seem to respect each other and have common interests in the language of music-the cut scene from “Elaan of Troyius” in which he’s interested in teaching her Vulcan music theory and she suggests the song he was playing was a little more exciting than he thought; I wish it had been kept!--and that, made more expressive by merging with Kollos, he recites Byron to her about how beautiful she is! She makes him think of Byron! And he seems to be around a lot to help her after something shakes the bridge and knocks her down. They’re both these cool, professional people who are friendly and enjoy each other, with Uhura being more expressive and Spock being subtler while having his own sense of fun, and I feel like they’d be relaxed together, and open to learning all sorts of things from each other.
They don’t seem to be together in canon, at least not all the time, because it doesn’t come up the few times he gets a girl-of-the-week, but it would be cool to do something in which they were and you can do missing scenes, fic where they turn out to be together in the background of some plot while everything is the same as it happened on the show, or they get together and break up but then get back together again after the events of the show, or they pine a lot while being professional and there’s tension, with eventual resolution of this tension. Maybe some external event thrusts them together, like sex pollen, and they already had feelings so this is a delicate situation throughout/in the aftermath. Or they were already together, so it’s a different delicate situation. Or they have to huddle for warmth, and he really worries about protecting Uhura because her normal human temperature is cooler than his already and she worries about him because this is so not the environment his species adapted to, and they make each other feel better.
Star Trek: The Original Series - Mirror Universe/Prime Universe
Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Mirror Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Character has to fake being evil for reasons
Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Unexpected Mercy
Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Mirror Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Following up on the thought of what their relationship might be like in this universe, based on the comment from Mirror Sulu...what if they’d had reason to encounter each other during the episode? If Nyota is sort of under his protection here, how does that go? What does she think of hearing that, and does she plan/attempt to use it, just as she was willing to use Sulu’s attention? What if she’s the one he tries to get answers from when it comes to how oddly their captain is behaving (and does he notice that they are working together?)-does ask her about it? Does he do a mind-meld like he did with McCoy? Does he just plow forward to force one or would he expect her to accede to it if he asks as part of whatever deal they might have, or to offer him access to her mind without him having to ask, or what? Feel free to go with the idea that either or both of them is in a romantic/sexual relationship with their own universe’s version of the other-or not, as you wish.
Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
So he caught out the Mirror counterparts pretty fast! With the idea presented in one quick line about her being protected by him in her universe, and with them having a connection of some sort in the prime universe, how might that inform their first meeting? Does he get a chance to talk to her before anyone else and thus before he finds out what happened, or does he need to corral her later? What do they think of this? Feel free to go with the idea that either or both of them is in a romantic/sexual relationship with their own universe’s version of the other-or not, as you wish.
Star Trek: The Original Series - Mirror/Mirror
Mirror Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Star Wars: Sith AU
Mind Games
Power dynamics - struggling for the upper hand in and out of the bedroom
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Unexpected Mercy
Falling for the Enemy - attempt at manipulation leads to feelings
Falling for unexpected person - attempt at manipulation leads to feelings
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
So I really enjoyed the little hint of how their relationship might mirror the one in the prime universe. That comment to Nyota pretending to be Mirror Nyota about Spock not being around to protect her?
Neither of them is a good person in this place, but they can still care about each other, maybe-or maybe she got into his good graces, convinced him of the logic of an alliance, since they can use all the allies they can in such a cutthroat environment, particularly with it being a Terran empire (especially if you take Discovery into account, though you don’t have to of course, it’s a different fandom) and him being a first officer. How do they navigate the mirror universe? What happens after the episode, with Spock considering changing his goals from merely following his orders and keeping himself secure and having that insta-kill weapon, and Uhura having a brief taste of what it was like in the nicer universe? Given that he’s willing to force a mind-meld on the people he thinks it will work on to gain answers when he needs them, how would that work out with someone he might have an alliance with? Also, the characters are not entirely unlike their prime counterparts, with Spock being the pragmatic guy and even able to be swayed into trying to create a more civilized galaxy; how is mirror Nyota like the one we know? She’s got to be nerdy and competent, as well as a cunning survivor to get this far. Is there perhaps anything like how the prime Spock and Nyota bond over music and learning?
Star Trek: Discovery
Michael Burnham/Spock (Star Trek: Discovery)
Medium: Fanfiction
Hair Stuff - One character shaves another's face with a straight razor
Incest Smarm
Addicted to Spending Time Together
Incest - estranged siblings reconcile & intense feelings turn romantic
Just Because We Had Sex Doesn't Mean We Have To Admit To Feelings
Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
Let's not speak of this incredibly good sex
Sex Pollen - awkwardness after characters pair up in unexpected ways
Acts of Kindness
Accidental Incest - due to amnesia
"Oh No They're Hot Now"
Aftermath of sex pollen - sex pollen leads to realization of romantic feelings
Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot
Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot - seeing after long separation
Powers - Character is overwhelmed by their telepathy
Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Carried to bed by partner
Angst - characters know exactly how to hurt each other emotionally
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
Why do I watch prequels when they hurt me? He wanted to follow her! He was going to do it and then he couldn’t. And even when they were fighting, he was so self-conscious about the beard when she caught him off-guard-it was so cute. After a whole season of her trying to help him and they started to reconnect, and him being supportive with the chess, and her punching Leland, and the big speech at the end because he wanted to watch her back personally; I am so sad.
I am willing to receive more sadness! Not bleak stuff, but the bittersweetness and hope of the ending we got. I’m also willing to receive fluff, and them trying to take care of each other. Fix-its in which they reconcile sooner, or he does go with her, a missing scene if you can find a place to put it, maybe a conversation about what their plans to go will do to their parents because holy shit. Or childhood backstory, maybe from before Michael did her thing to isolate herself from Spock for his own good; or maybe she doesn’t make that decision this time, and they can be a little happier. Frozen AU/fusion, because Michael is Elsa and Spock is Anna. I like the idea of her shaving his beard instead of him doing it himself. Maybe pon farr is a thing Michael ends up helping him with…possibly even before they can reconcile, for the angst.
Crossover Fandom - Star Trek: Discovery/Star Trek: The Original Series
Spock (ST: DIS)/Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Star Trek: woobie DIS-era Spock meets and crushes on Uhura
Angst and Hurt/Comfort
Acts of Kindness
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Carried to bed by partner
Touch Starvation - Stoic character breaks down on being touched
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I really love the dynamic in TOS, and wonder how it might be if Uhura were around a Spock who’s both younger and more vulnerable because of all that’s happening around this time in his life? The troubled one who’s willing to tell Michael he finds he likes expressing his emotions, but is also still messed up by the kind of things his sister told him when they were children? He’s a bit pricklier here, though of course a lot of that is seen with Michael. Uhura’s an observant person with a light touch when it comes to interpersonal dynamics; that is, my impression is she knows to reach people, even people who on the surface might not seem easily reached. How close would she be to who she is by the time of TOS, and what would they make of each other?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SWTCW)
Medium: Fanfiction
One character wearing the other's clothes leads to feelings realisation
shirt theft
Sharing Clothes
Star Wars: Sacred Jedi Lightsaber Swapping Rituals
Star Wars: Anakin is found by the Sith before the Jedi
Star Wars: Ahsoka is kidnapped and sold instead of being found by the Jedi & Anakin remains a slave
Star Wars: Sith AU
Magic Sex is Required to Keep Magically Resurrected Character Alive - What if keeping Ahsoka alive needs a little more than a transfusion of the Daughter’s essence to make it stick? And Anakin is half-born of the Force, so maybe that could play into it.
Resurrection - leads to accidental soul bond
Resurrection - needs touch to stay alive
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Sex Pollen - Undercover as master and slave when both exposed to sex pollen
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Alternate Universe - Heathers Fusion in Setting of Requested Fandom
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence kink - mutual admiration
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go down such different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. I’d love something sweet during any time period; what about one of the times he’s sharing his mechanical knowledge-which he got from his mother-with her? I like to think it’s his way of meditation, and that it’s how he trains her with regard to that aspect of Jedi life. Or what about after a battle, when they both need to talk or just be together? I really liked the point in her novel where she’s thinking about how he used to take care of her after battles, help her deal with the mental toll of the war. I love their banter and their pleasure in dangerous situations, so maybe a moment building on that. Or something leaning on the near-telepathic abilities the Force gives them, with regard to being able to sense each others' feelings--they might sense something and pursue the matter, or get distracted and lose control of their own feelings. Not to mention, the Force gives them more stamina, so they could last awhile. Maybe they could celebrate a victory, or just let out their mischievous/competitive side during sex/something romantic. Or they could have any of the conversations they might otherwise engage in, except during sex/something romantic. Or they could be fixing his prosthesis! How about an AU where one or both of them was never found by the Jedi: Anakin remains a slave, Ahsoka was successfully captured as a toddler and sold by the bounty hunter (I love that bit of her backstory for the what-if of how she nearly had another thing in common with Anakin), so they run into each other under those circumstances; only one of them goes through what’s described above, until they’re found by the Sith, while the other remains a Jedi. Or maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. I’d also love a Regency AU (set in space or somewhere more historical) akin to Sorcerer of the Crown by Zen Cho, with Anakin in this unstable position in society due to his origins and Ahsoka, also with a less than respectable background, swooping into his life with all her confidence and talent. Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.”
Star Wars: Rebels
Ahsoka Tano/Darth Vader (SW Rebels)
Medium: Fanfiction
Alternate Universe - Canonically dead character lives and the ship lives happily ever after
Carried to bed by partner
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Ghost Sex
Incorporeal character finds way to have mutually-pleasurable sex with corporeal character
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Star Wars: The adventures of Ahsoka and Force Ghost Anakin throughout the galaxy and beyond
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Gothic Romance
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go such down different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. It seems to me that trying to kill Ahsoka was not in Vader’s plan-he’d wanted her alive before, and he had opportunities he didn’t take-so what would he do if he ever did find out she survived him? Especially if she never came out to try and find him. Does he try to keep her a secret? Keep on going in the face of her not coming back? Or maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. Is he exiled or hidden in some distant world, or even in the Unknown Regions, and does she go with him or does she find him? Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.” I can also see a bit of a Hades/Persephone element.
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: Alternate Original Series)
Medium: Fanfiction
Amnesia - Rebuilding Forgotten Romantic Relationship
Amnesia - retrograde amnesia makes A forget all about B and their relationship
Xeno - human and nonhuman trying to make a relationship work
Established Relationship
Soulmates - telepathic bond
Powers - Character is overwhelmed by their telepathy
Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading
Sharing Clothes
shirt theft
Soulbonds - Formed by Mutual Sex With All Parties Already Bonded
Soulbond - soulbound partners can feel each other's pain & pleasure
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Case Fic
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I love these two, and the little stuff in the background as well as the forefront. The professionalism of them working together, where of course she’s going to face him about him letting their relationship influence where he puts her so that she’s in a lower position, his caving to her because he knows she’s right, and all the unspoken stuff underlying the interaction-and the sweet quiet moments of her trying to support him and him letting her support him, being affectionate, and then the idea that the original Spock being around both means that this Spock can continue onto the life he originally led on the Enterprise, and simultaneously means he’s going to live a different one from the start, more open to guidance from his emotions, with that benefit of hindsight.
I’d just love backstory for their relationship, missing scenes, or just future nice things going on while they’re embarking on adventures. Hanging out on New Vulcan, talking about each others’ families, bonding over geeky stuff, or doing plot-of-the-week stuff while exploring the galaxy with their crew.
Crossover Fandom - Star Trek/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Spock (Star Trek Prime Timeline)/Buffy Summers (BTVS TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Carried to bed by partner
Castaways in Time
Castaways in Time Have Chance to Go Home
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Crossover - Shared Universe AU
Crossover: Characters turn out to be highly compatible
Fish out of Temporal Water
Fusion - Characters are fused into the setting of another canon
Mentor/Protegé[e]
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Touch-Starved Character Having Overwhelming Tender Long Foreplay First Time Sex
World-weary broken people find comfort and understanding with each other
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I like the potential vibes of this! Buffy is blatantly guided by her heart and uses it, but-struggle with accepting this thing which was thrust on her notwithstanding-she’s committed to saving people, she’s willing to sacrifice and bears the weight, containing so much pain inside her to be strong for others. And she can be a pretty observant, intuitive person with people, and so empathetic and protective. Spock is so professional and level-headed, but he does have that deep well of feeling he keeps contained, because he understands he should, and a loneliness despite being among close friends which I think they could be able to recognize in each other. Buffy has a habit of being in quiet moments and talks with guys who get where she’s at even if they have different angles: Giles, Angel, Spike. And Spock doesn’t quite have the habit, but you see him being able to connect to Zarabeth as she shares her loneliness, external factors making that easier for him notwithstanding. They both know, for different reasons, something about what it’s like to walk in two worlds and try to live a life in which their whole selves can be fulfilled instead of denied. Plus, they both died a sacrificial death only to be brought back by determined friends. He’s the logic guy, but he also respects and values people who operate a little differently-I feel like Buffy is a little like Jim. And Spock is a little like both Giles and Angel, with the researching and the curiosity about new things plus that one time he quoted Byron, and the deep well of emotion he keeps in check. Not to mention the pon farr thing, which is different from Angel’s worry about losing his soul and wanting to find peace in her, but...it’s still related to the potential danger of instinct taking over, and their fear and shame of such a thing happening. And I can’t help but compare Jim being willing to get beat up to help Spock and then faking his death, with the resulting distress on Spock’s side and his willingness to get punished afterwards, to Buffy making a feverish Angel bite her and drain her to save him, and Angel’s resulting distress at his lack of control and wanting to remove himself from Sunnydale even further as his worst fears were confirmed. (This is optional of course, but I’ll mention it because it’s where this line of thought got me: if you want to do Kirk/Spock/Buffy instead of either Jim/Buffy or Buffy/Spock, you totally can.)
As for the logistics-there’s canon time travel in Star Trek. Buffy might see him in her context of demons, because that’s what she knows, but she’s capable of recognizing this doesn’t mean she needs to hurt him pretty quickly: see Angel after the initial post-kiss shock, and Oz. Or she goes forward in time-magic shenanigans, or she’s immortal in some way after the Slayer spell and still hunts demons in the future, or she’s frozen like Khan was-and Buffy, with a future even more open than it seemed in Chosen (if also bittersweet because of the loss of her loved ones from the show), gets up to adventures with him while exploring the galaxy? Or you could do a fusion in which one of them is AU’d into the setting of the other. How does Buffy do having to slay and have a life in space-would she be interested in joining Starfleet, can she make it with her life, or does she go out on her own, or relying on other people’s resources? Or maybe she doesn’t have to slay at all, she’s just another person out there dealing with weird things, as Star Trek characters do. As for AU’ing Spock into this setting-maybe he’s trapped in this dimension, or he/his family had to flee their home, or they ended up estranged something like in canon, and he’s got to hide himself to blend into this human society which is so much more backwards than in the TOS future, causing angst. If you want to add some mentor/mentee dynamic to it, maybe he’s a college/Starfleet Academy professor and she becomes a surprise favorite. Or he’s her Watcher (in either canon’s setting.)
Once more, thank you so very much, and I hope you have a wonderful exchange experience!
I am so excited! Thank you so much for choosing any of these things to write for me. I’m so looking forward to reading what you create. This letter is here in case you would find it useful, not as a set of instructions; please don’t feel bound to any prompt. Please also disregard any variation in the length of these sections. I want all of these ships so much.
Likes
Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.
Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.
More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, scars, suspense, undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka’s fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other, spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together, mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, ghosts, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
Smut Likes
character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, the divine as sex, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps, sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse, body heat sharing, dreams, pining, mutual pining, ghost sex, feeling each others' sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists
DNWs
bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, dead Ahsoka (unless it's older Force Ghost Ahsoka and/or Ahsoka and Anakin being Force Ghosts together), mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)-dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o, rule 63’ing female characters, body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), unrequested/unprompted ships unless otherwise specified in a request/prompt (though mentions are okay), stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship, m/m outside of m/m/f ships, focus only on m/m interactions, a story where the f/f or m/f is secondary to the m/m, AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested), underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+), ageplay/infantilization, unrequested/unprompted humiliation, bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, actually "mad" Daenerys, anal tearing
Star Trek: The Original Series - Prime Universe
Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Smut - Huddling for warmth leads to life-affirming fantastic sex - After getting into this fandom I read online that Vulcans have hotter body temperatures than humans. That seems like it has potential...
Huddling For Warmth - See the note above.
Captivity - hurt/comfort between fellow captives leads to sex
Hurt/Comfort - Captured and tortured together & doing their best to help each other through it
One character wearing the other's clothes leads to feelings realisation
Stuck in a Blizzard (TOGETHER)
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading
Powers - Character is overwhelmed by their telepathy
Telepathy - forced proximity where they have to stay close together
Soulmates - telepathic bond
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
This is mostly something we see in the background, but I love it. The little flirtation, the way he seems to enjoy her teasing him, that they seem to respect each other and have common interests in the language of music-the cut scene from “Elaan of Troyius” in which he’s interested in teaching her Vulcan music theory and she suggests the song he was playing was a little more exciting than he thought; I wish it had been kept!--and that, made more expressive by merging with Kollos, he recites Byron to her about how beautiful she is! She makes him think of Byron! And he seems to be around a lot to help her after something shakes the bridge and knocks her down. They’re both these cool, professional people who are friendly and enjoy each other, with Uhura being more expressive and Spock being subtler while having his own sense of fun, and I feel like they’d be relaxed together, and open to learning all sorts of things from each other.
They don’t seem to be together in canon, at least not all the time, because it doesn’t come up the few times he gets a girl-of-the-week, but it would be cool to do something in which they were and you can do missing scenes, fic where they turn out to be together in the background of some plot while everything is the same as it happened on the show, or they get together and break up but then get back together again after the events of the show, or they pine a lot while being professional and there’s tension, with eventual resolution of this tension. Maybe some external event thrusts them together, like sex pollen, and they already had feelings so this is a delicate situation throughout/in the aftermath. Or they were already together, so it’s a different delicate situation. Or they have to huddle for warmth, and he really worries about protecting Uhura because her normal human temperature is cooler than his already and she worries about him because this is so not the environment his species adapted to, and they make each other feel better.
Star Trek: The Original Series - Mirror Universe/Prime Universe
Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Mirror Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Character has to fake being evil for reasons
Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Unexpected Mercy
Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Mirror Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Following up on the thought of what their relationship might be like in this universe, based on the comment from Mirror Sulu...what if they’d had reason to encounter each other during the episode? If Nyota is sort of under his protection here, how does that go? What does she think of hearing that, and does she plan/attempt to use it, just as she was willing to use Sulu’s attention? What if she’s the one he tries to get answers from when it comes to how oddly their captain is behaving (and does he notice that they are working together?)-does ask her about it? Does he do a mind-meld like he did with McCoy? Does he just plow forward to force one or would he expect her to accede to it if he asks as part of whatever deal they might have, or to offer him access to her mind without him having to ask, or what? Feel free to go with the idea that either or both of them is in a romantic/sexual relationship with their own universe’s version of the other-or not, as you wish.
Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
So he caught out the Mirror counterparts pretty fast! With the idea presented in one quick line about her being protected by him in her universe, and with them having a connection of some sort in the prime universe, how might that inform their first meeting? Does he get a chance to talk to her before anyone else and thus before he finds out what happened, or does he need to corral her later? What do they think of this? Feel free to go with the idea that either or both of them is in a romantic/sexual relationship with their own universe’s version of the other-or not, as you wish.
Star Trek: The Original Series - Mirror/Mirror
Mirror Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Star Wars: Sith AU
Mind Games
Power dynamics - struggling for the upper hand in and out of the bedroom
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Unexpected Mercy
Falling for the Enemy - attempt at manipulation leads to feelings
Falling for unexpected person - attempt at manipulation leads to feelings
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
So I really enjoyed the little hint of how their relationship might mirror the one in the prime universe. That comment to Nyota pretending to be Mirror Nyota about Spock not being around to protect her?
Neither of them is a good person in this place, but they can still care about each other, maybe-or maybe she got into his good graces, convinced him of the logic of an alliance, since they can use all the allies they can in such a cutthroat environment, particularly with it being a Terran empire (especially if you take Discovery into account, though you don’t have to of course, it’s a different fandom) and him being a first officer. How do they navigate the mirror universe? What happens after the episode, with Spock considering changing his goals from merely following his orders and keeping himself secure and having that insta-kill weapon, and Uhura having a brief taste of what it was like in the nicer universe? Given that he’s willing to force a mind-meld on the people he thinks it will work on to gain answers when he needs them, how would that work out with someone he might have an alliance with? Also, the characters are not entirely unlike their prime counterparts, with Spock being the pragmatic guy and even able to be swayed into trying to create a more civilized galaxy; how is mirror Nyota like the one we know? She’s got to be nerdy and competent, as well as a cunning survivor to get this far. Is there perhaps anything like how the prime Spock and Nyota bond over music and learning?
Star Trek: Discovery
Michael Burnham/Spock (Star Trek: Discovery)
Medium: Fanfiction
Hair Stuff - One character shaves another's face with a straight razor
Incest Smarm
Addicted to Spending Time Together
Incest - estranged siblings reconcile & intense feelings turn romantic
Just Because We Had Sex Doesn't Mean We Have To Admit To Feelings
Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
Let's not speak of this incredibly good sex
Sex Pollen - awkwardness after characters pair up in unexpected ways
Acts of Kindness
Accidental Incest - due to amnesia
"Oh No They're Hot Now"
Aftermath of sex pollen - sex pollen leads to realization of romantic feelings
Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot
Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot - seeing after long separation
Powers - Character is overwhelmed by their telepathy
Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Carried to bed by partner
Angst - characters know exactly how to hurt each other emotionally
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
Why do I watch prequels when they hurt me? He wanted to follow her! He was going to do it and then he couldn’t. And even when they were fighting, he was so self-conscious about the beard when she caught him off-guard-it was so cute. After a whole season of her trying to help him and they started to reconnect, and him being supportive with the chess, and her punching Leland, and the big speech at the end because he wanted to watch her back personally; I am so sad.
I am willing to receive more sadness! Not bleak stuff, but the bittersweetness and hope of the ending we got. I’m also willing to receive fluff, and them trying to take care of each other. Fix-its in which they reconcile sooner, or he does go with her, a missing scene if you can find a place to put it, maybe a conversation about what their plans to go will do to their parents because holy shit. Or childhood backstory, maybe from before Michael did her thing to isolate herself from Spock for his own good; or maybe she doesn’t make that decision this time, and they can be a little happier. Frozen AU/fusion, because Michael is Elsa and Spock is Anna. I like the idea of her shaving his beard instead of him doing it himself. Maybe pon farr is a thing Michael ends up helping him with…possibly even before they can reconcile, for the angst.
Crossover Fandom - Star Trek: Discovery/Star Trek: The Original Series
Spock (ST: DIS)/Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)
Medium: Fanfiction
Star Trek: woobie DIS-era Spock meets and crushes on Uhura
Angst and Hurt/Comfort
Acts of Kindness
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Carried to bed by partner
Touch Starvation - Stoic character breaks down on being touched
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I really love the dynamic in TOS, and wonder how it might be if Uhura were around a Spock who’s both younger and more vulnerable because of all that’s happening around this time in his life? The troubled one who’s willing to tell Michael he finds he likes expressing his emotions, but is also still messed up by the kind of things his sister told him when they were children? He’s a bit pricklier here, though of course a lot of that is seen with Michael. Uhura’s an observant person with a light touch when it comes to interpersonal dynamics; that is, my impression is she knows to reach people, even people who on the surface might not seem easily reached. How close would she be to who she is by the time of TOS, and what would they make of each other?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SWTCW)
Medium: Fanfiction
One character wearing the other's clothes leads to feelings realisation
shirt theft
Sharing Clothes
Star Wars: Sacred Jedi Lightsaber Swapping Rituals
Star Wars: Anakin is found by the Sith before the Jedi
Star Wars: Ahsoka is kidnapped and sold instead of being found by the Jedi & Anakin remains a slave
Star Wars: Sith AU
Magic Sex is Required to Keep Magically Resurrected Character Alive - What if keeping Ahsoka alive needs a little more than a transfusion of the Daughter’s essence to make it stick? And Anakin is half-born of the Force, so maybe that could play into it.
Resurrection - leads to accidental soul bond
Resurrection - needs touch to stay alive
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Sex Pollen - Undercover as master and slave when both exposed to sex pollen
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Alternate Universe - Heathers Fusion in Setting of Requested Fandom
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence kink - mutual admiration
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go down such different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. I’d love something sweet during any time period; what about one of the times he’s sharing his mechanical knowledge-which he got from his mother-with her? I like to think it’s his way of meditation, and that it’s how he trains her with regard to that aspect of Jedi life. Or what about after a battle, when they both need to talk or just be together? I really liked the point in her novel where she’s thinking about how he used to take care of her after battles, help her deal with the mental toll of the war. I love their banter and their pleasure in dangerous situations, so maybe a moment building on that. Or something leaning on the near-telepathic abilities the Force gives them, with regard to being able to sense each others' feelings--they might sense something and pursue the matter, or get distracted and lose control of their own feelings. Not to mention, the Force gives them more stamina, so they could last awhile. Maybe they could celebrate a victory, or just let out their mischievous/competitive side during sex/something romantic. Or they could have any of the conversations they might otherwise engage in, except during sex/something romantic. Or they could be fixing his prosthesis! How about an AU where one or both of them was never found by the Jedi: Anakin remains a slave, Ahsoka was successfully captured as a toddler and sold by the bounty hunter (I love that bit of her backstory for the what-if of how she nearly had another thing in common with Anakin), so they run into each other under those circumstances; only one of them goes through what’s described above, until they’re found by the Sith, while the other remains a Jedi. Or maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. I’d also love a Regency AU (set in space or somewhere more historical) akin to Sorcerer of the Crown by Zen Cho, with Anakin in this unstable position in society due to his origins and Ahsoka, also with a less than respectable background, swooping into his life with all her confidence and talent. Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.”
Star Wars: Rebels
Ahsoka Tano/Darth Vader (SW Rebels)
Medium: Fanfiction
Alternate Universe - Canonically dead character lives and the ship lives happily ever after
Carried to bed by partner
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Daemon AU - Daemon touching reveals hidden feelings
Ghost Sex
Incorporeal character finds way to have mutually-pleasurable sex with corporeal character
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Star Wars: The adventures of Ahsoka and Force Ghost Anakin throughout the galaxy and beyond
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Gothic Romance
I really love these two, how they mirror each other and go such down different paths, how first Anakin tries to hold onto Ahsoka and then Ahsoka tries to hold onto him, the tragedy of their failure to manage it and living with that. It seems to me that trying to kill Ahsoka was not in Vader’s plan-he’d wanted her alive before, and he had opportunities he didn’t take-so what would he do if he ever did find out she survived him? Especially if she never came out to try and find him. Does he try to keep her a secret? Keep on going in the face of her not coming back? Or maybe he tries to reach her after he’s gone back to the Light Side; what do they say, and how do they begin to move on? Does she know it, with the mystical transformation she seems to have undergone by then? Or what if he actually survived-they thought their time to live was over, and now they have to deal with living in a galaxy they never expected, together. Is he exiled or hidden in some distant world, or even in the Unknown Regions, and does she go with him or does she find him? Or a fairytale AU! Some fairytales I can think of that might be relevant to this pairing are “The Snow Queen” and “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.” I can also see a bit of a Hades/Persephone element.
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Spock/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek: Alternate Original Series)
Medium: Fanfiction
Amnesia - Rebuilding Forgotten Romantic Relationship
Amnesia - retrograde amnesia makes A forget all about B and their relationship
Xeno - human and nonhuman trying to make a relationship work
Established Relationship
Soulmates - telepathic bond
Powers - Character is overwhelmed by their telepathy
Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading
Sharing Clothes
shirt theft
Soulbonds - Formed by Mutual Sex With All Parties Already Bonded
Soulbond - soulbound partners can feel each other's pain & pleasure
Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
Carried to bed by partner
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Case Fic
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I love these two, and the little stuff in the background as well as the forefront. The professionalism of them working together, where of course she’s going to face him about him letting their relationship influence where he puts her so that she’s in a lower position, his caving to her because he knows she’s right, and all the unspoken stuff underlying the interaction-and the sweet quiet moments of her trying to support him and him letting her support him, being affectionate, and then the idea that the original Spock being around both means that this Spock can continue onto the life he originally led on the Enterprise, and simultaneously means he’s going to live a different one from the start, more open to guidance from his emotions, with that benefit of hindsight.
I’d just love backstory for their relationship, missing scenes, or just future nice things going on while they’re embarking on adventures. Hanging out on New Vulcan, talking about each others’ families, bonding over geeky stuff, or doing plot-of-the-week stuff while exploring the galaxy with their crew.
Crossover Fandom - Star Trek/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Spock (Star Trek Prime Timeline)/Buffy Summers (BTVS TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Carried to bed by partner
Castaways in Time
Castaways in Time Have Chance to Go Home
Competence - highly effective teamwork
Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
Competence kink - mutual admiration
Crossover - Shared Universe AU
Crossover: Characters turn out to be highly compatible
Fish out of Temporal Water
Fusion - Characters are fused into the setting of another canon
Mentor/Protegé[e]
Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Touch-Starved Character Having Overwhelming Tender Long Foreplay First Time Sex
World-weary broken people find comfort and understanding with each other
Case Fic
Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
A couple other tags which didn’t make it into the signup, but which you are welcome to use if they inspire you:
Sex pollen - affected A tries to protect unaffected B from themself but B insists on staying
Sex Pollen - Accidentally hurting partner while under the influence
Hurt/Comfort - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity
I like the potential vibes of this! Buffy is blatantly guided by her heart and uses it, but-struggle with accepting this thing which was thrust on her notwithstanding-she’s committed to saving people, she’s willing to sacrifice and bears the weight, containing so much pain inside her to be strong for others. And she can be a pretty observant, intuitive person with people, and so empathetic and protective. Spock is so professional and level-headed, but he does have that deep well of feeling he keeps contained, because he understands he should, and a loneliness despite being among close friends which I think they could be able to recognize in each other. Buffy has a habit of being in quiet moments and talks with guys who get where she’s at even if they have different angles: Giles, Angel, Spike. And Spock doesn’t quite have the habit, but you see him being able to connect to Zarabeth as she shares her loneliness, external factors making that easier for him notwithstanding. They both know, for different reasons, something about what it’s like to walk in two worlds and try to live a life in which their whole selves can be fulfilled instead of denied. Plus, they both died a sacrificial death only to be brought back by determined friends. He’s the logic guy, but he also respects and values people who operate a little differently-I feel like Buffy is a little like Jim. And Spock is a little like both Giles and Angel, with the researching and the curiosity about new things plus that one time he quoted Byron, and the deep well of emotion he keeps in check. Not to mention the pon farr thing, which is different from Angel’s worry about losing his soul and wanting to find peace in her, but...it’s still related to the potential danger of instinct taking over, and their fear and shame of such a thing happening. And I can’t help but compare Jim being willing to get beat up to help Spock and then faking his death, with the resulting distress on Spock’s side and his willingness to get punished afterwards, to Buffy making a feverish Angel bite her and drain her to save him, and Angel’s resulting distress at his lack of control and wanting to remove himself from Sunnydale even further as his worst fears were confirmed. (This is optional of course, but I’ll mention it because it’s where this line of thought got me: if you want to do Kirk/Spock/Buffy instead of either Jim/Buffy or Buffy/Spock, you totally can.)
As for the logistics-there’s canon time travel in Star Trek. Buffy might see him in her context of demons, because that’s what she knows, but she’s capable of recognizing this doesn’t mean she needs to hurt him pretty quickly: see Angel after the initial post-kiss shock, and Oz. Or she goes forward in time-magic shenanigans, or she’s immortal in some way after the Slayer spell and still hunts demons in the future, or she’s frozen like Khan was-and Buffy, with a future even more open than it seemed in Chosen (if also bittersweet because of the loss of her loved ones from the show), gets up to adventures with him while exploring the galaxy? Or you could do a fusion in which one of them is AU’d into the setting of the other. How does Buffy do having to slay and have a life in space-would she be interested in joining Starfleet, can she make it with her life, or does she go out on her own, or relying on other people’s resources? Or maybe she doesn’t have to slay at all, she’s just another person out there dealing with weird things, as Star Trek characters do. As for AU’ing Spock into this setting-maybe he’s trapped in this dimension, or he/his family had to flee their home, or they ended up estranged something like in canon, and he’s got to hide himself to blend into this human society which is so much more backwards than in the TOS future, causing angst. If you want to add some mentor/mentee dynamic to it, maybe he’s a college/Starfleet Academy professor and she becomes a surprise favorite. Or he’s her Watcher (in either canon’s setting.)
Once more, thank you so very much, and I hope you have a wonderful exchange experience!