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( partial list of elviaprose and I"s D/U fic ideas )
installment wars
heep is a great actor
hate sex of various kinds
australia visit where heep is super prosperous. He runs a huge crime ring and has a houseboy who he tries to get David to fuck.
Australia visit where David decides to write a novel based on heep
Ladies’ Man: Heep gets drunk and tells David he's never wanted a woman
Heep wants david but knows it’s impossible
Cheek-ache: post slap fic
Heep comes back to england when agnes has just died and david cries on him
Ancient Enemy: Heep comes back when they're old
ABO, heep is a secret alpha and takes David's virginity (you’re right, this is shameful) (I know what I did)
Heep changes David into a woman
Victorian Hogwarts
BDSM verse (sub!David)
BDSM verse (dom!David)
Messers Steerforth, Copperfield & Heep, Esquires: law threesome
Most Desired Outcome: david's like what would make you leave agnes alone&heep is like wellll
wickfield dies early
Wear You Like A Charm: abo fake relationship
prison fic
prisoner/warden
heep's afraid of damnation
black magic ideas
The Rake and the Racketeer: heep steerforth bodyswap
rp/casual sex at wickfield's
Impersonal History: unreliable narrator david
Drink Deep: Love potion
Uriah's dad was lovely and David is obsessed with hearing about them and wants to pretend they're brothers/tell each other EVERYTHING idea
David follows Uriah and catches him seeing a male prostitute (nice reaction and bad reaction)
A Young Gentleman Meeting Your Specifications Exactly: David becomes a (casual, temporary) male prostitute when he loses his fortune, pimp sets him up with Uriah
Fandom AU!!
Uriah and Agnes do get married for practical reasons, don't want sex with each other
Uriah comes over to David's new cottage pre Dora marriage and is passive aggressive and nasty
Setting Up House: Uriah ends up helping David manage his household via letter while he's married to Dora
Bathsheba
Pen-pals
The Personal History, Misadventures, Experience and Certain Cutting Observations of Uriah Heep the Younger of Canterbury (Which He Never Meant to Be Read By Another Living Soul on Any Account): Uriah keeps a diary, and it's amazing. David finds it, reads it, trades favors for more volumes
Self-Immolation: Uriah keeps a diary and it's messy. David burns it, Uriah devastated.
Artless: David notices the layers of Uriah's accent while they're having sex
"Hero-hotic"
Tenth Muse: Uriah does crimes based on notes in David's books (Canterbury Court Registry, potentially bank fraud)
Inconstant Heart: David cheats on Agnes a lot
Heliotropism: David cheats on Uriah
More than kin, less than kind: David and Uriah are cousins and Uriah wants to marry him
In Vino Very Annoying: Uriah gets drunk due to Wickfield on David's 15th bday and they have sex
Improperly Done: David drops an H
Drubbing It In: Uriah asks David to physically punish him when he makes a mistake learning law, because that's what he's used to
Lickspittle: Uriah has actually never been physically punished in school (I don't remember where we went with this idea tho, but I do remember that it had to do with humiliating David)
Edmund Effect: Uriah is Wickfield's bastard son
I’ll Have The Law On You: David’s dad and Uriah’s dad draw up a marriage contract for them before David’s even born. Uriah treasures it and/or springs it on David.
Uriah takes David under his wing, David is his devoted protege
Pirate AU
David meets Uriah when drunk, rambles about pirate Uriah, they have out of control roleplay
Sympathies of Temperament: Steerforth charms Uriah against Uriah’s will with his ‘oh I want to control everything vital to David’ bs
Uriah likes that David’s a brat.
Uriah thinks he and David are playing a game, trying to steal more of each other’s lives
Dandyism: Uriah helps David dress nicely (potentially encounters david while he’s uselessly parading in his nice clothes for Dora, but not running into her)
Uriah writes a My Secret Life type thing with a David-esque POV character (or maybe David writes it. But there should be a My Secret Life type fic for this)
Uriah watches David, eats a meal “with” him while not with him, pines hatefully
David follows Uriah and he’s not doing his servile thing and seems almost likeable
Uriah loves spending david’s money, buys himself a suit, thinks of it as David’s suit, it ends up being all he has
Now time hath wasted me: One where David gets Uriah and Agnes to play games with him. It’s sad. Agnes points out that Uriah had to work late after and David furiously wants to give the time back.
Uriah likes to stage manage, sits David in a specific chair, etc
Dora is obliviously awful to Uriah, David is deeply shamed (this was an idea for the lovely dad one but also we branched off in other ways)
Uriah is actually a vampire
Uriah patches David up after his fight with the butcher, tells him what bear grease is really for and/or teaches him how to WIN a fight like that
One of Uriah’s old schoolmates makes a delivery and is terrified of him, tells David about what a terrifying person he was (also turns out Uriah and this guy used to fuck)
In Australia, Heep converts to catholicism in order to have to go to church less. Goes to confession and describes his sins with the greatest relish possible.
Heep ends up SUPER RICH (wacky Little Dorrit style secret inheritance) and wants David to love him. David is clueless.
Modern AU where they fuck during David’s bachelor party
Uriah sets things up so David can board with him and his mother instead of Wickfield
David-Uriah body swap
Aunt Betsey and Mrs. Heep are both witches and know this about each other. One day Betsey just turns Uriah into an eel and he flops around. (E: This is a weird kink, elviaprose.)
David joins the Navy after money’s stolen and is never quite the same, Uriah is sad about it
Uriah’s mom was insane over Uriah’s dad, stole his food bowl, etc
Modern AU, David does a sugar daddy type gig to pay for college
Modern AU, Uriah needs someone to pretend to be his boyfriend, Micawber finds David to do it for him, David is AMAZING in his Davidness
Modern AU where they are lawyers on opposite sides of a case and had sex when they were 18/22-23. David left for college without even telling Uriah because he didn’t think they were really in a relationship and Uriah was heartbroken.
Strangers on a Train fusion, canon setting but where they never met. David must kill Wickfield in exchange for Uriah driving Murdstone to suicide.
Modern AU where they meet on a train, Uriah is at his most obnoxious when they talk, then can’t stop himself from taking pictures of sleeping David
Heep starts talking to Agnes at a party, trying to get her to talk about how much she wants David/torture her with that, ends up twisting himself into a weird knot and running off to an empty room. David goes in there to try to fetch him so he can leave, they end up having sex.
They are hot modern day lesbians and Uriah looks like La Roux or Annie Lennox (M: I feel bad about how much I want this)
Post novel, Uriah forges tons of letters and frames David for sodomy with Steerforth. David moves to Australia to escape the public eye after he’s acquitted to Uriah’s absolute JOY.
Soulmate AU. They are soulmates and have to live together as husband and husband for a year before they can split. Uriah calls David his other self and it is the most delicious crack.
Uriah calls on David after his shameful night of debauchery w/Steerforth
One where just kissing is hugely charged
apocalypse where it’s just them and Uriah has wished it
apocalypse where the full cast is there and Uriah is King
Apocalypse pet one
Doll museum
David tries to make Uriah into a prince charming for gay lifestyle a magazine feature
Uriah makes his mom turn him into a beautiful woman
Uriah is a photographer
Crossover with b/a
that'd be a cute one where David comes to uriah for filthy hatesex and uriah's just like twee and david's disappointed, and then david's the one to like, suggest vile shit and uriah's like, scandalized but interested
7up
Porn company
David can’t get uriah out of his head so he has sex with him; uriah is like omg this makes so much sense, my life is permanently changed, and David’s like--ok, so that was a good one time thing.
Bible AU where David IS King
David gets caught with Uriah and Uriah gets fired!!
Uriah plans B&As wedding
David has all kinds of cool stuff he wrote and Mr. Dick gave him in his room and just leaves it there when he leaves.
Old roman bath swimming
I Always Cry At Weddings: David and Uriah screw every wedding, Modern AU
Viking bullshit
maybe at some point david could try to silent treatment him
BABYSWAP
David might be like--I think in your heart you are a FULL BORE romantic, you want to live and die for someone, you're passionate and obsessive, and you hate yourself and enjoy punishing yourself and THRIVE off hate/don't know what to do without that driver, so you want to marry someone you don't love for money, to feel the degradation of it always and to torture yourself with a true object you cannot have
you could also do a modern AU where Uriah tells David that he’s always loved Agnes and all his evil plans, etc, and David’s like-think fast, David-oh, got it! this will work: “But I love you! I thought you always knew. Agnes has known for years, she’d never take you from me”
Travel journalist David Copperfield has bagged the honeymoon trip of a lifetime. The trouble is, after his world imploded two weeks ago, he’s now desperately in need of a husband!-fun if David’s just like on social media like anyone want to come with me? And Uriah’s like “oh, I’d LOVE to”
Bad Therapist (novel?)
relationship or casual sex fic where David found sucking him off really reassuring and like, asks to do it or is vv grateful when uriah offers if he's stressed/worried, and can like, skip off to a meeting feeling calmed after having done it
Modern AU: Uriah has married Wickfield for his money and Wickfield tells David to take care of him
Victorian setting: Uriah assumes he and David will continue to fuck but will both marry, David’s like omg you are ICE COLD
Rumplestiltskin
Little Mermaid
high/low sidhe
Australia, Uriah thinks he’s over him
Australia, Uriah TOTALLY PREPARED FOR HIS VISIT
David tells him he’s boring, he freaks out, eviscerating empathy one
Groundhog day
The one where David accidentally leads him on/fucks him over
The inverse one where Uriah steals the money but coaxes him into a relationship but then it comes out
Uriah does share the bed, David wakes up to cuddling he initiated but Uriah being weeeeird about it
Crossover with Degrees and book
Degrees fic where Uriah DETERMINED to buy out a sex shop as a wedding present
Tattoo au
David fakes his death, uriah finds and kidnaps him
a fic where David is fucking Adams and Uriah finds out
Maldon
‘Not over it’ long letter writing
Piece of the Action: Uriah in charge of a London crime syndicate
Warden fic
she's like no david don't throw yourself on the altar of his blatant interest in you to try to buy him off, and david's like ????, and she's like DON'T FUCK HIM FOR MY SAKE
David went to prison subconsciously to see him/goes to Australia after him bc he’s WAY more interested than he’s aware of and really represses it
Davida widow
Davida possibly pregnant by S
always-a-girl-Uriah, like Sally Brass
Trans David one
Tease fic