Crueltide

[for_sorrow]

Not every story is pleasant. Not every story has a happy ending. And sometimes, those are the kinds of stories that we really, really want to read.

If you're one of the many people interested in either writing or receiving darkfic for Yuletide, then Crueltide is here to devour your soul for you!

Why Crueltide?Because darkfic isn't to everyone's

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[of_carabas]

AO3: DeCarabas
Letter: Here.
Fandoms: Lost Boys, Near Dark, Rappaccini's Daughter, Sleep No More, X-Force
Wanted tropes:

All of them. All the tropes. Cannibalism, poisoning, and altered states are some of my favorites, but I am up for absolutely everything on that list. But in particular:

Lost Boys and Near Dark - These are both vampire movies where the blood-drinking is often more violent than sexy, and they tend to enjoy playing mind games with their victims - I love all of that. Playing cat and mouse with a victim to the point of mental breakdown. Any kind of guro or body horror - both in terms of their victims and in terms of the amount of damage a vampire can take and survive. Blood-induced altered states. And in Lost Boys, low-level mind control of the sort that was in canon, with David getting in Michael's head - I'd love to see Michael try that on someone else.

Rappaccini's Daughter - Poisonous plants! Forced isolation! Mind-altering toxins! Mad science on an unwilling subject! Physical transformation-based horror! People whose mere presence causes the slow death of everything around them! And that's just what's in canon. I'd love more of all of the above, please.

Sleep No More (Fulton and Bargarran) - Anything involving being trapped in an eternal loop, whether they're aware of it or not. Anything involving magic and the witches' influence. Stalking. Desecration of religious objects or places. Altered mental states. Torture, murder or suicide only to reset at the end of the loop.

X-Force (Sam Guthrie and Pete Wisdom) - I don't have any dark tropes in mind for this fandom (well, my prompts revolve around the reaction to a faked death in canon, I suppose that's dark-ish), but I'm listing it here anyway because if a darkfic idea strikes you, I'm certainly up for it.

Unwanted tropes: I'd rather not see any suicides for canon characters unless they don't stay dead.