Trick Or Treat Exchange 2018
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skazkaTreat likes:
- domesticity scenes, even in less-than-domestic situations!
- mutual caretaking and h/c
- characters learning new skills or new things (about each other, their environment, their powers, etc.)
- monsters! werewolves, vampires, ghosts, revenants, mummies, etc.
- noir AUs (sadomasochistic henchmen, kinky love triangle subtext, corruption and paranoia!) or any kind of genre-based AU
- road trips
- character studies and introspection
- worldbuilding
- PWP, post-intimacy pillow talk, any kind of relationship vignette
- enemies-to-lovers or rivals-to-lovers
Trick likes:
- "came back wrong" -- undead revenants, hauntings, or just straight-up coming back from the dead or a near-miss with death leaving the person or people significantly altered
- cannibalism! grody vampires, wendigo myths
- serial killers (the fictional kind rather than true crime RPF)
- ghosts
- major character death
- wound fingering
- dubcon and noncon, power plays, and power imbalances
- nightmares and dreams (with or without supernatural dream invasion)
- necromancy, misuse of magic, bad vibes
- enemy ships between enemies who stay enemies or at least mistrustful for the duration of their conjunction
- dysfunctional relationships
A lot of these canons deal in some way with gnarly subject matter and I'm fine with any level of darkness with those canon elements. I like unhappy endings, fix-it fics, and anything in between. If you're interested in writing smut or a way wordier take on the tropes/kinks I love, my previous exchange letters are here. All of my ToT prompts this year are for fic, but if you're inspired to draw fanart I would be thrilled to receive it. If there's a ship-specific prompt below but you're not feeling the ship, feel free to swap it out for another.
DNWs: self-harm, eating disorders, child sexual abuse, unrequested incest. I don't want to receive explicit fic involving characters under 16. (Canon starvation in The Terror is a-okay, as well as fic that touches on TMIB's canonical sexual assault in Dark Tower fandom; general rough living/former sex work stuff for the Lost Boys gang is also fine.)
For general dislikes, I don't care for unrequested teacher/student ships, generic modern-day AUs, characters overhearing each other masturbating or having sex, "kissing practice"-type tropes, omegaverse AUs, urban fantasy werewolf tropes like packs and alphas, zombie apocalypses/post-apoc fic, or noncon where the victim starts wanting it and consenting to it partway through.
*
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Relationships: I ship the Man in Black with just about everybody -- Roland, Gabrielle, Steven Deschain, Eddie, Susannah, Susan Delgado, Maerlyn, have at it.
The Man In Black
- Man in Black backstory fic -- from running away from home to wandering several levels of existence making things worse
- fucked up stuff with Maerlyn's various orbs
- creepy Walter/Roland dream visitations
- more about that time Marten crashes Gabrielle's attempt at penance and piety to seduce her
- messing with Roland's ka-tet in whatever ways he sees fit
- extended version of his and Roland's palaver at the end of The Gunslinger, once more with banging
- wizard stuff -- freaky tarot or shapeshifting or MESSING AROUND WITH POISONS -- or drifter stuff drawing on his weird by-way-of-the-70s inspiration
- Walter appearing to people as exactly the dead person they least want to see, the way he seems to do in Wizard and Glass
- semi-voluntary Mordred babysitting (that may or may not end up with him getting eaten)
*
A Field In England (2013)
Relationships: I ship everybody/everybody, but especially Whitehead/O'Neil.
Whitehead
- altered states of consciousness! mushroom-induced or otherwise, delve into Early Modern psychedelia
- Whitehead gets reluctantly enlisted into ritual sex magic/human sacrifice/other freaky folk horror stuff
- Early Modern scrying and astronomy
- AU where Whitehead is the one who defects from his master's employ and O'Neil is the one sent in pursuit of him
- AU where the characters all meet in a more pleasant context -- maybe that damned alehouse?
- Early Modern university AU -- this can have equally high stakes as in canon or just be the tonal equivalent of a modern-style college AU
- terrible nonconny things happening to Whitehead (with or without the influence of psychedelics)
*
The Lost Boys
David, Dwayne, Marko, Michael, Star
Relationships: I ship David/Michael, Michael/David/Star, and any combo of vampire gang members at any given time.
- BOARDWALK HIJINKS (ear piercings, dirtbike races, brawls and feuds, getting gussied up for a night out, dirtbaggy entertainment)
- dream sequences and weird visions
- backstory fic for any of David's gang members
- OT3 fic, either above-board and agreed-upon or barely realized and repressed and weird, between David/Michael/Star
- alternate-ending/bad ending fic where Max is triumphant -- what next?
- genderswap -- I've gotten some awesome all-girls fic about David's gang but I can't get enough of that
- dirtybadwrong vampire gang action
- how alien are the Lost Boys universe's vampires anyway? Anything exploring their powers and abilities, and what this passel of hapless teenagers are going to do with them.
- what's the vampire version of a first date? how did [vampire pair of your choice] end up together? Awkward tremulous summertime coming of age self-discovery shit, with fangs.
*
Solo: A Star Wars story
Relationships: Dryden Vos is my little black dress of evil and I ship him with everybody -- Beckett, Lando, Han, Qi'ra, Val, Chewie, Darth Maul, hell, what's Orson Krennic doing ten years before the battle of Yavin? I ship Qi'ra with Han, Dryden Vos, or Val, but if you can massage timelines to have older and wiser crime boss Qi'ra cross paths with ESB-era Leia, go for it.
Dryden Vos
- getting turned on by murder and violence
- all kinds of xeno, especially anything dealing with Dryden Vos' mood-sensitive facial markings
- Dryden Vos arguing with his space tailor
- high-stakes social events -- sabacc games, cocktail parties, negotiations
- arranged fake!marriage for business purposes (tax evasion purposes?)
- wrangling desperately to get out of a tight spot with Darth Maul
- dirtybadwrong sexual bargaining (either as the aggressor or the person being forced to acquiesce)
- outside POV where other characters have no idea if Qi'ra and Dryden Vos are banging and are too terrified to find out
Qi'ra
- Qi'ra femdomming the shit out of everybody
- What was Qi'ra doing on Corellia when Dryden Vos recruited her?
- Han tries to show Qi'ra she's not as bad as she thinks she is… Qi'ra shows Han otherwise.
- Qi'ra sorts out some paperwork issues by using lethal force
- film noir AU -- the Gilda influences make Qi'ra a natural for the femme fatale role but I'd love something with her as a kinky hardboiled henchwoman or investigating a crime (with more crime)
- AU where Qi'ra ends up getting enlisted by Enfys Nest's Cloud-Riders instead of by Crimson Dawn
- aaaaaangst (I love Qi'ra's scrum-waif-gone-bad factor but I also love how being ruthless and allying herself with Crimson Dawn has gotten her to greater heights than she might have with Han, and anything that explores the tension between those two would be great)
- pet sociopath tropes -- Qi'ra doing terrible ruthless things in service of someone (somewhat) more morally upright, or someone doing terrible ruthless things on Qi'ra's behalf so she can at least nominally keep her hands clean.
- angsty branding/tattooing aftermath
*
The Terror (TV 2018)
Relationships: I ship Silna/Goodsir, Goodsir/any, and Hickey/any -- especially Hickey/Crozier, Hickey/Goodsir, and Hickey/Gibson.
General fandom prompts:
- VAMPIRES ON BOARD EREBUS/TERROR. They can be the low-key New England Vampire Panic kind where the most visible symptoms of their predation is slowly perishing of consumption, or a full-on Dracula-aboard-the-Demeter-style bloodbath, or something else entirely.
- John Carpenter's *The Thing*-inspired AU -- characters wrangling with a grotesque SF horror using mid-19th-century science
- Carnivale goes off without a hitch… or goes off the rails in a way weirder way (somebody gets murdered and Hickey has to clear his name? discipline dissolves entirely and things turn into a freaky costumed orgy?)
- multi-way soulbonds/involuntary dream-sharing
Lady Silence | Silna
- Silna having prophetic dreams (dream-sharing with the folks on Erebus and Terror optional -- whether that means walking through the symbolism version of their weird collective subconscious or showing up in a specific person's dreams/nightmares like "sup")
- getting pet sociopath'd by a giant bear with a human face
- Silna gets a new tuurngaq to assist her (either in a positive constructive way or in a "damn it out of the frying pan and into the fire" kind of way -- can be an animal spirit or a humanesque one)
- How did Silna end up apprenticed to the older shaman? Did she come to his attention because of some gift, or did he take her in some othe way?
- getting haunted to hell and back by Goodsir's ghost
- Silna gets pulled out of retirement to deal with lingering supernatural fuckery related to the wreckage of the ships
- good times/sad times with Silna's shamanic mentor
Cornelius Hickey
- Hickey seducing and destroying
- flogging aftermath -- whumpy, kinky, or mindfucky
- running away to the Sandwich Islands after all
- whaling ship AU
- AU where Crozier ends up leading his own faction shortly before (or instead of) Sir John's death and Hickey aggressively inserts himself as his liaison to the crew
- body-snatchers AU
- one of the already standard divergence points for this fandom is a fix-it where the Tuunbaq doesn't interrupt the hanging until after Hickey's already been executed -- so how about a fix-it for everybody but Hickey where Hickey's ghost still haunts the shit out of [character of your choice]?
Harry D.S. Goodsir
- crossover with Frankenstein where Goodsir low-key counsels Shelley's Creature out of some of his misanthropy
- ...or the other kind of Frankenstein AU where Goodsir makes himself a creature of his own
- body-snatchers AU from the luckless anatomist's POV!
- dark!Goodsir going all Dr. Stanley in the manner of your choice
- alternately, dark!Goodsir hitting a moral breaking point when asked to participate in cannibalism and just kind of surrendering to being a member of the Hickey Squad
- Goodsir makes a genuinely nice and interesting scientific discovery (new species of mollusc? previously hitherto unknown way of synthesizing Vitamin C?)
- shipboard gardening
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde AU (somewhere, there is a Badsir)
- domesticity scenes, even in less-than-domestic situations!
- mutual caretaking and h/c
- characters learning new skills or new things (about each other, their environment, their powers, etc.)
- monsters! werewolves, vampires, ghosts, revenants, mummies, etc.
- noir AUs (sadomasochistic henchmen, kinky love triangle subtext, corruption and paranoia!) or any kind of genre-based AU
- road trips
- character studies and introspection
- worldbuilding
- PWP, post-intimacy pillow talk, any kind of relationship vignette
- enemies-to-lovers or rivals-to-lovers
Trick likes:
- "came back wrong" -- undead revenants, hauntings, or just straight-up coming back from the dead or a near-miss with death leaving the person or people significantly altered
- cannibalism! grody vampires, wendigo myths
- serial killers (the fictional kind rather than true crime RPF)
- ghosts
- major character death
- wound fingering
- dubcon and noncon, power plays, and power imbalances
- nightmares and dreams (with or without supernatural dream invasion)
- necromancy, misuse of magic, bad vibes
- enemy ships between enemies who stay enemies or at least mistrustful for the duration of their conjunction
- dysfunctional relationships
A lot of these canons deal in some way with gnarly subject matter and I'm fine with any level of darkness with those canon elements. I like unhappy endings, fix-it fics, and anything in between. If you're interested in writing smut or a way wordier take on the tropes/kinks I love, my previous exchange letters are here. All of my ToT prompts this year are for fic, but if you're inspired to draw fanart I would be thrilled to receive it. If there's a ship-specific prompt below but you're not feeling the ship, feel free to swap it out for another.
DNWs: self-harm, eating disorders, child sexual abuse, unrequested incest. I don't want to receive explicit fic involving characters under 16. (Canon starvation in The Terror is a-okay, as well as fic that touches on TMIB's canonical sexual assault in Dark Tower fandom; general rough living/former sex work stuff for the Lost Boys gang is also fine.)
For general dislikes, I don't care for unrequested teacher/student ships, generic modern-day AUs, characters overhearing each other masturbating or having sex, "kissing practice"-type tropes, omegaverse AUs, urban fantasy werewolf tropes like packs and alphas, zombie apocalypses/post-apoc fic, or noncon where the victim starts wanting it and consenting to it partway through.
*
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Relationships: I ship the Man in Black with just about everybody -- Roland, Gabrielle, Steven Deschain, Eddie, Susannah, Susan Delgado, Maerlyn, have at it.
The Man In Black
- Man in Black backstory fic -- from running away from home to wandering several levels of existence making things worse
- fucked up stuff with Maerlyn's various orbs
- creepy Walter/Roland dream visitations
- more about that time Marten crashes Gabrielle's attempt at penance and piety to seduce her
- messing with Roland's ka-tet in whatever ways he sees fit
- extended version of his and Roland's palaver at the end of The Gunslinger, once more with banging
- wizard stuff -- freaky tarot or shapeshifting or MESSING AROUND WITH POISONS -- or drifter stuff drawing on his weird by-way-of-the-70s inspiration
- Walter appearing to people as exactly the dead person they least want to see, the way he seems to do in Wizard and Glass
- semi-voluntary Mordred babysitting (that may or may not end up with him getting eaten)
*
A Field In England (2013)
Relationships: I ship everybody/everybody, but especially Whitehead/O'Neil.
Whitehead
- altered states of consciousness! mushroom-induced or otherwise, delve into Early Modern psychedelia
- Whitehead gets reluctantly enlisted into ritual sex magic/human sacrifice/other freaky folk horror stuff
- Early Modern scrying and astronomy
- AU where Whitehead is the one who defects from his master's employ and O'Neil is the one sent in pursuit of him
- AU where the characters all meet in a more pleasant context -- maybe that damned alehouse?
- Early Modern university AU -- this can have equally high stakes as in canon or just be the tonal equivalent of a modern-style college AU
- terrible nonconny things happening to Whitehead (with or without the influence of psychedelics)
*
The Lost Boys
David, Dwayne, Marko, Michael, Star
Relationships: I ship David/Michael, Michael/David/Star, and any combo of vampire gang members at any given time.
- BOARDWALK HIJINKS (ear piercings, dirtbike races, brawls and feuds, getting gussied up for a night out, dirtbaggy entertainment)
- dream sequences and weird visions
- backstory fic for any of David's gang members
- OT3 fic, either above-board and agreed-upon or barely realized and repressed and weird, between David/Michael/Star
- alternate-ending/bad ending fic where Max is triumphant -- what next?
- genderswap -- I've gotten some awesome all-girls fic about David's gang but I can't get enough of that
- dirtybadwrong vampire gang action
- how alien are the Lost Boys universe's vampires anyway? Anything exploring their powers and abilities, and what this passel of hapless teenagers are going to do with them.
- what's the vampire version of a first date? how did [vampire pair of your choice] end up together? Awkward tremulous summertime coming of age self-discovery shit, with fangs.
*
Solo: A Star Wars story
Relationships: Dryden Vos is my little black dress of evil and I ship him with everybody -- Beckett, Lando, Han, Qi'ra, Val, Chewie, Darth Maul, hell, what's Orson Krennic doing ten years before the battle of Yavin? I ship Qi'ra with Han, Dryden Vos, or Val, but if you can massage timelines to have older and wiser crime boss Qi'ra cross paths with ESB-era Leia, go for it.
Dryden Vos
- getting turned on by murder and violence
- all kinds of xeno, especially anything dealing with Dryden Vos' mood-sensitive facial markings
- Dryden Vos arguing with his space tailor
- high-stakes social events -- sabacc games, cocktail parties, negotiations
- arranged fake!marriage for business purposes (tax evasion purposes?)
- wrangling desperately to get out of a tight spot with Darth Maul
- dirtybadwrong sexual bargaining (either as the aggressor or the person being forced to acquiesce)
- outside POV where other characters have no idea if Qi'ra and Dryden Vos are banging and are too terrified to find out
Qi'ra
- Qi'ra femdomming the shit out of everybody
- What was Qi'ra doing on Corellia when Dryden Vos recruited her?
- Han tries to show Qi'ra she's not as bad as she thinks she is… Qi'ra shows Han otherwise.
- Qi'ra sorts out some paperwork issues by using lethal force
- film noir AU -- the Gilda influences make Qi'ra a natural for the femme fatale role but I'd love something with her as a kinky hardboiled henchwoman or investigating a crime (with more crime)
- AU where Qi'ra ends up getting enlisted by Enfys Nest's Cloud-Riders instead of by Crimson Dawn
- aaaaaangst (I love Qi'ra's scrum-waif-gone-bad factor but I also love how being ruthless and allying herself with Crimson Dawn has gotten her to greater heights than she might have with Han, and anything that explores the tension between those two would be great)
- pet sociopath tropes -- Qi'ra doing terrible ruthless things in service of someone (somewhat) more morally upright, or someone doing terrible ruthless things on Qi'ra's behalf so she can at least nominally keep her hands clean.
- angsty branding/tattooing aftermath
*
The Terror (TV 2018)
Relationships: I ship Silna/Goodsir, Goodsir/any, and Hickey/any -- especially Hickey/Crozier, Hickey/Goodsir, and Hickey/Gibson.
General fandom prompts:
- VAMPIRES ON BOARD EREBUS/TERROR. They can be the low-key New England Vampire Panic kind where the most visible symptoms of their predation is slowly perishing of consumption, or a full-on Dracula-aboard-the-Demeter-style bloodbath, or something else entirely.
- John Carpenter's *The Thing*-inspired AU -- characters wrangling with a grotesque SF horror using mid-19th-century science
- Carnivale goes off without a hitch… or goes off the rails in a way weirder way (somebody gets murdered and Hickey has to clear his name? discipline dissolves entirely and things turn into a freaky costumed orgy?)
- multi-way soulbonds/involuntary dream-sharing
Lady Silence | Silna
- Silna having prophetic dreams (dream-sharing with the folks on Erebus and Terror optional -- whether that means walking through the symbolism version of their weird collective subconscious or showing up in a specific person's dreams/nightmares like "sup")
- getting pet sociopath'd by a giant bear with a human face
- Silna gets a new tuurngaq to assist her (either in a positive constructive way or in a "damn it out of the frying pan and into the fire" kind of way -- can be an animal spirit or a humanesque one)
- How did Silna end up apprenticed to the older shaman? Did she come to his attention because of some gift, or did he take her in some othe way?
- getting haunted to hell and back by Goodsir's ghost
- Silna gets pulled out of retirement to deal with lingering supernatural fuckery related to the wreckage of the ships
- good times/sad times with Silna's shamanic mentor
Cornelius Hickey
- Hickey seducing and destroying
- flogging aftermath -- whumpy, kinky, or mindfucky
- running away to the Sandwich Islands after all
- whaling ship AU
- AU where Crozier ends up leading his own faction shortly before (or instead of) Sir John's death and Hickey aggressively inserts himself as his liaison to the crew
- body-snatchers AU
- one of the already standard divergence points for this fandom is a fix-it where the Tuunbaq doesn't interrupt the hanging until after Hickey's already been executed -- so how about a fix-it for everybody but Hickey where Hickey's ghost still haunts the shit out of [character of your choice]?
Harry D.S. Goodsir
- crossover with Frankenstein where Goodsir low-key counsels Shelley's Creature out of some of his misanthropy
- ...or the other kind of Frankenstein AU where Goodsir makes himself a creature of his own
- body-snatchers AU from the luckless anatomist's POV!
- dark!Goodsir going all Dr. Stanley in the manner of your choice
- alternately, dark!Goodsir hitting a moral breaking point when asked to participate in cannibalism and just kind of surrendering to being a member of the Hickey Squad
- Goodsir makes a genuinely nice and interesting scientific discovery (new species of mollusc? previously hitherto unknown way of synthesizing Vitamin C?)
- shipboard gardening
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde AU (somewhere, there is a Badsir)
