FFFX letter

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Thanks for checking out my letter! I hope it helps spark ideas and look forward to seeing what you make. Even with all these likes and prompts, be assured that I'm open to all kinds of things, so feel free to come up with ideas that work for you. The important thing is to avoid my DNWs and I'll be down with the results.

For the sake of having all information in one spot, my AO3 is Etnoe.


General likes

• Sharing clothes


• Monsters


• There was only one bed! (Or recuperacoon, or whatever other fandom wrinkle might apply.)


• Humour


• Body swap


• Kisses anywhere on the body


• Interactive fiction (for any of my requests, whether or not I asked for fic)


• Epistolary stories


• Hair (e.g. getting played with as a gesture of fondness; magic hair; characters trying out different styles; fingers buried in hair in a moment of passion)


• Food (e.g. characters enjoying it; learning to make it; getting good food or a favourite food after a long time without; a lavish spread getting depicted/described)


• Religious iconography/rituals/themes (e.g. illuminated manuscript stylings; fetish statues; stained glass effects; dramatic use of altars; blasphemy)


• Wordless or almost wordless comics


• Poetry (themes from RL poetry, or quoting in-universe poets, or as a way to tell the story)


• Sound effects as a prominent feature in comics (e.g. a BAM that flattens or knocks over a character; if a tree falls in the forest, could the BAM have leaves and twigs?; music wrapping around characters as they dance)


• Flowers (present in a scene, or as a symbolic element)


• Sense of place (little details that stand out to the characters; backgrounds, from broad-strokes atmospheric to detailed; weather; memories wrapped up with a location)

Do not include

• D/s, exhibitionism, rape, spanking, fisting, scat, sex involving characters under 15


• steampunk, college AUs (if based in canon context, a college setting is fine)


• permanent non-canon character death, hopeless endings, addiction issues, cheating/infidelity


• focus on torture, serial killers, zombies (unless present in canon), eating of any sapient species


• All characters having colour-coded speaking bubbles, all the time. If it signals something unusual happening (e.g. emotions rising, magic, supernatural being) then it's fine, but please no having it as the default. Exception: Homestuck, where it feels entirely natural.

Stranger Things

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Max & Billy
This is such a volatile relationship that I want anything where it progresses. Where to, that's wide open - feel free to ignore season 3 if you want. They can end up at actual bonding from living in the same shitty situation, reluctant teammates, something like friends, increased mutual loathing, depending on each other, never having anything to do with each other again... As long as Max ends up OK, any of the possibilities work for me. Billy being OK too would be a bonus, but since he's contributing most of the issues in this relationship, if the story doesn't go that way then that works too. But if incorporating season 3, I'd prefer them to have improved their relationship in the ~8-month gap between the seasons. At that point I can only make sense of them as having gained a decent understanding.

• AU where these two encounter the supernatural in California. Maybe a gate or something similar gets opened there too - or maybe Hawkins undergoes a disaster, some of the characters from there move to the West Coast, and they bring a little Upside Down/government conspiracy with them. ST-style horror about any of California's environs/myths & legends/iconic imagery/80s pop culture would be cool.


• Bonding in a post-apocalyptic scenario.


• Time-travel fix-it. A future version of one of them sends their consciousness back in time to try and prevent a bad outcome. Feel free to pick a canon bad outcome or make one up. (And also, to have a comic that focuses on one dramatic scene out of this idea, a whole epic is not necessary!)


• Post-s2, Billy treating Max as being as likely to explode on an everyday basis as his dad, to a point where it's actually weird for her because surely he can't think she's got a nailbat on her ALL the time. Maybe it's weird for him too, but the reaction is almost reflexive.


• Fighting monsters together. Max impresses Billy by knowing what's up? Billy thinking he's got to do it all on his own until stumbling on Max and the others being involved? Surprising protective impulses? What makeshift weapons do they use?


• There is a small "Killing Neil Hargrove" fic subgenre and uh. That could be a bonding activity. Especially if he's got violent with Max and/or Susan.


• Werewolf AU. Whether one is a werewolf, their whole family is, or the monsters they encounter in Hawkins are werewolves.


• Times they've cried in front of each other.


• How they got to the point of an improved relationship by s3. In the Snow Ball epilogue for s2, Billy looks regretful to me, even though Max looks like she's not giving him an inch. What changes her mind?

Worldbuilding
I'd love something that explored the Upside Down and/or its monsters, or what effect the US government has had on Hawkins and how they operate there (and other supernatural bases around the country?), or an adventure with OCs in Hawkins (who else out there glimpsed a demogorgon or demodog, or had to escape the flayed?).

Groups I would be interested in for this: Billy & Max; the Party; Byers family; El & Max; Wheeler family; Robin & Steve; Scoops Troop; Mr Clarke & anyone; OCs; Heather Holloway & Doris Driscoll if they'd survived the flaying, or maybe one or both of them before they succumbed completely; Joyce & or / Karen, Alexei & or / Murray. Or, an unusual team-up like ST has been making a habit of. I also like the idea that post-season 3 and the mass deaths/Starcourt exposé, all kinds of journalists, conspiracy theorists, and strange people headed to Hawkins - that could be a source of OCs.

• What else the Upside Down might be mirroring in the way that it mirrors Hawkins. People, so that there are ghostly figures stumbling about? Animals? Other places on Earth, or anywhere in the universe? Perhaps this could be an overview of different beings who stumble into it. Or some of the governments using it for shady research have figured out a way to safely view it from the normal world or to explore it with less death.


• The Mind Flayer sufferers are consistent enough on using the pronouns 'he/him' in those haunted tones, which makes me wonder about what makes them so sure of the Mind Flayer's gender. How does this species work with gender? How would it reproduce? Or is this one-of-a-kind eldritch being just really firm on his gender? I am open to a cracky interpretation for this prompt.


• I have a headcanon that the "Energy Department" collaborated with scientists from other countries, and now the second-hand book stores are full of bilingual phrasebooks and there are an unusual number of people living at the edges of town willing to teach French/Italian/etc. And that's how Robin learned various languages. Maybe an AU where this leads to her stumbling on the Upside Down stuff earlier, or she puts together post-S3 that this is the case and wants to go snooping for more details of what they did?


• The question of how the slugogorgons stayed in Will haunts me. He was rescued in November and still had slug troubles on Christmas Eve, so like, was he a mini-portal where they briefly popped through him, or a plain old host that carried them inside? A representation of what the Upside Down was doing to him, mentally and/or physically, to make this work would be intriguing.


• The relationship between the Flayer and the demogorgons. Are they different aspects of one entity? Did one come before the other? Did the Flayer have to struggle to learn to control them or was there some kind of deal made, if the demogorgons are intelligent enough for that?


• Mind control horror with the flayed. I found it intriguing how the Mind Flayer uses bad memories against them, and how it plays with what they perceive (like when Billy heard "Heather" saying to take her with him). Maybe some animal POV too, like the rats'? Grim canon-compliant ending or a more upbeat version both work for me.

Original Work: Trickster God/Reincarnated God of Death

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It's the wrinkle added by the 'reincarnation' that makes this intriguing for me. Does the trickster have to search for now-alive Death through various incarnations? Were they allies, and the death of Death was all-round tragic, or enemies, and the successful killing was - at least at first - a triumph for the trickster? Then there could be reactions from others in this pantheon or Death's new mortal family/friends, or major differences in how a world without a death god works. I'd love to see the possibilities explored. Any genders are fine. As is any setting or time period.

Note: this request is an exception for my zombie DNW, since it seems like a fair possibility. But my squick for people getting eaten remains, so please keep that well off-screen or have these zombies be different.

• It's the trickster's fault that the god of death died. One day the reincarnated version starts getting positively showered with apology gifts.


• They were enemies, and the trickster comes to kill the reincarnation as soon as it's obvious that this is a new form of an old adversary. But ... the new form isn't as detestable to the trickster as the old, and is in fact charming...


• Few people seek out the capricious trickster, but this person has felt a pull to do so for years. Maybe (as former death god) they're a staid type that finds it difficult to think of offerings, or they have a macabre sense of humour that the trickster god's few devotees approve of.


• These two had an alliance for a very long time, but now the Reincarnated God of Death is too weak to help out. What methods can a non-divine being use to help a god? And does this involve assistance against an epic adversary, or with tricks, or with divine tasks?


• Strongly animal-themed gods. Both are gods conceived of by animals, or reincarnated Death is now an animal? For some reason I am hung up on ants, so that would be nice to see as an influence. Or underwater species of animal. Anything else would be cool too, with an exception for rabbits - Watership Down's versions of rabbits' trickster figure and psychopomp was too definitive for me.

Mad Max

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I love this gonzo OTT movie, its stories told through implications and small visual details as much as through obvious plot points and dialogue. Whether in canon setting or in AU, something that captures that feeling would be great. And it's such a colourful movie, use of some colour (or all colour, go wild) would be much appreciated.

General things I like for this canon: the sense of the mythic and dreamlike, anything with the restoration of greenery, playing with names/titles (since the characters have names that could have as much to do with how the community perceives them as with birth names, or could be titles that they chose themselves), AUs where they decide to ride out across the salt flats instead of going back to Citadel and come across very strange things, getting the characters into new outfits, repurposing things of the old world, characters actively building new modes of being (for their own lives or for their society).

Mad Max-specific DNW: Vuvalini culture involving exiling/killing sons.

Note on my rape DNW: Don't include it as a major focus or central plot point, but backstory references and exploration of the long-term aftermath are fine.


Angharad/Toast
That moment of tension with the gun, where Toast knows how to load it and glares at the others while she does so, and Angharad clearly had no idea this was on the table, makes me want a whole lot more about their clashes and also the times when they do understand each other.

• Toast is somewhat the odd one out between the close Angharad-Capable and Cheedo-Dag bonds; sometimes it really gets to her. Angharad tries to show her she's valued.


• AU with Toast as the leader in the wives' group, and lots of arguments when Angharad feels she has to speak up.


• Angharad lives, and they find new roles within Citadel society. I like to think, what with Angharad's willingness to clamber around the War Rig and to be a human shield, that she has a recklessness that leads to her pulling all kinds of stunts - maybe that includes when she's in a somewhat more peaceful position? I'd love it if Toast finds she really likes this side of Angharad, which couldn't shine in the confines of the Vault.


• Other secrets, besides knowledge of gun-handling, that Toast has never told the other wives. My headcanon is that she was taken from the Wasteland while the other wives came from the Wretched at Citadel. Toast could have learned and done a whole lot of things out there. Maybe she'd like to try and look for her former family after the events of the movie?


• Terrifying revenant Angharad shows up at the Citadel and hangs out with Toast, who swears she's heard about this kind of thing happening in her time before being taken to Citadel (which might or might not be true).


• Angharad learning how to use weapons, Toast helping. Before, during or after an attack? With a dose of philosophical arguing attached or with the need already acknowledge? A representation of "anti-seed" could work here.

The Dag/Cheedo
I adore how Cheedo and the Dag are constantly at each other's sides. It looks like they share a pair of gloves, which, omg, adorable. They have an air of intense support and an almost desperation to be together in the way they share personal space, and I want more of that, please. The Dag seems like she could have a somewhat nervous personality, being singled out as a weirdo via her name, her spending a lot of time curled into herself, and with the way she's chewing her fingernails as the lift ascends at the end of the movie, so I'd prefer that it's not only Cheedo as "the fragile" one who needs support.

PS: I don't have much in the way of headcanons about the Dag's baby, so feel free to do what you want there if that comes up in the course of the story.

• The Dag has magic powers (I would like if she had visions, but anything goes). Cheedo seems a practical sort; would she believe in these powers? Or maybe she's the only one who does and tries to convince the others to listen to the Dag.


• Politicking with outsiders like Rock Riders, Buzzards, Sky Fishers from the swamp, Gas Town and the Bullet Farm, or OC groups; I'd love it if they had to act as spies. Cheedo getting tricky with Rictus at the end made me think she could keep doing that kind of thing.


• AU with witch-queen Dag going to negotiate with fairy queen Cheedo, or something along those lines. Does one think the other is evil? Is one a little evil (or under a curse) but gets brought around by the power of love?


• So I like the intense closeness ... but I'd also be into their behaviour changing drastically in the aftermath of the movie, because there's room for them to do anything now, possibly reunite with surviving family among the Wretched and meet lots of new people, and there's an angsty dramatic break-up. Then later a loving and dramatic getting back together.


• The Dag is a captured outsider who gets assessed as a feral (keep muzzled! She bit Nux when he first broke into the War Rig, after all). Joe tries to get his current wives to tame her, possibly after or in-between using her as a blood bag, and she and Cheedo bond.


• In general, I would appreciate a passionate makeout or so, that background kiss in the movie went by all too fast.

Angharad/Max
Angharad is fiery and idealistic and Max is reticent and cynical, but they're both baseline good people and could bring each other balance. Plus that thumbs-up/smile moment was cute. I want them to have a chance to properly get to know each other, to see what they could have taught each other, and for them to be quiet and peaceful and helpful together, and do wild and dangerous things when necessary.

• Angharad is a selkie. Has she had a Joe in her life; does he already have her skin? Is there no Joe, but all humans, including Max, are assumed to be about that bad? Is Max a different kind of supernatural or an ordinary human? Are her sisters about, does she need to get back to them or save one/all of them?


• Sorting out touch issues and then cuddling. Especially with lots of touch issues from Max, who'd been alone so long, while Angharad is fine with platonic touch due to spending so much time with her sisters. But then going into issues with sexual touch with her would totally work.


• I'd also be here for desperate, cathartic self-reclaiming sex that results in basically no issues at all (whether as its own thing or as part of a different plot). Tender scar-touching would be nice. Maybe some washing each other?


• Royalty or fantasy AU with Queen Angharad and knight or soldier Max. Maybe he belongs to her country, maybe from a neighbouring one, maybe they're on opposite sides. Is she trying to create revolution in her own country? Is this supposed to be a kidnapping?


• Dealing with their ambivalence about Angharad's kid with Joe. I'd like Max ending up taking a chance with helping to take care of the kid, but I'm easy with any decision from Angharad: it's too much emotionally to deal with this kid in particular, or deciding to be part of the baby's life to help make sure our babies will not be warlords, or motherhood in general is not for her...


• Post-movie, terrifying revenant Angharad hangs out with Max (is she real or not?). I'd prefer she doesn't join the ranks of the dead who blame him for everything, but I don't mind if Max spends some time not actually noticing that she doesn't.


• Canon divergence. Angharad lives and is recaptured by Joe, but the escapees want to rescue her. Or they only find out by the end of the events of the movie, cue hurt/comfort? Or Angharad doesn't fall; how do they escape Joe without the delay brought on by her death?

Vuvalini
Pre-canon setting of the Green Place would be great, and so would post-canon where they once again have to adjust to major changes. Feel free to have more of the Vuvalini live and come wandering in from the desert. Others in Fury Road have walked off equally painful things!

• The Vuvalini interacting with the other people in the War Rig on the trip back to Citadel. It was at least two days' driving, IIRC, there could have been a whole lot more talking. Good-natured fights about the negatives and positives of a motorbike vs 2000 horsepower of nitro-boosted war machine, feeling out more of what Max and Nux are like, comparing knowledge between what the wives have read and what the Vuvalini know, trading stories with Furiosa.


• Drag racing modern AU. Or maybe Vuvalini wanting to build a private race track, because they wouldn't endanger others by racing in the streets? But essentially: modern-day biker grannies.


• Interaction between War Boys and Vuvalini. I'd really like some of the Vuvalini way of life to rub off on them (and maybe on Citadel culture in general, including with the Wretched and Milking Mothers). Maybe, post-movie, the War Boys are killing themselves to go to Valhalla at an alarming rate. How would the Vuvalini react? Or maybe they have to fight a common enemy together.


• So Furiosa is of the clan "Swaddledog". This makes me think that, back when the Green Place was founded, someone brought their pet dog and had it swaddled up so that a lot of their travel companions thought it was a baby, and it became a joke that turned into a name for that group. What other names were there for clans? How big was this settlement to have multiple clans? When did that kind of thing stop being joking and become codified?


• I'd love a look into the "Many Mothers" system. What did initiate mothers teach their children? What relationship was there between them and the more usual mother?


• According to information I've seen around the fandom (interviews and the art book) those people who walk around on stilts in the swamp are called Sky Fishers and eat the crows, and a lot of them used to be Vuvalini. How did that split go? What do they retain from the Vuvalini? Close-ups of the Valkyrie's outfit shows that she has a lot of crow feathers decorating her and her motorbike, so I'd love something where she still visits and/or has adopted some of their practices. Do the other Vuvalani go too?


• It's been twenty years but the Valkyrie still knows Furiosa, still loves her, still claims her as one of theirs. I am just dying for backstory. Clearly Furiosa made a big impression. And what is the impression on Furiosa's side? (Shipping or platonic are both cool.)


• I'd love more about Keeper of the Seeds. AU where she lives and interacts more with the Dag, how she kept trying to plant seedlings over the years, afterlife adventures... There have also been some nice variations on Miss Giddy/Keeper or The Ace/Keeper around, and I'm up for more of that. Triad?


• AU where the Green Place survives more as Furiosa remembered it, and everyone gets to rejoin it. I'd prefer the focus on the society rather than Joe & pals making an attack. It would be extra nice if Angharad survived, I wouldn't question the details whatsoever.

Like Real People Do

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Song: album version (a bit lighter, some choral effects) | solo version (via Barn on the Farm, feels more melancholy)
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/hozier/likerealpeopledo.html

Sweet & creepy is one of my fave atmospheres, so bringing that aspect of the song out would be wonderful. I want anything on Revenant Would-Be Lover, putting thoughts and memories and something like a life back together, and their tentative but persistent affection for Honey. Honey doesn't have to have romantic feelings for them, but I'd prefer Revenant not to go less sweet and increasingly creepy in the case of unrequited love.

Any genders are OK. And you don't have to call the narrator "Revenant" or the other person "Honey", I'm doing that for convenience. The Barn on the Farm version of the song (above) has ruined me slightly and has got me tending to imagine this story playing out in a rural setting. If there's any sex, please make Revenant not be a grody type zombie with bits falling off, though unsettling physiology is okay. For both of them, even, depending on what you decide to do with Honey.

Note: this request is an exception for my zombie DNW, since it seems like a fair possibility. But my squick for people getting eaten remains, so please keep that well off-screen or have any zombies here be different.

• The first verse has Revenant being very, very slow to figure out what's real, strange, normal, possible, plausible... I'd love a look at that process from the start. Where do they end up when they reach a personal equilibrium?


• "Real people" - Will they ever feel more like a real person? How did the contrast get a chance to develop for them?


• Was Honey also brought back from the dead? That could be an explanation for the second verse, and "someone that dug long ago" could be Revenant, having brought Honey back to life years ago. Maybe they're going round in circles of life and death with each other. Or maybe there's some other necromancer running round the joint and bringing back wistful zombies for more nefarious purposes and that's what Revenant's remembering, and they show up in the story too. Or Honey's tried to bring Revenant back before, deemed previous attempts unsatisfactory, and reburied them.


• Honey was looking for someone else entirely, but on digging up Revenant couldn't leave them there. (If this results in Honey/the other person in the end, that's cool too.)


• Where DID these two come from that they don't want to speak about? For Revenant's case, any depictions of an afterlife are fine, but if it's a punishment-based one please avoid gory details. In this case, I'm more for creepy hints or punishments with a psychological bent (like Sisyphus's afterlife, for example).


• Revenant's thought processes changing from "we should just kiss", to would kiss, to could kiss. Pining and weird perceptions of romance would be great.


• I'd love something where music was somehow present. Maybe Revenant listens to a lot of radio to figure life out, or Honey sings a lot, or there's bug & bird -song.

Lackadaisy

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There's a lot of precarity in their relationship, but combined with Serafine and Nico offering a greater level of trust to Mordecai too, I would love some of the precarity turning into sexual tension. Even better if it's in among the danger they're surrounded with in their business. And upping the supernatural content, as introduced by Serafine especially, would be interesting to explore too.

I would prefer the characters be cats in any art rather than use being made of the human designs, though feel free to use your own style. For fic, either human or cat goes. Oh, and to be clear, the Savoys being incestuous works for me as well as does the both of them being focused on Mordecai.

• If an actual god shows up, especially if we're talking a creepy skeleton-form god as on the Distemper page, I'd be over the moon. It could lead to Mordecai developing a fascination with the Savoys and taking them more seriously, or successfully increased trust from either side that makes the relationship more amicable.


• I would like to see what a happy ending would look like for these characters. Considering canon, it would be hard to come by, so I'm down for 'happy' looking different than it normally might. A scrappy, difficult existence, but one where they've escaped the attention of bigger players and live in peace? Running their own criminal empire? Mordecai reluctantly visiting the Savoys where they've retired to a very useful pig farm?


• Les Barons, but even hornier. Lots of threats and yet lots of fucking.


• According to a site I found, "peekon" = "thorn", and I love that as an endearment from the Savoys to Mordecai. Does it gain more affectionate tones over time? Maybe they start using different nicknames.


• This makes no sense, but I'd love an AU where they were around each other as kids. Maybe in their travels the Savoys made it cross-country when they ran away? Or maybe a bond in dreams? They had very different experiences at that point and it would be interesting to see what they make of each other and how they might influence each other. It would also be interesting to see what Mordecai would make of Serafine's idea of just being a boy instead and experiencing gender as something that wasn't clear-cut.


• Serafine and Mordecai end up going to the same expert tailor, and bonding via exacting opinions on the cuts of suits. Nico is put out by them going where he can't be bothered to follow, but perhaps they make it up to him some way. Or also get him into a sharp suit.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

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I love this series for its silliness and angst. Daily Life Arc style foolishness would work, or using a cracky element to up the drama level (like the use of the TYL Bazooka for the Millefiore Arc, or Hibari's sakura-kura syndrome being used against him in the Kokuyo Arc), or a high dose of angst with a lighter happy ending (something like Yamamoto's introduction in the manga) would all work.

When it comes to art styles, feel free to use your own or mimic canon. But I did end up thinking the Vongola 10th gen started looking bland in the face from around the Simon Arc on, and Kyoko (and Haru) an overly glossy kind of cute, so I'd appreciate if for them in particular any canon inspiration was drawn from earlier on.

KHR-specific DNW: Tsuna having his flames sealed as a child.

Gokudera/Tsuna/Yamamoto
I adore the way they stick together and learn to work with each other's ins and outs. Every time there's a chapter spread of them hanging out I'm into it, whether it's goofy hangout times or one of those v. serious badass mafiosi ones, I'm all heart-aflutter. I like all three of them into each other, but I do also like Gokudera\Tsuna/Yamamoto a lot as a configuration, and would also be into this polycule being part of a greater poly network.

• Yamamoto realises he has two very deep crushes on his best friends and immediately launches into courtship with his trademark attitude of "lol I'm super serious lol", probably confusing the life out of them. I'd also be into something where he has to fight off obstacles on his way to proving his love - dodging Reborn, having to convince Bianchi he's not out to break Gokudera's heart, sudden attack by Iemitsu yelling about his baby boy, Haru and TYL Lambo trying to give romantic advice.


• Rituals as they grow older. Sportsmen are often believers in luck, Gokudera's superstitious, and Tsuna has shown attachment to his good luck charm. Maybe one does his special good-luck things with the other two for a change. Maybe they have shared rituals.


• Porn. Porn would be great. First time with a lot of blushing; they've-lost-count time where things are hot and easy; how it goes when they're solo or duos and when they're all three together; "Fuck my best friends as if I were going to die!!!"; a welcome home after one or two of them have been away for a long time.


• Extra self-indulgent request for a comic based on one of my own fics: Three Boys VS Sunday Morning, where they're awkward after having confessed they're into each other the night before.


• Roommates AU. They didn't know each other before and now live together and have to figure out the personality clashes, the chore division, how to deal with each other's visitors, increasing attraction.


• Hurt/comfort for Gokudera and Yamamoto after Gamma fought them and tortured Gokudera. Tsuna falling asleep by one bedside and then the other, the "many good things" Yamamoto said about Gokudera, Tsuna doing all he can to get some medical thing that the base hadn't been stocked up on yet, handholding.


• Graffiti gang AU: https://www.zerochan.net/158049. Tsuna actually looks like he has some confidence about wielding that can, which is nice to see - did the others have to convince him his art is good at first, or is this a time he got them into it and could teach them a thing or two? What kind of art do they do because of or for each other? Do the other members of the gang know about their triad?

Lal Mirch
She's bitter and mean and struggling and determined and I love her. She has to reconcile extremes over the course of her life - military existence to the criminal underworld, peak physical fitness to a strange curse harming her body, a position of power within the Vongola to being one of the underdogs in the Millefiore Arc, going from a rain flame to cloud/mist - and she can do it and keep carrying on with competence. For the times she's not great at it, I also like when she finds people who she can let in to support her. I really like her cloak + goggles look and her centipede box animals, too.

• I'd love something depicting her surviving in a more traditionally apocalyptic-looking apocalypse than the Millefiore Arc shows. Lonely landscapes, rubble, looting and making caches, meeting other lone survivors or small groups of them.


• On a mission for COMSUBIN or CEDEF. Maybe something that contrasts the kinds of missions she's taken over the course of her life?


• What if she were a full Arcobaleno? I'd like to see how she and Colonello might interact then, when he hasn't succeeded in his sacrifice. Is he the one who tries to avoid her because of guilt? Is she happy enough that he didn't get affected that she's more willing to stick with him? Also, I like to think that mechanical gorilla-head she has on her shoulder would be her animal companion and a lot more biological, so that would be cool to see.


• Fairytale send-up where she's Snow White (of sorts) and the Arcobaleno are the seven dwarves. Feel free to toss in other fairytales happening along with this, or elements thereof e.g. there are dragons or wolves or giants to fight).


• The ultimate trainer takes on a new student. Maybe she's the one sent to train Tsuna in Vongola ways instead of Reborn? Or maybe a mysterious kingdom wants her to take on its princes, Belphegor and Rasiel. Or she's whipping little Hayato and Bianchi into shape. Etc. How could that change the characters? Maybe there's a butterfly effect on the canon plot.


• TYL timeline, letting herself get closer to people now that the world is starting to be all right again. The Arcobaleno would be nice, but also the Vongola that she's now got to know better via their kid versions. It could get a little weird for the newly awakened TYL people, so how would they react? Or maybe some of them have changed enough over ten years to surprise Lal in some way or the other.


• It would be nice to see her interacting with (platonically or romantically): Xanxus, Tsuna, Bianchi, Dino, other members of CEDEF, Mammon (especially given the Varia-CEDEF connection via Vongola), Reborn, Kyoko, Ryohei.

Gokudera/Tsuna
Always anything with the tension between Gokudera's delusions and the facts of the matter when it comes to Tsuna. Or maybe how these two draw lines between personal and professional. It's not necessarily such a big thing where family = business = family, but it still interests me to see how they'd balance the different roles they've got to play.

• Genderswap. Either of them, both, all configurations work for me. How would it change their stories, their methods of fighting, how they represent themselves, their previous experiences of romance? And, of course, how they react to each other.


• Post-canon they continue to grow closer, get mutual crushes, and go THIS FRIENDSHIP SURE IS GREAT as they enter denial about liking each other romantically. It was a hard-won friendship, after all, with how long the issues lasted of Gokudera's idolisation and Tsuna fretting about that and being nervous of Gokudera in general. What tips them over into realising? Does one come to that conclusion before the other, or fall before the other one does?


• Werewolf AU. Gokudera has been kicked out of all the other families but the new Vongola Tenth has few enough subordinates that even a werewolf would do; Tsuna has newly come into a werewolf heritage and is terrified but Gokudera helps him through it; making use of that legend about a werewolf being turned back to normal if someone who truly loves them calls them by name - or, for a humorous take, gets their clothes to them.


• Food kink or food used as a way to demonstrate caring. Gokudera's got a habit of bringing food over when he visits in the earlier chapters, and I like to think it's the kind of thing he subconsciously picked up from Bianchi. Which could be interesting to bring in - maybe he convinces himself that deep inside he wants to poison the Tenth? Or maybe Tsuna thinks turnabout is fair play and wants to get/make Gokudera something nice to eat.


• AU first meeting. I love ones where Gokudera doesn't have his "You're the best" attitude affixed from the start and he and Tsuna work together differently. A Gokudera who's less trusting could be a lot more difficult to get along with. Or maybe Tsuna finds him less worrying if he's not being loudly enthusiastic all the time?


• Superhero AU. I'd love something that's the equivalent of the Clark Kent>Lois Lane>Superman set-up. Or Tsuna the hero, Gokudera his information-gathering guy on the ground.


• I'm big on THE SKY HAS FALLEN tragicness set in the Millefiore arc with heartbroken TYL Gokudera. Was he there when Tsuna got shot or did he hear elsewhere? How did the news of the Vongola Hunt take him after that? There was practically no one at the Namimori base - did he handle the mundane details like the coffin all on his own? And those gloomy woods added so much to the whole atmosphere. I'd also like something where TYL Gokudera sticks around longer and interacts more with TYE Tsuna.

Kyoko/Tsuna
I love the sweetness and the funny qualities to this ship. Sweet: They grow closer and become good friends, and Tsuna's crush keeps right on trucking as his concept of Kyoko becomes real instead of being idealised. Funny: it kills me those times when Kyoko realises that she might think Tsuna is attractive and proceeds to look like it gave her an aneurysm. My favourite is that time she wanted to cheer him on during the Varia arc. Poor Tsuna, but it is hilarious. So anything with them stumbling around attraction and occasionally feeling gobsmacked by it is great.

• Bonding in a post-apocalyptic scenario. A lot of what I like about these characters in canon is that they're perfectly ordinary people thrown in the deep end. So it would be interesting to see them thrown into a different deep end.


• Wedding. What goes wrong; what goes right; the wedding night (sexy, or do they want to find somewhere to fall asleep in peace?); how to stop the guests fighting; what to do if battle breaks out in the middle of it; keeping the ordinary guests from realising the whole criminal underworld thing is going on.


• Roleswap. Kyoko is the one training to be a boss, Tsuna is the ordinary classmate. Or he could have flames too and just not be the Vongola boss. I like Kyoko having any one of sky, mist, or desert flames.


• Genderswap. Either of them, both, all configurations work for me. How would it change their stories, their methods of fighting (would Kyoko gain a method of fighting or stay a non-combatant?), how they represent themselves, their previous experiences of romance? And, of course, how they react to each other.


• Tsuna keeping that good-luck charm Kyoko made him unto perpetuity, and teasing ensuing on her finding out that he still has it and how much it means to him. But also, Kyoko finding it very sweet. Maybe it comes out because Tsuna gets her some kind of charm too? She could be doing something of her own that requires some cheering on.


• Vampires. Their childhood sweethearts vibe gets blood smeared all over it! Maybe an AU where this is the only thing weird going on, and there's no mafia stuff about? It being the result of a weird bullet in a canonverse setting works too, though. Bonus points for some blood drinking between them.


• Something about how mafia life changes and tempers them - the scene between Tsuna and TYL Kyoko is fascinating to me in that sense. She's so calm about being hunted; what has she got used to over time? What have both of them experienced, sacrificed, gained?


• Porn. One or both of them in dying will mode; sex pollen; a welcome home; pregnancy kink.


• Lucky by Jason Mraz feat. Colbie Caillat (video | lyrics) always makes me think of K27. Mraz even looks like he's going for a mafioso vibe in the video. So it would be nice to see something based on this, where they're in love and know it but only meet sometimes. (Open relationship works too for this one. I ship them both widely.)

Gokudera/Shittopi
They're weird. So beautifully weird. I enjoy how they latch onto each other hard because of being caught up in their own points of view; it's funny but also has me interested in seeing more of them as reflections of each other. Ridiculous crack would be great, and so would something where they get a more solid basis for their relationship than ludicrous assumptions and can help each other grow out of their tendencies towards having a narrow viewpoint.

• Going after UMAs/aliens/etc. together.


• Sex pollen. Or some other canon equivalent of the base idea. I'd enjoy pure porn but aftermath would also be good. Especially if Gokudera had still been in "stop bothering me!!" mode with Shittopi, as at the end of the Simon Arc.


• I like to imagine that the various Mafia families who came to Tsuna's inheritance ceremony were pissed off about the Simon family's attack, leading to the Simon owing lots of families a weregild once the dust settled - and that the Vongola then helped them out with the payback. I'd love something where Gokudera dives right into this because he saw the trouble coming, and Shittopi is struggling with the sense of being bound.


• Anything TYL. I'd love to see how their attitude and styles might change.


• Silliest rivalship ever due to arguing insistently that the other isn't human.


• Maybe, possibly an attempt at serious Shittopi backstory angst? This is not truly a character built for making sense but it could be interesting to reconcile the ridiculousness with most of her family being slaughtered.


• Het mpreg. Body horror, crack, fluffy love - anything goes. It could be omegaverse, some other AU, or canonverse.


• I firmly believe Shitt P's design was based on Lady Gaga and would love something that plays with that. A plot based on a Lady Gaga song? Meta-ish crack where they battle OCs based on famous musicians?


• Their bizarre version of a standard romantic trope. Sharing a bed ... but Gokudera is used to constructing an elaborate series of traps around any bed he's unfamiliar with. Soulmates ... but Shittopi loves herself so much that she's her own soulmate, though she's nonetheless deeply fascinated by Gokudera because he's accidentally exorcised himself of his own soul. Etc.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (book)

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I love the Fairy/RL crossover and the weirdness of Fairy as a place in and of itself, along with the introduction to it the Gentleman and the Raven King offer in their own ways, and also love Stephen and would be into exploration of his life at any point from pre-canon through to post-canon. Exploration of the future of this world, now that magic's been returned to England, also intrigues me.

Using the book's style of illustrations or a completely different style are both fine. If there's any info from The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories you might like to use, feel free.

Note on religion: I make a request that mentions Hell. The narrator in the book makes her own biases on religion known and I'd be open to a fanwork that goes with what's in canon, or that takes a different tack to the narrator and explores other ideas.

Stephen Black

• Stephen being a king in the fairy lands. Lost Hope changed a lot in preparation for him - how do his subjects feel about that? How does he deal with fairies outside his kingdom? I'd love it to be a satisfying place for him to be, though. I want Stephen to catch a break so bad.


• His life growing up. He's considered an extraordinary servant and lucky in his position - what did he think about all that? I like the theme that the book has of the marginalised people on the edges of history who nonetheless play a huge role in the bigger picture, so something that echoes that would be cool. Maybe involving the shade of his mother, or other parts of his family. Or did he experience other odd events before Norrell and Strange really kickstarted English magic? He could theoretically have been influenced by Uskglass's spell all along.


• Strange semi-camaraderie with Lady Pole (and later, Arabella) while they were bespelled. They don't seem to have gained the kind of closeness that the women did with each other, and I would love to see that explored. Did they ever take part in non-dance entertainments?


• Other possible relationships with him: I'm into Mrs Brandy/Stephen, one-sided from her side or reciprocated. He could be interesting to see with Childermass and Vinculus, regarding what they know of the Raven King and his writ. Or random new magicians who come across this Fairy king who is running a notably different kind of kingdom, and who has So Much inside info on the return of magic to England. Segundus is another character I want to catch a break, so maybe he and Stephen could do that together.

Stephen Black/The gentleman with the thistledown hair
Romantic feelings can be fully one-sided from the gentleman's side but I do like when Stephen feels ambivalence about their relationship rather than 110% DNW. Maybe only 99% DNW. Okay, more seriously, this was a person who tried in some way to be good to Stephen, who offered him something fundamental to his own history that he couldn't get any other way. Despite all the terrible, wretched things the gentleman did, it's the kind of thing that could lead to feelings of misplaced guilt or indebtedness or twisted affection. And also I just like how the gentleman went on like 'You're so HOT, WOW, got to make you a king!!!' A lot more of that type of thing would do me fine.

• The Gentleman unmasked. The way he died was intriguing to me in the enormous power it implied. Maybe a depowered version of him survives/comes back, and Stephen has to deal with that. What would a version with little power look like, and what would he value? Would Lost Hope still be his, or would a less fatal defeat still mean that Stephen would be welcomed as a new king?


• It would be cool to see snatches of the gentleman remaining after death, whether at the brugh Stephen now rules, or perhaps in England if Stephen goes visiting there; and whether in a purely magical way, or in more physical things he left behind.


• Or a History's Worst Roadtrip type thing with Stephen getting dragged along to various places while the gentleman is alive, with the gentleman being History's Worst but Most Extravagant Sugardaddy. For a more serious take on this, it would be really interesting to see if there's magic in other places than England, and how it might work.


• Something from the gentleman's perspective could be cool, because I like non-human POVs. The leaps of reasoning, his ways of caring, the tricks he has up his sleeve. How much of Stephen's discomfort does he actively dismiss and how much does he not notice? What makes this one-sided relationship work for him for so long?


• A theme on unknown names - it's something they have in common. Did Stephen ever ask for it? Was it a safety measure that the gentleman never gave it up, or did it just not occur to him? Or an AU where he does make his name known to Stephen and what that could change.

Stephen Black/John Uskglass
I'm fascinated by the parallels between them and what it might mean for them. The Raven King is basically a god, but was once a man very like Stephen - maybe he'd have feelings about or a fascination for this part of the great pattern as a result. Stephen spent years trying to cope with a supernatural power. Is he grateful or wary when it comes to the Raven King's part in that? Have his experiences put him somewhere beyond that kind of feeling, giving him power of his own, whether internal or magical?

• The mentions of Hell, and John Uskglass having land there, fascinate me. That doesn't seem like prime real estate, what's up with that! Maybe fairy kings have to keep an eye on demons and he suggests Stephen gets land there too? Maybe they form an alliance against Hell?


• The weaker fairy kings have to pay a tithe to the Raven King. Maybe Stephen struggles to think of something suitable, or he doesn't know about the practice, or maybe it's an excuse to get sexy.


• Future setting, long after canon. I'd be interested in seeing them in a more modern context. Stephen and John exploring the changes in the world, or putting into action a new plot to affect magic, or Stephen retiring from his kingdom after a few hundred years and John bidding him fond farewell.


• Travelling to different places in a far less fraught way than Stephen and the gentleman had done. What is John Uskglass like outside the realm of English magic, anyway? I'd enjoy seeing him in a context where he's not all-powerful. Maybe Stephen navigates other magical realms more safely than he does?

Homestuck

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Homestuck-specific DNWs:
- I haven't read the Epilogues or played Pesterquest yet, so I'd prefer no reference to the events in them. I really do not want any focus on or characterisation influence from the Epilogues/H^2 take on Gamzee, or Dirk and Jane.
- Troll blood colour showing through skin by default. Blushing in colour is fine, genitalia being being in some shade of colour is fine, but when blood colour is visible at first sight I get distracted by thoughts of Karkat's secret being obvious.

Note: Gamzee is an exception to my DNW for addiction issues. Feel free to go into his sopor slime thing. But the Lalondes' alcohol abuse, for example, I'd really rather not have.

Bronya/Lanque/Lynera
I have equal but opposite desires: either they're improving their teamwork to work together for a goal, or they're descending into a messy co-dependent sexual psychodrama. I'm mostly thinking of fuckboy Lance, since that's the route where they all interact, but flower crown Lance would be interesting, since I like the interpretation that that version also has a stack of issues he's papering over in a way that only seems like it's mostly positive.

• V. 1, Teamwork: playing SGrub; hiding their weak wigglers during an inspection by authorities; fighting back against an attempted culling of their team; helping out Wanshi or Karako. The interpersonal conflicts with these three are real, but they've managed to keep their team unculled for the time Bronya mentioned and the kids in their care in good shape mentally and physically. So chances are that they can slot together seamlessly at times. And, some fine day, celebrate that with romancing/sudden kisses/relieved sex.


• V. 2, Sexy Disaster: Bronya loses it and physically punishes Lanque (spanking, face-slapping, bondage, something else?) with Lynera torn between "Can I help?" and "Can I be next?"; Lanque seduces Lynera into public makeouts/sex at a party and Bronya stumbles on it; they have all hooked up "casually" and yet are all jealous of each other's closeness for various reasons. each and every one; one of them goes rainbow drinker and there are many feelings around sexy danger and the presumed death before the resurrection.


• Anything that goes into jade cloistering. Will their cluster stay together? Do all jades go into cloistering, or do some get to escape it? Bronya and Elwurd were thinking of getting assigned on a ship together, so maybe the leaders of a jade group get a pass; I can imagine Lynera being seriously cut up and Lanque seething about that. What is the purpose of this sequestering, and how do these three deal with it?


• I'd love to see them as tricksters and wreaking havoc. No opinion on what kind of sweet treats they're themed around, although it would be nice if it were different for each of them. Would they still want the BABIES and MARRIAGE!!!, or would the troll version of an easy happy ending look different? SLAUGHTER and SERENDIPITY!!!, maybe? Or it could be a good way to have a threesome. A terrifying threesome. Bring on the knifeplay, Lynera.

Kurloz/Gamzee
Any quadrant. How do I like them interpreted? Let me count the ways. Gamzee being in charge of Kurloz, Kurloz manipulating Gamzee, both of them ultimately being Lord English's puppets, furious hate, adorable (probably still creepy) love-struck fluff ... Their interaction made me feel like there could be all kinds of power dynamics. Who's really in charge, and how much do they really have in common? I'm interested in the tension between them despite their common goal, but a sweeter take on their dynamic also works for me because they're in a closer position to understand each other than most people they know would be.

Feel free to make use of gifs or copy/paste still images if Kurloz is signing. I also love his giant-bone-words quirk.

• Exploration of a facet of canon, e.g. how they found each other; Kurloz zealously serving Gamzee; making plans (possibly along with Damara, and kind of Meulin, what with the chucklevoodoos); comparing their individual planets' different forms of the clown cult; Kurloz asking Gamzee what the angel of double death is like.


• Any AU except serial killers or one involving a real life tragedy. They are an escaped test subject and his clone (but they don't know which one is the original). They cull each other on Beforus because seagoats are not great lusi. They're both going into the Alternian military and are forced closer because of that. Petstuck. Mermaids. Recording industry. High school. A-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. Here are some I have more detailed thoughts on:
  
  • Werewolf AU, especially if there's no werewolf society with a pack structure and there's little voluntary control over the transformation, it's mostly just monster time. I'd love it as something with Rage vibes. How would they deal with it, in their different ways of manifesting Rage?
  
  
  • My oddly specific scenario: humanstuck, and Gamzee is a boxer and Kurloz is deeply hot for the violence it. Sex before or after a match?
  
  
  • Speaking of humanstuck, here are things I'm generally into for these two. Feel free to apply to the above prompt or to a different idea altogether. They can be related or not, both are fine; conservative Christian or cult upbringing; not having GHB as (a) dad(s) but a seagoat equivalent.


• Mind-control aftermath. I work with the idea that a lot of mind control influenced Gamzee, and that he'd have made different choices at some points without that influence. Theoretically this could apply to Kurloz, too, since he changed after the dream that led to him accidentally deafening Meulin. So it would be interesting to see both of them shake undue outside influences and then figure out what's left of their beliefs, of themselves, of each other.


• Kurloz loves secrets. What others might he have than the canon ones, and what would Gamzee think of any of them, canon or otherwise?


• They're great for body horror, so any of that would be cool. Other characters' reactions to the godawful things these two walk off would also be fun.

Worldbuilding
Oh go wild, there's so much to pick! Feel free to use the above ships as a vehicle for exploration, another fandom I know, OCs, other canon characters... I'm down for Alternia, Beforus, Earths A and B, the Medium, Prospit and Derse, the Lands, the Game in general ... I would prefer not to have Earth C or the golden ship as settings, though, as those aren't as interesting to me.

• An uninterrupted session of the Game. The intertwined ones the comic focused on had so many odd things involved that made them go strangely that I'd love a depiction of a more straightforward session. ...or one with new exciting things wrong with it! Maybe this could take the form of a series of the major dramatic moments over the course of the session? Or something like photographs that a character took during the session. Any species, canon or otherwise, will do.
  
  • The troll's initial session would be one way to explore this. Aside from wrinkles like Eridan's angels whispering to him about Lord English, it seemed straightforward up till Jack Noir came around. Maybe a closer look at the different parts of their lands, the denizens, or their particular quests? And I've always been curious how the trolls managed to get around the Gl'bgolyb-prototyped monsters. Those had to be tough to beat!
  
  
  • I'd be open to a session that didn't end with the Ultimate Reward or a Game Over. What might an in-between ending look like?
  
  
  • If you're really feeling motivated, there's always the 48-player session of heroic Squiddles joked about in some of Hussie's Q&A answers of old. I would legit love that.


• More about cherubs. What was up with that cherub that killed off a bunch of trolls, including the $20 000 OCs? What about the folklore mentioned during the Trickster phase? ("You round up an assortment of ordinary household weaponry and begin to recreate a series of legendary weapons from the seven continents of a magical kingdom from cherubim folklore.") It intrigues me how a species like this can build up anything collective at all.


• The Earths' worldbuilding, but serious. Well, a little more serious. Placronyms and only getting named on your 13th birthday, Dadly Depot and Braj Stop from the Paradox Space comic 'Quality Time', the fact that it's known Earth B2 George Washington was haunted by visions of ICP, sylladices in everyday life, the multi-billion dollar smuppet industry, Crocker Corp terraforming Mars...


• Relations between troll castes as loose groupings. Purples & teals has been interesting since clowns sent Redglare after Mindfang. Friendsim has got me intrigued by the idea of purples & jades, after Chahut was creeping on Daraya's holy mission. Maybe ceruleans & indigos, with their blueblood games, are the most likely to know and make use of the fact that olives tend towards shady business? Is there ever resentment between psychics because yellows are more likely to be made batteries than rusts and bronzes?


• Feferi discussing with the horrorterrors about her dream bubble idea, and how the horrorterrors make them.


• A depiction of a planet successfully seeded with Exiles, and how they build society up to Game-generating levels over time. They wouldn't all be into cans & democracy or gangsters & cities, so what other odd civilisations could they build?

Eyeshield 21

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Sakuraba and Takami getting Amefuto married was super endearing. The way the happenstance of their complementary builds led to them purposefully working to have their mindsets line up just right - that dynamic got to me. Takami suppressing his many emotions about being a dream duo until they exploded out of him, Sakuraba struggling with figuring out his desires and priorities ... any of that with added romance would be a dream.

• Bonding in a post-apocalyptic scenario. I'd love them having to use their physical skills and compatibility in a very different way.


• What they're like later in life. I'd prefer Takami as a doctor (at least initially; maybe something changes later), but any career works for Sakuraba. Are they already together and figuring out how to make busy schedules work? Meeting again and realising or remembering an attraction? Or this could be set while they're still in college, but they end up at the same one and strike up a new partnership and/or friendship ... then LOVE.


• Instead of American football, they're in the idol industry. Sakuraba is the one waiting for Takami to come around and really learn how to let loose on-stage. Or Takami is working in an entirely different capacity to actually being an idol. Personal medic to the stars?


• AU where the teams' themes are their actual roles, so that these two are knights. (And have a strangely friendly rivalry with a bunch of demons. Sometimes the cowboys visit! Etc.)


• Anything with a lot of pining. Lingering stares and hastily averted eyes. Hands moving to reach out, then clenching into fists. Probably Takami getting deeply frustrated/pleased during that time with the maid outfit.

Check Please!

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That Halloween pic where Holster carries puck bunny Bitty around did something to me, and now I'd love more Bitty/Holster. Cute and straightforward, or with complications where they're more in love with Jack and Ransom but finding solace in each other, in an AU, connecting years after canon... There have also been mentions by the creator that Holster doesn't much like Jack, for no particular reason other than them not clicking. My brain has nonetheless latched onto the idea that some of the flat looks Holster spares for Jack in the comic are the result of thinking 'Bitty could do better (for example, me)', so a little jealousy wouldn't go amiss if there are Bitty/Jack elements.

• Bonding in a post-apocalyptic scenario. Not least for the idea of what Bitty is going to make spontaneous pies out of, but also for cuddling to keep warm, looking for their friends together and putting a brave face on things for each other, protectiveness when some threat shows up...


• Puck bunny Bitty/Holster smut. It would be especially nice to have focus on the famed hockey butt, and the thighs that the bunny costume is so helpfully showing off. Maybe with it being the first time Holster's been attracted to a guy?


• Working out pining for Jack and Ransom with each other, then starting to like each other more and more. This could get really romcom and have mutual pining along the way.


• Silent sex next to sleeping friends (without the friends realising, please!), maybe on a hockey tour. Or as part of an AU - could go nicely with the post-apocalypse one mentioned above.


• Monster-fighters AU
  
  • It's a long tradition for the Bittles and/or Phelpses, and Bitty is ready to rid the Haus of its ghosts and ghouls. And Ransom and Holster have some knowledge of the ghosts in particular... (But they really don't understand his paranoia about the couch.)
  
  
  • Holster doesn't like Jack because, secretly, Jack Came Back Wrong from the overdose. He can sense something's wrong, and then he notices that Jack's eyes look seriously strange compared to everyone else's... And now that Jack is interested in Bitty, Holster becomes serious about keeping Bitty safe.


• AU where Holster is a really nice jock on the football team in Bitty's hometown. He stands up for Bitty when the bullying starts, and crushes develop.