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fiachairecht) wrote2020-03-29 01:12 pm
fandom5k 2020
Hello friend, it is time for longfic, and my requests have no particular theme besides ladies being sad and making bad decisions. I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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I love all these canons for the worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/canons, and would prefer you avoid them.
I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and I don't need a lot of romance in my ships: sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Likes || Smut Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Dare Me (TV) || Jordskott || Law & Order || Nikita || Overwatch || Scott & Bailey ||The Closer || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng || Y Gwyll || Zone Blanche (Black Spot)
General: Codependent teenage best friends AND not-not sexual obsession with #unavailable older women in positions of authority, I am immensely catered to. Also it's basically Lana Del Rey - She's not Me.mp3 in f/f canon form, so what's not to love? I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of it all. All the obsession, all the clinical-sensual interest in what bodies can do, all the levels of genuinely caring (or genuinely hateful!) mentorship that ultimately can't do anything but fail. I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me! Addy/Beth/Colette threesomes also welcome, or one watching the other two.
Note: I've read and loved the book, and if you want to use any elements of book canon instead of show canon (especially including things like Beth's suicide attempt/jump from the pyramid that the show hasn't gotten to yet), feel free!
Beth/Addy: So ... Beth watching Addy drift away from her and self-destructing so she can blame everything that goes wrong on her own actions and not on how she loves Addy is the best sort of angst, and adding sex into the mix for extra angst? Yes good please. I like the contrast between how in tune with their bodies they are and how not in tune with their emotions they are, so something that plays with that - kinking on pain/using it to bring each other pleasure while also being, like, in wildly different books re: their emotional states. Or make them vampires. You can't tell me you don't love the idea of cheerleading vampires. That whole strength/eternal youth thing combined with their competitiveness? Gimme, especially if the 'should we become vampires/join the Masquerade' conflict is piled on top of their existing issues. Or happy futurefic! I would not say no to college/adult-age Addy & Beth just having a nice day for once, appreciating each other's bodies as they change & grow.
Beth/Colette: The missed opportunities with them, gods. Like, Colette has this entire plan for Addy, but every single day she makes a deliberate choice to be Like That with Beth! They're way more alike than they want to admit and I think that terrifies them - Addy has Colette's hunger, but Beth has Colette's sadness, and they'd both be ruined if they let themselves look too closely at it. So: missed mentorships. What it means to look at someone and know them the way Beth and Colette know each other and still choose to turn away.
Colette/Addy: So all of Addy's fantasising about living with Colette and parenting her daughter? I would be super intrigued by futurefic where they end up finding their way back to each other and trying to make a life together work after everything that's happened (I don't know that it would necessarily work, but I wanna see how they'd try!) Canon-era AUs where they're actually sleeping together would also be interesting - stolen 'practises', comfort sex or bedsharing post-Will's death, AUs where one of them kills Will.
General: Witchy murderforest of my whole entire heart and all the women and girls it loves, ahhhh. This show has so many beautiful things to say about love and care and loss and obsession and it's eaten me as surely as Silverhojd has eaten Josefine. Tell me stories about witches and women and love and life and forests and I will be so, so happy. I would be totally happy with gen, but I ship Eva/Jeanette, Eva/Klara, Eva/Laila, Eva/Zara, Laila/Zara, Esme/Linus, and Esme/Maja, if you want to write something shippy. I headcanon Linus as nonbinary, but don't feel beholden to that if you involve him in fics. You don't have to resurrect Klara/ignore her death if you're writing late/post-s2 fic, but I'd rather it not be dwelt on.
Fandom-specific DNW: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romantic/sexual ships involving Ida, Josefine, or Kalem
Ylva: I was stunned by how much love the show had for Ylva the first time around, she's such a rare, joyful embrace of all the most wonderful things about the crone archetype despite the pain she's gone through. I'd love to see something about her life with Muns, or with Klara, or with the network of support she's built in the town and the forest. She's so aware, of thoughts and of life, and getting her perspective on the events of the show more immediately than we did through Eva's visuals would be lovely. We know she's far, far older even than she appears - she's had centuries in that forest, go wild with your worldbuilding and tell me all about them! AU where she managed to save + raise Laila? Can she shapeshift? When did she meet Klara? Are there others like her in other countries that she keeps in touch with?
Esmeralda & Klara: Witches and mentorships and found families, I love forever. Something set in the s1-s2 gap would be wonderful, showing how Esme grew from the rightfully distrustful lonely girl she was to someone who uncomplicatedly called Klara her foster mother and left that heartbreaking voicemail. Klara teaching Esme - anything from serious things about her powers to more simple 'no, you cannot actually eat that plant without dying'. I would love resurrection fic - Esme taking Klara back from the forest, Esme being given Klara-but-wrong by the trees, weird wonderful necromancy rituals with Ylva's help. Fic with them travelling somewhere - maybe a post-s2 AU where Esme takes Klara to Stockholm to show her why she found the city so important, or maybe Klara has friends/contacts somewhere else in Finland/Norway/Scotland/wherever that she takes Esme to meet. Anything that gets into hulderfolk/banshee mythology would be fantastic.
Ida & Josefine: They understood each other when no one else did, in a way that no one else did, and I'm obsessed with how the forest functions a conduit between them and what affect the Ida-is-a-changeling reveal might have on that. I'd love to see something that acknowledges that Josefine is continuing to grow - Ida sneaking off to the forest to sit by Josefine's tree and draw her pictures, maybe. Or dreamsharing, I am super into dreamsharing for them. I love how Ida acts as voice for Josefine and the forest both, and how Josefine, in human or tree form, might help bring some of Ida's own visions to life in return. I don't need Josefine to be in human form for this, and honestly it would be super cool if she wasn't? Lean into all the weird wonderful inhuman love and special care these girls have for each other!
Laila/Eva: Attempted murder, yes please! Though, honestly, I love Laila and would love to see her post-s2 trying to fashion a happier life for herself with Eva - what else is Eva going to do with all the space in the Thornblad house, honestly?
General: There were so many great ladies on this show and I'm sad none of them really got a lot of screentime together, so - let's change that in fic! I like casefic, I like ladies working together, I like pretending that in New York City more than one woman can prosecute homicide cases at once, I like mid-/post-case office cuddles/makeouts/sex. I am always and forever weak for the 'someone shoots up a courtroom and the ADA has to be comforted after' plots. I do ask that you respect the general time period of the seasons these women were on the show -- I don't want anything super contemporary.
Abbie/Serena: I love them because even though their political views are so far apart their legal philosophies actually track pretty closely with each other's - they both have a talent for looking at legal problems and deciding that the solution is simply to become bigger than the problem, which I love. They spend so much time as the 'everyone's a lesbian' afterthought pairing to Alex/Olivia from SVU, and I would love more fic that's actually about them. Does Abbie stay in the DA’s office while Serena moves to homicide? Does ADA Serena meet up with AUSA Abbie and help her on a case? Does Serena work Abbie around to a slightly less conservative way of thinking?
Anita & Claire: I would love some good old-fashioned casefic tbh! Find a body, observe some interrogations, spar a little bit about legalities, have a quiet celebration with a drink when it's all over. Or 5k words of just part of that, if one calls to you more than the others! Would also be very fond of an AU where Claire doesn't die and she
Claire/Elizabeth Olivet: They deserve nice things! I want fic where they win things, get to be fierce and smart and wonderful together. Late nights in the office working on cases together. Claire coming back as a vampire and them figuring out how that changes their relationship. Fun dates in art galleries with no bodies.
Nora & Serena: Serena Southerlyn canonically does her paperwork on Nora Lewin’s desk and I am more than a little dead about it? (see above, re. mentorship). They have so many great moments (”Everyone’s afraid, Nora, i’m afraid” / the entirety of DR 1-102). Does Serena ever come out to Nora? Does Nora guess? How did Serena get to the point where she does paperwork on Nora’s desk? What’s their relationship like after Nora decides not to run for re-election?
General: I know it's been five years since it ended but this is still the spy show of my heart and I love all these sad glamorous dubiously-moral assassins. Before Amanda's backstory reveal I spent some time headcanoning her as a Russian agent - feel free to run with that background if it speaks more to you than her canon one! Happy for background Nikita/Owen or Nikita/Ryan if it makes sense for your story.
Cassandra Ovechkin: My favourite triple agent <3. I love Cassandra a lot and I wish we'd seen a lot more of her, so I am very hard to disappoint here! Something about her political machincations, maybe? I am always weak for a good masquerade ball scene, especially if it involves Cassandra getting to do some discrete murdering! I would also love fic about her time in MI-6, and you can never go wrong with AUs where Nikita was the agent she met six years ago and had a relationship with.
Jaden: I would have watched the Jaden spinoff show, she's such a great foil for Alex and I wish we'd seen more of what their relationship would have been like in the real world, so any sort of Jaden-survives AUs where they keep running into each other and crashing each other's missions would be great. Something about her relationship with Amanda - either more of her acting directly as Amanda's protege (and Nikita somehow exploiting that?) or what seasons 2 & 3 would have looked like with Jaden still alive. Or, hell, give me 5k of Jaden On A Mission looking hot and killing someone and just having a generally good time, I will love that too!
Amanda/Alex: I like them using each other as Nikita-replacements, but also using sex to try to directly manipulate each other. Alex promising herself she's only doing this for the mission, but also hating herself for being sorta into it. On an undercover mission knowing Nikita is probably watching them, sex included or not as you like. Amanda enjoying the opportunity to shape Alex into a mini-her so much that she misses how Alex is manipulating her right back (maybe because even Alex herself isn't entirely sure what she's doing). I like AUs where somehow Division ends up with Alex much earlier, and would die for post-canon fic - Alex visiting her and trying to find a way forward for them.
Amanda/Nikita: PRE-CANON FIC. Nikita's early days with Division, the dressing up and the missions and the undercover-as-a-couple and the whole idea of Amanda trying to teach Nikita how to human. Helping Nikita get reacquanted with her body and all the genuine affection but also completely unhealty levels of possessiveness that they're both cheerfully ignoring for the moment. Amanda dressing Nikita up and brushing her hair. Nikita murdering people for Amanda and coming back all bloody and triumphant. Or POST-CANON FIC. I don't love season 4, but I've made my peace with most of it with the exception of that bit where we watched Nikita obsess over Amanda for four seasons and then we were meant to ... believe she locked Amanda in a cell and ignored her forever? I don't buy it, and I want to see all of their visits, all of the manipulation-into-goodness that Nikita is so horrifically amazing at, all of the bad-idea sex with the weight of all their history. Or AUs where everything is the same except also they're vampires. AUs where they killed Percy early on and rule Division together. Amanda trying to win her back after she leaves - sending gifts to safehouses she shouldn't know about and Nikita being scared but not scared enough. How much of Division would Amanda destroy to show Nikita how much she wants her back? I just!! They love each other so much! They're so determined to create and re-create each other and they're both so bad at pretending the other isn't succeeding. The whole bit in 2x18 with 'I broke your heart? You broke mine.' is like one of my top 5 scenes in television ever. I love them. I love how much they hate each other and how bad they are at hating each other and I love how much they want. I, too, want - more of them, and pretty clothes, and terrible loyalty and hair braiding and also knives. Feel free to OT3 them (V or triad) with Alex.
Nikita & Alex: Any level of shippiness is fine for this one - I just love the sort of messy awful affection they have, and how tenuous and non-linear it is. They could be so good for each other! They're not at all great at being good for each other! It is my favourite dynamic! Pretty clothes, possessiveness, angst, murder, lies - and, sometimes, improbable quiet runs along the beach.
General: I like missionfic/casefic, especially for all the angst it gives post-Fall fic/preemptive angst it gives pre-Fall fics (I am entirely up to date on the canon), but they're not a requirement. For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both, and I also don't have a preference for never-married-to-Gerard!AUs vs pining/infidelity/open marriage so - whatever works for your fic! If Mercy's relevant to your fic, I am happy to see dark!Mercy as well as Overwatch!Mercy. Leaning into the body horror aspects around Ana's missing eye encouraged (I have a special love for flowers growing in the empty eye socket, because, well, I'm me) but not required. Any AU based off any skins for the requested characters (e.g. witch!Mercy, pirate!Ana, comtesse!Amélie) is welcome even if I haven't specified the general version of that AU in my likes. If you want to address the age gaps here, I really love how comfortable Ana is in her own skin, with her own age (even/especially her missing eye) and how that contrasts with her mixed feelings about what she's done, so anything that highlights that would be lovely.
Ana/Amélie: Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it, aka the reason I fell into this game and this canon in the first place. I love the angst of their situationally-enforced separation and how they're women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me' gives me life. Undercover as married, or married post-Fall because Ana is guilty and her eye and Gerard are both gone and Amelie is alone and and nothing's right but maybe they can make it better, and at least someone else is close by. Post-Recall fics where Amelie's been rescued and Ana tries to help her adjust to leaving life-as-an-assassin behind while Amelie helps Ana come to terms with the fact that no matter what she says she was an assassin. Ana gets captured by Talon and Amelie helps her escape (and Ana either takes her along, or struggles with how Amelie couldn't escape with her). I love post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields - but lighter pre-Fall missionfic, training, quiet moments where they almost forget that war is coming is also great!
Ana/Hana: Oh, this pairing could be just about anything - there is a strong possibility for shenanigans given their 'youth is wasted on the young' / 'come on Ana, I bet you did all sorts of crazy stuff when you were my age' exchange. Or you could do the exact opposite and lean into the angst of Ana watching her lover having to fight another war because of Overwatch's old failures. Hana thinking that Overwatch would be a little more freeing than the Army, and Ana helping her cope when it's not. Meetings post-Shooting Star. Something epistolary/video-epistolary - Hana leaving videos for her around the world, or doing streams with Ana. Or just give these two tired soldiers time to relax and enjoy each other. Or something completely else! There's the potential for so much emotional mentor/protege stuff here, and I want all of it.
Ana/Mercy: Rez is already lovingly bonkers video-game logic, so why not make it even more excellently eldritch: rez either requires or is equivalent to marriage, and Ana and Mercy find that out the hard way. Ana has a complicated relationship with death and Mercy has weird messy feelings about being devoted to Ana but also having the power to kill and bring her back, so I am super into edgeplay-to-the-edge-of-death with them - maybe it goes too far, resurrection and guilt and the somewhat-ambiguous sense of betrayal that seems to hang over them. Entirely magical witch!Mercy AUs are also great (I lived in that skin before All-Stars 2019 don't @ me it's perfect). But I also love softer h/c fics, and the just sort of - weary bonding that comes from having seen So Much Shit on the frontlines, realising the depth of their feelings during a mission and just being - hey, this really is an important person in my life, not just an important colleague. Bastet AU where Ana and Jack do go see Mercy, or one where Ana and Mercy started a relationship while Ana was the Shrike (up to you whether Mercy knew Ana's identity, in that case!). Something that explores how Ana went from 'not seeing Angela, nope' in Bastet to 'actually I could live in Angela's kitchen now' in Valkyrie. (And speaking of Valkyrie - the first time Angela's ever thought of Angela as mortal? Ana being statuesque and slightly tempered by a new softness? That's v gay, Angela). I'd also love getting together stories for them - slowly falling into each other when Angela first joins Overwatch.
Ana/Sombra: Sombra's not loyal to Talon for reasons beyond self-preservation, and I'd love to see Ana trying to exploit that somehow. 5+1 times they didn't mean to end up in bed together? Trying to seduce the other away from their respective organisations? Biotic/cybernetic engineering nerdery? One or both is a vampire.
General: Listen I'll fight Sally Wainwright in the Tesco's car park for many reasons, but this messy show about messy people is so close to my heart, and I'd love anything about these women and their relationships. Feel free to combine them - like, a Rachel/Janet fic that's Also about Rachel/Gill would be super interesting - and bring in any elements of book canon that you like, I've read all three.
Fandom-specific DNW: Season 5 canon, happy/endgame Rachel/any man (references to past canon relationships fine.
Gill/Janet: Twenty years of friendship! I'd love something that follows them over the years, a sort of friends-and-lovers who keep connecting and reconnecting as they work their way up the ranks.
Gill/Julie:
Rachel/Janet: I live for their friendship, and also for the potentially disasterous intersection between 'Rachel's entire authority THING' and 'that point in s3 where Janet is absolutely her superior officer'.
Rachel/Gill: Rachel would throw herself off a building just to get Gill Murray to look at her in Just the way she wants and I'm extremely into it (their canon dynamic is basically the foundation of my #unavailable older women in positions of authority like). They're on such a thin fine line between kindness and witholding, what happens when reckless devotion meets restrained care. I would love a post-s4 fic for them that explores their relationship once Gill's retired, or 5k of porn exploring their power dynamics, or an AU where Rachel gets to take her Sergeant's exam the first time and what that changes, or just some casefic.
General: I love this messy unapologetic show and how much it loved LA. I never finished Major Crimes (got annoyed with Sharon/Andy, got behind and then uhhh 6.09 happened, which, lolnope) but if it makes sense for your Brenda/Sharon fic to be set in seasons 1-4ish of Major Crimes, go for it! Casefic loved but not necessary. Chief Johnson AUs super loved. Anything and everything about Los Angeles politics and city-as-character. Feel free to make everyone vampires, LA is improved with vampires. I am profoundly neutral re: Fritz, so feel free to go never married/divorced/Brenda's cheating with any level of guilt/he died/something else as you want!
Mikki Mendoza: Mikki's GREAT and I want her to have a great time! Solve a case! Pick up a cute girlfriend at a bar! Subtly insult Mayor fake-Garcetti at an political event she doesn't want to be at! Help Sharon with some LAPD Women's Committee stuff! Steal Robbery-Homicide from Taylor after Brenda becomes Chief! Just ... Mikki.
Andrea/Brenda: In no world was Andrea ever prepared for Brenda, and yet - by the end, they were as close to friends as Brenda ever gets with people, and I want more of that! I especially like Brenda at the DA's office for this, Andrea helping her adjust to the new job, but really anything about quiet comfort and coping mechanisms that neither of them will actually call coping mechanisms but love and appreciate anyway.
Brenda/Sharon: Gods ... I love them so much. I love that it takes them so long to like each other even as they believe in each other, I love that even by the end of s7 Brenda would probably find it easier to sleep with Sharon than admit they're friends (sleeping with each other while stridently maintaining that they're not friends: extremely good).
Irene/Brenda: Mentorship dynamics! This can be pre-ship, or even one-sided on Irene's part if you like, I wish we'd gotten more of them together and seen them form the same sort of friendship that Brenda ended up forming with the rest of the team. So maybe something where she takes Gabriel's role for the first couple years, acting as Brenda's liason/support, or where they have to pair up for a case, or Irene comes back to help during s7, or reconnecting and getting together after Brenda joins the DA's office.
General: This weird book about fucked-up missionary siblings in clockwork Fairyland snuck into my life and ruined me and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal (all books can do with more weird changelings, lbr), so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. Canon-compliant deathfic for Ariel is fine - especially if it leads to Mab further manipulating/fucking with Cathy, and Cathy continuing to spiral about her identity, but I am also thrilled by any AU you come up with where she survives or is brought back. I ship any femslash as well as Cathy/Laon and Kasdaye/Penemue. Loads of ship prompts in previous requests for this book
Ariel Davenport: Changeling stories are my favourite in all universes, and I love Ariel madly. She clearly has some history with Arcadia's lies and masques, and I'd love any glimpse of it. Alternatively, what was life like for her in the mortal world? I'd love Ariel's POV on the novel's events, how she handles Cathy's potential Changeling status - she has a sort of resignation to liminality about her that I find fascinating. What if she tried to sell Cathy to Mab for Laon's safety (or, perhaps, Cathy tries it with her?).
Catherine Helstone: Yess this messy ambiguous-Changeling and all her potential! I love her academic bent and I would love to see more of that - post-canon at some Arcadian university in Pivot? Weird arranged marriages with Mab? Dragging Ariel back from whatever passes for death for a changeling? Trying to create her own changeling? On some kind of quest with Kasdaye after having her future told?
Kasdaye: Kasdaye as temptress-and-oracle is so incredibly My Thing and I want more of her! Life in court, life with her brother, telling fortunes and breaking rules. Fae parties and rituals, how she came to Mab's court, other courts she was with before, what it means to read fates and fortunes in a land where the line between spoken word and reality is incredibly malleable.
Mab | The Pale Queen: I love Mab so godsdamnned much, she's so extra in such a calculated way, and absolutely malevolent in such a gloriously fake-careless way and I want to dwell in her mind and her court forever. How did she build her court, what is her life like in Pivot, what other interactions has she had with humans, has she ever been to the mortal world, what are her relationships with other Fae lords like? I just want to know EVERYTHING about Mab and Arcadia, so do all the worldbuilding you like!
General: I watched the Welsh version of this on S4C, and fic in/incorporating Welsh is welcomed if you speak it! Involvement of any of the canon m/f ships is fine, though I'd prefer they not be the focus.
Jenny James/Catrin John: Their relationship is the backbone of the whole show, and I would love to see more of it from their perspectives. Epistolary fic during the time between Pontarfynach and Helen's murder, or AUs where Catrin survives.
Mared & or / Siân: They were the two who immediately caught me from the moment Sian tried to slink in late to the team's first briefing. I'm obsessed with how, despite the very real tensions between them, they're still quite close - the same Siân who makes it obvious repeatedly that she would rather be in Cardiff also chose repeatedly to stay and work specifically with Mared, and looks out for her during the investigation in s3. Despite everything they work well together and are concerned with protecting each other. Things I would love include casefic, things dealing with Welsh mythology, the small town/city dynamic, pre-canon fic and first meetings, or post-canon fic where they deal with the fallout from the s3 finale.
Mared & Elin: I kinda just want some slice-of-life fic for them tbh. They're such a quiet, mostly functional relationship, and I want more of them! Mared's sense of self is very tied to her sense of place, and I'd be interested to see how much of that she passes on to her daughter. Also, you can combine this with a Mared/Sian story - what would Elin think about their relationship?
General: I have a deep love for half-dead half-forest women and this show has truly left me spoiled for choice amongst them! Sad cops? Tired medical examiners? Girls with disturbing archery skills? Old bartenders possibly as old as time itself? I love them all! Gimme creepy things in the forest and I have a slight preference for came-back-wrong/never died Marion & Camille over pre-death Marion & Camille, but it's truly slight, I will love anything you write me even if they stay dead!
Camille/Laurène: You may have noticed that 'murder made me ship it' is a common theme in my requests and, look, it's a good trope. Camille dying at Cora's feet whispering I'm sorry about the Major (not 'Laurène' not 'your mother') gave me more feelings about them than I know how to deal with, so I ... humbly request you write me something about them! Things I love: Camille and Laurène meeting in some liminal death-space (especially if Laurene is dying over and over again to stay close to her and coming back worse each time), Laurène making the forest give her Camille back so they can (try to) have some of the conversations they didn't have in life, Camille being desperate to impress Laurène, THE CROWS, Laurène taking advantage of Camille's guilt to manipulate her into helping, dream sex, reunion sex that does not make anything better but that makes most things easier to forget.
Cora Weiss: She makes terrible choices and I love her, the way I am incapable of not loving any character who so perfectly fits the 'looking for trouble and if I cannot find it I will create it' troubled birds meme. I ship Cora/Marion and messy Cora/Roman, and would love to see her resurrecting Marion or working with the Children at any point in time.
Laurène Weiss: See above re: always weak for half-forest half-dead women. I want anything - I would honestly be happy with just 5k of lovingly described scenery porn as she wanders through the forest looking for Sylvaine! See above for ship prompts with Camille, but I'd also be super interested in her pre-canon with Leila, post-canon with Lea, or extremely guiltily at any point with Marion. For genships, I'd especially like to see her with any of the above, or with Sabine or Cora.
Sabine Hennequin: Sabiiiine she's the soul of Villefranche and one of my first loves in the show. I would love pre-canon fic for her, how she came and why she stayed. Fic where she's some kind of weird immortal is awesome - whether it's because she's some type of creature or because the forest gave immortality to her as a gift. I love her friendship with Anna, maybe something about how she took Anna in in the early days (or maybe Anna wasn't the first woman she helped like that, if you lean into the old/immortal aspect of her). The story of Sabine's all-nighter! Or anything leaning into the small-town politics of Villefranche. Fic with Camille, where Sabine figures out what's happening and tries to help her, whether she fails or suceeds. Anything about the questionably-willing mentorship she's developed with Laurène - I like the idea of Sabine as someone else who is loved by the forest, and maybe has a deeper understanding of it than Laurene, but not really great at communicating it. Just. Witchy things!
I love all these canons for the worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/canons, and would prefer you avoid them.
I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and I don't need a lot of romance in my ships: sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
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- Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #unavailable older women in positions of authority
- Femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background
- Nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters (especially when they would like to eat you because they love you), architectural horror
- Vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals, eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic horrors
- Feelings about embodiment and iconography, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies)
- Epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons
- First- and second-person pov, unreliable narrators
- Politics, worldbuilding
- Philosophical, legal, and academic debates
- Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers
- Canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Aniara, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, and Star Wars Sith AUs
- Conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/villain relationships
- Darkfic
- Arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality
- Relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care
- 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships
- 'You don't get to save me but you will kill me' types of relationships, especially when the killing doesn't actually happen and they both have to live with that
- Getting back together after messy breakups
- Desire, women who aren't afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods
- Porn as character work.
- Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis
- Blood magic, blood kink, blood rituals, blood as art medium
- Body horror
- Conflicted loyalties, abuse of loyalties, loyalty leading people into really bad decisionmaking
- Died and came back wrong, died multiple times and comes back wronger each time
- Doomed ships, ghost ships, ships that should be abandoned but aren't, cursed ships (spaceships/airships/sailing ships all good!)
- Eerily pristine abandoned places, ruined castles/fortresses/villages, other eldritch places
- Folk horror
- Ghosts
- Human sacrifice, ritual scarification, what happens when sacrifices to higher powers aren't accepted
- Identity Issues, especially those stemming from close bonds with another person
- In-universe regional horror, myths, (urban) legends, and folklore
- Killing and eating your gods as a form of worship
- Memory loss
- Nature that wants to crawl inside you and never come out, nature that wants to eat you, sentient malevolent nature
- Necromancy, the unpleasant aftereffects/costs of necromancy
- Oneiromancy, dreamsharing, dreams that bleed into reality, cursed dreams, prophetic dreams
- One character dressing another up to die
- Repeatedly killed and resurrected
- Ritual gone wrong
- There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls trope
- Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
- Unintended consequences of having your future told
- Hair braiding, hair pulling
- Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex
- Painplay, bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death
- Mirror sex, identity porn
- Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups)
- Jewellery and clothes kink
- Dressing or undressing each other
- Spanking, especially as a show of forgiveness or as penance for fucking up at work
- Consent play, somnophilia
- Praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink
- Public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet
- Oral sex
- Overstimulation
- Biting, marking
- First time with each other
- Sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional)
- Inappropriate use of magic and weapons
- Mutual masturbation
- One person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
- Unrequested m/m or m/f ships, unless specified.
- Rape/noncon (dubcon is fine)
- Permanent death of female characters (ghosts count as dead unless otherwise specified, references to pre-canon dead female characters fine unless otherwise specified).
- Kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters
- Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas
- A/B/O
- Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)
- 'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease
- Detailed descriptions of injuries to feet, amputated feet (minor/referenced injuries are fine)
- Zombie apocalypse fic, day-to-day survival in the postapocalyptic wasteland fic (exploration of ruins from dead civilisations is fine)
- Issuefic, fic focussing on characters' romantic/sexual/gender identities, characters describing themselves with canon-atypical or anachronistic romantic/sexual/gender identity terms
- 'It was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery
- 'I am too old to be loved' angst in age-gap ships
- Bodyswap fic, crackfic
- Sex involving under-16s.
- Mentions of Brexit in contemporary canons
- Safeword/colour checkins
General: Codependent teenage best friends AND not-not sexual obsession with #unavailable older women in positions of authority, I am immensely catered to. Also it's basically Lana Del Rey - She's not Me.mp3 in f/f canon form, so what's not to love? I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of it all. All the obsession, all the clinical-sensual interest in what bodies can do, all the levels of genuinely caring (or genuinely hateful!) mentorship that ultimately can't do anything but fail. I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me! Addy/Beth/Colette threesomes also welcome, or one watching the other two.
Note: I've read and loved the book, and if you want to use any elements of book canon instead of show canon (especially including things like Beth's suicide attempt/jump from the pyramid that the show hasn't gotten to yet), feel free!
Beth/Addy: So ... Beth watching Addy drift away from her and self-destructing so she can blame everything that goes wrong on her own actions and not on how she loves Addy is the best sort of angst, and adding sex into the mix for extra angst? Yes good please. I like the contrast between how in tune with their bodies they are and how not in tune with their emotions they are, so something that plays with that - kinking on pain/using it to bring each other pleasure while also being, like, in wildly different books re: their emotional states. Or make them vampires. You can't tell me you don't love the idea of cheerleading vampires. That whole strength/eternal youth thing combined with their competitiveness? Gimme, especially if the 'should we become vampires/join the Masquerade' conflict is piled on top of their existing issues. Or happy futurefic! I would not say no to college/adult-age Addy & Beth just having a nice day for once, appreciating each other's bodies as they change & grow.
Beth/Colette: The missed opportunities with them, gods. Like, Colette has this entire plan for Addy, but every single day she makes a deliberate choice to be Like That with Beth! They're way more alike than they want to admit and I think that terrifies them - Addy has Colette's hunger, but Beth has Colette's sadness, and they'd both be ruined if they let themselves look too closely at it. So: missed mentorships. What it means to look at someone and know them the way Beth and Colette know each other and still choose to turn away.
Colette/Addy: So all of Addy's fantasising about living with Colette and parenting her daughter? I would be super intrigued by futurefic where they end up finding their way back to each other and trying to make a life together work after everything that's happened (I don't know that it would necessarily work, but I wanna see how they'd try!) Canon-era AUs where they're actually sleeping together would also be interesting - stolen 'practises', comfort sex or bedsharing post-Will's death, AUs where one of them kills Will.
General: Witchy murderforest of my whole entire heart and all the women and girls it loves, ahhhh. This show has so many beautiful things to say about love and care and loss and obsession and it's eaten me as surely as Silverhojd has eaten Josefine. Tell me stories about witches and women and love and life and forests and I will be so, so happy. I would be totally happy with gen, but I ship Eva/Jeanette, Eva/Klara, Eva/Laila, Eva/Zara, Laila/Zara, Esme/Linus, and Esme/Maja, if you want to write something shippy. I headcanon Linus as nonbinary, but don't feel beholden to that if you involve him in fics. You don't have to resurrect Klara/ignore her death if you're writing late/post-s2 fic, but I'd rather it not be dwelt on.
Fandom-specific DNW: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romantic/sexual ships involving Ida, Josefine, or Kalem
Ylva: I was stunned by how much love the show had for Ylva the first time around, she's such a rare, joyful embrace of all the most wonderful things about the crone archetype despite the pain she's gone through. I'd love to see something about her life with Muns, or with Klara, or with the network of support she's built in the town and the forest. She's so aware, of thoughts and of life, and getting her perspective on the events of the show more immediately than we did through Eva's visuals would be lovely. We know she's far, far older even than she appears - she's had centuries in that forest, go wild with your worldbuilding and tell me all about them! AU where she managed to save + raise Laila? Can she shapeshift? When did she meet Klara? Are there others like her in other countries that she keeps in touch with?
Esmeralda & Klara: Witches and mentorships and found families, I love forever. Something set in the s1-s2 gap would be wonderful, showing how Esme grew from the rightfully distrustful lonely girl she was to someone who uncomplicatedly called Klara her foster mother and left that heartbreaking voicemail. Klara teaching Esme - anything from serious things about her powers to more simple 'no, you cannot actually eat that plant without dying'. I would love resurrection fic - Esme taking Klara back from the forest, Esme being given Klara-but-wrong by the trees, weird wonderful necromancy rituals with Ylva's help. Fic with them travelling somewhere - maybe a post-s2 AU where Esme takes Klara to Stockholm to show her why she found the city so important, or maybe Klara has friends/contacts somewhere else in Finland/Norway/Scotland/wherever that she takes Esme to meet. Anything that gets into hulderfolk/banshee mythology would be fantastic.
Ida & Josefine: They understood each other when no one else did, in a way that no one else did, and I'm obsessed with how the forest functions a conduit between them and what affect the Ida-is-a-changeling reveal might have on that. I'd love to see something that acknowledges that Josefine is continuing to grow - Ida sneaking off to the forest to sit by Josefine's tree and draw her pictures, maybe. Or dreamsharing, I am super into dreamsharing for them. I love how Ida acts as voice for Josefine and the forest both, and how Josefine, in human or tree form, might help bring some of Ida's own visions to life in return. I don't need Josefine to be in human form for this, and honestly it would be super cool if she wasn't? Lean into all the weird wonderful inhuman love and special care these girls have for each other!
Laila/Eva: Attempted murder, yes please! Though, honestly, I love Laila and would love to see her post-s2 trying to fashion a happier life for herself with Eva - what else is Eva going to do with all the space in the Thornblad house, honestly?
General: There were so many great ladies on this show and I'm sad none of them really got a lot of screentime together, so - let's change that in fic! I like casefic, I like ladies working together, I like pretending that in New York City more than one woman can prosecute homicide cases at once, I like mid-/post-case office cuddles/makeouts/sex. I am always and forever weak for the 'someone shoots up a courtroom and the ADA has to be comforted after' plots. I do ask that you respect the general time period of the seasons these women were on the show -- I don't want anything super contemporary.
Abbie/Serena: I love them because even though their political views are so far apart their legal philosophies actually track pretty closely with each other's - they both have a talent for looking at legal problems and deciding that the solution is simply to become bigger than the problem, which I love. They spend so much time as the 'everyone's a lesbian' afterthought pairing to Alex/Olivia from SVU, and I would love more fic that's actually about them. Does Abbie stay in the DA’s office while Serena moves to homicide? Does ADA Serena meet up with AUSA Abbie and help her on a case? Does Serena work Abbie around to a slightly less conservative way of thinking?
Anita & Claire: I would love some good old-fashioned casefic tbh! Find a body, observe some interrogations, spar a little bit about legalities, have a quiet celebration with a drink when it's all over. Or 5k words of just part of that, if one calls to you more than the others! Would also be very fond of an AU where Claire doesn't die and she
Claire/Elizabeth Olivet: They deserve nice things! I want fic where they win things, get to be fierce and smart and wonderful together. Late nights in the office working on cases together. Claire coming back as a vampire and them figuring out how that changes their relationship. Fun dates in art galleries with no bodies.
Nora & Serena: Serena Southerlyn canonically does her paperwork on Nora Lewin’s desk and I am more than a little dead about it? (see above, re. mentorship). They have so many great moments (”Everyone’s afraid, Nora, i’m afraid” / the entirety of DR 1-102). Does Serena ever come out to Nora? Does Nora guess? How did Serena get to the point where she does paperwork on Nora’s desk? What’s their relationship like after Nora decides not to run for re-election?
General: I know it's been five years since it ended but this is still the spy show of my heart and I love all these sad glamorous dubiously-moral assassins. Before Amanda's backstory reveal I spent some time headcanoning her as a Russian agent - feel free to run with that background if it speaks more to you than her canon one! Happy for background Nikita/Owen or Nikita/Ryan if it makes sense for your story.
Cassandra Ovechkin: My favourite triple agent <3. I love Cassandra a lot and I wish we'd seen a lot more of her, so I am very hard to disappoint here! Something about her political machincations, maybe? I am always weak for a good masquerade ball scene, especially if it involves Cassandra getting to do some discrete murdering! I would also love fic about her time in MI-6, and you can never go wrong with AUs where Nikita was the agent she met six years ago and had a relationship with.
Jaden: I would have watched the Jaden spinoff show, she's such a great foil for Alex and I wish we'd seen more of what their relationship would have been like in the real world, so any sort of Jaden-survives AUs where they keep running into each other and crashing each other's missions would be great. Something about her relationship with Amanda - either more of her acting directly as Amanda's protege (and Nikita somehow exploiting that?) or what seasons 2 & 3 would have looked like with Jaden still alive. Or, hell, give me 5k of Jaden On A Mission looking hot and killing someone and just having a generally good time, I will love that too!
Amanda/Alex: I like them using each other as Nikita-replacements, but also using sex to try to directly manipulate each other. Alex promising herself she's only doing this for the mission, but also hating herself for being sorta into it. On an undercover mission knowing Nikita is probably watching them, sex included or not as you like. Amanda enjoying the opportunity to shape Alex into a mini-her so much that she misses how Alex is manipulating her right back (maybe because even Alex herself isn't entirely sure what she's doing). I like AUs where somehow Division ends up with Alex much earlier, and would die for post-canon fic - Alex visiting her and trying to find a way forward for them.
Amanda/Nikita: PRE-CANON FIC. Nikita's early days with Division, the dressing up and the missions and the undercover-as-a-couple and the whole idea of Amanda trying to teach Nikita how to human. Helping Nikita get reacquanted with her body and all the genuine affection but also completely unhealty levels of possessiveness that they're both cheerfully ignoring for the moment. Amanda dressing Nikita up and brushing her hair. Nikita murdering people for Amanda and coming back all bloody and triumphant. Or POST-CANON FIC. I don't love season 4, but I've made my peace with most of it with the exception of that bit where we watched Nikita obsess over Amanda for four seasons and then we were meant to ... believe she locked Amanda in a cell and ignored her forever? I don't buy it, and I want to see all of their visits, all of the manipulation-into-goodness that Nikita is so horrifically amazing at, all of the bad-idea sex with the weight of all their history. Or AUs where everything is the same except also they're vampires. AUs where they killed Percy early on and rule Division together. Amanda trying to win her back after she leaves - sending gifts to safehouses she shouldn't know about and Nikita being scared but not scared enough. How much of Division would Amanda destroy to show Nikita how much she wants her back? I just!! They love each other so much! They're so determined to create and re-create each other and they're both so bad at pretending the other isn't succeeding. The whole bit in 2x18 with 'I broke your heart? You broke mine.' is like one of my top 5 scenes in television ever. I love them. I love how much they hate each other and how bad they are at hating each other and I love how much they want. I, too, want - more of them, and pretty clothes, and terrible loyalty and hair braiding and also knives. Feel free to OT3 them (V or triad) with Alex.
Nikita & Alex: Any level of shippiness is fine for this one - I just love the sort of messy awful affection they have, and how tenuous and non-linear it is. They could be so good for each other! They're not at all great at being good for each other! It is my favourite dynamic! Pretty clothes, possessiveness, angst, murder, lies - and, sometimes, improbable quiet runs along the beach.
General: I like missionfic/casefic, especially for all the angst it gives post-Fall fic/preemptive angst it gives pre-Fall fics (I am entirely up to date on the canon), but they're not a requirement. For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both, and I also don't have a preference for never-married-to-Gerard!AUs vs pining/infidelity/open marriage so - whatever works for your fic! If Mercy's relevant to your fic, I am happy to see dark!Mercy as well as Overwatch!Mercy. Leaning into the body horror aspects around Ana's missing eye encouraged (I have a special love for flowers growing in the empty eye socket, because, well, I'm me) but not required. Any AU based off any skins for the requested characters (e.g. witch!Mercy, pirate!Ana, comtesse!Amélie) is welcome even if I haven't specified the general version of that AU in my likes. If you want to address the age gaps here, I really love how comfortable Ana is in her own skin, with her own age (even/especially her missing eye) and how that contrasts with her mixed feelings about what she's done, so anything that highlights that would be lovely.
Ana/Amélie: Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it, aka the reason I fell into this game and this canon in the first place. I love the angst of their situationally-enforced separation and how they're women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me' gives me life. Undercover as married, or married post-Fall because Ana is guilty and her eye and Gerard are both gone and Amelie is alone and and nothing's right but maybe they can make it better, and at least someone else is close by. Post-Recall fics where Amelie's been rescued and Ana tries to help her adjust to leaving life-as-an-assassin behind while Amelie helps Ana come to terms with the fact that no matter what she says she was an assassin. Ana gets captured by Talon and Amelie helps her escape (and Ana either takes her along, or struggles with how Amelie couldn't escape with her). I love post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields - but lighter pre-Fall missionfic, training, quiet moments where they almost forget that war is coming is also great!
Ana/Hana: Oh, this pairing could be just about anything - there is a strong possibility for shenanigans given their 'youth is wasted on the young' / 'come on Ana, I bet you did all sorts of crazy stuff when you were my age' exchange. Or you could do the exact opposite and lean into the angst of Ana watching her lover having to fight another war because of Overwatch's old failures. Hana thinking that Overwatch would be a little more freeing than the Army, and Ana helping her cope when it's not. Meetings post-Shooting Star. Something epistolary/video-epistolary - Hana leaving videos for her around the world, or doing streams with Ana. Or just give these two tired soldiers time to relax and enjoy each other. Or something completely else! There's the potential for so much emotional mentor/protege stuff here, and I want all of it.
Ana/Mercy: Rez is already lovingly bonkers video-game logic, so why not make it even more excellently eldritch: rez either requires or is equivalent to marriage, and Ana and Mercy find that out the hard way. Ana has a complicated relationship with death and Mercy has weird messy feelings about being devoted to Ana but also having the power to kill and bring her back, so I am super into edgeplay-to-the-edge-of-death with them - maybe it goes too far, resurrection and guilt and the somewhat-ambiguous sense of betrayal that seems to hang over them. Entirely magical witch!Mercy AUs are also great (I lived in that skin before All-Stars 2019 don't @ me it's perfect). But I also love softer h/c fics, and the just sort of - weary bonding that comes from having seen So Much Shit on the frontlines, realising the depth of their feelings during a mission and just being - hey, this really is an important person in my life, not just an important colleague. Bastet AU where Ana and Jack do go see Mercy, or one where Ana and Mercy started a relationship while Ana was the Shrike (up to you whether Mercy knew Ana's identity, in that case!). Something that explores how Ana went from 'not seeing Angela, nope' in Bastet to 'actually I could live in Angela's kitchen now' in Valkyrie. (And speaking of Valkyrie - the first time Angela's ever thought of Angela as mortal? Ana being statuesque and slightly tempered by a new softness? That's v gay, Angela). I'd also love getting together stories for them - slowly falling into each other when Angela first joins Overwatch.
Ana/Sombra: Sombra's not loyal to Talon for reasons beyond self-preservation, and I'd love to see Ana trying to exploit that somehow. 5+1 times they didn't mean to end up in bed together? Trying to seduce the other away from their respective organisations? Biotic/cybernetic engineering nerdery? One or both is a vampire.
General: Listen I'll fight Sally Wainwright in the Tesco's car park for many reasons, but this messy show about messy people is so close to my heart, and I'd love anything about these women and their relationships. Feel free to combine them - like, a Rachel/Janet fic that's Also about Rachel/Gill would be super interesting - and bring in any elements of book canon that you like, I've read all three.
Fandom-specific DNW: Season 5 canon, happy/endgame Rachel/any man (references to past canon relationships fine.
Gill/Janet: Twenty years of friendship! I'd love something that follows them over the years, a sort of friends-and-lovers who keep connecting and reconnecting as they work their way up the ranks.
Gill/Julie:
Rachel/Janet: I live for their friendship, and also for the potentially disasterous intersection between 'Rachel's entire authority THING' and 'that point in s3 where Janet is absolutely her superior officer'.
Rachel/Gill: Rachel would throw herself off a building just to get Gill Murray to look at her in Just the way she wants and I'm extremely into it (their canon dynamic is basically the foundation of my #unavailable older women in positions of authority like). They're on such a thin fine line between kindness and witholding, what happens when reckless devotion meets restrained care. I would love a post-s4 fic for them that explores their relationship once Gill's retired, or 5k of porn exploring their power dynamics, or an AU where Rachel gets to take her Sergeant's exam the first time and what that changes, or just some casefic.
General: I love this messy unapologetic show and how much it loved LA. I never finished Major Crimes (got annoyed with Sharon/Andy, got behind and then uhhh 6.09 happened, which, lolnope) but if it makes sense for your Brenda/Sharon fic to be set in seasons 1-4ish of Major Crimes, go for it! Casefic loved but not necessary. Chief Johnson AUs super loved. Anything and everything about Los Angeles politics and city-as-character. Feel free to make everyone vampires, LA is improved with vampires. I am profoundly neutral re: Fritz, so feel free to go never married/divorced/Brenda's cheating with any level of guilt/he died/something else as you want!
Mikki Mendoza: Mikki's GREAT and I want her to have a great time! Solve a case! Pick up a cute girlfriend at a bar! Subtly insult Mayor fake-Garcetti at an political event she doesn't want to be at! Help Sharon with some LAPD Women's Committee stuff! Steal Robbery-Homicide from Taylor after Brenda becomes Chief! Just ... Mikki.
Andrea/Brenda: In no world was Andrea ever prepared for Brenda, and yet - by the end, they were as close to friends as Brenda ever gets with people, and I want more of that! I especially like Brenda at the DA's office for this, Andrea helping her adjust to the new job, but really anything about quiet comfort and coping mechanisms that neither of them will actually call coping mechanisms but love and appreciate anyway.
Brenda/Sharon: Gods ... I love them so much. I love that it takes them so long to like each other even as they believe in each other, I love that even by the end of s7 Brenda would probably find it easier to sleep with Sharon than admit they're friends (sleeping with each other while stridently maintaining that they're not friends: extremely good).
Irene/Brenda: Mentorship dynamics! This can be pre-ship, or even one-sided on Irene's part if you like, I wish we'd gotten more of them together and seen them form the same sort of friendship that Brenda ended up forming with the rest of the team. So maybe something where she takes Gabriel's role for the first couple years, acting as Brenda's liason/support, or where they have to pair up for a case, or Irene comes back to help during s7, or reconnecting and getting together after Brenda joins the DA's office.
General: This weird book about fucked-up missionary siblings in clockwork Fairyland snuck into my life and ruined me and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal (all books can do with more weird changelings, lbr), so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. Canon-compliant deathfic for Ariel is fine - especially if it leads to Mab further manipulating/fucking with Cathy, and Cathy continuing to spiral about her identity, but I am also thrilled by any AU you come up with where she survives or is brought back. I ship any femslash as well as Cathy/Laon and Kasdaye/Penemue. Loads of ship prompts in previous requests for this book
Ariel Davenport: Changeling stories are my favourite in all universes, and I love Ariel madly. She clearly has some history with Arcadia's lies and masques, and I'd love any glimpse of it. Alternatively, what was life like for her in the mortal world? I'd love Ariel's POV on the novel's events, how she handles Cathy's potential Changeling status - she has a sort of resignation to liminality about her that I find fascinating. What if she tried to sell Cathy to Mab for Laon's safety (or, perhaps, Cathy tries it with her?).
Catherine Helstone: Yess this messy ambiguous-Changeling and all her potential! I love her academic bent and I would love to see more of that - post-canon at some Arcadian university in Pivot? Weird arranged marriages with Mab? Dragging Ariel back from whatever passes for death for a changeling? Trying to create her own changeling? On some kind of quest with Kasdaye after having her future told?
Kasdaye: Kasdaye as temptress-and-oracle is so incredibly My Thing and I want more of her! Life in court, life with her brother, telling fortunes and breaking rules. Fae parties and rituals, how she came to Mab's court, other courts she was with before, what it means to read fates and fortunes in a land where the line between spoken word and reality is incredibly malleable.
Mab | The Pale Queen: I love Mab so godsdamnned much, she's so extra in such a calculated way, and absolutely malevolent in such a gloriously fake-careless way and I want to dwell in her mind and her court forever. How did she build her court, what is her life like in Pivot, what other interactions has she had with humans, has she ever been to the mortal world, what are her relationships with other Fae lords like? I just want to know EVERYTHING about Mab and Arcadia, so do all the worldbuilding you like!
General: I watched the Welsh version of this on S4C, and fic in/incorporating Welsh is welcomed if you speak it! Involvement of any of the canon m/f ships is fine, though I'd prefer they not be the focus.
Jenny James/Catrin John: Their relationship is the backbone of the whole show, and I would love to see more of it from their perspectives. Epistolary fic during the time between Pontarfynach and Helen's murder, or AUs where Catrin survives.
Mared & or / Siân: They were the two who immediately caught me from the moment Sian tried to slink in late to the team's first briefing. I'm obsessed with how, despite the very real tensions between them, they're still quite close - the same Siân who makes it obvious repeatedly that she would rather be in Cardiff also chose repeatedly to stay and work specifically with Mared, and looks out for her during the investigation in s3. Despite everything they work well together and are concerned with protecting each other. Things I would love include casefic, things dealing with Welsh mythology, the small town/city dynamic, pre-canon fic and first meetings, or post-canon fic where they deal with the fallout from the s3 finale.
Mared & Elin: I kinda just want some slice-of-life fic for them tbh. They're such a quiet, mostly functional relationship, and I want more of them! Mared's sense of self is very tied to her sense of place, and I'd be interested to see how much of that she passes on to her daughter. Also, you can combine this with a Mared/Sian story - what would Elin think about their relationship?
General: I have a deep love for half-dead half-forest women and this show has truly left me spoiled for choice amongst them! Sad cops? Tired medical examiners? Girls with disturbing archery skills? Old bartenders possibly as old as time itself? I love them all! Gimme creepy things in the forest and I have a slight preference for came-back-wrong/never died Marion & Camille over pre-death Marion & Camille, but it's truly slight, I will love anything you write me even if they stay dead!
Camille/Laurène: You may have noticed that 'murder made me ship it' is a common theme in my requests and, look, it's a good trope. Camille dying at Cora's feet whispering I'm sorry about the Major (not 'Laurène' not 'your mother') gave me more feelings about them than I know how to deal with, so I ... humbly request you write me something about them! Things I love: Camille and Laurène meeting in some liminal death-space (especially if Laurene is dying over and over again to stay close to her and coming back worse each time), Laurène making the forest give her Camille back so they can (try to) have some of the conversations they didn't have in life, Camille being desperate to impress Laurène, THE CROWS, Laurène taking advantage of Camille's guilt to manipulate her into helping, dream sex, reunion sex that does not make anything better but that makes most things easier to forget.
Cora Weiss: She makes terrible choices and I love her, the way I am incapable of not loving any character who so perfectly fits the 'looking for trouble and if I cannot find it I will create it' troubled birds meme. I ship Cora/Marion and messy Cora/Roman, and would love to see her resurrecting Marion or working with the Children at any point in time.
Laurène Weiss: See above re: always weak for half-forest half-dead women. I want anything - I would honestly be happy with just 5k of lovingly described scenery porn as she wanders through the forest looking for Sylvaine! See above for ship prompts with Camille, but I'd also be super interested in her pre-canon with Leila, post-canon with Lea, or extremely guiltily at any point with Marion. For genships, I'd especially like to see her with any of the above, or with Sabine or Cora.
Sabine Hennequin: Sabiiiine she's the soul of Villefranche and one of my first loves in the show. I would love pre-canon fic for her, how she came and why she stayed. Fic where she's some kind of weird immortal is awesome - whether it's because she's some type of creature or because the forest gave immortality to her as a gift. I love her friendship with Anna, maybe something about how she took Anna in in the early days (or maybe Anna wasn't the first woman she helped like that, if you lean into the old/immortal aspect of her). The story of Sabine's all-nighter! Or anything leaning into the small-town politics of Villefranche. Fic with Camille, where Sabine figures out what's happening and tries to help her, whether she fails or suceeds. Anything about the questionably-willing mentorship she's developed with Laurène - I like the idea of Sabine as someone else who is loved by the forest, and maybe has a deeper understanding of it than Laurene, but not really great at communicating it. Just. Witchy things!