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fiachairecht) wrote2020-07-21 05:39 pm
relationshipping 2020
Hello friend, it is time for incest/selfcest fic and 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 || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Dare Me (TV) || Fringe || Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti || Star Trek: Deep Space 9 || Succession || The Magnus Archives || The Secret History || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng
General: I'm fine with permadeath for Cersei if it's a murder-suicide dying-in-each-other's-arms deal with Jaime. I love the vast worldbuilding of the books, everything from the wild witchy bits up north to the more mundane aspects of King's Landing courtly life, so feel free to lean into either aspect as much as you like!
Fandom-specific DNW: Show canon, valonqar!Tyrion, Cersei dying while Jaime lives/Jaime dying while Cersei lives.
Cersei/Jaime: Best obsessive gilded fucking fools who have not yet learned that when they do not fuck their twin people die: I love them. I love how absolutely obsessed with each other they are, I love that more myself than I am is true both ways even if Jaime is bad at realising it (see again: gilded fools, I think they're smart about a lot of things but also deeply stupid about each other, and it's such a beautiful conflict.) Queen Cersei with Jaime as her prince consort, expanded versions of Cersei's dream of being married to Jaime with Joffrey still alive that slowly become obviously magical/prophetic. Marrying to keep Cersei on the throne, while different factions order each of them to kill the other (which may or may not backfire on those giving the orders). First time together when they're younger, canon-divergence where they kill a bunch of people and run off together, one of them has died and the other has to resurrect them, their reunion post-ADWD. Just - something that leans into their brilliant amoral sameness, whether they get a happy ending or not doesn't matter as long as they're together.
General: I like worldbuiling and pre-canon stories, especially stories about Lilith slowly siphoning witches away from Satan, stories where witches sign their name over to Lilith directly rather than into the Book of the Beast, and stories about centuries of history and the distinctly inhuman perceptions and desires of witches and demons. There's so many levels of glorious fucked-up obsessive mentorship here along with, you know, the gore and the deification-via-cannibalism and I love all of them. Murder + in-fic resurrection/came back wrong is fine for any of these prompts.
Fandom-specific DNW: Referring to Lilith as 'Madam Satan', season 3 plot canon. That being said, if you want to bring Marie in as a side/background character, I love her so feel free.
Edward/Zelda: Okay part of me just wants to link this cover of 'Cry, Little Sister' and be done with it but: you know how Zelda reacts to high priests? And how Edward knew he was called to be high priest from age six so there was - literally no time in Zelda's LIFE where she did not know her brother was destined to be high priest? YEAH. That whole - singular obsession, he-is-divine-therefore-I-must-be-too desperation thing, I love it so goddamn much. Apart from that, I would also love worldbuilding-through-marriage here - what do unholy marriages look like, did they keep it secret? I am deeply fond of alternate-universe Edwards showing up (they're magic, go as in-depth into how alt!Edward shows up as you like) - Zelda grappling with her voracious wanting now that he's back and they can try again to reshape the church, what would happen when she meets a version of him that's had sixteen years apart from her to change. It's CANON that Zelda makes a habit of killing and resurrecting her remaining sibling - did she ever kill and resurrect Edward? Did she try to find his body? (Plane crash over the ocean is a really good sign that someone didn't want her to find his body - what were they afraid of?). AUs where they're twins instead of six years apart are great. Something about the day she was my sister / before I was her confessor.
Edward/Zelda/Lilith: So: any of the above + Lilith, honestly. Zelda was very willing to believe that 'Mary Wardwell' was one of Edward's acolytes, and Lilith almost certainly has SOMETHING in her job description about liasing with/keeping track of high priests so - lean in to all the wonderful, terrible things they could do together. Lilith matchmaking them in order to make them prove their devotion to her, Edward the public, charismatic face of her church while Zelda acts as deeply personal enforcer. Lilith trying to use Edward to reform the church and killing him when he chose a mortal woman instead. is there a reason not Zelda an instrument of resurrection, pinned between him in the earth and Lilith in the sky, battle-proven queen and the usurper chosen priestess and then Edward, the immanent-beloved-atoning shadow over them.
General: I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of this 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 and all the times Beth looked at her sister and went 'nah'. Basically, I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me!
Notes: While I'm lifting my 'sex involving under-16s' DNW for this request, I don't kink on the underage aspect, and I'd prefer nothing that emphasises how young Tacy is/their ages in general if you do write smut. I've read and loved the book, so if you want to take elements from it in terms of order of cheer competitions, Beth jumping from the pyramid at the end, &c feel free (hopefully goes without saying but uh don't the part where they're not related.)
Beth/Tacy: Darkfic >:) Their combination of 'extremely insecure' and 'extremely unable to Stop' and I want all the bribery/blackmail/murder/other assorted disaster it has the potential to lead to. Taking something, anything too far - ice baths, runs in the woods, any of the other ways they have of being physically vicious (gore :D). And, you know, when in doubt you can always go for vampires - probably the only thing worse for Beth than having to deal with her sister is having to deal with her sister FOR ETERNITY, and, you know, I love Beth and she should have to suffer that.
General: Old favourite? Yes. Forever favourite? Also yes. I strongly prefer pre-timeskip fics, but it's not a requirement; similarly, I prefer mild worldbuildy AUs where importance remains with Olivia (either/both Olivias!) rather than any possible children of hers, but if you have to mention Etta or Henry that's fine and wouldn't hit my Peter/Olivia DNW.
Fandom-specific DNW: Any combination of prime/alternate Peter/Olivia
Olivia/Alternate Olivia: Not to be extremely vague but ... I love them and want them to win things. They understand each other in ways that no one else ever can, and there's so much potential there.
General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! I have some freeforms in last year's Darkest Night letter that are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones.
Note: Character death DNW does not apply to this request - deaths canon-compliant & not are fine & encouraged
Lizzie/Laura: The image of Lizzie standing fiery and unmoving amidst a sea of goblins was hashtag-formative, and I'm obsessed with that immense, frankly-bordering-on-stupid strength drawn from loving another person so much you nearly cease to exist. Lean into the horror of such an obsessive clever devotion and break my heart, please. I always found it fascinating that the deeper Laura sunk into her goblin-fruit stupor the less-and-more she seemed to know - not quite a mythical fruit of knowledge (in fact she loses the ability to see and hear the goblins in the regular world) yet she also quite clearly fades into another world at the same time. What does she find there, in the shadow-world? If Lizzie's obsessive devotion is to her sister Laura's is to something else entirely (knowledge? movement? sensations?) - what impact does that have on their relationship?
Jeanie/Lizzie/Laura: I'm totally happy to get a Lizzie/Laura + Lizzie-or-Laura/Jeanie V-shaped OT3 or a triad, whichever you feel is best for your story. I am weak for Jeanie-come-back-wrong fic: vampire, ghost, goblin-girl, whatever - I love the idea that the grass doesn't grow on her grave because she's not there to help it grow. I am also intrigued by the kill-you-to-love-you elements of the poem - perhaps the sisters killed Jeanie together for some reason? That thing in the Silmarillion where Luthien steals Thuringwethil's skin and wears it as a cape? That for any of the girls. Body horror - one or two or three of them slowly turning into goblin-fruit trees. Jeanie coming back as the owner of a goblin-fruit stall. The three of them in a Sith AU ft Force ghosts? The three of them as sentient evil spaceships in love. Something that plays with the strength of obsession and the horror of knowledge. Letters the sisters write to dead!Jeanie, and the ghost!Jeanie that ends up literally rising from the pages.
General: I prefer fics that don't make such a strong connection between mirrorverse sexualities and evil like the show did. I love, love, love canon-divergent AUs for DS9, especially where Bajor discovers the wormhole (and its possibilities for inter-universe travel earlier). Whether that's Kira's 'The Federation will be gone in a week and so will you' prediction coming true, or maybe Bajor has known about the mirrorverse for forever and have been getting secret help against the Cardassians from various mirrorverse factions or something else entirely, have fun with the what-ifs! I've read most of the season 8 novels, including the mirrorverse ones, and I'm overall lukewarm on them - feel free to use/ignore relevant bits as you want. I'm also kinda :/ at mirror versions of characters being killed off so frequently, it closes so many interesting storylines, so feel free to ignore any of those deaths.
Fandom-specific DNW: Prime or Mirror!Bashir, Prime!Dukat, post-series fic where prime!Bajor has joined the Federation/Kira has joined Starfleet for real (fic set when she's temporarily commissioned during s7 is okay).
Kira Nerys/Mirror Kira Nerys: The Intendant's obsession with Kira was ridiculously formative to me, and I'd love something that plays with how she isn't quite sure she and prime!Kira are different. I love how they both relate so deeply to 'their' Bajors and would love to see something exploring that (especially if the prime + mirror versions of Winn and Opaka get involved, either as matchmakers for the sake of cross-planar Bajoran unity or as relationship obstacles). I'd be super interested in the two of them switching places - I really hate the TOS line about how 'evil can't pretend to be good', the Intendant is literally alive because of how well she pretends to be other peoples' definitions of 'good' ... I think she'd do a better job of fooling some of the prime!crew. Something about their relationship through the lens of I made you queen and you forgave me ('The Waves Have Come', Chelsea Wolfe) or imperfect feelings, futile grief ('Illusive Consensus', Epica).
Kira Nerys/Iliana Ghemor: So how about that version of 'Second Skin' where Bashir tells Kira he has no idea whether she's Kira or Iliana! Or how Iliana becomes so certain she's Kira Nerys that she has to murder everyone else with that name! Everything about reaching out across the divide of war to find your literal self on the other side, and what it means to be and be with a person who's that particular sort of you-but-not. Missionfic would be especially great for them, but angsty introspective sex is also fantastic.
Winn Adami/Mirror Winn Adami: This can be Mirror!Winn from the novels, or your own interpretation of her - I remain bitter about the ending the show gave her, and think this ship would be a fantastic way to explore the intersection between her narcissim and her love for Bajor.
General: I love this show about terrible people doing terrible things, what can I say. Vampires are especially good for this canon, whether it's an 'everything's the same except also vampires' one or a full Requiem/Masquerade AU.
Marcia/Shiv: I don't think I've ever seen two people ANGRIER to be related, and I would love something that leans into the antagonism of that. The woman who keeps telling herself she wants to (can!) join the Roy family and the one who keeps telling herself she wants to (can!) leave, and how both of those are lies — I love ittt. Shiv sleeping with Marcia to (attempt to?) assert dominance/bring her into the family, Marcia reaching out in the only way she thinks Shiv will understand, all the messy not-quite-connections they're forced to make even when they don't want to, because they're family now.
General: I love horror canons and eldritch things and unconventional formatting and pretty much everything about this story! I read rather than listen, so anything overly-reliant on the audio will be a bit lost on me, but I am caught up and will probably still be caught up by the time of reveals. That being said, don't feel you have to integrate new canon - early-show stuff is great!
Note: Character death DNW does not apply to this request - deaths canon-compliant & not are fine & encouraged
Sasha James/Not Sasha James: I love! The Not-Them! Things that steal your face to wear as a party gown and either loves you too much or don't-care about you too much are such excellent monsters! So: weird stuff about Sasha and the Not-Thing that's taken her self! What exactly does being replaced by the Not-Them entail? Something about consumption, formation from the building blocks of the paper + digital detritus that makes up a life. Sasha fighting for her body before the initial possession/transformation, fighting for her body back in a came back wrong scenario. What it means to be skin and memories and still be not quite you (because the new You is over there), or to stare into a face hardly anyone believes is you and see your exact self but be unable to believe in it. Gore, angst, weird outside persepctives from the other creatures floating around.
General: I have a slight preference for pre-canon or during-canon fic, but if you want to write post-canon, go for it! I like the ridiculousness of the group like ... re-creating Victoriana boarding school tropes at a 1980s university, and really love fics that delve into the sort of person one has to be to cultivate that sense of deliberate earnest pretentiousness. I like fics about the mundane academic and the weird mythology equally, so lean into whichever you prefer. Feel free to include the rest of the group and Julian, but I'd prefer no OT3s for the twins this time.
Camilla Macaulay/Charles Macaulay: Co-dependent murdertwins with bonus weird mythology shit: my favourite. Academic nerdery, first times, rituals, the things you do to keep the person closest to you - the person who almost could be you - close when secrets get too intense. Post-canon coping mechanisms. While it's Greek myths in the book, if you have another favourite sort of mythology - Celtic, Norse, Egyptian, &c - and you want to explore what studying that would change, feel free to do that!
General: Oh hey 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.
Cathy/Laon: Ah, yes, deeply co-dependent world-shaping/world-breaking twins with infinite capacity for guilt and also academic study: let it not be said that I do not have a type, or that these two did not wreck me. Honestly I haven't requested them before because I was so happy with what canon gave me, so: post-canon adventures? Or, perhaps, role reversal, with ambiguous Changeling!Laon - he and Cathy are roughly equal in their capacity for love, but he is so much worse at dealing with the strange, that would be something delightful to drop on his head.
Ariel/Cathy/Laon: I spent a good portion of the beginning of the book when Cathy was thinking about any possible Laon/Ariel relationship wondering if I was supposed to think she was jealous of Laon or Ariel and you know what - I still think it's probable that it was both. Something about them together during the Hunt, Ariel helping the twins with their translations. Something goes wrong during the Hunt, and Cathy kills Laon or Ariel kills Cathy, and how the remaning two cope with the loss + bring the third back Fae twin sex magic accidentally or on purpose resurrects Ariel, perhaps under Mab's direction. Ariel and Changeling!Cathy make a Changeling!Laon so the twins can once again be made of the same stuff.
Cathy/Laon/Mab: Post-canon adventures in Pivot or Elphane, Mab being her glorious, terrible self at them and the twins acquiescing not only because of how they feel for each other but because of their curiosity about her. Anything that leans into the manipulative and the strange and the whole bargaining-with-a-Faerie-queen-for-my-lover's-life trope. Tam Lin, except it's Cathy in all her maybe-Changeling-maybe-not who's Mab's prize, and Laon overly-obsessed with salvation. The whole - welcome/not welcome thing of Mab trying to force Laon to kill and Cathy chosing to kill ostensibly for Laon but also, inescapably, not not for Mab.
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 || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Dare Me (TV) || Fringe || Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti || Star Trek: Deep Space 9 || Succession || The Magnus Archives || The Secret History || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng
- 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, Morrowind, 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
- 'Look what I can make you do to me' kinds of emotional manipulation in 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
- Reunions with former lovers in general, no matter what they look like - casual/platonic over coffee, ill-advised one-night stands, etc
- 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.
- Jewel tones, black and white
- Pieces that play with light/shadow
- Landscapes, forests, oceans
- Mist, moonlight, rain
- Tiny humans in otherwise-abandoned landscapes
- Characters covered in blood and/or plants
- Architecture, decaying buildings, abandoned buildings
- 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
- 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
- Painplay, manipulating broken bones, wound fingering
- 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 fine 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/references to Brexit
- Safeword/colour checkins
- Characters magically conjuring themselves dicks/being given dicks/giving other people dicks (sex toys like strap-ons are fine)
General: I'm fine with permadeath for Cersei if it's a murder-suicide dying-in-each-other's-arms deal with Jaime. I love the vast worldbuilding of the books, everything from the wild witchy bits up north to the more mundane aspects of King's Landing courtly life, so feel free to lean into either aspect as much as you like!
Fandom-specific DNW: Show canon, valonqar!Tyrion, Cersei dying while Jaime lives/Jaime dying while Cersei lives.
Cersei/Jaime: Best obsessive gilded fucking fools who have not yet learned that when they do not fuck their twin people die: I love them. I love how absolutely obsessed with each other they are, I love that more myself than I am is true both ways even if Jaime is bad at realising it (see again: gilded fools, I think they're smart about a lot of things but also deeply stupid about each other, and it's such a beautiful conflict.) Queen Cersei with Jaime as her prince consort, expanded versions of Cersei's dream of being married to Jaime with Joffrey still alive that slowly become obviously magical/prophetic. Marrying to keep Cersei on the throne, while different factions order each of them to kill the other (which may or may not backfire on those giving the orders). First time together when they're younger, canon-divergence where they kill a bunch of people and run off together, one of them has died and the other has to resurrect them, their reunion post-ADWD. Just - something that leans into their brilliant amoral sameness, whether they get a happy ending or not doesn't matter as long as they're together.
General: I like worldbuiling and pre-canon stories, especially stories about Lilith slowly siphoning witches away from Satan, stories where witches sign their name over to Lilith directly rather than into the Book of the Beast, and stories about centuries of history and the distinctly inhuman perceptions and desires of witches and demons. There's so many levels of glorious fucked-up obsessive mentorship here along with, you know, the gore and the deification-via-cannibalism and I love all of them. Murder + in-fic resurrection/came back wrong is fine for any of these prompts.
Fandom-specific DNW: Referring to Lilith as 'Madam Satan', season 3 plot canon. That being said, if you want to bring Marie in as a side/background character, I love her so feel free.
Edward/Zelda: Okay part of me just wants to link this cover of 'Cry, Little Sister' and be done with it but: you know how Zelda reacts to high priests? And how Edward knew he was called to be high priest from age six so there was - literally no time in Zelda's LIFE where she did not know her brother was destined to be high priest? YEAH. That whole - singular obsession, he-is-divine-therefore-I-must-be-too desperation thing, I love it so goddamn much. Apart from that, I would also love worldbuilding-through-marriage here - what do unholy marriages look like, did they keep it secret? I am deeply fond of alternate-universe Edwards showing up (they're magic, go as in-depth into how alt!Edward shows up as you like) - Zelda grappling with her voracious wanting now that he's back and they can try again to reshape the church, what would happen when she meets a version of him that's had sixteen years apart from her to change. It's CANON that Zelda makes a habit of killing and resurrecting her remaining sibling - did she ever kill and resurrect Edward? Did she try to find his body? (Plane crash over the ocean is a really good sign that someone didn't want her to find his body - what were they afraid of?). AUs where they're twins instead of six years apart are great. Something about the day she was my sister / before I was her confessor.
Edward/Zelda/Lilith: So: any of the above + Lilith, honestly. Zelda was very willing to believe that 'Mary Wardwell' was one of Edward's acolytes, and Lilith almost certainly has SOMETHING in her job description about liasing with/keeping track of high priests so - lean in to all the wonderful, terrible things they could do together. Lilith matchmaking them in order to make them prove their devotion to her, Edward the public, charismatic face of her church while Zelda acts as deeply personal enforcer. Lilith trying to use Edward to reform the church and killing him when he chose a mortal woman instead. is there a reason not Zelda an instrument of resurrection, pinned between him in the earth and Lilith in the sky, battle-proven queen and the usurper chosen priestess and then Edward, the immanent-beloved-atoning shadow over them.
General: I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of this 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 and all the times Beth looked at her sister and went 'nah'. Basically, I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me!
Notes: While I'm lifting my 'sex involving under-16s' DNW for this request, I don't kink on the underage aspect, and I'd prefer nothing that emphasises how young Tacy is/their ages in general if you do write smut. I've read and loved the book, so if you want to take elements from it in terms of order of cheer competitions, Beth jumping from the pyramid at the end, &c feel free (hopefully goes without saying but uh don't the part where they're not related.)
Beth/Tacy: Darkfic >:) Their combination of 'extremely insecure' and 'extremely unable to Stop' and I want all the bribery/blackmail/murder/other assorted disaster it has the potential to lead to. Taking something, anything too far - ice baths, runs in the woods, any of the other ways they have of being physically vicious (gore :D). And, you know, when in doubt you can always go for vampires - probably the only thing worse for Beth than having to deal with her sister is having to deal with her sister FOR ETERNITY, and, you know, I love Beth and she should have to suffer that.
General: Old favourite? Yes. Forever favourite? Also yes. I strongly prefer pre-timeskip fics, but it's not a requirement; similarly, I prefer mild worldbuildy AUs where importance remains with Olivia (either/both Olivias!) rather than any possible children of hers, but if you have to mention Etta or Henry that's fine and wouldn't hit my Peter/Olivia DNW.
Fandom-specific DNW: Any combination of prime/alternate Peter/Olivia
Olivia/Alternate Olivia: Not to be extremely vague but ... I love them and want them to win things. They understand each other in ways that no one else ever can, and there's so much potential there.
General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! I have some freeforms in last year's Darkest Night letter that are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones.
Note: Character death DNW does not apply to this request - deaths canon-compliant & not are fine & encouraged
Lizzie/Laura: The image of Lizzie standing fiery and unmoving amidst a sea of goblins was hashtag-formative, and I'm obsessed with that immense, frankly-bordering-on-stupid strength drawn from loving another person so much you nearly cease to exist. Lean into the horror of such an obsessive clever devotion and break my heart, please. I always found it fascinating that the deeper Laura sunk into her goblin-fruit stupor the less-and-more she seemed to know - not quite a mythical fruit of knowledge (in fact she loses the ability to see and hear the goblins in the regular world) yet she also quite clearly fades into another world at the same time. What does she find there, in the shadow-world? If Lizzie's obsessive devotion is to her sister Laura's is to something else entirely (knowledge? movement? sensations?) - what impact does that have on their relationship?
Jeanie/Lizzie/Laura: I'm totally happy to get a Lizzie/Laura + Lizzie-or-Laura/Jeanie V-shaped OT3 or a triad, whichever you feel is best for your story. I am weak for Jeanie-come-back-wrong fic: vampire, ghost, goblin-girl, whatever - I love the idea that the grass doesn't grow on her grave because she's not there to help it grow. I am also intrigued by the kill-you-to-love-you elements of the poem - perhaps the sisters killed Jeanie together for some reason? That thing in the Silmarillion where Luthien steals Thuringwethil's skin and wears it as a cape? That for any of the girls. Body horror - one or two or three of them slowly turning into goblin-fruit trees. Jeanie coming back as the owner of a goblin-fruit stall. The three of them in a Sith AU ft Force ghosts? The three of them as sentient evil spaceships in love. Something that plays with the strength of obsession and the horror of knowledge. Letters the sisters write to dead!Jeanie, and the ghost!Jeanie that ends up literally rising from the pages.
General: I prefer fics that don't make such a strong connection between mirrorverse sexualities and evil like the show did. I love, love, love canon-divergent AUs for DS9, especially where Bajor discovers the wormhole (and its possibilities for inter-universe travel earlier). Whether that's Kira's 'The Federation will be gone in a week and so will you' prediction coming true, or maybe Bajor has known about the mirrorverse for forever and have been getting secret help against the Cardassians from various mirrorverse factions or something else entirely, have fun with the what-ifs! I've read most of the season 8 novels, including the mirrorverse ones, and I'm overall lukewarm on them - feel free to use/ignore relevant bits as you want. I'm also kinda :/ at mirror versions of characters being killed off so frequently, it closes so many interesting storylines, so feel free to ignore any of those deaths.
Fandom-specific DNW: Prime or Mirror!Bashir, Prime!Dukat, post-series fic where prime!Bajor has joined the Federation/Kira has joined Starfleet for real (fic set when she's temporarily commissioned during s7 is okay).
Kira Nerys/Mirror Kira Nerys: The Intendant's obsession with Kira was ridiculously formative to me, and I'd love something that plays with how she isn't quite sure she and prime!Kira are different. I love how they both relate so deeply to 'their' Bajors and would love to see something exploring that (especially if the prime + mirror versions of Winn and Opaka get involved, either as matchmakers for the sake of cross-planar Bajoran unity or as relationship obstacles). I'd be super interested in the two of them switching places - I really hate the TOS line about how 'evil can't pretend to be good', the Intendant is literally alive because of how well she pretends to be other peoples' definitions of 'good' ... I think she'd do a better job of fooling some of the prime!crew. Something about their relationship through the lens of I made you queen and you forgave me ('The Waves Have Come', Chelsea Wolfe) or imperfect feelings, futile grief ('Illusive Consensus', Epica).
Kira Nerys/Iliana Ghemor: So how about that version of 'Second Skin' where Bashir tells Kira he has no idea whether she's Kira or Iliana! Or how Iliana becomes so certain she's Kira Nerys that she has to murder everyone else with that name! Everything about reaching out across the divide of war to find your literal self on the other side, and what it means to be and be with a person who's that particular sort of you-but-not. Missionfic would be especially great for them, but angsty introspective sex is also fantastic.
Winn Adami/Mirror Winn Adami: This can be Mirror!Winn from the novels, or your own interpretation of her - I remain bitter about the ending the show gave her, and think this ship would be a fantastic way to explore the intersection between her narcissim and her love for Bajor.
General: I love this show about terrible people doing terrible things, what can I say. Vampires are especially good for this canon, whether it's an 'everything's the same except also vampires' one or a full Requiem/Masquerade AU.
Marcia/Shiv: I don't think I've ever seen two people ANGRIER to be related, and I would love something that leans into the antagonism of that. The woman who keeps telling herself she wants to (can!) join the Roy family and the one who keeps telling herself she wants to (can!) leave, and how both of those are lies — I love ittt. Shiv sleeping with Marcia to (attempt to?) assert dominance/bring her into the family, Marcia reaching out in the only way she thinks Shiv will understand, all the messy not-quite-connections they're forced to make even when they don't want to, because they're family now.
General: I love horror canons and eldritch things and unconventional formatting and pretty much everything about this story! I read rather than listen, so anything overly-reliant on the audio will be a bit lost on me, but I am caught up and will probably still be caught up by the time of reveals. That being said, don't feel you have to integrate new canon - early-show stuff is great!
Note: Character death DNW does not apply to this request - deaths canon-compliant & not are fine & encouraged
Sasha James/Not Sasha James: I love! The Not-Them! Things that steal your face to wear as a party gown and either loves you too much or don't-care about you too much are such excellent monsters! So: weird stuff about Sasha and the Not-Thing that's taken her self! What exactly does being replaced by the Not-Them entail? Something about consumption, formation from the building blocks of the paper + digital detritus that makes up a life. Sasha fighting for her body before the initial possession/transformation, fighting for her body back in a came back wrong scenario. What it means to be skin and memories and still be not quite you (because the new You is over there), or to stare into a face hardly anyone believes is you and see your exact self but be unable to believe in it. Gore, angst, weird outside persepctives from the other creatures floating around.
General: I have a slight preference for pre-canon or during-canon fic, but if you want to write post-canon, go for it! I like the ridiculousness of the group like ... re-creating Victoriana boarding school tropes at a 1980s university, and really love fics that delve into the sort of person one has to be to cultivate that sense of deliberate earnest pretentiousness. I like fics about the mundane academic and the weird mythology equally, so lean into whichever you prefer. Feel free to include the rest of the group and Julian, but I'd prefer no OT3s for the twins this time.
Camilla Macaulay/Charles Macaulay: Co-dependent murdertwins with bonus weird mythology shit: my favourite. Academic nerdery, first times, rituals, the things you do to keep the person closest to you - the person who almost could be you - close when secrets get too intense. Post-canon coping mechanisms. While it's Greek myths in the book, if you have another favourite sort of mythology - Celtic, Norse, Egyptian, &c - and you want to explore what studying that would change, feel free to do that!
General: Oh hey 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.
Cathy/Laon: Ah, yes, deeply co-dependent world-shaping/world-breaking twins with infinite capacity for guilt and also academic study: let it not be said that I do not have a type, or that these two did not wreck me. Honestly I haven't requested them before because I was so happy with what canon gave me, so: post-canon adventures? Or, perhaps, role reversal, with ambiguous Changeling!Laon - he and Cathy are roughly equal in their capacity for love, but he is so much worse at dealing with the strange, that would be something delightful to drop on his head.
Ariel/Cathy/Laon: I spent a good portion of the beginning of the book when Cathy was thinking about any possible Laon/Ariel relationship wondering if I was supposed to think she was jealous of Laon or Ariel and you know what - I still think it's probable that it was both. Something about them together during the Hunt, Ariel helping the twins with their translations. Something goes wrong during the Hunt, and Cathy kills Laon or Ariel kills Cathy, and how the remaning two cope with the loss + bring the third back Fae twin sex magic accidentally or on purpose resurrects Ariel, perhaps under Mab's direction. Ariel and Changeling!Cathy make a Changeling!Laon so the twins can once again be made of the same stuff.
Cathy/Laon/Mab: Post-canon adventures in Pivot or Elphane, Mab being her glorious, terrible self at them and the twins acquiescing not only because of how they feel for each other but because of their curiosity about her. Anything that leans into the manipulative and the strange and the whole bargaining-with-a-Faerie-queen-for-my-lover's-life trope. Tam Lin, except it's Cathy in all her maybe-Changeling-maybe-not who's Mab's prize, and Laon overly-obsessed with salvation. The whole - welcome/not welcome thing of Mab trying to force Laon to kill and Cathy chosing to kill ostensibly for Laon but also, inescapably, not not for Mab.