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Hello friend, it is time for longfic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also

kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I love these shows 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/relationships, 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 || Borgen || Jordskott || Requiem || River || Scott & Bailey || Shetland || Y Gwyll

Likes

Arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality

Canon-divergent/what-if AUs, 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

Conversations in mundane liminal spaces, conversations in liminal spaces on the border between one world and another

Darkfic

Femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background

Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers

Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #unavailable older women in positions of authority

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

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.

Time loops with both characters trapped, time loops while one character is trapped and the other is there to help or hinder but can leave whenever they want.

Art Likes

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

Dark Likes

Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis

Arousal from killing, sex in the blood of their enemies

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

Flowers growing out of people's bodies, flowers growing out of people's empty eye sockets

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

Non-fatal and oddly romantic vivisection

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

Smut Likes

Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex

Biting, marking

Bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death

Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups)

Consent play

Dressing or undressing each other

First time with each other

Fucked with the hilt of a weapon/barrel of a gun

Hair braiding, hair pulling

Jewellery and clothes kink

Mirror sex, identity porn

Mutual masturbation

Needleplay, sewing pretty patterns into people's skin, sewing a partner to the bed

One person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them

One person trying to read, their partner getting more and more distracting until they put their book away

Oral sex

Overstimulation

Painplay, manipulating broken bones, wound fingering

Praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink

Semi-public sex (especially under-desk cunnilingus), having to stay quiet

Sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional)

Somnophilia

Spanking, especially as a show of forgiveness or as penance for fucking up at work

Temperature play

Thigh riding, especially if the one riding her partner is wearing a skirt with her underwear pulled aside.

Do Not Want

A/B/O, any type of biologically determined heats/'must fuck now' situations including sex pollen

Bodyswap fic, crackfic

Breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression, ageplay

Characters under 13 unless requested (mentions of childhood happenings are fine), de-aging

Characters magically conjuring themselves dicks/being given dicks/giving other people dicks (sex toys like strap-ons are fine)

Detailed descriptions of injuries to feet, amputated feet (minor/referenced injuries are fine)

Fictional non-American police forces having the same history/current issues/social norms as real-world American police forces.

Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)

'I am too old to be loved' angst

Issuefic, non-canonical trans or ace interpretations of characters unless requested, 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 endings

Mentions of/references to Brexit (explicit Remain-won AUs welcome but not necessary, just let me pretend)

'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease, single-target sexuality where the characters have never been and will never be sexually/romantically attracted to anyone else

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).

Safeword/colour checkins, extensive kink/relationship negotiation

Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas

Sex involving under-16s.

Zombie apocalypse fic, day-to-day survival in the postapocalyptic wasteland fic (exploration of ruins from dead civilisations is fine)

Borgen

General: I want to say something intelligent about this show but I'm extremely 'no thought head Birgitte and Hanne and Katrine' about it. Where I've requested both & and / versions of all these combinations I will truly be happy with whichever version you choose to write. Feel free to combine them as well - I'd be delighted by, say, Birgitte/Katrine & Hanne.

Note: Referenced/past Birgitte/Phillip and Kasper/Katrine are fine. I'd prefer if you pretended Birgitte/Jeremy never happened, even if we didn't match on one of my / ships for Birgitte.

Fandom-specific DNW: Contemporary European political landscapes in futurefic. I like futurefic, I have some prompts for it, but if you go for something set closer to now than 2013, I'd like a Denmark that was kept more thoughtfully & compassionately to the left because of Birgitte's politics, a UK that didn't leave the EU, that sort of thing (this does not apply to American politics - keep them as is or go alt-history as you wish).

Birgitte & or / Katrine: Did I love what season 3 gave me? Yes. Do I want more? Also yes.

AUs where Katrine is Birgitte's ex, instead of Kasper's. Either romantic ex or an Anne-Sophie type figure, depending on the direction you want to take it.

Post-s3, Birgitte back as Staatsminister in a leftist government with Katrine as her spin doctor.

Fic set in one of the between-seasons gaps - Katrine covering an event Birgitte is speaking at, a legislation-of-the-week fic like some of the early s1 episodes.

AUs where Birgitte's ill-advised one night stand is with Katrine instead of her driver.

Birgitte & Hanne: Also known as: the scene early in s1 where someone was like 'no one wants to hire Hanne anymore' and Birgitte responded by giving her the first question made a much bigger impact on me than anyone intended.

They choose the same bathroom/hallway to hide out in during some boring event.

Anything set in the s2-s3 timeskip.

Hanne & Katrine: Their relationship is hands-down the best part of s2, and I love that they both truly need each other and are good friends to each other in a way that transcends their (theoretical) mentor-student positions.

Post-canon, covering the new administration, Katrine readjusting to new journalism after her time with the New Democrats.

Post-canon, Katrine continues working with Birgitte, Hanne stays in news journalism, and what effect that has on their relationship.

Working on a story together in the s1-s2 timeskip.

An exception to my kidfic DNW: the two of them with Gustav post-canon, Katrine offering Hanne the chance to develop some kind of relationship with him the way she didn't get to with her own daughter.

Uncomplicated friends-with-benefits arrangements.

Jordskott

General: Witchy murderforest of my whole entire heart and all the women and girls it loves! 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. If you're writing post-s2 fic, I strongly prefer resurrected Klara or canon divergence so that she never died, but you can also just not mention her.

Fandom-specific DNW: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romantic/sexual ships involving Ida, Josefine, or Kalem

Ida: Darling girl! I loved her when we thought she was human and I love her now that we know she's a changeling. I love her uncanny ability to make friends, I love her art, I love how much she cares.

Ida and Josefine, because true friendship can absolutely be found between and changeling and a tree. What effect does the changeling!Ida reveal have on her relationship with Josefine/the Josefine-tree in Silverhojd?

Fic between seasons 1 and 2 in Stockholm with Eva and Tom. One of my favourite things about this show is how simply it just accepts the unconventional Eva-Ida-Tom family, without demanding that Eva be A Mother to Ida or anything other than friends with Tom, and I'd love something about their attempts at a normal(ish) life where Ida helps Eva mourn, Eva helps Ida live, Tom tries valiantly to keep up with them.

Ida and Kalem on some kind of adventure in Stockholm or in the woods.

Klara: Deserved more! The back half of series 2 would've been better with her, honestly, and she is full of so much life that could be explored!

Anything pre-canon. Meeting Ylva, learning what it means to be one of the hulderfolk, meeting other children of the forest (either the ones we've seen, like Muns and the other changelings, or anything/anyone else you want to draw from Scandifolk mythology).

Fic in the s1-s2 timeskip. Building a garden with Esme. Keeping in cautious, careful touch with Eva, providing her a link back to the forest. Tending to Josefine's tree. Studying with Ylva.

Anything with Esme in general, in the timeskip or in an AU where she never died, because witches and mentorships and 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 have my whole heart.

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.

Shipfic with Eva. They're less different than they'd like to think, and I really, really wish they'd had more time together in canon. I especially like the idea of a season 1 AU where Klara finds Eva before Ylva - how would Eva handle learning about the forest from someone who initially appears much more similar to herself than from someone who slots more easily into the crone-witch archetype.

Speaking of archetypes, Klara-Eva-Esme as crone-mother-maiden is deeply intriguing, as is Ylva-Eva-Klara as crone-mother-maiden, and I love that there's space to play with both. Take advantage of it!

Resurrection fic, with Esme or Ylva bringing Klara back and helping her readjust to life above ground. Whether the forest gives Klara back (slightly wrong?) or someone brings her back, I'd love anything dealing with improbable survival and learning to live again.

Laila Roos: Sad murderous witchbaby who just needs a friend: a not-uncommon theme in this show! Also why I love everyone so much. I love Laila's anger, and I want good things for her.

Well, she mostly-murdered Eva so because I am me I ship her with Eva now. Post-canon reconnections in unexpected forms, letters written and sent or not, Laila's return.

I'd also like to see her try to fashion something list a happy ending for herself post-season 2. Whether that's in Sweden or not - and whether it's happy for anyone around her - is up to you. Original characters, human or not, absolutely welcome here.

An exploration of what her life would have looked like if someone like Ylva or Klara had found and helped her earlier, whether they succeeded or not. If they find her after her mother, what does the healing process look like?

Something mid-season where she and Bahar bond over working with Eva - so many secrets and tension there that I would love to see!

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.

Historical fic. She's a couple hundred of years old at minimum, so there's loads of time to play with. Anything about the way myth and history have interacted in Sweden throughout the years, women she's loved, supernatural creatures she's mentored, how Silverhojd was founded.

Mentorship fic with Klara. I will never say no to resurrection fic (especially if Esme is also involved), but pre-canon as well, meetings throughout the years, magic lessons, helping Klara understand who she is.

Ylva and the Josefine tree! Stories of all the times she visits Josefine, stories that she tells Josefine, explorations of what might have happened if she found Josefine during the missing years.

Meeting and mentoring Bahar. Bahar would not be paid enough for what s2 put her through even if she'd taken that promotion, and I would love for her to find Ylva and become more acquainted with the forest.

Requiem

General: Oh man, this weird little show. I wrote a huge amount here about it (full of spoilers!), and there were a lot of things I wish it had done differently but it also gave me so many fascinating building blocks. I was not wholly sold on the supernatural aspects of it, so this canon especially I would love to see a Changeling: The Lost or Vampire: The Requiem AU, to see what other supernatural things would look like with these characters and their pasts.

Fandom-specific DNW: Anyone but Sylvia as the single post-1x06 cult surviver. If you want to fiddle with things so that e.g. only Kendrick dies, go for it, but if you stick with the four deaths, I want Sylvia to be the one who made it out.

Graves: I love her. Every moment she is onscreen just brings me absolute joy. She's a lot more competent than a lot of the 'village copper who gets the supernatural thrown at her' types, but it's not paired with the sort of ambition/desire to Get Away that that kind of competence sometimes demands. I'd love to see her coping post-canon, and I'd also really like to see more of her with Trudy - the little we see of their relationship is oddly on the line between fraught and kind, and I'd love more of the tension there.

Matilda/Sylvia: They are very pretty and they should do terrible things with/for/to each other! Any and all sorts of manipulation, including post-s1 angel!Tilly and prophet!Sylvia trying to cement their hold on Penllynith.

Stephen & Lloyd & Verity & Sylvia: Cult ensemble! I requested this as all-gen because I didn't want to imply I cared most about the Lloyd/Verity part of this, but you don't have to, like, pretend they're not married, I just want the focus on the group as a whole. I was a little surprised by how much genuine affection they all seemed to have for each other up until the very end, and I'd love to see more of that in any form. How Sylvia brought the group together, other summoning attempts, Sylvia trying to necromancy her friends back.

River

General: Gods, this show has so many beautiful things to say about love and loss and grief and I just want to dwell in it a while longer. I interpret Chrissie has having been in love with Stevie but not having recognised/admitted it even to herelf until after she'd died, and my prompts do stem from that interpretation, but if you want to do an AU where there's some element of requited-ness that's great. Permanent death for Stevie as per canon is fine here.

Chrissie/Rosa: I'd love anything about them finding peace together post-series, especially Rosa helping Chrissie rediscover/reclaim her sexuality (you know that Lesley Manville interview where she talks about how women over 50 should still get to have sex up against a fridge if they want to? Chrissie should get to have sex with Rosa up against a fridge).

Chrissie/Stevie: John's grief over Stevie takes centre stage for most of the show, so if you go for mid- or post-canon, I would really like something that moves the focus over onto Chrissie and her grief here. Anything where Chrissie sees Stevie like John does, or pre-canon kisses that Chrissie pretends can't mean anything. Something about the pain of being in love with your best friend when you've forgotten how to be in love.

Rosa & Ira & Chrissie & River: Ensemble request! If you want to include Chrissie/Rosa as a background/mentioned thing, feel free.

Rosa & Stevie: Canon leaves it ambiguous whether they ever met, so I'd love to see them meet pre-series - missed opportunities, things half-said. Sex that definitely means Something, but also definitely doesn't mean what they're both pretending it means.

Scott & Bailey

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 include & give attention to their relationships with Gill and Julie, and bring in any elements of book canon that you like - I've read all three.

Fandom-specific DNW: Season 5 canon, endgame m/f ships for Janet or Rachel (mentioned past ones fine), Rachel/Kevin happening the way it did in s3. Set fic before then or canon-diverge so it doesn't happen (Rachel and Janet can still fall out over something else, references to Kevin leaking information are fine, I have a strong preference for no on-page Kevin though).

Rachel / or & Janet: I'm not bothering to separate out platonic and romantic here, and, honestly, I think trying to pin down the line between the two for them is ... useless at best and counterproductive at worst. They and the show are at their best when their relationship is allowed to be the most important thing to each of them, and just ... lean into that.

I live for their friendship, and would love to see them in a friends-and-lovers situation. Or, as the freeform tag goes, '#Let's Not Worry About Defining This Relationship Let's Just Keep Kissing'. Canon, but they keep managing to steal kisses and not think too hard about it until something (Sean's proposing?) does.

Any type of canon divergence where Rachel dumps Sean instead of marrying him. I know making the worst possible choice is just Rachel being Rachel sometimes, but I'd like her to not have to for once - to take a step back and realise that won't end well, or for Janet to maybe realise she's projecting her own feelings about (the loss of) marriage onto Rachel and she doesn't have to.

Like, I mean, 'Do you really want to stay at ours' she wanted to say yes so badly let Rachel say yes to Janet - friendship, sex, romance, any/all/weirdly in between those things - instead of saying yes to a man because she thinks she has to.

Casefic, and, if you're wanting a specific prompt, what casefic centred on them looks like in the aftermath of Helen Bartlett's death. S2 touched a bit on what the failure of system does to Rachel specifically, but Helen's case was a failure of Gill's, who Janet and Rachel not only trust but model themselves on, and while s4 gestured at some answers ... I'm not completely satisfied with them. So.

Rachel making a pass at Janet, instead of bringing Kevin home, and Janet's fear of adding - or acknowledging - that dimension of their relationship leading to their fight.

The potentially disasterous intersection between 'Rachel's entire authority THING' and 'that point in s3 where Janet is absolutely her superior officer'. Because, look, 'I can call you ma'am now if you like' x all those times Rachel's knelt in front of Janet's desk ... that has lived in my head for the better part of a decade at this point. I refuse to be the only one.

Shetland

General: I'm entirely up to date on canon, but any divergences you want are fine. I like selkie!Rhona AUs, fics that explore the challenges of Shetland life vs mainland life, and Scottish mythology. Explicit Remain-won AUs are delightful, but not necessary as long as I can pretend Remain won and there's no Brexit. Fic in Scottish Gaelic super welcome if you speak it.

Rhona Kelly: Okay, look, I thought about nominating as many Rhona ships as I could cram into four nomination slots, but, listen: four is a small number and choices are hard. Really I just want more of Rhona, with whoever else sparks joy in your heart. I've given some options here, but feel free to completely ignore them if you've other things you want to explore. Also feel free to mix & match - I would be very happy with, for instance, a story about Rhona navigating the beginnings of a new relationship while still sorting out her feelings about how things ended with Phyllis.

Speaking of Phyllis, Rhona/Phyllis in whatever form, including breakup fic. I would genuinely love to see these two pepole who care so much about each other coming to the realisation that, actually, they can't move forward together.

If you're wanting happier things, stories about their reconciliation - the work Phyllis has to do to regain trust, the slow rebuilding of friendship first, maybe something that starts and stops and has steps backward - or anything pre-canon: getting together, travels around Scotland, negotiating Rhona's move, the first time Phyllis visited, meeting Phyllis' family.

Rhona-centric casefic! Whether that's adapting one of the book mysteries or coming up with something else. Case as the main priority or case as scaffolding for the character drama, either is great.

Rhona/OFC, either pre-Phyllis or post-Phyllis. Pre-canon uni girlfriend? Excellent. First time dating someone she works with? Also excellent! A friend-with-benefits after Phyllis is gone forever? Also excellent! Selkie girlfriend in a magic AU? As you may have guessed by now, also exellent!

Rhona & Cassie, Rhona & Jimmy, or Rhona & Tosh, in any/all forms. Something epistolary would be lots of fun - emails, paperwork, the like.

For this canon specifically, I also adore selkie!AUs, in addition to the AUs in my general likes. Whether that's selkie!Rhona balancing her life on the island and in the water, or human!Rhona who happens to befriend/love a selkie woman, you cannot go wrong with selkies.

Series 3 AUs where Asha's fling is with Rhona instead of Jimmy. Whether Rhona's cheating on Phyllis or they were never together, I'd love to see what that changes.

This one is hugely nerdy and I am not sorry: Scots law has something called the right to roam, which gives everyone rights of access over land and inland water throughout Scotland (with a few exceptions, and as long as they behave responsibly). It's something I'm deeply passionate about and it's something that I like to think Rhona cares a lot about as well, being a fiscal and someone who lives in Shetland. I'd love it if this came up - as part of a case, as something Rhona worked on in the past (The Land Reform (Scotland) Act that codified it was from 2003), anything like that.

Y Gwyll

General: I watched the Welsh version of this on S4C (though I've tried to supply American Netflix episode numbers too), and fic in/incorporating Welsh is welcomed if you speak it! Mentions of/references to any of the canon m/f ships is fine (including past ships), though I'd prefer they not be the focus and DNW present-day or future Mared/John. Character death DNW waived for OFC victims in casefic and canon deaths, though I do have a slight preference for Catrin-survives AUs in post-canon Agnes & Catrin or Jenny/Catrin fic.

Agnes & Catrin: File under: illustrations of this show's thesis that trying is important even when it's not enough that absolutely break my heart.

Scenes from Catrin's visits to the hotel over the years.

Agnes visiting Catrin in hospital, helping her recover - maybe even to the point Prosser doesn't manage to push her to suicide.

It's not the most realistic, but: post-canon cottagecore dreams where Catrin survives and they revive the hotel together. Agnes remembering why she loved the place, Catrin reclaiming the old children's home.

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.

Fic during the time between Pontarfynach and Helen's murder. I'm fond of epistolary - including unsent letters and journals - as well as the angst of almost-meetings and missed meetings. Thinking so much of each other that they mistake other people in their lives for them until they turn around, planning to meet but not together enough or brave enough to follow through.

On the happier side, AUs where Catrin survives. They both have so much healing to do, together and separately, and Catrin at least was making a lot of progress before she died. Any steps they're able to take together.

Feel free to combine this with the Agnes & Catrin prompts above! Agnes as unexpected connection-facilitator is something I would love to see.

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, especially of the semi-low stakes cases that have almost more to do with the interpersonal dynamics of Aberystwyth communities than anything specifically criminal sort.

Things dealing with Welsh mythology! Whether you want to go full-on mythology AU, or they're just discussing their favourite stories, mythology of any sort will delight me.

Late-night quiet conversations of the friendship- or relationship-building sort — bad office coffee at 11pm, complaining about their colleagues' terrible filing habits, &c.

Also excellent conversations to have if they end up going to Cardiff for reasons. Yes they are some of my favourite characters. Yes I am encouraging you to inflict the particular torture of the A470 on them. Ships & friendships alike need roadtrips, and North-South travel in Wales is a whole Thing. Or, if you want them to have longer conversations, stick them on a train. Average Aber-to-Cardiff train is over four hours (not direct).

Anything about the small town/city dynamic in general. Sian showing Mared her favourite places/things, Mared dealing with her feelings of being displaced/overwhelmed.

Pre-canon fic and first meetings, first case worked together, first times, etc

Post-canon fic where they deal with the fallout from the s3 finale.

I very much like the idea that they were together pre-series, recently broken up as of 1x01, and grow back together over the course of the show. It's far from the only take on their relationship that I like, but it is a super under-explored one, and I'd love to see your take on it!

I know it's a lot to ask to get them to talk about their feelings, but I think a lot about the end of 3x02 (3x01 on the American Netflix version) where Siân asks Mared if they're still a team, and Mared says yes ... and then leaves her alone. The lingering shot on Hannah Daniel's face is an absolute gut-punch, and I'd really like something that builds on that. Mared proving Siân's belonging in words or actions, Siân struggling with her trust in Mared, her lack of trust in Tom, and Mared's trust in Tom.

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