Chocolate Box Letter 2019
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sadlikeknivesDear Author,
AO3 user sadlikeknives here, really excited to find out what you're going to write for me! I'm sure it's going to be great.
Basic likes: I strongly prefer third person prose. I'm fine with either porn or no porn. I like pining, hurt/comfort, people using other people's prejudices and expectations of them to their own advantage, loyalty kink, competence kink, scars, soulbonds and soulmates, sexy-type biting and bloodplay (especially in vampire-related contexts and possessive/claiming type werewolf contexts), size kink (I really like both the bigger guy manhandling the smaller guy and the smaller guy loving it, and the smaller guy bossing the bigger guy around and the bigger guy loving it), and wingkink (when canonical wings are involved).
DNWs: bestiality (including shapeshifters in animal form), scat, watersports, cannibalism, noncon, dubcon, infidelity/cheating*, omegaverse, aka a/b/o, or any other type of mpreg.
Additionally, I have a powerful embarrassment squick; seeing characters embarrassed, especially socially, or behaving in an embarrassing way without being aware of it where it's played for audience laughs really upsets me. And please no animal harm (for example: mention of a werewolf eating a bunny: fine; graphic description of what happened to the bunny: not fine) or major character death* outside of addressing those that happen in canon if/when necessary.
*There's a fandom-specific exemption to this I'll address when relevant.
This letter contains major spoilers for season two of Midnight Texas (TV) in the section for that fandom, so if you're not up to date on that show and would like to be, you might want to skip that.
Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January/Abishag Shaw, Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January/Abishag Shaw
You remember waaaaaaaaaay back at the end ofA Free Man of Color when Shaw's standing by Ben's table at the Place des Armes Because Society and Ben's like, "Or you could sit the fuck down one of these days?" Gentle Yulethor, I shipped it then, and I ship it still. I just want to shove them together like a couple of really tall Ken dolls and go, "NOW KISS." I love how they navigate their godawful society's expectations and restrictions, how they often communicate via what's not said. I love how tentative Ben has always been to trust Shaw, in the face of evidence that Shaw is All In on trusting Ben, and then how in Murder in July Ben realizes Shaw would march off to assassinate the Queen of England if he asked him to (although it sort of drives me crazy that then at the end of the book Hannibal and Ben decided they needed to pull a fast one on Shaw just in case he randomly decided to confiscate the papers at the expense of Rose, like that's a thing he would ever do). I love how committed to justice they both are, and how they recognize that's different from the rule of law, and their mutual frustration with society's preference for a tidy resolution over true justice being done. I love how respectful they both are of the other's skills, and how they both use other people's expectations of their behavior. In short, I love them, and I want more of them.
And Rose! I love Rose! She's so practical except when it comes to science, when she is often two seconds away from an explosion, and she and Ben are so good together! And I think she would basically be the boss of Shaw and he would let her.
Quick note: I have to confess, I'm shallow. I generally picture Shaw as more, you know, sexy scruffy (like, Hollywood historical scruffy. Mag7 scruffy.) than with the level of hygiene, if one can even call it that, described in the books, because seriously, he's an intelligent man, he has to know what soap is for, why will he not use it?? It's not cute. So, like, if you could steer away from descriptions where he is as unpleasant as in canon, I would greatly appreciate that. Or like he could have to have a bath for plot purposes.
Second note: As I said above I'm really not into straight up infidelity/cheating, and Ben, of course, has a wife. So if you don't want to write the poly option, you could set your fic before Ben met Rose, or handwave the whole relationship away/platonic, or have Rose be really open-minded because she's Rose, but please: no straight-up cheating.
Prompts
1. Possibly Shaw could be pining after Ben. I feel like this makes a lot of narrative sense. Like, he knows it's useless and never gonna happen (but then it DOES?) and probably beats himself up over it, but ooooh that commitment to justice and all that expertise, so sexy. Possibly Rose has known about this for a while and is amazed Ben has been so oblivious.
2. They could investigate something new! Who's dead, in the middle of a scandal, or robbed blind this week? Which combination of medical, musical, tracking, science, and marksmanship expertise saves the day?
3. Concept I know I've been banging like a drum for a while now, but that's because I love it so: Abishag 'what is bathing, and also, I can track you through a hurricane' Shaw is a werewolf. (And just maybe Hannibal is a vampire?) Ben finds out (Silver allergy? Something connected to a case?). He's intrigued. Possibly, together they fight supernatural crime.
4. While so much of these books is in the setting, I just really love modern New Orleans. Like a lot. And it's still very atmospheric, no? Picture it: Shaw's still a cop, Ben's a surgeon who moonlights in a jazz band. Rose is a badass chemistry professor at Tulane. Together, they solve crimes. And make out.
5. Something involving loyalty kink idk
6. Shaw gets hurt and Ben (and possibly Rose) nurse him back to health. Possibly while trying to conceal in increasingly slapstick fashion that they're sheltering runaways in their house, which Shaw has probably known for like years now lbr. He's probably over here carving toys for the little runaway children while he's convalescing.
7. What if, for case-related reasons (he's posing as part of a band of slave stealers or something), the Best Possible Option in the moment is for Shaw to, say, shoot Ben? Like, wing him, in the arm or something, and then Ben dramatically falls into a river and Shaw's like, "Welp, guess that one's dead dear God please let there not be any snakes or gators and please let me have basically missed for once." And then he spends some amount of time anxiously afraid he's just killed Ben before he's able to sneak off and find him and like, help him tend to his wounds.
Abishag Shaw & Livia Levesque
So here's what's amazing: they both clearly hate each other, and I don't think we've ever really seen them interact because LOL as if Livia willingly would, and also that is something Ben is willing to go to great lengths to prevent. Livia is still calling Shaw an animal thirteen books in, and I'm pretty sure Shaw has called Ben's mom 'a real piece of work' at least once, and, I mean, he's not wrong. And they are both very intelligent people who excel at using other people's perceptions against them and figuring out why other people do the things they do, and using that, and so I really want them to have to deal with each other. I don't really have specific prompts here, just a nebulous notion: maybe Livia has a problem and she's like, "Ugh, fine, I guess I'll summon Ben's pet American," or maybe she's (however peripherally) involved in a case Shaw is investigating and he's like, "Fuck me gently with a not-yet-invented chainsaw, I have to interview Ben's mom." And then they are forced by circumstance to work together and/or use and/or respect one another's skill sets and forms of intelligence, and it's kind of horrible for both of them. And maybe one or both of them gains insight into What The Other One Thinks They're Doing Here that rattles the other, because...most people don't see that deep.
Crossover Fandoms
Arthur Curry (DC Extended Universe)/Namor (Marvel 616)
I'm sorry this is short, but: Okay so what if the Missing Kingdom is actually Marvel's Atlantis, which rivals Aquaman's Atlantis for strength and development and whatnot, and so once it's discovered or shows up ten minutes late for the war, with Starbucks, or whatever, it's decided that the only way to deal with this potential rivalry is for its kings to get married to form a new alliance? (Mera can come too, like, maybe she and Arthur are already married so they're like, "...okay, I guess we're doing poly now!") What if? Like, boning Jason Momoa has to be better than pining after Sue Richards, Namor.
Or, like, anything else you want to write for this pairing of VERY DIFFERENT Kings of Atlantis (both of whom happen to be half-human, only one of whom has ankle wings), I would love to see.
The Demon's Lexicon – Sarah Rees Brennan
Alan Ryves/Nicholas "Nick" Ryves | Hnikarr
Nick's a demon and Alan's a liar, and they love each other more than anything in two worlds. They're so fucked up and codependent and I love them. They love each other so much they'd burn down the world for each other, but they communicate so badly. Like, that is one of the things that always gets me, how Alan has spent Nick's entire life teaching him to communicate, but they don't always understand each other, or they get caught up in all these preconceived notions and miss what's really going on with each other. I love these disasters so much.
Prompts!
1. I got a lovely fic for this prompt for Yuletide, but I always want more of this kind of thing: So when I mentioned I was thinking about requesting The Demon's Lexicon to a friend of mine, she was like, "Oh have you seen this?" and I didn't quite understand what was going on at first but apparently it's a deleted scene from SRB's tumblr, only copypasted to an anon meme? I'm not sure this is true but I WANT TO BELIEVE because in this deleted scene Anzu-in-Alan kisses Nick and Nick's only objection is, "Alan wouldn't like it." Well what if you're wrong, Nick? You've been wrong before. I'm just saying. Alan might wish to correct you on your misconception here. (And of course Alan understands that this is quote-unquote wrong, because Nick is his brother (and of course Nick is his brother regardless of biology), but also, Nick is a demon, and Nick is the most important person in his world or any other, so what is 'wrong,' exactly?)
2. Nick and Alan doing things that make each other happy like Nick reluctantly but of his own free will spending time in a library or Alan attempting to help Nick work on cars or them doing unspeakable violence together.
3. Just like generally anything about them being incredibly fucked up and codependent and dangerous but like in a way bizarrely sweet.
4. Something with Nick experimenting with his demonic powers. Maybe in like a sexy way. Maybe he has to mark Alan for some reason and Alan trusts him intrinsically not to use it against him and that's the good shit right there. Maybe there are thunderstorms in their bedroom and it's a little awkward.
5. Generally any hot demon on brother action idk.
Jane Yellowrock Series – Faith Hunter
Grégoire/Brandon Robere/Brian Robere, Grégoire/Leo Pellissier
So I want to talk about Gregoire for a second. I think he's a really interesting character. He's damaged, and he's not afraid to let his damage show, even to relative strangers like Jane, but he's also strong as hell. And he's been a teenager for several hundred years but he's not stuck in high school, because here is a vampire with common sense. And despite having been a teenager for several hundred years, and despite his damage, in a lot of ways, he seems more mature and less paranoid than Leo, like, Leo melts down after Bruiser becomes an Onorio, because now he can't be fully bound to him, how can he ever really trust him again, etc., etc., and here's Gregoire running around with not one but two Onorios as his right-hand men, never doubting them, never questioning. I think he's great. I think his relationship with the Robere twins is really great, and his relationship with Leo, how they go so far back together and trust and love each other so well, too.
Prompts!
1.Something with Gregoire and the Robere twins and size kink. I love that Gregoire is the boss of them, and that they're 'my boys' despite being like twice his size. I love how much they love each other.
2. As far as the twins...being twins goes, is it ever weird for the twins sleeping with the same guy? Do they do that together? Do they have sex? There are so many unanswered questions I'd like to see explored here.
3. Something with Gregoire and Leo at some point in their long past together. Maybe Leo helping Gregoire deal with his trauma, or the two of them doing unspeakable violence together. (Or Leo helping Gregoire deal with his trauma through unspeakable violence.)
4. Gregoire telling Leo he's being ridiculous over Bruiser and Leo distracting him from lecturing him (and you know being right) with orgasms.
5. Biting and blood and all that good vampire sex stuff.
6. Something dealing with Dark Queen, either the twins sexing Gregoire back to health after his last duel or something dealing with Leo's fate (and possible subsequent resurrection).
7. Something engaging with the series' setting of New Orleans, past or present, because have I mentioned how much I love New Orleans? I love New Orleans.
Kate Daniels – Ilona Andrews
Barabas Gilliam/Christopher Steed
"Will you marry me," INDEED. These sneaky bastards! I just—I mean, we don't know anything about their courtship. We know that they love each other, and that they're both wildly intelligent (and that Barabas is into that, and I feel like Christopher is, too), and that Barabas Doesn't Need To See Christopher In A Suit. And I just want to know all about how this happened, and what's next for them, and, and, and.
Prompts!
1. So Barabas is culturally a bouda, right? Meaning courtship is expressed through invasion of territory for the purpose of practical jokes. And I feel like Christopher would be really bad at this, even aside from the complication of them already living in the same house. So I would love to see something with Christopher first having to subtly determine, without setting anyone's relationship gossip alarms off, A) whether Clan Nimble or Clan Bouda is the correct reference here and then B) what Clan Bouda does for courtship, and then quietly panicking because he's expected to prank him? But he loves Barabas, so he is determined to make this the best prank ever. (Still without anybody finding out, apparently. What even, you guys.)
2. Wingkiiiiiink.
3. Christopher attempts to teach Barabas to cook and/or bake? This goes...not well, but possibly it ends in sex involving whipped cream, so chalk it up as a win.
4. H/C after Christopher loses his wing in Magic Triumphs.
5. Something about dealing with Christopher's history as Legatus and all that entails. Maybe something happens with The People, or Landon Nez pops in from Hugh's series to cause problems.
Hugh d'Ambray/Christopher Steed, Hugh d'Ambray/Elara Harper/Christopher Steed
Okay, so after the part in Magic Triumphs where Christopher tells Kate that A) unlike pretty much everyone else outside the Iron Dogs, he paid enough attention to figure out what Roland was doing to control Hugh pretty early on and B) Hugh took better care of him when he was in the cage than previously thought, and possibly than he was supposed to, considering it's mentioned he fed and talked to him only at night when no one else was around, and Hugh's guilt-flashback re: Christopher in the cage in Iron & Magic and how he thinks about Christopher as the only Legatus he could ever stand, I went back and reread Magic Rises and I realized that maybe Hugh set Kate up to rescue Christopher on purpose with the 'anything in this courtyard' wording (like, maybe not consciously, because of Roland's conditioning and because he really didn't expect to lose that match, but on some level I really think he knew what he was saying there, because Hugh is not wired to withstand someone suffering on his watch like that and he had to fix it somehow).
And now I ship it.
As far as Hugh/Elara/Christopher goes, Christopher is a wildly magically powerful human with a god stuffed in him, whose hair was turned white by magic (Maybe? The books seem to go back and forth on whether it's blond or white. I think it's white.). Elara, as far as we can work out thus far, is a wildly magically powerful human with some kind of elder power stuffed in her whose hair was turned white by magic. What if Hugh has a very specific type? What if. I'm just saying.
Note: If you're writing something set during the era of the books, as opposed to the pre-canon Preceptor/Legatus era, please nothing sexual during the period when Christopher was mentally unstable. I'm happy for Hugh's marriage to Elara to remain a professional business arrangement, or with V-shaped poly or a triad, whatever you want to do there. As far as Christopher's relationship with Barabas goes, I can't really see Barabas sharing Christopher with Hugh d'Ambray, so I would prefer you go with their canon relationship never really taking off.
Prompts!
1. Some kind of FWB arrangement set during their days as Legatus and Preceptor that maybe gets more serious than either of them meant it to, or mutual pining and both of them aware that it's a REALLY BAD IDEA as far as Roland is concerned, and then maybe after everything they meet up again and realize they have a second chance.
2.Delicious angst and Hugh's broken heart while Christopher is crazy and stuck in a cage, but also respecting what Christopher's doing here (despite all of Roland's conditioning) and not really trying that hard to force him to fix himself. (I feel like this is supported by even Hibla going along with Christopher's delusion that he was Hugh's librarian, like, that seems counterproductive.)
3. H/C after Christopher lost his wing in Magic Triumphs, because you know Hugh was the healer you want when you've got an extra crispy deity and he felt really guilty about not being able to save the wing. And then maybe it grows back.
4. AU where Hugh somehow retained custody of Christopher post-Magic Rises and into his exile, and Christopher ends up at Baile with him and the Iron Dogs. (Maybe we can assume the barrels of panacea weren't poisoned in this universe so I didn't just inadvertently kill off a bunch of innocent shapeshifter children? And I have no idea how Kate got out of Mishmar—okay, I'm overthinking this.) I just would really love to see Elara's reaction to Hugh with an obvious weak spot/Hugh as caretaker, and also Hugh and Elara and Christopher figuring this thing out after Christopher is, for whatever reason in this AU, sane again. And like, Hugh having A Type.
6. Wingkink? Wingkink.
7. Any sex is good sex, but I'm really feeling intercrural for this pairing, I mean, Christopher is kind of Greek, it seems appropriate, plus I have this headcanon I think is supported by the sex scene in Iron Covenant that Hugh's refractory period is ridiculous because of all the healing magic, and it's canon that his cock is huge, so please, Hugh, fuck Christopher's thighs and give his ass a break.
8. So it turns out Hugh can't marry Elara to seal the alliance because he and Christopher are already married. Maybe they didn't realize that thing they did as a quick way to solve a problem one time was legally binding. Maybe it was entirely on purpose and a secret. Whatever, just run with it.
Robert Lonesco/Thomas Lonesco
I have loved this couple since that anecdote about Robert wooing Thomas by breaking into his house and stuffing his mattress with M&Ms (I keep thinking about whether they were still packaged. I hope so), back before we ever met either of them. Like, I feel you, Thomas. M&Ms are the way to my heart, too. And in the little time we see them together their devotion is so strong. And I love power couples, and here they are running the rat clan and the entire Pack's security and yes, good.
Prompts!
1. H/C with Robert having like nightmares or whatever after Mishmar and Jester Park.
2. Dat size difference tho. I like that Robert, while being the less impressive one physically, is the rat-Alpha. Does he push around his giant husband in bed? Or does he like to switch things up?
3. Robert wants a baby, as far as we can tell Thomas wants a baby when the timing is right, let's give them a baby. Maybe they adopt some adorable rat orphan? Maybe they use a reasonable surrogate and wererat babies go through an unfortunate naked jellybean phase (and one of them is like "OUR BABY IS THE MOST ADORABLE UNFORTUNATE JELLYBEAN" and the other one is like, "babe, no.") or Desandra volunteers because she's obviously really fertile and she needs to build alliances, and now the rat-Alphas' kid is a werewolf, what even.
4. "Holy shit we're still alive" sex post-Magic Triumphs. Or elegiac "we are super going to die today, aren't we?" sex pre-battle. (Or both, both is good.)
5. The conversation where they decided they were going with Curran to get Kate out of Mishmar even though it was obviously a fucking stupid thing to do, because in Curran's place they each would have gone.
6. It's Valentine's Day. This is Chocolate Box. These two have a special history with chocolate. Do something romantic with chocolate.
Mercy Thompson Series – Patricia Briggs
Kyle Brooks/Warren Smith
Let's talk about how much I have always loved Warren and Kyle. Like, on paper, they don't work: a hundred and fifty year old Texas cowboy werewolf who works at a gas station and a rich, human, Ivy League educated lawyer. And they both know that. And it doesn't matter. I love Kyle's ridiculous marble statues, and his vanity and the chip on his shoulder, and the way Warren loves those things too and sees Kyle's good heart. I love how easygoing and Texan Warren is, and all the pain and violence that's simmering away under the surface, and how Kyle doesn't care about all of the werewolf shit, he just loves him—and how Kyle, as he says in the short story "In Red, with Pearls," is his own kind of predator, and that just because he eviscerates his prey in court, not, you know, literally, doesn't mean he can't understand Warren's wolf.
Prompts!
1. There's like seven or eight rough months for Warren and Kyle between Moon Called and Blood Bound that we know very little about, and I'm really interested in this period—the pining and the draw that kept them coming back to each other (Were they sleeping together at any point in this period? That must have been really bittersweet) and saw Kyle hiring Warren, especially, but also how the 'so, werewolves' conversations went (and the fights, you know there were fights).
1a. Hey, there was a Valentine's Day in the middle of that! Make it hurt. Make it hurt good.
2. I'm very into Domesticity With Werewolves, apparently, so give me some of that. Maybe make Kyle go camping (Oh god. He will be so bad at it.), since Warren's been trying to get him to for several books now, but any sort of domestic cozy shit I'll eat up with a spoon.
3. Concept: Kyle gets turned into a werewolf. I feel like he'd probably be pretty good at it. How does that happen? Is it on purpose, like he's sick or something? Or does some rogue or some other pack trying to come at Columbia Basin, now that they're exiled, attack him? How does that affect the pack structure? How many bed frames do he and Warren break while Kyle is learning his new strength?
4. In Frost Burned, Kyle reveals that his mating bond with Warren is starting to be two-way, but, being human, he just thought he was going crazy. And then we never really hear about that again. So: how does that psychic bond work for a human? Do he and Warren have enough control over it for it to be useful? Does it have sexytimes applications?
4. Something involving Warren's century and a half of history as a werewolf cowboy before he met Kyle. Maybe some old enemy pops up. Maybe Kyle learns things through the aforementioned mating bond in his dreams or something. Maybe Kyle randomly finds a daguerrotype in an antique shop and is fucking delighted that Warren used to have that ridiculous mustache. The field is wide open.
5. Something dealing with Kyle's family. Maybe his sister he still speaks to is coming to visit and he's freaking out, or his deploying the nuclear option with regards to his father in Frost Burned has to be dealt with somehow.
6. Kyle and Warren get married that's it that's the prompt. Do they just go to the courthouse and formalize it (and then the rest of the pack is scrambling trying to put a reception together on zero notice)? Does Kyle want a big thing? Or does Kyle have a lot of hangups about marriage because of his profession, but he also knows the legal benefits are Important?
Adam Hauptman & Warren Smith
Hi, my name is sadlikeknives and fun facts you might not know about me: Like Adam Hauptman, I'm from Alabama and I speak Russian! (Okay, I used to speak Russian. Now I honestly don't remember that much.) So I've always been really interested in Adam, and as previously established I love Warren, and I would really love to see more of their friendship explored. I feel like we're told more about it than we're shown, partly because it's rarely plot-relevant and thus exists as a sort of background thing. But they're both old, and Southern, and very dominant werewolves, and they get along like a house on fire, and I want more of that.
Prompts!
1. Patricia Briggs never really leans in on both of them being Southern. Like, they both canonically suppress their accents and 'y'all' is described as 'bad grammar,' (I'll fight you Briggs) which they only use deliberately in certain contexts. I will accept these speech patterns, even if I'm not thrilled about them (especially for Warren, who has had no good reason to suppress his accent), but there is more to being Southern for them to bond over. Especially food. I would love to see them bonding over food. Do they both have a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge at all times? Are they still weirded out by sugar in the cornbread? Does Warren show up at Adam's office one day to kidnap him for lunch because he finally found a place that makes decent collards?
2. Reading between the lines in the last couple of books, possibly starting from Silence Broken, possibly from the entire pack ending up at his house in Frost Burned, it looks like Warren is inching closer to being recognized in his rightful place as second in the pack (independent of the question of whether Darryl might be leaving to become an Alpha). Like, in one of the Alpha & Omega books it's mentioned that generally the pack's second's house is a secondary gathering place, and Pack Movie Night's been happening at Warren and Kyle's for a while now. And I think that would be great (especially if Darryl can stay), because Warren's placement has been unfair and artificial since the beginning, but I feel like Warren would still be hesitant/concerned, and need some reassurance from his Alpha/bestie.
3. Something about Warren and Adam's early relationship. I keep thinking about how Warren worked at the closest gas station to Adam's house, before Adam even built that house. And he was besties with Mercy. They definitely met, several times, before Mercy approached Adam about him, and Adam invited Warren to join the pack. Like, it seems weird that Adam never even thought about inviting Warren to join the pack before, even considering he's *gasp* gay. Did he think he wanted to be left alone? Did he think Warren was probably pissed because the Tri-Cities were basically his territory before Adam showed up? Did Warren show up to that meeting with Adam expecting to be told, "It's been real, now, leave town." What was going on there? And what were Warren's early days in the pack like? Apparently Christy thought Warren might make a pass at Adam; how much did the two of them laugh over that?
4. Poor Warren stuck in the middle of being Mercy's best friend AND Adam's best friend while they were determined to not get along.
5. Something about Adam meeting Kyle and realizing he needed to Do Something about these heteronormative homophobic werewolf rules before Warren lost this guy. Be a good wingman, Adam. (Or at least try, as ultimately everything blew up and it was Mercy who had to Do Something.)
Midnight Texas (TV)
Chuy Strong/Joe Strong
Okay, so. THAT WAS BAD. Like, at the point where Chuy's ashes were being injected into Joe's blood I was thinking, "Is this entire plot the most awful thing I've ever seen happen to a couple in media? I think it might actually be." But we can reject canon's reality and substitute our own! Please, let's do that.
Most of these prompts presuppose either your fic being set prior to everything going wrong for Joe and Chuy in season two or an alternate reality where none of that, you know, happened, but at least one requires addressing the canonical cheating and character death, so, if you want to tackle that, I hereby release you from those DNWs, as long as Chuy isn't still dead by the end of the fic and there's no hint of Joe ending up with Walker.
Prompts!
1. I would love to see Chuy and Joe interacting with the Midnight family more, especially Chuy—like, I think it makes sense for his character to hold himself apart the way he does in the show, some, but he can't just be off in a bubble all the time. He and the Rev and Lem all have issues with their nature to explore, or on the lighthearted side, maybe he and Olivia have fun workshopping The Correct Manicure for her cover story of the week (while Joe looks on like, "I don't share this interest but I'm glad it brings you two so much joy")?
2. Something about Chuy and Joe's past, because we know very little of it and there's a lot of past. They clearly traveled, because they apparently met somewhere along the Silk Road. How did they come to settle in Midnight? (Does Chuy have human family in the area, like he does in the books, who think he's like Distant Cousin Chuy Who's Always Been Around but have no idea exactly how distant?) What kind of adventures have they had along the way? How did they get together in the first place, beyond what we know of it—like, there's a lot of space between 'maybe not all part-demons are bad' and 'we've been married for a thousand years.'
3. What kind of awesome sex do an angel and a half-demon have? Like, I know Chuy can't use his powers very much or he risks going darkside, and Joe until very recently avoided using his, but, okay, let me be honest: I'm thinking wingkink. Or, since Joe paints and Chuy loves watching him paint, something with that.
4. An AU where Joe stopped and was like, "Wait...what the fuck am I doing here?" and didn't sleep with Walker and went home and told Chuy what was going on. And then obviously didn't fucking caress Walker while trying to convince Chuy that no, really, there was nothing going on here worth going Full Darkside over, wtf, Joe. And therefore, of course, Chuy was alive and able to participate in the events of the end of season two. How does that go different?
5. Something taking off from the end of season two where Chuy is somehow handwavily resurrected and Joe grovels a lot and then they live happily ever after. You, obviously, have my permission to ignore my DNWs of infidelity and requested character death to make the backstory for this work.
6. Just them being happy and domestic in their weird little town and maybe dealing with some kind of supernatural problem along the way (theirs or one of the Midnight family's) and living HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
Ordinary Magic Series – Devon Monk
Ben Rossi/Jame Wolfe
I'm pretty sure I'm this series' only fan, but here we go. I love the concept of Ordinary, a town that's half-mundane and half-really not. I love all the different supernatural beings and especially the gods, and I love the subplot of Jame and Ben. Love them. Like, I started texting my best friend while reading the first scene in which they appear something like, "OMG this book has a vampire and a werewolf and they're firefighters and boyfriends. MY JAM." And then they just kept on being more and more my jam? With the obviously being very much in love, and so very tough, and dealing with their family issues in such a mature way, and then Ben was KIDNAPPED and Jame was BROKEN and their PSYCHIC SOULBOND WAS SEVERED and I spent like half a book reading frantically like "Ben better not be dead!!!!" And then after they were reunited they had to recreate their psychic soulbond through biting and like: *kisses tips of fingers* beautiful. That scene with all the vampires and werewolves getting along and playing cards in Ben's hospital room, while several of the werewolves transfer energy through Jame to Ben, because Well I Guess We're In-Laws Now? LOVE IT. I love these guys and want them to live happily ever after.
Prompts!
1. Vampire/werewolf firefighter domesticity fluff. Or hot porn. Or fluffy porn. I just want them to be happy. Something about, I don't know, grocery or house shopping, or on the job stuff, or just like them really going at it in the bedroom and possibly breaking the bed or like sweet reunion 'I thought I lost you' sex once they're both up for such activities after Gods and Ends. With biting. (What else do they play rock paper scissors to decide?)
2. Speaking of biting, I'm here for it. Intimacy through biting! Sexy biting! The first time being A Huge Freaking Deal You Can't Take Back because of the bond that comes with a vampire's bite in this universe! Becoming so settled in together that Ben can lean across in the truck and take a quick nip like a snack! Recovering their bond through biting!
3. Hurt/comfort with both of them recovering after the third book. Like, obviously Ben's much worse off, but he can tell Jame's not one hundred percent yet. And they're both worried about each other. Possibly fussing over each other until someone gets annoyed, and then they have to deal with that.
4. How did they get together? Like, I assume it was some kind of workplace romance, and what's a workplace romance like for firefighters, when one's a werewolf and one's a vampire (besides a romance novel I really want to read)? But the bad blood between their families is pretty serious, and they also both work with other members of their families, so I feel like there was a lot of nosy interference, probably? And despite the small town setting, like, Greek gods vacation in Ordinary, so it's not like they were each other's only option (although definitely a better option than, say, Zeus' vacation fling). And how did Old Rossi take the whole thing? A lot to possibly explore here, I think.
5. Negotiating their families and all the bad blood between them, and then, after Gods and Ends, dealing with the fact that their families seem to be getting along now, mostly on their behalf, and it's nice but kind of weird. Or maybe something to do with the infamous housewarming party (is that where their succession of fluffy blankets in increasingly ridiculous colors came from?) and what happens when a bunch of werewolves and vampires get drunk in the same house. I imagine many Mexican standoffs were subtly broken up that night.
6. Anything with their canonical soulbond and how that works, either in like a practical, day to day sense or like, in bed.
AO3 user sadlikeknives here, really excited to find out what you're going to write for me! I'm sure it's going to be great.
Basic likes: I strongly prefer third person prose. I'm fine with either porn or no porn. I like pining, hurt/comfort, people using other people's prejudices and expectations of them to their own advantage, loyalty kink, competence kink, scars, soulbonds and soulmates, sexy-type biting and bloodplay (especially in vampire-related contexts and possessive/claiming type werewolf contexts), size kink (I really like both the bigger guy manhandling the smaller guy and the smaller guy loving it, and the smaller guy bossing the bigger guy around and the bigger guy loving it), and wingkink (when canonical wings are involved).
DNWs: bestiality (including shapeshifters in animal form), scat, watersports, cannibalism, noncon, dubcon, infidelity/cheating*, omegaverse, aka a/b/o, or any other type of mpreg.
Additionally, I have a powerful embarrassment squick; seeing characters embarrassed, especially socially, or behaving in an embarrassing way without being aware of it where it's played for audience laughs really upsets me. And please no animal harm (for example: mention of a werewolf eating a bunny: fine; graphic description of what happened to the bunny: not fine) or major character death* outside of addressing those that happen in canon if/when necessary.
*There's a fandom-specific exemption to this I'll address when relevant.
This letter contains major spoilers for season two of Midnight Texas (TV) in the section for that fandom, so if you're not up to date on that show and would like to be, you might want to skip that.
Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January/Abishag Shaw, Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January/Abishag Shaw
You remember waaaaaaaaaay back at the end ofA Free Man of Color when Shaw's standing by Ben's table at the Place des Armes Because Society and Ben's like, "Or you could sit the fuck down one of these days?" Gentle Yulethor, I shipped it then, and I ship it still. I just want to shove them together like a couple of really tall Ken dolls and go, "NOW KISS." I love how they navigate their godawful society's expectations and restrictions, how they often communicate via what's not said. I love how tentative Ben has always been to trust Shaw, in the face of evidence that Shaw is All In on trusting Ben, and then how in Murder in July Ben realizes Shaw would march off to assassinate the Queen of England if he asked him to (although it sort of drives me crazy that then at the end of the book Hannibal and Ben decided they needed to pull a fast one on Shaw just in case he randomly decided to confiscate the papers at the expense of Rose, like that's a thing he would ever do). I love how committed to justice they both are, and how they recognize that's different from the rule of law, and their mutual frustration with society's preference for a tidy resolution over true justice being done. I love how respectful they both are of the other's skills, and how they both use other people's expectations of their behavior. In short, I love them, and I want more of them.
And Rose! I love Rose! She's so practical except when it comes to science, when she is often two seconds away from an explosion, and she and Ben are so good together! And I think she would basically be the boss of Shaw and he would let her.
Quick note: I have to confess, I'm shallow. I generally picture Shaw as more, you know, sexy scruffy (like, Hollywood historical scruffy. Mag7 scruffy.) than with the level of hygiene, if one can even call it that, described in the books, because seriously, he's an intelligent man, he has to know what soap is for, why will he not use it?? It's not cute. So, like, if you could steer away from descriptions where he is as unpleasant as in canon, I would greatly appreciate that. Or like he could have to have a bath for plot purposes.
Second note: As I said above I'm really not into straight up infidelity/cheating, and Ben, of course, has a wife. So if you don't want to write the poly option, you could set your fic before Ben met Rose, or handwave the whole relationship away/platonic, or have Rose be really open-minded because she's Rose, but please: no straight-up cheating.
Prompts
1. Possibly Shaw could be pining after Ben. I feel like this makes a lot of narrative sense. Like, he knows it's useless and never gonna happen (but then it DOES?) and probably beats himself up over it, but ooooh that commitment to justice and all that expertise, so sexy. Possibly Rose has known about this for a while and is amazed Ben has been so oblivious.
2. They could investigate something new! Who's dead, in the middle of a scandal, or robbed blind this week? Which combination of medical, musical, tracking, science, and marksmanship expertise saves the day?
3. Concept I know I've been banging like a drum for a while now, but that's because I love it so: Abishag 'what is bathing, and also, I can track you through a hurricane' Shaw is a werewolf. (And just maybe Hannibal is a vampire?) Ben finds out (Silver allergy? Something connected to a case?). He's intrigued. Possibly, together they fight supernatural crime.
4. While so much of these books is in the setting, I just really love modern New Orleans. Like a lot. And it's still very atmospheric, no? Picture it: Shaw's still a cop, Ben's a surgeon who moonlights in a jazz band. Rose is a badass chemistry professor at Tulane. Together, they solve crimes. And make out.
5. Something involving loyalty kink idk
6. Shaw gets hurt and Ben (and possibly Rose) nurse him back to health. Possibly while trying to conceal in increasingly slapstick fashion that they're sheltering runaways in their house, which Shaw has probably known for like years now lbr. He's probably over here carving toys for the little runaway children while he's convalescing.
7. What if, for case-related reasons (he's posing as part of a band of slave stealers or something), the Best Possible Option in the moment is for Shaw to, say, shoot Ben? Like, wing him, in the arm or something, and then Ben dramatically falls into a river and Shaw's like, "Welp, guess that one's dead dear God please let there not be any snakes or gators and please let me have basically missed for once." And then he spends some amount of time anxiously afraid he's just killed Ben before he's able to sneak off and find him and like, help him tend to his wounds.
Abishag Shaw & Livia Levesque
So here's what's amazing: they both clearly hate each other, and I don't think we've ever really seen them interact because LOL as if Livia willingly would, and also that is something Ben is willing to go to great lengths to prevent. Livia is still calling Shaw an animal thirteen books in, and I'm pretty sure Shaw has called Ben's mom 'a real piece of work' at least once, and, I mean, he's not wrong. And they are both very intelligent people who excel at using other people's perceptions against them and figuring out why other people do the things they do, and using that, and so I really want them to have to deal with each other. I don't really have specific prompts here, just a nebulous notion: maybe Livia has a problem and she's like, "Ugh, fine, I guess I'll summon Ben's pet American," or maybe she's (however peripherally) involved in a case Shaw is investigating and he's like, "Fuck me gently with a not-yet-invented chainsaw, I have to interview Ben's mom." And then they are forced by circumstance to work together and/or use and/or respect one another's skill sets and forms of intelligence, and it's kind of horrible for both of them. And maybe one or both of them gains insight into What The Other One Thinks They're Doing Here that rattles the other, because...most people don't see that deep.
Crossover Fandoms
Arthur Curry (DC Extended Universe)/Namor (Marvel 616)
I'm sorry this is short, but: Okay so what if the Missing Kingdom is actually Marvel's Atlantis, which rivals Aquaman's Atlantis for strength and development and whatnot, and so once it's discovered or shows up ten minutes late for the war, with Starbucks, or whatever, it's decided that the only way to deal with this potential rivalry is for its kings to get married to form a new alliance? (Mera can come too, like, maybe she and Arthur are already married so they're like, "...okay, I guess we're doing poly now!") What if? Like, boning Jason Momoa has to be better than pining after Sue Richards, Namor.
Or, like, anything else you want to write for this pairing of VERY DIFFERENT Kings of Atlantis (both of whom happen to be half-human, only one of whom has ankle wings), I would love to see.
The Demon's Lexicon – Sarah Rees Brennan
Alan Ryves/Nicholas "Nick" Ryves | Hnikarr
Nick's a demon and Alan's a liar, and they love each other more than anything in two worlds. They're so fucked up and codependent and I love them. They love each other so much they'd burn down the world for each other, but they communicate so badly. Like, that is one of the things that always gets me, how Alan has spent Nick's entire life teaching him to communicate, but they don't always understand each other, or they get caught up in all these preconceived notions and miss what's really going on with each other. I love these disasters so much.
Prompts!
1. I got a lovely fic for this prompt for Yuletide, but I always want more of this kind of thing: So when I mentioned I was thinking about requesting The Demon's Lexicon to a friend of mine, she was like, "Oh have you seen this?" and I didn't quite understand what was going on at first but apparently it's a deleted scene from SRB's tumblr, only copypasted to an anon meme? I'm not sure this is true but I WANT TO BELIEVE because in this deleted scene Anzu-in-Alan kisses Nick and Nick's only objection is, "Alan wouldn't like it." Well what if you're wrong, Nick? You've been wrong before. I'm just saying. Alan might wish to correct you on your misconception here. (And of course Alan understands that this is quote-unquote wrong, because Nick is his brother (and of course Nick is his brother regardless of biology), but also, Nick is a demon, and Nick is the most important person in his world or any other, so what is 'wrong,' exactly?)
2. Nick and Alan doing things that make each other happy like Nick reluctantly but of his own free will spending time in a library or Alan attempting to help Nick work on cars or them doing unspeakable violence together.
3. Just like generally anything about them being incredibly fucked up and codependent and dangerous but like in a way bizarrely sweet.
4. Something with Nick experimenting with his demonic powers. Maybe in like a sexy way. Maybe he has to mark Alan for some reason and Alan trusts him intrinsically not to use it against him and that's the good shit right there. Maybe there are thunderstorms in their bedroom and it's a little awkward.
5. Generally any hot demon on brother action idk.
Jane Yellowrock Series – Faith Hunter
Grégoire/Brandon Robere/Brian Robere, Grégoire/Leo Pellissier
So I want to talk about Gregoire for a second. I think he's a really interesting character. He's damaged, and he's not afraid to let his damage show, even to relative strangers like Jane, but he's also strong as hell. And he's been a teenager for several hundred years but he's not stuck in high school, because here is a vampire with common sense. And despite having been a teenager for several hundred years, and despite his damage, in a lot of ways, he seems more mature and less paranoid than Leo, like, Leo melts down after Bruiser becomes an Onorio, because now he can't be fully bound to him, how can he ever really trust him again, etc., etc., and here's Gregoire running around with not one but two Onorios as his right-hand men, never doubting them, never questioning. I think he's great. I think his relationship with the Robere twins is really great, and his relationship with Leo, how they go so far back together and trust and love each other so well, too.
Prompts!
1.Something with Gregoire and the Robere twins and size kink. I love that Gregoire is the boss of them, and that they're 'my boys' despite being like twice his size. I love how much they love each other.
2. As far as the twins...being twins goes, is it ever weird for the twins sleeping with the same guy? Do they do that together? Do they have sex? There are so many unanswered questions I'd like to see explored here.
3. Something with Gregoire and Leo at some point in their long past together. Maybe Leo helping Gregoire deal with his trauma, or the two of them doing unspeakable violence together. (Or Leo helping Gregoire deal with his trauma through unspeakable violence.)
4. Gregoire telling Leo he's being ridiculous over Bruiser and Leo distracting him from lecturing him (and you know being right) with orgasms.
5. Biting and blood and all that good vampire sex stuff.
6. Something dealing with Dark Queen, either the twins sexing Gregoire back to health after his last duel or something dealing with Leo's fate (and possible subsequent resurrection).
7. Something engaging with the series' setting of New Orleans, past or present, because have I mentioned how much I love New Orleans? I love New Orleans.
Kate Daniels – Ilona Andrews
Barabas Gilliam/Christopher Steed
"Will you marry me," INDEED. These sneaky bastards! I just—I mean, we don't know anything about their courtship. We know that they love each other, and that they're both wildly intelligent (and that Barabas is into that, and I feel like Christopher is, too), and that Barabas Doesn't Need To See Christopher In A Suit. And I just want to know all about how this happened, and what's next for them, and, and, and.
Prompts!
1. So Barabas is culturally a bouda, right? Meaning courtship is expressed through invasion of territory for the purpose of practical jokes. And I feel like Christopher would be really bad at this, even aside from the complication of them already living in the same house. So I would love to see something with Christopher first having to subtly determine, without setting anyone's relationship gossip alarms off, A) whether Clan Nimble or Clan Bouda is the correct reference here and then B) what Clan Bouda does for courtship, and then quietly panicking because he's expected to prank him? But he loves Barabas, so he is determined to make this the best prank ever. (Still without anybody finding out, apparently. What even, you guys.)
2. Wingkiiiiiink.
3. Christopher attempts to teach Barabas to cook and/or bake? This goes...not well, but possibly it ends in sex involving whipped cream, so chalk it up as a win.
4. H/C after Christopher loses his wing in Magic Triumphs.
5. Something about dealing with Christopher's history as Legatus and all that entails. Maybe something happens with The People, or Landon Nez pops in from Hugh's series to cause problems.
Hugh d'Ambray/Christopher Steed, Hugh d'Ambray/Elara Harper/Christopher Steed
Okay, so after the part in Magic Triumphs where Christopher tells Kate that A) unlike pretty much everyone else outside the Iron Dogs, he paid enough attention to figure out what Roland was doing to control Hugh pretty early on and B) Hugh took better care of him when he was in the cage than previously thought, and possibly than he was supposed to, considering it's mentioned he fed and talked to him only at night when no one else was around, and Hugh's guilt-flashback re: Christopher in the cage in Iron & Magic and how he thinks about Christopher as the only Legatus he could ever stand, I went back and reread Magic Rises and I realized that maybe Hugh set Kate up to rescue Christopher on purpose with the 'anything in this courtyard' wording (like, maybe not consciously, because of Roland's conditioning and because he really didn't expect to lose that match, but on some level I really think he knew what he was saying there, because Hugh is not wired to withstand someone suffering on his watch like that and he had to fix it somehow).
And now I ship it.
As far as Hugh/Elara/Christopher goes, Christopher is a wildly magically powerful human with a god stuffed in him, whose hair was turned white by magic (Maybe? The books seem to go back and forth on whether it's blond or white. I think it's white.). Elara, as far as we can work out thus far, is a wildly magically powerful human with some kind of elder power stuffed in her whose hair was turned white by magic. What if Hugh has a very specific type? What if. I'm just saying.
Note: If you're writing something set during the era of the books, as opposed to the pre-canon Preceptor/Legatus era, please nothing sexual during the period when Christopher was mentally unstable. I'm happy for Hugh's marriage to Elara to remain a professional business arrangement, or with V-shaped poly or a triad, whatever you want to do there. As far as Christopher's relationship with Barabas goes, I can't really see Barabas sharing Christopher with Hugh d'Ambray, so I would prefer you go with their canon relationship never really taking off.
Prompts!
1. Some kind of FWB arrangement set during their days as Legatus and Preceptor that maybe gets more serious than either of them meant it to, or mutual pining and both of them aware that it's a REALLY BAD IDEA as far as Roland is concerned, and then maybe after everything they meet up again and realize they have a second chance.
2.Delicious angst and Hugh's broken heart while Christopher is crazy and stuck in a cage, but also respecting what Christopher's doing here (despite all of Roland's conditioning) and not really trying that hard to force him to fix himself. (I feel like this is supported by even Hibla going along with Christopher's delusion that he was Hugh's librarian, like, that seems counterproductive.)
3. H/C after Christopher lost his wing in Magic Triumphs, because you know Hugh was the healer you want when you've got an extra crispy deity and he felt really guilty about not being able to save the wing. And then maybe it grows back.
4. AU where Hugh somehow retained custody of Christopher post-Magic Rises and into his exile, and Christopher ends up at Baile with him and the Iron Dogs. (Maybe we can assume the barrels of panacea weren't poisoned in this universe so I didn't just inadvertently kill off a bunch of innocent shapeshifter children? And I have no idea how Kate got out of Mishmar—okay, I'm overthinking this.) I just would really love to see Elara's reaction to Hugh with an obvious weak spot/Hugh as caretaker, and also Hugh and Elara and Christopher figuring this thing out after Christopher is, for whatever reason in this AU, sane again. And like, Hugh having A Type.
6. Wingkink? Wingkink.
7. Any sex is good sex, but I'm really feeling intercrural for this pairing, I mean, Christopher is kind of Greek, it seems appropriate, plus I have this headcanon I think is supported by the sex scene in Iron Covenant that Hugh's refractory period is ridiculous because of all the healing magic, and it's canon that his cock is huge, so please, Hugh, fuck Christopher's thighs and give his ass a break.
8. So it turns out Hugh can't marry Elara to seal the alliance because he and Christopher are already married. Maybe they didn't realize that thing they did as a quick way to solve a problem one time was legally binding. Maybe it was entirely on purpose and a secret. Whatever, just run with it.
Robert Lonesco/Thomas Lonesco
I have loved this couple since that anecdote about Robert wooing Thomas by breaking into his house and stuffing his mattress with M&Ms (I keep thinking about whether they were still packaged. I hope so), back before we ever met either of them. Like, I feel you, Thomas. M&Ms are the way to my heart, too. And in the little time we see them together their devotion is so strong. And I love power couples, and here they are running the rat clan and the entire Pack's security and yes, good.
Prompts!
1. H/C with Robert having like nightmares or whatever after Mishmar and Jester Park.
2. Dat size difference tho. I like that Robert, while being the less impressive one physically, is the rat-Alpha. Does he push around his giant husband in bed? Or does he like to switch things up?
3. Robert wants a baby, as far as we can tell Thomas wants a baby when the timing is right, let's give them a baby. Maybe they adopt some adorable rat orphan? Maybe they use a reasonable surrogate and wererat babies go through an unfortunate naked jellybean phase (and one of them is like "OUR BABY IS THE MOST ADORABLE UNFORTUNATE JELLYBEAN" and the other one is like, "babe, no.") or Desandra volunteers because she's obviously really fertile and she needs to build alliances, and now the rat-Alphas' kid is a werewolf, what even.
4. "Holy shit we're still alive" sex post-Magic Triumphs. Or elegiac "we are super going to die today, aren't we?" sex pre-battle. (Or both, both is good.)
5. The conversation where they decided they were going with Curran to get Kate out of Mishmar even though it was obviously a fucking stupid thing to do, because in Curran's place they each would have gone.
6. It's Valentine's Day. This is Chocolate Box. These two have a special history with chocolate. Do something romantic with chocolate.
Mercy Thompson Series – Patricia Briggs
Kyle Brooks/Warren Smith
Let's talk about how much I have always loved Warren and Kyle. Like, on paper, they don't work: a hundred and fifty year old Texas cowboy werewolf who works at a gas station and a rich, human, Ivy League educated lawyer. And they both know that. And it doesn't matter. I love Kyle's ridiculous marble statues, and his vanity and the chip on his shoulder, and the way Warren loves those things too and sees Kyle's good heart. I love how easygoing and Texan Warren is, and all the pain and violence that's simmering away under the surface, and how Kyle doesn't care about all of the werewolf shit, he just loves him—and how Kyle, as he says in the short story "In Red, with Pearls," is his own kind of predator, and that just because he eviscerates his prey in court, not, you know, literally, doesn't mean he can't understand Warren's wolf.
Prompts!
1. There's like seven or eight rough months for Warren and Kyle between Moon Called and Blood Bound that we know very little about, and I'm really interested in this period—the pining and the draw that kept them coming back to each other (Were they sleeping together at any point in this period? That must have been really bittersweet) and saw Kyle hiring Warren, especially, but also how the 'so, werewolves' conversations went (and the fights, you know there were fights).
1a. Hey, there was a Valentine's Day in the middle of that! Make it hurt. Make it hurt good.
2. I'm very into Domesticity With Werewolves, apparently, so give me some of that. Maybe make Kyle go camping (Oh god. He will be so bad at it.), since Warren's been trying to get him to for several books now, but any sort of domestic cozy shit I'll eat up with a spoon.
3. Concept: Kyle gets turned into a werewolf. I feel like he'd probably be pretty good at it. How does that happen? Is it on purpose, like he's sick or something? Or does some rogue or some other pack trying to come at Columbia Basin, now that they're exiled, attack him? How does that affect the pack structure? How many bed frames do he and Warren break while Kyle is learning his new strength?
4. In Frost Burned, Kyle reveals that his mating bond with Warren is starting to be two-way, but, being human, he just thought he was going crazy. And then we never really hear about that again. So: how does that psychic bond work for a human? Do he and Warren have enough control over it for it to be useful? Does it have sexytimes applications?
4. Something involving Warren's century and a half of history as a werewolf cowboy before he met Kyle. Maybe some old enemy pops up. Maybe Kyle learns things through the aforementioned mating bond in his dreams or something. Maybe Kyle randomly finds a daguerrotype in an antique shop and is fucking delighted that Warren used to have that ridiculous mustache. The field is wide open.
5. Something dealing with Kyle's family. Maybe his sister he still speaks to is coming to visit and he's freaking out, or his deploying the nuclear option with regards to his father in Frost Burned has to be dealt with somehow.
6. Kyle and Warren get married that's it that's the prompt. Do they just go to the courthouse and formalize it (and then the rest of the pack is scrambling trying to put a reception together on zero notice)? Does Kyle want a big thing? Or does Kyle have a lot of hangups about marriage because of his profession, but he also knows the legal benefits are Important?
Adam Hauptman & Warren Smith
Hi, my name is sadlikeknives and fun facts you might not know about me: Like Adam Hauptman, I'm from Alabama and I speak Russian! (Okay, I used to speak Russian. Now I honestly don't remember that much.) So I've always been really interested in Adam, and as previously established I love Warren, and I would really love to see more of their friendship explored. I feel like we're told more about it than we're shown, partly because it's rarely plot-relevant and thus exists as a sort of background thing. But they're both old, and Southern, and very dominant werewolves, and they get along like a house on fire, and I want more of that.
Prompts!
1. Patricia Briggs never really leans in on both of them being Southern. Like, they both canonically suppress their accents and 'y'all' is described as 'bad grammar,' (I'll fight you Briggs) which they only use deliberately in certain contexts. I will accept these speech patterns, even if I'm not thrilled about them (especially for Warren, who has had no good reason to suppress his accent), but there is more to being Southern for them to bond over. Especially food. I would love to see them bonding over food. Do they both have a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge at all times? Are they still weirded out by sugar in the cornbread? Does Warren show up at Adam's office one day to kidnap him for lunch because he finally found a place that makes decent collards?
2. Reading between the lines in the last couple of books, possibly starting from Silence Broken, possibly from the entire pack ending up at his house in Frost Burned, it looks like Warren is inching closer to being recognized in his rightful place as second in the pack (independent of the question of whether Darryl might be leaving to become an Alpha). Like, in one of the Alpha & Omega books it's mentioned that generally the pack's second's house is a secondary gathering place, and Pack Movie Night's been happening at Warren and Kyle's for a while now. And I think that would be great (especially if Darryl can stay), because Warren's placement has been unfair and artificial since the beginning, but I feel like Warren would still be hesitant/concerned, and need some reassurance from his Alpha/bestie.
3. Something about Warren and Adam's early relationship. I keep thinking about how Warren worked at the closest gas station to Adam's house, before Adam even built that house. And he was besties with Mercy. They definitely met, several times, before Mercy approached Adam about him, and Adam invited Warren to join the pack. Like, it seems weird that Adam never even thought about inviting Warren to join the pack before, even considering he's *gasp* gay. Did he think he wanted to be left alone? Did he think Warren was probably pissed because the Tri-Cities were basically his territory before Adam showed up? Did Warren show up to that meeting with Adam expecting to be told, "It's been real, now, leave town." What was going on there? And what were Warren's early days in the pack like? Apparently Christy thought Warren might make a pass at Adam; how much did the two of them laugh over that?
4. Poor Warren stuck in the middle of being Mercy's best friend AND Adam's best friend while they were determined to not get along.
5. Something about Adam meeting Kyle and realizing he needed to Do Something about these heteronormative homophobic werewolf rules before Warren lost this guy. Be a good wingman, Adam. (Or at least try, as ultimately everything blew up and it was Mercy who had to Do Something.)
Midnight Texas (TV)
Chuy Strong/Joe Strong
Okay, so. THAT WAS BAD. Like, at the point where Chuy's ashes were being injected into Joe's blood I was thinking, "Is this entire plot the most awful thing I've ever seen happen to a couple in media? I think it might actually be." But we can reject canon's reality and substitute our own! Please, let's do that.
Most of these prompts presuppose either your fic being set prior to everything going wrong for Joe and Chuy in season two or an alternate reality where none of that, you know, happened, but at least one requires addressing the canonical cheating and character death, so, if you want to tackle that, I hereby release you from those DNWs, as long as Chuy isn't still dead by the end of the fic and there's no hint of Joe ending up with Walker.
Prompts!
1. I would love to see Chuy and Joe interacting with the Midnight family more, especially Chuy—like, I think it makes sense for his character to hold himself apart the way he does in the show, some, but he can't just be off in a bubble all the time. He and the Rev and Lem all have issues with their nature to explore, or on the lighthearted side, maybe he and Olivia have fun workshopping The Correct Manicure for her cover story of the week (while Joe looks on like, "I don't share this interest but I'm glad it brings you two so much joy")?
2. Something about Chuy and Joe's past, because we know very little of it and there's a lot of past. They clearly traveled, because they apparently met somewhere along the Silk Road. How did they come to settle in Midnight? (Does Chuy have human family in the area, like he does in the books, who think he's like Distant Cousin Chuy Who's Always Been Around but have no idea exactly how distant?) What kind of adventures have they had along the way? How did they get together in the first place, beyond what we know of it—like, there's a lot of space between 'maybe not all part-demons are bad' and 'we've been married for a thousand years.'
3. What kind of awesome sex do an angel and a half-demon have? Like, I know Chuy can't use his powers very much or he risks going darkside, and Joe until very recently avoided using his, but, okay, let me be honest: I'm thinking wingkink. Or, since Joe paints and Chuy loves watching him paint, something with that.
4. An AU where Joe stopped and was like, "Wait...what the fuck am I doing here?" and didn't sleep with Walker and went home and told Chuy what was going on. And then obviously didn't fucking caress Walker while trying to convince Chuy that no, really, there was nothing going on here worth going Full Darkside over, wtf, Joe. And therefore, of course, Chuy was alive and able to participate in the events of the end of season two. How does that go different?
5. Something taking off from the end of season two where Chuy is somehow handwavily resurrected and Joe grovels a lot and then they live happily ever after. You, obviously, have my permission to ignore my DNWs of infidelity and requested character death to make the backstory for this work.
6. Just them being happy and domestic in their weird little town and maybe dealing with some kind of supernatural problem along the way (theirs or one of the Midnight family's) and living HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
Ordinary Magic Series – Devon Monk
Ben Rossi/Jame Wolfe
I'm pretty sure I'm this series' only fan, but here we go. I love the concept of Ordinary, a town that's half-mundane and half-really not. I love all the different supernatural beings and especially the gods, and I love the subplot of Jame and Ben. Love them. Like, I started texting my best friend while reading the first scene in which they appear something like, "OMG this book has a vampire and a werewolf and they're firefighters and boyfriends. MY JAM." And then they just kept on being more and more my jam? With the obviously being very much in love, and so very tough, and dealing with their family issues in such a mature way, and then Ben was KIDNAPPED and Jame was BROKEN and their PSYCHIC SOULBOND WAS SEVERED and I spent like half a book reading frantically like "Ben better not be dead!!!!" And then after they were reunited they had to recreate their psychic soulbond through biting and like: *kisses tips of fingers* beautiful. That scene with all the vampires and werewolves getting along and playing cards in Ben's hospital room, while several of the werewolves transfer energy through Jame to Ben, because Well I Guess We're In-Laws Now? LOVE IT. I love these guys and want them to live happily ever after.
Prompts!
1. Vampire/werewolf firefighter domesticity fluff. Or hot porn. Or fluffy porn. I just want them to be happy. Something about, I don't know, grocery or house shopping, or on the job stuff, or just like them really going at it in the bedroom and possibly breaking the bed or like sweet reunion 'I thought I lost you' sex once they're both up for such activities after Gods and Ends. With biting. (What else do they play rock paper scissors to decide?)
2. Speaking of biting, I'm here for it. Intimacy through biting! Sexy biting! The first time being A Huge Freaking Deal You Can't Take Back because of the bond that comes with a vampire's bite in this universe! Becoming so settled in together that Ben can lean across in the truck and take a quick nip like a snack! Recovering their bond through biting!
3. Hurt/comfort with both of them recovering after the third book. Like, obviously Ben's much worse off, but he can tell Jame's not one hundred percent yet. And they're both worried about each other. Possibly fussing over each other until someone gets annoyed, and then they have to deal with that.
4. How did they get together? Like, I assume it was some kind of workplace romance, and what's a workplace romance like for firefighters, when one's a werewolf and one's a vampire (besides a romance novel I really want to read)? But the bad blood between their families is pretty serious, and they also both work with other members of their families, so I feel like there was a lot of nosy interference, probably? And despite the small town setting, like, Greek gods vacation in Ordinary, so it's not like they were each other's only option (although definitely a better option than, say, Zeus' vacation fling). And how did Old Rossi take the whole thing? A lot to possibly explore here, I think.
5. Negotiating their families and all the bad blood between them, and then, after Gods and Ends, dealing with the fact that their families seem to be getting along now, mostly on their behalf, and it's nice but kind of weird. Or maybe something to do with the infamous housewarming party (is that where their succession of fluffy blankets in increasingly ridiculous colors came from?) and what happens when a bunch of werewolves and vampires get drunk in the same house. I imagine many Mexican standoffs were subtly broken up that night.
6. Anything with their canonical soulbond and how that works, either in like a practical, day to day sense or like, in bed.
