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Likes
enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, fix-its, sympathetic bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, partnerships, power dynamics, ambiguously intense relationships, found family, friendships, first-time stories, betrayal with reconciliation, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationship, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, magical realism, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, identity porn, complicated relationships, codependency, morally gray characters, moral complexity, long relationships that go through a lot of changes, werewolves with pack dynamics, canon-divergence AUs
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.
General Sex Likes/Kinks
BDSM, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/consent play/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or depressing), coming untouched, coming in pants, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, modern AUs, mundane AUs, knotting, scat, bestiality, vore
Request DNWs are listed in the individual fandom sections.
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain/Susan Delgado
Accidental Marriage Due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture | Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond is the Cultural Equivalent of Marriage | Adding Another Partner to a Marriage | Bard Immortalizes Wedding in Ballad to Couple's Delight or Embarrassment | Current Marriage Interrupted by Spouse from Alternate Timeline | Friend Basically Part of Marriage at This Point | Improvised Unofficial Wedding Ceremonies | Magic Artifact Creates Marriage | Magic Ritual Requires Marriage | Marriage to Break Curse | Marriage to Cure Sex Pollen | Not Sure If Marriage Made Under Magical Circumstances Counts | Public Marriage Consummation Ritual | Ritual Marriage | Sedoretu
Ship/setting things I love: The whole Weird Western/Arthurian fantasy blend. The ka-tet traveling and having little side adventures on the road to the Tower. Susan suddenly making an unexpected reappearance. (Any magical justification for this is fine--an alternate Susan, resurrected Susan, reincarnated Susan, etc.) Time travel back to before Gilead's fall. Travel to other worlds than these. Inter-pairing culture clashes or hang-ups about the past. Roland and/or Susan reacting to or experiencing Earth stuff; Eddie and Susannah finding out more about Mid-World. Roland calling people by old-fashioned endearments. Roland feeling off-kilter being in a loving relationship again after so long. Susan and horses, Susannah and math, Eddie and woodcarving.
+ They visit a barony or region of Mid-World that Roland is unfamiliar with and while they're attempting to make nice with the locals and engage in courteous diplomacy, they wind up accidentally getting hitched. (And possibly being required, for Reasons, to publicly consummate that marriage.) I especially love this if they're not all in a relationship beforehand--maybe some of them are, like Eddie/Susannah and/or Roland/Susan--but not all of them, but now the accidental marriage opens up a window for possibilities and sweet, sweet pining.
+ Khef-sharing, according to gunslinger or barony traditions, creates a marriage bond. I'm so into all the soulbond tropes here, along with the characters gradually getting more and more intimate. Are any of them uncomfortable with a poly relationship at first? What's the first sexual encounter like? Ditto all this for "magic artifact creates marriage," only there you also have the "what the hell just happened?" reactions and the characters trying to figure out what's going on.
+ Some bizarre or magical situation requires marriage, but everyone has complicated feelings about how whether or not that marriage is real and whether or not the other people involved want it to be. Post-sex pollen marriage where they're dealing with this and also with the awkwardness and sexual awakening of having all banged each other silly. And how does the ceremonial/ritual/required marriage work? Do they just have to make vows? Consummate? What makes it feel real or unreal to them?
+ I love sedoretus, but I don't often have ships with the right number/gender configurations, so I was delighted to realize that I did here--plus or minus some travel between times and/or dimensions. I tend to see the relationships involved as Eddie/Susannah, Susannah/Susan, Susan/Roland, and Roland/Eddie, but I'm totally open to switching moieties around there. I love characters getting used to a relationship structure they haven't heard of before, especially if other characters take it for granted. Bonding, relationship-building, possible taboo-breaking pairings with the sedoretu, etc.
+ Roland is married to Eddie and Susannah, and then Susan suddenly reappears in his life, with just as much marital history with him from her own dimension? (I also love AUs where Roland died in Mejis and Susan is the one who lived and has been questing for the Tower all along, so maybe Susan/Eddie/Susannah is happening, and then Roland unexpectedly comes back?) Or Eddie and Susannah are married in their post-canon life and then Roland from a past Roland/Eddie/Susannah relationship suddenly crashes the party and drags them back into adventures? Or just winds up recuperating at their place on Earth, with them slowly starting to remember who he is and what he meant to them? Roland and Susan are co-questing for the Tower and then these random New Yorkers show up claiming to be married to them?
+ Roland just sort of drifting into being part of Eddie and Susannah's marriage, with more and more seemingly platonic endearments/gestures of affection creeping in before any of them realize that there's a romantic and sexual undercurrent to it all.
Roland Deschain/Man in Black
Arranged Marriage | Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out by Someone Else | Demon Bride/Groom | Eldritch Marriage Ritual | Forced to Marry Enemy | Horrifying Prenuptial Agreement | Magic Artifact Creates Marriage | Marriage to Cause Apocalypse | Marriage Accompanied by Forced Soul Bond | Marriage Arranged Because of Matching Soulmarks | Marriage Binds Power | Married Couple With Slash Mpreg in a Place Where Male Pregnancy is Unheard Of | Married Person Without Realizing They Are the Hero/Villain They've Been Fighting | Marriage is Suddenly Determined by a Higher Power | This Wedding Requires Blood | Unaware of Spouse's Identity Until Wedding Night
Ship/setting things I love: Incredibly creepy dubcon and noncon possibilities. Anything set in the "the man in black fled across the desert"/Gunslinger part of canon. Anything set before the fall of Gilead or in AUs where Gilead didn't fall. Dark, mysterious soulbonds where they're inextricably bound to each other no matter how they feel about that. The man in black in particular being drawn to Roland and fascinated by him even though he ostensibly feels contempt for him. Roland being disgusted by his own attraction. "Let me remind you during this that I fucked your mom (and possibly also your dad)." Horror and dark fantasy weirdness in general. Roland's blend of honor and pragmatism. The man in black's creepy sense of humor.
For anything set in the Wizard and Glass flashback era/Gilead, please just non-canonically age Roland up to at least sixteen for any explicit sex or just don't mention his exact age at all.
+ Setup where arranged marriages are just the way things are in Gilead, and Roland has been formally affianced to someone since he was a child--and then Marten buys out his contract and sets up the wedding and there's nothing Roland can do about it except try to find an opportunity to kill his husband as soon as he can. Or maybe he winds up inexorably coming under Marten's sway and they become the world's creepiest power couple?
+ Arranged marriage where it's considered a coup for a young gunslinger to be able to marry someone of Marten's stature? Roland's parents, half-hypnotized and half-seduced, make the arrangements for him without telling him who he's going to be marrying?
+ Or Gilead-era soulmark marriage! Does it change everything? Or does it just persist throughout the centuries even as their lives follow the same course as in canon, but they have this unshakable bond to each other that they both have to acknowledge even though they might wind up killing each other? How do they think about soulmates, and how do they experience their metaphysical connection and marriage?
+ The two of them just wind up getting suddenly married and knowing it. Maybe the Tower pairs them off because their eternal chase is part of what preserves it? Or maybe they touch something that awakens a speaking demon or some other supernatural entity that either weds them to each other and/or forces them to have sex?
+ Anything with extremely unnerving Flagg. (I'm familiar with The Stand and The Eyes of the Dragon, so if you want to use anything with his appearances in those, that's totally fine.) Flagg deliberately seeking to marry Roland because he knows that it will somehow trigger the end of the world? (Either the canonical fall of Gilead or a total collapse of the Tower and the multiverse.) Demon groom stuff where Flagg's powers warp Roland's mind during consummation, or change him supernaturally in some way. They're married according to Flagg's plans rather than Roland's culture, and Flagg's wedding ritual is predictably creepy: blood-drinking, possession, killing your spouse and then reviving them, inviting eldritch forces in to the world by consummating the marriage in a magical circle? Any and all of the above.
+ Flagg takes special delight in knocking up a Roland who doesn't know what's going on or how to deal with it and who is now contending with a shit-ton of body horror. Does Roland want to end the pregnancy before any heir of Flagg's can come into the world? Does he find himself getting protective of the child, making him even more motivated than ever to take his spouse out of the equation? If the child is actually born, what happens then?
Black Panther
Erik Killmonger/Shuri
A/B/O - Female Alpha Marries Male Omega | Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond is Cultural Equivalent of Marriage | Arranged Marriage - Spouse as Hostage for Their Family/People's Good Behavior | Arranged Royal Marriage | Character Marries Rival/Villain to Spare Loved One a Terrible Fate | Elaborate Courtship | Mail Order Spouse Has a Secret | Marriage Arranged Because of Matching Soulmarks | Marriage as Clemency at Public Execution | Political Marriage to an Enemy That Turns to Love | Royal Marriage Requires Public Consummation | Time Travel Backward to Fix the Past Also Results in Unexpectedly Getting Married | Wakandan Wedding Traditions | Wedding Night
Request-specific DNW: violent noncon ("have to grit your teeth and go along with it because that's the plan" is fine, as is consensual rough sex); domestic violence (aggressive sparring is fine).
Ship/setting things I love: Emotionally complicated enemies-to-lovers setups. Forced proximity. Wakandan worldbuilding, especially with traditions, clothing, food, and material culture generally. Royalty with a sense of responsibility and governance, royalty being tied to their country and people. Killmonger Wins AUs where he's still king and there's some sort of background global revolution. Black Panther Shuri. Conflicting views, strategies, and moralities. Reluctantly growing feelings and attraction. Culture clash. Erik being deeply invested in playing by Wakanda's rules even though he's super ambivalent about it. Required sex; sex that is horrible and awkward the first time, but gradually, over time, they get better at it/better at pleasing each other. Erik vs. N'Jadaka identity conflict.
+ Shuri impulsively rebels via a mail order husband, and Erik uses this as his opportunity to get into Wakanda, pretending to be a disinterested stranger while he scopes the place out… and also possibly starts developing feelings for his new bride (who is starting to wonder what's going on in his head). Identity porn! This can also combine with the soulmark prompt--maybe there are websites where you can search for someone with your soulmark, and Shuri finds Erik there: Wakanda's isolation means he has to come to her without necessarily (officially) getting the full details first...
+ Nakia isn't able to get Shuri and Ramonda out in time, and so they wind up stuck in the palace during Erik's brief reign. Does he marry Shuri to secure her family and country's cooperation, especially once he hears rumors that T'Challa is still alive? If so, what's their relationship like when their marriage is basically a knife at her throat? How could she wrest some power back from him? Or is it a less obvious quid pro quo arrangement on his part? Maybe he really did win the throne and start a global revolution--he got everything he ever wanted, and now he has to deal with the realities of holding power long-term. Who better to help him with that than Shuri, if he makes her queen? And then of course, Shuri would still be raw from T'Challa's death… Anything that puts the two of them in some kind of tense standoff of a marriage that can gradually relax at least a little into some kind of intimacy, even if it's fraught, occasional, and still surrounded by thoughts of murder.
+ AU where T'Chaka takes his nephew back to Wakanda and brings him up as an offshoot of the royal family, and Erik-now-N'Jadaka has grown up in a very different environment but is still dealing with some residual anger. Has his marriage to Shuri been arranged to solidify his bond to Wakanda and allow T'Chaka to make amends to his dead brother? Do they have matching soulmarks? Do the two of them fall in love and have an elaborate courtship? I love invented traditions and cultural details, so feel free to go wild here: these rituals can be as symbolic and seemingly strange as you like, as long as they're meaningful to the characters.
+ Killmonger is defeated, but he doesn't die, and Shuri decides to save him imprisonment or execution via marriage. (And/or claiming him as her omega!) Now she's implicitly responsible for his behavior, which is a constant irritant to her, and he's angry that he's become the princess's pet husband. How do their feelings for each other evolve? I love redemption arcs, so anything with Erik figuring out how to live his life better/how to deal with the damage he's caused is great. Alternately, Shuri decides to go back in time to save her cousin from going wrong in the first place--maybe she make sure little Erik was brought to Wakanda, or she stops his father from dying, or she just intercepts him as an adult pre-BP--and then when she returns to her own timeline, she finds that whatever changes she's made have resulted in her having a new husband.
+ A/B/O 'verse: I just love the idea of alpha Shuri and deeply resentful omega Erik who can't help needing her and being drawn to her. Is his omega status something else that motivates him, making him want more--and violent--justice for omegas who are currently getting the short end of the stick? Or is it something he's used to his advantage before, to get connections or to seem less dangerous? Was his previous girlfriend his old alpha, and if so, did it do anything to him psychologically to have killed her? Or did he maybe not kill her, because of that? Does Shuri's alpha nature make her feel even more deeply drawn to protecting Wakanda--and then reluctantly drawn to protecting her omega? Do you need to be an alpha to formally rule, so she has to actually be the one on the throne? Is she the one who kick-starts the marriage so she can have more sway over this invader and maybe protect her family from him? General A/B/O stuff I love: heats, A/B/O nature influencing a character's responses to things (without necessarily fully determining them--they can struggle or overrule this), protective urges, submissive urges, scents, biting. I'm good with g!p of any stripe for Shuri, and also with strap-ons, toys generally, or heat-satisfying sex that doesn't have to involve penetration.
+ Anything with deep, unwanted connections, like soul bonds--Erik came to Wakanda for a reason, and it definitely wasn't to feel pulled towards Shuri/share thoughts with her/have them have each other's dreams, etc.! Shuri doesn't like that she's deeply connected with a man she doesn't like or trust! Or Shuri as alpha to Erik's omega, exerting a powerful instinctive dominance over him and feeling possessive and protective of him despite everything.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Loki
Heimdall/Loki
"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow So Let's Get Married Today" | Arranged Royal Marriage | Character Volunteers to Marry Condemned Criminal to Save Them From Punishment | Characters Mistakenly Believe Ritual Marriage Isn't Legally Binding | Chastity Device That Only Unlocks for Spouse | Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About for Years | A Game of "Fuck Marry Kill" Somehow Becomes Magically Binding | Getting Married to Avoid a Diplomatic Incident | Having to Convince the Person They're Asking That Their Proposal and Feelings Are Genuine | Magic Ritual Requires Marriage | Marriage Allows Spouses to Share Mutant or Magical Powers | Marriage Assumed to Be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond | Marriage to Confer Status | Marrying Someone to Save Their Life | Royal Marriage Requires Public Consummation | Secret Marriage Becomes Public | Suitors Must Compete for Love Interest's Hand in Marriage
Request-specific DNW: Loki and Heimdall's deaths in Infinity War, unless they come back.
Ship/setting things I love: Post-Ragnarok settings with the Asgardians traveling across the galaxy looking for a new home and having adventures. Small-scale shipboard governance, with questions like, "How do we resupply?" and "How do we keep up morale?" Cosmic settings with the characters having alien perspectives on things. Weird traditions. Complicated, prickly relationships. Ambivalence. Fondness. Loyalty kink, fealty kink. Characters having complicated histories, characters with differing priorities. Humor even in dark situations. Heroism, especially reluctant or unexpected. High-stakes situations, weird settings. Kinking on Valkyrie's strength. Loki being difficult but trying. Heimdall's sense of humor. The weight of Val's history and her complex feelings about Asgard. Bonus Thor & Loki brotherly feelings. The whole Ragnarok ensemble.
For prompts that imply some mention of other relationships (like the fuck/marry/kill one), I'm good with any past/minor relationship except Thor/Loki. OCs are also totally okay.
Any of these can also turn into Val/Loki/Heimdall, if you like.
+ Fuck/marry/kill: someone gets quippy, and now they're magically bonded to get married. The fucking isn't a problem, and the killing can be outwitted via some quick temporary death/resusciation/resurrection, but Asgardian marriage is more serious than that… Feel free to lean totally into full comedy or play it for surprising emotion. I just love "magically forced to marry" with bonus comedic hijinks.
+ As the younger prince, Loki was destined for strategic political marriage, so his virginity was always preserved via an unbreakable chastity device. Now it's finally coming off. Did sexual frustration finally make him pounce on a marriage opportunity, or cause someone else to pity him and help him out? Is there teasing beforehand, as his intended fools around with working him up before he can do anything about it? I could also totally get behind this with the other two--maybe the Valkyries weren't supposed to have relationships that could compromise their zest for battle, or maybe Heimdall was supposed to be narrowly focused on guarding Asgard, without the distraction of temporary liaisons. In which case, they've been dealing with total chastity for way longer than Loki would have been, and first-time married sex would be even more explosively satisfying…
+ Any kind of post-Ragnarok marriage that is in some way for the sake of Asgard.. Everyone likes a wedding, so marrying off a prince seems like a good way to boost everyone's mood, but it's okay, it's just a ceremony (and possibly a public consummation--also good for mood-boosting)... until the soul bond or the feelings set in. I love characters thinking they can get away with not taking something seriously only for them to then be proven disastrously wrong about that. Ditto any kind of ritualistic marriage that has to happen for some kind of magic ritual--obviously that won't really count, right? Except it does. I also like situations where they have a political marriage that they expect will be mostly pro forma, but cohabitation and keeping up appearances means that they're gradually getting closer anyway.
+ Life after Ragnarok is dangerous and unstable while they're still out in space looking for a new home, and these are three people who don't exactly tend to be far from trouble at any given time. Maybe they develop an actual relationship on their own, and the chancy nature of their lives makes one of them decide to risk a proposal and a full-on admission of their feelings? Maybe they're drunk and ready to go into battle and they think this will be their only opportunity? Or one of them has gotten in severe, life-ending trouble on some planet, through their own fault or totally innocently, and a marriage is the only thing that can rescue them, if the other person is willing to go along with it.
+ Any kind of shipboard wedding planning, dealing with planning a royal wedding in the tattered remains of your society, trying to count on Loki being stable from one minute to the next, managing resources, juggling expectations and the participants' different desires, etc. Invent all the weird Asgardian marriage rituals you like.
+ It's traditional for suitors to compete for a prince's hand, so Val or Heimdall winds up resigned to a competition to win the dubious pleasure of marrying Loki. Are they already in a relationship, and is this part of their actual desire to seal the deal? Is the competition a way to boost morale, and they just wind up trying to make sure Loki gets a good option? (Partly so he won't murder a new spouse he doesn't like?) Who else is competing, and is there any serious danger that things might go wrong and that a really, really bad person might win, heightening the stakes? Or is it comedic and bizarre? Does Loki help them cheat, with or without their knowledge?
Peter Parker/Tony Stark
Accidental Marriage Causes Scandal | Aliens Make Them Get Married | Aliens Think They're Married | Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out by Someone Else | Always Married to the Same Person When You Dream | Catching Bouquet at Friend's Wedding Leads to Unexpected Soul Bond | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Living Spouse Time Travels to Relive Their Wedding Day With Their Spouse Who Has Since Passed Away | Marriage Assumed to Be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond | Marriage Creates Tension With Children From Previous Relationship(s) | Marriage is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond | Nobody Believes They Married for Love | Person's Hand in Marriage Auctioned Off to the Highest Bidder | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards | Sex With a Virgin Scandalous and Disreputable Unless Followed by Marriage
Request-specific DNW: Horrible breakups for Tony/Pepper or Pepper dying (amiable exes are totally fine). Peter/Tony sex before Peter is eighteen; Tony being significantly, consistently attracted to Peter before he's eighteen.
Ship/setting things I love: Pining, banter, flirtation. Peter and Tony working on tech or experiments together. "Kid/Pete" and "Mr. Stark/sir," with or without a gradual significant transition to "Tony." Peter actively crushing on Tony and being sure of what he wants while Tony is kind of a disaster who is possibly also freaking out about the age difference. Heroism, mutual rescue, hurt/comfort, loyally trying to sacrifice for each other. Peter being super-strong, Peter webbing Tony to things. Romantic development. Sweetness with the occasional electric spark of conflict or push-back. Worldbuilding where marriages are constructed very differently. Luxury porn, decadent honeymoons, Tony delighting in showering Peter with gifts. Other people reacting to Tony Stark's hot young ingenue boyfriend.
+ It's not exactly normal for someone to auction off their marriage prospects, but it's not unheard-of, either, and Peter could really use the money... Do they already know each other, with the fic relatively in line with canon? Or is this the first time they've met? Does Tony already know Peter is Spider-Man? Does he anticipate things turning romantic/sexual from the beginning, or does he just think the marriage will be a decent way to sponsor Peter through college and/or superhero endeavors? Is there a threat that someone else will try to outbid Tony, with him dramatically coming to the rescue? Alternately, Peter's had the shadow of an arranged marriage hanging over his head--maybe it's a deal he made for a much-needed cash infusion for May?--and he's resigned himself to complying with it. (I'm good with anything from "this person is okay, I'm just not in love with them" to "this person is horrible for maximum angst potential.") Tony finds out about the situation and swoops in. Just to help out! Totally non-romantic! Or so he thinks.
+ I love any setup that brings them unexpectedly face-to-face with the idea that they even could be married, which Peter hadn't thought could actually ever happen (or thought would remain confined to his daydreams) and which Tony was trying to actively not acknowledge. So... the two of them on a cosmic adventure together, with aliens who assume they're married and treat them accordingly, and it would be a bad idea to correct them? They're forced to go through some kind of ceremony that they're convinced will just be for show or to fulfill some sort of obscure requirement (a ritual, alien diplomacy, etc.), but they can't quite cope with the reality of it? They're both having oddly similar dreams--not that they know it at first--about some alternate married life?
+ In any kind of marriage situation: what happens when news of their marriage leaks, and the world collectively decides that obviously this is Tony being super shallow and going through a midlife crisis and Peter being a gold-digging trophy husband? How do they deal with the clash between people's ideas of their relationship and the reality? And for a more low-key, realistic option: if Morgan is around in this situation, what does she feel about it all? I'd love to see Peter starting to develop a relationship with her--and Tony possibly repairing one--even while acknowledging the weirdness of it all. Bittersweet/quietly melancholy/unexpectedly funny or anything you like, though I'd like it to resolve with at least some hope for them all having a good relationship in the future.
+ The "break my hurt, why don't you" prompt, wringing maximum angst out of the age gap: Peter and Tony live a semi-long life together, but Tony still dies decades before Peter does. I'd love to see a much-older Peter sending his consciousness back in time to relive their wedding day. Or does he physically go back, a la the Endgame time travel rules, and sit in as an observer? Does he interfere at all, even knowing it won't change things in his own timeline? Or, for even more angst… Peter and Tony are married, but superhero adventures means Peter is killed first, leaving Tony alone and wanting to catch just one more glimpse of him.
+ This is just supposed to be Ned's/MJ's/Pepper's/Happy's/May's wedding, but unfortunately, someone used an alien flower in the bouquet, causing whoever caught it to suddenly develop a soul bond to the person they want to marry. Is it one-way, or does the other one feel it to? Does the bouquet-catcher think he's going crazy, and try to avoid admitting his feelings at all costs? Is it draining or deadly if not counteracted with marriage--and if so, is he just wasting away or is there pain-sharing going on that's really inconvenient given the amount of damage they both regularly take? (All this stuff can obviously work for a non-bouquet-related soulbond, too.)
+ The "oh no, we banged" prompts, where they somehow--impulsively/because of sex pollen/because someone Made Them Do It--had sex, and now marriage is a societal necessity, especially if Peter was a virgin. Maybe Peter tries to wave off Tony's feeling of responsibility, but Tony wants to do the right thing (while also being scared that "the right thing" will also be bad for Peter).
+ The "danger from someone else" prompt: Aliens/mystical bad guys/plot contrivance insists that engaged couple Peter and Tony prove their loyalty to each other via an exceptionally painful ritual. Is their engagement real, with feelings declared on both sides, or part of some kind of supposed fake marriage/marriage of convenience? Does going through the ritual spark realizations about the actual depth of feeling? Or are they already fully together, and this is just awesomely romantic h/c as they both prove exactly how far they'll go for each other?
The Lighthouse
Thomas Wake/Ephraim Winslow
Accidental Shapeshifter Marriage Due to Unknowing Theft of Animal Skin | Character A Plots to Marry and Murder Character B but B Catches On | Elaborate Courtship - Strange Alien/Supernatural Courtship Rituals | Eldritch Marriage Ritual | Forced Marriage Leads to Unwanted Soulbond | Forced to Marry Due to Supernatural Reasons | Ghost Spouse Tries to Murder Living Spouse Because They're Lonely | Magical Artifact Considers Owner/User/Host Its Spouse | Mail-Order Bride/Groom | Marriage Arranged Because of Matching Soulmarks | Marriage to Cause Apocalypse | Marriage to Socially Undesirable Partner as State-Mandated Punishment for a Crime | Person Mistaken for Mail-Order Spouse and Goes With It | Ritual Marriage | This Wedding Requires Blood
Ship/setting things I love: Weirdness, surrealism, dreamlike qualities, teetering sanity, magical realism, sea magic, sea mythology, horror. Gross physical details. Claustrophobia and codependency. The two of them vacillating between orders/anger/resentment/violence and weird rapport and tenderness with slow dancing. Historical details, setting details, gratuitous descriptions of the ocean. Wake's cooking. The dialogue generally.
+ Ephraim doesn't get hired as a new wickie but conscripted as Wake's mail-order husband (or "wife," if there's some kind of tradition where same-sex marriage isn't normalized but lighthouse-keepers can take a male "wife" to avoid pregnancy), arriving with no idea of what he's in for. How does their relationship change? What work is he expected to do? How much does Wake confide in him? What's the sex like? Alternately, he does originally come there as an assistant wickie, but when Wake mistakes him for his mail-order spouse ("pretty as a picture"), he impulsively goes with it, thinking that that might lead to better treatment. And then what happens when the actual mail-order guy shows up? Or Ephraim--originally Tommy--is actually caught for the murder of the real Ephraim Winslow, and his punishment is to provide much-needed companionship for a lighthouse keeper. Is this because Wake is somehow holding back supernatural forces, or just because having him still at his post is valuable, so society wants to keep him happy? What's the balance of power like when Tommy arrives as a spouse but, crucially, a conscripted one Wake knows to be a criminal? What's the blend of resentment/attraction/gratitude/etc.?
+ The murder prompts: Does Ephraim think that marrying and killing Wake will lead to some kind of inheritance/control of the lighthouse that's warping them both? Is Ephraim actually the ghost version of Wake's previous assistant wickie, now returned to try to murder him so they can stay together forever? Does Ephraim kill Wake to get the lighthouse only to find that Wake's ghost is hanging around threatening him?
+ Wake is a selkie, and after weeks of slaving away under his control, Ephraim finds a sealskin on the beach and takes it impulsively (not knowing its secret) and accidentally weds the two of them? Ephraim is actually a selkie, and his arrival at the lighthouse as a human is just because Wake found his skin and bound the two of them together? Is Wake some sort of magical artifact, an incarnation of the lighthouse/its light, and once Ephraim arrives, he considers them to be married? Anything turning one or the other of them into something supernatural and exceptionally strange and then bringing them into conflict with each other is great.
+ Weirdly genuine relationship building, where they're both awful in their own ways, but there's an emerging tenderness all the same, with supernatural, strange courtship rituals (Wake's lobster as a formal courtship gift! Ephraim is constantly jerking off because his come is supposed to be a gift! And even weirder stuff!) Maybe the whole reason they're together is that they have matching soulmarks, and they could sense each other, and now they're having to deal with being soulmates whether they like it or not. Or they wind up stuck with a soul bond, which shapes and changes how they interact with each other and is the best/worst thing simultaneously? Bizarre instances of gentle affection are totally welcome. Hair-petting, compliments, cuddling, slow-dancing.
+ They have to get married because the light/Triton/a mermaid/the sea demands it. Supernatural weddings, with creepy consummation, blood rituals, murdering someone else, weird beach antics, fucking in the ocean or against the lamp, drinking honeyed kerosene, anything bizarre and wedding-related would delight me. Why is the marriage demanded? Just to seal their partnership for some reason? To provide some kind of mythical benefit? Is this somehow apocalyptic, and the two of them getting married is the harbinger of the end of the world, or something that actively brings it on? Do they know that and welcome it, or do they try to resist it for a while before finally giving in once their sanity slips away even more?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane
Cordelia Chase/Buffy Summers
A/B/O - Female Alpha Marries Female Omega | Couple Finds Out They're Married in an Alternate Universe | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party | Lust Spell is Cast on Resultant Newlyweds | Magic Artifact Creates Marriage | Magic Ritual Requires Marriage | Marriage as an Act of Rebellion | Marriage Assumed to Be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond | Marriage is a Requirement for School Graduation | Marriage to Break Curse | Marriage to Prevent Apocalypse | Marrying Someone to Save Their Life | People Stuck in Time Loop Get Married and Then Time Loop Ends Unexpectedly | Renewing Vows for Impulsive Wartime/"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Years of Peace/Safety | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards | Suitors Must Compete for Love Interest's Hand in Marriage | Woke Up Married
Ship/setting things I love: Prickly or even deeply troubled relationships that still have a lot of warmth to them/enemies-to-lovers, rivals-to-lovers, frenemies-to-lovers. Buffy rescuing people. Snark, banter, humor that leavens dark situations. Faith working on redemption. Doing weird things to save the world or help someone else. Sexiness, body appreciation, strength kink. Buffy and/or Cordelia having the sexuality epiphany of finding a woman hot for the first time. Being relatively new at relationships and having to figure them out. Not always wanting to admit to having romantic feelings in the first place. Awkwardly revealing the relationship to friends or family. Hurt/comfort, including emotional h/c. Genuine romanticism, gestures of affection and loyalty. I'm always happy to see anyone from the supporting cast.
I generally prefer omega Buffy, with either Faith or Cordelia as the alpha.
+ A lot of these boil down to "marriage because magic," I know. I just love the idea of magic prodding them to get married when, if cooler heads prevailed, they might not even admit to having feelings for each other. A lust spell hits Sunnydale, and Buffy and Faith/Cordelia are swept up in it to the point where they decide to get married so they can indulge themselves with the excuse that it's their honeymoon? Magic suddenly marries them, and they're tied together by feelings they can't explain, or maybe a sudden societal expectation/rearrangement where all of a sudden they're in a timeline where they've been living with each other, etc.? Or they just have to deal with all the awkward feelings this brings up? They have to get married to do something magical, and they expect it not to mean anything, but it induces a soul bond/requires consummation/makes feelings come to the fore? How did the spell/curse/apocalypse-prevention strategy define marriage? Do they know going in that they'll be stuck in some situation with required fidelity or where it's hard to be away from each other?
+ Time loop magical antics: maybe they married lots of people during this time loop--it went on for a long time, and they got bored and tried everything--but now, unexpectedly, they're stuck with the consequences of their last marriage to each other, and have to figure out how to deal. Do they explain the situation to their friends? Does one of them get feelings before the other, and have those feelings somewhat hurt by the other trying to dismiss the whole thing?
+ Or they decide to get married to escape some kind of unbearable situation. Does the Watcher's Council come down with enough power to try to marry off a Slayer? (Maybe all the previous Slayers have either not had children or not had sons, and the Council wants to score a Slayer daughter in the hopes that she'll somehow have more power?) Does Buffy or Faith elope to get away from this pressure? Is Cordelia supposed to rehabilitate her family's wealth and image by marrying for money, only the person she's supposed to be marrying is so awful that she swerves at the last minute and asks Buffy for help instead? I also love the idea of any of them marrying to push back against expectations--that Buffy and/or Faith can't have a normal life, that Cordelia cares too much about her coolness, etc. Or they're in some kind of bind where one of them will die without the other stepping in to marry them?
+ Something I really like is the idea of a person being in trouble--they're required to marry (to graduate, to perform a ritual, to fulfill some sort of weird requirement)/they have suitors competing for their hand/they might die if they can't get married--and awkwardly reaching out to someone else for help, especially if they decide to ask someone unexpected. I like the way this means that they sort of have to commit to choosing each other and helping each other, possibly even up to the point of risking their lives, before there's actually necessarily a romantic/sexual bond.
+ Or maybe they're just suddenly confronted by the idea that this is an option for them--they encounter alternate universe selves that are married, the way Willow encountered Vamp Willow's sexuality before really discovering her own, and at first maybe wonder what the hell they were thinking… and then wonder if it isn't a better idea, and one that makes more sense, than they fight thought? A drunk night means they wake up married, and they have to deal with the fact that apparently, blackout drunk, they both thought this was a good idea?
+ Hurt/comfort is always welcome in anything, but it's especially embedded in the prompt where they have to prove their devotion to each other via a painful ritual. Is this in one of the above situations, where they may or may not have romantic feelings for each other and have to tough this out anyway, and there's some suspense about whether or not they'll be able to stand it? Does this make them realize the strength of their own/the other person's feelings? Or are they already in love, and they're just willing to endure anything for each other, no matter what--especially if they can then figure out how to kick the ass of whoever's putting them through this.
+ Faith seems like a traditional alpha in a lot of ways, and I'd love seeing Buffy drawn to all that swagger even as Faith is transfixed by a need to both possessively claim Buffy and, maybe contradictorily, protect her. I also love the idea of Cordelia being a literal alpha bitch, with her social dominance having a biochemical component to it, and with her being disconcerted by how good Buffy smells. They're a great ship for a kind of "I don't want to like you, abut every time you come around I get super turned-on" vibe. And more generally, with A/B/O, I love heats, A/B/O nature influencing a character's responses to things (without necessarily fully determining them--they can struggle or overrule this), protective urges, submissive urges, scents, biting. I'm good with g!p of any stripe, and also with strap-ons, toys generally, or heat-satisfying sex that doesn't have to involve penetration.
Marvel TV
Davos/Danny Rand
Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond is Cultural Equivalent of Marriage | Betrothed as Children | Character A Thought the Honeymoon Would Be Bad and They Were Right | Character Volunteers to Marry Condemned Criminal to Save Them From Punishment | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Estranged Secret Spouses Reunite | Honeymoon Sexual Exploration for Couple Who Had Little/No Opportunity for Sex Before Marriage | Marriage a Punishment for Breaking an Obscure Law | Marriage as an Act of Rebellion | Marrying Someone to Save Their Life | Ritual Marriage | Secret Marriage | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards | Spouses Awkwardly Reunite After Fraught Separation
Ship/setting things I love: Contrasts in dispositions--cheerfully optimistic Danny vs. more serious and broody Davos. Long history of being each other's allies/friends/adopted brothers while also being rivals for the same position. Love-hate vacillation, especially on Davos's side, and angst about Danny leaving K'un-Lun and whether or not they should return there. Moral disagreements. Davos being super intense. Pining. Being each other's only support in a relatively harsh environment in K'un-Lun. Mutual virginity loss. Weird magical shenanigans.
+ I love anything that deals with the idea of Davos finding Danny again in New York, but this time with the backstory that they were actually married or engaged back in K'un-Lun; Danny acted impulsively by seizing his opportunity to leave, and Davos is understandably having trouble forgiving him for it. What was their marriage or betrothal like? Was it set up from the time they were children, with Lei Kung deciding to unite his son with this child touched by fire? Did they grow up knowing that one day they'd be married? Is their marriage a ceremonial, ritual position because they were the top two Iron Fist candidates? Because they formed a soul bond? (Is forming a soul bond envied or considered shameful? How would having one affect their interactions with each other in canon?) Did they not plan to get married, but their plans were changed when they were hit by sex pollen?
+ Or were they not supposed to marry at all, and it was fraught and secret when they fell in love with each other and slipped off one day to the village to get married? Or gave each other vows in secret? I just really like the idea of bringing this intense us-against-the-world, you-are-my-only-companion vibe against the fact that Danny left, and dealing with all of that.
+ If their marriage is approved by K'un-Lun, what hoops do they have to jump through? The monks seem to value pain and endurance as teaching tools, so do they insist on testing Danny and Davos's loyalty to each other via a painful ritual? How do they react to it--both to their suffering and to each other's? What does it mean to Davos if Danny withstands pain for him but then leaves the city anyway?
+ Is their marriage related to some kind of crime/mistake? Is there some obscure MCU law (because why not) where Danny is able to marry Davos to take charge of his rehabilitation at the end of season two, to save him from going to prison? Are they then bound together in some way, or does he just have to trust Davos not to run away? Or is Danny leaving K'un-Lun unprotected an actual crime by their laws, and the punishment is being obligated to marry the K'un-Lun citizen who tracks him down and returns him to the city?
+ And I also just like giving these two a chance to be sweet and funny together, despite all the tragedy that surrounds them. They're married, and Danny has planned an elaborate honeymoon that Davos is resigned to finding exhausting and/or terrible… and it is that, 100%, but it has its charms nonetheless? Go wild with ridiculousness, if you like, and give Davos the full experience of American consumerism by sending them on a DisneyWorld honeymoon. Or wedding night/honeymoon fic about the two of them, sworn to chastity by K'un-Lun, finally getting to have sex and explore their desires a little more with each other? (I'm okay with this also leading to angsty miscommunication.)
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand & Colleen Wing
Ward Meachum/Colleen Wing
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand/Colleen Wing
Betrothed as Children | Character A Thought the Honeymoon Would Be Bad and They Were Right | Character A Thought the Honeymoon Would Be Bad and They Were Wrong | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Fake Marriage Results in Surprise Real Feelings | Falling Deeply in Like With Spouse | Forced to Consummate Marriage by Third Party | Friend Basically Part of Marriage at This Point | Getting Married to Extend Legal Rights/Protections to Partner | Marriage Arranged by Third Party with Dubious Motives | Marriage Essentially Platonic but Must Be Consummated First | Marriage is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond | Marriage for Protection from Criminal Organization | Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret | Marriage to Confer Status | Married to Inherit the Company | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards
Request-specific DNW: Danny and Ward identifying as brothers and becoming lovers simultaneously. Not identifying that way--or just Danny saying it at the beginning of S1 but Ward never following through--and being romantic/sexual: totally fine. Identifying that way and having any level of platonic marriage: also fine, as is any one-off sex due to required consummation or sex pollen. Just not "they're definitely brothers and definitely in love."
Ship/setting things I love: Relationship development/growing closer (either romantic or platonic). Learning to trust each other. Dealing with Colleen's Hand-related trauma and Ward's Harold-related trauma. Harold doing any kind of OTT creepy/ridiculous villainy. Ward gradually softening up while still staying snarky. Danny and Ward remembering bits of their childhood history together. Awkward first-time sex, weird "let's make the best of this" sex they're forced to have. Learning to make things work in the bedroom, for romantic ships. Increasing tenderness. Mutual loyalty and protectiveness. Hurt/comfort, trauma revelation, sleeping in the same bed reveals one person's having nightmares. Heroism. Weird magical shenanigans.
+ Harold and the Hand combine to engineer awkward arranged marriages for their own convenience--is Ward told to marry Danny for some obscure Rand-related reason? Does Bakuto's attempt to seize power from Gao involve making an alliance that means he needs Colleen to marry Ward (who's been told by his dad to marry this complete stranger)? Were Ward and Danny originally betrothed as children in some kind of corporations-act-even-more-like-royalty situation, and now that Danny's returned, apparently Ward is still obligated to go through with that? I'm just all for these three circling around each other--Ward and Colleen gradually learning to trust each other and smooth out some of their mutual prickliness and initial dislike, becoming each other's support; Ward getting to the point of trusting Danny. Ward's trauma/abuse being revealed to his spouse via their living situation. Colleen not knowing who to trust when it turns out that her marriage was arranged for much more dubious purposes than she thought and the Hand isn't as noble as she'd been told. I'd be completely satisfied with these kinds of arcs in any situation, regardless of why they get married.
+ I also love marriage setups where the couple have to have sex before feelings (or even attraction) are really in place, and it's about figuring out how to make it as painless and unembarrassing as possible. Maybe it'll be good, but it'll certainly be awkward. So required consummation and sex pollen are both A++, including for the platonic variations of these ships, where the emphasis can largely be on getting through an unwanted situation together.
+ Absolutely any kind of slow burn feeling. Slow burn platonic, slow burn romantic, slow burn platonic that leads to romantic, slow burn poly as whichever one of them isn't originally included in the marriage becomes sort of gradually indispensable to it. I really loved watching these relationships develop in canon, and putting them in close quarters and with high emotional stakes just makes it all even more delightful. Does this tie into the "painful ritual to prove their devotion" prompt, with the ritual acting as a catalyst to make them realize how far their relationship has developed? I can see Ward not realizing until then that Danny and/or Colleen truly cares that much, or Colleen not realizing that she actually really matters to Ward, in particular.
+ Danny Rand, planner of elaborate and possibly terrible honeymoons. He's excited to take Ward (and Colleen?) on an elaborate backpacking trip/hike/cross-country road trip/etc., and the other two are varying levels of unenthused about it. Are they right, and it's full of hilarious mishaps--food poisoning, minor injuries, other travelers you really don't want to meet, your standard number of magical curses, etc.? Or do they find themselves reluctantly charmed and enjoying themselves? If it's a Ward/Colleen or Ward & Colleen trip, is it that they're booked onto this meaningless glamour for-appearances-only honeymoon that neither one of them really cares about? Does one of them eventually try to personalize it a little? Does that work out and wind up creating a tentative bond between them?
+ Most of these setups kind of imply a S1 timeline, but I'd also love to see S2 or after versions. Sex pollen can strike at any time! Maybe it hits the three of them, and Danny and Colleen haven't fully put their relationship back together yet… and now they're also saddled with Ward? Maybe it means Ward and Colleen have to get married despite worrying about what impact it will have on Danny? Or either Ward or Danny needs to use a marriage to pass an inheritance onto Colleen, if something happens to them? Or a soul bond develops between Ward and Danny on their Asia road trip, and it's slowly killing one or both of them and has to be dealt with?
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enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, fix-its, sympathetic bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, partnerships, power dynamics, ambiguously intense relationships, found family, friendships, first-time stories, betrayal with reconciliation, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationship, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, magical realism, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, identity porn, complicated relationships, codependency, morally gray characters, moral complexity, long relationships that go through a lot of changes, werewolves with pack dynamics, canon-divergence AUs
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.
General Sex Likes/Kinks
BDSM, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/consent play/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or depressing), coming untouched, coming in pants, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, modern AUs, mundane AUs, knotting, scat, bestiality, vore
Request DNWs are listed in the individual fandom sections.
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain/Susan Delgado
Accidental Marriage Due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture | Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond is the Cultural Equivalent of Marriage | Adding Another Partner to a Marriage | Bard Immortalizes Wedding in Ballad to Couple's Delight or Embarrassment | Current Marriage Interrupted by Spouse from Alternate Timeline | Friend Basically Part of Marriage at This Point | Improvised Unofficial Wedding Ceremonies | Magic Artifact Creates Marriage | Magic Ritual Requires Marriage | Marriage to Break Curse | Marriage to Cure Sex Pollen | Not Sure If Marriage Made Under Magical Circumstances Counts | Public Marriage Consummation Ritual | Ritual Marriage | Sedoretu
Ship/setting things I love: The whole Weird Western/Arthurian fantasy blend. The ka-tet traveling and having little side adventures on the road to the Tower. Susan suddenly making an unexpected reappearance. (Any magical justification for this is fine--an alternate Susan, resurrected Susan, reincarnated Susan, etc.) Time travel back to before Gilead's fall. Travel to other worlds than these. Inter-pairing culture clashes or hang-ups about the past. Roland and/or Susan reacting to or experiencing Earth stuff; Eddie and Susannah finding out more about Mid-World. Roland calling people by old-fashioned endearments. Roland feeling off-kilter being in a loving relationship again after so long. Susan and horses, Susannah and math, Eddie and woodcarving.
+ They visit a barony or region of Mid-World that Roland is unfamiliar with and while they're attempting to make nice with the locals and engage in courteous diplomacy, they wind up accidentally getting hitched. (And possibly being required, for Reasons, to publicly consummate that marriage.) I especially love this if they're not all in a relationship beforehand--maybe some of them are, like Eddie/Susannah and/or Roland/Susan--but not all of them, but now the accidental marriage opens up a window for possibilities and sweet, sweet pining.
+ Khef-sharing, according to gunslinger or barony traditions, creates a marriage bond. I'm so into all the soulbond tropes here, along with the characters gradually getting more and more intimate. Are any of them uncomfortable with a poly relationship at first? What's the first sexual encounter like? Ditto all this for "magic artifact creates marriage," only there you also have the "what the hell just happened?" reactions and the characters trying to figure out what's going on.
+ Some bizarre or magical situation requires marriage, but everyone has complicated feelings about how whether or not that marriage is real and whether or not the other people involved want it to be. Post-sex pollen marriage where they're dealing with this and also with the awkwardness and sexual awakening of having all banged each other silly. And how does the ceremonial/ritual/required marriage work? Do they just have to make vows? Consummate? What makes it feel real or unreal to them?
+ I love sedoretus, but I don't often have ships with the right number/gender configurations, so I was delighted to realize that I did here--plus or minus some travel between times and/or dimensions. I tend to see the relationships involved as Eddie/Susannah, Susannah/Susan, Susan/Roland, and Roland/Eddie, but I'm totally open to switching moieties around there. I love characters getting used to a relationship structure they haven't heard of before, especially if other characters take it for granted. Bonding, relationship-building, possible taboo-breaking pairings with the sedoretu, etc.
+ Roland is married to Eddie and Susannah, and then Susan suddenly reappears in his life, with just as much marital history with him from her own dimension? (I also love AUs where Roland died in Mejis and Susan is the one who lived and has been questing for the Tower all along, so maybe Susan/Eddie/Susannah is happening, and then Roland unexpectedly comes back?) Or Eddie and Susannah are married in their post-canon life and then Roland from a past Roland/Eddie/Susannah relationship suddenly crashes the party and drags them back into adventures? Or just winds up recuperating at their place on Earth, with them slowly starting to remember who he is and what he meant to them? Roland and Susan are co-questing for the Tower and then these random New Yorkers show up claiming to be married to them?
+ Roland just sort of drifting into being part of Eddie and Susannah's marriage, with more and more seemingly platonic endearments/gestures of affection creeping in before any of them realize that there's a romantic and sexual undercurrent to it all.
Roland Deschain/Man in Black
Arranged Marriage | Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out by Someone Else | Demon Bride/Groom | Eldritch Marriage Ritual | Forced to Marry Enemy | Horrifying Prenuptial Agreement | Magic Artifact Creates Marriage | Marriage to Cause Apocalypse | Marriage Accompanied by Forced Soul Bond | Marriage Arranged Because of Matching Soulmarks | Marriage Binds Power | Married Couple With Slash Mpreg in a Place Where Male Pregnancy is Unheard Of | Married Person Without Realizing They Are the Hero/Villain They've Been Fighting | Marriage is Suddenly Determined by a Higher Power | This Wedding Requires Blood | Unaware of Spouse's Identity Until Wedding Night
Ship/setting things I love: Incredibly creepy dubcon and noncon possibilities. Anything set in the "the man in black fled across the desert"/Gunslinger part of canon. Anything set before the fall of Gilead or in AUs where Gilead didn't fall. Dark, mysterious soulbonds where they're inextricably bound to each other no matter how they feel about that. The man in black in particular being drawn to Roland and fascinated by him even though he ostensibly feels contempt for him. Roland being disgusted by his own attraction. "Let me remind you during this that I fucked your mom (and possibly also your dad)." Horror and dark fantasy weirdness in general. Roland's blend of honor and pragmatism. The man in black's creepy sense of humor.
For anything set in the Wizard and Glass flashback era/Gilead, please just non-canonically age Roland up to at least sixteen for any explicit sex or just don't mention his exact age at all.
+ Setup where arranged marriages are just the way things are in Gilead, and Roland has been formally affianced to someone since he was a child--and then Marten buys out his contract and sets up the wedding and there's nothing Roland can do about it except try to find an opportunity to kill his husband as soon as he can. Or maybe he winds up inexorably coming under Marten's sway and they become the world's creepiest power couple?
+ Arranged marriage where it's considered a coup for a young gunslinger to be able to marry someone of Marten's stature? Roland's parents, half-hypnotized and half-seduced, make the arrangements for him without telling him who he's going to be marrying?
+ Or Gilead-era soulmark marriage! Does it change everything? Or does it just persist throughout the centuries even as their lives follow the same course as in canon, but they have this unshakable bond to each other that they both have to acknowledge even though they might wind up killing each other? How do they think about soulmates, and how do they experience their metaphysical connection and marriage?
+ The two of them just wind up getting suddenly married and knowing it. Maybe the Tower pairs them off because their eternal chase is part of what preserves it? Or maybe they touch something that awakens a speaking demon or some other supernatural entity that either weds them to each other and/or forces them to have sex?
+ Anything with extremely unnerving Flagg. (I'm familiar with The Stand and The Eyes of the Dragon, so if you want to use anything with his appearances in those, that's totally fine.) Flagg deliberately seeking to marry Roland because he knows that it will somehow trigger the end of the world? (Either the canonical fall of Gilead or a total collapse of the Tower and the multiverse.) Demon groom stuff where Flagg's powers warp Roland's mind during consummation, or change him supernaturally in some way. They're married according to Flagg's plans rather than Roland's culture, and Flagg's wedding ritual is predictably creepy: blood-drinking, possession, killing your spouse and then reviving them, inviting eldritch forces in to the world by consummating the marriage in a magical circle? Any and all of the above.
+ Flagg takes special delight in knocking up a Roland who doesn't know what's going on or how to deal with it and who is now contending with a shit-ton of body horror. Does Roland want to end the pregnancy before any heir of Flagg's can come into the world? Does he find himself getting protective of the child, making him even more motivated than ever to take his spouse out of the equation? If the child is actually born, what happens then?
Black Panther
Erik Killmonger/Shuri
A/B/O - Female Alpha Marries Male Omega | Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond is Cultural Equivalent of Marriage | Arranged Marriage - Spouse as Hostage for Their Family/People's Good Behavior | Arranged Royal Marriage | Character Marries Rival/Villain to Spare Loved One a Terrible Fate | Elaborate Courtship | Mail Order Spouse Has a Secret | Marriage Arranged Because of Matching Soulmarks | Marriage as Clemency at Public Execution | Political Marriage to an Enemy That Turns to Love | Royal Marriage Requires Public Consummation | Time Travel Backward to Fix the Past Also Results in Unexpectedly Getting Married | Wakandan Wedding Traditions | Wedding Night
Request-specific DNW: violent noncon ("have to grit your teeth and go along with it because that's the plan" is fine, as is consensual rough sex); domestic violence (aggressive sparring is fine).
Ship/setting things I love: Emotionally complicated enemies-to-lovers setups. Forced proximity. Wakandan worldbuilding, especially with traditions, clothing, food, and material culture generally. Royalty with a sense of responsibility and governance, royalty being tied to their country and people. Killmonger Wins AUs where he's still king and there's some sort of background global revolution. Black Panther Shuri. Conflicting views, strategies, and moralities. Reluctantly growing feelings and attraction. Culture clash. Erik being deeply invested in playing by Wakanda's rules even though he's super ambivalent about it. Required sex; sex that is horrible and awkward the first time, but gradually, over time, they get better at it/better at pleasing each other. Erik vs. N'Jadaka identity conflict.
+ Shuri impulsively rebels via a mail order husband, and Erik uses this as his opportunity to get into Wakanda, pretending to be a disinterested stranger while he scopes the place out… and also possibly starts developing feelings for his new bride (who is starting to wonder what's going on in his head). Identity porn! This can also combine with the soulmark prompt--maybe there are websites where you can search for someone with your soulmark, and Shuri finds Erik there: Wakanda's isolation means he has to come to her without necessarily (officially) getting the full details first...
+ Nakia isn't able to get Shuri and Ramonda out in time, and so they wind up stuck in the palace during Erik's brief reign. Does he marry Shuri to secure her family and country's cooperation, especially once he hears rumors that T'Challa is still alive? If so, what's their relationship like when their marriage is basically a knife at her throat? How could she wrest some power back from him? Or is it a less obvious quid pro quo arrangement on his part? Maybe he really did win the throne and start a global revolution--he got everything he ever wanted, and now he has to deal with the realities of holding power long-term. Who better to help him with that than Shuri, if he makes her queen? And then of course, Shuri would still be raw from T'Challa's death… Anything that puts the two of them in some kind of tense standoff of a marriage that can gradually relax at least a little into some kind of intimacy, even if it's fraught, occasional, and still surrounded by thoughts of murder.
+ AU where T'Chaka takes his nephew back to Wakanda and brings him up as an offshoot of the royal family, and Erik-now-N'Jadaka has grown up in a very different environment but is still dealing with some residual anger. Has his marriage to Shuri been arranged to solidify his bond to Wakanda and allow T'Chaka to make amends to his dead brother? Do they have matching soulmarks? Do the two of them fall in love and have an elaborate courtship? I love invented traditions and cultural details, so feel free to go wild here: these rituals can be as symbolic and seemingly strange as you like, as long as they're meaningful to the characters.
+ Killmonger is defeated, but he doesn't die, and Shuri decides to save him imprisonment or execution via marriage. (And/or claiming him as her omega!) Now she's implicitly responsible for his behavior, which is a constant irritant to her, and he's angry that he's become the princess's pet husband. How do their feelings for each other evolve? I love redemption arcs, so anything with Erik figuring out how to live his life better/how to deal with the damage he's caused is great. Alternately, Shuri decides to go back in time to save her cousin from going wrong in the first place--maybe she make sure little Erik was brought to Wakanda, or she stops his father from dying, or she just intercepts him as an adult pre-BP--and then when she returns to her own timeline, she finds that whatever changes she's made have resulted in her having a new husband.
+ A/B/O 'verse: I just love the idea of alpha Shuri and deeply resentful omega Erik who can't help needing her and being drawn to her. Is his omega status something else that motivates him, making him want more--and violent--justice for omegas who are currently getting the short end of the stick? Or is it something he's used to his advantage before, to get connections or to seem less dangerous? Was his previous girlfriend his old alpha, and if so, did it do anything to him psychologically to have killed her? Or did he maybe not kill her, because of that? Does Shuri's alpha nature make her feel even more deeply drawn to protecting Wakanda--and then reluctantly drawn to protecting her omega? Do you need to be an alpha to formally rule, so she has to actually be the one on the throne? Is she the one who kick-starts the marriage so she can have more sway over this invader and maybe protect her family from him? General A/B/O stuff I love: heats, A/B/O nature influencing a character's responses to things (without necessarily fully determining them--they can struggle or overrule this), protective urges, submissive urges, scents, biting. I'm good with g!p of any stripe for Shuri, and also with strap-ons, toys generally, or heat-satisfying sex that doesn't have to involve penetration.
+ Anything with deep, unwanted connections, like soul bonds--Erik came to Wakanda for a reason, and it definitely wasn't to feel pulled towards Shuri/share thoughts with her/have them have each other's dreams, etc.! Shuri doesn't like that she's deeply connected with a man she doesn't like or trust! Or Shuri as alpha to Erik's omega, exerting a powerful instinctive dominance over him and feeling possessive and protective of him despite everything.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Loki
Heimdall/Loki
"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow So Let's Get Married Today" | Arranged Royal Marriage | Character Volunteers to Marry Condemned Criminal to Save Them From Punishment | Characters Mistakenly Believe Ritual Marriage Isn't Legally Binding | Chastity Device That Only Unlocks for Spouse | Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About for Years | A Game of "Fuck Marry Kill" Somehow Becomes Magically Binding | Getting Married to Avoid a Diplomatic Incident | Having to Convince the Person They're Asking That Their Proposal and Feelings Are Genuine | Magic Ritual Requires Marriage | Marriage Allows Spouses to Share Mutant or Magical Powers | Marriage Assumed to Be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond | Marriage to Confer Status | Marrying Someone to Save Their Life | Royal Marriage Requires Public Consummation | Secret Marriage Becomes Public | Suitors Must Compete for Love Interest's Hand in Marriage
Request-specific DNW: Loki and Heimdall's deaths in Infinity War, unless they come back.
Ship/setting things I love: Post-Ragnarok settings with the Asgardians traveling across the galaxy looking for a new home and having adventures. Small-scale shipboard governance, with questions like, "How do we resupply?" and "How do we keep up morale?" Cosmic settings with the characters having alien perspectives on things. Weird traditions. Complicated, prickly relationships. Ambivalence. Fondness. Loyalty kink, fealty kink. Characters having complicated histories, characters with differing priorities. Humor even in dark situations. Heroism, especially reluctant or unexpected. High-stakes situations, weird settings. Kinking on Valkyrie's strength. Loki being difficult but trying. Heimdall's sense of humor. The weight of Val's history and her complex feelings about Asgard. Bonus Thor & Loki brotherly feelings. The whole Ragnarok ensemble.
For prompts that imply some mention of other relationships (like the fuck/marry/kill one), I'm good with any past/minor relationship except Thor/Loki. OCs are also totally okay.
Any of these can also turn into Val/Loki/Heimdall, if you like.
+ Fuck/marry/kill: someone gets quippy, and now they're magically bonded to get married. The fucking isn't a problem, and the killing can be outwitted via some quick temporary death/resusciation/resurrection, but Asgardian marriage is more serious than that… Feel free to lean totally into full comedy or play it for surprising emotion. I just love "magically forced to marry" with bonus comedic hijinks.
+ As the younger prince, Loki was destined for strategic political marriage, so his virginity was always preserved via an unbreakable chastity device. Now it's finally coming off. Did sexual frustration finally make him pounce on a marriage opportunity, or cause someone else to pity him and help him out? Is there teasing beforehand, as his intended fools around with working him up before he can do anything about it? I could also totally get behind this with the other two--maybe the Valkyries weren't supposed to have relationships that could compromise their zest for battle, or maybe Heimdall was supposed to be narrowly focused on guarding Asgard, without the distraction of temporary liaisons. In which case, they've been dealing with total chastity for way longer than Loki would have been, and first-time married sex would be even more explosively satisfying…
+ Any kind of post-Ragnarok marriage that is in some way for the sake of Asgard.. Everyone likes a wedding, so marrying off a prince seems like a good way to boost everyone's mood, but it's okay, it's just a ceremony (and possibly a public consummation--also good for mood-boosting)... until the soul bond or the feelings set in. I love characters thinking they can get away with not taking something seriously only for them to then be proven disastrously wrong about that. Ditto any kind of ritualistic marriage that has to happen for some kind of magic ritual--obviously that won't really count, right? Except it does. I also like situations where they have a political marriage that they expect will be mostly pro forma, but cohabitation and keeping up appearances means that they're gradually getting closer anyway.
+ Life after Ragnarok is dangerous and unstable while they're still out in space looking for a new home, and these are three people who don't exactly tend to be far from trouble at any given time. Maybe they develop an actual relationship on their own, and the chancy nature of their lives makes one of them decide to risk a proposal and a full-on admission of their feelings? Maybe they're drunk and ready to go into battle and they think this will be their only opportunity? Or one of them has gotten in severe, life-ending trouble on some planet, through their own fault or totally innocently, and a marriage is the only thing that can rescue them, if the other person is willing to go along with it.
+ Any kind of shipboard wedding planning, dealing with planning a royal wedding in the tattered remains of your society, trying to count on Loki being stable from one minute to the next, managing resources, juggling expectations and the participants' different desires, etc. Invent all the weird Asgardian marriage rituals you like.
+ It's traditional for suitors to compete for a prince's hand, so Val or Heimdall winds up resigned to a competition to win the dubious pleasure of marrying Loki. Are they already in a relationship, and is this part of their actual desire to seal the deal? Is the competition a way to boost morale, and they just wind up trying to make sure Loki gets a good option? (Partly so he won't murder a new spouse he doesn't like?) Who else is competing, and is there any serious danger that things might go wrong and that a really, really bad person might win, heightening the stakes? Or is it comedic and bizarre? Does Loki help them cheat, with or without their knowledge?
Peter Parker/Tony Stark
Accidental Marriage Causes Scandal | Aliens Make Them Get Married | Aliens Think They're Married | Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out by Someone Else | Always Married to the Same Person When You Dream | Catching Bouquet at Friend's Wedding Leads to Unexpected Soul Bond | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Living Spouse Time Travels to Relive Their Wedding Day With Their Spouse Who Has Since Passed Away | Marriage Assumed to Be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond | Marriage Creates Tension With Children From Previous Relationship(s) | Marriage is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond | Nobody Believes They Married for Love | Person's Hand in Marriage Auctioned Off to the Highest Bidder | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards | Sex With a Virgin Scandalous and Disreputable Unless Followed by Marriage
Request-specific DNW: Horrible breakups for Tony/Pepper or Pepper dying (amiable exes are totally fine). Peter/Tony sex before Peter is eighteen; Tony being significantly, consistently attracted to Peter before he's eighteen.
Ship/setting things I love: Pining, banter, flirtation. Peter and Tony working on tech or experiments together. "Kid/Pete" and "Mr. Stark/sir," with or without a gradual significant transition to "Tony." Peter actively crushing on Tony and being sure of what he wants while Tony is kind of a disaster who is possibly also freaking out about the age difference. Heroism, mutual rescue, hurt/comfort, loyally trying to sacrifice for each other. Peter being super-strong, Peter webbing Tony to things. Romantic development. Sweetness with the occasional electric spark of conflict or push-back. Worldbuilding where marriages are constructed very differently. Luxury porn, decadent honeymoons, Tony delighting in showering Peter with gifts. Other people reacting to Tony Stark's hot young ingenue boyfriend.
+ It's not exactly normal for someone to auction off their marriage prospects, but it's not unheard-of, either, and Peter could really use the money... Do they already know each other, with the fic relatively in line with canon? Or is this the first time they've met? Does Tony already know Peter is Spider-Man? Does he anticipate things turning romantic/sexual from the beginning, or does he just think the marriage will be a decent way to sponsor Peter through college and/or superhero endeavors? Is there a threat that someone else will try to outbid Tony, with him dramatically coming to the rescue? Alternately, Peter's had the shadow of an arranged marriage hanging over his head--maybe it's a deal he made for a much-needed cash infusion for May?--and he's resigned himself to complying with it. (I'm good with anything from "this person is okay, I'm just not in love with them" to "this person is horrible for maximum angst potential.") Tony finds out about the situation and swoops in. Just to help out! Totally non-romantic! Or so he thinks.
+ I love any setup that brings them unexpectedly face-to-face with the idea that they even could be married, which Peter hadn't thought could actually ever happen (or thought would remain confined to his daydreams) and which Tony was trying to actively not acknowledge. So... the two of them on a cosmic adventure together, with aliens who assume they're married and treat them accordingly, and it would be a bad idea to correct them? They're forced to go through some kind of ceremony that they're convinced will just be for show or to fulfill some sort of obscure requirement (a ritual, alien diplomacy, etc.), but they can't quite cope with the reality of it? They're both having oddly similar dreams--not that they know it at first--about some alternate married life?
+ In any kind of marriage situation: what happens when news of their marriage leaks, and the world collectively decides that obviously this is Tony being super shallow and going through a midlife crisis and Peter being a gold-digging trophy husband? How do they deal with the clash between people's ideas of their relationship and the reality? And for a more low-key, realistic option: if Morgan is around in this situation, what does she feel about it all? I'd love to see Peter starting to develop a relationship with her--and Tony possibly repairing one--even while acknowledging the weirdness of it all. Bittersweet/quietly melancholy/unexpectedly funny or anything you like, though I'd like it to resolve with at least some hope for them all having a good relationship in the future.
+ The "break my hurt, why don't you" prompt, wringing maximum angst out of the age gap: Peter and Tony live a semi-long life together, but Tony still dies decades before Peter does. I'd love to see a much-older Peter sending his consciousness back in time to relive their wedding day. Or does he physically go back, a la the Endgame time travel rules, and sit in as an observer? Does he interfere at all, even knowing it won't change things in his own timeline? Or, for even more angst… Peter and Tony are married, but superhero adventures means Peter is killed first, leaving Tony alone and wanting to catch just one more glimpse of him.
+ This is just supposed to be Ned's/MJ's/Pepper's/Happy's/May's wedding, but unfortunately, someone used an alien flower in the bouquet, causing whoever caught it to suddenly develop a soul bond to the person they want to marry. Is it one-way, or does the other one feel it to? Does the bouquet-catcher think he's going crazy, and try to avoid admitting his feelings at all costs? Is it draining or deadly if not counteracted with marriage--and if so, is he just wasting away or is there pain-sharing going on that's really inconvenient given the amount of damage they both regularly take? (All this stuff can obviously work for a non-bouquet-related soulbond, too.)
+ The "oh no, we banged" prompts, where they somehow--impulsively/because of sex pollen/because someone Made Them Do It--had sex, and now marriage is a societal necessity, especially if Peter was a virgin. Maybe Peter tries to wave off Tony's feeling of responsibility, but Tony wants to do the right thing (while also being scared that "the right thing" will also be bad for Peter).
+ The "danger from someone else" prompt: Aliens/mystical bad guys/plot contrivance insists that engaged couple Peter and Tony prove their loyalty to each other via an exceptionally painful ritual. Is their engagement real, with feelings declared on both sides, or part of some kind of supposed fake marriage/marriage of convenience? Does going through the ritual spark realizations about the actual depth of feeling? Or are they already fully together, and this is just awesomely romantic h/c as they both prove exactly how far they'll go for each other?
The Lighthouse
Thomas Wake/Ephraim Winslow
Accidental Shapeshifter Marriage Due to Unknowing Theft of Animal Skin | Character A Plots to Marry and Murder Character B but B Catches On | Elaborate Courtship - Strange Alien/Supernatural Courtship Rituals | Eldritch Marriage Ritual | Forced Marriage Leads to Unwanted Soulbond | Forced to Marry Due to Supernatural Reasons | Ghost Spouse Tries to Murder Living Spouse Because They're Lonely | Magical Artifact Considers Owner/User/Host Its Spouse | Mail-Order Bride/Groom | Marriage Arranged Because of Matching Soulmarks | Marriage to Cause Apocalypse | Marriage to Socially Undesirable Partner as State-Mandated Punishment for a Crime | Person Mistaken for Mail-Order Spouse and Goes With It | Ritual Marriage | This Wedding Requires Blood
Ship/setting things I love: Weirdness, surrealism, dreamlike qualities, teetering sanity, magical realism, sea magic, sea mythology, horror. Gross physical details. Claustrophobia and codependency. The two of them vacillating between orders/anger/resentment/violence and weird rapport and tenderness with slow dancing. Historical details, setting details, gratuitous descriptions of the ocean. Wake's cooking. The dialogue generally.
+ Ephraim doesn't get hired as a new wickie but conscripted as Wake's mail-order husband (or "wife," if there's some kind of tradition where same-sex marriage isn't normalized but lighthouse-keepers can take a male "wife" to avoid pregnancy), arriving with no idea of what he's in for. How does their relationship change? What work is he expected to do? How much does Wake confide in him? What's the sex like? Alternately, he does originally come there as an assistant wickie, but when Wake mistakes him for his mail-order spouse ("pretty as a picture"), he impulsively goes with it, thinking that that might lead to better treatment. And then what happens when the actual mail-order guy shows up? Or Ephraim--originally Tommy--is actually caught for the murder of the real Ephraim Winslow, and his punishment is to provide much-needed companionship for a lighthouse keeper. Is this because Wake is somehow holding back supernatural forces, or just because having him still at his post is valuable, so society wants to keep him happy? What's the balance of power like when Tommy arrives as a spouse but, crucially, a conscripted one Wake knows to be a criminal? What's the blend of resentment/attraction/gratitude/etc.?
+ The murder prompts: Does Ephraim think that marrying and killing Wake will lead to some kind of inheritance/control of the lighthouse that's warping them both? Is Ephraim actually the ghost version of Wake's previous assistant wickie, now returned to try to murder him so they can stay together forever? Does Ephraim kill Wake to get the lighthouse only to find that Wake's ghost is hanging around threatening him?
+ Wake is a selkie, and after weeks of slaving away under his control, Ephraim finds a sealskin on the beach and takes it impulsively (not knowing its secret) and accidentally weds the two of them? Ephraim is actually a selkie, and his arrival at the lighthouse as a human is just because Wake found his skin and bound the two of them together? Is Wake some sort of magical artifact, an incarnation of the lighthouse/its light, and once Ephraim arrives, he considers them to be married? Anything turning one or the other of them into something supernatural and exceptionally strange and then bringing them into conflict with each other is great.
+ Weirdly genuine relationship building, where they're both awful in their own ways, but there's an emerging tenderness all the same, with supernatural, strange courtship rituals (Wake's lobster as a formal courtship gift! Ephraim is constantly jerking off because his come is supposed to be a gift! And even weirder stuff!) Maybe the whole reason they're together is that they have matching soulmarks, and they could sense each other, and now they're having to deal with being soulmates whether they like it or not. Or they wind up stuck with a soul bond, which shapes and changes how they interact with each other and is the best/worst thing simultaneously? Bizarre instances of gentle affection are totally welcome. Hair-petting, compliments, cuddling, slow-dancing.
+ They have to get married because the light/Triton/a mermaid/the sea demands it. Supernatural weddings, with creepy consummation, blood rituals, murdering someone else, weird beach antics, fucking in the ocean or against the lamp, drinking honeyed kerosene, anything bizarre and wedding-related would delight me. Why is the marriage demanded? Just to seal their partnership for some reason? To provide some kind of mythical benefit? Is this somehow apocalyptic, and the two of them getting married is the harbinger of the end of the world, or something that actively brings it on? Do they know that and welcome it, or do they try to resist it for a while before finally giving in once their sanity slips away even more?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane
Cordelia Chase/Buffy Summers
A/B/O - Female Alpha Marries Female Omega | Couple Finds Out They're Married in an Alternate Universe | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party | Lust Spell is Cast on Resultant Newlyweds | Magic Artifact Creates Marriage | Magic Ritual Requires Marriage | Marriage as an Act of Rebellion | Marriage Assumed to Be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond | Marriage is a Requirement for School Graduation | Marriage to Break Curse | Marriage to Prevent Apocalypse | Marrying Someone to Save Their Life | People Stuck in Time Loop Get Married and Then Time Loop Ends Unexpectedly | Renewing Vows for Impulsive Wartime/"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Years of Peace/Safety | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards | Suitors Must Compete for Love Interest's Hand in Marriage | Woke Up Married
Ship/setting things I love: Prickly or even deeply troubled relationships that still have a lot of warmth to them/enemies-to-lovers, rivals-to-lovers, frenemies-to-lovers. Buffy rescuing people. Snark, banter, humor that leavens dark situations. Faith working on redemption. Doing weird things to save the world or help someone else. Sexiness, body appreciation, strength kink. Buffy and/or Cordelia having the sexuality epiphany of finding a woman hot for the first time. Being relatively new at relationships and having to figure them out. Not always wanting to admit to having romantic feelings in the first place. Awkwardly revealing the relationship to friends or family. Hurt/comfort, including emotional h/c. Genuine romanticism, gestures of affection and loyalty. I'm always happy to see anyone from the supporting cast.
I generally prefer omega Buffy, with either Faith or Cordelia as the alpha.
+ A lot of these boil down to "marriage because magic," I know. I just love the idea of magic prodding them to get married when, if cooler heads prevailed, they might not even admit to having feelings for each other. A lust spell hits Sunnydale, and Buffy and Faith/Cordelia are swept up in it to the point where they decide to get married so they can indulge themselves with the excuse that it's their honeymoon? Magic suddenly marries them, and they're tied together by feelings they can't explain, or maybe a sudden societal expectation/rearrangement where all of a sudden they're in a timeline where they've been living with each other, etc.? Or they just have to deal with all the awkward feelings this brings up? They have to get married to do something magical, and they expect it not to mean anything, but it induces a soul bond/requires consummation/makes feelings come to the fore? How did the spell/curse/apocalypse-prevention strategy define marriage? Do they know going in that they'll be stuck in some situation with required fidelity or where it's hard to be away from each other?
+ Time loop magical antics: maybe they married lots of people during this time loop--it went on for a long time, and they got bored and tried everything--but now, unexpectedly, they're stuck with the consequences of their last marriage to each other, and have to figure out how to deal. Do they explain the situation to their friends? Does one of them get feelings before the other, and have those feelings somewhat hurt by the other trying to dismiss the whole thing?
+ Or they decide to get married to escape some kind of unbearable situation. Does the Watcher's Council come down with enough power to try to marry off a Slayer? (Maybe all the previous Slayers have either not had children or not had sons, and the Council wants to score a Slayer daughter in the hopes that she'll somehow have more power?) Does Buffy or Faith elope to get away from this pressure? Is Cordelia supposed to rehabilitate her family's wealth and image by marrying for money, only the person she's supposed to be marrying is so awful that she swerves at the last minute and asks Buffy for help instead? I also love the idea of any of them marrying to push back against expectations--that Buffy and/or Faith can't have a normal life, that Cordelia cares too much about her coolness, etc. Or they're in some kind of bind where one of them will die without the other stepping in to marry them?
+ Something I really like is the idea of a person being in trouble--they're required to marry (to graduate, to perform a ritual, to fulfill some sort of weird requirement)/they have suitors competing for their hand/they might die if they can't get married--and awkwardly reaching out to someone else for help, especially if they decide to ask someone unexpected. I like the way this means that they sort of have to commit to choosing each other and helping each other, possibly even up to the point of risking their lives, before there's actually necessarily a romantic/sexual bond.
+ Or maybe they're just suddenly confronted by the idea that this is an option for them--they encounter alternate universe selves that are married, the way Willow encountered Vamp Willow's sexuality before really discovering her own, and at first maybe wonder what the hell they were thinking… and then wonder if it isn't a better idea, and one that makes more sense, than they fight thought? A drunk night means they wake up married, and they have to deal with the fact that apparently, blackout drunk, they both thought this was a good idea?
+ Hurt/comfort is always welcome in anything, but it's especially embedded in the prompt where they have to prove their devotion to each other via a painful ritual. Is this in one of the above situations, where they may or may not have romantic feelings for each other and have to tough this out anyway, and there's some suspense about whether or not they'll be able to stand it? Does this make them realize the strength of their own/the other person's feelings? Or are they already in love, and they're just willing to endure anything for each other, no matter what--especially if they can then figure out how to kick the ass of whoever's putting them through this.
+ Faith seems like a traditional alpha in a lot of ways, and I'd love seeing Buffy drawn to all that swagger even as Faith is transfixed by a need to both possessively claim Buffy and, maybe contradictorily, protect her. I also love the idea of Cordelia being a literal alpha bitch, with her social dominance having a biochemical component to it, and with her being disconcerted by how good Buffy smells. They're a great ship for a kind of "I don't want to like you, abut every time you come around I get super turned-on" vibe. And more generally, with A/B/O, I love heats, A/B/O nature influencing a character's responses to things (without necessarily fully determining them--they can struggle or overrule this), protective urges, submissive urges, scents, biting. I'm good with g!p of any stripe, and also with strap-ons, toys generally, or heat-satisfying sex that doesn't have to involve penetration.
Marvel TV
Davos/Danny Rand
Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond is Cultural Equivalent of Marriage | Betrothed as Children | Character A Thought the Honeymoon Would Be Bad and They Were Right | Character Volunteers to Marry Condemned Criminal to Save Them From Punishment | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Estranged Secret Spouses Reunite | Honeymoon Sexual Exploration for Couple Who Had Little/No Opportunity for Sex Before Marriage | Marriage a Punishment for Breaking an Obscure Law | Marriage as an Act of Rebellion | Marrying Someone to Save Their Life | Ritual Marriage | Secret Marriage | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards | Spouses Awkwardly Reunite After Fraught Separation
Ship/setting things I love: Contrasts in dispositions--cheerfully optimistic Danny vs. more serious and broody Davos. Long history of being each other's allies/friends/adopted brothers while also being rivals for the same position. Love-hate vacillation, especially on Davos's side, and angst about Danny leaving K'un-Lun and whether or not they should return there. Moral disagreements. Davos being super intense. Pining. Being each other's only support in a relatively harsh environment in K'un-Lun. Mutual virginity loss. Weird magical shenanigans.
+ I love anything that deals with the idea of Davos finding Danny again in New York, but this time with the backstory that they were actually married or engaged back in K'un-Lun; Danny acted impulsively by seizing his opportunity to leave, and Davos is understandably having trouble forgiving him for it. What was their marriage or betrothal like? Was it set up from the time they were children, with Lei Kung deciding to unite his son with this child touched by fire? Did they grow up knowing that one day they'd be married? Is their marriage a ceremonial, ritual position because they were the top two Iron Fist candidates? Because they formed a soul bond? (Is forming a soul bond envied or considered shameful? How would having one affect their interactions with each other in canon?) Did they not plan to get married, but their plans were changed when they were hit by sex pollen?
+ Or were they not supposed to marry at all, and it was fraught and secret when they fell in love with each other and slipped off one day to the village to get married? Or gave each other vows in secret? I just really like the idea of bringing this intense us-against-the-world, you-are-my-only-companion vibe against the fact that Danny left, and dealing with all of that.
+ If their marriage is approved by K'un-Lun, what hoops do they have to jump through? The monks seem to value pain and endurance as teaching tools, so do they insist on testing Danny and Davos's loyalty to each other via a painful ritual? How do they react to it--both to their suffering and to each other's? What does it mean to Davos if Danny withstands pain for him but then leaves the city anyway?
+ Is their marriage related to some kind of crime/mistake? Is there some obscure MCU law (because why not) where Danny is able to marry Davos to take charge of his rehabilitation at the end of season two, to save him from going to prison? Are they then bound together in some way, or does he just have to trust Davos not to run away? Or is Danny leaving K'un-Lun unprotected an actual crime by their laws, and the punishment is being obligated to marry the K'un-Lun citizen who tracks him down and returns him to the city?
+ And I also just like giving these two a chance to be sweet and funny together, despite all the tragedy that surrounds them. They're married, and Danny has planned an elaborate honeymoon that Davos is resigned to finding exhausting and/or terrible… and it is that, 100%, but it has its charms nonetheless? Go wild with ridiculousness, if you like, and give Davos the full experience of American consumerism by sending them on a DisneyWorld honeymoon. Or wedding night/honeymoon fic about the two of them, sworn to chastity by K'un-Lun, finally getting to have sex and explore their desires a little more with each other? (I'm okay with this also leading to angsty miscommunication.)
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand & Colleen Wing
Ward Meachum/Colleen Wing
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand/Colleen Wing
Betrothed as Children | Character A Thought the Honeymoon Would Be Bad and They Were Right | Character A Thought the Honeymoon Would Be Bad and They Were Wrong | Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual | Fake Marriage Results in Surprise Real Feelings | Falling Deeply in Like With Spouse | Forced to Consummate Marriage by Third Party | Friend Basically Part of Marriage at This Point | Getting Married to Extend Legal Rights/Protections to Partner | Marriage Arranged by Third Party with Dubious Motives | Marriage Essentially Platonic but Must Be Consummated First | Marriage is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond | Marriage for Protection from Criminal Organization | Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret | Marriage to Confer Status | Married to Inherit the Company | Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards
Request-specific DNW: Danny and Ward identifying as brothers and becoming lovers simultaneously. Not identifying that way--or just Danny saying it at the beginning of S1 but Ward never following through--and being romantic/sexual: totally fine. Identifying that way and having any level of platonic marriage: also fine, as is any one-off sex due to required consummation or sex pollen. Just not "they're definitely brothers and definitely in love."
Ship/setting things I love: Relationship development/growing closer (either romantic or platonic). Learning to trust each other. Dealing with Colleen's Hand-related trauma and Ward's Harold-related trauma. Harold doing any kind of OTT creepy/ridiculous villainy. Ward gradually softening up while still staying snarky. Danny and Ward remembering bits of their childhood history together. Awkward first-time sex, weird "let's make the best of this" sex they're forced to have. Learning to make things work in the bedroom, for romantic ships. Increasing tenderness. Mutual loyalty and protectiveness. Hurt/comfort, trauma revelation, sleeping in the same bed reveals one person's having nightmares. Heroism. Weird magical shenanigans.
+ Harold and the Hand combine to engineer awkward arranged marriages for their own convenience--is Ward told to marry Danny for some obscure Rand-related reason? Does Bakuto's attempt to seize power from Gao involve making an alliance that means he needs Colleen to marry Ward (who's been told by his dad to marry this complete stranger)? Were Ward and Danny originally betrothed as children in some kind of corporations-act-even-more-like-royalty situation, and now that Danny's returned, apparently Ward is still obligated to go through with that? I'm just all for these three circling around each other--Ward and Colleen gradually learning to trust each other and smooth out some of their mutual prickliness and initial dislike, becoming each other's support; Ward getting to the point of trusting Danny. Ward's trauma/abuse being revealed to his spouse via their living situation. Colleen not knowing who to trust when it turns out that her marriage was arranged for much more dubious purposes than she thought and the Hand isn't as noble as she'd been told. I'd be completely satisfied with these kinds of arcs in any situation, regardless of why they get married.
+ I also love marriage setups where the couple have to have sex before feelings (or even attraction) are really in place, and it's about figuring out how to make it as painless and unembarrassing as possible. Maybe it'll be good, but it'll certainly be awkward. So required consummation and sex pollen are both A++, including for the platonic variations of these ships, where the emphasis can largely be on getting through an unwanted situation together.
+ Absolutely any kind of slow burn feeling. Slow burn platonic, slow burn romantic, slow burn platonic that leads to romantic, slow burn poly as whichever one of them isn't originally included in the marriage becomes sort of gradually indispensable to it. I really loved watching these relationships develop in canon, and putting them in close quarters and with high emotional stakes just makes it all even more delightful. Does this tie into the "painful ritual to prove their devotion" prompt, with the ritual acting as a catalyst to make them realize how far their relationship has developed? I can see Ward not realizing until then that Danny and/or Colleen truly cares that much, or Colleen not realizing that she actually really matters to Ward, in particular.
+ Danny Rand, planner of elaborate and possibly terrible honeymoons. He's excited to take Ward (and Colleen?) on an elaborate backpacking trip/hike/cross-country road trip/etc., and the other two are varying levels of unenthused about it. Are they right, and it's full of hilarious mishaps--food poisoning, minor injuries, other travelers you really don't want to meet, your standard number of magical curses, etc.? Or do they find themselves reluctantly charmed and enjoying themselves? If it's a Ward/Colleen or Ward & Colleen trip, is it that they're booked onto this meaningless glamour for-appearances-only honeymoon that neither one of them really cares about? Does one of them eventually try to personalize it a little? Does that work out and wind up creating a tentative bond between them?
+ Most of these setups kind of imply a S1 timeline, but I'd also love to see S2 or after versions. Sex pollen can strike at any time! Maybe it hits the three of them, and Danny and Colleen haven't fully put their relationship back together yet… and now they're also saddled with Ward? Maybe it means Ward and Colleen have to get married despite worrying about what impact it will have on Danny? Or either Ward or Danny needs to use a marriage to pass an inheritance onto Colleen, if something happens to them? Or a soul bond develops between Ward and Danny on their Asia road trip, and it's slowly killing one or both of them and has to be dealt with?