Dear AUEx Author (2020)

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Thank you so much for writing for me! I'd be delighted to get anything for these tags. I've tried to add extra details and prompts where they might be helpful (which means I'm sorry about how long this is).

I'm scioscribe on AO3 and scioscribe on Tumblr. All requests this year are for fic, though art treats are definitely welcome.

And thank you again! I hope you have a great exchange.

Likes

enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, fix-its, crack played straight, 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, knotting, scat, bestiality, vore

Request DNWs are listed in the individual fandom sections.

Dark Tower - Stephen King

Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain
Jake Chambers & Eddie Dean & Susannah Dean & Roland Deschain & Oy
Jake Chambers & Eddie Dean & Susannah Dean & Susan Delgado & Oy
Jake Chambers & Eddie Dean & Susannah Dean & Susan Delgado & Roland Deschain
Susan Delgado/Roland Deschain
Roland Deschain
Susan Delgado

Character Was Kidnapped as a Child and Raised by Enemy Instead | Characters Meet at a Different Point in Their Canon | Clockpunk AU | Cyberpunk AU | Dimension Travel | Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That Isn't Doomed | Horse Ranch | Planetary Romance | Sailors | Solarpunk | Space AU | Time Travel | Werewolf Pack | Dark Tower: Someone Else Takes Roland's Place as Gunslinger

Character Was Kidnapped as a Child and Raised by Enemy Instead
I'm thinking of this in particular for Roland or Susan, since they both had enemies early on. (Although now it occurs to me that the Man in Black could decide to abduct Susannah, Eddie, or Jake to try to raise one of them as a kind of double-agent, and I'm also very here for that.) Young Roland--especially once he's old enough to a bit of some gunslinger training and knowledge--being kidnapped by Marten, who attempts to warp him or raise him as a kind of son? So deliciously creepy. Ditto Susan being kidnapped and raised by Rhea of the Cöos, who might sense that there would be reason to keep Susan in her pocket. In both cases, I'm okay with non-explicit instances of skin-crawling played-for-horror noncon once everyone is over sixteen. (It's fine to allude to the idea that it's happened before then, I just don't want to see it at all.)

Characters Meet at a Different Point in Their Canon
What if ka had started gathering up Roland's later ka-tet ahead of time, and Eddie, Susanna, and Jake had found their way from New York to pre-Fall Gilead? I really love angsty, angry teenaged Roland, and I'd love to see him interacting with his ka-tet when he's on such a different footing with them: more experience in his world but less life experience overall (at least with Eddie and Susannah), etc. Or young Roland could get transported to New York instead! Susannah's? Eddie's? Jake's? All three in succession? Any of these would be incredible. (You can also substitute Susan for Roland in this scenario or have her accompany him. Susan is always welcome in any prompts, basically.)

Clockpunk AU
Cyberpunk AU
Planetary Romance
Sailors
Solarpunk
Space AU
These all boil down to "canon-style plot, but different settings," so I combined them. While I love the combined Arthurian/Weird Western vibe of Mid-World, I'd love to see some variations on its tech level and culture, too. Mid-World mostly being composed of island chains, with the Path of the Beam followed by sailing between them? Space AU where you have to travel across the galaxy to get to the Dark Tower, and you're constantly coming across fallen civilizations that are whole planets? Planetary romance where Roland's world is another dimension but also feels like another planet, one they have to traverse on an epic scale while encountering colorful, strange landscapes and invented cultures? Collapsed solarpunk world where Roland misses the vertical gardens and grassy, sun-powered domes of Gilead? Cyberpunk where they have to fulfill certain parts of their quest in a virtual world, with the Man in Black as a kind of recurring virus corrupting the system? Where the world is filled with leftover body-mods and even more AI? Clockpunk world full of beautiful engravings and guns that need to be wound with a key, where they sometimes have to fight clockwork robots?

Dimension Travel
Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That Isn't Doomed
I always love a chance to see these characters traveling to other worlds than these. And with the second tag, I love the idea of them shuffling through a variety of timelines and maybe running into variations of their own lives where different things happened to them or they made different choices. So it would be awesome to see alternate Mid-Worlds and Earths, whether the characters are going through them accidentally--like the different Kansas they see in Wizard and Glass--or whether they're frantically trying to find a dimension where it's still possible for them to get to the Tower. Feel free to throw in all kinds of alternate selves, alternate ka-tet arrangements of other Stephen King characters, canon-divergence dimensions where Susannah missed one of the attacks by Mort or Henry died in Vietnam or Susan's dad lived or anything else like that. I just like getting a chance to see the characters in new environments, including ones that are hauntingly familiar or bittersweet to them because of missed chances.

Horse Ranch
I'm just so charmed by the idea of these characters working at a horse ranch. Is it in the canon universe, and it's Susan's, in an AU where she actually does get to reclaim all her dad's horses? I'd love to see her get to have that life, with or without Roland. Does the ka-tet join her/them there? Or I'd also love a total AU where these are just all kind of damaged and lonely people who have washed up at this particular horse ranch where they can heal. Maybe Jake's father decides to make Jake take riding lessons to get in good with someone else's son. Maybe Susannah really liked discovering that she could still ride even after losing her legs, so she's never given it up? Eddie needed to flee the city to get away from Balazar/drugs, so he turned up there looking for work? Basically, if Roland is a quietly lonely horse ranch owner who takes in stray people, I'm happy.

Time Travel
So many awesome possibilities here! Going back in time to some Golden Age of Gilead? Going way back until they're in prehistoric Mid-World and have to contend with their versions of things like mammoths or dinosaurs? Or Earth time travel, to the past or to the far future where none of them know what's going on, where there might be space travel or internet in your head? Or are they doing the kind of time travel where they're actively interfering with or running into their own lives and histories, like where Roland gets a chance to save Susan (or Susan a chance to save Roland, in a role-reversal) or his mother? Or they even get to interfere with Earth on some larger-scale, like stopping the Kennedy assassination?

Werewolf Pack
Gunslingers as werewolves, trained to attack by shifting and savaging their enemies! Maybe instead of teaching the others how to shoot--or in addition to it--Roland has to bite them to turn them into werewolves too? I like grappling with the horrors of that kind of transformation and how you would feel about it, especially if you'd never been prepared for it before, but I particularly love it when eventually everyone comes around to embracing their werewolf status. I really love the idea of the ka-tet also being a wolf pack, as iddy and tropey as you can make it, including sleeping together in wolf (or human, if it becomes a habit!) form all piled up together. Heightened instincts, heightened sense of internal group hierarchy and bonds, etc., are all a plus.

Dark Tower: Someone Else Takes Roland's Place as Gunslinger
I'm absolutely happy to see Susan-as-gunslinger blended with any of the other prompts (and to see Susan in the ka-tet generally, alongside Roland), but I'm also just really interested in this with Susan on her own or with her own ka-tet. Basically, just any kind of canon-typical adventure or any blend with the above AUs, but with Gunslinger Susan would make me really happy, especially if she wasn't raised in Gilead but instead had her canonical back-story up until the point of Wizard and Glass, where things then go differently. It would also be fascinating--and I know all the requested tags include either Roland or Susan, but if you follow this prompt, I'm fine with one or both being missing--to see another member of the ka-tet taking up the quest on their own as the sole remaining gunslinger or as the new leader of the ka-tet. Is this a far future or drastically AU segment where Jake is the only left to quest for the Tower, and he's having his own run-ins with the Man in Black? Where Susannah or Eddie are left to the do the work, and where people who encounter them just read them as archetypal gunslingers? And while it sounds cracky, I'd also be delighted to see a serious take on Oy being the last one standing who has to make his way to the Tower.



The Stand - Stephen King

Alice Underwood
Jesse Rider
Ray Flowers
Rita Blakemoor
Peter Goldsmith
Carla Goldsmith

Canon Divergence AU | The Stand - Different characters survive the plague

Request-specific DNW: Frannie and her mom continuing to be together after the plague. Fran dying of the flu is fine, as is her living and separating herself afterwards--I just don't want ongoing interaction between the two of them.

Canon Divergence AU
The Stand - Different characters survive the plague
I would be so delighted to see any takes on any of these characters surviving the plague (or, in Rita's case, surviving for longer in the aftermath). They can go either to Vegas or Boulder or take a third option or be ambiguously undecided/not on the road yet when the story ends--I just want to see how they might do in the aftermath, whether or not the major characters they're connected to are around. Do any of them significantly change the course of the overall story? Do they intersect in surprising ways with each other or other characters in the book? Feel free to combine this essential idea with the other Stand AUs I've requested, if you like.

How does Alice deal with the death of her son and the need to get out of New York? What would a team-up between her and Rita be like, or what if she took over Larry's role in terms of traveling with Nadine and Leo? If Fran dies, does Jesse feel the loss of her and his unborn child, or is he secretly relieved? If she survives too, do the two of them have to try to travel together even when things are prickly and uncomfortable? If he ended up with Harold and/or Stu, what would that be like?

Does Ray Flowers wind up taking on a leadership role in the plague aftermath? Can he get some kind of radio station up and running again? (I'm also fine with Kathy Bates Ray, if you want to draw from the miniseries.) And I'd love to see Rita grappling with survival and developing and embracing some grit as she continues living and traveling. Does she have to deal with Larry's death, in a reversal scenario? Or is she on her own or teamed up with a different survivor? Does she have problems with attaching herself to them to the point where she's relying on someone else too much?

And the Goldsmiths! Frannie's relationship with her dad is really touching, and it would be so heartbreaking to see him trying to deal with her death instead of the other way around. Is he on his own, or does his wife survive as well? If they're together, what kind of chasm is between them after Fran's death? Are they able to bridge it, or do they have to split up? (Maybe with Peter going to Boulder and Carla going to Vegas?) If only Carla lives, how damaged is she by everything that's happened? Does she feel like the plague is just part and parcel of the collapse of her world that went along with Frannie's pregnancy? How does she try to hold onto normalcy and decorum in a world that no longer supports them? Does she regret her harshness with her daughter, or does she double down?

Nadine Cross
Nadine Cross/Dayna Jurgens
Nadine Cross/Lloyd Henreid

Canon Divergence AU | Character is Secretly a Spy for the Other Side | Different Side Wins | Sex Pollen | Twin Peaks AU | The Stand: Vegas doesn't blow up | The Stand: Plague survivors get superpowers

Request-specific DNW: Cataonic, pregnant Nadine. (She can still have sex with Flagg, I'd just prefer it not cause her to lose most of her sanity and agency. Or she can be under threat of that but then get away without sleeping with him.)

Canon Divergence AU
This novel is full of so many possibilities for things going differently. What if Dayna had succeeded in killing Flagg? What if someone else had rescued Lloyd and earned his undying loyalty? Does that lead to him going to Boulder? What if Nadine had intentionally renounced Flagg's hold on her by having sex with someone else? Or if Larry had said yes when she'd asked him? Or what if she'd just managed to hang on to Boulder by her fingernails and she'd never gone to Vegas? What if Dayna had convinced Nadine or Nadine and Lloyd to flee Vegas while they still had a chance, or if Nadine and Lloyd had gotten out together? What if some of them had met up before the plague, and that had changed things?

Character is Secretly a Spy for the Other Side
Dayna was a spy in Vegas, of course, but I'd love to see different permutations on that, especially if they go in a more hopeful direction and characters wind up living instead of dying. Maybe Nadine pretends to surrender to go to Flagg in Vegas, but she has a few extra cards up her sleeve and is actually a spy there for the Free Zone? Is she Dayna's secret partner? Maybe Lloyd winds up getting recruited as a double-agent, revealing information about Flagg to the people in Boulder? Or maybe he's sent to Boulder to be Flagg's spy there, but he winds up switching over to their side? Maybe Nadine was found by Flagg earlier, so she's actually been a spy in Boulder the whole time, but she might change her mind about what information she gives away?

Different Side Wins
I'm very into the darkfic/horror possibilities here. What would happen if Flagg had actually succeeded in destroying Boulder and (at least temporarily) taking charge of the rest of America? Is Dayna still alive and stranded in Vegas, with all her original friends now gone? Are Nadine and Lloyd having sinking feelings of horror as they look at what the world has become? Even if Flagg wins, I can still see him having the kind of withdrawal-of-power and breakdown that he eventually had in the novel, so it would also be fascinating a horrifying kind of way--to just see the Vegas people, especially people close to him like Nadine and Lloyd, struggling to survive in an increasingly chancy and tumultuous environment that now seems to be the only one on offer. Or does Flagg become even more powerful? Is anyone able to break away?

Sex Pollen
What if Nadine's all-important vaginal-intercourse virginity had been compromised by a sudden wave of irresistible sex pollen? I really like this possibility because 1) Nadine is scorching hot, and I love these ships and also love her as a little black dress who can be pollen-dosed with anyone you like and 2) it forces Nadine's hand by putting her in a situation where she has to immediately grapple with do-or-die consequences in trying to avoid Flagg's wrath. Does she get pollen-dosed in Vegas, with Lloyd or with other Vegas residents, making escape an urgent necessity? Does it happen in Boulder, where it can set her free but also put a bull's-eye on her? Is it when she's already having sex with Harold, and then they have to deal with the weight of the plans they've already made and the betrayals they've already committed? Is it before that, so she's suddenly set adrift and has to figure out what she wants to do--and can afford to do--with the rest of her life? Does she wind up having a real, close relationship with her sex pollen partner/partners?

Twin Peaks AU
I saw this tag and a whole bunch of amazing possibilities suddenly opened up. Nadine's sexually-charged psychic connection to Flagg, her "intended" and eventual rapist, has some parallels with the horror Laura faces with BOB, and it's easy to see Dayna as a kind of involved observer/investigator figure and Lloyd as a kind of overwhelmed Bobby who sees some of what's going on but doesn't know how to fix it or even understand it. So I would love to see some scenario where Nadine is dealing with the ongoing presence of Flagg in her life--does he possess someone close to her, like a boyfriend or a girlfriend? Or does he just sort of haunt her?--while having all kinds of uncanny experiences that Dayna and/or Lloyd might see but not be able to fully grasp. I love both the idea of suffusing the novel's plot with Lynchian vibes and tropes and the idea of transporting Nadine to a Twin Peaks-like environment. Maybe her days as a teacher were spent in a quiet, off-kilter little town? Or maybe it's a complete AU, with no flu but with Flagg as a demonic elemental force and Nadine struggling to contend with this presence that's skewed her whole life?

The Stand: Vegas doesn't blow up
I'm just a huge sucker for stories about people who have done awful things/been on the wrong side surviving and having to deal with the rest of their lives, which they'll hopefully reinvent for the better. Seeing Nadine--and/or Lloyd and/or Dayna and/or anyone else in the Vegas bar besides Flagg--survive Flagg's death and have to deal with what comes next would be really excellent. Does Nadine wind up becoming Queen of Vegas? Do people try to stay in the city, since it has electricity and running water, or is it too tainted with bad memories? Do they want to go somewhere else? To Boulder? To another place entirely? Do they want to stay together or scatter? Are Nadine and Lloyd left in positions of relative authority, or does their former closeness to Flagg make them suspicious to the other Vegas survivors?

The Stand: Plague survivors get superpowers
Yes, please. I love how this further complicates the aftermath of the plague, as everyone now has to deal with learning how to use and control their burgeoning superpowers. What powers do the different characters get? Are the different kinds of powers tied to your character/personality/gifts in some way, or are they completely random? How do they try to use them? It would be interesting if superhero and supervillain-style actions with their powers didn't align perfectly with the Boulder/Vegas split, too: maybe what you're drawn to do with your gifts gets at something different about your character. Does that lead to anyone deciding to make a different choice? Does it give Nadine a weapon to use against Flagg? Lloyd a way to escape prison without Flagg's help? Dayna an advantage in the spying she does in Vegas? (This is also really a novel where I love the whole cast, so I'd be delighted to see even cameo instances of anyone else and their superpowers as well.)



Star Trek: The Original Series

Mirror T'Pring/Mirror Nyota Uhura
T'Pring/Nyota Uhura
Nyota Uhura & Mirror Nyota Uhura
Mirror Nyota Uhura
Nyota Uhura

Alternate Universe - Bluebeard Fusion | Arranged Marriage is Intended to Bring Understanding Between Two Species | Jazz Age AU | Mail Order Spouse AU in Canon 'Verse | Persuasion AU

Alternate Universe - Bluebeard Fusion
For the Mirrorverse, I'm totally down with T'Pring as the Bluebeard figure: she probably comes with an elaborate Vulcan mansion that could have a whole separate room devoted to storing past wives. (Is there a twist? Are they cryogenically frozen as opposed to dead? Is the forbidden room ominous and forbidden for some other reason?) I love the idea of a wily Mirror Uhura coming into this situation and trying to work out the smartest move. This can go dark, although I'd ultimately like some kind of--possibly twisted--feeling and attraction involved. For the canon universe, maybe one of them marries a Bluebeard, and the other has to help her? Or, if the previous wives aren't actually dead but only imperiled/frozen/on another plane of reality/etc., maybe one of them is a previous wife? Maybe one Uhura is the new wife and Mirror/regular Uhura is a former wife?

Arranged Marriage is Intended to Bring Understanding Between Two Species
Are these kinds of diplomatically arranged cross-cultural marriages a common aspect of the Federation, a way to encourage understanding? Is a T'Pring/Uhura match an oddity fixed up to deal with Spock's engagement? How do they feel about each other? Do they have a chance to meet and talk a little first, or do they plunge straight into marriage? Is all this on the Enterprise or on Vulcan? For a dark Mirrorverse version, I can see this being a kind of held-at-knifepoint diplomacy, where it's half-arranged marriage and half-hostage situation, with just a veneer of civility. Does one of them have more power than the other? Do they actually wind up wanting to create a better relationship between Earth and Vulcan? Or maybe there's no T'Pring, and it's just Uhura or Mirror Uhura in arranged marriage to an alien figure (or figures) of your choice: throw all the culture clashes at me you want. I love slow burn feelings, whether they're starting from a point of "you seem nice enough, but you're a stranger to me" or "I want to set you and everything you own on fire"; consummation/expected sex that has to awkwardly take place before everyone's comfortable with each other; and awkwardness generally.

Jazz Age AU
Nyota Uhura and the Jazz Age seem like a spectacular combination. You have the Harlem Renaissance going on at roughly the same time, so there's a ton of vibrant Black culture going on in New York, and I think all the music and energy and glamour and the sense of pushing at the possibilities of the world would suit her. (Plus, I'm shallow, and the costuming is great.) Musician or singer Uhura? Literary translator Uhura? Is she working on a team, as part of an effort to get something like a magazine up off the ground? Does she meet real-life famous people? I would eat any of this up with a spoon, with all the historical detail you want to include. I just really love this period and its sense of exuberance. Love affairs extremely welcome, whether those are with T'Pring or Rand or Chapel or Spock or really anyone else, including OCs and real people. If this is a more Mirrorverse Uhura in the Jazz Age, what might be motivating her? What would she do to get what she wants? Is this also a Mirrorverse Jazz Age, where it's plainer that all the energy and wealth is just papering over something awful?

Mail Order Spouse AU in Canon 'Verse
I really love the idea of mail order spouses--of a non-skeevy, non-Harry Mudd persuasion--being common with Starfleet personnel, since they don't have a lot of time to get to know people other than their shipmates. (In this scenario, I'm assuming the spouses can stay onboard ship.) Maybe Uhura orders a bride sight-unseen, and has her canon reaction to T'Pring's beauty--but then there's still the awkward getting-to-know-you part. What's T'Pring's motivation for going along? Does she want to leave Vulcan? Travel through space specifically? Or does she have some more pressing, secret thing that drove her to take this deal? How do they warm up to each other? Or is Uhura the mail order bride, maybe one who really wants to study on Vulcan and can't get the access she needs any other way? Or who has just decided that she wants an adventure, and it's a coin-toss between Starfleet and agreeing to marry a mystery Vulcan? And of course, in the Mirrorverse, the mail order spouse system can be as skeevy and coercive as you like. Maybe it's the only way T'Pring can escape an awful Vulcan or the only available way for Uhura to get out of a suddenly bad situation. Maybe whichever one requests the bride has very little intention of actually caring about her wife: she just wants some combination of sex and servitude and maybe enough loyalty that she won't be killed in her sleep. Can they get closer from there even if they're still their Mirror selves?

Persuasion AU
I'm so here for an AU of a heartbroken, noble, pining Uhura who was rejected by the woman she loves--really because T'Pring (or, if you like, Chapel or Rand) wanted to give her a chance to thrive in Starfleet and advance via the long missions that might get in the way of a marriage. Now she's Lt. Uhura--or Captain, if you want to advance her still further!--and she's been reunited with her lost love. But can they reconnect? (Yes. Yes, they can.) I just love all the angsty pining possibilities here on both sides. And in a Mirrorverse variation, there's something so strangely touching about people pining when they probably resent it deeply--that's the kind of softness that can get you killed. Mirror Uhura simultaneously wanting to rekindle a romance but also being unable to resist being cruel or manipulative to her love interest, who is equally vicious and equally pining, would be great.



Thor

Brunnhilde | Valkyrie
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Heimdall
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Heimdall/Loki
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Loki
Heimdall/Loki

A and B Are Secretly Married the Whole Time | Building a Settlement on a Frontier Planet | Canon Character Death Evaded | Character is Haunted AU | Characters Were in a Relationship but Broke Up Pre-Canon | Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU

Request-specific DNW: Infinity War Asgardian deaths/Endgame canon. Back story from those movies is fine, I just don't want the plot points that affected the requested characters.

A and B Are Secretly Married the Whole Time
Characters Were in a Relationship but Broke Up Pre-Canon
I love the supreme awkwardness and feelings and tension of these two prompts. Val and Heimdall secretly being exes or estranged spouses, now dealing with rekindling feelings and hurt and uncertainty about where they want to go from here? Heimdall and Loki secretly eloped or had a relationship pre-Thor and then had some disastrous falling-out that kept them from ever mentioning it to anyone? Which didn't seem to matter much as long as Loki was in prison/in disguise as Odin, but now they're back together, working closely with each other, and having to deal with their feelings and history? Is there some scenario where Loki and Val met before Thor, or at least before Ragnarok, and had an impulsive affair that now makes things awkward? What if you have a past relationship--whether that's a marriage that's still technically ongoing or an exes situation--and then you also have a new person being added to the relationship, for Heimdall/Val/Loki? What are the complexities and complications there?

Building a Settlement on a Frontier Planet
Post-Ragnarok AUs, shippy or gen, ensemble or particular, are one of my favorite things, and I really like the idea of them trying to settle down somewhere less populated--and less familiar--than Earth. Maybe they have to contend with a harsh environment, one with bad weather or limited vegetation, and they can't decide if it's worth it to try to stick it out. Maybe even the best planets are hard and dangerous to settle. And all of them have had their lives profoundly changed in ways that might make this jarring. What's it like for Loki to have the pressures of having to settle down and be part of the unglamorous slog of helping run a struggling community? How hard is it for him to stick around? (Loki being torn between his best and worst impulses is always a delight.) What's Val's world like when she can't just retreat into the drunken debauchery and lawlessness of Sakaar? What's it like for her to be part of Asgard again, when the society is tied to so many of her worst memories? How is she dealing with being part of a system again instead of off on her own? Heimdall feels like he would take it more smoothly, but he's still dealing with a lot of shake-ups and a huge change in role, and he's still helping a new king settle in. What's everyone's rapport like on-the-ground, once the journey is over and the hard work begins?

Canon Character Death Evaded
Basically, ignoring the beginning of Infinity War is one of my favorite AUs ever. You can handwave it or come up with a specific scenario, but I just love anything that keeps the Asgardians traveling through space in search of a home. Are they going to Earth? Have they decided to try to settle somewhere else? Is the destination irrelevant for right now because it's going to take them forever to get there anyway? I love these characters awkwardly building up relationships as they try to rebuild a civilization from scratch--making a few changes to do things better this time--and I love them having one-off adventures in space and dealing with supply shortages and negotiations and what it's like to suddenly have far less power in the universe than you used to. Exploring any of these characters and relationships in that context would be lovely.

Character is Haunted AU
This is so promising, whether it's played for horror or sadness or both. Who is haunted? Does Heimdall's gift allow him to see ghosts, including the Asgardian dead who didn't make it onto the ship? Can they see him back? Are they hostile? Is Val troubled by the ghosts of her fellow Valkyries? By Hela's ghost? (If so, Val/Hela of any variety, consensual or noncon, is welcome.) Has Loki seen ghosts all his life, with that shaping him, or does he only see the ghosts of people he's killed? Does he see Jotun ghosts specifically? How do the characters deal with this, and how can they rally around the afflicted character? Do the ghosts need to be helped for fought off? I'm also very open to Thor seeing ghosts and the others having to help him figure out how to deal with it.

Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
There's something weird and beyond the scope of their understanding out in space, and their ship is headed straight for it--or being followed by it? I love people dealing with larger-than-life horror that seems to be slowly pressing in on them, especially if it's something that can't be traditionally fought. I'm totally down with Heimdall and/or Loki working themselves to the bone and magically exhausting themselves trying to do what they can to keep the ship safe or with people trying to frantically figure out if there's some way to thwart or bargain with the force that might wipe them out. Ritual sex? Blood sacrifice? Weirder things? Or maybe one of them is starting to turn into an eldritch monster for some reason, and they can feel their sense of self starting to slip away? How would their loved ones respond to that, especially when they still have a duty to protect other people from being hurt? Did the Tesseract attract or create cosmic horrors, to the point where Loki has to deal with the consequences of having brought it onboard?

Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Heimdall

Request-specific DNW: Infinity War Asgardian deaths/Endgame canon. Back story from those movies is fine, I just don't want the plot points that affected the requested characters.

Role Swap AU
This is such an intriguing fit for them. What if the last surviving Valkyrie had stuck around Asgard, staying through Odin's reformations and erasures of history? Would she be a trusted and prized part of his reign, or a constant reminder of a past he'd like to forget, someone he'd try to push under a rug? Would she have gotten--or wanted--to rebuild the Valkyries, or would she be stuck standing by and watching women warriors become an oddity to her people? What would her relationships with Thor and Loki be like if she'd seen them grow up and had a longer perspective on them? How would she have influenced them/how would they have influenced her? And then you have Heimdall, the Gatekeeper of Asgard who left the realm--wearily, with disgust, in shame?--after Hela and doesn't turn up until Ragnarok. I'd love to see what Heimdall's particular form of dissipation and staunch resistance of a hero role/responsibility would look like. What's his place on Sakaar? How does he react to being recalled to duty, and how does he feel about the new princes? About his sudden reunion/meeting with Val? How do they come together in a post-Ragnarok space? Or I'd also love to see them right at some pre-canon cusp, maybe the moment when Heimdall chooses to leave and Val chooses to stay?



Agent Carter

Peggy Carter & Daniel Sousa & Jack Thompson
Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa/Jack Thompson
Peggy Carter

1960s AU | Apocalypse AU | Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU | Canon's Plot is Interrupted By an Alien Invasion | Characters Met While Fighting in WWII | Dimension Travel to a Significantly Diverged Timeline | Female Character Disguises Herself as Male Relative to Join the Military | Ghost Hunter AU | In-Universe Private Investigators AU | Soulmark - Mark is Damaged Before Soulmates Meet

Request-specific DNW: Permanent character death. Endgame canon.

1960s AU
I didn't realize I wanted this until I saw the tag-set, and then it leapt out at me. This would change things in such interesting ways. If they'd all fought in Vietnam, the cultural context and associations with their service would be so different. How would Steve have been popularly perceived, and how would that perception have shaped Peggy's experience dealing with his legacy? How would Peggy, in particular, deal with the moral weight of having been engaged with a much murkier war? What would she have done in it, and why--given that the UK didn't send soldiers--would she have been involved in it in the first place? Or was she not--was she a Cold War spy whose dismissal by her superiors rankles even more because her record is too classified to prove her capabilities? How would Jack have been shaped by something like the Okinawa incident in a context of a less heroic war? (I'd prefer his actions to still be more or less the same: a cover-up for a horrible mistake, with the cover-up bringing him glory that then follows him around, useful but a constant reminder of what he's done.) Would he have the same golden boy vibe at all as a "war hero" of a less popular war? How would Daniel relate to his injury in this new context? And even aside from the changed legacy of their wartime experience, what would it be like for them to be in the sixties more generally? How would the different atmosphere and norms of the period shape things like, say, a budding OT3? Would Peggy be able to get a few more women in at the SSR? Would they feel less sure of the rightness of their jobs in an era when public confidence in similar institutions was lower? Not that this has to be especially serious: honestly, give me Peggy trying her first joint or Daniel being secretly intrigued by hippies while Jack rolls his eyes at them and I'll be very, very happy. Or the three of them having to go undercover at a Woodstock-style music festival for some reason? Or undercover as hippies generally?

Apocalypse AU
Canon's Plot is Interrupted By an Alien Invasion
I've always loved the idea of a sudden apocalypse--or alien invasion--completely demolishing the expectations of characters' lives. One day, you're going about your usual canon business, and then the world is changed forever. And these three are so capable and make such a good team that I'd particularly love to see them in the aftermath of something like this. Do they have to try to round up other survivors in the apocalyptic aftermath? Try to rebuild some kind of civilization, maybe an extremely different one with different mores? (Surely it would look different with Peggy at the helm.) If it's an alien invasion, can they fight back, or is just surviving hard enough? Does the invasion result in devastation or in a situation where humans are being ruled by the aliens? How does that change how they struggle to resist and stay alive? I also just love, from both a shippy and a friendship-building perspective, when severely altered circumstances let people grow closer together than they might have before. Post-apocalyptic cuddling because everyone's too exhausted and skittish to sleep apart, and they have to keep warm somehow? Social norms about OT3s collapsing to the point where it seems easier to make the initial leap? Kindness and tenderness in dark situations? Yes, please.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
VAMPIRE SLAYER PEGGY CARTER. Maybe she'd been told that she was a Slayer, but she'd tried to resist the call and just get married instead, but then Michael's death made her get in the game and start slaying Nazi vampires. Did Daniel or Jack get assigned to be her Watcher once she made it to the States? Did both of them get assigned, since the Council correctly estimated she'd be hard to manage? I'd love to see them get pulled, Giles-like, into being completely on her side in defiance of the Council. Or maybe one of them is a vampire with a soul, only working the night shift, something that Peggy slowly figures out. I'd also love to see Peggy just defiantly deciding that she's going to choose whether she kills a vampire or not, based on criteria beyond them just being a vampire: I really like her wanting proof that they're actively killing people and being willing to work with them if they've changed or are trying to change. Peggy just following her own conscience without regard to what someone else tells her is something that could be very interesting in this context. (Also, I didn't request it because it didn't go with all my prompts, but Dottie/Peggy with Dottie as a Faith analogue is very welcome.)

Characters Met While Fighting in WWII
Daniel was quick to believe in Peggy's capabilities anyway, but I can imagine Jack's reaction to her being significantly different if he'd already seen her in action in WWII. I really like the idea of the three of them meeting and bonding--maybe still in a slightly prickly fashion--during the war. Were Peggy and Jack there to comfort Daniel after he was injured? Did they work together, or did they have some fleeting but memorable meeting that impacted how they saw each other later? Did they wind up being wartime pen pals? Was Jack able to confide the truth about Okinawa to someone earlier on, or did exposure to Peggy and Daniel make him choose to tell the truth afterwards? I also just love people seizing moments to be together in the middle of the war, when there's the feeling that this might be the last time they see each other.

Dimension Travel to a Significantly Diverged Timeline
I love the idea of these characters exploring alternate realities and personal roads not taken. They can go to completely different worlds, ones where, say, America remained a British colony or where everything is steampunk or any other wild, big-picture possibility, and I'd love to see their reactions to that: what do they find appealing or fascinating? What do they find horrifying or tragic? I also really like people getting to see options that they didn't take--or haven't taken yet. A universe where all three of them are together prompts them getting together in their own? What's Peggy's reaction to a universe where she really did marry and settle down? Does Jack find a universe where he saw the white flag at Okinawa, or where he was found out? One where he gave Peggy and Daniel their share of the credit in the S1 finale? Do they find a universe where Daniel married Violet after all? Where Peggy chose Jason? And why are they going to these different dimensions--is it an accident or are they trying to achieve something/find something?

Female Character Disguises Herself as Male Relative to Join the Military
What if Peggy had never tried to remake herself as the compliant daughter, and she had instead disguised herself as Michael to join the war as a soldier? (Maybe Michael was injured somehow and couldn't join up himself? Or maybe she disguises herself as another relative. Or maybe it just works out For Reasons.) What would it be like for her to be perceived as a man and not have to fight to get respect? What is she able to accomplish? How would her friends and fellow soldiers react to finding out the truth? Does she serve with Daniel and/or Jack, and do they help her keep her secret? Is her experience in active combat dirtier and worse than it was with the Howling Commandos… or does she wind up being a part of them anyway, just from a different angle? What's her relationship with Steve like? What does she plan to do after the war? And if she has to step out of disguise, what's that transition like for her?

Ghost Hunter AU
Yes, please. I especially love this set in the canon era. Maybe HYDRA is less of an active problem in the world than ghosts, and Peggy likes to tackle the biggest problems first. I'd love to see her and Jack and Daniel chasing down malicious ghosts and helping out innocent ones that just need to move on. How do they all get into this line of work? What experiences led them there and got them to connect with each other? Is the whole SSR a ghost-hunting organization, or are the three of them off on their own? Or is it just Peggy, making do? I'd love to see ghostly casefic, whether that's just of an adventure or of something that works to bring them closer together? Maybe ghosts make them have sex, or maybe one or all of them are in danger, leading to cathartic hurt/comfort.

In-Universe Private Investigators AU
Maybe there's a lull between SSR and SHIELD, and Peggy (and potentially also Jack and Daniel) found a private eye business in the meantime? Or maybe things don't work out in season one, and Peggy leaves the SSR to start her own investigative firm? if all three of them are together, what is it like for them to work together when they're only accountable to themselves and they don't have the backup or resources of the rest of the SSR? I'd be equally happy with comedic or more serious takes on this. Maybe it's just the uphill struggle of having to deal with endless divorce and insurance cases coupled with sexy OT3 banter, or maybe they end up in a hardboiled plot where they're unraveling a massive conspiracy? Maybe they're still working the Whitney Frost/Council of Nine case, but from this new angle? And what kind of work keeps the lights on and gets everyone paid? I can easily see Peggy being irritated by the necessity of doing some of the less exciting, less important work that's nonetheless necessary to keeping them in business, and that could lead to a lot of crankiness and fun, especially if she's clashing about it with Jack and Daniel.

Soulmark - Mark is Damaged Before Soulmates Meet
I'm fine with both platonic and romantic versions of this: either way, it's suitably wonderfully heartrending. (Although I do want them to realize the truth by the end.) I really like the idea of the three of them feeling drawn to each other but not being able to be sure that their instincts are right, and then, later, having to grapple with how much time they lost. Do they all have their marks damaged, or only one of them, leading to extra-tragic pining when it seems like one of them is going to be stuck on the outside of the relationship forever? If their marks are damaged, do they still remember them well enough to pick out their matches and then have to deal with the fact that they can't prove it? Do they worry the others wouldn't trust them? Is there some kind of cultural superstition about your mark being damaged, where it's widely believed that that means the person has somehow become not your soulmate anymore, or that they've died? How do they work out the truth in the end?



Iron Fist

Misty Knight/Ward Meachum
Ward Meachum & Colleen Wing
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand & Colleen Wing

Bodyguard AU | Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU | Dimension Travel to a Significantly Diverged Timeline | Noir AU | Portal(s) to Narnia AU | Runaways | Iron Fist: Ward Ends Up in K'un-Lun Instead of Danny

Bodyguard AU
I'm mostly picturing Ward as the one hiring the bodyguard here--or having the bodyguard foisted upon him--since he's less of a fighter, but I'd also be happy with variations. (Leather-jacketed Ward with a gun assigned as anyone's bodyguard? I'm there.) Maybe Colleen is ordered by the Hand to take on a new role as Ward's bodyguard, sometime in or before season one? Maybe Misty is private security, or maybe she's ordered to protect Ward because his life is supposed to be in danger? Maybe Danny winds up unofficially playing the role of bodyguard, to Ward's consternation? I can see him potentially deciding early on that he doesn't want his role in the company, but maybe his deal is that he'll back down if he can keep an eye on Ward and/or Joy, since he thinks they might be in danger? Either way, I love the gradual build-up of feelings that are initially constrained by the professional footing and the employer/employee roles and I love all the protectiveness and potential for hurt/comfort in both directions.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Vampire slayer Colleen! Vampire slayer Misty! Either or both! I really love the possibilities here. Maybe Ward is assigned to be Misty's Watcher, and there's chemistry between them from the start? Maybe he's assigned to be Colleen's, and they rub each other completely the wrong way until a real relationship finally starts to build? Does his Slayer wind up defending him against Harold? Does he wind up helping to extricate her from control of a Hand-like Watcher's Council? Is Danny an unusually cheerful vampire-with-a-soul or maybe a demon fighter who trained in K'un-Lun, got Iron Fist powers, and wants to join the fight? Maybe he and Slayer Colleen meet on his return to New York and partner up. (And maybe Misty is Colleen's Watcher, in this scenario? That would be awesome.) And then a human, uninvolved Ward can be freshly aghast at Danny's weird life. Also: vampire Harold Meachum.

Dimension Travel to a Significantly Diverged Timeline
I particularly like the way this would give the characters a chance to see their own personal roads-not-taken. Maybe they get to see a universe where the Rands survived? Where Harold died and never came back? Where Misty stayed with basketball and played professionally? Where her cousin lived and she never decided to become a cop? Where Colleen didn't meet Danny and didn't get her illusions about the Hand smashed? Or where she was fully converted by Bakuto? Where she had always been the Iron Fist? Where Harold had used Joy as his pawn instead of Ward? Where Ward and Misty were married? Where Davos had been the one to become the Iron Fist? I just love the idea of these characters getting to see and react to these other universes and other selves. Do they see things they're horrified by? Or are their alternate lives ones they wish they could have had? And what are they trying to accomplish by going to these timelines, or is it sheer accident? How do they get home again?


Noir AU
This one occurred to me because the Meachum plotline in S1 feels as noir as it does Gothic: it's just a few twists away from being a dark, Chinatown-style revelation of Harold's conspiracy and abuse. I love the idea of Colleen or Misty as a dogged noir detective gradually unraveling the truth behind the Mysterious Supposed Reappearance of Billionaire Danny Rand and the Supposedly Dead Harold Meachum. This can stick close to canon or go full-on classic noir with a forties setting or do something in-between, and it can have canon-like answers or new ones. Feel free to go dark here, too: I'm fine with revelations of abuse and incest (whether coercive noncon, from Harold to Ward and/or Joy, or some fucked-up coping between Ward and Joy) or secret murder plots. I'd just ultimately like it if everyone besides, say, Harold and the Hand come out at least slightly sympathetic or tragic, even if they play a more antagonistic role here.

Portal(s) to Narnia AU
I love the idea of Danny and possibly Misty being able to just enjoy Narnia wholeheartedly while Colleen and especially Ward feel some sense of not deserving it or not belonging to it, because of the things they've done in the past. (I'd like them to be proven wrong about that, not kicked out of Narnia for any other reason than just "this is the end of your trip." Aslan being compassionate to them would be a beautiful bonus.) Do they just stumble in and get to explore? Do they have a fun, colorful adventure there? Or are they drawn in because something serious is happening and Narnia is in real peril, making them rise to heroic occasion? If this is Ward & Danny, do they wind up there when they're kids? (Feel free to bring Joy along for the ride.) Is this a Magician's Nephew riff where Harold callously uses other people in his world-traveling experiments? I just really, really like the idea of them getting to be a part of Narnia for a little while and maybe finding themselves a little healed by that.

Runaways
This is one of the tropes of my heart, and it works particularly well with these characters, especially since Colleen, Danny, and Ward all had particularly tumultuous childhoods. I'm such a sucker for stories about kids running away from bad situations and forming their own close bonds while they're struggling to live on the streets. Maybe Danny doesn't go on the plane with his parents, and he's left in New York, orphaned--does he go to Harold, and then he and Ward and possibly also Joy have to run away from there, maybe if Harold turns more immediately abusive? Or does he end up in a bad foster home or with a harsh or cold guardian he wants to escape? Does Ward unexpectedly find himself valuing his role as older brother now that Danny needs his protection? Does that inspire him to run away too? Or we can just open on them already as runaways, with some past hidden context--maybe they didn't know each other before, and we just have Danny and Colleen as orphans and Ward as a kid removed from an abusive parents, and they decide to all run away together? Is Misty a runaway too, or maybe a friend who still has a home, who finds herself being drawn into a teenage romance with runaway Ward? Did a kid Colleen realize that she was being manipulated by the Hand and escape them? Are they still looking for her? Basically, anything that has these characters forming tight ride-or-die bonds with each other and being fierce and determined and vulnerable and prone to protectiveness and h/c would be so completely my jam.

Iron Fist: Ward Ends Up in K'un-Lun Instead of Danny
This possibility has always intrigued me. Was Danny unable to go on the China trip, and did the Rands invite Ward along for some reason? Did Harold maneuver to get him there, planning on just making Joy his unilateral heir? I can't picture Ward trying to become--or successfully becoming, even if he tried--the Iron Fist, but I can see him being a very different person by the end of his stay in K'un-Lun. Does he spend more time trying to actively get out, because he believes Joy needs him? Or does he think that he's been sent away on purpose? Does he form a close bond with Davos? And when he finally comes back to New York, what does he find there? Is Danny still alive? Did Harold make him his puppet, sparing Joy, or has Harold exerted his influence over Joy in Ward's absence, with his temper eventually erupting in her direction? What does Ward think of the life he's come back to and the brother and sister--and father--he lost years ago? What do they think of him? Does he connect with Colleen in some effort to try to not lose track of his training? Do they get along better, given his radically different circumstances? Does he form a relationship with Misty? What's their connection like, when he might not have the exact vibe she responded to in canon?



MASH

B.J. Hunnicutt & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
B.J. Hunnicutt/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
B.J. Hunnicutt/Peg Hunnicutt/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce & Charles Emerson Winchester III
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce/Charles Emerson Winchester III
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
MASH 4077 Staff

Alpha/Beta/Omega | Boarding School AU | Like Canon but One Character Has a Secret Superpower They Only Use When No One is Looking | Photographer AU | Runaways AU | Sex Always Causes a Temporary Soulbond Between Partners | Summer Camp AU

Alpha/Beta/Omega
I have a huge soft spot for omega Hawkeye with alpha BJ, Margaret, or Charles, if you want to do something shippy--I just love the streak of dominance and protectiveness that comes out there. All these relationships have a different balance of closeness, intimacy, snark, prickliness, and genuine discord, and it's fascinating to imagine those in an A/B/O context where they're unavoidably tied together. I also just really like thinking about the 4077 as a whole in terms of A/B/O divisions--who falls in what category? How do they manage heats? Do people's natures affect the military and medical hierarchies?

General A/B/O stuff I love: heats (including problems with heat suppressants, heats brought on by stress, and heats coming at very inopportune times), A/B/O nature influencing a character's responses to things (without necessarily fully determining them--they can struggle or overrule this), social roles and people reacting to them/against them or struggling to redefine them, protective urges, dominant urges, submissive urges, scents, biting, claiming/bonding. Bad alphas assuming that they have absolute right to any omega they happen to meet. Omega characters having bad or abusive past relationships. I'm good with g!p for alpha characters without dicks of their own, and I also love fingering, strap-ons, vibrators, toys generally, and heat-satisfying/claiming sex that doesn't have to involve penetration.

Boarding School AU
Runaways AU
Summer Camp AU
These all boil down to "make them kids and get them off on their own," and I love all three variations and all the tropes associated with each of them. Charles's class-consciousness in a boarding school context, and watching him gradually start to befriend or fall in love despite it. Pranks. Margaret as a way-too-enthusiastic prefect who learns to mellow a little (while still keeping some of her appreciation for structure). You can also make some of the characters in the 4077 into teachers, if you like--ineffective professor Henry Blake, headmaster Potter, school chaplain Mulcahy? I really adore everyone in this ensemble and would be absolutely delighted to see them. Or if it's summer camp, I love the vibe of simultaneous organized activity and summer laziness and freedom and experimentation. Are they campers? Counselors? A blend of both? How much does Hawkeye chafe at whatever camp rules he's supposed to follow?

And in a Runaways AU, I love the addition of heartbreaking vulnerability, h/c, and intense loyalty that you get when they're just kids relying on each other in a bad, unstable situation. How do they look out for each other? What do they do for money? What are their different stories behind becoming runaways? Let them form close connections and sleep in abandoned buildings and get whumped and take care of each other. There is no amount of tropiness here that could possibly displease me.

Like Canon but One Character Has a Secret Superpower They Only Use When No One Is Looking
Ooh, yes, please. Who has the superpower? What is it? Anything healing-related might be hard to hide, so is it maybe something else--some ability to ease exhaustion, that they have to use on their coworkers, or to fix mechanical problems? Or something else entirely? (I'm all for superpowers of any stripe.) Does using it cost them something, like it exhausts them or gives them migraines or sends them into a brief depression? Does someone else eventually notice what's happening? And how do they notice it? Can they help the superpowered person out in any way? Or is this a power that doesn't need to be utilized regularly and it's something that's just normally deployed casually and in minor instances, and then some crisis necessitates doing it openly and at a whole new level of exertion?

Photographer AU
I love the idea of these characters as war photojournalists--they're seeing all the same bloody aftermath (and possibly far more action) but their responsibility towards it has shifted, and they're supposed to document and bear witness rather than interfere and heal. Can they stop themselves from getting actively involved? How does the violence they see wear on them? How do they feel about their supposed need to stay uninvolved? What's it like when some of them are cooped up together in some dangerous situation, stuck waiting it out in a combination of boredom and terror? (An excellent hook-up environment.) I also just love professional details, so if you know about photography--and anything you know about photography would be more than I know, for what it's worth--please feel free to throw in all the process-oriented details you want. Tell me about the characters' different styles and preferences and the different magazines/papers/sources they work for. Or I'd love to see how they move on after the war and slowly get back in touch with their art from a different angle--what do they choose to photograph then?

Sex Always Causes a Temporary Soulbond Between Partners
Hawkeye Pierce, blithe creator of temporary soulbonds. I really love all the possible implications of this. Is casual sex encouraged in the military to create more cohesive units? Is it almost an expectation that if you're going to be working closely with someone, you should have sex with them early on so you can understand each other better? Are threesomes and moresomes calculated to create especially in-tune teams? Or, entirely differently, is sex considered even more intimate and reserved-for-relationships because you're literally opening your soul to someone? Does it lead to even more pining with ships that aren't together yet? Do characters impulsively sleep together in a desperate situation, like Margaret and Hawkeye in "Comrades in Arms," and then have to deal with the soulbond fallout? How long does one of these soulbonds last, and what is it like when it fades away? (I'm also all for angst about characters really, really missing the soulbond but not feeling like they can propose sex again.)



Torchwood

Gwen & Jack & Owen & Ianto & Toshiko & Beth Halloran
Gwen Cooper & Jack Harkness & Owen Harper & Ianto Jones & Toshiko Sato
Gwen Cooper/Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato

Apocalypse AU | Being Married to Each Other is a Job Requirement in Their Line of Work | Characters are Soulbonded to Psychic Wolves | Doctor Who AU | Like Canon but With Slavery Added | Torchwood: Beth Lives and Joins the Team

Request-specific DNW: Focus on Rhys or Gwen/Rhys. Mentions are fine. Permanent character death of requested characters (ignoring or fixing canonical deaths are fine; Owen's canonical undeath state is also fine).

I'm also good with any relationships within the overall poly set, so feel free to combine characters as you like for ships as long as there's still some kind of team presence overall.

Apocalypse AU
The twenty-first century is when it all changes … because the world is pretty much destroyed and the Torchwood team is left in the ashes, trying to survive and see if there's anything they can rescue. I love characters developing particular closeness because the world around them has gone to shit and they now have to rely completely on each other, and I love the way those relationships can slip out of traditional definitions (which is to say that if you want to give me all the team-smarm of "we're not having sex but we're all extremely physically affectionate and intimate anyway" variety, I'm here for it). Maybe things ease into being a loose poly arrangement. Maybe there's angst where someone almost breaks away from the team. Maybe they're just trying to survive one day to the next. I love details of scrounging food and shelter in a devastated environment and traveling around looking for a place where they could possibly settle down.

Being Married to Each Other is a Job Requirement in Their Line of Work
Some of them have to marry each other? All of them have to marry each other? Some weird combination of both? I'm here for it. I really like the idea of Torchwood employment coming with sudden, semi-enforced intimacy with these weirdos even outside of work. "Congratulations, you're hired, and also now you're married to this person/these people, and For Reasons, that marriage actually has to be valid on some level, whether that's via cohabitation/sex/emotional support/whatever." I eat this up with a spoon. Please give me all the awkward getting-to-know you stuff and the off-kilter emotional support and this bizarre take on married sex.

Characters Are Soulbonded to Psychic Wolves
Welcome to Torchwood, please bond psychically with this wolf, and oh yeah, there may or may not be psychic, necessary, h/c-filled gangbangs later. I've read A Companion to Wolves, so I know the basics of this AU, and you can also go off in your own directions with it. My one thing is that I'd really like the sex involved to not be completely repugnant/a clash in orientations for anyone; it can still be painful or awkward or way too much, I just want there to still be some essential attraction there in whatever arrangement it happens in. I also love wolves, so I'd happily just read total gen of these characters hanging out with their wolf brothers and sisters and bonding with them and interacting with each other's wolves. And how does their wolf pack's hierarchy affect their interactions with each other and their behavior generally?

Doctor Who AU
I know it sounds weird to request a Doctor Who AU for a show that is itself a Doctor Who spinoff, but I'm just delighted by the idea of Jack getting his own TARDIS (or a similar device) and picking up all these damaged people and spiriting them off on adventures through the universe. I can see this being a generally lighter-and-happier take, with the characters able to have less grim adventures, and I would be so thrilled to see them getting to interact with alien cultures firsthand, on alien turf, and also with them getting to time travel.

Like Canon but With Slavery Added
Inspired by the horrible situation that allows for Tosh's recruitment! What if the show's universe had a kind of debt- or position-based slavery or indenture, where most jobs were, in essence, people being owned by their employer? What if Jack had to buy his employees--Gwen from the police, Owen from his hospital--or rescue them via a formal purchase that would protect them while still, simultaneously, enslaving them (picking up a runaway/enslaved-but-ownerless Ianto off the Cardiff streets, buying Tosh because being owned by Torchwood is still better than being in prison)? I like the combination of possessiveness and loyalty and resentment here and I love the worldbuilding potential of this being a reality that the characters accept even if they chafe against it sometimes. Maybe they literally can't be set free until some predetermined time limit is up, so Jack and Torchwood are the best options. And how does the ownership work? What is Jack expected to provide, and what does he think he's supposed to be like in this situation? How does he try to be kind? How does he try to enforce authority? Hurt/comfort and complicated feelings and slow burn emotions and tropiness are always welcome.

Torchwood: Beth Lives and Joins the Team
I found Beth really fascinating, and there was so much to explore with her realizing that much of her human back-story had been a lie, that she's not human, that she has impulses and programming that she might have to struggle against, etc. I really wished she could have stuck around and joined the team, a former alien sleeper agent trying to get a fix on her identity, and I would love absolutely anything exploring that. What kind of relationship does she build with the team? What can she uncover about her own life and her actual species, and how does she feel about it? Are her loyalties conflicted at all? What's her perspective on humanity once she realizes she's not a part of it? I'd also be delighted to see this integrated with other prompts--give Beth a psychic wolf, take her out on adventures through time and space, etc. I just want more Beth.