Dear Candy Hearts Creator 2026
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Likes
hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers (or friends), friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, moral complexity, nuanced 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, complicated relationships, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, first-time stories, established relationships, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationships, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, made them do it, noncon-related hurt/comfort, rape recovery, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include unless otherwise noted.
General Sex Likes/Kinks
clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, rimming, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or downbeat), coming untouched, coming in pants, voyeurism, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, possessiveness, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, scat, bestiality, necrophilia
Gentleman Jim
James Corbett/Carlton De Witt/Victoria Ware
* Jim finally loses a fight—or wins one only after also getting battered to a pulp—and while his family would obviously take care of him, Victoria and Carlton sweep him off his feet first and wind up giving him some TLC that ultimately leans more on the tender and loving side than any of them were prepared for. I'm good with this as both an established OT3 scenario—in that case, I love the idea that the Corbetts at least kind of get what's going on and let Victoria and Carlton get their boy—or some "we came to watch him take a licking, but not like this" eruption of feelings. Concussed Jim talking about feelings?
* Jim and Victoria get engaged or even married, but Jim keeps surprising her by expressing a kind of fondness for her ex-boyfriend; he wants them all to have dinner and see where things go from there. I kind of love the idea that Jim would, in his own insouciant way, size up that he and Victoria are a volatile couple who could use a calmer third person who never truly irritates either one of them, and then go full-bore into courting Carlton De Witt with all his usual subtlety and humility. Of course he wants to join their marriage! Why wouldn't he?
* Enthusiastically bratty, mouthy sub Jim porn where he likes to stir up his two tops and get spanked for it and only eventually petted and praised. I like the idea of everyone getting a thrill out of impact play: he's famously hard to lay a glove on in the ring, but he'll cooperate with this and let himself get hit and like it, and it's kind of intoxicating for everyone involved. (Also, any other kind of porn—I can see this being a fun, adventurous trio in bed, complete with Jim getting competitive about giving everyone the most/best orgasms.)
* AU where Victoria marries Carlton after all—maybe impulsively and partly to spite Jim?--and then finds herself trying to make this marriage work while also figuring out what to do about this incredibly irritating, incredibly hot boxer she's drawn to, with the complication that her new husband doesn't seem like he minds this association at all. I'd be curious what it would look like to actually have Jim be the unexpected obstacle in the formation of a throuple, especially if he's trying to live up to the gentleman label: first he's dealing with seeming rejection from Victoria marrying someone else, and then he's trying to avoid being a homewrecker from two different directions at once (before he works out he's not wrecking anything). Or—a stickier, harder problem to resolve—Jim has problems feeling like the optional, fun accessory in an upper-class marriage, and it takes a while for them to convince him that he's not just a side dish.
* The Corbett family quickly realizes Jim has feelings for Victoria and then they more slowly also work out that he's getting to be fond of her almost-fiancé, too. Well, clearly that makes them both pretty much part of the family, so a bewildered Victoria and Carlton find themselves beset by a huge family eager to make sure they feel included. I don't know what "enthusiastic family matchmaking in a poly scenario in the 1880s" would even look like, but I want to, and I feel like the Corbetts could figure it out and eventually lead to a somewhat dizzying romance. Also good with this in a normalized poly marriage universe! (That's fine for any other prompts here too.)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Dave Hansen/Debbie Stone/Mike Tobacco
* Post-movie, the trio have to take a decontamination shower to get any potentially dangerous confetti/glitter and pie off them, and one (naked) thing leads to another (naked) thing ….
* I'm also very here for "whoops, it turned out the falling debris had sex pollen-like effects." Maybe it takes a while for these to kick in, like it took a while for the popcorn to come to life? So they all go home, thinking that it's over … and then they have to actually make the choice to rush back into each other's arms? Or: killer klown pie-induced three-way soulbond?
* Afterwards, the three of them all have problems with nightmares or PTSD—and they're also the three people who best understand what it's like to get shaky when they see some old-fashioned clown doll or hear a couple notes of circus music, so it makes sense to commiserate with each other. Maybe it also makes sense to sleep in the same bed so it's easy to do a little post-nightmare comforting.
* Post-movie, they find a surviving balloon dog roaming around town, and hey, it's not the dog's fault that its owners were killer klowns from outer space. They wind up adopting it—or one of them does it first, and then ropes the other two in?--and taking care of it while trying to keep its existence secret from everyone investigating the bizarre events.
* The spaceship actually winds up taking off with the three of them on board, forcing them to try to survive in a perilous and very, very weird environment. Are the klowns actively roaming around the ship, making it necessary for the trio to hide (and cram into some small spaces together)? Do they go into a kind of hibernation during the trip, effectively giving Dave, Debbie, and Mike free rein and control of the vessel? Can they kill the klowns and take over? Can they find non-deadly versions of popcorn, pies, and cotton candy to eat? Do they land on the klown planet? I'd just love any look at the three of them trying to survive and even build a bizarre kind of life in a completely alien environment.
* Futurefic where they maybe had a fling after the events of the movie but then, out of embarrassment and not knowing how to make things work, all went their separate ways—but now the klowns are back, and as some of the only people who have ever faced them down and lived, Dave, Debbie, and Mike are recruited to help fight back (or at least teach other people what to do). Time for a second chance romance!
Knives Out
Fandom-specific DNWs: Explicit scenes of Grace/her dad (implications or brief mentions are fine). Religious kink (Jud looking hot while wearing a priest collar is fine; I'm just not into him looking hot because he's in a priest collar). Blanc converting or having a religious experience. Jud losing his faith (leaving the priesthood is fine).
Vera Draven/Grace Wicks
* Ever since Vera's father suddenly saddled her with a ten-year-old son, she's been having surprisingly vivid dreams about another woman who was also forced to raise a child under peculiar circumstances. Mutual fury and expressions of suppressed bitterness and anger—because you can vent in a dream, it's fine, right?--gradually turn into intermittent commiseration and then also into hot sex. Feel free to have their relationship and sex life be messy and difficult or to have it evolve into a canon-divergence-generating machine for change where Vera winds up taking Cy away from the village and Wicks's sway because of her dream girlfriend's influence.
* More meeting-up-in-dreams, but from Grace's POV. I can see this going bleaker, especially if there's no way for her to change her fate, but I'm having so many feelings about her at least getting some nighttime encounters with Vera, even if she thinks they're all in her head. How much of it is consoling? How much of it is just another reminder of the life she's not living? How can they explore everything they're being denied?
* Ghost sex/time slippage? Sometimes, when Vera's doing legal work that's best conducted on church property for Reasons, she sees a woman with a desperate, haunted look hanging around the crypt. One day Vera offers her a cigarette … and then things go from there.
* After Vera moves away at the end of the movie, she finds that something's followed her, though it takes her a while to realize that it's Grace's ghost: she's attached herself to the person who best understood her.
* Still more ghost possibilities! Grace can't move on from her miserable life and untimely death, not when there's been so little justice, so she wanders the grounds of the church for years, watching as her son grows up and becomes just like her father—but she finds herself paying more and more attention to Vera. If only she could save Vera from being stuck here the way she was (and if only she could finger-bang her up against the side of the crypt) ….
* Time travel! Maybe when Vera's about to blow town for good, she finds herself compelled to pull over for a hitchhiker who's trying to get out too. Meanwhile, Grace finds herself escaping more thoroughly than she ever thought possible as Vera drives her forward into the twenty-first century. I'm fine with her leaving at basically any point: did she just get fed up one day and decide it wasn't worth it to wait around for her inheritance? Is she pregnant and looking for an abortion? A way out in general? How does she adapt to Vera's world, and how can they build a life together? (I'm totally down with this including a weird amount of logistics about how Vera can, say, get an ID for her much-younger girlfriend who's supposed to be legally dead.)
* In any situation, Vera/Grace smoking kink: lighting cigarettes for each other, sharing a cigarette, relishing the chance to smoke and decompress away from all the shitty demands of their shitty lives, one of them loving how the other looks wreathed in smoke.
Benoit Blanc & Jud Duplenticy
Benoit Blanc/Jud Duplenticy
(I didn't have enough ideas specifically including Phillip to request Blanc/Jud/Phillip, but Phillip certainly welcome to appear to whatever degree you like. If it's Blanc/Jud and you want to account for him, poly arrangements and amicable breakups are both fine, as if him not being mentioned at all—I'll just make something up on my end.)
* Jud instinctively punches someone for gloating about "Benoit Blanc, pwned." Low- or no-consequences version, he winds up getting his bloodied/bruised knuckles tended to by Blanc himself, who saw it all? Or if you want to go in a plottier or more dramatic direction, this results in him getting suspended or even leaving the Church? Does Blanc not hear about it until he runs into Jud later? What's his reaction when he finds out what happened? What's it like to be the one getting defended for a change?
* A conspiracy theory that Jud deliberately killed that man in the ring surfaces, and Blanc finds himself getting drawn into the mix to disprove it. This may necessitate watching a lot of old footage of Jud, in the ring, shirtless. It may also involve having feelings about seeing the moment when an angry past Jud suddenly realizes what he's done and breaks down.
* Jefferson Wicks's malevolent spirit seems to be haunting the church and/or village. (I'm good with a literal manifestation, including ghost sightings, or "irrational flare-ups of rage and bitterness in a congregation that's otherwise very pleased with its new priest," or "weird how the new crucifix Jud carves keeps falling down, whoops, now the diamond is skittering across the floor," or whatever works for you.) Blanc doesn't initially believe in the supernatural any more than he believes in God, but he's willing to either look at it as a new thing to rationally explore or Scooby Doo the shit out of it, especially since it's putting Jud on edge and making him miserable. Actual supernatural, faux-supernatural engineered by people, and "you thought this was supernatural but it's actually just that this wall isn't straight and you're exhausted" are all totally welcome.
* This upstate New York village, in the grand tradition of villages appearing in murder mysteries, has a shockingly high number of weird murders, so Blanc has to keep coming back. Jud proves a consistently good sounding board. I love the idea that Blanc is generally someone who keeps his private life private but that Jud is a good enough listener that he sort of naturally draws some intimacies and confidences out of him (ranging from silly to serious) as Blanc relaxes around him.
* Blanc gets hurt on an investigation, and Jud looks after him. I feel like Blanc could be good at being pampered and enjoying creature comforts ordinarily, but he gets frustrated and grumpy when he's in pain and doesn't like having to rely on other people; Jud would be good at dealing with that and providing TLC and dignity.
* Blanc keeps hesitating before gently touching Jud partly because he doesn't want to get used to doing it. Somehow manhandling him for his own good is easier, but a longer acquaintance with Jud winds up giving him a lot of opportunities for it—and soon he's manhandled him right into bed, to their mutual satisfaction.
* If you want to go ultra-iddy: omegaverse where alphas and omegas are exempted from priestly celibacy during heats/ruts, and they're supposed to help each other out. Alpha Wicks has been going into rut (of a sort) despite the prostatectomy, and omega Jud has been dealing with it because it's his duty. He would have liked to have had someone else deal with his heats, but everyone in town is too scared of Wicks to take "his" omega. Then Wicks dies right when Jud is stressed and on the verge of heat, and alpha Blanc arrives. He can tell what's going on and doesn't want to trigger it, but ….
Ladyhawke
Isabeau d'Anjou/Philippe Gaston/Etienne Navarre
* Post-movie, Philippe tries to suppress or overcome his pining for Navarre and Isabeau (since he assumes they're off the table) by becoming a third to a different couple. This does not work … but he's picked an obnoxious pair who treat him like a disposable toy, and Isabeau and Navarre are slowly losing their minds with a combination of jealousy and "you should appreciate him more!" outrage, so it might work in another, better way …. I'm very here for Philippe trying to pretend this is what he wants, yes, very happy, thank you, while he's getting treated shabbily and Navarre and Isabeau are seething and preparing to rescue (and ravish) him.
* While the curse is still in effect, Navarre and Isabeau set up a pattern where Philippe will go down on one of them shortly before they transform and then kiss the other (now human) one so they can taste each other by proxy. Although they're both also getting into the proxy himself.
* I love the idea that Philippe spends the entire movie barely getting any sleep because he's spending 90% of the night up with Isabeau and 90% of the day up with Navarre, and they understandably don't realize it because their human forms "rest" when they're transformed. I'd be delighted by anything where Imperius takes Philippe somewhere to crash after the end of the movie, and then Isabeau and Navarre try to get him up for something—to ask him to come with them? to declare their love?--and he's adorably groggy and out-of-it for longer than they expect. They whisk him away for romantic first time sex in a castle and he keeps conking out and waking up dazed? Frustration, tenderness, hair-petting, mild h/c and protectiveness? I'm also totally down for this eventually leading to some somnophilia once he finally sleepily tells them to just get started because they already feel like the best kind of dream.
* Navarre and Isabeau awkwardly courting Philippe! He could supply them with romantic dialogue for each other, but they need to come up with theirs for him by themselves—or go with some sweet gestures, like Navarre bringing him breakfast in the movie. I love both "Philippe assumes they're the grand love story and he's just the sidekick, so he can't pick up on the many, many signals they're sending" and "Philippe is enjoying the attention, but really, he doesn't know why this slow burn is necessary, he's happy to just get down to the romance now."
* Futurefic Christmas or anniversary, etc., where all three of them plan on exchanging gifts! Is it an established relationship where they all know this is what they're doing, and the focus is on the happiness and contentment and the romance of picking things out? Is Philippe not an official—or at least not fully established and comfortable—part of the relationship yet, so the gifts are also a way of conveying longing and a hope for something more?
* Futurefic competence kink/weird roleplay where Philippe occasionally tries—with everyone's permission—to steal something from Navarre and Isabeau, who try to catch him at that. Philippe being a good and deft thief makes Isabeau and Navarre horny; Navarre and Isabeau being clever and forceful and possibly catching him in the act makes Philippe horny. Many kisses are mutually stolen in the process. A little bondage may be necessary to make sure this thief stays put, or to make sure his pursuers don't catch up with him.
* Outsider POV with Imperius, where it takes him a while to work out what's going on with the new household arrangement these three have set up—is Philippe a squire? A protégé? A servant? A lifelong guest? Is this an affair?--and gradually making sense of it and being pleased for everyone involved.
* Any kind of hurt/comfort. Flogging? Kidnapping? Another curse? The Bishop's evil ghost? Lingering trauma and nightmares? These three are such a good fit for comfort and protectiveness, and they feel like they're bound to get into plenty more adventures that could lead to dangerous situations. I would eat all this up with a spoon.
Our Flag Means Death
Fandom-specific DNWs: Izzy's death (except for prompts where I've requested it). Jim, Olu, and Archie leaving the crew.
Frenchie/Israel Hands
* Even more gleeful anachronisms than usual: a raid leaves the crew with a huge supply of shoddy chocolate. When they make port, Frenchie takes it upon himself to invent Valentine's Day, convincing everyone ashore that there's a very real holiday for celebrating romance and that their significant others will expect gifts. It's also the perfect time to tell someone how you feel! With chocolate, that you can buy from him! But his scheme is so effective that the Revenge crew winds up getting into the Valentine's Day spirit too, and with all the romance in the air, Frenchie may as well use this chance to make a move on Izzy ….
* Frenchie needs a fake boyfriend for a bit of grift. Maybe Izzy (grumpily, snarkily) agrees to get drawn into the proceedings? Or maybe someone else does, and Izzy winds up having a hard time watching Frenchie trade casually loving touches with someone and call them pet names, and that serves as a catalyst for him making his feelings clear?
* Breakup boat-era feelings and/or hookups—frantic and stressed and surprisingly tender? Moments where things teeter on the edge of tipping over from platonic to otherwise? Frenchie trying to hold on to his cheerful fatalism but slipping sometimes and needing comfort? Hurt/comfort with either of them tending to the other or trying to protect each other? Bit of hand-holding or a stolen kiss when they're in the brig on the Red Flag?
* Breakup boat-era Frenchie accidentally gets dosed with truth serum of the "compulsively babble whatever comes to mind" variety, which means the box is coming open whether he likes it or not. Izzy tries to distract him from having too bad a time with it (both when it comes to Frenchie confronting his own trauma and when risking riling up a currently-unpredictable Ed).
* Frenchie gets very into Izzy's drag look, so Izzy gives him a private show. Maybe they also try some makeup on Frenchie and get into that as well? Or Frenchie gets bedecked with some more flowers?
* Exception to my DNW about Izzy's death: Post-S2, Frenchie decides to venture to a non-traditional underworld in order to retrieve Izzy, but he does it in his own idiosyncratic way where he's effectively making up the afterlife rules as he goes along—and this improvisational magic actually works to effect a resurrection. Orpheus/Eurydice with a happy ending! Frenchie's lute can stand in for a lyre! I'm also good with other variations on "Frenchie cobbles together bits of improv and superstition in order to effectively con the universe into giving him back an Izzy," so I'm here for any kind of weird resurrection/retrieval along those lines.
* Izzy lives and stays on as first mate to Captain Frenchie. If they're not together, does this make Izzy's attraction to him shift into another, more obvious gear, because he does love a good authority figure? If so, what's it like for Frenchie to suddenly be such a focal point for Izzy's loyalty and intensity and service kink? How does it eventually become clear that their relationship isn't just about that? Alternately, does Izzy decide—whether they're already in a relationship or not—that Frenchie being the captain puts him off-limits because They Have to Be Professional? I'd love to see Frenchie convincing him otherwise.
* Captain Frenchie decides Izzy deserves a break and that he should just be a semi-retired figure who's part of the life of the ship but doesn't have all the work of being a first mate. Izzy, of course, construes this as a total rejection of his potential usefulness. Can Frenchie get him to accept a more relaxed life, or is the right solution for Izzy to still have a more official role after all? Is there a weird period where Izzy tries to make his official role "captain's bedwarmer," and things get mildly angsty before they get better?
Israel Hands & Jim Jimenez
Israel Hands/Jim Jimenez
* Jim didn't go through all the trouble of pulling off an amateur leg amputation just for Izzy to get both his leg and himself in unreasonable danger, so they develop a major protective streak towards him. Izzy goes on an emotional journey from "this is fucking insulting" to "this is fucking hot"/"this is giving me Feelings."
* Izzy getting off on the competence porn of Jim's knife-throwing and knife-fighting, and Jim gradually noticing it and starting to show off more. Izzy would like to disapprove and yell at them for grandstanding, but he's too busy being hard.
* Exception to my DNW about Izzy's death: I adore Jim inheriting his glove, and I'd love anything exploring them claiming that (or Izzy having left it to them—I could see him potentially having some very terse will) and having feelings about it. I love anything in the spectrum of their relationship, from sex and romance to crew bonding to a kind of surrogate parent-child relationship, so anything from "mourning lover Jim jerks off with the glove on" to "Jim treasures Izzy's glove like it's their family knife, and for the same reasons," is excellent—whatever direction you want to go in.
* The two of them hooking up after Calypso's Birthday, still in their drag outfits, and just being super into both it and each other.
* Also just porn in general, because it would be ferociously hot. I would be thrilled with anything, but if it's helpful, I could definitely see them being into things like knifeplay, honor bondage, D/s with top Jim, hair-touching, overstimulation, body appreciation, and deliberately leaving bruises/marks/bites. But seriously, anything.
* Jim gets temporarily magically de-aged to an intense, extremely untrusting child or teenager focused solely on revenge and getting back to their Nana. Izzy is actually very good at looking after them and helping draw them out of their shell a bit without pushing them too hard.
* Comfort during the breakup boat era! Post-severed-toes comfort, comfort for exhaustion and being pushed to their limits, post-mutiny comfort when they're starving and think they're probably going to die, comfort sex, emotionally complicated comfort where Jim's still resentful and/or furious but is going to reluctantly accept or offer comfort anyway ….
* Jim's emotional journey from "you're a fucking asshole who marooned my boyfriend, tried to kill my captain, and antagonized the guy who's now got us trapped in a floating hell" to "he's a dick, but he's our dick." Just glimpses of their evolving relationship with Izzy as they go from hate to attachment and from seeing him as an antagonist to an ally/crewmate/friend/lover/whatever.
* Vaguely True Grit-inspired pre-S1 AU where Izzy is on his own for some reason (he and Ed are in the middle of a dubiously professional spat? He's on extended shore leave to recuperate from some injury and chafing for something to do? He's rethinking his whole life?) and Jim winds up hiring him to help out with their revenge plans.
Stede Bonnet & Israel Hands
Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
* 2x07 AU without Ricky's attack on the Republic or the possibility of Olu, Jim, and Archie leaving—just recently dumped Stede morosely getting drunk and still dealing with the lingering high of newfound fame. He talks Izzy into having a few more drinks before they go back to the ship … and the next thing he knows, he's waking up fuzzy-headed, hungover, and apparently married to an equally hungover and confused Izzy. Obviously this is a huge mistake! Izzy tried to kill him! More than once! Yes, they're getting along better now, but they're certainly not in love! But then again, a lot of the crew seems to think they were having a good time last night and seem happy for them, so—maybe they'll go along with it for a while? Give it a shot for the sake of morale? Romance ensues.
* Honestly, anything set in that style of 2x07 AU (crew intact, Republic fine, but Ed's left to become a fisherman) is such a great setup for Stede/Izzy, and I would be delighted to see anything in that time frame. I really like the trope of having a second love that, while maybe not as grand or immediately as passionate or intense, is still just as significant and lovely and worth having. And bizarrely, despite their, uh, fraught history, 2x05 and afterwards convinced me that they could have a genuinely nice, laidback bitch4bitch relationship that I really want to read about. So fuckbuddies-to-lovers or surprisingly functional work partners to lovers, having oddly sweet moments over dealing with crew business and raids, rebound sex, tentative first kisses … anything.
* I'd also love the gen version of this scenario! Take out the additional stressors at the end of 2x07 and just let Stede deal with his breakup with the resigned help of his boyfriend's sort-of ex, with Izzy doing some annoyed caretaking and maybe stopping Stede from having an ill-advised rebound hookup. Just a lot of: "He'll come back, Bonnet, no, I'm not fucking holding your hair while you throw up."
* More captaincy/seamanship lessons! I love both the hands-on skills like rope-swinging and the more management-style lessons about listening to the crew about curses, and I love Izzy being visibly-if-reluctantly impressed at Stede's successes. More of that would be great. And for the shippy variation, there's so much good potential for competence kink, praise kink, Izzy getting off on their relationship being marked out in a series of Stede's new calluses, etc.
* Izzy platonically approves of Stede's more practical S2 wardrobe and/or is totally into the bodice ripper hero look, but after the cursed red suit debacle, he grits his teeth and keeps an eye out for either fancy outfits or high-quality silks, satins, and velvets on future raids, and eventually he presents Stede with a non-cursed bit of fashion for days when he desperately needs something fancy.
* S1 AUs where things go a little bit better—no duel, for example—but their dynamic is still extremely tense and testy and full of mutual dislike, but then something happens to make them reevaluate each other: they're kidnapped? They have to work together to rescue Ed? They're both kind of impressed with the other's conduct during a bad storm?
* I love the idea of S2 Izzy starting to see Stede as his captain, even if he doesn't want to admit it, so anything with a bit of loyalty/authority kink in that regard would be very welcome. He slips and calls Stede captain or deliberately acknowledges him as his captain in front of other people? This pairs really well with some protectiveness, like in some scenario where they run into another old school bully of Stede's and Izzy really bristles at their interactions, defends Stede, and encourages Stede to further defend himself.
Pluribus
Laxmi & The Others
Laxmi & Ravi
* Anything contrasting Laxmi's relationship with the real, pre-Joining Ravi and "Ravi" as "he" is now. I'd love to follow Laxmi's journey as she realizes (or tries not to realize) that her son isn't nearly as much of her son as she wants to believe (or as he's pretending to be to spare her feelings). Is she doing okay ignoring most of the signs until she finds, say, a home movie of the old Ravi and sees the difference?
* Laxmi tries to coach the current Ravi to act more like his old self, and she's disturbed that while he can technically recall everything about "his" life before this, it doesn't seem to come naturally to him. Does she think this is a problem? Try to comfort him?
* Since she still has some family members alive and around as part of the hive mind, what is her daily life like? How much do they playact normalcy for her, and what is it like? Do they ever slip up (the way Zosia does when trying to use first-person pronouns)? Does she ever enjoy making use of their new condition and have any staged fantasies or incredible luxuries like Koumba does? If she tries that, does it chip away at her attempt to believe her family is still her family? Does she ever run afoul of their inability to lie?
* The diminishing food supply is probably even more of a concern when your young son can't even pluck an apple. How worried is Laxmi about the looming crisis? Has she asked for guarantees that Ravi and her husbands will have their needs met first? Has she let them consume HDP, or is she making sure they all share her meals with her?
* And more generally, what kind of future does she imagine for her child in the midst of all this? He no longer needs an education, since he knows everything everyone else knows; he no longer needs a career in any traditional sense. He can take care of her, but she'll never see him really achieve anything. I'd love to see Laxmi & Ravi (The Others) through the years to some kind of futurefic scenario where things haven't gotten back to normal: how is she feeling about the situation then? What are their lives like?
* Conversely, what is it like if things do go back to normal? How do you raise a son who may or may not remember having a shared consciousness? What would a restored Ravi think about all this? Would he perceive that time as a kind of nightmarish body-snatching/overriding and be angry with her for having accepted it, or would he miss the apparent happiness and peace of mind? What's it like for him to suddenly go back to not knowing how to do everything, if he can't retain all the knowledge in detail?
* Ravi and the Others try to talk Laxmi into allowing them to take her stem cells. Is she at all tempted by the idea of being fused with the rest of her family (and the rest of her planet), or is she horrified by the idea? Does she frame her refusal as purely practical (someone has to pluck the apples around here), or does she let herself register the emotional impact too?
* What's the joined Ravi's POV on his mother? How much of him survives for the world to draw on for its performance in that individual's body? Can the Others theorize how Ravi would have grown up and have him feign particular interests as time goes by, simulating an individual life for Laxmi's sake? Do they try it and fail?
* Laxmi accidentally loses her temper and sends Ravi into a seizure. Or would any strong emotion do it? What if her husband dies in an accident and she can't even grieve him without endangering her son?
Psych
Burton "Gus" Guster/Shawn Spencer
* Shawn and Gus have to go undercover as drag artists. Even if they start off reluctant, they wind up both very picky about their styles and wanting to look incredible—and succeeding so well that they wind up really, really turning each other on. (I'm 100% happy to have a whole casefic from this angle, too: I would happily watch them settling into their assumed roles, making friends, ferreting out a killer, and then hooking up and getting lipstick all over each other and figuring out how much of this—besides the sex, obviously—they want to keep up.)
* Established relationship fic where Gus proposes to Shawn via subtle clues that he knows Shawn will piece together with his observational skills (at least once he works out that something's up with Gus), because these two feel like they should have a weird-ass scavenger hunt story for how they got engaged.
* After "Gus's Dead May Have Killed an Old Guy," Gus's parents make Shawn/Gus their OTP and assume that the two of them are not-so-secretly together? (Let's just say that Shawn/Joy never happened.) They keep hinting that it's past time for wedding bells, encouraging the two of them to go on romantic getaways, etc. Shawn spent so long with Gus's parents not liking him that he's not going to give up their approval now, so clearly he and Gus should just more obviously fake-date to seal the deal on this. (And to be fair, Gus isn't wild about how his parents now act like he's a scoundrel if he goes on a date with anyone else.) They're already basically doing it anyway! It doesn't have to change things! … It totally changes things.
* Reverse of the "only one bed" trope. Shawn and Gus keep running into situations where there's only one bed and they're simply forced to spend the night doing some plausibly deniable cuddling. At this point, they take their only-one-bed "bad" luck for granted … until they wind up in a hotel room that actually has two beds and everything gets weird and pining-filled as they have to confront that they don't want that extra bed.
* Gus's SuperSmeller (™) means that he really, really likes the way Shawn smells, and he's not above sniffing the back of his neck, burying his nose in Shawn's armpit, etc. So there's the horny side of things, but there's also him liking the scent of Shawn's hair on his pillow when Shawn has to be out of town, or how weird and unfamiliar it is when Shawn's gotten hurt and smells like the hospital, etc.
* Mpreg where Gus gets pregnant from either a one-night stand or a relationship that's definitely not going to go the distance (nor will the other parent be sticking around voluntarily). Gus—maybe to his own surprise—decides he wants to keep the baby. Shawn is torn between going into turbo-drive on making Gus's pregnancy as comfortable and funny as possible and going into an unexpected tailspin about how he now feels like he's also automatically becoming a dad, and what does that mean? Cue flirtation and panic and slipping into easy cohabitation/domesticity and maybe a little difficult pregnancy h/c. (Gus definitely needs some pampering, at the very least.)
* A relative of a previous suspect wants to expose Shawn as a fraud in order to tank his credibility, so they abduct him and give him truth serum, hoping to record him confessing to making everything up. But since the truth serum just lowers his inhibitions and makes him babble, he has a shot of avoiding ruining his career as long as he steers himself towards talking about something else. And what can he talk about for hours? Gus. Definitely Gus.
Burton "Gus" Guster/Juliet O'Hara/Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer
I'm good with everything from "all four of these people have equal romantic/sexual relationships with each other" and looser polycules where maybe not everyone is fully dating or sleeping with everyone else, as long as they're all important to each other and it's recognized that they're all part of the relationship, no matter what it looks like.
* Tweaking one of my Shawn/Gus prompts: Shawn and Gus go undercover as drag artists, and not only do they wind up being very into each other that way, Juliet and Lassiter wind up being incredibly into it too. Does Lassie get surprisingly chivalrous with them when they're in drag? Does Jules help with the makeup and maybe get a drag king look going on? Does everyone try to convince themselves that this is just a flirty/kinky thing and the newly awakened feelings will go right back into the box once the case is over?
* Shawn's only had one real (on-and-off) boyfriend—a total tool whom Gus absolutely hates, but who always sucks Shawn back into his orbit when he's around. I'm totally fine with this landing anywhere from lighthearted to angsty/whumpy. The terrible boyfriend can be a run-of-the-mill dick—borrows a ton of money, never follows through on plans, splits when Shawn's hoping things are serious—or he can do something more serious like cheat or, for maximum angst and protectiveness, get abusive. Either way, Gus hates him but can't talk Shawn out of seeing him—and now the guy's back in town. Gus reluctantly enlists Lassie and Juliet to help him run interference and maybe try to send the asshole boyfriend packing. Huh, seems like they're all really protective of Shawn and feel like he could do better. Maybe once they get this guy out of here, they can prove it—and realize that the four of them work together well outside of cases too.
* There's a killer striking at the local Santa Barbara poly community, so the four of them have to go undercover as a polycule—and, of course, make sure they're convincing enough to not immediately warn the killer that they're there. I just want to bury them under an avalanche of fake relationship tropes where they all have to casually touch each other and pretend to be romantic and discover that they're mostly pretending to be pretending. I feel like these four are an especially great fit for this because they'd all have such different lines in the sand of what they're used to (physically, emotionally, etc.), who they're used to it with, and where it would start to feel real.
* The four of them are out in the field alone when they get exposed to sex pollen and require immediate "treatment." Do they start off trying to stick with masturbation or with couplings that somehow feel easier to justify, like partners with partners, only to find that they can't resist the temptation to make it a free-for-all? I love the idea of them all being overwhelmed with lust but also still very much themselves—bantery and prickly and fun and weird—and that making it obvious that there's genuine attachment and attraction in all directions in addition to the pollen. (Maybe someone else even shows up partway through, but the foursome has no interest in them?)
* One of them is stuck in a time loop. It takes some time getting the others to believe them (and maybe at first they assume they're stuck until they solve a case/do something else), but that's actually not the biggest hurdle. The problem is that obviously this is Groundhog Day, which means one of them is Bill Murray and maybe the others are all Andie McDowell! Confessing feelings to just one person doesn't break the loop, so apparently this isn't going to stop until they all seal the deal ….
* Any kind of slice-of-life as an established relationship (or an establishing one, where they're together but they're still trying to figure out what that togetherness looks like). What do their holidays look like? What do their families know (or suspect) about their relationship? How do they support each other when something goes wrong for one of them?
Twin Peaks
Fandom-specific DNW: institutionalized Audrey during The Return. Supernatural explanations for her S3 plot are totally fine.
Audrey Horne/Laura Palmer
* Golden Age Hollywood AU. I can just see Laura Palmer as a tragic Golden Age actress with a lot of drug/alcohol/sex scandals the studio has hushed up. Is she still dealing with BOB and his possession of her father, just while also trying to manage an acting career and the fragile life of being a kind of public daydream? Meanwhile, she and Audrey, another actress with a different kind of public image, are inexorably drawn to each other… Or I could also see Audrey as someone striving to produce or direct, even if she’s not going to be allowed to take the credit for it--and maybe she really wants Laura to be her star?
* Laura gets to reclaim her body and sexuality and slowly discover her own desires. I’d love to see anything in that line, whether it’s difficult and angsty--she wants to have sex with Audrey, and they do have sex, but it brings up a lot of traumatic memories that she’s having trouble dealing with--or celebratory and hot or anything in between. It could also be great to see the two of them making some home movies or taking some dirty pictures, this time maybe with Laura behind the camera, getting to see what it feels like to be the one filming instead of the one constantly made into an image?
* Audrey and Laura grow closer, pre-canon, and help each other escape. For Audrey, it’s just about getting out of a small town she’s not sure she likes very much, but for Laura, it’s about getting away from BOB, and the stakes are infinitely higher. I’d love to see the two of them sort of on the run from a supernatural force together, sticking close to each other while they try to set up new lives, and starting to develop feelings for each other. Can Audrey help protect her? How much can Laura reveal to her? Anything in this situation would be incredible.
* Audrey winds up stuck in a time loop on the day or week of Laura’s murder, like something wants her to figure out how to stop it. Or Laura is in a loop and unexpectedly chooses to confide in Audrey, who decides to believe her just because it’s the more interesting possibility.
* Anything pre-canon with the sense of the two of them being drawn to each other and somehow attuned to each other, even though they’re not really close (or at least not really friends). I’d love to see their perspectives on each other, especially since they have all these very different contexts of knowing each other--school, rumors, their dads’ partnership/family ties, etc--that give them very different facets of each other. (And of course Laura has an additional, unwanted perspective on Ben Horne that Audrey doesn’t know about.)
* S3 fic where the boundaries between them are thin, and they can have dreamy, otherworldly encounters in the Red Room? Recurring fits of dream sex?
Dale Cooper/Audrey Horne
* Any kind of get-together fic. Tenderness in the aftermath of Audrey’s ordeal at One-Eyed Jack’s? Cooper finishes up his investigation into Laura’s death but does get that little Twin Peaks house he’d been eyeing and he and Audrey have a slow burn progression into romance when he’s there between assignments? They run into each other a few years after the original series and reconnect? Undercover as a couple? Return-era first time, full of melancholy regrets about wasted time and with or without weird time/reality-slippage?
* Audrey’s excitement over seeing that Denise was a DEA agent was adorable, so any AU with future DEA or FBI agent Audrey Cooper would be great. I’d love to see her and Cooper working some kind of case together. X-Files setup where they investigate Blue Rose cases all over America?
* Golden Age detective AU, with traditional ratiocination coming face-to-face with Lynchian weirdness. Does Cooper somehow formulate his own distinctive style of detection even in this mold? Or is he interviewing people and dissecting alibis and looking for contradictions while being told the owls are not what they seem? And what's to make of the young lady in the case? He's falling in love with her, but is she possibly a murder suspect? Does Audrey still basically attach herself to him as his assistant?
* Surreal/fantasy-style/fairytale situations. One of them rescuing the other from the Black Lodge? Cooper rescuing Audrey from the purgatorial, nightmarish white room she finds herself in at the end of season three, with Audrey having to figure out how to break through somehow to help him? S3 Audrey-with-Charlie is a tulpa, and the real Audrey is in the White Room, dislocated in space and time, sometimes catching glimpses of her other life? Audrey as Little Red Riding Hood, walking through the woods and off the path, looking for her special agent, and maybe having to pick him out from a crowd of wolfish doppelgangers? Reenacting “The Snow Queen” and having to restore Cooper’s heart post-S2? Audrey under a Sleeping Beauty enchantment that only Cooper can lift? They’re in the woods together when there’s a sex pollen outbreak that means their first time is going to be an accelerated, desperate act, and even more vulnerable than usual?
* Maybe Cooper is able to go back in time to before Laura's death, but under different--and maybe more hopeful--circumstances and with different results than at the end of S3? Or Audrey is the one who travels back and has to try to save Laura, and she calls Cooper for help? (Cooper is, after all, someone who would believe a random phone call saying you know him from the future.) Or I'd love to see one of them displaced in time and living their life out-of-order.
* Additional porn likes: first time sex with virginity loss, body appreciation, vulnerability, tenderness, dirty talk, tie bondage, undercover assignment costume porn and clothed sex, leisurely exploration, oral, edging, feverish sex, dreamlike Lodge sex, hallucinated sex, taking dirty pictures, reading Victorian porn together.
I have gifts enabled, and treats are very welcome! All requests this year are for fic.
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Likes
hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers (or friends), friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, moral complexity, nuanced 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, complicated relationships, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, first-time stories, established relationships, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationships, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, made them do it, noncon-related hurt/comfort, rape recovery, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include unless otherwise noted.
General Sex Likes/Kinks
clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, rimming, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or downbeat), coming untouched, coming in pants, voyeurism, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, possessiveness, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, scat, bestiality, necrophilia
Gentleman Jim
James Corbett/Carlton De Witt/Victoria Ware
* Jim finally loses a fight—or wins one only after also getting battered to a pulp—and while his family would obviously take care of him, Victoria and Carlton sweep him off his feet first and wind up giving him some TLC that ultimately leans more on the tender and loving side than any of them were prepared for. I'm good with this as both an established OT3 scenario—in that case, I love the idea that the Corbetts at least kind of get what's going on and let Victoria and Carlton get their boy—or some "we came to watch him take a licking, but not like this" eruption of feelings. Concussed Jim talking about feelings?
* Jim and Victoria get engaged or even married, but Jim keeps surprising her by expressing a kind of fondness for her ex-boyfriend; he wants them all to have dinner and see where things go from there. I kind of love the idea that Jim would, in his own insouciant way, size up that he and Victoria are a volatile couple who could use a calmer third person who never truly irritates either one of them, and then go full-bore into courting Carlton De Witt with all his usual subtlety and humility. Of course he wants to join their marriage! Why wouldn't he?
* Enthusiastically bratty, mouthy sub Jim porn where he likes to stir up his two tops and get spanked for it and only eventually petted and praised. I like the idea of everyone getting a thrill out of impact play: he's famously hard to lay a glove on in the ring, but he'll cooperate with this and let himself get hit and like it, and it's kind of intoxicating for everyone involved. (Also, any other kind of porn—I can see this being a fun, adventurous trio in bed, complete with Jim getting competitive about giving everyone the most/best orgasms.)
* AU where Victoria marries Carlton after all—maybe impulsively and partly to spite Jim?--and then finds herself trying to make this marriage work while also figuring out what to do about this incredibly irritating, incredibly hot boxer she's drawn to, with the complication that her new husband doesn't seem like he minds this association at all. I'd be curious what it would look like to actually have Jim be the unexpected obstacle in the formation of a throuple, especially if he's trying to live up to the gentleman label: first he's dealing with seeming rejection from Victoria marrying someone else, and then he's trying to avoid being a homewrecker from two different directions at once (before he works out he's not wrecking anything). Or—a stickier, harder problem to resolve—Jim has problems feeling like the optional, fun accessory in an upper-class marriage, and it takes a while for them to convince him that he's not just a side dish.
* The Corbett family quickly realizes Jim has feelings for Victoria and then they more slowly also work out that he's getting to be fond of her almost-fiancé, too. Well, clearly that makes them both pretty much part of the family, so a bewildered Victoria and Carlton find themselves beset by a huge family eager to make sure they feel included. I don't know what "enthusiastic family matchmaking in a poly scenario in the 1880s" would even look like, but I want to, and I feel like the Corbetts could figure it out and eventually lead to a somewhat dizzying romance. Also good with this in a normalized poly marriage universe! (That's fine for any other prompts here too.)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Dave Hansen/Debbie Stone/Mike Tobacco
* Post-movie, the trio have to take a decontamination shower to get any potentially dangerous confetti/glitter and pie off them, and one (naked) thing leads to another (naked) thing ….
* I'm also very here for "whoops, it turned out the falling debris had sex pollen-like effects." Maybe it takes a while for these to kick in, like it took a while for the popcorn to come to life? So they all go home, thinking that it's over … and then they have to actually make the choice to rush back into each other's arms? Or: killer klown pie-induced three-way soulbond?
* Afterwards, the three of them all have problems with nightmares or PTSD—and they're also the three people who best understand what it's like to get shaky when they see some old-fashioned clown doll or hear a couple notes of circus music, so it makes sense to commiserate with each other. Maybe it also makes sense to sleep in the same bed so it's easy to do a little post-nightmare comforting.
* Post-movie, they find a surviving balloon dog roaming around town, and hey, it's not the dog's fault that its owners were killer klowns from outer space. They wind up adopting it—or one of them does it first, and then ropes the other two in?--and taking care of it while trying to keep its existence secret from everyone investigating the bizarre events.
* The spaceship actually winds up taking off with the three of them on board, forcing them to try to survive in a perilous and very, very weird environment. Are the klowns actively roaming around the ship, making it necessary for the trio to hide (and cram into some small spaces together)? Do they go into a kind of hibernation during the trip, effectively giving Dave, Debbie, and Mike free rein and control of the vessel? Can they kill the klowns and take over? Can they find non-deadly versions of popcorn, pies, and cotton candy to eat? Do they land on the klown planet? I'd just love any look at the three of them trying to survive and even build a bizarre kind of life in a completely alien environment.
* Futurefic where they maybe had a fling after the events of the movie but then, out of embarrassment and not knowing how to make things work, all went their separate ways—but now the klowns are back, and as some of the only people who have ever faced them down and lived, Dave, Debbie, and Mike are recruited to help fight back (or at least teach other people what to do). Time for a second chance romance!
Knives Out
Fandom-specific DNWs: Explicit scenes of Grace/her dad (implications or brief mentions are fine). Religious kink (Jud looking hot while wearing a priest collar is fine; I'm just not into him looking hot because he's in a priest collar). Blanc converting or having a religious experience. Jud losing his faith (leaving the priesthood is fine).
Vera Draven/Grace Wicks
* Ever since Vera's father suddenly saddled her with a ten-year-old son, she's been having surprisingly vivid dreams about another woman who was also forced to raise a child under peculiar circumstances. Mutual fury and expressions of suppressed bitterness and anger—because you can vent in a dream, it's fine, right?--gradually turn into intermittent commiseration and then also into hot sex. Feel free to have their relationship and sex life be messy and difficult or to have it evolve into a canon-divergence-generating machine for change where Vera winds up taking Cy away from the village and Wicks's sway because of her dream girlfriend's influence.
* More meeting-up-in-dreams, but from Grace's POV. I can see this going bleaker, especially if there's no way for her to change her fate, but I'm having so many feelings about her at least getting some nighttime encounters with Vera, even if she thinks they're all in her head. How much of it is consoling? How much of it is just another reminder of the life she's not living? How can they explore everything they're being denied?
* Ghost sex/time slippage? Sometimes, when Vera's doing legal work that's best conducted on church property for Reasons, she sees a woman with a desperate, haunted look hanging around the crypt. One day Vera offers her a cigarette … and then things go from there.
* After Vera moves away at the end of the movie, she finds that something's followed her, though it takes her a while to realize that it's Grace's ghost: she's attached herself to the person who best understood her.
* Still more ghost possibilities! Grace can't move on from her miserable life and untimely death, not when there's been so little justice, so she wanders the grounds of the church for years, watching as her son grows up and becomes just like her father—but she finds herself paying more and more attention to Vera. If only she could save Vera from being stuck here the way she was (and if only she could finger-bang her up against the side of the crypt) ….
* Time travel! Maybe when Vera's about to blow town for good, she finds herself compelled to pull over for a hitchhiker who's trying to get out too. Meanwhile, Grace finds herself escaping more thoroughly than she ever thought possible as Vera drives her forward into the twenty-first century. I'm fine with her leaving at basically any point: did she just get fed up one day and decide it wasn't worth it to wait around for her inheritance? Is she pregnant and looking for an abortion? A way out in general? How does she adapt to Vera's world, and how can they build a life together? (I'm totally down with this including a weird amount of logistics about how Vera can, say, get an ID for her much-younger girlfriend who's supposed to be legally dead.)
* In any situation, Vera/Grace smoking kink: lighting cigarettes for each other, sharing a cigarette, relishing the chance to smoke and decompress away from all the shitty demands of their shitty lives, one of them loving how the other looks wreathed in smoke.
Benoit Blanc & Jud Duplenticy
Benoit Blanc/Jud Duplenticy
(I didn't have enough ideas specifically including Phillip to request Blanc/Jud/Phillip, but Phillip certainly welcome to appear to whatever degree you like. If it's Blanc/Jud and you want to account for him, poly arrangements and amicable breakups are both fine, as if him not being mentioned at all—I'll just make something up on my end.)
* Jud instinctively punches someone for gloating about "Benoit Blanc, pwned." Low- or no-consequences version, he winds up getting his bloodied/bruised knuckles tended to by Blanc himself, who saw it all? Or if you want to go in a plottier or more dramatic direction, this results in him getting suspended or even leaving the Church? Does Blanc not hear about it until he runs into Jud later? What's his reaction when he finds out what happened? What's it like to be the one getting defended for a change?
* A conspiracy theory that Jud deliberately killed that man in the ring surfaces, and Blanc finds himself getting drawn into the mix to disprove it. This may necessitate watching a lot of old footage of Jud, in the ring, shirtless. It may also involve having feelings about seeing the moment when an angry past Jud suddenly realizes what he's done and breaks down.
* Jefferson Wicks's malevolent spirit seems to be haunting the church and/or village. (I'm good with a literal manifestation, including ghost sightings, or "irrational flare-ups of rage and bitterness in a congregation that's otherwise very pleased with its new priest," or "weird how the new crucifix Jud carves keeps falling down, whoops, now the diamond is skittering across the floor," or whatever works for you.) Blanc doesn't initially believe in the supernatural any more than he believes in God, but he's willing to either look at it as a new thing to rationally explore or Scooby Doo the shit out of it, especially since it's putting Jud on edge and making him miserable. Actual supernatural, faux-supernatural engineered by people, and "you thought this was supernatural but it's actually just that this wall isn't straight and you're exhausted" are all totally welcome.
* This upstate New York village, in the grand tradition of villages appearing in murder mysteries, has a shockingly high number of weird murders, so Blanc has to keep coming back. Jud proves a consistently good sounding board. I love the idea that Blanc is generally someone who keeps his private life private but that Jud is a good enough listener that he sort of naturally draws some intimacies and confidences out of him (ranging from silly to serious) as Blanc relaxes around him.
* Blanc gets hurt on an investigation, and Jud looks after him. I feel like Blanc could be good at being pampered and enjoying creature comforts ordinarily, but he gets frustrated and grumpy when he's in pain and doesn't like having to rely on other people; Jud would be good at dealing with that and providing TLC and dignity.
* Blanc keeps hesitating before gently touching Jud partly because he doesn't want to get used to doing it. Somehow manhandling him for his own good is easier, but a longer acquaintance with Jud winds up giving him a lot of opportunities for it—and soon he's manhandled him right into bed, to their mutual satisfaction.
* If you want to go ultra-iddy: omegaverse where alphas and omegas are exempted from priestly celibacy during heats/ruts, and they're supposed to help each other out. Alpha Wicks has been going into rut (of a sort) despite the prostatectomy, and omega Jud has been dealing with it because it's his duty. He would have liked to have had someone else deal with his heats, but everyone in town is too scared of Wicks to take "his" omega. Then Wicks dies right when Jud is stressed and on the verge of heat, and alpha Blanc arrives. He can tell what's going on and doesn't want to trigger it, but ….
Ladyhawke
Isabeau d'Anjou/Philippe Gaston/Etienne Navarre
* Post-movie, Philippe tries to suppress or overcome his pining for Navarre and Isabeau (since he assumes they're off the table) by becoming a third to a different couple. This does not work … but he's picked an obnoxious pair who treat him like a disposable toy, and Isabeau and Navarre are slowly losing their minds with a combination of jealousy and "you should appreciate him more!" outrage, so it might work in another, better way …. I'm very here for Philippe trying to pretend this is what he wants, yes, very happy, thank you, while he's getting treated shabbily and Navarre and Isabeau are seething and preparing to rescue (and ravish) him.
* While the curse is still in effect, Navarre and Isabeau set up a pattern where Philippe will go down on one of them shortly before they transform and then kiss the other (now human) one so they can taste each other by proxy. Although they're both also getting into the proxy himself.
* I love the idea that Philippe spends the entire movie barely getting any sleep because he's spending 90% of the night up with Isabeau and 90% of the day up with Navarre, and they understandably don't realize it because their human forms "rest" when they're transformed. I'd be delighted by anything where Imperius takes Philippe somewhere to crash after the end of the movie, and then Isabeau and Navarre try to get him up for something—to ask him to come with them? to declare their love?--and he's adorably groggy and out-of-it for longer than they expect. They whisk him away for romantic first time sex in a castle and he keeps conking out and waking up dazed? Frustration, tenderness, hair-petting, mild h/c and protectiveness? I'm also totally down for this eventually leading to some somnophilia once he finally sleepily tells them to just get started because they already feel like the best kind of dream.
* Navarre and Isabeau awkwardly courting Philippe! He could supply them with romantic dialogue for each other, but they need to come up with theirs for him by themselves—or go with some sweet gestures, like Navarre bringing him breakfast in the movie. I love both "Philippe assumes they're the grand love story and he's just the sidekick, so he can't pick up on the many, many signals they're sending" and "Philippe is enjoying the attention, but really, he doesn't know why this slow burn is necessary, he's happy to just get down to the romance now."
* Futurefic Christmas or anniversary, etc., where all three of them plan on exchanging gifts! Is it an established relationship where they all know this is what they're doing, and the focus is on the happiness and contentment and the romance of picking things out? Is Philippe not an official—or at least not fully established and comfortable—part of the relationship yet, so the gifts are also a way of conveying longing and a hope for something more?
* Futurefic competence kink/weird roleplay where Philippe occasionally tries—with everyone's permission—to steal something from Navarre and Isabeau, who try to catch him at that. Philippe being a good and deft thief makes Isabeau and Navarre horny; Navarre and Isabeau being clever and forceful and possibly catching him in the act makes Philippe horny. Many kisses are mutually stolen in the process. A little bondage may be necessary to make sure this thief stays put, or to make sure his pursuers don't catch up with him.
* Outsider POV with Imperius, where it takes him a while to work out what's going on with the new household arrangement these three have set up—is Philippe a squire? A protégé? A servant? A lifelong guest? Is this an affair?--and gradually making sense of it and being pleased for everyone involved.
* Any kind of hurt/comfort. Flogging? Kidnapping? Another curse? The Bishop's evil ghost? Lingering trauma and nightmares? These three are such a good fit for comfort and protectiveness, and they feel like they're bound to get into plenty more adventures that could lead to dangerous situations. I would eat all this up with a spoon.
Our Flag Means Death
Fandom-specific DNWs: Izzy's death (except for prompts where I've requested it). Jim, Olu, and Archie leaving the crew.
Frenchie/Israel Hands
* Even more gleeful anachronisms than usual: a raid leaves the crew with a huge supply of shoddy chocolate. When they make port, Frenchie takes it upon himself to invent Valentine's Day, convincing everyone ashore that there's a very real holiday for celebrating romance and that their significant others will expect gifts. It's also the perfect time to tell someone how you feel! With chocolate, that you can buy from him! But his scheme is so effective that the Revenge crew winds up getting into the Valentine's Day spirit too, and with all the romance in the air, Frenchie may as well use this chance to make a move on Izzy ….
* Frenchie needs a fake boyfriend for a bit of grift. Maybe Izzy (grumpily, snarkily) agrees to get drawn into the proceedings? Or maybe someone else does, and Izzy winds up having a hard time watching Frenchie trade casually loving touches with someone and call them pet names, and that serves as a catalyst for him making his feelings clear?
* Breakup boat-era feelings and/or hookups—frantic and stressed and surprisingly tender? Moments where things teeter on the edge of tipping over from platonic to otherwise? Frenchie trying to hold on to his cheerful fatalism but slipping sometimes and needing comfort? Hurt/comfort with either of them tending to the other or trying to protect each other? Bit of hand-holding or a stolen kiss when they're in the brig on the Red Flag?
* Breakup boat-era Frenchie accidentally gets dosed with truth serum of the "compulsively babble whatever comes to mind" variety, which means the box is coming open whether he likes it or not. Izzy tries to distract him from having too bad a time with it (both when it comes to Frenchie confronting his own trauma and when risking riling up a currently-unpredictable Ed).
* Frenchie gets very into Izzy's drag look, so Izzy gives him a private show. Maybe they also try some makeup on Frenchie and get into that as well? Or Frenchie gets bedecked with some more flowers?
* Exception to my DNW about Izzy's death: Post-S2, Frenchie decides to venture to a non-traditional underworld in order to retrieve Izzy, but he does it in his own idiosyncratic way where he's effectively making up the afterlife rules as he goes along—and this improvisational magic actually works to effect a resurrection. Orpheus/Eurydice with a happy ending! Frenchie's lute can stand in for a lyre! I'm also good with other variations on "Frenchie cobbles together bits of improv and superstition in order to effectively con the universe into giving him back an Izzy," so I'm here for any kind of weird resurrection/retrieval along those lines.
* Izzy lives and stays on as first mate to Captain Frenchie. If they're not together, does this make Izzy's attraction to him shift into another, more obvious gear, because he does love a good authority figure? If so, what's it like for Frenchie to suddenly be such a focal point for Izzy's loyalty and intensity and service kink? How does it eventually become clear that their relationship isn't just about that? Alternately, does Izzy decide—whether they're already in a relationship or not—that Frenchie being the captain puts him off-limits because They Have to Be Professional? I'd love to see Frenchie convincing him otherwise.
* Captain Frenchie decides Izzy deserves a break and that he should just be a semi-retired figure who's part of the life of the ship but doesn't have all the work of being a first mate. Izzy, of course, construes this as a total rejection of his potential usefulness. Can Frenchie get him to accept a more relaxed life, or is the right solution for Izzy to still have a more official role after all? Is there a weird period where Izzy tries to make his official role "captain's bedwarmer," and things get mildly angsty before they get better?
Israel Hands & Jim Jimenez
Israel Hands/Jim Jimenez
* Jim didn't go through all the trouble of pulling off an amateur leg amputation just for Izzy to get both his leg and himself in unreasonable danger, so they develop a major protective streak towards him. Izzy goes on an emotional journey from "this is fucking insulting" to "this is fucking hot"/"this is giving me Feelings."
* Izzy getting off on the competence porn of Jim's knife-throwing and knife-fighting, and Jim gradually noticing it and starting to show off more. Izzy would like to disapprove and yell at them for grandstanding, but he's too busy being hard.
* Exception to my DNW about Izzy's death: I adore Jim inheriting his glove, and I'd love anything exploring them claiming that (or Izzy having left it to them—I could see him potentially having some very terse will) and having feelings about it. I love anything in the spectrum of their relationship, from sex and romance to crew bonding to a kind of surrogate parent-child relationship, so anything from "mourning lover Jim jerks off with the glove on" to "Jim treasures Izzy's glove like it's their family knife, and for the same reasons," is excellent—whatever direction you want to go in.
* The two of them hooking up after Calypso's Birthday, still in their drag outfits, and just being super into both it and each other.
* Also just porn in general, because it would be ferociously hot. I would be thrilled with anything, but if it's helpful, I could definitely see them being into things like knifeplay, honor bondage, D/s with top Jim, hair-touching, overstimulation, body appreciation, and deliberately leaving bruises/marks/bites. But seriously, anything.
* Jim gets temporarily magically de-aged to an intense, extremely untrusting child or teenager focused solely on revenge and getting back to their Nana. Izzy is actually very good at looking after them and helping draw them out of their shell a bit without pushing them too hard.
* Comfort during the breakup boat era! Post-severed-toes comfort, comfort for exhaustion and being pushed to their limits, post-mutiny comfort when they're starving and think they're probably going to die, comfort sex, emotionally complicated comfort where Jim's still resentful and/or furious but is going to reluctantly accept or offer comfort anyway ….
* Jim's emotional journey from "you're a fucking asshole who marooned my boyfriend, tried to kill my captain, and antagonized the guy who's now got us trapped in a floating hell" to "he's a dick, but he's our dick." Just glimpses of their evolving relationship with Izzy as they go from hate to attachment and from seeing him as an antagonist to an ally/crewmate/friend/lover/whatever.
* Vaguely True Grit-inspired pre-S1 AU where Izzy is on his own for some reason (he and Ed are in the middle of a dubiously professional spat? He's on extended shore leave to recuperate from some injury and chafing for something to do? He's rethinking his whole life?) and Jim winds up hiring him to help out with their revenge plans.
Stede Bonnet & Israel Hands
Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
* 2x07 AU without Ricky's attack on the Republic or the possibility of Olu, Jim, and Archie leaving—just recently dumped Stede morosely getting drunk and still dealing with the lingering high of newfound fame. He talks Izzy into having a few more drinks before they go back to the ship … and the next thing he knows, he's waking up fuzzy-headed, hungover, and apparently married to an equally hungover and confused Izzy. Obviously this is a huge mistake! Izzy tried to kill him! More than once! Yes, they're getting along better now, but they're certainly not in love! But then again, a lot of the crew seems to think they were having a good time last night and seem happy for them, so—maybe they'll go along with it for a while? Give it a shot for the sake of morale? Romance ensues.
* Honestly, anything set in that style of 2x07 AU (crew intact, Republic fine, but Ed's left to become a fisherman) is such a great setup for Stede/Izzy, and I would be delighted to see anything in that time frame. I really like the trope of having a second love that, while maybe not as grand or immediately as passionate or intense, is still just as significant and lovely and worth having. And bizarrely, despite their, uh, fraught history, 2x05 and afterwards convinced me that they could have a genuinely nice, laidback bitch4bitch relationship that I really want to read about. So fuckbuddies-to-lovers or surprisingly functional work partners to lovers, having oddly sweet moments over dealing with crew business and raids, rebound sex, tentative first kisses … anything.
* I'd also love the gen version of this scenario! Take out the additional stressors at the end of 2x07 and just let Stede deal with his breakup with the resigned help of his boyfriend's sort-of ex, with Izzy doing some annoyed caretaking and maybe stopping Stede from having an ill-advised rebound hookup. Just a lot of: "He'll come back, Bonnet, no, I'm not fucking holding your hair while you throw up."
* More captaincy/seamanship lessons! I love both the hands-on skills like rope-swinging and the more management-style lessons about listening to the crew about curses, and I love Izzy being visibly-if-reluctantly impressed at Stede's successes. More of that would be great. And for the shippy variation, there's so much good potential for competence kink, praise kink, Izzy getting off on their relationship being marked out in a series of Stede's new calluses, etc.
* Izzy platonically approves of Stede's more practical S2 wardrobe and/or is totally into the bodice ripper hero look, but after the cursed red suit debacle, he grits his teeth and keeps an eye out for either fancy outfits or high-quality silks, satins, and velvets on future raids, and eventually he presents Stede with a non-cursed bit of fashion for days when he desperately needs something fancy.
* S1 AUs where things go a little bit better—no duel, for example—but their dynamic is still extremely tense and testy and full of mutual dislike, but then something happens to make them reevaluate each other: they're kidnapped? They have to work together to rescue Ed? They're both kind of impressed with the other's conduct during a bad storm?
* I love the idea of S2 Izzy starting to see Stede as his captain, even if he doesn't want to admit it, so anything with a bit of loyalty/authority kink in that regard would be very welcome. He slips and calls Stede captain or deliberately acknowledges him as his captain in front of other people? This pairs really well with some protectiveness, like in some scenario where they run into another old school bully of Stede's and Izzy really bristles at their interactions, defends Stede, and encourages Stede to further defend himself.
Pluribus
Laxmi & The Others
Laxmi & Ravi
* Anything contrasting Laxmi's relationship with the real, pre-Joining Ravi and "Ravi" as "he" is now. I'd love to follow Laxmi's journey as she realizes (or tries not to realize) that her son isn't nearly as much of her son as she wants to believe (or as he's pretending to be to spare her feelings). Is she doing okay ignoring most of the signs until she finds, say, a home movie of the old Ravi and sees the difference?
* Laxmi tries to coach the current Ravi to act more like his old self, and she's disturbed that while he can technically recall everything about "his" life before this, it doesn't seem to come naturally to him. Does she think this is a problem? Try to comfort him?
* Since she still has some family members alive and around as part of the hive mind, what is her daily life like? How much do they playact normalcy for her, and what is it like? Do they ever slip up (the way Zosia does when trying to use first-person pronouns)? Does she ever enjoy making use of their new condition and have any staged fantasies or incredible luxuries like Koumba does? If she tries that, does it chip away at her attempt to believe her family is still her family? Does she ever run afoul of their inability to lie?
* The diminishing food supply is probably even more of a concern when your young son can't even pluck an apple. How worried is Laxmi about the looming crisis? Has she asked for guarantees that Ravi and her husbands will have their needs met first? Has she let them consume HDP, or is she making sure they all share her meals with her?
* And more generally, what kind of future does she imagine for her child in the midst of all this? He no longer needs an education, since he knows everything everyone else knows; he no longer needs a career in any traditional sense. He can take care of her, but she'll never see him really achieve anything. I'd love to see Laxmi & Ravi (The Others) through the years to some kind of futurefic scenario where things haven't gotten back to normal: how is she feeling about the situation then? What are their lives like?
* Conversely, what is it like if things do go back to normal? How do you raise a son who may or may not remember having a shared consciousness? What would a restored Ravi think about all this? Would he perceive that time as a kind of nightmarish body-snatching/overriding and be angry with her for having accepted it, or would he miss the apparent happiness and peace of mind? What's it like for him to suddenly go back to not knowing how to do everything, if he can't retain all the knowledge in detail?
* Ravi and the Others try to talk Laxmi into allowing them to take her stem cells. Is she at all tempted by the idea of being fused with the rest of her family (and the rest of her planet), or is she horrified by the idea? Does she frame her refusal as purely practical (someone has to pluck the apples around here), or does she let herself register the emotional impact too?
* What's the joined Ravi's POV on his mother? How much of him survives for the world to draw on for its performance in that individual's body? Can the Others theorize how Ravi would have grown up and have him feign particular interests as time goes by, simulating an individual life for Laxmi's sake? Do they try it and fail?
* Laxmi accidentally loses her temper and sends Ravi into a seizure. Or would any strong emotion do it? What if her husband dies in an accident and she can't even grieve him without endangering her son?
Psych
Burton "Gus" Guster/Shawn Spencer
* Shawn and Gus have to go undercover as drag artists. Even if they start off reluctant, they wind up both very picky about their styles and wanting to look incredible—and succeeding so well that they wind up really, really turning each other on. (I'm 100% happy to have a whole casefic from this angle, too: I would happily watch them settling into their assumed roles, making friends, ferreting out a killer, and then hooking up and getting lipstick all over each other and figuring out how much of this—besides the sex, obviously—they want to keep up.)
* Established relationship fic where Gus proposes to Shawn via subtle clues that he knows Shawn will piece together with his observational skills (at least once he works out that something's up with Gus), because these two feel like they should have a weird-ass scavenger hunt story for how they got engaged.
* After "Gus's Dead May Have Killed an Old Guy," Gus's parents make Shawn/Gus their OTP and assume that the two of them are not-so-secretly together? (Let's just say that Shawn/Joy never happened.) They keep hinting that it's past time for wedding bells, encouraging the two of them to go on romantic getaways, etc. Shawn spent so long with Gus's parents not liking him that he's not going to give up their approval now, so clearly he and Gus should just more obviously fake-date to seal the deal on this. (And to be fair, Gus isn't wild about how his parents now act like he's a scoundrel if he goes on a date with anyone else.) They're already basically doing it anyway! It doesn't have to change things! … It totally changes things.
* Reverse of the "only one bed" trope. Shawn and Gus keep running into situations where there's only one bed and they're simply forced to spend the night doing some plausibly deniable cuddling. At this point, they take their only-one-bed "bad" luck for granted … until they wind up in a hotel room that actually has two beds and everything gets weird and pining-filled as they have to confront that they don't want that extra bed.
* Gus's SuperSmeller (™) means that he really, really likes the way Shawn smells, and he's not above sniffing the back of his neck, burying his nose in Shawn's armpit, etc. So there's the horny side of things, but there's also him liking the scent of Shawn's hair on his pillow when Shawn has to be out of town, or how weird and unfamiliar it is when Shawn's gotten hurt and smells like the hospital, etc.
* Mpreg where Gus gets pregnant from either a one-night stand or a relationship that's definitely not going to go the distance (nor will the other parent be sticking around voluntarily). Gus—maybe to his own surprise—decides he wants to keep the baby. Shawn is torn between going into turbo-drive on making Gus's pregnancy as comfortable and funny as possible and going into an unexpected tailspin about how he now feels like he's also automatically becoming a dad, and what does that mean? Cue flirtation and panic and slipping into easy cohabitation/domesticity and maybe a little difficult pregnancy h/c. (Gus definitely needs some pampering, at the very least.)
* A relative of a previous suspect wants to expose Shawn as a fraud in order to tank his credibility, so they abduct him and give him truth serum, hoping to record him confessing to making everything up. But since the truth serum just lowers his inhibitions and makes him babble, he has a shot of avoiding ruining his career as long as he steers himself towards talking about something else. And what can he talk about for hours? Gus. Definitely Gus.
Burton "Gus" Guster/Juliet O'Hara/Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer
I'm good with everything from "all four of these people have equal romantic/sexual relationships with each other" and looser polycules where maybe not everyone is fully dating or sleeping with everyone else, as long as they're all important to each other and it's recognized that they're all part of the relationship, no matter what it looks like.
* Tweaking one of my Shawn/Gus prompts: Shawn and Gus go undercover as drag artists, and not only do they wind up being very into each other that way, Juliet and Lassiter wind up being incredibly into it too. Does Lassie get surprisingly chivalrous with them when they're in drag? Does Jules help with the makeup and maybe get a drag king look going on? Does everyone try to convince themselves that this is just a flirty/kinky thing and the newly awakened feelings will go right back into the box once the case is over?
* Shawn's only had one real (on-and-off) boyfriend—a total tool whom Gus absolutely hates, but who always sucks Shawn back into his orbit when he's around. I'm totally fine with this landing anywhere from lighthearted to angsty/whumpy. The terrible boyfriend can be a run-of-the-mill dick—borrows a ton of money, never follows through on plans, splits when Shawn's hoping things are serious—or he can do something more serious like cheat or, for maximum angst and protectiveness, get abusive. Either way, Gus hates him but can't talk Shawn out of seeing him—and now the guy's back in town. Gus reluctantly enlists Lassie and Juliet to help him run interference and maybe try to send the asshole boyfriend packing. Huh, seems like they're all really protective of Shawn and feel like he could do better. Maybe once they get this guy out of here, they can prove it—and realize that the four of them work together well outside of cases too.
* There's a killer striking at the local Santa Barbara poly community, so the four of them have to go undercover as a polycule—and, of course, make sure they're convincing enough to not immediately warn the killer that they're there. I just want to bury them under an avalanche of fake relationship tropes where they all have to casually touch each other and pretend to be romantic and discover that they're mostly pretending to be pretending. I feel like these four are an especially great fit for this because they'd all have such different lines in the sand of what they're used to (physically, emotionally, etc.), who they're used to it with, and where it would start to feel real.
* The four of them are out in the field alone when they get exposed to sex pollen and require immediate "treatment." Do they start off trying to stick with masturbation or with couplings that somehow feel easier to justify, like partners with partners, only to find that they can't resist the temptation to make it a free-for-all? I love the idea of them all being overwhelmed with lust but also still very much themselves—bantery and prickly and fun and weird—and that making it obvious that there's genuine attachment and attraction in all directions in addition to the pollen. (Maybe someone else even shows up partway through, but the foursome has no interest in them?)
* One of them is stuck in a time loop. It takes some time getting the others to believe them (and maybe at first they assume they're stuck until they solve a case/do something else), but that's actually not the biggest hurdle. The problem is that obviously this is Groundhog Day, which means one of them is Bill Murray and maybe the others are all Andie McDowell! Confessing feelings to just one person doesn't break the loop, so apparently this isn't going to stop until they all seal the deal ….
* Any kind of slice-of-life as an established relationship (or an establishing one, where they're together but they're still trying to figure out what that togetherness looks like). What do their holidays look like? What do their families know (or suspect) about their relationship? How do they support each other when something goes wrong for one of them?
Twin Peaks
Fandom-specific DNW: institutionalized Audrey during The Return. Supernatural explanations for her S3 plot are totally fine.
Audrey Horne/Laura Palmer
* Golden Age Hollywood AU. I can just see Laura Palmer as a tragic Golden Age actress with a lot of drug/alcohol/sex scandals the studio has hushed up. Is she still dealing with BOB and his possession of her father, just while also trying to manage an acting career and the fragile life of being a kind of public daydream? Meanwhile, she and Audrey, another actress with a different kind of public image, are inexorably drawn to each other… Or I could also see Audrey as someone striving to produce or direct, even if she’s not going to be allowed to take the credit for it--and maybe she really wants Laura to be her star?
* Laura gets to reclaim her body and sexuality and slowly discover her own desires. I’d love to see anything in that line, whether it’s difficult and angsty--she wants to have sex with Audrey, and they do have sex, but it brings up a lot of traumatic memories that she’s having trouble dealing with--or celebratory and hot or anything in between. It could also be great to see the two of them making some home movies or taking some dirty pictures, this time maybe with Laura behind the camera, getting to see what it feels like to be the one filming instead of the one constantly made into an image?
* Audrey and Laura grow closer, pre-canon, and help each other escape. For Audrey, it’s just about getting out of a small town she’s not sure she likes very much, but for Laura, it’s about getting away from BOB, and the stakes are infinitely higher. I’d love to see the two of them sort of on the run from a supernatural force together, sticking close to each other while they try to set up new lives, and starting to develop feelings for each other. Can Audrey help protect her? How much can Laura reveal to her? Anything in this situation would be incredible.
* Audrey winds up stuck in a time loop on the day or week of Laura’s murder, like something wants her to figure out how to stop it. Or Laura is in a loop and unexpectedly chooses to confide in Audrey, who decides to believe her just because it’s the more interesting possibility.
* Anything pre-canon with the sense of the two of them being drawn to each other and somehow attuned to each other, even though they’re not really close (or at least not really friends). I’d love to see their perspectives on each other, especially since they have all these very different contexts of knowing each other--school, rumors, their dads’ partnership/family ties, etc--that give them very different facets of each other. (And of course Laura has an additional, unwanted perspective on Ben Horne that Audrey doesn’t know about.)
* S3 fic where the boundaries between them are thin, and they can have dreamy, otherworldly encounters in the Red Room? Recurring fits of dream sex?
Dale Cooper/Audrey Horne
* Any kind of get-together fic. Tenderness in the aftermath of Audrey’s ordeal at One-Eyed Jack’s? Cooper finishes up his investigation into Laura’s death but does get that little Twin Peaks house he’d been eyeing and he and Audrey have a slow burn progression into romance when he’s there between assignments? They run into each other a few years after the original series and reconnect? Undercover as a couple? Return-era first time, full of melancholy regrets about wasted time and with or without weird time/reality-slippage?
* Audrey’s excitement over seeing that Denise was a DEA agent was adorable, so any AU with future DEA or FBI agent Audrey Cooper would be great. I’d love to see her and Cooper working some kind of case together. X-Files setup where they investigate Blue Rose cases all over America?
* Golden Age detective AU, with traditional ratiocination coming face-to-face with Lynchian weirdness. Does Cooper somehow formulate his own distinctive style of detection even in this mold? Or is he interviewing people and dissecting alibis and looking for contradictions while being told the owls are not what they seem? And what's to make of the young lady in the case? He's falling in love with her, but is she possibly a murder suspect? Does Audrey still basically attach herself to him as his assistant?
* Surreal/fantasy-style/fairytale situations. One of them rescuing the other from the Black Lodge? Cooper rescuing Audrey from the purgatorial, nightmarish white room she finds herself in at the end of season three, with Audrey having to figure out how to break through somehow to help him? S3 Audrey-with-Charlie is a tulpa, and the real Audrey is in the White Room, dislocated in space and time, sometimes catching glimpses of her other life? Audrey as Little Red Riding Hood, walking through the woods and off the path, looking for her special agent, and maybe having to pick him out from a crowd of wolfish doppelgangers? Reenacting “The Snow Queen” and having to restore Cooper’s heart post-S2? Audrey under a Sleeping Beauty enchantment that only Cooper can lift? They’re in the woods together when there’s a sex pollen outbreak that means their first time is going to be an accelerated, desperate act, and even more vulnerable than usual?
* Maybe Cooper is able to go back in time to before Laura's death, but under different--and maybe more hopeful--circumstances and with different results than at the end of S3? Or Audrey is the one who travels back and has to try to save Laura, and she calls Cooper for help? (Cooper is, after all, someone who would believe a random phone call saying you know him from the future.) Or I'd love to see one of them displaced in time and living their life out-of-order.
* Additional porn likes: first time sex with virginity loss, body appreciation, vulnerability, tenderness, dirty talk, tie bondage, undercover assignment costume porn and clothed sex, leisurely exploration, oral, edging, feverish sex, dreamlike Lodge sex, hallucinated sex, taking dirty pictures, reading Victorian porn together.