letter: fic in a box

[angelette]

First of all, thank you for writing me! I list my likes and optional prompts, but if nothing catches your fancy, go wild!

Contents:
[General Likes]
[Alternate Universe Likes]
[Trope Likes]
[Dark Likes]
[DNWs]
[Returnal (Video Game)]
[Spider-Man (Video Games 2018-2020)]
[Debris (TV 2021)]
[Loki (TV 2021)]
[Alias (TV)]

General Likes:

• hurt/comfort

• angst

• darkfic

• casefic

• slow burns

• crossover and fusion with any of my requested fandoms

• epistolary fic

• interactive fiction/choose your own adventure
  

Notes for More Details: Generally, I like things on the darker side, so if you've ever wanted to write a deconstruction or a darker and edgier version of canon, or exploring the darker implications of some world-building, or go deeper into a character's past trauma that canon glosses over, here is your chance! Anything dealing with gray morality is also great. I'm fine with major character death, rape, graphic violence, bittersweet/unhappy endings - this includes killing half of my ship, but in this case, I would prefer if they die at the end, not in the middle of the fic while the other mourns them. Rape is also okay between my requested ships where it's an enemy or fucked up ship.

On the lighter side, I like mutual pining, slow burn, bickering & bantering, trope-y ship fic, something on the lighter side of hurt/comfort, with lots of comfort. I prefer get together fic with them realizing their feelings, not established relationships.

I'm okay with any POV: outsider POV about the characters, 1st person, 2nd person, anything experimental!

For smut: Explicit sexual content is not expected, but if you wanna write sex, I'm giving blanket permission for any kink you might like. (My kink list would be too long to write up. :)) And I really mean anything you'd like to write, you can go for it, I'm feeling up to trying new stuff!

Alternate Universe Likes:

• what if canon divergence AUs

• role reversal AUs

• dystopian/post-apocalyptic AU/apocafic

• soulmate AU, soulbonds, telepathic bonds, soulmate identifying marks

Notes for More Details: I usually like my AUs grounded in canon where the base of the world-building and the character's relationship is the same as the canon. For example, a dystopian AU would have the same magic system for my fantasy canons, a soulmate AU would have the same setting (be it historical, sci-fi or fantasy) and the same story happened as in canon (so the characters met the same ways) just the world has the soulmate marks, or you can use some plot device that shows people's soulmates.

Trope Likes:

amnesia/temporary memory loss cooking/comfort food/all the food descriptions cuddling curses dancing dreams/shared dreams enemies working together, enemies to friends to lovers fairy tale elements, fairy tale retellings fake/pretend dating family of choice/found family feelings realization first dates flirting

food forbidden love getting together ghosts holding hands huddling for warmth identity porn hugs love confessions love letters magical realism massage murder mystery

mythological creatures & beings mythology parallel universes redemption reincarnation road trips sacrifice secret identity / identity porn shapeshifting sharing a bed soulbond soulmate-identifying marks spies & secret agencies

stars, stargazing survival team as family telepathy time travel time travel fix-it unreliable narrator UST what-if scenarios wingfic world-building

 

 

Dark Likes:

body horror brainwashing depression experiments grief/mourning hallucinations horror injury/injury recovery manipulation medical experimentation

mental breakdown mental coercion mental health issues mind control mind manipulation near death experiences nightmares obsession psychological horror psychological torture

psychological trauma rape recovery resurrection revenge self-esteem issues self-harm serial killers stockholm syndrome suicide, suicide attempt survivor guilt

trauma trust issues unhappy ending unhealthy coping mechanisms unhealthy relationships violence whump

DNW:

• pregnancy

• miscarriage

• kidfic

• de-age

• all human/mundane AUs (high school, coffee shop, etc.)

• omegaverse

• animal harm/death

• infidelity

• focus on cancer/terminal illness

Notes for More Details: All of my DNWs (apart from the AU no-nos) are okay to mention in passing, for example, characters can be pregnant in the background - but I'd rather not have my main ship dealing with pregnancy. Some animal death can be mentioned, for example in fantasy fandoms for sacrifices etc. Long, excruciating animal death scenes are not welcome though. For Returnal specifically, I don’t mind the fauna being killed or even eaten, just don’t make them into a pet before. :) Plus, I don’t mind mentioning Selene was pregnant before, but don’t make a whole fic centering about her pregnancy. The alien tech can slowly kill Selene, but please don't make it too similar to cancer.

Returnal (Video Game)

Likes in canon:

• the horror atmosphere

• I’m a big fan of the voice logs, seeing how mentally unstable Selene gets, and seems to be horrified by some of her versions

• Atropos

• alien tech

• the Greek myth layer!

A note on canon takes: I know this game can be taken literally aka Atropos is real, Selene is really an astronaut, she is just being tormented by some mysterious entity, being stuck in a time-loop, maybe being cloned or something because Atropos is littered with her corpses. Or you can think Selene *is* actively having delusions, and the whole thing is just her guilt over losing her son. Or you might have a whole other, totally different take!

For some prompts here, I’d like to go with some sci-fi things, for some, I’m okay with the “all a delusion” interpretation. But if you have some other takes, go on, and write it! I always enjoy some fan theories.

Solo: Selene prompts:

• Here any interpretation goes: Is Selene really just hallucinating? Is it her way of working through her guilt and loss? Is she even alive? Is she in some kind of Purgatory?

• I’d like to see some flashbacks to her own childhood, to her life before the accident(s).

• The effects of tech modding and using parasites. This voicelog “I'm staring into a breached wall. Behind the stonework are arteries of machinery, similar in structure to the robotic sentinels. If I peeled back my skin, what would I discover hiding inside?” - stuck with me. I’d like to see *this* Selene! What is she going through?

Selene & Any Alternate Version of Selene:

• My personal favorite interpretation of the canon here would be something in between sci-fi and delusions: she is on Atropos, her other selves might be real or might be not. A look at her surviving alone on a hostile planet would be nice.

• If you go that Selene and any of her other versions are *both* real, I’d like to see them working together to get off the planet - my preference would be also one Selene being very alien modded with parasites, losing her grip on reality.

• If they get off the planet together, how would they fit on Earth/go back to normal life on Earth? (Happy ending is not required but I would also love it.)

WB: Atropos

• Anything about Atropos, a fake documentary about fauna/flora, history, scientific research notes

• I personally really like the take that Atropos might be alive and sentient and is either tormenting Selene or just tries (in its own way) to help her through her grief and self-hate.

 

Spider-Man (Video Games 2018-2020)

Likes in canon:

• the humor, banter
  
• the characters - both Spider-Man are my favs
  
• the action/adventure/plot
  

Miles Morales/Phin Mason:

• One of my favorite trope is identity porn, so the whole thing with Miles going undercover and then the reveal when Phin almost kills him was my jam. I'd like to see more with the going undercover plotline, Miles actually going to work for The Underground while he is also Spider-Man, playing with the tension between their different identities!

A side note here: I know they are said to be like siblings, and looking back, maybe that's also why I shipped them (usually I like co-dependent incest ships), so it's a feature not a bug! You can mention it.

Miles Morales/Peter Parker:

• I just really like mentor/protégé relationships with all the delicious angst and mutual pining, sexual/romantic tension while working together. A side note here: As I mentioned in my DNW, I don't like infidelity plots as a focus, so I'd rather have Peter and MJ broken up or breaking up in the fic. Also, feel free to age up Miles if you want!

Debris (TV 2021)

Likes in canon:

• the science, I liked those episodes the best where they went with real space-ship like science (the one with the door to another dimension, the terraforming episode, and that multiverse thing)

• Finola and Bryan’s relationship, even in a non-romantic way, is my jam. The way Bryan shoots people for Finola without hesitation ;__; Everything about how Bryan’s loyalty shifts from Maddox to Finola is making me heart-eyes.

Bryan/Finola:

• I think the multiverse episode was seriously underused, so more alternate universes would be welcome, showing how they are in each and every one of them. Maybe somewhere they are mortal enemies, and it makes them realize their feelings, or in some universes, they already are in a relationship and our Bryan and Finola react to that. (Them not remembering in canon is something that pissed me off. :D So I’d prefer if they do remember their multiversal travel.)

• Any kind of Debris making them share dreams/emotions/some psychic link.

WB: Debris:

• People meeting alien tech is one of my favorite tropes, so I’d like to see more Debris (even without our main characters). How does it affect different people, come up with some crazy tech effects! It can be some law enforcement POV, solving a case that at the center is about a Debris, someone using it to kill, etc. You can use OCs how they meet with Debris. News articles, forum posts, Reddit posts used for world-building would also be interesting.

WB: aliens:

• I’d really like to see who the people are who made the spaceship or whatever the Debris is coming from. Are the aliens dead? Will they visit us? Is the Debris some kind of test? What kind of culture do they have?

• Full-on alien invasion. :)

• They had some terraforming tech, so I’d really like to see how they terraform our planet or some other already inhabited planet.

Loki (TV 2021):

Loki/Mobius/Sylvie:

• As much as I loved the show, a few times it seemed rushed or had too many plotlines, so I'd enjoy an AU where they chase Sylvie longer, meanwhile Loki and Mobius can build up a deeper relationship, forced to work together, and Sylvie can be the manipulative enemy, who then later turns out to be right about the TVA.
  
• Or alternatively, anything where they have to work together after the events of the finale and be on the run, maybe hiding in apocalypses, using Sylvie's knowledge.
• Meeting with their other variants who might already be in a relationship or they are mortal enemies and our Loki & Mobius & Sylvie reacting to that and realizing their feelings for each other.

 

 

Alias (TV)

Likes in canon:

• the Rambaldi prophecy stuff

• the spy stuff

• complicated family relationships

• badass women

Sydney/Sark:

Sarkney was one of my first ship and I just felt nostalgic! My favorite part of canon is season 3 (where my infidelity DNW perfectly fits because Vaughn is out of the picture), so I'd prefer a fic set between s2 and s3 or in s3. As for the ship dynamic: I love the Sark is really has a thing for Sydney, who is just so no nonsense about it. I'd like for Sydney to get to know Sark better and then have a complicated relationship, or go full-on Sark redemption way!

• An AU set in season 3, where while Sydney is working for the Covenant she gets partnered up with Sark.

• An “undercover as a couple” mission long enough for them to catch feels.

• Something to do with a Rambaldi prophecy, maybe in a Soulmate Bond way, Sark and Sydney are meant to be!