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Trick or Treat 2024
A few small Trick and Treat ideas to come soon for The Last Halloween section! Will be finished by 11:59 EST on 9/25/2024!
Hello, potential Trick or Treat creators! Thank you and welcome to my letter post! :P I'm Mal or Mali (malachiical @ AO3 as well); I'll try to keep each individual section of this letter brief, and you should be able to skip to wherever you like with anchor links and/or just expand the parts relevant to you via cut. I hope our ids align and you have a blast writing, because I'm definitely looking forward to whatever you come up with!
General DNWs
General & Treat Likes
Spooky & Trick Likes
Porn Likes
Crossover Fandom - Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Doctor Fugue/Robert
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) - Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
General DNWs
General & Treat Likes
Spooky & Trick Likes
Porn Likes
Crossover Fandom
Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Hiruma and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also alike in a lot of ways that I think could both make them respect one another, be impressed by one another, see the value in one another, and also sometimes grate on each others' nerves like hell. They are both likely to know way too much about each other, and about each others' clubmates/teammates, and I could easily see them being on mostly equal footing.
I'm betting both would have a hard time actually pulling off blackmailing the other (or people close enough to the other to have any of their protection) or really getting one over on the other, with maybe one or two moments on either side where they get the upper hand for a VERY short period before the other manages to get things back under control. This would usually leave them having to approach each other in other ways, either more subtle manipulation (that they're both probably aware of and also aware that they're both aware of) or flat-out making deals with each other for mutual benefit. Which is great because they'd also make a scary good team when and if they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold.
Basically, with these two I especially like the idea of them being basically evenly matched, and them being drawn to each other specifically because of that. Neither of them actually being able to have the upper hand over the other or really intimidate the other is a key part of why I'm interested in them!
(I would also like to mention that while Hiruma resembles Kyouya waaaay more than he resembles Tamaki, still, Jesus, blond boys who are super passionate about a thing are going to be the death of Kyouya seriously. I am also fine with some minor former or current one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki feelings, and it's cool if Hiruma has some one-sided feelings for someone, I don't really have Feelings Preferences there. Just assume that he and Mamori aren't together, feelings can have happened but whether it's one-sided or a handwavey breakup or just something they decided wouldn't work is fine, I imagine they're still on fine terms.)
Ideas & Prompts
On the more horror/scary side, I could really enjoy stories that are played for both horror and humor, especially if by the end it turns out fake or (mostly) harmless. Is there a slasher situation but it's some weird method acting from one of their schools' clubs for a movie they're making? Do zombies rise but it turns out it's a harmless Nekozawa-related thing and the zombies aren't actually dangerous? Does the Host Club's room end up haunted and by the end they just have a ghost hanging out there with them? Are the Devil Bats slated to play on a football field that's haunted or cursed and they just have to figure out how to play around that? Do they (with anyone else or not) go do a "test of courage" that has real spooks (or is someone simulating them)? Or maybe everyone scares each other with horror stories!
Outright horror could also be good, though! In the event of a haunting is it legitimately terrifying or dangerous? If one of them gets cursed by someone or something, is that a terrible thing? Like I said, I love Silent Hill and Fatal Frame fusion AUs; those could be fun for these two! I could also enjoy a super sentai and/or magical girl AU where whatever they're fighting has a horror atmosphere to it, maybe is legitimately really dangerous! I'd prefer characters not get killed off in any of these, but just give me a happy ending for the ship and I'll be fine!
On a more occult/supernatural (but not necessarily scary) side, well... I do love haunted places, like I said, and I also love living locations. You could play those for horror, but you don't need to! I am also very much open to AUs where some or all characters are supernatural creatures; it could be fun to have these two be the same creature but very different in a lot of ways, or be different creatures, maybe especially if they don't seem to "fit"! Is Hiruma an actual demon, or is Kyouya? Are either or both of them vampires? Is Kyouya a very fitting vampire to Hiruma's more wild werewolf, or is Kyouya an unusual werewolf and Hiruma the vampire? Is one of them a selkie? Or are one or both of them human and both wrangling their nonhuman club/team members?
I would also love tricks or treats that have a strong autumn and/or Halloween atmosphere! The Host Club did Halloween stuff before; what might the club dress up as? What might the Devil Bats do for the season? And if you lean into an autumnal atmosphere with basically any kind of fic, I'd really enjoy it!
And of course, there's just general fic that doesn't fall into any of the specialized categories above. Hanging out in the club room! One of them trying to rope the other's club/team into shenanigans! Kyouya supplying transportation for Hiruma/the Devil Bats, staying in the same hotel, them sharing an apartment when they start college, them just in general forming an alliance because they can both see the value in cultivating a relationship with the other... I am also a sucker for fake dating, arranged marriage, and/or soulmate stuff! AUs I am into include "battle of the bands" (maybe instead of a football team, the Devil Bats are a rock band, while instead of a Host Club the hosts are a boy band?), AU where both groups are super sentai or magical girl teams (or one is one and the other is the other!), or just in general genderswap. I also love fic where one or both of the characters are trans!
Finally, smut. I am totally open to smut for these two! I think they could be fun for passionate, even rough sex, for things with shades of D/s or bondage, manhandling or holding someone down. I am totally open for Hiruma taking charge, but Kyouya doing so could be SO HOT; either of them topping is just fine! I also love all kinds of nonpenatrative sex (oral, frottage, intercrural, hands and fingers being used), rushed sex in a semi-public place (like an empty room at a function, an empty hallway in the middle of the night, etc.) so long as they don't get caught, sex where one or both of them are still fully or partially closed, costume kink, and crossdressing kink!
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've done a few freeform exchanges!
Canon-Specific DNWs
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Doctor Fugue/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.]
For Doctor Fugue/Robert, this takes a little bit of explaining, since their interactions are minor and not particularly significant. But the more I thought about them individually, I liked what their slight interplay does say about them and how the shapes of their arcs kinda work together.
Doctor Fugue is undead, a doctor and supernatural (mad) scientist, a Victorian-ish ghost. One who haunts the church and can't leave. He employs what he thinks of as a little group of undead children to help him graverob bodies for his raising-the-dead experiments (as well as upgrading/replacing Jangles's various bits). He's a big faker; Robert flat-out says he's not a good doctor, which is proven very correct when Mona comes back. He not only hands a ten year old a magic weapon he knows nothing about and sends her and the other "kids" out with completely incorrect information, he's apparently sent multiple "group[s] of untrained misfits to their deaths without actually nowing what was going on," to the point that Charon's chewed him out about it at least once before. Fugue shoves a magic sickle into Mona's hands and pushes her out the door with a few undead "child" chaperones during the Apocalypse so that she can go take care of it; this is a whole bunch of terrible decisions all in a clump, made worse by him not understanding the situation and actually sending them on a wild goose chase in the end. Mona has to chop up and even kill multiple monsters, nearly dying more than once and actually losing an arm to the ordeal, something she makes clear to Fugue that she'll never forgive him for (which he finds fair). His whole arc seems to involve him getting a huge dose of guilt for once in his unlife, realizing just how badly he fucked this little group up, seeming to have a change of heart about the "playing Dr. Frankenstein" thing and trying in some small ways to start to make amends.
Robert, on the other hand, is posing as an undead, a doll cursed to life by voodoo. Until he tells Mona and Shirley, literally no one in the group including Fugue knows that he's a monster, not undead at all, and is also immortal (or what they call immortal) due to killing his human several decades prior; he claims to be an undead to avoid the attention of the Phagocyte. He's around 117 years old, if not a bit older, and he's often the closest thing the group has to a straight-man; he keeps his own secrets, even when it would be really helpful to share, because he rarely feels invested in others, and he doesn't tend to personally lend much of a hand, especially not to save people. He's calm and soft-spoken, good with normal human adults, and very calmly makes threats when called for as well (and sometimes even commits violence against his undead "friends," such as sewing Ringley's mouth shut, though they don't seem to mind). He, and let me state this again, killed his own human, Gene, decades before the canon starts, and tells the story at one point about how they had been one another's dearest friends and Robert had ruined Gene's entire life thoroughly until Gene had asked Robert to kill him. He says that it was and is his nature. He shows that this may not be as true as he thought.
Robert goes along on the save-the-world quest to keep everyone on track and give them even a tiny chance, but he saves Mona's life once and then tells her he'll never do it again so she'd better learn to save herself. Mona does learn, however, despite him keeping a lot of information back and outright lying at times, and he becomes more attached and invested in the outcome of their mission. It even gets to the point that he eventually fully opens up, becomes somewhat more reassuring (and even open to affectionate touch, which was Not a thing for him at first), sort of steps into a mentor role to Mona, and promptly sacrifices his own life to give her a fighting chance. His own arc involves him actually becoming attached to the situation and its people for once, to the point of purposefully sacrificing his life to give Mona a chance to survive and succeed (on what is, unbeknownst to them, a fool's errand), even admitting his own origins and past and coming face-to-face with the fact, for the first time, that maybe his nature as a monster is something he can choose to act counter to.
...So Fugue sends Mona, Robert, and the others off on a pointless quest that gets one of them killed and nearly kills two more of them, and is having to live with that fuck-up (figuratively speaking). He's obviously hit pretty hard by Robert's death and Mona's hatred of him, and comes to regret his choices and the results they had on the others, actually swearing off using corpses to make more undead for a while as he decides to use one of the fresh corpses to save Shirley's life instead. And by the end of Book One Fugue still hasn't even been made aware that Robert was a monster the whole time and has sort of... fused with the magic sickle that's supernaturally bonded to Mona. Overall, the canon, or at least Book 1, is a very interesting set of characters and relationships who are all affected and shaken badly by the general situation but also by the lies told and secrets kept, primarily by Fugue but also arguably by Robert, and the idea of two of them together really intrigues me.
Ideas & Prompts
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've done a few freeform exchanges!
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
[If you don't actually own the game, you can find the following videos on YouTube:
BAI GAMING Video #1 - Pertinent parts are at 50:50-58:35 (The Razor, starting at the point where all the voices start coming in) and 2:12:52-2:56:12 (The Nightmare, with Voice of the Paranoid, and The Moment of Clarity with everyone)
BAI GAMING Video #2 - Pertinent parts are at 57:46-1:06:59 (The Apotheosis, with Voice of the Paranoid) and 1:39:37-2:53:04 (The Spectre and The Wraith, with Voice of the Cold)
Slay the Princess - The Spectre & The Wraith - Pertinent part is at 31:00-48:28 (The Wraith variation, with Voice of the Cold and Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #3 - Pertinent part is at 2:53:14-3:09:25 (The Wild, with Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #4 - Pertinent parts are at 26:22-46:40 (The Burned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), 1:30:29-1:49:54 (The Drowned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), and 1:53:08-2:41:07 (The Nightmare variations, with way more from Voice of the Paranoid)
Slay the Princess - All Endings - Pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 4 hours and 7 minutes, but you can easily knock it down to about 1 hour and 14 minutes by just watching their main routes: The Nightmare in the first video (2:12:52-2:40:21), The Spectre in the second video (1:39:37-2:28:30), and The Wraith variation with both of them (31:00-48:28). Or watch whatever bits of whatever playthroughs you like...
Or, of course, play it yourself; I have a guide for getting the most pertinent routes for this ship here. Just go with whatever works for you! :D]
These two really, really intrigue me. They don't get to interact that much, but they're quite interesting in The Wraith route, and also have moments in some of the other routes -- and some similarities and general qualities -- that make me think that they could really catch the other's attention if given more opportunity.
For one thing, they are both very aware of and surprisingly in control of their bodies. (Well, their shared body. The protagonist's body. Let's just say "their bodies" for simplicity.) Voice of the Cold constantly talks about choosing to just stop feeling things, both emotions and any negative physical sensations; their back-and-forth of "Do we have to explain to you why pain is bad?" "You have to explain to yourself why it isn't," is VERY cool. But despite Voice of the Paranoid being obviously high-strung, he also has an immense amount of steel to him, not only manually running the body's autonomic nervous system during The Nightmare route, but also showing up specifically to keep Voice of the Broken in check during The Apotheosis route after Broken let The Tower into their mind which led to their death.
There are also little details, such as the fact that Cold usually shows up after you kill the Princess in cold blood and then yourself, and Paranoid also encourages killing yourself if you become trapped in The Nightmare route due to killing her. This actually leads to Cold showing up... And interestingly, before that, if the protagonist says to the Hero and the Paranoid that it'd be fine to be stuck in the void forever because they're the best company, Paranoid says, "Oh, you could do better than us," and that's right before Cold comes into the picture. In The Wraith route, he and Cold and Hero and the protagonist have to all work together to toss their body into the void with The Wraith in it, if they choose that route, and the "everyone on the count of three" moment Paranoid takes charge of is just neat.
And in a general sense, I really think they could... see something interesting in each other. Paranoid is nervy and definitely hasn't shut off his emotions at all, but he also has that aforementioned steel and sharp control over himself/his body/The Body, that might be even more intriguing and impressive based on how unexpected it is. And Cold is a dangerous person, yes, but is actually less dangerous to the other voices than someone like the Broken or even the Smitten, and might also be easier to predict than someone like the Opportunist or even the Hunted -- you know exactly what his danger is, if he's going to be dangerous. And at the same time, Paranoid seems to trust the other voices in a way he doesn't trust anyone "other," and Cold seems to want to help the other voices, often trying to give them advice on how to get through situations without breaking down. There's an automatic sort of rapport there that makes it more likely they'd get close to each other than if they were just ordinary people with their same personalities.
Also, speaking of that, I do love the bodysharing and would be super into that if you want to roll with it, but I also love a theoretical post-canon situation where maybe the voices are all getting their own bodies. You don't even have to get into how and why they have different bodies if you want to do that; just handwaving it would be fine!
Ideas & Prompts
Okay, THIS ship I am going to break down trick ideas and treat ideas separately! So just a few ideas for tricks:
On the more horror/scary side, leaning into the horror elements of the canon could be really fun. This doesn't mean you'd have to create anything set during canon itself, though you could! What if the voices are having to deal with the Construct itself, and/or any vessels, during the finale sequence with the Shifting Mound? Or what if some AU where the Construct starts breaking down for some reason (a few too many resets?) and some new vessel shows up, or an old version of a vessel (demo Stranger?), or they get to a vessel they wouldn't normally? Or it could be post-canon... What is the world like outside the Construct in general? What's it like if they slay the Shifting Mound? Or do they not leave the Construct, at first or at all; what's it like after Quiet and the Heart leave together?
I am also into AUs here! AU where they're ghost hunters, either as humans or as bird people? Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Dead By Daylight, or Annihilation AU? I could also love a scenario where they leave the Construct after one of the endings and experience Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Dead By Daylight, or Annihilation sort of thing, or a world like something from BLAME! or NaissanceE. Or a post- (or current-) apocalyptic world that could range from "creepy, why is no one around, what happened to everyone?" to "it is a full on zombie apocalypse like Left 4 Dead."
On the occult/supernatural (but not necessarily scary) side, some of the above stuff could be played less for horror. Is the world outside the construct more magical/fantasy like D&D or a fairy tale, or is it supernatural but in a less horror way like in urban fantasy? (A full urban fantasy AU could be fun too!) Is life in the Construct, if they stay/are stuck there post-canon, more relaxed? Out in the world, do the voices become gods or demigods themselves, and/or do they try to rebuild the world/a new world (if the Shifting Mound is alive and the world did end), and/or do they try to bring the Shifting Mound back if she was slain? Is the post-apocalypse outside the Construct, if it is like that out there, more relaxed and slice-of-life-y, or more exploratory? For other fun potential "they leave the Construct and the world outside is (like) another canon," taking inspiration from or setting things in Nimona or Night in the Woods could be fun!
(I also love the humor of the game being used even in a horror or even spoopy story!)
And a few ideas for treats:
On the more sweet/fluffy side, I love these two being there for each other and/or sharing experiences. Exploring together, sitting around during night watch together, cooking together? Paranoid helping Cold treat his life with more value (or, if you go this route, see himself as more than just a weapon) or connect with his emotions or with sensations? Cold helping Paranoid calm down some or help with anxiety or maybe nightmares? Them first experiencing different things, either in the world outside the Construct or in the context of having their own bodies, or both. Even them fighting some enemies of some sort together and making sure to protect each other, or one of them protecting/rescuing the other, could be on the sweeter side, especially in the aftermath! (I do love H/C...) I also, as mentioned in my signup, really love things like crossdressing giving someone gender euphoria and making them realize they're trans, and I could love something similar for either of them, maybe especially Paranoid. Finally, you could really lean into Bird Stuff: maybe they are subconsciously doing birdy courtship things, maybe they huddle together (and puff up their feathers!) for warmth...
On the sexier side, there is SO MUCH I could love. First times, maybe even discovering sex together! Smut where they have cloacas, or they have both sets of genitalia, or where they can have whatever they want! Praise kink! (Oddly, Cold seems especially susceptible to this... He has a bit of an ego!) Breeding kink when they know for a fact they can't reproduce! Rough sex or even things like knifeplay, bloodplay, choking, or fearplay, explored because they feel safe with each other! If you go with trans fic, maybe even one of them experiencing gender euphoria (or even a gender realization?) from the other calling her "good girl" or the like?
As a special note here, I am also open to noncom/dubcon in two specific situations. One, it coming from Nightmare or Wraith, either with her noncon/dubconning either or both of them, or with her making them fuck each other (so long as they're both into it in some ways and the ending isn't unhappy/hopeless). Two, alternatively, I am fine with OC randos drugging or aggressing one of them, either attempted noncon or flat-out noncon, if a large chunk of the fic is of the other half of the ship H/C afterwards. (Rescue and/or revenge welcome!)
I would also love tricks or treats that have a strong autumn and/or Halloween atmosphere! What might their first Halloween be like out of the Construct? Do they dress up, or accidentally scare someone, or accidentally get scared, or run into a real ghost or the like? What might their first autumn be like out of or even inside the Construct if time actually starts passing; do they like it, or do they dislike it getting colder, or both? If you lean into an autumnal atmosphere with basically any kind of fic, I'd really enjoy it!
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've done a couple of freeform exchanges!
Canon-Specific DNWs
Hello, potential Trick or Treat creators! Thank you and welcome to my letter post! :P I'm Mal or Mali (malachiical @ AO3 as well); I'll try to keep each individual section of this letter brief, and you should be able to skip to wherever you like with anchor links and/or just expand the parts relevant to you via cut. I hope our ids align and you have a blast writing, because I'm definitely looking forward to whatever you come up with!
General DNWs
General & Treat Likes
Spooky & Trick Likes
Porn Likes
Crossover Fandom - Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Doctor Fugue/Robert
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) - Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
General DNWs
- noncon/dubcon (unless otherwise stated)
- smut with characters under 16
- gore or permanent injury (unless otherwise stated)
- permanent character death (unless otherwise stated; undead, including ghosts, are fine and don't count for this DNW!)
- infidelity (will be specified in the Crossover Fandom section specifically how to deal with this)
- halves of a ship feeling like they really just don't like or care about each other at all (even with more complicated stuff I am a BIG SOPPY ROMANTIC)
- a ship having sexualities that mean they aren't attracted to one another
- being ashamed of or hating one's body (even for trans stuff, if you write it; just no focus on dysphoria please)
- requested characters being permanently separated in any way, or at risk of it, by the end of the story (unless otherwise stated)
- unhappy endings
- unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- unrequested identity headcanons (mentions for OCs are fine)
- unrequested noncanon ships (background canon ships that don't break up the requested pairing are fine; mentions of OCs being in relationships with one another is fine)
- unrequested poly (mentions of OCs being in poly relationships with one another is fine)
- unnecessary use of safewords or stoplight symbols (if the characters are kinking on it that's a fine reason)
- feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (mentions of OCs being pregnant are fine; breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great!)
- scat, watersports (unless otherwise requested), vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine)
- vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddykink, 24/7 D/S
- canon-specific DNWs and exceptions in the fandom sections!
General & Treat Likes
- Halloween & otherwise seasonal stuff! I'd just like anything with this tbh; feel free to use my requests to try to find clues for the murder mystery!
- hurt/comfort! fics with a balance on both or ones that lean towards more comfort than hurt; feel free to get deep in the hurt but I love a sizeable focus on the comfort!
- pining and culmination of pining: getting together, kissing, romantic tension/UST being resolved, mutual pining or initially one-sided pining, pining that lasts for weeks or even years
- fluff, snapshot moments of what's going on in their lives
- romantic tension, UST that eventually becomes resolved
- flirting, confident or awkward or just fuckin disastrous
- extreme loyalty
- intense relationships and general intensity
- redemption arcs, gray morality, general complexity, lighter takes on villains & villain redemption both
- happy or at least hopeful/somewhat upbeat endings
- first times and milestones (sexual or non, doesn’t even have to be overly romantic, stuff like taking a photo for the first time together or and the like is also good!)
- descriptions of making out tbh
- trans headcanons where it’s not A Thing in the fic, no coming out or explanations necessary, or it's just accepted and not super dwelled on unless the prompt is about self-exploration. no Having To Deal With Bigotry or issuefic or anything, just character(s) happen(s) to be trans (both same gender/pronouns as in canon and different gender/pronouns are fine)
- canon divergent AUs, change one thing about a canon and maybe other things happen differently
- I like longfic if you want to write it!
- more canon-specific likes in the fandom sections!
- fic and art treats are both more than welcome!
Spooky & Trick Likes
- again, Halloween-y or just seasonal spooky stuff is great! I have some prompts for each section down below but I'd a lot to do with this; again, feel free to use my requests to try to find clues for the murder mystery!
- maybe my favorite types of horror are psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror is also amazing, as are ghosts and other monsters; other types of horror can be great as well!!
- characters suddenly finding out/coming to realize that the supernatural is real, or that something they didn't know was real is, in an abrupt and dangerous, risky, or terrifying situation
- us-against-the-world with a ship or a more platonic group in a stressful or dangerous situation
- hurt/comfort; panicky situations where characters high on adrenaline protect one another
- being isolated in an abandoned place, whether a building or the wilderness
- haunted houses, whether really haunted houses (or other haunted locations, like hotels or malls or even woods, etc.!) or Halloween fake haunted house attractions (or similar like cornfield mazes, tests of courage, etc.)
- characters telling scary stories, whether or not something actually scary happens during/after
- happy for fusions with Silent Hill or Fatal Frame!
- I also love lighter takes on spooky things rather than pure horror, but leaning into the horror is super cool if there's a happy ending!
- more canon-specific likes in the fandom sections!
- again, fic and art treats are both more than welcome!
Porn Likes
- first times and milestones
- frot, scissoring, intercrural, grinding against ass, basically all that stuff
- handjobs, fingering, oral
- romantic smut, lots of touching, focus on touching/wanting to touch and sensations and body parts, loving descriptions of partner's body (description of both stereotypically attractive and not stereotypically attractive features welcome so long as they're INTO it!), kissing during sex, hand-holding during sex, eye contact during sex, all that stuff!
- clothed sex, partially clothed sex, and clothing kink!
- inexperience, awkward, clumsy but eager and enjoyable sex
- XENO. xeno xeno xeno I am so into xeno, play around with alien genitalia and I am here for it, tentacles, cloacas, characters having both sets of genitalia, ovipositors, genitals resembling flowers or wet pinecone dick, Mouths Down There, legit whatever you can think of just g o f o r i t
- BDSM tones, mild or more formal
- praise kink and instructions/requests/begging flavors of dirty talk
- breeding kink is welcome when pregnancy is outright impossible, even if it's handwaved impossible (PIV but they know it can't happen is fine; neither has a womb and obviously it can't happen is fine; this type of sex can't even result in pregnancy but we'll talk about it anyway is fine; species are incompatible is fine)
- even without breeding kink, kinking on coming inside is also hot, but so is kinking on come/cum-play and messier sex like that
- mutually enjoyed/kinked-on breeding kink dirty talk when actual pregnancy is outright impossible and does not happen
- manhandling, hair pulling, love bites and scratches, rough but not outright painful (or only pleasantly painful) sex
- orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- alternately, multiple orgasms, "forced" orgasms that are still enjoyable
- e n t h u s i a s m and detailed descriptions of sex, just go for it
- in general, prefer the terms: penis, cock, dick, length; nipples, ass, and testicles/balls can just be called those things; vagina, vulva, cunt, or pussy if that comes up; come or cum are both fine spellings (just no "cumming")
- piv in trans smut is fine; oral and pia sex super welcome; alternatives are also loved; prefer for vagina to be called vagina, cunt, or pussy, or to be referred to vaguely, not "hole"; prefer for ass NOT to be called a vagina/cunt/pussy, but referred to vaguely & implied to be one is fine, or just called ass; fine with clit being called clit or penis/cock/dick, fine with penis being called penis/cock/dick or hen or clit
- trans characters having gender realizations, and/or getting gender euphoria, during sex
Crossover Fandom
Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Hiruma and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also alike in a lot of ways that I think could both make them respect one another, be impressed by one another, see the value in one another, and also sometimes grate on each others' nerves like hell. They are both likely to know way too much about each other, and about each others' clubmates/teammates, and I could easily see them being on mostly equal footing.
I'm betting both would have a hard time actually pulling off blackmailing the other (or people close enough to the other to have any of their protection) or really getting one over on the other, with maybe one or two moments on either side where they get the upper hand for a VERY short period before the other manages to get things back under control. This would usually leave them having to approach each other in other ways, either more subtle manipulation (that they're both probably aware of and also aware that they're both aware of) or flat-out making deals with each other for mutual benefit. Which is great because they'd also make a scary good team when and if they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold.
Basically, with these two I especially like the idea of them being basically evenly matched, and them being drawn to each other specifically because of that. Neither of them actually being able to have the upper hand over the other or really intimidate the other is a key part of why I'm interested in them!
(I would also like to mention that while Hiruma resembles Kyouya waaaay more than he resembles Tamaki, still, Jesus, blond boys who are super passionate about a thing are going to be the death of Kyouya seriously. I am also fine with some minor former or current one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki feelings, and it's cool if Hiruma has some one-sided feelings for someone, I don't really have Feelings Preferences there. Just assume that he and Mamori aren't together, feelings can have happened but whether it's one-sided or a handwavey breakup or just something they decided wouldn't work is fine, I imagine they're still on fine terms.)
Ideas & Prompts
On the more horror/scary side, I could really enjoy stories that are played for both horror and humor, especially if by the end it turns out fake or (mostly) harmless. Is there a slasher situation but it's some weird method acting from one of their schools' clubs for a movie they're making? Do zombies rise but it turns out it's a harmless Nekozawa-related thing and the zombies aren't actually dangerous? Does the Host Club's room end up haunted and by the end they just have a ghost hanging out there with them? Are the Devil Bats slated to play on a football field that's haunted or cursed and they just have to figure out how to play around that? Do they (with anyone else or not) go do a "test of courage" that has real spooks (or is someone simulating them)? Or maybe everyone scares each other with horror stories!
Outright horror could also be good, though! In the event of a haunting is it legitimately terrifying or dangerous? If one of them gets cursed by someone or something, is that a terrible thing? Like I said, I love Silent Hill and Fatal Frame fusion AUs; those could be fun for these two! I could also enjoy a super sentai and/or magical girl AU where whatever they're fighting has a horror atmosphere to it, maybe is legitimately really dangerous! I'd prefer characters not get killed off in any of these, but just give me a happy ending for the ship and I'll be fine!
On a more occult/supernatural (but not necessarily scary) side, well... I do love haunted places, like I said, and I also love living locations. You could play those for horror, but you don't need to! I am also very much open to AUs where some or all characters are supernatural creatures; it could be fun to have these two be the same creature but very different in a lot of ways, or be different creatures, maybe especially if they don't seem to "fit"! Is Hiruma an actual demon, or is Kyouya? Are either or both of them vampires? Is Kyouya a very fitting vampire to Hiruma's more wild werewolf, or is Kyouya an unusual werewolf and Hiruma the vampire? Is one of them a selkie? Or are one or both of them human and both wrangling their nonhuman club/team members?
I would also love tricks or treats that have a strong autumn and/or Halloween atmosphere! The Host Club did Halloween stuff before; what might the club dress up as? What might the Devil Bats do for the season? And if you lean into an autumnal atmosphere with basically any kind of fic, I'd really enjoy it!
And of course, there's just general fic that doesn't fall into any of the specialized categories above. Hanging out in the club room! One of them trying to rope the other's club/team into shenanigans! Kyouya supplying transportation for Hiruma/the Devil Bats, staying in the same hotel, them sharing an apartment when they start college, them just in general forming an alliance because they can both see the value in cultivating a relationship with the other... I am also a sucker for fake dating, arranged marriage, and/or soulmate stuff! AUs I am into include "battle of the bands" (maybe instead of a football team, the Devil Bats are a rock band, while instead of a Host Club the hosts are a boy band?), AU where both groups are super sentai or magical girl teams (or one is one and the other is the other!), or just in general genderswap. I also love fic where one or both of the characters are trans!
Finally, smut. I am totally open to smut for these two! I think they could be fun for passionate, even rough sex, for things with shades of D/s or bondage, manhandling or holding someone down. I am totally open for Hiruma taking charge, but Kyouya doing so could be SO HOT; either of them topping is just fine! I also love all kinds of nonpenatrative sex (oral, frottage, intercrural, hands and fingers being used), rushed sex in a semi-public place (like an empty room at a function, an empty hallway in the middle of the night, etc.) so long as they don't get caught, sex where one or both of them are still fully or partially closed, costume kink, and crossdressing kink!
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've done a few freeform exchanges!
Canon-Specific DNWs
- infidelity (just have them not with any of the other characters when they're together)
- two canons just taking place in the same universe and playing around with what that might mean
- slight canon AUs to make crossovers work
- Hiruma and Kyouya being evenly matched/on equal footing
- AUs I'm into: slight canon AUs to make crossovers work; soulmates AU; AU where soulbonding is a thing; arranged marriage AU; hanahaki AU; genderswap AU; vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and/or other monsters AU (the undead don't count as permanent character death for this)
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Sena/Monta, Sena/Suzuna, Mamori/Suzuna, Musashi/Kurita, Jumonji/Kuroki/Togano, Natsuhiko/Ishimaru, basically any from the other teams, Hikaru/Kaoru, Honey/Mori, Nekozawa/Tamaki, Kasanoda/Tetsuya, Haruhi/Renge, Haruhi/basically any of the hosts singularly or together...
- NAMING CONVENTIONS. Hiruma usually comes up with somewhat dismissive/insulting/abraisive things to call people, so what about if/when he uses Kyouya's name? is Kyouya on a first or last name basis with him? feel free to include honorifics if you like as well, extrapolating from the characters' usage of them in canon.
- if you're interested, I could like trans headcanons for these characters! transmasc Hiruma would be great; transfem or nonbinary for either or both of them would also be great! trans headcanons for any other characters that show up are also 100% good; if Haruhi shows up or is mentioned I also have a slight preference for her as nonbinary, but trans boy is fine -- just not trans girl, please. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Doctor Fugue/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.]
For Doctor Fugue/Robert, this takes a little bit of explaining, since their interactions are minor and not particularly significant. But the more I thought about them individually, I liked what their slight interplay does say about them and how the shapes of their arcs kinda work together.
Doctor Fugue is undead, a doctor and supernatural (mad) scientist, a Victorian-ish ghost. One who haunts the church and can't leave. He employs what he thinks of as a little group of undead children to help him graverob bodies for his raising-the-dead experiments (as well as upgrading/replacing Jangles's various bits). He's a big faker; Robert flat-out says he's not a good doctor, which is proven very correct when Mona comes back. He not only hands a ten year old a magic weapon he knows nothing about and sends her and the other "kids" out with completely incorrect information, he's apparently sent multiple "group[s] of untrained misfits to their deaths without actually nowing what was going on," to the point that Charon's chewed him out about it at least once before. Fugue shoves a magic sickle into Mona's hands and pushes her out the door with a few undead "child" chaperones during the Apocalypse so that she can go take care of it; this is a whole bunch of terrible decisions all in a clump, made worse by him not understanding the situation and actually sending them on a wild goose chase in the end. Mona has to chop up and even kill multiple monsters, nearly dying more than once and actually losing an arm to the ordeal, something she makes clear to Fugue that she'll never forgive him for (which he finds fair). His whole arc seems to involve him getting a huge dose of guilt for once in his unlife, realizing just how badly he fucked this little group up, seeming to have a change of heart about the "playing Dr. Frankenstein" thing and trying in some small ways to start to make amends.
Robert, on the other hand, is posing as an undead, a doll cursed to life by voodoo. Until he tells Mona and Shirley, literally no one in the group including Fugue knows that he's a monster, not undead at all, and is also immortal (or what they call immortal) due to killing his human several decades prior; he claims to be an undead to avoid the attention of the Phagocyte. He's around 117 years old, if not a bit older, and he's often the closest thing the group has to a straight-man; he keeps his own secrets, even when it would be really helpful to share, because he rarely feels invested in others, and he doesn't tend to personally lend much of a hand, especially not to save people. He's calm and soft-spoken, good with normal human adults, and very calmly makes threats when called for as well (and sometimes even commits violence against his undead "friends," such as sewing Ringley's mouth shut, though they don't seem to mind). He, and let me state this again, killed his own human, Gene, decades before the canon starts, and tells the story at one point about how they had been one another's dearest friends and Robert had ruined Gene's entire life thoroughly until Gene had asked Robert to kill him. He says that it was and is his nature. He shows that this may not be as true as he thought.
Robert goes along on the save-the-world quest to keep everyone on track and give them even a tiny chance, but he saves Mona's life once and then tells her he'll never do it again so she'd better learn to save herself. Mona does learn, however, despite him keeping a lot of information back and outright lying at times, and he becomes more attached and invested in the outcome of their mission. It even gets to the point that he eventually fully opens up, becomes somewhat more reassuring (and even open to affectionate touch, which was Not a thing for him at first), sort of steps into a mentor role to Mona, and promptly sacrifices his own life to give her a fighting chance. His own arc involves him actually becoming attached to the situation and its people for once, to the point of purposefully sacrificing his life to give Mona a chance to survive and succeed (on what is, unbeknownst to them, a fool's errand), even admitting his own origins and past and coming face-to-face with the fact, for the first time, that maybe his nature as a monster is something he can choose to act counter to.
...So Fugue sends Mona, Robert, and the others off on a pointless quest that gets one of them killed and nearly kills two more of them, and is having to live with that fuck-up (figuratively speaking). He's obviously hit pretty hard by Robert's death and Mona's hatred of him, and comes to regret his choices and the results they had on the others, actually swearing off using corpses to make more undead for a while as he decides to use one of the fresh corpses to save Shirley's life instead. And by the end of Book One Fugue still hasn't even been made aware that Robert was a monster the whole time and has sort of... fused with the magic sickle that's supernaturally bonded to Mona. Overall, the canon, or at least Book 1, is a very interesting set of characters and relationships who are all affected and shaken badly by the general situation but also by the lies told and secrets kept, primarily by Fugue but also arguably by Robert, and the idea of two of them together really intrigues me.
Ideas & Prompts
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've done a few freeform exchanges!
- Playlist Exchange 2022
- Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023
- Monster Smash Exchange 2023
- Flash Flood Exchange 2023
- ...And Your Blorbos Closer! Flash Exchange 2024
- a strong focus on Fugue's sexism (I'd prefer for him to be capable of at least a bit of growth there; bringing it up somewhat in the context of internalized homophobia is fine)
- Fugue being entirely unrepentant post Book 1, actually
- Mona easily and completely forgiving Fugue unless otherwise requested
- implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene, if that character comes up
- Halloween, spooky, and outright horror stuff works especially well for this canon!
- Ringley's dad/Mona's parent as a background ship is super cool; feel free to give them names (and/or surnames) or not
- Fugue helping Mona resurrect Robert (probably partly out of guilt)
- forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow
- post-canon (or post-Book 1) fic in general
- Robert still being alive in Mona's sickle and being able to be brought back and/or show up as a ghost that way
- the sickle thing, if that idea is used, meaning that Mona is now immortal and also not aging (oops)
- Fugue finding out super belatedly that Robert is a monster, like possibly even 1-3 years after Book 1 (but less time than that is also good)
- protectiveness of any of the requested characters towards any of the others
- Fugue eventually being forgiven, at least mostly, at least by most of the characters
- Mona softening a bit on Fugue but still not forgiving him (like, noticing he's trying hard and maybe feeling sorry for him, maybe he makes her feel more tired than angry now)
- nonhuman characters, particularly monsters, being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender
- trans headcanons in general! like I said, I like to imagine especially monster (rather than undead) characters being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender, so an interpretation of Robert not actually having anything like human gender would be cool; I can imagine him having absolutely no preferred pronouns and just going with whatever anybody calls him, but feel free to go with whatever! Fugue figuring out some odd gender stuff himself could also be interesting (nonbinary?), but maybe he was also a trans man all the way back when he was alive and mad scienced himself a transition, or his ghost shows up as the way he sees himself? (just not a trans woman for him, please!) other characters being trans if they're included could also be fun and I encourage it. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- nicknames! pet names! names in general! Fugue just calls Robert by name, and I don't think he would accept a nickname (from anyone but Gene) frankly, and he calls Fugue "Doctor Fugue" pretty constantly. what might make him shorten that to Fugue? or does Fugue have a first name (or can he not recall)? and of course Mona and Shirley are just called Mona and Shirley; under what circumstances might a nickname be used on them? (or come from them? would Robert be fine with Mona calling him a nickname?) and if you could sell me on an endearment being used by either Fugue or Robert I would LOVE it!
- AUs I'm into: AUs where soulbonding, hanahaki, or sex pollen are a thing; AU where time travel is a thing; AU where Robert didn't die against Ba'al; canon divergence AUs branching off from the end of Book 1
- for horror stuff specifically, if you go that route, feel free to kill off OCs but not any canon characters that didn't die in canon; psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters, isolated horror, and characters just telling scary stories, and I'm fine for gore and injury for this particular canon, though not exactly perma-death (obviously Dr. Fugue is perma-dead, but like, also a ghost about it, and ghosts don't count for me)
- ...I am also open to unusual takes on smut, since Robert is a living doll and Fugue is a ghost; how might either of them sexually interact with a human or with each other? can Fugue still get aroused and/or orgasm? how/why? does Robert not have genitalia but have some other erogenous places, and/or not get aroused or orgasm like humans but still have something sort of analagous, or does he pick up on others' feelings and emotions in a sort of psychic-ish stimulation? or feel free to go full unusual xeno; I do not mind and would be into it!
- ...finally I also just want to note that I love invisible people (or, well... ghosts, as Robert points out, but Fugue's still invisible besides his clothes and bandages!). and also Fugue's all leg. legs for days. I like these things.
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
[If you don't actually own the game, you can find the following videos on YouTube:
BAI GAMING Video #1 - Pertinent parts are at 50:50-58:35 (The Razor, starting at the point where all the voices start coming in) and 2:12:52-2:56:12 (The Nightmare, with Voice of the Paranoid, and The Moment of Clarity with everyone)
BAI GAMING Video #2 - Pertinent parts are at 57:46-1:06:59 (The Apotheosis, with Voice of the Paranoid) and 1:39:37-2:53:04 (The Spectre and The Wraith, with Voice of the Cold)
Slay the Princess - The Spectre & The Wraith - Pertinent part is at 31:00-48:28 (The Wraith variation, with Voice of the Cold and Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #3 - Pertinent part is at 2:53:14-3:09:25 (The Wild, with Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #4 - Pertinent parts are at 26:22-46:40 (The Burned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), 1:30:29-1:49:54 (The Drowned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), and 1:53:08-2:41:07 (The Nightmare variations, with way more from Voice of the Paranoid)
Slay the Princess - All Endings - Pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 4 hours and 7 minutes, but you can easily knock it down to about 1 hour and 14 minutes by just watching their main routes: The Nightmare in the first video (2:12:52-2:40:21), The Spectre in the second video (1:39:37-2:28:30), and The Wraith variation with both of them (31:00-48:28). Or watch whatever bits of whatever playthroughs you like...
Or, of course, play it yourself; I have a guide for getting the most pertinent routes for this ship here. Just go with whatever works for you! :D]
These two really, really intrigue me. They don't get to interact that much, but they're quite interesting in The Wraith route, and also have moments in some of the other routes -- and some similarities and general qualities -- that make me think that they could really catch the other's attention if given more opportunity.
For one thing, they are both very aware of and surprisingly in control of their bodies. (Well, their shared body. The protagonist's body. Let's just say "their bodies" for simplicity.) Voice of the Cold constantly talks about choosing to just stop feeling things, both emotions and any negative physical sensations; their back-and-forth of "Do we have to explain to you why pain is bad?" "You have to explain to yourself why it isn't," is VERY cool. But despite Voice of the Paranoid being obviously high-strung, he also has an immense amount of steel to him, not only manually running the body's autonomic nervous system during The Nightmare route, but also showing up specifically to keep Voice of the Broken in check during The Apotheosis route after Broken let The Tower into their mind which led to their death.
There are also little details, such as the fact that Cold usually shows up after you kill the Princess in cold blood and then yourself, and Paranoid also encourages killing yourself if you become trapped in The Nightmare route due to killing her. This actually leads to Cold showing up... And interestingly, before that, if the protagonist says to the Hero and the Paranoid that it'd be fine to be stuck in the void forever because they're the best company, Paranoid says, "Oh, you could do better than us," and that's right before Cold comes into the picture. In The Wraith route, he and Cold and Hero and the protagonist have to all work together to toss their body into the void with The Wraith in it, if they choose that route, and the "everyone on the count of three" moment Paranoid takes charge of is just neat.
And in a general sense, I really think they could... see something interesting in each other. Paranoid is nervy and definitely hasn't shut off his emotions at all, but he also has that aforementioned steel and sharp control over himself/his body/The Body, that might be even more intriguing and impressive based on how unexpected it is. And Cold is a dangerous person, yes, but is actually less dangerous to the other voices than someone like the Broken or even the Smitten, and might also be easier to predict than someone like the Opportunist or even the Hunted -- you know exactly what his danger is, if he's going to be dangerous. And at the same time, Paranoid seems to trust the other voices in a way he doesn't trust anyone "other," and Cold seems to want to help the other voices, often trying to give them advice on how to get through situations without breaking down. There's an automatic sort of rapport there that makes it more likely they'd get close to each other than if they were just ordinary people with their same personalities.
Also, speaking of that, I do love the bodysharing and would be super into that if you want to roll with it, but I also love a theoretical post-canon situation where maybe the voices are all getting their own bodies. You don't even have to get into how and why they have different bodies if you want to do that; just handwaving it would be fine!
Ideas & Prompts
Okay, THIS ship I am going to break down trick ideas and treat ideas separately! So just a few ideas for tricks:
On the more horror/scary side, leaning into the horror elements of the canon could be really fun. This doesn't mean you'd have to create anything set during canon itself, though you could! What if the voices are having to deal with the Construct itself, and/or any vessels, during the finale sequence with the Shifting Mound? Or what if some AU where the Construct starts breaking down for some reason (a few too many resets?) and some new vessel shows up, or an old version of a vessel (demo Stranger?), or they get to a vessel they wouldn't normally? Or it could be post-canon... What is the world like outside the Construct in general? What's it like if they slay the Shifting Mound? Or do they not leave the Construct, at first or at all; what's it like after Quiet and the Heart leave together?
I am also into AUs here! AU where they're ghost hunters, either as humans or as bird people? Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Dead By Daylight, or Annihilation AU? I could also love a scenario where they leave the Construct after one of the endings and experience Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Dead By Daylight, or Annihilation sort of thing, or a world like something from BLAME! or NaissanceE. Or a post- (or current-) apocalyptic world that could range from "creepy, why is no one around, what happened to everyone?" to "it is a full on zombie apocalypse like Left 4 Dead."
On the occult/supernatural (but not necessarily scary) side, some of the above stuff could be played less for horror. Is the world outside the construct more magical/fantasy like D&D or a fairy tale, or is it supernatural but in a less horror way like in urban fantasy? (A full urban fantasy AU could be fun too!) Is life in the Construct, if they stay/are stuck there post-canon, more relaxed? Out in the world, do the voices become gods or demigods themselves, and/or do they try to rebuild the world/a new world (if the Shifting Mound is alive and the world did end), and/or do they try to bring the Shifting Mound back if she was slain? Is the post-apocalypse outside the Construct, if it is like that out there, more relaxed and slice-of-life-y, or more exploratory? For other fun potential "they leave the Construct and the world outside is (like) another canon," taking inspiration from or setting things in Nimona or Night in the Woods could be fun!
(I also love the humor of the game being used even in a horror or even spoopy story!)
And a few ideas for treats:
On the more sweet/fluffy side, I love these two being there for each other and/or sharing experiences. Exploring together, sitting around during night watch together, cooking together? Paranoid helping Cold treat his life with more value (or, if you go this route, see himself as more than just a weapon) or connect with his emotions or with sensations? Cold helping Paranoid calm down some or help with anxiety or maybe nightmares? Them first experiencing different things, either in the world outside the Construct or in the context of having their own bodies, or both. Even them fighting some enemies of some sort together and making sure to protect each other, or one of them protecting/rescuing the other, could be on the sweeter side, especially in the aftermath! (I do love H/C...) I also, as mentioned in my signup, really love things like crossdressing giving someone gender euphoria and making them realize they're trans, and I could love something similar for either of them, maybe especially Paranoid. Finally, you could really lean into Bird Stuff: maybe they are subconsciously doing birdy courtship things, maybe they huddle together (and puff up their feathers!) for warmth...
On the sexier side, there is SO MUCH I could love. First times, maybe even discovering sex together! Smut where they have cloacas, or they have both sets of genitalia, or where they can have whatever they want! Praise kink! (Oddly, Cold seems especially susceptible to this... He has a bit of an ego!) Breeding kink when they know for a fact they can't reproduce! Rough sex or even things like knifeplay, bloodplay, choking, or fearplay, explored because they feel safe with each other! If you go with trans fic, maybe even one of them experiencing gender euphoria (or even a gender realization?) from the other calling her "good girl" or the like?
As a special note here, I am also open to noncom/dubcon in two specific situations. One, it coming from Nightmare or Wraith, either with her noncon/dubconning either or both of them, or with her making them fuck each other (so long as they're both into it in some ways and the ending isn't unhappy/hopeless). Two, alternatively, I am fine with OC randos drugging or aggressing one of them, either attempted noncon or flat-out noncon, if a large chunk of the fic is of the other half of the ship H/C afterwards. (Rescue and/or revenge welcome!)
I would also love tricks or treats that have a strong autumn and/or Halloween atmosphere! What might their first Halloween be like out of the Construct? Do they dress up, or accidentally scare someone, or accidentally get scared, or run into a real ghost or the like? What might their first autumn be like out of or even inside the Construct if time actually starts passing; do they like it, or do they dislike it getting colder, or both? If you lean into an autumnal atmosphere with basically any kind of fic, I'd really enjoy it!
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've done a couple of freeform exchanges!
Canon-Specific DNWs
- any implication that the characters will cease existing after the end of the game/any time soon
- either character bodysharing with the protagonist or any of the other voices (except each other!) by the time porn is happening, if it happens, unless it's in the context of a poly situation where everyone involved is into it, unless otherwise requested! (see below)
- poly fic where there isn't a lot of focus on these two
- non-canon background pairings I'm good with if any of these characters show up are: any other voice/voice shipping (including poly); literally any vessel/vessel shipping; Adversary/Stubborn, Broken/Stranger, Broken/Wild, Cheated/Thorn, Damsel/Smitten, Hunted/Wild, Prisoner/Skeptic, Razor/Stubborn; Contrarian/Echo/Hero
- I am also open to mentions of some or all of the voices being poly in general, including with either/both these two, but I'd prefer just these two together be focused on in the actual fic (rather than there being a threesome or something)
- to be weirdly specific, I am open to an in-game-like bodysharing situation that leads to a threesome or moresome with these two and Spectre, these two and Nightmare, or these two and Wraith... with or without Hero and/or the Protagonist involved! but I'd want the bulk of the focus to be on these two's dynamic/relationship.
- I'm happy with the voices being varying degrees of bird-person, with or without beaks, straightforwardly bird-y or more like Mothman given the Protagonist's reflection
- I'm also equally happy with every single voice having their own separate body, or with some of them still bodysharing while they sort out the whole "getting their own bodies" thing, just so long as Cold and Paranoid aren't sharing bodies with any characters other than each other when any smut starts if applicable
- I am also cool with more human (or human-looking) forms and even some human AUs!
- the sheer amount of control these two both seem to have over themselves...
- and, alternately, the idea that each might actually be able to make the other come apart. maybe more than anyone else could manage. maybe in part because they might just let it happen.
- the "And? What happens next?" ending and the strong hints that the voices will continue to exist and find one another again even after the protagonist and the Princess leave
- fic set while in the Construct, maybe even during the events of the game, somehow!
- the "A New and Unending Dawn" ending (whether everyone hates you or not) and the idea of the voices figuring out existence after that
- come to that, the strong hints that the voices are actually developing beyond their named traits and becoming their own more rounded individual people: Contrarian in The Stranger version of the "And? What happens next?" ending, Hero protesting being just "a shard of broken glass," all of them wanting to avoid individual death and continue existing
- AUs I'm into: soulmates AU; AU where soulbonding is a thing; heat/rut or omegaverse AU; hanahaki AU; genderswap AU; post-apocalyptic or apocalypse AU; D&D, the Spire RPG, Night in the Woods, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Dead By Daylight, NaissanceE, BLAME!, or Annihilation crossover AUs; especially any of these "AUs" only they get dropped into a universe where those are a thing post-canon, so they're not written as an AU!
- NAME STUFF. names in general! nicknames and pet names if you can make it work for them! none of the voices really refer to one another by name or even by description in canon; do they still think of each other as "Voice of the Cold," or just "the Paranoid," or just "Cold," or something like "the paranoid one"? how might they come to refer to one another, think about one another?
- if you're interested, I could like trans headcanons for either/both of these characters! I have a preference for trans woman Paranoid, and can easily imagine "any pronouns" nonbinary Cold, but anything works for either of them! trans headcanons for any other characters that show up are also 100% good. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!