Canon-Specific DNWs:
-any species of animal presented as All Evil for real
-totally unsympathetic takes on Facilier
-inclusions of the La Bouffs (mentions are totally fine), positive takes on Big Daddy
-Facilier's Vodou or "friends on the other side" being presented as as a dark or evil thing
Canon-Specific Likes:
-two canons just taking place in the same universe and playing around with what that might mean
-slight canon AUs to make crossovers work
-characters time traveling (or just traveling in general)
-characters being out of their depth!
-references to Disney movies having musical numbers
-Facilier presented as more of a Clopin-like figure or wildcard rather than true villain
-one or both characters being off-balance (Baron and Basil, Facilier and Clopin)
-Hiruma and Kyouya being evenly matched/on equal footing
-always-a-girl AUs for the Ouran cast in particular, where they're still the Host Club but this time are all acting as boys to make the others at their all-girls' school happy; I'm okay with m/f or f/f (genderswapping Hiruma as well) if you go with this!
-if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for Hiruma and/or Kyouya specifically; the other characters I'm not as into the idea, but I'm not opposed either!; anything works, whether trans man, trans woman, or nonbinary, for any of them
Ship: Baron Humbert von Gikkingen/Basil of Baker Street
Thoughts: I've watched
The Great Mouse Detective a billion times but haven't read the books in an age, so please base things mostly on the movie, but feel free to use little details from the books that aren't contradicted by the movie if you like! I've watched both
The Cat Returns and
Whisper of the Heart and also read the one-volume
Baron: The Cat Returns manga, so feel free to base Baron and co. off either the movieverse or the mangaverse, incorporate small details from the other canon(s), or just mix-and-match in general.
Okay, this is maybe the stranger of my two crossover ships, but I am super into this and think it could work amazingly. After all, Basil is a talking, bipedal, clothes-wearing mouse detective in Mouse London (which is in real London), and the Baron is a talking, bipedal, clothes-wearing cat
doll who's basically a detective himself whose Cat Bureau could pop up anywhere it's needed. Handwave the time period difference and we're golden.
Basil and the Baron are another two who are different in a lot of ways but alike enough that I could see them clicking very easily. Their attitudes and personalities and approaches are different, but they're both incredibly skilled and clever and help solve problems. The Baron has Muta and Toto, and helped out a human girl named Haru; Basil has Dawson and Toby and helped out an even younger mouse girl named Olivia. They also cover very different specialties, so I could see them being able to work off each other really well and benefit a lot from each others' help if they somehow wound up on the same case or in the same perilous situation.
General Prompts:
Some case happens and it's tied up enough in both of their wheelhouses that they both wind up involved and working together! Maybe Basil is investigating something and finds out this weirdass cat who isn't like any other cat he's met is also investigating because it has something to do with the Kingdom of Cats and/or magic. Or maybe the Baron's just out on some case and Toby winds up interfering at a key moment and Basil winds up getting drawn in because he's super fucking curious about this whole situation and knows the area. Or maybe Ratigan is back and making trouble in the Kingdom of Cats somehow... Or maybe Ratigan is still dead but Felicia survived and is much smarter and more talkative than anyone realized she was, and was Ratigan's real right hand woman. Maybe the Baron approaches Basil at his home at Baker Street directly, asking for his assistance; maybe Basil needs help with something and winds up stumbling on the Cat Bureau totally unexpectedly. Or maybe there's no case at all and they wind up meeting at the same diplomatic function for some reason! Maybe they just share a history and already know each other by now. Maybe they meet totally by chance. Maybe it's a masquerade. Maybe there's a fight at some point and Baron gracefully kicks ass. Maybe they have to fly somewhere on Toto; does Basil hate heights or wind up enjoying them? Do they both end up protecting or saving each other from something? What happens when one of them gets furious (not at each other, please)? Do they ever share a drink, or a dance? Does the Baron like listening to Basil's music; does Basil enjoy the Baron's tea? Do they find out they've actually shared an enemy in the past without realizing it, or both helped the same person before by coincidence? Can either of them teach the other a key skill? Are they fascinated and impressed by the others' different methods of deduction and fields of knowledge? Do they even trust each other at first, because I can see Basil especially being very dubious about the Baron initially, especially depending on the case... Smut is also always welcome; they're two different species (even more different than they appear) and I'd love to see that played with. They both have fur, but there are a lot of differences! Feel free to roll with exploration and sensory details and attention to actions and reactions. I also really love enthusiasm and UST before sex! Is blood running hot after some exciting case stuff, or are things more purposeful and planned?
Seasonal & Holiday Prompts:
Atmosphere! The scenery, the weather (snow! chill winds!), the things happening around, go nuts on describing what it's like during the winter season. Any of the above prompts, including the general ones, can be spiced up with seasonal details! Are they in the middle of a political masquerade function and the lights cut out due to snowstorms and then someone's been abducted or killed? Is there some holiday crime spree happening? Or explore how the Kingdom of Cats celebrates the winter season; what holidays do they have and what do they do during them? I'm also a huge sap and a huge fan of fluffy Christmas romantic cliches, such as gift exchanges, cuddling by the fire, and mistletoe!
Ship: Doctor Facilier/Clopin Trouillefou
Thoughts: I won't lie, I absolutely love the idea of a version of
The Princess and the Frog where Facilier had been presented as more of a Clopin-like character, with dangerous (and in his case bitter) edges but not outright a villain! His songs on the Bayou Boogie CD that didn't make it into the movie (
Do What I Wanna Do,
Shadow Man, and
Love is a Magical Mystery) expand on his character a tiny bit in ways I enjoy, to that end, especially that last. So I like the idea that these two have a lot in common, what with being marginalized and victims of racism whose people have both been kinda fucked over by the Catholic Church and who have to scrape and resort to trickery and lies and crime to keep out of abject poverty! Clopin has a community, which Facilier does not seem to, and Clopin might even be more dangerous in some ways in his attempts to protect his people; both their similarities and their differences intrigue me...
They both also seem like they could have a lot of fun together! Facilier is a fortune teller that often deals with tourists, while Clopin is a storyteller who often deals with local children; Clopin acts the fool and does seem to legitimately have a lot of fun with it while having a dangerous side, while Facilier has surface-level friendly, charming patter while being bitter and tired not so very deep down... I feel like they could help one another out, whether just being supportive or actually trying to do something solid to help the other, and I think they could very much sympathize with each other. I like the idea of Facilier finding Clopin fun while also seeing his hidden depths, and Clopin being intrigued by the Vodou stuff and maybe finding the dolls and the "friends on the other side" fun (maybe after finding them intimidating or scary at first). (I feel like said "friends" are the Gede, who are really fun in a lot of ways, but don't feel like you have to do a ton of research on Vodou to write this, just don't demonize it please!)
General Prompts:
Feel free to play around with ideas on how to get these two into the same universe! Magically drop Facilier into HOND's time period; maybe he's sent there by his "friends on the other side" after the events of the movie in order to do them some favor or other to make up for being so demanding of them without properly giving back/showing appreciation? How does he get by, does he get helped out by Clopin after catching the attention of city guards, does he get welcomed into the Court of Miracles, does he kill Frollo? Or magically drop Clopin into PATF's time period; does Facilier help take him in? How does Clopin adjust? Or do they both end up magically dropped into more modern Paris or New Orleans and have to help each other adjust? Or just AU them into being from the same time period, or feel free to drop them into Descendants-verse if you're familiar with the various takes on that universe! (Facilier has a daughter in the movies and a totally different daughter in the not-100%-the-same-canon Wicked World shorts; feel free to include one of them or not if setting it in Descendants-verse.) As for more specific prompts, maybe them working the streets together, or Clopin helping lighten a bad mood Facilier might be in due to mardi gras, or Facilier getting to meet Clopin's people or Esmerelda. (Feel free to make her his friend or his sister, either is good!) I also love H/C if one or the other of them gets hurt or upset. Does either of them make food, home cooking that they grew up with, for the other? Does Clopin enjoy little parties thrown with Facilier's "friends" as they possess the dolls he's made for them? Do they go to a costume party, or go out to enjoy the food, or live music? Do they ever do a song and dance number? Is Clopin fascinated by Facilier's shadow or uncertain about it at first? Smut is also always welcome; celebrating something, first times, pet names, slow and exploratory or passionate and rushed, hell, does Facilier's shadow get involved? (I'd like Clopin to be into it if it does, please; no dubcon there!)
Seasonal & Holiday Prompts:
If the story is set in Paris in 1482, what are the holidays in that place and time like? Christmastide, Epiphany, the Feast of Fools, the Saints' days, the New Year; there's lots to play around with here! Caroling apparently used to be seen as unruly and even lewd? Or, if the story is set in New Orleans in 1928 or in modern times, how does Facilier usually spend the holidays when he's not exactly a Christian? In general, how might the two spend the winter season? Does Clopin enjoy snow; does Facilier, even though it rarely snows in New Orleans and never very much? Does Clopin encourage the children in snowball fights or snowmen or the like? Does Facilier ever go out to the bonfires along the Mississipi River levees? Do they maybe both go out to enjoy the holiday lights and decorations, or does Facilier take advantage of the tourists and the December parades? I am also a huge fan of seasonal/holiday-themed sappy cliches, like mistletoe and exchanging presents and making plans together for the new year...
Ship: Hiruma Youichi/Ootori Kyouya
Thoughts: 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.)
General Prompts:
A handwavey crossover AU where they're both going to the same high school, whether that means the Host Club is at Deimon Private Senior High School for some reason, the Devil Bats are Ouran Academy's American football team, or they're going to some weird amalgamation school instead of either. Or maybe the schools are right fucking next to each other, or Deimon's gym is closed for renovations and they're using Ouran's for some reason for a while. Or maybe the schools are just in the same town and they seek each other out when they hear about each other, or they're slightly longer distance allies who make it a point to keep in touch and even see each other occasionally. Or maybe after both their canons Hiruma and Kyouya wind up going to the same university! Maybe they're roommates or maybe they just meet due to shenanigans or again, maybe they hear about each other and one (or both) winds up seeking the other out now that they're in the same sphere. What if Hiruma tries blackmailing or strongarming the club into doing football things and it backfires? What if the Host Club shows up at a Deimon game to cheerlead? What if Kyouya does some subtle flirting with Hiruma in front of the club's clients to make them swoon, because if Hiruma's going to be in the club room he's going to contribute? What happens the first time one tries to blackmail the other and the other flat-out destroys that shit, either Hiruma shooting photographs or Kyouya flat out
breaking shit like he did Renge's video camera? How intrigued is one when they first see the other be fucking ruthless or really, really clever? How do they lend each other help on occasion? Do they feed each other information or contacts or more concrete favors such as helicopters or an Emergency Last-Minute Stagecoach? Do Hiruma and any of the Devil Bats ever get caught up in Host Club bullshit and does he
really totally mind it? Does he walk into the club and they're in the middle of one of their Theme Days where the room's all done up and they're all in costume? (Sports or gangsters themes might be especially hot for this, but go nuts.) Do the two of them ever share a drink or a dance or a hotel room? Does Kyouya ever make Hiruma's temper snap? Does Hiruma ever make
Kyouya's temper snap? Some AU ideas are also welcome for these two! Genderswap AUs are always welcome, for either or both of them! (I find the idea of the Host Club all being girls who still dress as boys and play the exact roles they do in canon to be incredibly hot, tbh.) Or what if the school they go to is some magic school or school for superpowered students or something? What about a battle of the bands situation where the Devil Bats are a rock group and the Host Club is a boyband? Or an AU where the Devil Bats are a super sentai team and the Host Club are magical boys (or girls)? (I'm not necessarily against any other AU ideas, but please ask through the mods first!) Smut is also always welcome and feel free to ignore my underage DNW for this so long as they're both 16+ during any smut; other than the stuff in my general likes, I love enthusiasm, UST before sex, manhandling, sharing a hotel room, sharing a bed in general, just having sex in some out of the way room, casual nudity and partial nudity, costume sex including crossdressing (either or both of them!), still being partly dressed during sex, both of them being kind of "what the fuck" about how into it they are and how good it is...
Seasonal & Holiday Prompts:
Seasonal stuff especially would be good here, since Christmas isn't really a thing in Japan, but if you wanted to play with mistletoe or gift exchanging stuff, go nuts! (Maybe Tamaki has heard of mistletoe. Tamaki is a good excuse for all kinds of ridiculous things.) Snowball fights that certain people get way too into, sitting together at a kotatsu, going to an onsen, doing things for one of the winter festivals, or celebrating New Years in a big way, maybe including good luck charms or omikuji!
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