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Bite-Sized Fandoms 2025
Hello, potential Bite-Sized Fandom Exchange 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!
Porn Likes
Inside Out (Pixar Movies)
Anxiety/Ennui
[Where you can find Inside Out 2 free online: Putlocker!
You can also watch the first movie on Putlocker if you want more context on Riley's life so far, how the world works, etc., and it's a good introduction, but these two characters are not in it.
Both movies are about an hour and a half long each.
(And the Disney Magic Kingdoms event can be seen here if you're interested: 1, 2, 3, and 4! All four videos together are less than 20 minutes total, and you can skip around to where the characters are actually talking onscreen. You can also leave the sound off because there's no voice acting and the YouTuber reads the dialogue out loud, unfortunately.)]
These two have such a fun dynamic, while they don't interact as much as some other characters in the second movie, what is there makes me so happy! I am a sucker for "anxious all the time (but affectionate)" and "blasé all the time (but with a soft spot)" and these two really do have such nice little moments towards one another.
I love how, even during her movie-long downward spiral, Anxiety obviously cared for her three friends and was supportive and affectionate, and how she obviously went out of her way to learn at least a little French to call Ennui "mon ami"! I love how, despite acting entirely bored and "too cool for anyone," Ennui was still paying attention to Anxiety (despite her words) and actually physically got up to help out (in her casual way) from time to time. And when Anxiety really started breaking down, Ennui was visibly worried along with the others!
(Plus, like, it's totally extracanon noncanon material, but there was recently an event introducing Ennui and Anxiety into the mobile game Disney Magic Kingdoms and they were really cute in it. Ennui immediately recognized signs that Anxiety was spiraling even when Anxiety wasn't physically present! She tracked her down to where she'd barricaded herself into a closet and talked her through breathing exercises to help calm her down, even tricking her into doing them halfway properly... while Anxiety was still inside the closet. And then made her lounge to calm down when she was still kinda freaking out! And it worked! And I'm emotional about it!)
I really like the idea of these two having this casual sort of history together, and bonding even further than they seem to already be in the movie... Either bonding due to the events of the movie (maybe Anxiety is trying to make up for everything, and/or Ennui is trying to check in and make sure Anxiety is okay now?), because they were already interested in each other (or one of them was interested before...), or maybe both! Anxiety encouraging Ennui to be a bit more motivated/engaged/social, or make her smile... maybe unintentionally getting her worked up... Ennui trying to find ways to help Anxiety relax and calm down, sometimes deadpan teasing or trolling her... These two could be so supportive, even if in a fumbling way, but I could also see them grating on each other sometimes too. They could have a really fun dynamic!
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.
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've requested them in multiple 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 - Potentially pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
PRISTINE CUT ADDITIONS:
• Apotheosis Fight + Unravelled/Grace Endings (Paranoid) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - About 40 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid.
• The Cage Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - Pertinent part is at 27:49-48:57 (with Voice of the Paranoid).
• Adversarial Fury - Contrarian/Broken/Cold [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 1:08:59-1:42:38 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Fury - Quantum Beak (you can respawn) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 22:39-39:10 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Happily Ever After Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - 37:39 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid. (It isn't possible to get Paranoid in this route anymore, for the record! All of this is Skeptic now. But I still think what was there is interesting...)
• The Princess and the Dragon Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - About 51 minutes, with Voice of the Cold.
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 7 and a half hours, but you can easily knock it down to about 2 hours and 5 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 Princess and the Dragon video, 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; 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!
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've requested them in a couple of freeform exchanges!
DNWs
- General Likes
- - Porn Likes
- - Other Likes
- Inside Out (Pixar Movies) - Anxiety/Ennui
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Doctor Fugue/Robert
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) - Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
Porn Likes
- First times and milestones (sexual and/or romantic)
- Frot, scissoring, intercrural, grinding against ass, basically all that stuff
- Handjobs, fingering, oral
- Clothed sex, partially clothed sex, and clothing kink
- Inexperience, awkward, clumsy but eager and enjoyable sex
- BDSM, either just vibes, trappings/tones, or more formal
- Praise kink and instructions/requests/begging flavors of dirty talk
- Orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- XENO. Xeno xeno xeno I am so into xeno; play around with any nonhuman characters not having normal human genitalia and I am here for it; tentacles, cloacas, both sets of genitalia at the same time, genitals resembling flowers or wet pinecone dick, nothing there but touching can still get them off, even freakier (positive) things like possession being sexual somehow, legit whatever you can think of just g o f o r i t ~
- Strap-on sex in general, and also when it's treated like a dick (including handjobs/blowjobs)
- Manhandling, hair pulling, love bites and scratches, rough but not outright painful (or only pleasantly painful) sex
- 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, I prefer the terms: penis, cock, dick, length; vagina, vulva, cunt, or pussy; nipples, ass, and testicles/balls can just be called those things; come or cum are both fine spellings (just not "cumming")
- PIV in trans smut (if applicable) is fine; oral and PIA sex super welcome; alternatives are also loved
- Descriptions of making out tbh
- 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
- Flirting, confident or awkward or just fuckin disastrous
- Extreme loyalty
- TRUST
- Intense relationships and general intensity
- One character carrying or helping physically support the other!
- Hurt/comfort! Fics with a balance on both or ones that lean towards more comfort than hurt are faves; feel free to get deep in the hurt but I love a sizeable focus on the comfort!
- Happy or at least hopeful/somewhat upbeat endings
- Fluff, snapshot moments of what's going on in their lives
- Canon divergent AUs, change one thing about a canon and maybe other things happen differently
- 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, no Having To Deal With Bigotry or issuefic or anything, just character(s) happen(s) to be trans
Inside Out (Pixar Movies)
Anxiety/Ennui
[Where you can find Inside Out 2 free online: Putlocker!
You can also watch the first movie on Putlocker if you want more context on Riley's life so far, how the world works, etc., and it's a good introduction, but these two characters are not in it.
Both movies are about an hour and a half long each.
(And the Disney Magic Kingdoms event can be seen here if you're interested: 1, 2, 3, and 4! All four videos together are less than 20 minutes total, and you can skip around to where the characters are actually talking onscreen. You can also leave the sound off because there's no voice acting and the YouTuber reads the dialogue out loud, unfortunately.)]
These two have such a fun dynamic, while they don't interact as much as some other characters in the second movie, what is there makes me so happy! I am a sucker for "anxious all the time (but affectionate)" and "blasé all the time (but with a soft spot)" and these two really do have such nice little moments towards one another.
I love how, even during her movie-long downward spiral, Anxiety obviously cared for her three friends and was supportive and affectionate, and how she obviously went out of her way to learn at least a little French to call Ennui "mon ami"! I love how, despite acting entirely bored and "too cool for anyone," Ennui was still paying attention to Anxiety (despite her words) and actually physically got up to help out (in her casual way) from time to time. And when Anxiety really started breaking down, Ennui was visibly worried along with the others!
(Plus, like, it's totally extracanon noncanon material, but there was recently an event introducing Ennui and Anxiety into the mobile game Disney Magic Kingdoms and they were really cute in it. Ennui immediately recognized signs that Anxiety was spiraling even when Anxiety wasn't physically present! She tracked her down to where she'd barricaded herself into a closet and talked her through breathing exercises to help calm her down, even tricking her into doing them halfway properly... while Anxiety was still inside the closet. And then made her lounge to calm down when she was still kinda freaking out! And it worked! And I'm emotional about it!)
I really like the idea of these two having this casual sort of history together, and bonding even further than they seem to already be in the movie... Either bonding due to the events of the movie (maybe Anxiety is trying to make up for everything, and/or Ennui is trying to check in and make sure Anxiety is okay now?), because they were already interested in each other (or one of them was interested before...), or maybe both! Anxiety encouraging Ennui to be a bit more motivated/engaged/social, or make her smile... maybe unintentionally getting her worked up... Ennui trying to find ways to help Anxiety relax and calm down, sometimes deadpan teasing or trolling her... These two could be so supportive, even if in a fumbling way, but I could also see them grating on each other sometimes too. They could have a really fun dynamic!
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (mentions of OCs being pregnant are fine)
- Scat, watersports (desperation is fine), vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine)
- Vore, bestiality, mommykink, 24/7 D/S
- Permanent character death (including undead/ghosts)
- 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)
- The 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, even if the characters have limits about things they do or don't want to do)
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested identity headcanons for canon characters
- 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 for the requested characters (mentions of OCs being in poly relationships with one another is fine)
- Requested characters being permanently separated in any way, or at risk of it, by the end of the story
- Unhappy endings
- Anxiety presented as an actual villain as opposed to just the antagonist of the movie
- Anyone but Joy calling Ennui "Weewee / Ui-ui," or Ennui liking that nickname
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense
- The desperation version of watersports, whether or not it ends in wetting
- Little stuff, sexual or not
- Entirely separate from the above... Daddy kink in a lesbian way tbh (with or without saying the word)
- Trans headcanons, particularly either or both characters being nonbinary (any genitalia is fine for this) and/or Ennui being a trans woman (post- or pre- or non-op are all fine). I also opt into nonbinary Riley and transfem or nonbinary Fear if either of them show up/are mentioned!
- Pokémon AU tbh
- BDSM, either just vibes and trappings or more formal
- Orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- 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!
- Breeding kink so long as pregnancy is actually impossible, whether due to scissoring, using a strap-on, them just knowing they can't have kids the way humans do, or anything else
- Even without breeding kink, kinking on coming inside is also hot, but so is kinking on come/cum-play and messier sex like that
- Fic set pre-canon, before the new emotions come up to Headquarters, including pre-canon get together
- Fic set post-canon, dealing with what happened or just settling in, growing closer, getting together then
- Fic that starts pre-canon and ends post-canon
- Exploring how the emotions are pretty heavily inclined towards their own emotion but also have depth and other aspects to them
- How much these two, and the new emotions in general, seem to care about and vibe with each other, how easily they work together and encourage each other!
- Crossdressing, drag, and gender play
- Trans characters having gender realizations, and/or getting gender euphoria, due to crossdressing or drag
- Trans characters having gender realizations, and/or getting gender euphoria, during sex
- Ennui helping Anxiety calm some; Anxiety giving Ennui a little more energy or making her respond more openly
- DANCING TOGETHER
- Noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Joy/Sadness, Joy/Sadness/Disgust, Disgust/Lance Slashblade, and/or Bree/Grace
- I also really like Riley having (or having had) a crush on Val or otherwise being LGBTQ+
- Nicknames! Pet names! Names in general! Plus LANGUAGE STUFF! Primarily I just love how Anxiety calls Ennui "mon ami" that one time, so I could also really love either or both of these two calling each other cute little French endearments at any point! (As one example, Ennui calling Anxiety "mon souci" could be cute, because souci can mean marigold but also worry/concern/anxiety... But any cute names from either/both would be loved!) Or Ennui calling her Anxiété or Angoisse sometimes?
- I also love Ennui's random French she tosses out in general! I could see her being a poser and tossing out French to sound cool (and not actually speaking much of it despite being French), or French being her first language, or anything in-between.
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.
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've requested them in multiple freeform exchanges!
- Playlist Exchange 2022
- Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023
- Monster Smash Exchange 2023
- Flash Flood Exchange 2023
- ...And Your Blorbos Closer! Flash Exchange 2024
- Noncon/dubcon
- Smut with characters under 16
- Infidelity or cuckolding kink
- Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (mentions of OCs being pregnant are fine)
- Scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine)
- Vore, necrophilia (with actual dead bodies; undead don't count for this DNW), bestiality, mommy- or daddykink, somnophilia, 24/7 D/S
- Unnecessary use of safewords or stoplight symbols (if the characters are kinking on it that's a fine reason; Fugue just being weird and Teaching A Thing could be a funny reason)
- 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)
- Permanent character death (undead, including ghosts, are fine and again don't count for this DNW!)
- Requested characters being permanently separated in any way, or at risk of it, by the end of the story
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine; things like omegaverse count as AU to me)
- Unrequested identity headcanons (mentions for OCs are fine)
- Unrequested poly (mentions of OCs being in poly relationships with one another is fine)
- 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
- Implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene, if that character comes up (doesn't have to be implied to be romantic love or anything)
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning, so long as that isn't part of the sex itself. (For example, if you write any pre-smut lead-up that involves monster or death of the week canon-typical violence or horror.)
- Trans headcanons; see likes below!
- AUs where Robert didn't die to Ba'al or was/is able to be brought back somehow; AUs where time travel and/or soulbonding are a thing.
- Canon-typical tones (including both the horror and the humor)
- In general, Halloween, spooky, and outright horror stuff works especially well for this canon!
- If you do go the horror route, feel free to kill off OCs but not any canon characters that didn't die in canon please; psychological and cosmic horror are loved, and body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters, isolation horror, and characters just telling scary stories! I'm also 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).
- Ringley's dad/Mona's parent as a background ship is super cool; feel free to give them names or not
- Fugue helping Mona resurrect Robert (probably partly out of guilt)
- AU where Robert didn't die against Ba'al
- AUs where time travel, soulbonding, and similar are just A Thing
- Forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow
- Fugue being invisible under his clothes and bandages
- Post-Book 1 stuff bringing Robert back to life or back as a ghost himself
- 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
- AUs where time travel and/or soulbonding are a thing
- Protectiveness of either or both towards the other tbh
- 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, that sort of thing)
- Possession, bodysharing, body swapping
- Nonhuman characters, particularly monsters, being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender
- Trans headcanons in general! An interpretation of Robert not actually having anything like human gender would be cool (see above bullet point); 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? trans woman?), 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? 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 Robert would accept a nickname (from anyone but maybe Gene... or Mona, and/or Shirley?) frankly, but would Fugue try? Robert he calls Fugue "Doctor Fugue" pretty constantly; what might make him shorten that to just Fugue? Or does Fugue have a first name (or can he not recall)? And if you could sell me on an endearment being used by either Fugue or Robert I would LOVE it!
- Look, to elaborate on my general xeno like... I am very 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 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? Feel free to go full unusual xeno in any of those ways or the general xeno ways I described up near the top of my letter; I do not mind and would be into any of it!
- Can I also just reiterate manhandling and point out that Robert is a perfect size for it, but also that it would be very hot if Robert is stronger than he seems (and maybe Fugue does not expect that at first)?
- ...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 - Potentially pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
PRISTINE CUT ADDITIONS:
• Apotheosis Fight + Unravelled/Grace Endings (Paranoid) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - About 40 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid.
• The Cage Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - Pertinent part is at 27:49-48:57 (with Voice of the Paranoid).
• Adversarial Fury - Contrarian/Broken/Cold [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 1:08:59-1:42:38 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Fury - Quantum Beak (you can respawn) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 22:39-39:10 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Happily Ever After Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - 37:39 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid. (It isn't possible to get Paranoid in this route anymore, for the record! All of this is Skeptic now. But I still think what was there is interesting...)
• The Princess and the Dragon Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - About 51 minutes, with Voice of the Cold.
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 7 and a half hours, but you can easily knock it down to about 2 hours and 5 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 Princess and the Dragon video, 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; 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!
Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas/some more specific prompts, I've requested them in a couple of freeform exchanges!
DNWs
- Noncon between the two halves of the requested ship
- Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (mentions of OCs being pregnant are fine)
- Scat, watersports (desperation is fine), vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine)
- Vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddykink, 24/7 D/S
- Permanent character death (undead, including ghosts, are fine and don't count for this DNW!)
- 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)
- The 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, even if the characters have limits about things they do or don't want to do)
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested poly for the requested characters (mentions of OCs being in poly relationships with one another is fine; minor background ships, poly or not, are fine)
- Requested characters being permanently separated in any way, or at risk of it, by the end of the story
- Unhappy endings
- 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, unless otherwise requested! (Bodysharing with one of the Princesses/vessels might be fine, specifically for dubcon/noncon! See below.)
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense
- Script style fic like the game itself uses!
- Speaking of which, Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOF)-style fic
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning so long as that isn't part of the sex itself. (For example, if you write any pre-smut lead-up that involves canon-typical violence/gore/body horror/horror in general/etc.)
- Dubcon or outright noncon between a third party and one or both of them, especially not as the only sex scene (or as rape pre-fic, flashed back to, etc.). Preference for the third party to be either OCs unrelated to the Construct, or the Nightmare, Moment of Clarity, or Tower.
- Dubcon between the two of them, imposed by an outside force, whether fantastical (sex pollen, in heat) or more realistic (a third party making them/threatening them into it). Again, preference for the third party (if there is one) to be either OCs unrelated to the Construct, or the Nightmare, Moment of Clarity, or Tower.
- The desperation version of watersports, whether or not it ends in wetting
- CNC scenes, so long as the fact that it's just a scene isn't a surprise at the end
- Genderswap, especially to make it F/F, but I am not at all opposed to M/F either!
- Trans headcanons, particularly either or both character(s) being nonbinary (any genitalia is fine for this) or trans women (post- or pre- or non-op are all fine); I do especially love genderless Cold and trans woman Paranoid, but go nuts! I opt into trans interpretations of any other characters too. I also opt into PIV but I am down with all kinds of porn! I am also also down for xeno, as well as for transness being less about body and more about just how they present to other people/the pronouns they use! (This goes for both non-op takes but also, for example, if none of the voices have genitalia so gender for them has always just been how they see themselves, things like that.)
- For specific crossover AUs I like: Spire: The City Must Fall RPG, Changeling: The Lost RPG, Pokémon, Night in the Woods, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Dead By Daylight, Returnal, NaissanceE, BLAME!, Annihilation, Scarlet Hollow, or The Last Halloween (webcomic).
- For more general AU ideas: Soulmates AU; AU where soulbonding is a thing; heat/rut or omegaverse AU; hanahaki AU; post-apocalyptic or apocalypse AU; urban fantasy AU; haunted house AU (with one as the ghost, with both as ghosts but maybe one doesn't know it, or with both as ghost hunters); pirates AU; drag AU; some reality competition AU.
- FIRST SPECIFIC AU IDEA: Omegaverse where omega!Paranoid unexpectedly goes into heat as an adult (first heat ever? had been on blockers since being a teenager? either works!) and holes himself up in his room, not trusting any alphas or other omegas around himself (or himself around them); Cold is one of the few betas of the group and goes in to, like, bring food and water and shit, and they end up fucking anyway.
- SECOND SPECIFIC AU IDEA: Spectre and Wraith (formerly Nightmare) want to get married, but since they're both ghosts they have to possess people for the ceremony (and possibly for sex). Spectre possesses Cold and Wraith possesses Paranoid, willingly or not in both cases, and Cold and Paranoid end up married too due to it. Either Cold and Paranoid choose to have sex after, need to consummate their marriage after due to some law or magic compulsion, and/or are still at least semi-possessed while Spectre and Wraith have sex with (at least primarily) each other.
- BDSM, either just vibes and trappings or more formal
- Orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- 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!
- Breeding kink so long as pregnancy is actually impossible, whether due to the kind of sex they're having, the genitalia they have, them just knowing they can't have kids the way humans do, or anything else
- Even without breeding kink, kinking on coming inside is also hot, but so is kinking on come/cum-play and messier sex like that
- 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 (or even like dragon-bird hybrid things!), or with more human (or human-looking) forms
- 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, so long as my applicable DNW is respected!
- 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," Paranoid apologizing for his "fear response" in Razor, all of them wanting to avoid individual death and continue existing
- The idea of the voices surviving even in the new "Your New World" ending, just being separated completely and irreversibly from the new god that is the Long Quiet, and having to deal with this new world now
- How Paranoid sometimes seems to be able to get Cold's whole deal, like in the Apotheosis chapter during the tearing sequence
- On the other side of the coin, Cold's apparent desire to feel things sometimes (most notably in both Grey chapters), as well as his surprising moments of feeling and empathy during the Adversary!Fury chapter
- How both of them seem to be able to tell the truth of the Construct/the Long Quiet sometimes!
- Mutual fascination with real fondness underneath, even if there's exasperation there too
- INTENSITY
- Crossdressing, drag, gender play, and just exploring wearing clothes in general! (As mentioned before, trans realizations due to this are loved!)
- Also, trans characters having gender realizations, and/or getting gender euphoria, during sex
- DANCING TOGETHER
- TBH the idea of either or both of these characters being kind of a mess in any sort of normal life/post-Construct scenario. Cold not having any survival instinct and not protecting himself in fights, going long stretches without eating or sleeping (or preening if they still have feathers) because he finds it boring, having trouble feeling or identifying or expressing his own emotions; Paranoid having Issues With Food and/or all kinds of sleep-related problems, having major trust issues, having hallucinations, overpreening if they still have feathers, his increased snappishness when freaked out... And so on.
- That said, character growth, making each other better, and balancing each other out are also loved! As well as Taking Chances and going outside of their comfort zones with each other they might not otherwise!
- Pretty much any of the AUs I've opted into? I honestly also love the idea of, post-canon, the voices (and vessels?) being dropped into the world outside the Construct and those "AUs" just being... what that world is like. So both AU and not!
- Noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Broken/Hunted, Broken/Smitten, Contrarian/Hero, Hunted/Opportunist, Opportunist/Skeptic, Opportunist/Smitten, Broken/Hunted/Stubborn, Nightmare/Spectre, Nightmare/Spectre!Wraith, Spectre/Nightmare!Wraith, Spectre/Witch, basically any other vessel/vessel ships tbh, Adversary/Stubborn, Broken/Cage, Damsel/Smitten, Contrarian/Echo, Contrarian/Echo/Hero
- Not a ship, but I love both characters' friendship with Hero; the idea of Cold being friends with Contrarian, Hunted, and Skeptic; and the idea of Paranoid being friends with (post-Apotheosis) Broken, Hunted, and Opportunist
- 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" or even (as in canon) things like "the jumpy one"? Do they choose names when out of the Construct, either in general or if they're pretending to be human? How might these two come to refer to one another, think about one another? (I like the nickname Para, tbh, even if Cold doesn't use it himself!)