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malachiical) wrote2021-06-06 09:04 am
malachiical) wrote2021-06-06 09:04 am
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Just Married Letter 2021
Hello, Just Married creator! Thank you for writing for me! 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 Likes
Porn Likes
Crossover Fandom - Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
Marvel 616 - J. Jonah Jameson/Quentin Beck
Marvel 616 - Otto Octavius/Peter Parker
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) - Baker/Busgirl/Soda Pop
Sofia the First (Cartoon) - Baileywick/Cedric the Sorcerer
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Adrian Toomes/Otto Octavius
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Adrian Toomes/Max Dillon/Otto Octavius
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Donald Menken/Phineas Mason
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Chameleon/Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
General DNWs
General 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.)
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Marvel 616
J. Jonah Jameson/Quentin Beck
I just love how weirdly tied to Jameson and the Bugle a lot of Mysterio's earliest career and attempts at defeating Spider-Man are! First Quentin Beck pretends to be Spider-Man, then once the Bugle turns the city against him, he sends J. Jonah Jameson specifically a note "saying he could get rid of Spider-Man single-handed" to get a meeting with him and gets Jonah totally on his side to the point of being basically heralded as a hero! Then about 2 years later, after Jameson again turns the people of New York against Spider-Man (unprompted this time), Beck contacts Jameson and the Bugle again pretending to be a renowned European psychiatrist named Dr. Ludwig Rinehart, convincing him that Spider-Man is on the verge of going insane and then proceeding to try to gaslight Spider-Man into thinking he's nuts and revealing his secret identity to him.
The fact that Quentin Beck keeps going to J. Jonah Jameson and the Bugle, and Jonah keeps eagerly helping despite not knowing the score because he just hates Spider-Man THAT MUCH, combined with the fact that in multiple other storylines Jonah has actually created supervillains in an attempt to bring down Spider-Man, makes me think the two could actually get along really well. Especially since Mysterio's crimes, according to some issues of canon, just don't have a body count, and at some points (like in the arc where he's secretly in charge of a nursing home) even his attempts to kill Spider-Man are totally illusory and he's actually unnecessarily protective of innocent people.
Speaking of which, part of why I really enjoy these two is how close to the line both of them are. J. Jonah Jameson is deep down a kind man but is also a little bit willing to compromise his newspaper to take down Spider-Man and even, as mentioned, goes so far as to commission and create supervillains to try to take Spider-Man down. Quentin Beck is a supervillain who is also careful not to actually kill anyone (and is crushed the first time someone accidentally dies during one of his crimes) and who has tried to retire multiple points in his career, who seems mostly to be treating supervillainy as a game. They both hate Spider-Man and neither of them is actually that bad a person, but one of them happens to be a supervillain, and I find that kind of great. I could love Jonah taking that final step into supervillainy, or just being willing to work and sleep with and romance with Quentin even while he's Mysterio... I could also really love the idea of Quentin trying to go straight and do something other than supervillainy and getting support from Jonah, who once believed in and gave a chance to Foswell even after the whole Big Man situation. Any of those scenarios could be nice!
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Marvel 616
Otto Octavius/Peter Parker
Ohhh boy I can't even explain in short form how and why I love these two so much. They have thought they worst of each other, they have misunderstood each other, Doctor Octopus has tried to kill Spider-Man (definitely not the reverse). Doctor Octopus has swung between minimal violence, outright saving lives sometimes, and crossing lines that even he knows deep down he shouldn't cross; when saving Spider-Man's life (and those issues I highly recommend for "was this gay on purpose?" feels) he talks up Spider-Man's goodness and how he needs him as his foil at length.
And then eventually they get a much greater understanding of each other in the weirdest way, with Otto Octavius taking over Peter Parker's body, Peter Parker dying in Otto Octavius's body, but not before shoving all of his memories into Otto's head and a piece of his consciousness as well. They basically share a brain for a while! And then when that whole situation goes south, Otto comes back in another Peter Parker clone body eventually, with the real Peter as Spider-Man, and... Spidey actually grants him a clean slate and later even tells him that he's doing the hero thing right.
The way they have so much intense and complicated history really gets to me. Whether you decide to set the story at a point when they're complicated enemies or one where they're complicated allies. One where they're in their original bodies or one where they're both in Peter Parker bodies. There's honestly so much possibility with these two!
(Plus, alternately, if you go with the backstory specifically from Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One or take it as its own mini-canon, I am totally down for that because they have a, uh, very interesting relationship and Otto has a very specific personality and obsession with Spider-Man that I am HERE for.)
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
Baker/Busgirl/Soda Pop
These three made me incredibly happy the moment they came onscreen, honestly, and despite their lack of screen time they continued to delight me every time I spotted them. They're always a unit! They work in the kitchen together, they hide from the robots together, they go into battle together whenever necessary and fight well as a team, they attend Glimmer's coronation together, they all move to Bright Moon together after Entrapta disappears/Dryll is taken by the Horde... They're all adorable and I love the little journey they go on getting more confident and learning how to fight and stick up for themselves. They all start off meek in some ways and develop this playful confidence that's really fun!
That also means they're fairly similar in personality in a way that I feel makes sense that they get along so well and stick together so much. They have a lot in common, but they have some differences too, with their specialities being distinct but working very well together -- both as kitchen staff (skilled making food, skilled choosing/providing beverages, skilled at cleaning and upkeep) and in fights. They seem to take strength in each other and support one another with both their similarities and differences and I love that! I could absolutely see them as already a thing or developing into a thing, so I hope you could have a lot of fun playing with this particular ship.
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Canon-Specific DNWs
Sofia the First
Baileywick/Cedric the Sorcerer
These two both work for King Roland at Enchancia's castle, of course, but their circumstances are different in really interesting ways to me! Baileywick seems to have worked for the family for a long, long time, and seems married to his work, never taking a break and being on top of keeping everything running. He's the Castle Steward and is in charge of all the rest of the servants, but he's also a servant himself and completely aware of it, and doesn't at all mind it. Cedric's father worked for the family for a long, long time, and he feels like he's in his father's shadow, and he also seems to be working all the time but isn't happy to be constantly on call, especially for things he thinks are beneath his position, such as babysitting. He's the Royal Sorcerer yet has absolutely no one beneath him to delegate to, and is very aware of his position and does seem to mind it, at least since everyone thinks of him as a failure. There's that, too; Cedric has a cloud hanging over him from his childhood, one that isn't actually his fault, and his nervousness about messing up makes him mess up worse, and people think he's a shit sorcerer and laugh at him or roll their eyes or dismiss him. Baileywick, however, is incredibly smooth and effective at what he does and can seem almost, well, magic with how efficient and helpful he can be, and is one of the most well-respected people at the castle.
One of the things that really interests me with these two is perception. While Baileywick teases Cedric once or twice about being bad at magic, he doesn't seem to dislike the man and likely doesn't realize how personally Cedric takes such cracks, because Cedric does take everything like that exceedingly personally. Baileywick seemed to be being friendly right before Cedric froze him on his way to take over the kingdom, and afterwards he only gave Cedric a few suspicious looks before he proved himself. And Cedric for his part doesn't seem to resent Baileywick, but feels isolated and looked down on enough that he considers Sofia his first and only friend, and doesn't feel that anyone ever supported him. Overall I doubt the two of them thought too much about one another for most of their careers, and had a few misunderstandings when they did exchange words but didn't think too badly of each other overall, so I can imagine them warming up to each other Also I'd like to note that I love how both of them are better with children than one might expect! (Well, Cedric anyway) Baileywick becomes a Buttercup Guide and helps out with the troop on occasion, as well as helping out with the kids around the castle generally, and Cedric is Sofia's teacher as well as occasionally begrudgingly entertaining/babysitting the castle childen in general, as well as his short stint as a substitute teacher at Royal Prep, which he ended up actually enjoying. I also like that by the final episode, Cedric seems incredibly confident in himself, and both steps in to help Baileywick with decorating and Baileywick compliments him in return!
Requested Tags
GENDERS TYPES OF WEDDING. Very much opposites, but honestly, I can see either! I could easily see both of them preferring a smaller, simpler wedding with only their families and the people they care most about invited. I could also see either of their families (let's be real, especially Cedric's) or the royal family finding out they're getting married and deciding it has to be a BIG THING. Even if it's not their preference, maybe they're touched by it. Or maybe it's gearing up to be made into a big ostentatious wedding and then they explain they just want something simple and everyone listens and they get a smaller wedding, or something in the middle. Whatever you do with this, I feel like it could be real cute.
Canon-Specific DNWs
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Adrian Toomes/Otto Octavius
I am just WAY TOO INVESTED in these ridiculous theatrical supervillains being pre-supervillain friends who are now loyal and in love while trying to take over the world/take murderous revenge!
While the first episode introduces both characters with Adrian furious at Otto, it makes sense, since they seem to have been close before (the photo on Otto's wall in the Doctor Octopus origin episode!) and Adrian was probably feeling hurt/betrayed. The rest of their dynamic is so far from what one might expect from that first impression that it's insane! Reunited as cellmates, Vulture helping Doc Ock with a big jailbreak, not just working together in the Sinister Six but Vulture ceding his desire to take vengeance on Osborn to follow Ock's plan to take out Spider-Man first... And they just never work apart again? Adrian is one of only three people to find out the Master Planner's true identity, part of his inner circle! When Ock tests out the technology meant to allow him to hack into every single electrical device in the city, he does so by trying to kill Norman Osborn, seemingly for Adrian's sake, and despite revenge being Vulture's driving motivation Adrian is totally fine about it not working. When Otto tries to credit him Phineas Mason and for doing brilliant work assembling the technology, Adrian immediately demurs the compliment and turns it back around on him: "The brainwork was all yours, Otto." For a grouchy old man, he smiles a lot around Otto, too!
And even after the Master Planner's master plan is defeated and literally every other member of the Sinister Six seems to go their separate ways and do their own things, Vulture just stays with Doctor Octopus, seemingly acting as bodyguard for the auction, for the Valentine's Day summit (where they also dress up fancy and hot)... There are also just these cute little touches I love, like how in the first Sinister Six fight when Spider-Man jumps on the Vulture's back you can see the back of Doctor Octopus's head tracking them, and a few moments later Otto is the one to pull Spider-Man off Adrian's back. And when Doctor Octopus puts a tentacle on everyone's shoulders in the Sinister Six ep to ease them back down into their chairs, it looks like his tentacle is on Adrian's back instead of his shoulder. And when Hammerhead shoots at Adrian at the summit and knocks him unconscious, Otto's cry of "TREACHERY!" is fuckin pissed and he just has no patience for Tombstone in that fight after. I love how Ock seems to honestly care about his team and make an effort to make them happy, and how Vulture is perfectly willing to put his own goals on the backburner in a way that feels very "I am helping this man take over the world because he wants to and he deserves to get whatever he wants, fuck you." I love seeing these supervillains have huge soft spots, in general and especially for each other!
TL;DR they married, ty for reading my villain shipping Ted Talk.
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Canon-Specific DNWs
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Adrian Toomes/Max Dillon/Otto Octavius
SO TAKE THE ABOVE AND ADD ELECTRO.
The thing is, I really love Electro's dynamics with both Ock and Vulture. They're more substantial with "the Doc," of course, with Electro in his own words practically worshipping him. Otto was the only person who wrote to him in Ravencroft, and Electro quickly and fully just dedicated himself to him and fully believes in his abilities, plans, and overall genius. Also, when Ock was pretending to have "reverted" to Otto Octavius and cringe from his time as a supervillain, Electro seemed disgusted and willing to turn his back on him; I could actually like the interpretation that he's not blindly devoted no matter what Ock does and that was an honest reaction, but apparently Greg Weisman said in an interview that Ock had told Electro his plans and Electro was acting, and I also really like Otto trusting him with that! And he and Adrian are actually two-thirds of Otto's most trusted inner circle, along with Phineas Mason.
I really do like what little we get to see of Electro's dynamic with Vulture, too, though. Electro can be way too impulsive so sometimes they don't work as well together as they'd like -- see in "Reinforcement" when Electro accidentally shocks Vulture and knocks the Christmas tree onto him -- but they worked well together up to that point and were well-coordinated when kidnapping Gwen Stacy in the very next episode. More than that, I'm incredibly charmed that Electro apparently calls Vulture "Vulch" and that Adrian is just 100% fine with that little nickname! It's very cute.
Basically, while it would be easy to posit a V-shaped relationship with Doctor Octopus as the middle point, I am super into all three of them trusting, liking, and being dedicated (and attracted) to each other. It's nice!
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The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Donald Menken/Phineas Mason
Okay, this is a ship where they never actually met in canon, Phineas is a fairly minor character, and Menken is a "7 minutes of canon in a 10 hour series" minor character. So let me explain.
Basically, I can easily imagine these two bonding over their similarities if they had a chance to get to know one another, and I can think of a few scenarios in which they might. They're both professionals, even if Phineas is often more casual and shows more mischeviousness. They both have some sort of expertise that leaves other people relying on them and like to work in a support capacity out of the spotlight: Phineas as a tech genius and Menken as a P.A.
But what really intrigues me is that... Phineas seems to be doing all of these criminal things, working with first Chameleon and Quentin Beck, then the Sinister Six, then even doing work for Tombstone and the Enforcers, solely because he enjoys doing it; he's enough of a genius that he could easily sell legal inventions! He has absolutely no origin story or anything, I have to assume his criminal career is for the love of it. And Menken's contributions in-series go beyond loyalty to Osborn and far beyond P.A. duties; his reaction in the finale makes me pretty certain he didn't ever know that Osborn was the Green Goblin, so just in his capacity as personal assistant to the CEO of Oscorp he was a)willing to run in alongside a security guard with only a cell phone to face a supervillain, b)coordinating with Osborn's "operatives" to try to find an escaped supervillain who wants Osborn dead, and c)calmly in charge of an auction where supervillains and mobsters were betting millions of dollars on the specs to the same impenetrable armor used to create the supervillain Rhino, which Osborn for some mysterious reason had proprietary access to. So Menken was willing to do some very criminal shit unflinchingly while not asking too many questions. There's probably different possible interpretations, but I feel like it's another similarity with Phineas: getting involved with criminal and supercriminal stuff was exciting and more enjoyable to both of them than just having a completely normal career. (Whether or not Menken would initially admit that he's even the type of person to want danger and adrenaline in his life, but then, hey, Phineas likes to deny that he's theatrical as hell...)
For any sort of setup, whether you explore it at all in fic or just take it as read, I feel like there are a lot of possibilities as to how they might have met and how they might know one another post-canon. If Menken continues to work for Oscorp after Norman Osborn's apparent death (maybe even stepping in as CEO?), some shit going down could bring him into the Sinister Six's sphere, and/or that of Chameleon and company... or Tinkerer just ends up doing some work for Oscorp. If Osborn comes back, as himself or as the Goblin, maybe he tries to finish the job and kill Menken and/or Menken is just very calmly fine with Vulture trying to kill his old boss due to how Osborn betrayed him. Maybe Menken hears of the Tinkerer and goes to him to get some sort of protection just in case Osborn survived and comes back; maybe it's a skill-enhancement suit, maybe he even gets drawn into the supervillain lifestyle as Tinkerer notes that he's more into this than he'd like to admit. (Feel free to make up a supervillain identity for him or use something like, idk, Scorpion or Owl from the comics!) Or maybe instead of that, Menken leaves Oscorp to become L. Thompson Lincoln's P.A. in order to try to get protection; maybe he's open to becoming Tombstone's new right hand man, or denies that he wants to but is intrigued by the idea, or just honestly doesn't like the idea, but either way he could easily meet Tinkerer if Tinkerer is continuing to do work on commission for Tombstone. Or it's Silver Sable and/or Silvio Manfredi they're both doing work for.
TL;DR I think if they got to talking in a professional capacity there's potential for them to really click, so feel free to use any of these ideas or go with something of your own, and of course feel free to handwave past all this stuff to get to the marriage-related bits!
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The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
THESE TWO MAKE ME HAPPY. When we're first introduced to them they're the kinda grouchy-seeming professionals working with Chameleon and playing a dumb card-flicking gamein "bisexuals can't sit normally" fashion while they wait. They're basically Chameleon's backup in that episode, and you don't get to see fully what they're like until the second season, but I really like the juxtaposition of how they are in this episode as compared to later ones! (Personally, I feel as if neither of them had their supervillain identities at all until somewhere between "Persona" and "Blueprints" when the Master Planner hired them. I also feel that they'd been working together for at least a little while before their introductory episode, though who was the first to work with who, out of the three of them, and for how long, is totally up to you. Also up to you whether they usually call each other by first name or last name, and how often they call each other by supervillain name nowadays!)
Quentin Beck used to be a special effects technician before leaving for his life of crime, and he's got a very interesting balance between his real self and the Mysterio act that I find really fun! He's a professional and Mysterio is an overly-theatrical fuckin dork, but Quentin is also deep down (and not so deep down) a theatrical dork. I can imagine that Quentin puts some of the things he wants to be into Mysterio, because that's common for supervillains and superheroes both, but Mysterio is also a role he plays for a specific purpose: misdirection, keeping people focused on him rather than his tricks or the crimes his act is distracting away from! That said, he got hired to be Mysterio for the thefts and then just decided that was fun as hell and absolutely wanted to do from then on, so there's also that element to him. I feel like he's also enjoying getting to be center stage as Mysterio in a way he doesn't get to be on jobs with Chameleon. Phineas Mason, on the other hand, is an inventor who rolls his eyes at "actors" being theatrical but is absolutely theatrical himself even if he won't admit it. I don't think he's an actor, not in the way that Chameleon and Quentin are; he was wayyy in the background in "Persona" in non-speaking roles whenever his presence was necessary out in the field, and he seems to prefer to stay back and provide "technical support" and make things for other people to use. But he obviously has fun leaning into the mad scientist supervillain act at least a little ("allow me to introduce our host and benefactor"; "welcome to your lair, Master Planner"; "all that remains is calibration... and testing") and occasionally amuses himself making dorky jokes ("put even more 'ric' in your 'ochet'"). I also imagine he has no criminal record (the arrest at the end of "Persona" didn't seem to stick and one of the cops did say in the first episode that the people Spider-Man apprehends nearly always walk...) and is staying in the background to avoid getting one for as long as possible, because him being able to work within the law is really convenient for them.
Basically, though, I love the dynamic of two characters who are just doing this shit because they love it, who've been working together a while and are developing supervillain personas kind of simultaneously mostly for the fun of it. I have a feeling Tinkerer made most of the robots and tech that Mysterio uses, though Quentin himself also contributed the "will-weaking" gas and the mask and makeup for his own android. (Which also means that the reason Quentin is just never arrested after "Persona" and it's always a goddamn android is thanks to Phineas, which makes me smile.) Phineas might not even charge him for that stuff! Just in general they're basically married and I love that.
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The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Chameleon/Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
SAME AS THE SECTION ABOVE WITH QUENTIN AND PHINEAS, but now Chameleon is added to the mix and I love this additional element with both of them! IMO it was absolutely brilliant for The Spectacular Spider-Man to introduce these three as a team working together; Mysterio might have hired the Chameleon once in the comics, but otherwise none of them really teamed up, but it works perfectly! The person who can disguise himself as anyone, the special effects expert, and the inventor/technological expert have a lot to offer each other, and I love that they seem to usually hire themselves out to steal shit for the rich and powerful.
Chameleon is a fascinating character to me, both in and of himself and in the dynamic with these two. He's a professional who can have a no-nonsense sort of response to things (seeing his phone call with the person who hired them to steal the symbiote, and his "I did not sign on for this" response in the finale), but who also has a mischievous sense of humor and is absolutely theatrical especially when inhabiting a role (his Spider-Man impression was really funny to me). He has his own life and isn't always working with Beck and Phineas, but given the way he talked in "Persona" I get the strong impression Beck makes his disguises, including the face masks, so I imagine they at least keep in touch often. I also feel like the three of them worked together for at least a few years before we meet them in canon, which is a dynamic I love; they'd all be very used to each other! And I enjoy the idea that when they do jobs together they split the take rather than Beck or Phineas charging Chameleon (or each other) or anything... As well as really liking the idea that even being incredibly close with the two of them it's just Chameleon's habit to call even people he loves by their surnames. I also also like how "Mason" and "Beck"'s names are first given while Chameleon is requesting their help and simultaneously praising their skills! And I just in general really love the idea of a team of criminals who work great together and highly respect one another's skills and are also all in love. (Though I also don't mind if it's a poly V so long as the center of the V is Quentin or Phineas, not Chameleon.)
I'm also fascinated by Chameleon in the sense of like... Outside of Chameleon, who is often pretending to be other people, who is he? Does he even have a legal identity outside of Chameleon, or has he erased it? Feel free to use the name Dmitri Smerdyakov for him (though I prefer he not be related to Kraven in this universe), but if you wanted to solely stick with Chameleon for him or give him a fake name like, idk, Leon Smirnov (the most common surname in Russia, basically like giving him the surname Smith) or w/e that he goes by now when necessary that is obviously not his birth name, go nuts.
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General DNWs
General Likes
Porn Likes
Crossover Fandom - Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
Marvel 616 - J. Jonah Jameson/Quentin Beck
Marvel 616 - Otto Octavius/Peter Parker
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) - Baker/Busgirl/Soda Pop
Sofia the First (Cartoon) - Baileywick/Cedric the Sorcerer
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Adrian Toomes/Otto Octavius
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Adrian Toomes/Max Dillon/Otto Octavius
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Donald Menken/Phineas Mason
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) - Chameleon/Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
General DNWs
- incest
- noncon/dubcon
- underage (unless otherwise stated)
- gore, permanent injury, character death (unless otherwise stated)
- infidelity (unless otherwise stated)
- halves of the pair 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 pairing 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)
- unhappy endings
- unrequested AUs
- unrequested identity headcanons
- unrequested noncanon ships (background canon ships that don't break up the requested pairing are fine!)
- unrequested poly
- unnecessary use of safewords or stoplight symbols
- feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy
- scat, watersports, vomit (mentions of someone throwing up not in a kink context are fine), vore, bestiality, choking/breathplay, somnophilia, mommy- or daddykink, 24/7 D/S (unless otherwise stated)
General Likes
- 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
- redemption arcs, gray morality, general complexity, lighter takes on villains & villain redemption
- hurt/comfort
- 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
- art treats always 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
- BDSM tones, mild or more formal
- praise kink and instructions/requests/begging flavors of dirty talk
- 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
- 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
- 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; fine with clit being called clit or penis/cock/dick, fine with penis being called penis/cock/dick or clit
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.)
Requested Tags
- Anniversary - 1st Year
- Arranged Marriage - Future Spouses Are Forbidden To Meet But Are Able to Study One Another's Hobbies
- Soul Bond - Accidental Bond is Cultural Equivalent of Marriage
- Soul Bond - Dancing At Friend's Wedding Leads To Unexpected Soul Bond
- Courtship - Unconventional Courtship that Ends in Marriage
- Engagement - Engaged in Secret
- Marrying for Love - Breaking Betrothal Agreement to Marry Someone Family Doesn’t Approve Of
- Fake Marriage - As Part Of A Con
- Fake Marriage - Characters Marry for the Benefits (Don't Count on Falling in Love)
- Marriage of Convenience - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
- Political Marriage - Real Feelings Develop
- Forbidden Marriage - One Spouse Crossdresses To Get Around Ban On Gay Marriage
- Proposal - Attempts to Propose are Continuously Interrupted
- Wedding Reception - Interrupted by Canon-Typical Shenanigans
- Supernatural - Married to a Demon
- Supernatural - Married to a Vampire
- Supernatural - Married to a Werewolf
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
- Wedding Night - Real Wedding Night For Fake Marriage
Canon-Specific DNWs
- smut with either character under 16
- 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 like trans headcanons for these characters! I like the idea of Kyouya as a trans girl or nonbinary, but trans boy is fine too, and anything's fine for Hiruma or pretty much any of the other characters. 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!
- I am actually always into the idea of the Host Club as all being girls who are pretending to be guys, just like Haruhi, either with the other Ouran students aware or not -- maybe it's an all girls' school? so feel free to play with that genderswap AU, with the Devil Bats genderswapped as well or not! Hiruma/Kyouya being m/f or f/f are both fine if you go this route!
Marvel 616
J. Jonah Jameson/Quentin Beck
I just love how weirdly tied to Jameson and the Bugle a lot of Mysterio's earliest career and attempts at defeating Spider-Man are! First Quentin Beck pretends to be Spider-Man, then once the Bugle turns the city against him, he sends J. Jonah Jameson specifically a note "saying he could get rid of Spider-Man single-handed" to get a meeting with him and gets Jonah totally on his side to the point of being basically heralded as a hero! Then about 2 years later, after Jameson again turns the people of New York against Spider-Man (unprompted this time), Beck contacts Jameson and the Bugle again pretending to be a renowned European psychiatrist named Dr. Ludwig Rinehart, convincing him that Spider-Man is on the verge of going insane and then proceeding to try to gaslight Spider-Man into thinking he's nuts and revealing his secret identity to him.
The fact that Quentin Beck keeps going to J. Jonah Jameson and the Bugle, and Jonah keeps eagerly helping despite not knowing the score because he just hates Spider-Man THAT MUCH, combined with the fact that in multiple other storylines Jonah has actually created supervillains in an attempt to bring down Spider-Man, makes me think the two could actually get along really well. Especially since Mysterio's crimes, according to some issues of canon, just don't have a body count, and at some points (like in the arc where he's secretly in charge of a nursing home) even his attempts to kill Spider-Man are totally illusory and he's actually unnecessarily protective of innocent people.
Speaking of which, part of why I really enjoy these two is how close to the line both of them are. J. Jonah Jameson is deep down a kind man but is also a little bit willing to compromise his newspaper to take down Spider-Man and even, as mentioned, goes so far as to commission and create supervillains to try to take Spider-Man down. Quentin Beck is a supervillain who is also careful not to actually kill anyone (and is crushed the first time someone accidentally dies during one of his crimes) and who has tried to retire multiple points in his career, who seems mostly to be treating supervillainy as a game. They both hate Spider-Man and neither of them is actually that bad a person, but one of them happens to be a supervillain, and I find that kind of great. I could love Jonah taking that final step into supervillainy, or just being willing to work and sleep with and romance with Quentin even while he's Mysterio... I could also really love the idea of Quentin trying to go straight and do something other than supervillainy and getting support from Jonah, who once believed in and gave a chance to Foswell even after the whole Big Man situation. Any of those scenarios could be nice!
Requested Tags
- Accidental Engagement - Joke Marriage Proposal on TV Mistaken As Real by the Press
- Courtship - Unconventional Courtship that Ends in Marriage
- Engagement - Comfort and Promising to Do Better Than Dysfunctional Birth Family of Spouse(s)
- Engagement - Relationship was Assumed to be a Fling Until Surprise Engagement Announcement
- Established Marriage - Decide to Adopt a Pet Together
- Established Marriage - Happy and Domestic
- Fake Marriage - Fake Dating Leads To Real Wedding
- Fake Marriage - That Leads To Real Feelings
- Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
- Wedding Night - Real Wedding Night For Fake Marriage
- Forbidden Marriage - One Spouse Crossdresses To Get Around Ban On Gay Marriage
- Honeymoon - Finding A Way To Celebrate Marriage While In Hiding/On The Run
- Proposal - During Crime Spree
- Proposal - Elaborate or Creative Proposal
- Proposal - Romantic
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding Ceremony - Improvised and Unofficial
- Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
- Wedding Reception - Dancing
- Wedding Reception - First Dance
Canon-Specific DNWs
- Quentin Beck being written as a purposeful or unrepentant killer, delusional, or just in general "criminally insane" or as irredeemably evil
- infidelity (just putting this here to specify to just... handwave Jonah not being married or engaged to or seeing anyone else during whatever time the story is set)
- nicknames! pet names! I could really enjoy Jonah and Quentin using kinda cheesy endearments for each other, tbh, like sweet, sweetheart, darling, once they actually become a thing...
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for these characters, especially Quentin but you're welcome to do something with Jonah! anything works for either of them, nonbinary or trans man or trans woman, though Jonah having a son with his wife might mean he's not a trans man. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
Marvel 616
Otto Octavius/Peter Parker
Ohhh boy I can't even explain in short form how and why I love these two so much. They have thought they worst of each other, they have misunderstood each other, Doctor Octopus has tried to kill Spider-Man (definitely not the reverse). Doctor Octopus has swung between minimal violence, outright saving lives sometimes, and crossing lines that even he knows deep down he shouldn't cross; when saving Spider-Man's life (and those issues I highly recommend for "was this gay on purpose?" feels) he talks up Spider-Man's goodness and how he needs him as his foil at length.
And then eventually they get a much greater understanding of each other in the weirdest way, with Otto Octavius taking over Peter Parker's body, Peter Parker dying in Otto Octavius's body, but not before shoving all of his memories into Otto's head and a piece of his consciousness as well. They basically share a brain for a while! And then when that whole situation goes south, Otto comes back in another Peter Parker clone body eventually, with the real Peter as Spider-Man, and... Spidey actually grants him a clean slate and later even tells him that he's doing the hero thing right.
The way they have so much intense and complicated history really gets to me. Whether you decide to set the story at a point when they're complicated enemies or one where they're complicated allies. One where they're in their original bodies or one where they're both in Peter Parker bodies. There's honestly so much possibility with these two!
(Plus, alternately, if you go with the backstory specifically from Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One or take it as its own mini-canon, I am totally down for that because they have a, uh, very interesting relationship and Otto has a very specific personality and obsession with Spider-Man that I am HERE for.)
Requested Tags
- Accidental Engagement - Joke Marriage Proposal on TV Mistaken As Real by the Press
- Newlyweds - Friends/Family/Fans/Foes React To Unexpected Or Contentious Marriage
- Dimension Travel - Enemies or Just Friends Find Out They're Married In An Alternate Universe
- Engagement - Comfort and Promising to Do Better Than Dysfunctional Birth Family of Spouse(s)
- Established Marriage - Decide to Adopt a Child Together
- Wedding Planning - Discussing New Married Name
- Engagement - Engaged in Secret
- Marriage of Convenience - Marriage To Save Criminal from Other Punishment
- Marriage of Convenience - Marrying to protect someone from danger
- Marriage of Convenience - Marrying to Save a Life
- Science Fiction - Hanahaki Disease Cured by Marriage
- Soul Bond - Marriage Is The Only Cure For Fatal Soul Bond
- Soul Bond - Soul Bond Required to Save One Partner's Life
- Proposal - Blurting Out Proposal Unplanned
- Proposal - During Battle
- Proposal - Mid-Battle Proposal
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
- Wedding Ceremony - Interrupted by a Battle and They Continue When It's Finished
- Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
Canon-Specific DNWs
- Doctor Octopus being presented as irredeemably crazy/evil
- permanent character death of any canon characters
- focus on infidelity (preference is for handwaving Peter not dating anyone, or open relationship stuff, but I know Peter's usually dating Mary Jane/sometimes Black Cat/sometimes someone else so I just don't want focus on cheating)
- I know I'm adding this belatedly so no foul if you miss it, but I'd honestly prefer handwaving away/decanonizing or just not mentioning the whole "May and Otto are exes/were once going to get married themselves" thing!
- nicknames! pet names! I like it when things someone is called in anger or to annoy them at first shift over to being totally normal and then even endearments over time, like Doctor Octopus calling Spider-Man "wall-crawler" or "web-slinger/web-spinner" or "arachnid", or Spider-Man calling Doctor Octopus "Doc," "Ock," or "Doc Ock", but I am also super into exploring moments when maybe one calls the other by their real name, whether "Parker" or "Peter," whether "Dr. Octavius" or "Otto"; is it a threat or is it an appeal or is it intimate?
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for these characters! I can especially see nonbinary Doctor Octopus but trans man and trans woman both totally work for me for different reasons as well; I especially enjoy trans woman or nonbinary Spidey but trans man is also totally acceptable. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
Baker/Busgirl/Soda Pop
These three made me incredibly happy the moment they came onscreen, honestly, and despite their lack of screen time they continued to delight me every time I spotted them. They're always a unit! They work in the kitchen together, they hide from the robots together, they go into battle together whenever necessary and fight well as a team, they attend Glimmer's coronation together, they all move to Bright Moon together after Entrapta disappears/Dryll is taken by the Horde... They're all adorable and I love the little journey they go on getting more confident and learning how to fight and stick up for themselves. They all start off meek in some ways and develop this playful confidence that's really fun!
That also means they're fairly similar in personality in a way that I feel makes sense that they get along so well and stick together so much. They have a lot in common, but they have some differences too, with their specialities being distinct but working very well together -- both as kitchen staff (skilled making food, skilled choosing/providing beverages, skilled at cleaning and upkeep) and in fights. They seem to take strength in each other and support one another with both their similarities and differences and I love that! I could absolutely see them as already a thing or developing into a thing, so I hope you could have a lot of fun playing with this particular ship.
Requested Tags
- Anniversary - 1st Year
- Established Marriage - Bringing Breakfast to Sick Spouse in Bed
- Established Marriage - Decide to Adopt a Pet Together
- Established Marriage - Happy and Domestic
- Established Marriage - Married Couple Both Pine for the Same Third Person
- Poly Marriage - Figuring Out New Routine/Moving Into Each Others Space
- Poly Marriage - Treated as Normal In-Universe
- Wedding - Third Person in Newly Poly Relationship Symbolically Added to Official Marriage
- Proposal - During Battle
- Proposal - Mid-Battle Proposal
- Proposal - Proposing at the Same Time
- Proposal - Proposing on a Whim
- Wedding - Blended Traditions
- Wedding - Poly Traditions
- Wedding - Small and Simple
- Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
- Wedding Planning - Cake and Wine Tasting
- Wedding Planning - Menu Tasting
- Wedding Reception - Food with Special Meaning to Wedding Party
- Wedding Reception - Catching the Bouquet
Canon-Specific DNWs
- Entrapta/Hordak
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Entrapta/Scorpia, Entrapta/Wrong Hordak, Perfuma/Huntara, Adora/Catra/Glimmer/Bow
- NAMING CONVENTIONS and names in general actually? these characters don't really have names, so feel free to come up with names for them! do they ever use nicknames or endearments for one another at any point, or do they ever switch from a surname to a first name basis (if they have surnames), or do they just use one another's names? feel free to play around with this, i love this stuff!
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for these characters! I like the idea of Busgirl as nonbinary, actually, rather than a girl (or a demigirl maybe?), but trans girl would also be cool. Baker I could see being a trans woman, but nonbinary would also be acceptable, and anything goes for Soda Pop. for other characters, just keep the canon pronouns the same and go with whatever -- except for Wrong Hordak, who I'd be happy to see as nonbinary or a trans girl. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
Sofia the First
Baileywick/Cedric the Sorcerer
These two both work for King Roland at Enchancia's castle, of course, but their circumstances are different in really interesting ways to me! Baileywick seems to have worked for the family for a long, long time, and seems married to his work, never taking a break and being on top of keeping everything running. He's the Castle Steward and is in charge of all the rest of the servants, but he's also a servant himself and completely aware of it, and doesn't at all mind it. Cedric's father worked for the family for a long, long time, and he feels like he's in his father's shadow, and he also seems to be working all the time but isn't happy to be constantly on call, especially for things he thinks are beneath his position, such as babysitting. He's the Royal Sorcerer yet has absolutely no one beneath him to delegate to, and is very aware of his position and does seem to mind it, at least since everyone thinks of him as a failure. There's that, too; Cedric has a cloud hanging over him from his childhood, one that isn't actually his fault, and his nervousness about messing up makes him mess up worse, and people think he's a shit sorcerer and laugh at him or roll their eyes or dismiss him. Baileywick, however, is incredibly smooth and effective at what he does and can seem almost, well, magic with how efficient and helpful he can be, and is one of the most well-respected people at the castle.
One of the things that really interests me with these two is perception. While Baileywick teases Cedric once or twice about being bad at magic, he doesn't seem to dislike the man and likely doesn't realize how personally Cedric takes such cracks, because Cedric does take everything like that exceedingly personally. Baileywick seemed to be being friendly right before Cedric froze him on his way to take over the kingdom, and afterwards he only gave Cedric a few suspicious looks before he proved himself. And Cedric for his part doesn't seem to resent Baileywick, but feels isolated and looked down on enough that he considers Sofia his first and only friend, and doesn't feel that anyone ever supported him. Overall I doubt the two of them thought too much about one another for most of their careers, and had a few misunderstandings when they did exchange words but didn't think too badly of each other overall, so I can imagine them warming up to each other Also I'd like to note that I love how both of them are better with children than one might expect! (Well, Cedric anyway) Baileywick becomes a Buttercup Guide and helps out with the troop on occasion, as well as helping out with the kids around the castle generally, and Cedric is Sofia's teacher as well as occasionally begrudgingly entertaining/babysitting the castle childen in general, as well as his short stint as a substitute teacher at Royal Prep, which he ended up actually enjoying. I also like that by the final episode, Cedric seems incredibly confident in himself, and both steps in to help Baileywick with decorating and Baileywick compliments him in return!
Requested Tags
- Established Marriage - Decide to Adopt a Pet Together
- Historical - Court Reaction to Unexpected Marriage
- Magic - Artifact Chooses Spouse
- Magic - Artifact or Spell Accidentally Causes Marriage
- Magic - Not Sure If Marriage Under Magical Circumstances Counts
- Magic - Prophetic Matchmaker Chooses Who Marries Who
- Magic - Spell Gone Wrong Results in Marriage
- Magic - True Love's Kiss Automatically Becomes A Binding Marriage
- Magic - Truth Spell Results in Accidental Proposal
- Magic - Magical Abilities are Shared after Marriage
- Magic - Marriage Allows Spouses To Share Magical Powers
- Magic - Wedding Location Chosen for Magical Properties
- Magic - Wedding Rings in Shared Dreams of Unmarried Pair Reveal Pining
- Soul Bond - Accidental/Unexpected Soulbond
- Soul Bond - Dancing At Friend's Wedding Leads To Unexpected Soul Bond
- Wedding - Ostentatious Royal Wedding
- Wedding - Small and Simple
- Wedding Ceremony - Children Important To Those Getting Married Are Involved
- Wedding Reception - First Dance
- Wedding Reception - Interrupted by Canon-Typical Shenanigans
Canon-Specific DNWs
- story focusing on the idea that Cedric is a screw-up
- worldbuilding and exploration in general, especially of the different flora and fauna and magic stuff
- villain redemption
- the characters' relationships with Sofia (if she's mentioned or appears)
- characters who don't know magic learning a little magic or using those single-spell wands
- characters working through complicated relationships and realizing they're both Very Fond
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for these characters! I'm especially intrigued by the idea of Cedric being a trans women, but trans man or nonbinary interpretations are also welcome; for Baileywick or any other characters anything works! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Adrian Toomes/Otto Octavius
I am just WAY TOO INVESTED in these ridiculous theatrical supervillains being pre-supervillain friends who are now loyal and in love while trying to take over the world/take murderous revenge!
While the first episode introduces both characters with Adrian furious at Otto, it makes sense, since they seem to have been close before (the photo on Otto's wall in the Doctor Octopus origin episode!) and Adrian was probably feeling hurt/betrayed. The rest of their dynamic is so far from what one might expect from that first impression that it's insane! Reunited as cellmates, Vulture helping Doc Ock with a big jailbreak, not just working together in the Sinister Six but Vulture ceding his desire to take vengeance on Osborn to follow Ock's plan to take out Spider-Man first... And they just never work apart again? Adrian is one of only three people to find out the Master Planner's true identity, part of his inner circle! When Ock tests out the technology meant to allow him to hack into every single electrical device in the city, he does so by trying to kill Norman Osborn, seemingly for Adrian's sake, and despite revenge being Vulture's driving motivation Adrian is totally fine about it not working. When Otto tries to credit him Phineas Mason and for doing brilliant work assembling the technology, Adrian immediately demurs the compliment and turns it back around on him: "The brainwork was all yours, Otto." For a grouchy old man, he smiles a lot around Otto, too!
And even after the Master Planner's master plan is defeated and literally every other member of the Sinister Six seems to go their separate ways and do their own things, Vulture just stays with Doctor Octopus, seemingly acting as bodyguard for the auction, for the Valentine's Day summit (where they also dress up fancy and hot)... There are also just these cute little touches I love, like how in the first Sinister Six fight when Spider-Man jumps on the Vulture's back you can see the back of Doctor Octopus's head tracking them, and a few moments later Otto is the one to pull Spider-Man off Adrian's back. And when Doctor Octopus puts a tentacle on everyone's shoulders in the Sinister Six ep to ease them back down into their chairs, it looks like his tentacle is on Adrian's back instead of his shoulder. And when Hammerhead shoots at Adrian at the summit and knocks him unconscious, Otto's cry of "TREACHERY!" is fuckin pissed and he just has no patience for Tombstone in that fight after. I love how Ock seems to honestly care about his team and make an effort to make them happy, and how Vulture is perfectly willing to put his own goals on the backburner in a way that feels very "I am helping this man take over the world because he wants to and he deserves to get whatever he wants, fuck you." I love seeing these supervillains have huge soft spots, in general and especially for each other!
TL;DR they married, ty for reading my villain shipping Ted Talk.
Requested Tags
- Anniversary - Planning a Special Night
- Established Marriage - Happy and Domestic
- Forbidden Marriage - Considering Themselves Married Even If In The Eyes Of The Law They're Not
- Forbidden Marriage - Married In Every Way Except Legally
- Forbidden Marriage - Symbolic Marriage Ceremony Because Legal Marriage Is Not Permitted
- Honeymoon - Finding A Way To Celebrate Marriage While In Hiding/On The Run
- Honeymoon - Villains Attack
- Marriage - Married mid-crime spree
- Marriage - Regularly Being Mistaken as a Married Couple Leads to Real Marriage
- Marrying for Love - Getting Married Moment Gay Marriage is Legalised
- Proposal - During Battle
- Proposal - Mid-Battle Proposal
- Proposal - Proposing on a Whim
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
- Wedding Ceremony - Interrupted by a Battle and They Continue When It's Finished
- Wedding - Small and Simple
- Wedding Ceremony - Improvised and Unofficial
- Wedding Reception - First Dance
- Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
Canon-Specific DNWs
- any of the Sinister Six, especially these two specifically, being presented as irredeemably crazy/evil
- either character betraying the other
- honestly, any of the Sinister Six betraying each other (Shocker not included, he's an Enforcer first and foremost, he was just on loan)
- Electro being referred to as anything other than Electro if he shows up/is mentioned
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Mysterio/Tinkerer(/Chameleon), Sandman/Rhino
- Otto/Adrian/Electro is noncanon poly I would be totally okay with, so long as Otto and Adrian have heavy focus; obviously this is not necessary
- generally I like Sinister Six poly even if it's not the focus, actually, if the rest of the Sinister Six are included, I just really want Otto and Adrian to be heavily focused on!
- NICKNAMES/PET NAMES, and honestly, I count how Otto and Adrian always seem to address each other by their first names; I also like, if you include him in the fic at all, the way Electro always calls Otto "Doc" and seems to call Adrian "Vulch" and they are both totally open to being called those things from him!
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for either/both of these characters; for both of them I'm happy with anything, nonbinary or trans man or trans woman. trans headcanons for any other Sinister Six if they show up are also 100% good; I would prefer Electro as a trans woman or nonbinary if you write that character as trans, but anything goes for all the rest of them! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Adrian Toomes/Max Dillon/Otto Octavius
SO TAKE THE ABOVE AND ADD ELECTRO.
The thing is, I really love Electro's dynamics with both Ock and Vulture. They're more substantial with "the Doc," of course, with Electro in his own words practically worshipping him. Otto was the only person who wrote to him in Ravencroft, and Electro quickly and fully just dedicated himself to him and fully believes in his abilities, plans, and overall genius. Also, when Ock was pretending to have "reverted" to Otto Octavius and cringe from his time as a supervillain, Electro seemed disgusted and willing to turn his back on him; I could actually like the interpretation that he's not blindly devoted no matter what Ock does and that was an honest reaction, but apparently Greg Weisman said in an interview that Ock had told Electro his plans and Electro was acting, and I also really like Otto trusting him with that! And he and Adrian are actually two-thirds of Otto's most trusted inner circle, along with Phineas Mason.
I really do like what little we get to see of Electro's dynamic with Vulture, too, though. Electro can be way too impulsive so sometimes they don't work as well together as they'd like -- see in "Reinforcement" when Electro accidentally shocks Vulture and knocks the Christmas tree onto him -- but they worked well together up to that point and were well-coordinated when kidnapping Gwen Stacy in the very next episode. More than that, I'm incredibly charmed that Electro apparently calls Vulture "Vulch" and that Adrian is just 100% fine with that little nickname! It's very cute.
Basically, while it would be easy to posit a V-shaped relationship with Doctor Octopus as the middle point, I am super into all three of them trusting, liking, and being dedicated (and attracted) to each other. It's nice!
Requested Tags
- Anniversary - Planning a Special Night
- Forbidden Marriage - Considering Themselves Married Even If In The Eyes Of The Law They're Not
- Forbidden Marriage - Married In Every Way Except Legally
- Forbidden Marriage - Symbolic Marriage Ceremony Because Legal Marriage Is Not Permitted
- Poly Marriage - Fuck Whatever the Laws Say. We're Married
- Honeymoon - Finding A Way To Celebrate Marriage While In Hiding/On The Run
- Honeymoon - Villains Attack
- Marriage Laws - Marriage Requires Three People; Couple Must Find a Third
- Poly Marriage - New Third in Marriage Mistakenly Believes Only One of the Others Wants Them
- Wedding - Third Person in Newly Poly Relationship Symbolically Added to Official Marriage
- Proposal - During Battle
- Proposal - Mid-Battle Proposal
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
- Wedding Ceremony - Interrupted by a Battle and They Continue When It's Finished
- Wedding - Small and Simple
- Wedding Ceremony - Improvised and Unofficial
- Wedding Ceremony - Polyamorous Group Creates Their Own Non-Traditional Wedding Ceremony
- Wedding Night - BDSM
- Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
Canon-Specific DNWs
- Electro being referred to as anything other than Electro, especially by Otto or Adrian
- any of the Sinister Six, especially any of these three specifically, being presented as irredeemably crazy/evil
- any of these three betraying any of the others
- honestly, any of the Sinister Six betraying each other (Shocker not included, he's an Enforcer first and foremost, he was just on loan)
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Mysterio/Tinkerer(/Chameleon), Sandman/Rhino
- generally I like Sinister Six poly even if it's not the focus, actually, if the rest of the Sinister Six are included, I just really want these three specifically to be heavily focused on!
- NICKNAMES/PET NAMES, and honestly, I count how Otto and Adrian always seem to address each other by their first names; I also like the way Electro always calls Otto "Doc" and seems to call Adrian "Vulch" and they are both totally open to being called those things from him!
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for any of these characters; for both Otto and Adrian I'm happy with anything, nonbinary or trans man or trans woman, while I would prefer Electro as a trans woman or nonbinary if you write that character as trans. trans headcanons for any other Sinister Six if they show up are also 100% good, and anything goes for them! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Donald Menken/Phineas Mason
Okay, this is a ship where they never actually met in canon, Phineas is a fairly minor character, and Menken is a "7 minutes of canon in a 10 hour series" minor character. So let me explain.
Basically, I can easily imagine these two bonding over their similarities if they had a chance to get to know one another, and I can think of a few scenarios in which they might. They're both professionals, even if Phineas is often more casual and shows more mischeviousness. They both have some sort of expertise that leaves other people relying on them and like to work in a support capacity out of the spotlight: Phineas as a tech genius and Menken as a P.A.
But what really intrigues me is that... Phineas seems to be doing all of these criminal things, working with first Chameleon and Quentin Beck, then the Sinister Six, then even doing work for Tombstone and the Enforcers, solely because he enjoys doing it; he's enough of a genius that he could easily sell legal inventions! He has absolutely no origin story or anything, I have to assume his criminal career is for the love of it. And Menken's contributions in-series go beyond loyalty to Osborn and far beyond P.A. duties; his reaction in the finale makes me pretty certain he didn't ever know that Osborn was the Green Goblin, so just in his capacity as personal assistant to the CEO of Oscorp he was a)willing to run in alongside a security guard with only a cell phone to face a supervillain, b)coordinating with Osborn's "operatives" to try to find an escaped supervillain who wants Osborn dead, and c)calmly in charge of an auction where supervillains and mobsters were betting millions of dollars on the specs to the same impenetrable armor used to create the supervillain Rhino, which Osborn for some mysterious reason had proprietary access to. So Menken was willing to do some very criminal shit unflinchingly while not asking too many questions. There's probably different possible interpretations, but I feel like it's another similarity with Phineas: getting involved with criminal and supercriminal stuff was exciting and more enjoyable to both of them than just having a completely normal career. (Whether or not Menken would initially admit that he's even the type of person to want danger and adrenaline in his life, but then, hey, Phineas likes to deny that he's theatrical as hell...)
For any sort of setup, whether you explore it at all in fic or just take it as read, I feel like there are a lot of possibilities as to how they might have met and how they might know one another post-canon. If Menken continues to work for Oscorp after Norman Osborn's apparent death (maybe even stepping in as CEO?), some shit going down could bring him into the Sinister Six's sphere, and/or that of Chameleon and company... or Tinkerer just ends up doing some work for Oscorp. If Osborn comes back, as himself or as the Goblin, maybe he tries to finish the job and kill Menken and/or Menken is just very calmly fine with Vulture trying to kill his old boss due to how Osborn betrayed him. Maybe Menken hears of the Tinkerer and goes to him to get some sort of protection just in case Osborn survived and comes back; maybe it's a skill-enhancement suit, maybe he even gets drawn into the supervillain lifestyle as Tinkerer notes that he's more into this than he'd like to admit. (Feel free to make up a supervillain identity for him or use something like, idk, Scorpion or Owl from the comics!) Or maybe instead of that, Menken leaves Oscorp to become L. Thompson Lincoln's P.A. in order to try to get protection; maybe he's open to becoming Tombstone's new right hand man, or denies that he wants to but is intrigued by the idea, or just honestly doesn't like the idea, but either way he could easily meet Tinkerer if Tinkerer is continuing to do work on commission for Tombstone. Or it's Silver Sable and/or Silvio Manfredi they're both doing work for.
TL;DR I think if they got to talking in a professional capacity there's potential for them to really click, so feel free to use any of these ideas or go with something of your own, and of course feel free to handwave past all this stuff to get to the marriage-related bits!
Requested Tags
- Courtship - Unconventional Courtship that Ends in Marriage
- Dimension Travel - Getting Together After Meeting The AU Married Couple Version of Themselves
- Soul Bond - Dancing At Friend's Wedding Leads To Unexpected Soul Bond
- Time Travel - Consciousness Time Travels Into Future With Surprising Marriage Partner
- Elopement - Getting Married at City Hall
- Wedding - Small and Simple
- Fake Marriage - As Part Of A Con
- Fake Marriage - Pretending To Be Married To Access Information
- Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
- Wedding Night - Real Wedding Night For Fake Marriage
- Fake Marriage - Characters Marry for the Benefits (Don't Count on Falling in Love)
- Fake Marriage - Third Party Realizes Their Feelings for Half of Fake Married Couple
- Honeymoon - Finding A Way To Celebrate Marriage While In Hiding/On The Run
- Marriage - Married mid-crime spree
- Proposal - During Crime Spree
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
- Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
- Wedding Reception - First Dance
- Wedding Reception - Interrupted by Canon-Typical Shenanigans
Canon-Specific DNWs
- either of these two, Chameleon, or really any of the Sinister Six being presented as irredeemably crazy/evil
- betrayal of or by Chameleon
- honestly, any of the Sinister Six betraying each other (Shocker not included, he's an Enforcer first and foremost, he was just on loan)
- major hostility of any of the Six towards Menken
- Electro being referred to as anything other than Electro if he shows up/is mentioned
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Doctor Octopus/Vulture(/Electro), Sandman/Rhino, Chameleon/Mysterio
- also, Phineas/Quentin(/Chameleon) simultaneous with Phineas/Menken, or Quentin/Phineas/Menken, is noncanon poly I would be totally okay with, so long as it's Phineas and Menken that have the heavy focus; obviously this is not necessary
- generally I like Sinister Six poly even if it's not the focus, actually, if the Sinister Six are included
- nicknames! pet names! Menken is solely referred to as Menken in-series, in a professional/distant capacity (by Norman Osborn, Harry, and Spidey); even without shipping any of them I like the idea that Chameleon, Phineas, and Quentin are close and Chameleon still refers to the two of them solely by surname, so maybe even in a ship these two might refer to each other as Menken and Mason? or do they get on first-name basis? Ock calls the Tinkerer "Phineas" but no one calls Menken "Donald" or "Don" in the show itself; is it rare for anyone to get that close to him? (as a note, "Phin" is also fine, I'm easy.) and when it comes to supervillain names... if Menken calls him Tinkerer, is it in a professional capacity, as a form of flirting, or potentially due to a thrill he might get interacting with supervillains? if you make Menken a supervillain as well, would Tinkerer calling him by that name (whatever you choose) be professional, a sign of acceptance, an encouragement into this way of life, a flirtation... and how would Menken feel being called that?
- if he shows up, I do love Chameleon's habit of referring to literally everyone by surname even if he might be close to them, and I like that he's solely known as Chameleon; on the other hand, I also love Doctor Octopus's habit of referring to people he's on good terms with by first name if he shows up. I also like Electro's habit of calling Doctor Octopus "Doc" and Vulture "Vulch," so if he shows up in the fic, maybe he calls Tinkerer "Tink"? (If so I'd rather he like it than hate it!) I'd also welcome him coming up with a little nickname for Menken's supervillain name if you go that route!
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for either/both of these characters! I like the idea of both of them as trans men, actually, but either/both nonbinary or trans women would also be fine. trans headcanons for Mysterio or any other Sinister Six if they show up are also 100% good; I would prefer Electro as a trans woman or nonbinary if you write that character as trans, and if Chameleon is included or mentioned I especially like nonbinary for him, but anything goes for all the rest of them! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
THESE TWO MAKE ME HAPPY. When we're first introduced to them they're the kinda grouchy-seeming professionals working with Chameleon and playing a dumb card-flicking game
Quentin Beck used to be a special effects technician before leaving for his life of crime, and he's got a very interesting balance between his real self and the Mysterio act that I find really fun! He's a professional and Mysterio is an overly-theatrical fuckin dork, but Quentin is also deep down (and not so deep down) a theatrical dork. I can imagine that Quentin puts some of the things he wants to be into Mysterio, because that's common for supervillains and superheroes both, but Mysterio is also a role he plays for a specific purpose: misdirection, keeping people focused on him rather than his tricks or the crimes his act is distracting away from! That said, he got hired to be Mysterio for the thefts and then just decided that was fun as hell and absolutely wanted to do from then on, so there's also that element to him. I feel like he's also enjoying getting to be center stage as Mysterio in a way he doesn't get to be on jobs with Chameleon. Phineas Mason, on the other hand, is an inventor who rolls his eyes at "actors" being theatrical but is absolutely theatrical himself even if he won't admit it. I don't think he's an actor, not in the way that Chameleon and Quentin are; he was wayyy in the background in "Persona" in non-speaking roles whenever his presence was necessary out in the field, and he seems to prefer to stay back and provide "technical support" and make things for other people to use. But he obviously has fun leaning into the mad scientist supervillain act at least a little ("allow me to introduce our host and benefactor"; "welcome to your lair, Master Planner"; "all that remains is calibration... and testing") and occasionally amuses himself making dorky jokes ("put even more 'ric' in your 'ochet'"). I also imagine he has no criminal record (the arrest at the end of "Persona" didn't seem to stick and one of the cops did say in the first episode that the people Spider-Man apprehends nearly always walk...) and is staying in the background to avoid getting one for as long as possible, because him being able to work within the law is really convenient for them.
Basically, though, I love the dynamic of two characters who are just doing this shit because they love it, who've been working together a while and are developing supervillain personas kind of simultaneously mostly for the fun of it. I have a feeling Tinkerer made most of the robots and tech that Mysterio uses, though Quentin himself also contributed the "will-weaking" gas and the mask and makeup for his own android. (Which also means that the reason Quentin is just never arrested after "Persona" and it's always a goddamn android is thanks to Phineas, which makes me smile.) Phineas might not even charge him for that stuff! Just in general they're basically married and I love that.
Requested Tags
- Fake Marriage - Characters Marry for the Benefits (Don't Count on Falling in Love)
- Marriage of Convenience - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
- Marriage of Convenience - So You Can't Testify Against Each Other In Court
- Fake Marriage - Get Married During The Mission To Not Break Their Cover But Then They Catch Feelings
- Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
- Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married While Mutually Pining
- Soul Bond - Marriage To Stay Undercover Unexpectedly Results In Soul Bond
- Fake Marriage - Third Party Realizes Their Feelings for Half of Fake Married Couple
- Forbidden Marriage - Considering Themselves Married Even If In The Eyes Of The Law They're Not
- Forbidden Marriage - Married In Every Way Except Legally
- Honeymoon - Finding A Way To Celebrate Marriage While In Hiding/On The Run
- Honeymoon - Planned Heist
- Marriage - Married mid-crime spree
- Proposal - During Crime Spree
- Marriage - Regularly Being Mistaken as a Married Couple Leads to Real Marriage
- Marrying for Love - Everyone Thought They Were Already Married
- Marrying for Love - Getting Married After Having Been Together For Many Years
- Proposal - Proposing on a Whim
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
Canon-Specific DNWs
- these two, Chameleon, or really any of the Sinister Six being presented as irredeemably crazy/evil
- betrayal of or by Chameleon; honestly, any of the Sinister Six betraying each other, including them turning on Ock or Ock on them (Shocker not included, he's an Enforcer first and foremost, he was just on loan)
- Electro being referred to as anything other than Electro if he shows up/is mentioned
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Doctor Octopus/Vulture(/Electro), Sandman/Rhino
- I mean I requested Quentin/Chameleon/Phineas as a totally different ship but you are welcome to write the OT3 for any of these really!
- generally I like Sinister Six poly even if it's not the focus, actually, if the Sinister Six are included
- nicknames! pet names! I count Chameleon's habit of referring to literally everyone by surname as this tbh, I like that he calls these two Beck and Mason, and that they call him Chameleon as that seems to be how he wants to be known. I like Electro's habit of calling Doctor Octopus "Doc" and Vulture "Vulch"; if he shows up in the fic, maybe he calls them "Mysty" and/or "Tink"? (If so I'd rather they like it than hate it.) I would love them calling each other endearments, them calling each other by surname as well but it still being intimate, them calling each other by supervillain name (teasingly? flirtatiously?), them calling each other by their first names or even Quentin calling Phineas "Phin" is fine. I love any type of this shit.
- any type of h/c stuff is great but if you want to set anything after that bit in "Shear Strength" with the car accident and psychological torture, I would love to see Phineas get rescued, helped, comforted after that; feel free to go with other h/c scenarios though, they are ALL excellent, any type of job or situation going wrong and one or both getting hurt or put in danger!
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for either/both of these characters! I like the idea of Phineas as a trans man (though nonbinary or trans woman are acceptable), and I could see Quentin as anything really, and if Chameleon is included I especially like nonbinary for him. trans headcanons for any other Sinister Six if they show up are also 100% good; I would prefer Electro as a trans woman or nonbinary if you write that character as trans, but anything goes for all the rest of them! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Chameleon/Phineas Mason/Quentin Beck
SAME AS THE SECTION ABOVE WITH QUENTIN AND PHINEAS, but now Chameleon is added to the mix and I love this additional element with both of them! IMO it was absolutely brilliant for The Spectacular Spider-Man to introduce these three as a team working together; Mysterio might have hired the Chameleon once in the comics, but otherwise none of them really teamed up, but it works perfectly! The person who can disguise himself as anyone, the special effects expert, and the inventor/technological expert have a lot to offer each other, and I love that they seem to usually hire themselves out to steal shit for the rich and powerful.
Chameleon is a fascinating character to me, both in and of himself and in the dynamic with these two. He's a professional who can have a no-nonsense sort of response to things (seeing his phone call with the person who hired them to steal the symbiote, and his "I did not sign on for this" response in the finale), but who also has a mischievous sense of humor and is absolutely theatrical especially when inhabiting a role (his Spider-Man impression was really funny to me). He has his own life and isn't always working with Beck and Phineas, but given the way he talked in "Persona" I get the strong impression Beck makes his disguises, including the face masks, so I imagine they at least keep in touch often. I also feel like the three of them worked together for at least a few years before we meet them in canon, which is a dynamic I love; they'd all be very used to each other! And I enjoy the idea that when they do jobs together they split the take rather than Beck or Phineas charging Chameleon (or each other) or anything... As well as really liking the idea that even being incredibly close with the two of them it's just Chameleon's habit to call even people he loves by their surnames. I also also like how "Mason" and "Beck"'s names are first given while Chameleon is requesting their help and simultaneously praising their skills! And I just in general really love the idea of a team of criminals who work great together and highly respect one another's skills and are also all in love. (Though I also don't mind if it's a poly V so long as the center of the V is Quentin or Phineas, not Chameleon.)
I'm also fascinated by Chameleon in the sense of like... Outside of Chameleon, who is often pretending to be other people, who is he? Does he even have a legal identity outside of Chameleon, or has he erased it? Feel free to use the name Dmitri Smerdyakov for him (though I prefer he not be related to Kraven in this universe), but if you wanted to solely stick with Chameleon for him or give him a fake name like, idk, Leon Smirnov (the most common surname in Russia, basically like giving him the surname Smith) or w/e that he goes by now when necessary that is obviously not his birth name, go nuts.
Requested Tags
- Courtship - Unconventional Courtship that Ends in Marriage
- Established Marriage - Happy and Domestic
- Marrying for Love - Getting Married After Having Been Together For Many Years
- Fake Marriage - As Part Of A Con
- Fake Marriage - Third Party Realizes Their Feelings for Half of Fake Married Couple
- Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
- Forbidden Marriage - Considering Themselves Married Even If In The Eyes Of The Law They're Not
- Forbidden Marriage - Married In Every Way Except Legally
- Forbidden Marriage - Symbolic Marriage Ceremony Because Legal Marriage Is Not Permitted
- Poly Marriage - Fuck Whatever the Laws Say. We're Married
- Wedding Ceremony - Improvised and Unofficial
- Honeymoon - Finding A Way To Celebrate Marriage While In Hiding/On The Run
- Honeymoon - Planned Heist
- Marriage - Married mid-crime spree
- Proposal - During Crime Spree
- Poly Marriage - New Third in Marriage Mistakenly Believes Only One of the Others Wants Them
- Wedding - Decoy Wedding To Ensure Real Wedding Goes Smoothly
- Wedding - Fake Wedding To Bait Criminals and/or Enemies
- Wedding - Poly Traditions
- Wedding Ceremony - Polyamorous Group Creates Their Own Non-Traditional Wedding Ceremony
Canon-Specific DNWs
- any of these three, or honestly any of the Sinister Six, being presented as irredeemably crazy/evil
- honestly, any of these three or any of the Sinister Six betraying each other, including them turning on Ock or Ock on them (Shocker not included, he's an Enforcer first and foremost, he was just on loan)
- Electro being referred to as anything other than Electro if he shows up/is mentioned
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Doctor Octopus/Vulture(/Electro), Sandman/Rhino
- generally I like Sinister Six poly even if it's not the focus, actually, if the Sinister Six are included
- nicknames! pet names! I count Chameleon's habit of referring to literally everyone by surname as this tbh, I like that he calls these two Beck and Mason, and that they call him Chameleon as that seems to be how he wants to be known. I like Electro's habit of calling Doctor Octopus "Doc" and Vulture "Vulch"; if he shows up in the fic, maybe he calls them "Mysty" and/or "Tink"? (If so I'd rather they like it than hate it.) I would love them calling each other endearments, them calling each other by surname as well but it still being intimate, them calling each other by supervillain name (teasingly? flirtatiously?), them calling each other by their first names or even Quentin calling Phineas "Phin" is fine. I love any type of this shit.
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for any/all of these characters! I like the idea of Phineas as a trans man (though nonbinary or trans woman are acceptable), and I could see Quentin as anything really, and I especially like nonbinary for Chameleon. trans headcanons for any other Sinister Six if they show up are also 100% good; I would prefer Electro as a trans woman or nonbinary if you write that character as trans, but anything goes for all the rest of them! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!