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malachiical) wrote2023-09-18 05:26 pm
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Trick or Treat Letter 2023
Hello, Trick or Treat 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 & Treat Likes
Spooky & Trick Likes
Porn Likes
Bugsnax (Video Game) - Ship: Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
Crossover Fandom - Ship: Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Ship: Doctor Fugue/Robert
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Ship: Eugene Otto/Robert
General DNWs
General & Treat Likes
Spooky & Trick Likes
Porn Likes
Bugsnax (Video Game)
Ship: Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
[Where you can find full playthrough and extra dialogue videos:
The full game + the Isle of Bigsnax DLC is available with no commentary HERE (19 hours and 17 minutes long)
All of the characters' death lines are HERE (first is what they say when they're close to getting killed, then are the lines where they're actually dying)
Bad end lines from the base game HERE (includes Chandlo if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Chandlo dies)
And finally, bad end lines added in the DLC HERE (includes Floofty if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Floofty dies)]
SO LET'S TALK FIZZLECEST. It's not at all a thing in this fandom, so I want to explain what appeals to me about it.
I think what really gets me most about them is how fraught their relationship is, and the "what if" and "if only" aspects to it. Several years before the events of the game, the siblings were working together on a government-funded research project for incredibly advanced, powerful prosthetics; unfortunately, Snorpy discovered that the government had underhanded plans for the technology, likely military application. The two of them bitterly disagreed after that, with Floofty insisting that since the prosthetics would have improved and even saved lives, it was clearly better that it exist with consequences rather than not exist at all. Snorpy disagreed, and went behind Floofty's back to whistleblow, but before he could they were both fired and summarily discredited, slandered, and professionally ruined.
For most of the game, both blame the other for handling the situation horribly and ruining their lives; Snorpy's gone further and further into paranoid conspiracy and doesn't even trust his sibling, while Floofty is frustrated by Snorpy's lack of understanding and sabotage of their career. They are both struggling with personal demons. Snorpy's awfulized things to the point of believing basically every conspiracy is true and connected and has become paralyzed and paranoid about everyone and everything, and by the end of the game, ideally learns that, at the very least, whatever enemies he may aren't all-knowing and all-powerful; he doesn't need to keep Chandlo in the dark about his full concerns to protect him, and he opens up to Floofty about still caring about them and works on mending their relationship. Floofty has such a hard time understanding people while badly wanting to help Grumpuskind, so they're overwhelmingly tempted to take what is for them the easier route and simply concentrate 100% on their work; they think they're the only one who can understand themself and their work, they've become incredibly careless with their own health and life in the pursuit of this, and they've nearly given up on understanding others and being understood, and by the end of the game, ideally they need to learn that the effort to understand people in order to help better is both possible and worth it, and they too begin work on mending their relationship with their brother.
But what really got me hardcore shipping them are their ending lines during the sequence after everyone who survived has escaped from the island, if the other is dead. They're so incredibly grief-stricken; it seems to shatter them both and they hold themselves together by dedicating their energy to what the other most valued. Snorpy is especially gutted by not getting the chance to repair his relationship with Floofty, having that cut short, and dedicates himself to understanding and continuing their research; Floofty flat-out says it's "tempting now to unhinge myself from the concept of self-preservation" in vengeance, but instead dedicates themself staying alive to look after Chandlo.
Also, since Chandlo is such a major part of Snorpy's story, let me just bring up possibilities since I have that infidelity DNW. I absolutely would enjoy a Chandlo/Floofty/Snorpy situation where even if Chandlo is unsure about things he trusts Snorpy and wants him to be happy... maybe even at first desire between the siblings is sublimated through focusing sexually mostly on Chandlo? I am also totally open to AUs where Snorpy never fell in love with Chandlo, or even never met Chandlo. However, I am also entirely into the idea of Bad End AUs! What about a scenario where Chandlo died on Snaktooth Island, and Floofty tries desperately to be there for their brother, and things between them get too close and tangled up after a while? I am also into scenarios where either Floofty or Snorpy died on the island and the other desperately (and successfully, of course!) tries to get their sibling back! (Maybe through Floofty's scientific research? A time machine?)
I just love how emotional these two are about each other, and could really love that emotional aspect becoming unusual, "too much" by societal standards, especially after trauma and/or during grief... But being something that ends up better for them than not, when it really comes down to it.
Ideas & Prompts
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I haven't really asked for this ship much before, but you might be able to find some extra ideas in one of these letters:
Canon-Specific DNWs
Crossover Fandom
Ship: Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Hiruma and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also alike in a lot of ways that I think could both make them respect one another, be impressed by one another, see the value in one another, and also sometimes grate on each others' nerves like hell. They are both likely to know way too much about each other, and about each others' clubmates/teammates, and I could easily see them being on mostly equal footing.
I'm betting both would have a hard time actually pulling off blackmailing the other (or people close enough to the other to have any of their protection) or really getting one over on the other, with maybe one or two moments on either side where they get the upper hand for a VERY short period before the other manages to get things back under control. This would usually leave them having to approach each other in other ways, either more subtle manipulation (that they're both probably aware of and also aware that they're both aware of) or flat-out making deals with each other for mutual benefit. Which is great because they'd also make a scary good team when and if they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold.
Basically, with these two I especially like the idea of them being basically evenly matched, and them being drawn to each other specifically because of that. Neither of them actually being able to have the upper hand over the other or really intimidate the other is a key part of why I'm interested in them!
(I would also like to mention that while Hiruma resembles Kyouya waaaay more than he resembles Tamaki, still, Jesus, blond boys who are super passionate about a thing are going to be the death of Kyouya seriously. I am also fine with some minor former or current one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki feelings, and it's cool if Hiruma has some one-sided feelings for someone, I don't really have Feelings Preferences there. Just assume that he and Mamori aren't together, feelings can have happened but whether it's one-sided or a handwavey breakup or just something they decided wouldn't work is fine, I imagine they're still on fine terms.)
Ideas & Prompts
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I've done a few freeform exchanges!
Canon-Specific DNWs
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Ship: 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 two of them together really intrigues me.
Prompt Ideas
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I've asked for this ship a few times now!
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Ship: Eugene Otto/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.
The exact pages with Robert talking about his backstory with Eugene Otto are here and here, but it's well worth reading the whole thing, for more context about Robert's character and also just in general!]
Quite frankly, I love this ship, there's just so much complexity here... Unhealthiness, but not for lack of trying.
I'm fascinated by how Robert talks about their relationship, how the way he tells Mona about it makes it sound like he really did legitimately want things to work between himself and Gene, likely did not realize where his immense jealousy was leading until it happened, but his mixed feelings now about not even knowing if he regrets it or not. I love that you can tell he loved Gene in his own way then and might even be capable of different, healthier kinds of love now -- might even have been more capable then than he'd believed -- but still wound up ruining Gene's life and killing him... and how Gene asked him to kill him. I love the whole monster aspect entirely, a creature who is born when you are and whose life is tied to yours in so many inextricable ways, how it leaves you both vulnerable, and all the monsters' thoughts on that. I love how their history had them so intertwined from when Gene was a young child to when he died an adult.
Also, I love how complicated and tragic they are in basically all ways, but I'd prefer a more... wistful feel than purely tragic, despite both their canon fates, if possible. And you can feel free to give them a happier ending, too!
Prompt Ideas
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I've asked for this ship several times now!
General DNWs
General & Treat Likes
Spooky & Trick Likes
Porn Likes
Bugsnax (Video Game) - Ship: Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
Crossover Fandom - Ship: Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Ship: Doctor Fugue/Robert
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Ship: Eugene Otto/Robert
General DNWs
- noncon/dubcon
- smut with characters under 16 or shipping between adults and under-18 characters
- gore or permanent injury (unless otherwise stated)
- permanent character death (unless otherwise stated)
- infidelity
- 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)
- unhappy endings
- unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- unrequested identity headcanons (mentions for OCs are fine)
- unrequested noncanon ships (background canon ships that don't break up the requested pairing are fine; mentions of OCs being in relationships with one another is fine)
- unrequested poly (mentions of OCs being in poly relationships with one another is fine)
- unnecessary use of safewords or stoplight symbols (if the characters are kinking on it that's a fine reason)
- feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (mentions of OCs being pregnant are fine; breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great!)
- scat, watersports, vomit kink (mentions of someone throwing up not in a kink context are fine)
- vore, bestiality, somnophilia, mommy- or daddykink, 24/7 D/S
- canon-specific DNWs and exceptions in the fandom sections!
General & Treat Likes
- Halloween & otherwise seasonal stuff! I have some prompts for each section down below but I'd just like anything with this tbh! Feel free to use my requests to progress the Halloween Hamster.
- fic rated from G through E!
- pining and culmination of pining: getting together, kissing, romantic tension/UST being resolved, mutual pining or initially one-sided pining, pining that lasts for weeks or even years
- fluff, snapshot moments of what's going on in their lives
- romantic tension, UST that eventually becomes resolved
- flirting, confident or awkward or just fuckin disastrous
- extreme loyalty
- redemption arcs, gray morality, general complexity, lighter takes on villains & villain redemption both
- 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!)
- I really do love age gaps when applicable, tbh, and find older characters hot & also love when the other characters do too!
- 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
- more canon-specific likes in the fandom sections!
- art treats always welcome!
Spooky & Trick Likes
- again, Halloween-y or just seasonal spooky stuff is great! I have some prompts for each section down below but I'd a lot to do with this; again, feel free to use my requests to progress the Halloween Hamster!
- favorite types of horror are psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters
- characters suddenly finding out that the supernatural is real, or that something they didn't realize was real is, in an abrupt and dangerous, risky, or terrifying situation
- us-against-the-world with a ship or a more platonic group in a stressful or dangerous situation
- hurt/comfort; panicky situations where characters high on adrenaline protect one another
- being isolated in an abandoned place, whether a building or the wilderness
- haunted houses, whether really haunted houses (or other places like hotels or malls etc.) or Halloween fake haunted house attractions (or similar like cornfield mazes, tests of courage, etc.)
- characters telling scary stories, whether or not something actually scary happens during/after
- happy for fusions with Silent Hill or Fatal Frame!
- I also love lighter takes on spooky things rather than pure horror, but leaning into the horror is super cool if there's a happy ending!
Porn Likes
- first times and milestones
- frot, scissoring, intercrural, grinding against ass, basically all that stuff
- handjobs, fingering, oral
- romantic smut, lots of touching, focus on touching/wanting to touch and sensations and body parts, loving descriptions of partner's body (description of both stereotypically attractive and not stereotypically attractive features welcome so long as they're INTO it!), kissing during sex, hand-holding during sex, eye contact during sex, all that stuff!
- clothed sex, partially clothed sex, and clothing kink!
- inexperience, awkward, clumsy but eager and enjoyable sex
- XENO. xeno xeno xeno I am so into xeno, play around with alien genitalia and I am here for it, tentacles, cloacas, characters having both sets of genitalia, ovipositors, genitals resembling flowers or wet pinecone dick, Mouths Down There, legit whatever you can think of just g o f o r i t
- BDSM tones, mild or more formal
- praise kink and instructions/requests/begging flavors of dirty talk
- breeding kink is welcome when pregnancy is outright impossible, even if it's handwaved impossible (PIV but they know it can't happen is fine; neither has a womb and obviously it can't happen is fine; this type of sex can't even result in pregnancy but we'll talk about it anyway is fine; species are incompatible is fine)
- even without breeding kink, kinking on coming inside is also hot, but so is kinking on come/cum-play and messier sex like that
- mutually enjoyed/kinked-on breeding kink dirty talk when actual pregnancy is outright impossible and does not happen
- manhandling, hair pulling, love bites and scratches, rough but not outright painful (or only pleasantly painful) sex
- orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- alternately, multiple orgasms, "forced" orgasms that are still enjoyable
- e n t h u s i a s m and detailed descriptions of sex, just go for it
- in general, prefer the terms: penis, cock, dick, length; nipples, ass, and testicles/balls can just be called those things; vagina, vulva, cunt, or pussy if that comes up; come or cum are both fine spellings
- piv in trans smut is fine; oral and pia sex super welcome, alternatives are also loved; prefer for vagina to be called vagina, cunt, or pussy, or to be referred to vaguely, not "hole"; prefer for ass NOT to be called a vagina/cunt/pussy, but referred to vaguely & implied to be one is fine, or just called ass; fine with clit being called clit or penis/cock/dick, fine with penis being called penis/cock/dick or hen or clit
- porn is always welcome!
Bugsnax (Video Game)
Ship: Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
[Where you can find full playthrough and extra dialogue videos:
The full game + the Isle of Bigsnax DLC is available with no commentary HERE (19 hours and 17 minutes long)
All of the characters' death lines are HERE (first is what they say when they're close to getting killed, then are the lines where they're actually dying)
Bad end lines from the base game HERE (includes Chandlo if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Chandlo dies)
And finally, bad end lines added in the DLC HERE (includes Floofty if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Floofty dies)]
SO LET'S TALK FIZZLECEST. It's not at all a thing in this fandom, so I want to explain what appeals to me about it.
I think what really gets me most about them is how fraught their relationship is, and the "what if" and "if only" aspects to it. Several years before the events of the game, the siblings were working together on a government-funded research project for incredibly advanced, powerful prosthetics; unfortunately, Snorpy discovered that the government had underhanded plans for the technology, likely military application. The two of them bitterly disagreed after that, with Floofty insisting that since the prosthetics would have improved and even saved lives, it was clearly better that it exist with consequences rather than not exist at all. Snorpy disagreed, and went behind Floofty's back to whistleblow, but before he could they were both fired and summarily discredited, slandered, and professionally ruined.
For most of the game, both blame the other for handling the situation horribly and ruining their lives; Snorpy's gone further and further into paranoid conspiracy and doesn't even trust his sibling, while Floofty is frustrated by Snorpy's lack of understanding and sabotage of their career. They are both struggling with personal demons. Snorpy's awfulized things to the point of believing basically every conspiracy is true and connected and has become paralyzed and paranoid about everyone and everything, and by the end of the game, ideally learns that, at the very least, whatever enemies he may aren't all-knowing and all-powerful; he doesn't need to keep Chandlo in the dark about his full concerns to protect him, and he opens up to Floofty about still caring about them and works on mending their relationship. Floofty has such a hard time understanding people while badly wanting to help Grumpuskind, so they're overwhelmingly tempted to take what is for them the easier route and simply concentrate 100% on their work; they think they're the only one who can understand themself and their work, they've become incredibly careless with their own health and life in the pursuit of this, and they've nearly given up on understanding others and being understood, and by the end of the game, ideally they need to learn that the effort to understand people in order to help better is both possible and worth it, and they too begin work on mending their relationship with their brother.
But what really got me hardcore shipping them are their ending lines during the sequence after everyone who survived has escaped from the island, if the other is dead. They're so incredibly grief-stricken; it seems to shatter them both and they hold themselves together by dedicating their energy to what the other most valued. Snorpy is especially gutted by not getting the chance to repair his relationship with Floofty, having that cut short, and dedicates himself to understanding and continuing their research; Floofty flat-out says it's "tempting now to unhinge myself from the concept of self-preservation" in vengeance, but instead dedicates themself staying alive to look after Chandlo.
Also, since Chandlo is such a major part of Snorpy's story, let me just bring up possibilities since I have that infidelity DNW. I absolutely would enjoy a Chandlo/Floofty/Snorpy situation where even if Chandlo is unsure about things he trusts Snorpy and wants him to be happy... maybe even at first desire between the siblings is sublimated through focusing sexually mostly on Chandlo? I am also totally open to AUs where Snorpy never fell in love with Chandlo, or even never met Chandlo. However, I am also entirely into the idea of Bad End AUs! What about a scenario where Chandlo died on Snaktooth Island, and Floofty tries desperately to be there for their brother, and things between them get too close and tangled up after a while? I am also into scenarios where either Floofty or Snorpy died on the island and the other desperately (and successfully, of course!) tries to get their sibling back! (Maybe through Floofty's scientific research? A time machine?)
I just love how emotional these two are about each other, and could really love that emotional aspect becoming unusual, "too much" by societal standards, especially after trauma and/or during grief... But being something that ends up better for them than not, when it really comes down to it.
Ideas & Prompts
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I haven't really asked for this ship much before, but you might be able to find some extra ideas in one of these letters:
Canon-Specific DNWs
- characters, including these two, being 100% breezy and cool with the concept of incest/incest being normalized in the world
- on the other hand, Floofty/Snorpy specifically being presented as more unhealthy for either them than not; I want it to be for the most part positive for them despite everything
- Snorpy cheating on Chandlo with Floofty; instead, you can go with either Chandlo agreeing despite having some uncertain feelings about it, an AU where Snorpy and Chandlo never fell in love or even never met, or having the ship set after an ending of the game where Chandlo died on Snaktooth Island
- Floofty liking puns
- how much Floofty and all the other characters grow by the end of the game (at least, in their good ends)
- the fact that they became a Biology 101 professor! (at New Grump University?)
- Snorpy working on improving himself and becoming happier
- the entire concept of gastroentomology
- that Filbo became the real Mayor of New Grump City after the events of canon
- Liz and Egg's survival
- things taking place on Snaktooth Island could also be good
- things with the Snakolytes post-canon could be silly, dangerous, very creepy, or anything in-between
- also, for this ship, I almost especially love the idea of something set post-an ending in which Chandlo died during the escape from Snaktooth Island, with Floofty trying to help Snorpy hold it together and the two growing closer again and then too close
- stories where either Floofty or Snorpy died on the island and the other desperately uses science to successfully figure out a way to get them back is ALSO great
- I kind of love the idea of Snorpy being the one to make the first move in this mutual-pining-and-not-wanting-to-be situation
- I could also love a fic where Chandlo/Snorpy is a thing and Floofty becomes involved in an odd way, either just with Snorpy or in an OT3 situation
- the names characters call one another! Floofty usually seems to call Snorpy by his full name, Snorpington, but sometimes does call him Snorpy; Snorpy always calls Floofty just by Floofty... does Floofty have a longer name he sometimes busts out? neither seems the type to use pet names or endearments for various reasons (Floofty is a bit too stiff and Snorpy seems too hesitant to use them AND to just fall apart if they're used for him)... have they ever called one another dear(est) sibling/brother? if in or heading towards an illicit sort of relationship, are they more or less likely to call one another sibling/brother?
- if you're interested, I like trans headcanons for any characters that are not canonically already trans! Floofty is of couse nonbinary and they/them, please keep that, but I am also happy to have Snorpy be trans (a trans man, a trans woman, or nonbinary), whether before the story starts or figuring it out during, and if Chandlo's included I'd be happy for trans headcanons for him too! (I lean a bit towards trans man with him but trans woman or nonbinary are both good too!) and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
Crossover Fandom
Ship: Hiruma Youichi (Eyeshield 21)/Ootori Kyouya (Ouran High School Host Club)
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Hiruma and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also alike in a lot of ways that I think could both make them respect one another, be impressed by one another, see the value in one another, and also sometimes grate on each others' nerves like hell. They are both likely to know way too much about each other, and about each others' clubmates/teammates, and I could easily see them being on mostly equal footing.
I'm betting both would have a hard time actually pulling off blackmailing the other (or people close enough to the other to have any of their protection) or really getting one over on the other, with maybe one or two moments on either side where they get the upper hand for a VERY short period before the other manages to get things back under control. This would usually leave them having to approach each other in other ways, either more subtle manipulation (that they're both probably aware of and also aware that they're both aware of) or flat-out making deals with each other for mutual benefit. Which is great because they'd also make a scary good team when and if they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold.
Basically, with these two I especially like the idea of them being basically evenly matched, and them being drawn to each other specifically because of that. Neither of them actually being able to have the upper hand over the other or really intimidate the other is a key part of why I'm interested in them!
(I would also like to mention that while Hiruma resembles Kyouya waaaay more than he resembles Tamaki, still, Jesus, blond boys who are super passionate about a thing are going to be the death of Kyouya seriously. I am also fine with some minor former or current one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki feelings, and it's cool if Hiruma has some one-sided feelings for someone, I don't really have Feelings Preferences there. Just assume that he and Mamori aren't together, feelings can have happened but whether it's one-sided or a handwavey breakup or just something they decided wouldn't work is fine, I imagine they're still on fine terms.)
Ideas & Prompts
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I've done a few freeform exchanges!
Canon-Specific DNWs
- smut with either character under 16
- infidelity (just have them not with any of the other characters when they're together)
- two canons just taking place in the same universe and playing around with what that might mean
- slight canon AUs to make crossovers work
- Hiruma and Kyouya being evenly matched/on equal footing
- noncanon background pairings I actually enjoy if they happen to come up: Sena/Monta, Sena/Suzuna, Mamori/Suzuna, Musashi/Kurita, Jumonji/Kuroki/Togano, Natsuhiko/Ishimaru, basically any from the other teams, Hikaru/Kaoru, Honey/Mori, Nekozawa/Tamaki, Kasanoda/Tetsuya, Haruhi/Renge, Haruhi/basically any of the hosts singularly or together...
- NAMING CONVENTIONS. Hiruma usually comes up with somewhat dismissive/insulting/abraisive things to call people, so what about if/when he uses Kyouya's name? is Kyouya on a first or last name basis with him? feel free to include honorifics if you like as well, extrapolating from the characters' usage of them in canon.
- if you're interested, I could like transmasc headcanons for either/both of these characters, particularly Hiruma! trans headcanons for any other characters that show up are also 100% good; if Haruhi shows up or is mentioned I also have a slight preference for her as nonbinary, but trans boy is fine -- just not trans girl, please! and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Ship: 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 two of them together really intrigues me.
Prompt Ideas
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I've asked for this ship a few times now!
- My Automagic trickortreatex2022 signup! (some slight Fugue and Robert and Mona stuff)
- Playlist Exchange 2022 (Fugue/Robert as well as with Mona)
- Candy Heart Exchange 2023 (just Fugue/Robert)
- Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023 (Fugue/Robert as well as with Mona or Shirley)
- a strong focus on Fugue's sexism (I'd prefer for him to be capable of at least a bit of growth there; bringing it up somewhat in the context of internalized homophobia is fine)
- Fugue being entirely unrepentant post Book 1, actually
- Mona easily and completely forgiving Fugue unless otherwise requested
- implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene, if that character comes up
- Halloween, spooky, and outright horror stuff works especially well for this canon!
- Ringley's dad/Mona's parent as a background ship is super cool; feel free to give them names (and/or surnames) or not
- Fugue helping Mona resurrect Robert (probably partly out of guilt)
- AU where Robert didn't die against Ba'al
- forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow
- post-canon (or post-Book 1) fic in general
- Robert still being alive in Mona's sickle and being able to be brought back and/or show up as a ghost that way
- the sickle thing, if that idea is used, meaning that Mona is now immortal and also not aging (oops)
- Fugue finding out super belatedly that Robert is a monster, like possibly even 1-3 years after Book 1 (but less time than that is also good)
- protectiveness of any of the requested characters towards any of the others
- Fugue eventually being forgiven, at least mostly, at least by most of the characters
- Mona softening a bit on Fugue but still not forgiving him (like, noticing he's trying hard and maybe feeling sorry for him, maybe he makes her feel more tired than angry now)
- nonhuman characters, particularly monsters, being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender
- trans headcanons in general! like I said, I like to imagine especially monster (rather than undead) characters being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender, so an interpretation of Robert not actually having anything like human gender would be cool; I can imagine him having absolutely no preferred pronouns and just going with whatever anybody calls him, but feel free to go with whatever! Fugue figuring out some odd gender stuff himself could also be interesting (nonbinary?), but maybe he was also a trans man all the way back when he was alive and mad scienced himself a transition, or his ghost shows up as the way he sees himself? (just not a trans woman for him, please!) other characters being trans if they're included could also be fun and I encourage it. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- nicknames! pet names! names in general! Fugue just calls Robert by name, and I don't think he would accept a nickname (from anyone but Gene) frankly, and he calls Fugue "Doctor Fugue" pretty constantly. what might make him shorten that to Fugue? or does Fugue have a first name (or can he not recall)? and of course Mona and Shirley are just called Mona and Shirley; under what circumstances might a nickname be used on them? (or come from them? would Robert be fine with Mona calling him a nickname?) and if you could sell me on an endearment being used by either Fugue or Robert I would LOVE it!
- for horror stuff specifically, if you go that route, feel free to kill off OCs but not any canon characters that didn't die in canon; psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters, isolated horror, and characters just telling scary stories, and I'm fine for gore and injury for this particular canon, though not exactly perma-death (obviously Fugue is perma-dead, but like, also a ghost about it, and ghosts don't count for me)
- ...I am also open to unusual takes on smut if you do include any, since Robert is a living doll and Fugue is a ghost; how might either of them sexually interact with a human or with each other? can Fugue still get aroused and/or orgasm? how/why? does Robert not have genitalia but have some other erogenous places, and/or not get aroused or orgasm like humans but still have something sort of analagous, or does he pick up on others' feelings and emotions in a sort of psychic-ish stimulation? or feel free to go full unusual xeno; I do not mind and would be into it!
- ...finally I also just want to note that I love invisible people (or, well... ghosts, as Robert points out, but Fugue's still invisible besides his clothes and bandages!). and also Fugue's all leg. legs for days. I like these things.
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Ship: Eugene Otto/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.
The exact pages with Robert talking about his backstory with Eugene Otto are here and here, but it's well worth reading the whole thing, for more context about Robert's character and also just in general!]
Quite frankly, I love this ship, there's just so much complexity here... Unhealthiness, but not for lack of trying.
I'm fascinated by how Robert talks about their relationship, how the way he tells Mona about it makes it sound like he really did legitimately want things to work between himself and Gene, likely did not realize where his immense jealousy was leading until it happened, but his mixed feelings now about not even knowing if he regrets it or not. I love that you can tell he loved Gene in his own way then and might even be capable of different, healthier kinds of love now -- might even have been more capable then than he'd believed -- but still wound up ruining Gene's life and killing him... and how Gene asked him to kill him. I love the whole monster aspect entirely, a creature who is born when you are and whose life is tied to yours in so many inextricable ways, how it leaves you both vulnerable, and all the monsters' thoughts on that. I love how their history had them so intertwined from when Gene was a young child to when he died an adult.
Also, I love how complicated and tragic they are in basically all ways, but I'd prefer a more... wistful feel than purely tragic, despite both their canon fates, if possible. And you can feel free to give them a happier ending, too!
Prompt Ideas
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Links to Previous Letters
If you want more ideas for prompts, I've asked for this ship several times now!
- Shipoween 2019 (Eugene Otto/Robert)
- Shipoween 2020
- Soul-2-Soul 2021
- My Automagic trickortreatex2022 signup!
- Playlist Exchange 2022
- implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene
- shutting the door completely on the idea of a)Robert ever getting an afterlife b)these Robert and Gene ever making up (it not happening in the fic is fine, ofc, just no "this is impossible/will never happen/could never happen")
- trans headcanons of any kind for Gene specifically
- Halloween, spooky, and outright horror stuff works especially well for this canon!
- Ringley's dad/Mona's parent as a background ship is super cool; feel free to give them names (and/or surnames) or not
- Robert and Gene meeting again in the afterlife
- resurrections and ghosts when it comes to either/both of those two
- AU where Robert never killed Gene
- AU where Gene shows up to haunt Robert as a ghost
- AU where Gene is a kid during the canon time period and he and Robert meet then (or where the monster apocalypse happened back when Gene was alive)
- really complicated relationship between those two
- forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow
- anything set during Robert and Gene's long relationship
- possessiveness/protectiveness of either towards the other tbh
- monster desire to take their human's life sublimating into desire to have all of their human's attention and affection and maybe also sublimating into attraction/sexual desire
- "Certain humans look certain ways to us -- appetizing, you could say. Or perhaps appealing or attractive." UM YES PLEASE??
- nonhuman characters being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender! an interpretation of Robert not actually having anything like human gender would be cool; I can imagine him having absolutely no preferred pronouns and just going with whatever anybody calls him, but feel free to go with whatever! 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! Robert seems to call Eugene Otto "Gene," and Gene not only calls him Robert but gave him his first name (his full name was Robert Eugene Otto but after Robert came into the picture he insisted the doll was Robert now and he would be Gene from then on)... what might make Robert call Gene "Eugene"? would he accept "Rob" or any other nickname from Gene, maybe, but from no one else? and if you could sell me on an endearment/pet name being used by either I would love it!
- for horror stuff specifically, if you go that route, feel free to kill off OCs but not any canon characters that didn't die in canon; psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters, isolated horror, and characters just telling scary stories, and I'm fine for gore and injury for this particular canon, and even perma-death if it involves an afterlife situation for Robert and Gene or Gene haunting Robert as a ghost...
- ...I am also open to unusual takes on smut if you do include any, since Robert is a living doll that is also really a monster rather than an actual doll; how might he actually sexually interact with Gene, and especially vice-versa? does Robert not have genitalia but have some other erogenous places, and/or not get aroused or orgasm like humans but still have something sort of analagous, or does he pick up on others' feelings and emotions in a sort of psychic-ish stimulation? or feel free to go full unusual xeno; I do not mind and would be into it!