Dear Trick or Treat Exchange Author:
Sep. 12th, 2019 01:08 pmDear Trick or Treater,
Thank you for writing something for me! If you're here to do extra art, that is welcome, too! I just request fic because I feel more comfortable talking about it as I'm less of a visually adept person, but if you want to do something I'll be thrilled to see it.
You can find me at
Prix,
indulgentcrowley and
prixmium.
I also recently wrote a letter for tropefest which has a lot of listed tropes I like that you can reference if you are a person who speaks tropese and would find that useful. Since they're close together, there may be some overlapping requests, too. If you want to take any inspiration from that letter that doesn't really seem present in this one, go for it! But sticking to this letter alone will be just fine.
Some of the following information is general and changes very little from exchange to exchange, but this is its most recent version.
Ratings: Any rating from G to E is welcome unless otherwise indicated for a particular fandom, character, or relationship. For sexy stuff, fade-to-black or smut are fine. High ratings for violence are also fine, but I prefer there not be an extreme focus on graphic gore or torture. If you are doing smut, I like a hint of plot - just some indication of how they got here, why, etc. I love gen and (found) family fic and character study just as much as ship fic, and especially for this exchange, I have provided ships I like for reference but if you prefer writing gen or don't jive with my ship preferences, please give me all of the gen, character-driven stuff you want!
DNWs: Extreme/gratuitous torture or gore; breathplay; lifestyle or hardcore BDSM; permanent injury related to sexual activity; noncon; unrequested dubcon; unrequested mundane/no-powers AUs; unrequested total setting change AUs (e.g. coffee shop, high school); misogyny/other bigotry/-phobias unless they make sense in a "trick" fic and are presented as bad; character bashing of anyone especially a different possible love interest for a character; ships for a character which contradict expressed preference unless otherwise noted (no ship content is perfectly fine!)
Likes: canon-typical violence; casefic/monster-of-the-week stories; canon-divergent AUs; missing scenes; survival (wilderness, zombie apocalypse, etc.); hurt/comfort; found family; killing or getting revenge against abusers; heroism; morality exploration; character study; power imbalance (addressing, not addressing, overcoming, confronting, etc.) in relationships; accidental marriage; political machinations; world-building with character involvement; daring rescues; competence impacted by relationship - for better or worse; compromising mission/duty for love; choosing love over mission/duty; loyalty; enemies to friends; friends to lovers
NSFW Likes: hurt/comfort (again); first-times (together or ever); wound-care turns intimate but NOT wound-fucking pls, very LIGHT blood-play if any; ritualistic sex | The Old Ones Made Them Do It, etc.; dealing with the aftermath of Aliens Made Them Do It as it pertains to dubcon even if they kinda liked it; morning after; I-almost-lost-you-and-I-can't-stand-it sex; Covered-in-the-blood-of-our-enemies sex; Awkward-cute-playful sex; Improvisational light-bondage / powerplay / orgasm tease/denial-play / soft BDSM if it makes sense for the characters; In-character sex, whatever that seems to be for the people in question
Fandom order and character order do not indicate preference.
Requested Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Ship(s) I like: Edmund/Lucy
The Media in General
I've read most of the Narnia books and am generally aware of their contents. However, I became a fan of the world through the films and only wish there were more. I watched Voyage of the Dawn Treader an embarrassing number of times. I appreciate the religious theming honestly, and I welcome inclusion of it or any other mythological flavors you want to bring to bear. While I have indicated that I don't mind Narnia-incest, I certainly don't NEED it to enjoy a fic, and I understand if it is totally not your thing. Just please don't write a fic that is actively anti- or whatever for this request. ♥
One other note: I hold that Susan would eventually end up in Narnia if she wanted to. Not that this is especially relevant given my direct request, but if you wanted to know my opinion for supporting character stuff there you are.
Thoughts For Treats: A sense of freedom found in Narnia either initially or a a respite from returning to the "real world." Solace.
Thoughts For Tricks: Coping with the mindfuck of growing up only to become a child again. World War II content or war and violence in Narnia after the Pevensies are reigning.
Edmund Pevensie
Edmund is the character whose personality goes through the most marked change in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. He appreciates justice, and I am particularly intrigued by his experiences as a King of Narnia when they made contact with other cultures in that reality. I would love fic about him engaging in military strategy or royal diplomacy. If you want to do fic after The Golden Age, I would love to have fic about his being frustrated that on Earth he is too young to commission himself into the military. A canon divergent AU where he successfully lies about his age and experiences the latter part of World War II in Europe would be interesting. A bittersweet fic about settling into Narnia as life-after-death would be cool, too!
Lucy Pevensie
While Lucy is supposed to be purehearted from the start, I feel like she goes through the greatest crisis in terms of who and what she wants to be within Narnia itself. She is associated with being a "lionheart" a lot, and I would enjoy an exploration of that. I am fascinated by the (accidentally?) implied horror that would be growing up to be about 30 years old and then going back to being a pre-pubescent child in a world that doesn't respect feminine authority very much. If you write a fic during The Golden Age, I would like to know how she deals with her role as Queen and what she focuses her administrative time on. If you do a fic after The Golden Age, I would like anything that dealt with the above-mentioned sort-of-body-horror or existential crisis that might come with that. If you wanted that to be a LESS dark fic, maybe she finds some comfort or help with it. If you wanted to address how she responds to the realities of the War that she comes to see before they return to Narnia, that would be interesting. As mentioned above, a bittersweet fic about settling into Narnia as life-after-death would be cool, too!
Lucy & Edmund (non-incest option!)
If you want to do a fic about them as a typical brother and sister, I would definitely be down for that despite being okay with shipping them, too. I would especially like to see how they differ philosophically, either during their time ruling in Narnia or how that learned sense of responsibility that is beyond-their-years bleeds back into their lives in England after they have returned from Narnia.
Lucy/Edmund
One reason I am particularly interested in shipping them is the contrast of an incest taboo with the fact that they grew up the first time in a rather light-on-human-population reality in which they had leadership responsibilities. They were far from home, and they even forgot about it. I would be interested to see how they grew together, how they dealt with any moral qualms, how they face it when they are back in England. I would not like to see sexual contact between them when they are in children's bodies at any point, but there is some horror to the notion that they know what it is like in those bodies, and in a darker fic you could address that with a light hand and I'd be cool with it. If you used the above-mentioned idea of Edmund getting mixed up in WWII, I would be interested to see if Lucy went after him and what happened there. Or if you go with the life-after-death thing, maybe no longer feeling ashamed and trapped is part of the sweetness of it in spite of the bitterness of dying so young in their own reality.
Character Requested: Rey
Ship(s) I like: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren; background Poe/Finn, Rose/Finn, Rose/Poe/Finn - just not as a main focus over whatever you do with Rey
The Media in General
I've seen all of the Star Wars films at some point or another. I've only seen TFA once, but I was obsessed with TLJ. When I got into Star Wars as a teenager, it was through the prequel trilogy, and while certain parts of it strike me as extra cheesy these days, I feel more attached to them than the original trilogy as a formative experience. However, lore and characters from any and all are good and interesting to me. I like Ewoks. Basically everything that makes people mad that it's making Star Wars not go hard enough is my jam. Fight the edge. That's not to say I don't like dark themes and melodrama with it, though. It's a space opera after all.
Thoughts For Treats: Happy or hopeful endings. Redemption fic (for Ben or anyone relevant; Rey going to the cusp of the Dark and coming back / balancing it with the Light). Bonding with someone in a familial or platonic way: Leia, Finn, Rose, Poe. Happy Reylo.
Thoughts For Tricks: Immediately post-TLJ character study. Rey trying to find coping mechanisms. Starting unhealthy (sexual or otherwise) relationships because she's weirded out by or trying to drown out her connection with Ben | Kylo Ren. More weird stuff about her frayed sense of identity after all that self-searching. Struggling with Dark impulses but being afraid to tell anyone.
Rey
I don't really care who Rey's parents are. If you wanted to do Rey Kenobi, I wouldn't be opposed, but I prefer she not be Rey Skywalker (unless through marriage lol) until if and when canon foists it back upon me. I am interested in her struggle with identity; I would be super interested in any fic that involves her balancing the Dark and Light sides of The Force within herself. If you are a lore junkie, I would like to learn about The Force through her learning about The Force. As mentioned above, I would like to see her having any sort of bonding with people on the Resistance's side. If you go the path of her hooking up with someone in spite of it being a bad idea, Poe or Finn would be acceptable or you could go with a complete unknown. Happy friendship and found family fics would be great for happier fic, though! Rey learning to HAVE a family.
Rey/Ben | Kylo Ren
If you want to write this ship for me, then you can do anything you would like through the course of the fic. It can get as dark and dysfunctional as you want (within the bounds of not going into my DNWs, of course). You can deal with some dubcon consent issues, if you want, but please don't have it come close to violence. I would prefer that any fic with them as a ship not end with Dark Side Rey or just on a completely downer note. However, you could write a fic about them being isolated and on the run or something or finding that the Resistance won't have anything to do with them if they are working together if you wanted. If you are partial to any reincarnation theories, you could do those. I would be interested in a sort of Bottle Episode fic where they just get stuck together on some dense jungle planet where their people can't get to them. Pretty much anything with just a mostly-hopeful ending.
Characters Requested: Bellamy Blake, Clarke Griffin
Ship(s) I like: Bellamy/Clarke
The Media in General
I've watched The 100 right up to the penultimate episode of S2 in terms of watching it consecutively. Then I just kind of stopped because of what I knew came next. However, I have kept up with it vicariously through gifs and twitter posts and general hesitant fascination. I know every major spoiler, and you can use any source material you want. You can even leave me with an episode as homework that might make it make more sense. I don't mean to frustrate anyone at all by not being up-to-date on a requested fandom! I just sort of live in lala land of what-could-be so you can go nuts. Tell me anything; I'll believe it up until I ever get the nerve to let it let me down again.
Thoughts For Treats: AUs from any of the pre-season-finale everything-is-ruined scenarios. More of the 100 survive. Mount Weather isn't an irredeemable hellhole; they take it over and make it right somehow. The Earth doesn't get made a lost cause in any of the many ways it did before S6. If you want to be canon compliant, though, these could be moments of solace or peace found in any of the hopeful times. World-building, literal or metaphorical. Governmental stability. World-building specifically about the extremely vague religious-ish philosophy the Arc folks have. Comparisons of philosophies, cultural exchange. Cuter survival stuff.
Thoughts For Tricks: Being isolated (completely alone or with a very small contingent of people). Trapped in a virtual reality (where things are much better or much worse). Near-deadly injury (no death of requested characters please). Archaic medical treatment. General survival stuff.
Bellamy Blake
I would like any fic where he deals with the consequences of his morally dubious decisions from any point in the series, whether those consequences are internal or external. I would like to see him learning and making amends. On the other hand, I don't really want a fic where he is treated as this awful, much-worse-than-others person who needs to be absolutely mauled before he can find any peace. If you want to do a fic where he resolves some of his issues with Octavia without allowing himself to be the only one who takes any responsibility but where he also doesn't act completely unreasonable to Octavia given whatever circumstance, that would be grand for a gen/family fic. (I tend to take it that she has seriously abused him but that she isn't irredeemable and that her abusive rage about Lincoln's death was understandable if not justified.) For softer fics, Bellamy being a history or humanities nerd in general as a feature of the fic would make me happy.
Clarke Griffin
I would love to have a fic where Clarke gets to utilize her skills as an artist or creative thinker. For darker fics, maybe she is able to apply this skill to a plan that gives it a silver-lining of hope at the end, a better mousetrap solution or a signal fire or mural or whatever that will give her and her people a shot at survival. For happier fics, I would love to see her finding herself again when she finally finds some peace in a way that isn't tinged with creepy implications. I would love to have a fic where she is able to find a coping mechanism for some of her guilt, healthy or unhealthy, and to see how it turns out for her. I love moments when she is an awesome negotiator or leader.
For Clarke, you can acknowledge any of her canon relationships, but I don't particularly want fic that actively focuses on any of them.
Clarke & Bellamy (not-shippy option)
I love them as co-leaders. I would love any fic where they debate a situation or where one helps the other keep from doing something stupid.
Clarke/Bellamy
As mentioned above, I love any fic where their role as complementary leaders is explored. If you want to do a fic that involves Clarke kind of having an undue power over Bellamy once she has won his respect, I would be interested in that. I would also be interested in any sort of canon-divergent AU where they are stranded somewhere together and have to do some survival-trope stuff.
Characters Requested: Gomez Addams, Morticia Addams
Ship(s) I like: Gomez/Morticia
The Media in General
I prefer the 1964 version of The Addams Family to any of the modern incarnations. I watch it sometimes to unwind. It has a lovely atmosphere, and I love how they view themselves as the normal ones. I would love to see any kind of worldbuilding or slice of life. I have requested Gomez or Morticia, but feel free to include any supporting characters you like or to focus on one or the other instead of both. They seem like a package deal given that they're married, but you could even do a story about before they met.
Thoughts For Treats: A story from their early relationship or early marriage. A story about how Gomez makes a living. A story about Morticia having pleasant bonding with her children. Family bonding. Funny or positive magical hijinks. General worldbuilding about how happy weirdos and monsters live, grow, and get to know each other.
Thoughts For Tricks: Darker aspects of living among monsters. More serious worldbuilding than is canon-typical. The outside world coming for them in scary ways. Survival against adversity.
Gomez Addams
It is never quite clear what is up with the core Addams family in terms of "what they are" even though they're very weird in the TV show. Particularly with Gomez, it doesn't seem particularly clear that he is any type of monster or supernatural being. I would love to know if he is a mundane who just manages to fit in within his family or if he is some kind of supernatural creature. I would like to know about how he makes his living, and any just happy being a dad stuff.
Morticia Addams
It seems like Morticia is probably a vampire. I would like any sort of lighthearted fic about that. If you want to do slightly darker, that would be fine, too! Just not really interested in gory murder fic. But if she is a vampire, whom does she feed from? How does she survive her day to day life? How old is she? She is a very gentle and supportive mother to her children, and I would like any fic about that. How did she meet the other characters?
Gomez/Morticia
Anything about their marriage! How did they meet? What was dating like for them? Since they are both such unusual people compared to their neighbors, how does their little para-society work? How do they get through a difficult time?
Again with this fandom any sort of slightly-more-serious worldbuilding would be of interest to me!
Characters Requested: Grant Ward, Skye | Daisy Johnson
Ship(s) I like: Skye/Ward | Daisy/Ward
Fandom-Specific DNW: Irredeemable Ward. He doesn't have to be in it if you matched on Skye | Daisy, but I don't want fic about how he in particular is beyond saving when no one else is or was.
The Media in General
I have been trying to get to Season 4 for a long time but keep getting distracted. I became interested in the show again during S5's airing after a long time of giving up on it mid-S2. Upon revisiting it, I like the show a lot more. I'm still frustrated by canon's handling of Ward unless one reads it as that he could have been saved but that due to the Good Guy characters' anger and mistrust that they actually failed him. I like the other characters, but my focus on the show has always been about Skye | Daisy and Ward. If you would like to include other elements or characters from the show or the MCU at large, feel free, but you certainly don't need to feel you have to. You can pick up from any point in canon, any canon divergent point, and you don't have to worry about spoilers because I know the major plot points despite my laziness. If you have a specific canon point that would clarify things for your fic you can tell me in notes.
Thoughts For Treats: Canon divergent Ward redemption. Daisy getting to continue to have a relationship with her father. Meeting the Avengers. Cute, Leverage-esque vigilantism. Dog fic.
Thoughts For Tricks: Fic set between the end of S1 and beginning of S2. AU where Ward didn't die and wasn't taken over by Hive but Daisy went with him anyway for Reasons. Ward seeming irredeemable but turning out to be redeemable in the end. Daisy not having control of her powers and not knowing who to turn to. Dystopian dealings with Inhumans. Fighting in a resistance. Post-Snap, Pre-Endgame fic on the AOS side of things.
Grant Ward
I would like any kind of redemption fic for him. If you don't want it to be an explicit redemption fic, I would like for there to at least be the hope for it. I would love a fic where he actually finds the strength to turn on Garrett. Like my likes say, one place I do like violence is vengeance against abusers. I would like a fic where Ward gets to keep a dog. I would like a fic where he finds understanding and is given the opportunity to earn trust. I would like him to get the chance to learn who he is without Hydra and to get the chance to prove himself. Antiheroism is totally fine, but I'm tired of ebil villain Ward.
Skye | Daisy Johnson
Skye | Daisy getting the opportunity to be a hero always makes me happy. For trick fics, even if it is going wrong I would love to see how she responds to her own moral compass or if she questions it in a time of darkness and doubt. I would love to see a fic where she got to check on her father, either where he is able to see her and know her or, for sadder fics, where he can't. I would love it if Daisy got to meet another superhero from the MCU and was acknowledged as one in her own right. I would also like fic where Daisy, like, moved to Portland and did vigilante work while being a hipster.
Skye | Daisy/Ward or Skye | Daisy & Ward
If you want to write them together, I don't mind if you write them as romantic interests or if you write them negotiating trust and perhaps friendship again. I would be glad to have an Enemies to Friends fic or an Enemies to Friends to Lovers fic. I would love to see them dealing with their baggage of romantic feelings but not being able to go there initially as Ward sorts himself out. I would also like to have a fic where it seems like Ward has betrayed Skye | Daisy but then he shows that he really did not. I would like to have a fic where, while they are clearly enemies still, they become dependent on each other for survival and grow through that experience. I would like any canon-divergent AU from the end of S1 where Ward is found out and given a second chance before the wound is made even deeper or any fic from any point in canon where he is given the opportunity to prove that he isn't simply obsessed with Skye | Daisy but that he genuinely wants to get better.
Characters Requested: Aziraphale, Crowley
Ship(s) I like: Aziraphale/Crowley
The Media in General
I love the show. I like that it is a religious satire that doesn't seem bent on undermining the faith of people of faith in the audience. As a person of faith, it makes me laugh and think without feeling insulted. I love the show as a whole, and I think that the parts that don't include Aziraphale and Crowley are great, too, even though I am primarily into content about them. I would love any kind of fic that includes mythology building for the characters or which includes Aziraphale and/or Crowley having interesting impact on the world as they live through history. I would also be happy with any post-Apocalypse fic. What comes next for the characters when that particular obstacle is passed?
Thoughts For Treats: Happy Retirement fic. Funny shenanigans in history. A stupid disagreement with a happy resolution. Getting together. Confessions of feelings. Bonding.
Thoughts For Tricks: Being used as leverage for each other/someone. Serious disagreements. Struggles of cosmic significance. Crises of faith. Grief. Believing oneself all alone or abandoned or trapped. Injury.
Aziraphale
I have heard a headcanon that perhaps Aziraphale is the/a guardian angel of LGBT+ people, and I really like that idea. I would love fic where there is some kind of meditation on or plot about his "true form." I would like a fic about his generally over-indulging in food or some other earthly pleasure and how he just really enjoys living on Earth. If you would like to write more about some of his angelic coworkers being cruel to or harming him but him eventually getting vindicated by God or Crowley or even standing up for himself I would like that.
Crowley
I love how Crowley seems to have a more genuine faith than some of the angels who have given up on the idea that God is actually paying attention to what they do as long as they achieve their ends. I am interested in how human he seems despite his being a demon. He seems unhappy that he is a demon much of the time. I would love to have any fic that deals with those themes. I would also like any fic about something that he had gone through in Hell in the past that makes him so afraid of it but his healing from it. I would like any fic about his being mischievous rather than evil throughout history.
Aziraphale/Crowley or Aziraphale & Crowley
It seems undeniable that they love each other, but I am game for any way you want to present it. They can be asexual, they can be all over each other, or it can be somewhere in-between. I would love any fic that involves their acknowledging how much they mean to each other. Affection, sexual or otherwise would be nice since they seem so starved for it. I would also like any sort of silly almost casefic where they take something else that is above or far beneath their paygrade upon themselves to do and have to disguise themselves and play parts with each other and those around them. Just hanging out and talking about philosophical things. Seriously anything that is more of what we've had with them or give me something completely different!
Characters Requested: C.J. Cregg, Toby Ziegler, Josh Lyman, Donna Moss, Ainsley Hayes, Sam Seaborn
Ship(s) I like: C.J./Toby; Donna/Josh; Ainsley/Sam
The Media in General
I have Stockholm Syndrome with The West Wing. It is my father's favorite TV show, and ever since I let my parents start using my Netflix account, he has begun to watch the show in a slow loop over and over again. It's been years now, and every time I am home and my dad wants to watch TV but doesn't want to deal with processing something new, he watched The West Wing. We cannot stop him. It's too late. But I do enjoy the show and have ever since I was a kid when it was first airing.
Generally, I would like any fic that is inserted within the timeline of the series itself, any fic that is immediately after the series, or any fic that takes the characters and temporally moves them into a more familiar and timely political environment. Your fic could involve political machinations, or it could be a slice of life. I have nominated along ship-lines, but I would also be happy with gen involving any of those character relationships or any of the other characters. I would also like individual character studies.
Thoughts For Treats: Holiday fic. The things they do on a high after a win. Comforting each other through a loss or time of crisis. Figuring out their next career moves. Hanging out in a lull. Succeeding in activism or advocacy. Getting together. Established relationship.
Thoughts For Tricks: Dealing with the aftermath of a mistake. Literally facing infrastructure collapse (can you tell I'm anxious about present American politics?). Learning that something one believed was wrong. Facing your friends turning against you. Aftermath of getting together/first time/first kiss/stupid decisions about relationship. (Temporarily) breaking up.
C.J. Cregg
I love that C.J. is willing to stand up for her convictions even though she did not originally have political ambitions. I think that she is someone who rose to the occasion in a big way, and I like it when she's playful. I would like to see any fic where she gets to move on with her career and life and gets to breathe. I would also like any moment during her tenure in the White House when she considers the impact of what she is doing and realizes that she does have personality, power, and integrity. (If you want to do C.J/Danny instead of C.J./Toby, I'm fine with it just not as longing for it haha.)
Toby Ziegler
Weirdly, Toby has become the character that I relate to most out of all of the characters as an adult, and I'm not sure why. I love his humor and the way some people think he doesn't have a sense of humor. I love that he doesn't tolerate bullshit. I really enjoy how the show handles his being a serious man of faith. I like that he will cross lines in order to do what he thinks is right. The way the series ends for him breaks my heart, and I would love him to get a chance to be vindicated in spite of the fact that there were a lot of raw nerves in the immediate fallout of his choosing to leak information to save lives. I would also like any sort of canon divergent AU where he doesn't get quite so many hard knocks.
Josh Lyman
Josh is a lovable idiot. He has a lot of principles about the way things should go in the world, but I think he sometimes favors "the ends justify the means" too much in a way that is quite typical of those involved in politics. I would like to see a fic where "the ends justify the means" blows up in his face a little and he has to recover from it. I would also like any fic that involves him addressing his mental health issues and finding support with friends and loved ones. Perhaps he thinks someone he loves has died on him again (in a dream or a national disaster or terrorist action) but it turns out that they are safe and mostly sound.
Donna Moss
This is a bit of a canon complaint, but I personally felt like the narrative changed the way Donna was written too much after she left Josh's employ. It felt like when the show tried to show her as independent and growing into her own that at times they had lost the core of the character. Any sort of canon revision fic that dealt with that, if you feel it too, would be great. I would also like any little pre-canon or Bartlett campaign-era fic where she is figuring herself out and coming into her own the first time around. I love how she learns on the job and does become a competent and independent actor in her life and world; I just don't really like how they seemed to change her personality to do it.
Warning: Some anti-Republican sentiment in the following prompt.
Ainsley Hayes
When I was a kid and she was first on the show, I wanted to be Ainsley as I was under the mistaken impression that I was going to be anything close to a Republican. Ainsley seems to be the "kind of Republican" who would be mortified at the direction the GOP has taken in recent times, though I think it was always filled with regressive politics. Anyway, while they give her plenty of valid points, I think that it is also valid to say that as a whole the Republican Party is not really about her valid points even slightly in terms of what they actually do with power. I would honestly love to see a fic where she really has to struggle with that. I would love for her to see the Leviathan for what it is and have to fight it as it were.
Sam Seaborn
The show starts with a sort of push that Sam is the "main" character among the younger West Wing staff. It is also floated that he is a sort of heir apparent and that one day he will run of president. However, it seems that given the meta elements of the show that in-universe, the world changed around Sam and he went back into the private sector and sort of sold out on some of his developed ideals. I would like to see any point in that process or in his coming back from that. Basically just the world changing around him, Josh stepping out into the limelight in terms of "main character" vibes, anything like that.
C.J./Toby
I feel really surprised that the show never actually went there, and yet I shouldn't be. I kind of see them as friends who, at some point, know they're a little bit in love with each other but never act on it. I would like to see a fic where they did, either during their time at the White House or after. Perhaps C.J. is the first one to try and break the ice after Toby's fall from grace, and things happen from there if you want to go with mostly canon compliance. If not, then I would love any fic where they did get together during canon, messiness and all.
Donna/Josh
As mentioned in my prompt for Donna in particular, I'm not a big fan of S8 Donna's personality being changed to make her more of a Tough Professional Woman (TM) or something. At least that's how I perceived it. I would like any sort of rewrite of how they actually get together in canon if you understanding my frustration. On the other hand, I would also really like a fic that happens earlier in canon where they end up acting on their attraction to and affection for each other while Donna is still working for Josh. I would like to see them deal with the ethical issues and power imbalance.
Ainsley/Sam
Both of my individual prompts for them involve their respective worlds getting turned on their ears. I get the sense that if the actors had been content to stay put, we would have gotten canon Ainsley/Sam. If you have a take on that, go for it. On the other hand, I even mentioned infrastructure collapse above. Anything from the status quo to dealing with the Evil Republicans Ruining Everything and having to deal with the fallout, I would like to see Ainsley and Sam running into each other again and their mutual trust and respect becoming something much deeper and more desperate.
Character Requested: Laurel Lance
Ship(s) I like: Laurel/Tommy; Laurel/John (Diggle)
The Media in General
I like Arrow and the rest of the Arrowverse, but I am really angry about how they dealt with Laurel and will never be over it. I have only requested a treat for this fandom and character, because I would like to have a fix-fic or at least some kind of vindication for Laurel. I think that they wrote her "out of the way" for Olicity when she literally didn't have a problem with them and was no kind of threat to it. And it makes me MAD. Please help.
Laurel Lance
I would love to see a fic that allowed her to survive her canon death. OR I would like to see a fic where she was brought back from the dead and the monkey's paw fallout of it eventually leveled out and turned out for the better. I would like to see her being more responsibly handled as a young and inexperienced superhero. I would like a fic where she actually got meta-powers like her Earth-2 counterpart. I would like any kind of fic where both she and Tommy live and get to be together so that the Powers that Be don't think she's gonna be a threat to Olicity. If she and Tommy had kids, I would like to see them play with Oliver and Felicity's kids. If you want to leave Tommy dead but bring Laurel into the superhero fold a little earlier in canon, that was where I was thinking Laurel/Diggle might be an interesting rarepair to explore.
I would love to have gen about Laurel and having healthy friendships where she wasn't seen as a failed love interest "extra." I would like to see her with her sister Sara. I would like to see her developing a healthy friendship with Oliver and/or Felicity and maintaining it rather than having to die for it. I would like to see her with any of the other Arrowverse characters, holding her own.
Thank you for writing something for me! If you're here to do extra art, that is welcome, too! I just request fic because I feel more comfortable talking about it as I'm less of a visually adept person, but if you want to do something I'll be thrilled to see it.
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I also recently wrote a letter for tropefest which has a lot of listed tropes I like that you can reference if you are a person who speaks tropese and would find that useful. Since they're close together, there may be some overlapping requests, too. If you want to take any inspiration from that letter that doesn't really seem present in this one, go for it! But sticking to this letter alone will be just fine.
Some of the following information is general and changes very little from exchange to exchange, but this is its most recent version.
Ratings: Any rating from G to E is welcome unless otherwise indicated for a particular fandom, character, or relationship. For sexy stuff, fade-to-black or smut are fine. High ratings for violence are also fine, but I prefer there not be an extreme focus on graphic gore or torture. If you are doing smut, I like a hint of plot - just some indication of how they got here, why, etc. I love gen and (found) family fic and character study just as much as ship fic, and especially for this exchange, I have provided ships I like for reference but if you prefer writing gen or don't jive with my ship preferences, please give me all of the gen, character-driven stuff you want!
DNWs: Extreme/gratuitous torture or gore; breathplay; lifestyle or hardcore BDSM; permanent injury related to sexual activity; noncon; unrequested dubcon; unrequested mundane/no-powers AUs; unrequested total setting change AUs (e.g. coffee shop, high school); misogyny/other bigotry/-phobias unless they make sense in a "trick" fic and are presented as bad; character bashing of anyone especially a different possible love interest for a character; ships for a character which contradict expressed preference unless otherwise noted (no ship content is perfectly fine!)
Likes: canon-typical violence; casefic/monster-of-the-week stories; canon-divergent AUs; missing scenes; survival (wilderness, zombie apocalypse, etc.); hurt/comfort; found family; killing or getting revenge against abusers; heroism; morality exploration; character study; power imbalance (addressing, not addressing, overcoming, confronting, etc.) in relationships; accidental marriage; political machinations; world-building with character involvement; daring rescues; competence impacted by relationship - for better or worse; compromising mission/duty for love; choosing love over mission/duty; loyalty; enemies to friends; friends to lovers
NSFW Likes: hurt/comfort (again); first-times (together or ever); wound-care turns intimate but NOT wound-fucking pls, very LIGHT blood-play if any; ritualistic sex | The Old Ones Made Them Do It, etc.; dealing with the aftermath of Aliens Made Them Do It as it pertains to dubcon even if they kinda liked it; morning after; I-almost-lost-you-and-I-can't-stand-it sex; Covered-in-the-blood-of-our-enemies sex; Awkward-cute-playful sex; Improvisational light-bondage / powerplay / orgasm tease/denial-play / soft BDSM if it makes sense for the characters; In-character sex, whatever that seems to be for the people in question
Fandom Information
Fandom order and character order do not indicate preference.
Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Requested Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Ship(s) I like: Edmund/Lucy
The Media in General
I've read most of the Narnia books and am generally aware of their contents. However, I became a fan of the world through the films and only wish there were more. I watched Voyage of the Dawn Treader an embarrassing number of times. I appreciate the religious theming honestly, and I welcome inclusion of it or any other mythological flavors you want to bring to bear. While I have indicated that I don't mind Narnia-incest, I certainly don't NEED it to enjoy a fic, and I understand if it is totally not your thing. Just please don't write a fic that is actively anti- or whatever for this request. ♥
One other note: I hold that Susan would eventually end up in Narnia if she wanted to. Not that this is especially relevant given my direct request, but if you wanted to know my opinion for supporting character stuff there you are.
Thoughts For Treats: A sense of freedom found in Narnia either initially or a a respite from returning to the "real world." Solace.
Thoughts For Tricks: Coping with the mindfuck of growing up only to become a child again. World War II content or war and violence in Narnia after the Pevensies are reigning.
Edmund Pevensie
Edmund is the character whose personality goes through the most marked change in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. He appreciates justice, and I am particularly intrigued by his experiences as a King of Narnia when they made contact with other cultures in that reality. I would love fic about him engaging in military strategy or royal diplomacy. If you want to do fic after The Golden Age, I would love to have fic about his being frustrated that on Earth he is too young to commission himself into the military. A canon divergent AU where he successfully lies about his age and experiences the latter part of World War II in Europe would be interesting. A bittersweet fic about settling into Narnia as life-after-death would be cool, too!
Lucy Pevensie
While Lucy is supposed to be purehearted from the start, I feel like she goes through the greatest crisis in terms of who and what she wants to be within Narnia itself. She is associated with being a "lionheart" a lot, and I would enjoy an exploration of that. I am fascinated by the (accidentally?) implied horror that would be growing up to be about 30 years old and then going back to being a pre-pubescent child in a world that doesn't respect feminine authority very much. If you write a fic during The Golden Age, I would like to know how she deals with her role as Queen and what she focuses her administrative time on. If you do a fic after The Golden Age, I would like anything that dealt with the above-mentioned sort-of-body-horror or existential crisis that might come with that. If you wanted that to be a LESS dark fic, maybe she finds some comfort or help with it. If you wanted to address how she responds to the realities of the War that she comes to see before they return to Narnia, that would be interesting. As mentioned above, a bittersweet fic about settling into Narnia as life-after-death would be cool, too!
Lucy & Edmund (non-incest option!)
If you want to do a fic about them as a typical brother and sister, I would definitely be down for that despite being okay with shipping them, too. I would especially like to see how they differ philosophically, either during their time ruling in Narnia or how that learned sense of responsibility that is beyond-their-years bleeds back into their lives in England after they have returned from Narnia.
Lucy/Edmund
One reason I am particularly interested in shipping them is the contrast of an incest taboo with the fact that they grew up the first time in a rather light-on-human-population reality in which they had leadership responsibilities. They were far from home, and they even forgot about it. I would be interested to see how they grew together, how they dealt with any moral qualms, how they face it when they are back in England. I would not like to see sexual contact between them when they are in children's bodies at any point, but there is some horror to the notion that they know what it is like in those bodies, and in a darker fic you could address that with a light hand and I'd be cool with it. If you used the above-mentioned idea of Edmund getting mixed up in WWII, I would be interested to see if Lucy went after him and what happened there. Or if you go with the life-after-death thing, maybe no longer feeling ashamed and trapped is part of the sweetness of it in spite of the bitterness of dying so young in their own reality.
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Character Requested: Rey
Ship(s) I like: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren; background Poe/Finn, Rose/Finn, Rose/Poe/Finn - just not as a main focus over whatever you do with Rey
The Media in General
I've seen all of the Star Wars films at some point or another. I've only seen TFA once, but I was obsessed with TLJ. When I got into Star Wars as a teenager, it was through the prequel trilogy, and while certain parts of it strike me as extra cheesy these days, I feel more attached to them than the original trilogy as a formative experience. However, lore and characters from any and all are good and interesting to me. I like Ewoks. Basically everything that makes people mad that it's making Star Wars not go hard enough is my jam. Fight the edge. That's not to say I don't like dark themes and melodrama with it, though. It's a space opera after all.
Thoughts For Treats: Happy or hopeful endings. Redemption fic (for Ben or anyone relevant; Rey going to the cusp of the Dark and coming back / balancing it with the Light). Bonding with someone in a familial or platonic way: Leia, Finn, Rose, Poe. Happy Reylo.
Thoughts For Tricks: Immediately post-TLJ character study. Rey trying to find coping mechanisms. Starting unhealthy (sexual or otherwise) relationships because she's weirded out by or trying to drown out her connection with Ben | Kylo Ren. More weird stuff about her frayed sense of identity after all that self-searching. Struggling with Dark impulses but being afraid to tell anyone.
Rey
I don't really care who Rey's parents are. If you wanted to do Rey Kenobi, I wouldn't be opposed, but I prefer she not be Rey Skywalker (unless through marriage lol) until if and when canon foists it back upon me. I am interested in her struggle with identity; I would be super interested in any fic that involves her balancing the Dark and Light sides of The Force within herself. If you are a lore junkie, I would like to learn about The Force through her learning about The Force. As mentioned above, I would like to see her having any sort of bonding with people on the Resistance's side. If you go the path of her hooking up with someone in spite of it being a bad idea, Poe or Finn would be acceptable or you could go with a complete unknown. Happy friendship and found family fics would be great for happier fic, though! Rey learning to HAVE a family.
Rey/Ben | Kylo Ren
If you want to write this ship for me, then you can do anything you would like through the course of the fic. It can get as dark and dysfunctional as you want (within the bounds of not going into my DNWs, of course). You can deal with some dubcon consent issues, if you want, but please don't have it come close to violence. I would prefer that any fic with them as a ship not end with Dark Side Rey or just on a completely downer note. However, you could write a fic about them being isolated and on the run or something or finding that the Resistance won't have anything to do with them if they are working together if you wanted. If you are partial to any reincarnation theories, you could do those. I would be interested in a sort of Bottle Episode fic where they just get stuck together on some dense jungle planet where their people can't get to them. Pretty much anything with just a mostly-hopeful ending.
The 100
Characters Requested: Bellamy Blake, Clarke Griffin
Ship(s) I like: Bellamy/Clarke
The Media in General
I've watched The 100 right up to the penultimate episode of S2 in terms of watching it consecutively. Then I just kind of stopped because of what I knew came next. However, I have kept up with it vicariously through gifs and twitter posts and general hesitant fascination. I know every major spoiler, and you can use any source material you want. You can even leave me with an episode as homework that might make it make more sense. I don't mean to frustrate anyone at all by not being up-to-date on a requested fandom! I just sort of live in lala land of what-could-be so you can go nuts. Tell me anything; I'll believe it up until I ever get the nerve to let it let me down again.
Thoughts For Treats: AUs from any of the pre-season-finale everything-is-ruined scenarios. More of the 100 survive. Mount Weather isn't an irredeemable hellhole; they take it over and make it right somehow. The Earth doesn't get made a lost cause in any of the many ways it did before S6. If you want to be canon compliant, though, these could be moments of solace or peace found in any of the hopeful times. World-building, literal or metaphorical. Governmental stability. World-building specifically about the extremely vague religious-ish philosophy the Arc folks have. Comparisons of philosophies, cultural exchange. Cuter survival stuff.
Thoughts For Tricks: Being isolated (completely alone or with a very small contingent of people). Trapped in a virtual reality (where things are much better or much worse). Near-deadly injury (no death of requested characters please). Archaic medical treatment. General survival stuff.
Bellamy Blake
I would like any fic where he deals with the consequences of his morally dubious decisions from any point in the series, whether those consequences are internal or external. I would like to see him learning and making amends. On the other hand, I don't really want a fic where he is treated as this awful, much-worse-than-others person who needs to be absolutely mauled before he can find any peace. If you want to do a fic where he resolves some of his issues with Octavia without allowing himself to be the only one who takes any responsibility but where he also doesn't act completely unreasonable to Octavia given whatever circumstance, that would be grand for a gen/family fic. (I tend to take it that she has seriously abused him but that she isn't irredeemable and that her abusive rage about Lincoln's death was understandable if not justified.) For softer fics, Bellamy being a history or humanities nerd in general as a feature of the fic would make me happy.
Clarke Griffin
I would love to have a fic where Clarke gets to utilize her skills as an artist or creative thinker. For darker fics, maybe she is able to apply this skill to a plan that gives it a silver-lining of hope at the end, a better mousetrap solution or a signal fire or mural or whatever that will give her and her people a shot at survival. For happier fics, I would love to see her finding herself again when she finally finds some peace in a way that isn't tinged with creepy implications. I would love to have a fic where she is able to find a coping mechanism for some of her guilt, healthy or unhealthy, and to see how it turns out for her. I love moments when she is an awesome negotiator or leader.
For Clarke, you can acknowledge any of her canon relationships, but I don't particularly want fic that actively focuses on any of them.
Clarke & Bellamy (not-shippy option)
I love them as co-leaders. I would love any fic where they debate a situation or where one helps the other keep from doing something stupid.
Clarke/Bellamy
As mentioned above, I love any fic where their role as complementary leaders is explored. If you want to do a fic that involves Clarke kind of having an undue power over Bellamy once she has won his respect, I would be interested in that. I would also be interested in any sort of canon-divergent AU where they are stranded somewhere together and have to do some survival-trope stuff.
The Addams Family
Characters Requested: Gomez Addams, Morticia Addams
Ship(s) I like: Gomez/Morticia
The Media in General
I prefer the 1964 version of The Addams Family to any of the modern incarnations. I watch it sometimes to unwind. It has a lovely atmosphere, and I love how they view themselves as the normal ones. I would love to see any kind of worldbuilding or slice of life. I have requested Gomez or Morticia, but feel free to include any supporting characters you like or to focus on one or the other instead of both. They seem like a package deal given that they're married, but you could even do a story about before they met.
Thoughts For Treats: A story from their early relationship or early marriage. A story about how Gomez makes a living. A story about Morticia having pleasant bonding with her children. Family bonding. Funny or positive magical hijinks. General worldbuilding about how happy weirdos and monsters live, grow, and get to know each other.
Thoughts For Tricks: Darker aspects of living among monsters. More serious worldbuilding than is canon-typical. The outside world coming for them in scary ways. Survival against adversity.
Gomez Addams
It is never quite clear what is up with the core Addams family in terms of "what they are" even though they're very weird in the TV show. Particularly with Gomez, it doesn't seem particularly clear that he is any type of monster or supernatural being. I would love to know if he is a mundane who just manages to fit in within his family or if he is some kind of supernatural creature. I would like to know about how he makes his living, and any just happy being a dad stuff.
Morticia Addams
It seems like Morticia is probably a vampire. I would like any sort of lighthearted fic about that. If you want to do slightly darker, that would be fine, too! Just not really interested in gory murder fic. But if she is a vampire, whom does she feed from? How does she survive her day to day life? How old is she? She is a very gentle and supportive mother to her children, and I would like any fic about that. How did she meet the other characters?
Gomez/Morticia
Anything about their marriage! How did they meet? What was dating like for them? Since they are both such unusual people compared to their neighbors, how does their little para-society work? How do they get through a difficult time?
Again with this fandom any sort of slightly-more-serious worldbuilding would be of interest to me!
Agents of SHIELD
Characters Requested: Grant Ward, Skye | Daisy Johnson
Ship(s) I like: Skye/Ward | Daisy/Ward
Fandom-Specific DNW: Irredeemable Ward. He doesn't have to be in it if you matched on Skye | Daisy, but I don't want fic about how he in particular is beyond saving when no one else is or was.
The Media in General
I have been trying to get to Season 4 for a long time but keep getting distracted. I became interested in the show again during S5's airing after a long time of giving up on it mid-S2. Upon revisiting it, I like the show a lot more. I'm still frustrated by canon's handling of Ward unless one reads it as that he could have been saved but that due to the Good Guy characters' anger and mistrust that they actually failed him. I like the other characters, but my focus on the show has always been about Skye | Daisy and Ward. If you would like to include other elements or characters from the show or the MCU at large, feel free, but you certainly don't need to feel you have to. You can pick up from any point in canon, any canon divergent point, and you don't have to worry about spoilers because I know the major plot points despite my laziness. If you have a specific canon point that would clarify things for your fic you can tell me in notes.
Thoughts For Treats: Canon divergent Ward redemption. Daisy getting to continue to have a relationship with her father. Meeting the Avengers. Cute, Leverage-esque vigilantism. Dog fic.
Thoughts For Tricks: Fic set between the end of S1 and beginning of S2. AU where Ward didn't die and wasn't taken over by Hive but Daisy went with him anyway for Reasons. Ward seeming irredeemable but turning out to be redeemable in the end. Daisy not having control of her powers and not knowing who to turn to. Dystopian dealings with Inhumans. Fighting in a resistance. Post-Snap, Pre-Endgame fic on the AOS side of things.
Grant Ward
I would like any kind of redemption fic for him. If you don't want it to be an explicit redemption fic, I would like for there to at least be the hope for it. I would love a fic where he actually finds the strength to turn on Garrett. Like my likes say, one place I do like violence is vengeance against abusers. I would like a fic where Ward gets to keep a dog. I would like a fic where he finds understanding and is given the opportunity to earn trust. I would like him to get the chance to learn who he is without Hydra and to get the chance to prove himself. Antiheroism is totally fine, but I'm tired of ebil villain Ward.
Skye | Daisy Johnson
Skye | Daisy getting the opportunity to be a hero always makes me happy. For trick fics, even if it is going wrong I would love to see how she responds to her own moral compass or if she questions it in a time of darkness and doubt. I would love to see a fic where she got to check on her father, either where he is able to see her and know her or, for sadder fics, where he can't. I would love it if Daisy got to meet another superhero from the MCU and was acknowledged as one in her own right. I would also like fic where Daisy, like, moved to Portland and did vigilante work while being a hipster.
Skye | Daisy/Ward or Skye | Daisy & Ward
If you want to write them together, I don't mind if you write them as romantic interests or if you write them negotiating trust and perhaps friendship again. I would be glad to have an Enemies to Friends fic or an Enemies to Friends to Lovers fic. I would love to see them dealing with their baggage of romantic feelings but not being able to go there initially as Ward sorts himself out. I would also like to have a fic where it seems like Ward has betrayed Skye | Daisy but then he shows that he really did not. I would like to have a fic where, while they are clearly enemies still, they become dependent on each other for survival and grow through that experience. I would like any canon-divergent AU from the end of S1 where Ward is found out and given a second chance before the wound is made even deeper or any fic from any point in canon where he is given the opportunity to prove that he isn't simply obsessed with Skye | Daisy but that he genuinely wants to get better.
Good Omens
Characters Requested: Aziraphale, Crowley
Ship(s) I like: Aziraphale/Crowley
The Media in General
I love the show. I like that it is a religious satire that doesn't seem bent on undermining the faith of people of faith in the audience. As a person of faith, it makes me laugh and think without feeling insulted. I love the show as a whole, and I think that the parts that don't include Aziraphale and Crowley are great, too, even though I am primarily into content about them. I would love any kind of fic that includes mythology building for the characters or which includes Aziraphale and/or Crowley having interesting impact on the world as they live through history. I would also be happy with any post-Apocalypse fic. What comes next for the characters when that particular obstacle is passed?
Thoughts For Treats: Happy Retirement fic. Funny shenanigans in history. A stupid disagreement with a happy resolution. Getting together. Confessions of feelings. Bonding.
Thoughts For Tricks: Being used as leverage for each other/someone. Serious disagreements. Struggles of cosmic significance. Crises of faith. Grief. Believing oneself all alone or abandoned or trapped. Injury.
Aziraphale
I have heard a headcanon that perhaps Aziraphale is the/a guardian angel of LGBT+ people, and I really like that idea. I would love fic where there is some kind of meditation on or plot about his "true form." I would like a fic about his generally over-indulging in food or some other earthly pleasure and how he just really enjoys living on Earth. If you would like to write more about some of his angelic coworkers being cruel to or harming him but him eventually getting vindicated by God or Crowley or even standing up for himself I would like that.
Crowley
I love how Crowley seems to have a more genuine faith than some of the angels who have given up on the idea that God is actually paying attention to what they do as long as they achieve their ends. I am interested in how human he seems despite his being a demon. He seems unhappy that he is a demon much of the time. I would love to have any fic that deals with those themes. I would also like any fic about something that he had gone through in Hell in the past that makes him so afraid of it but his healing from it. I would like any fic about his being mischievous rather than evil throughout history.
Aziraphale/Crowley or Aziraphale & Crowley
It seems undeniable that they love each other, but I am game for any way you want to present it. They can be asexual, they can be all over each other, or it can be somewhere in-between. I would love any fic that involves their acknowledging how much they mean to each other. Affection, sexual or otherwise would be nice since they seem so starved for it. I would also like any sort of silly almost casefic where they take something else that is above or far beneath their paygrade upon themselves to do and have to disguise themselves and play parts with each other and those around them. Just hanging out and talking about philosophical things. Seriously anything that is more of what we've had with them or give me something completely different!
The West Wing
Characters Requested: C.J. Cregg, Toby Ziegler, Josh Lyman, Donna Moss, Ainsley Hayes, Sam Seaborn
Ship(s) I like: C.J./Toby; Donna/Josh; Ainsley/Sam
The Media in General
I have Stockholm Syndrome with The West Wing. It is my father's favorite TV show, and ever since I let my parents start using my Netflix account, he has begun to watch the show in a slow loop over and over again. It's been years now, and every time I am home and my dad wants to watch TV but doesn't want to deal with processing something new, he watched The West Wing. We cannot stop him. It's too late. But I do enjoy the show and have ever since I was a kid when it was first airing.
Generally, I would like any fic that is inserted within the timeline of the series itself, any fic that is immediately after the series, or any fic that takes the characters and temporally moves them into a more familiar and timely political environment. Your fic could involve political machinations, or it could be a slice of life. I have nominated along ship-lines, but I would also be happy with gen involving any of those character relationships or any of the other characters. I would also like individual character studies.
Thoughts For Treats: Holiday fic. The things they do on a high after a win. Comforting each other through a loss or time of crisis. Figuring out their next career moves. Hanging out in a lull. Succeeding in activism or advocacy. Getting together. Established relationship.
Thoughts For Tricks: Dealing with the aftermath of a mistake. Literally facing infrastructure collapse (can you tell I'm anxious about present American politics?). Learning that something one believed was wrong. Facing your friends turning against you. Aftermath of getting together/first time/first kiss/stupid decisions about relationship. (Temporarily) breaking up.
C.J. Cregg
I love that C.J. is willing to stand up for her convictions even though she did not originally have political ambitions. I think that she is someone who rose to the occasion in a big way, and I like it when she's playful. I would like to see any fic where she gets to move on with her career and life and gets to breathe. I would also like any moment during her tenure in the White House when she considers the impact of what she is doing and realizes that she does have personality, power, and integrity. (If you want to do C.J/Danny instead of C.J./Toby, I'm fine with it just not as longing for it haha.)
Toby Ziegler
Weirdly, Toby has become the character that I relate to most out of all of the characters as an adult, and I'm not sure why. I love his humor and the way some people think he doesn't have a sense of humor. I love that he doesn't tolerate bullshit. I really enjoy how the show handles his being a serious man of faith. I like that he will cross lines in order to do what he thinks is right. The way the series ends for him breaks my heart, and I would love him to get a chance to be vindicated in spite of the fact that there were a lot of raw nerves in the immediate fallout of his choosing to leak information to save lives. I would also like any sort of canon divergent AU where he doesn't get quite so many hard knocks.
Josh Lyman
Josh is a lovable idiot. He has a lot of principles about the way things should go in the world, but I think he sometimes favors "the ends justify the means" too much in a way that is quite typical of those involved in politics. I would like to see a fic where "the ends justify the means" blows up in his face a little and he has to recover from it. I would also like any fic that involves him addressing his mental health issues and finding support with friends and loved ones. Perhaps he thinks someone he loves has died on him again (in a dream or a national disaster or terrorist action) but it turns out that they are safe and mostly sound.
Donna Moss
This is a bit of a canon complaint, but I personally felt like the narrative changed the way Donna was written too much after she left Josh's employ. It felt like when the show tried to show her as independent and growing into her own that at times they had lost the core of the character. Any sort of canon revision fic that dealt with that, if you feel it too, would be great. I would also like any little pre-canon or Bartlett campaign-era fic where she is figuring herself out and coming into her own the first time around. I love how she learns on the job and does become a competent and independent actor in her life and world; I just don't really like how they seemed to change her personality to do it.
Warning: Some anti-Republican sentiment in the following prompt.
Ainsley Hayes
When I was a kid and she was first on the show, I wanted to be Ainsley as I was under the mistaken impression that I was going to be anything close to a Republican. Ainsley seems to be the "kind of Republican" who would be mortified at the direction the GOP has taken in recent times, though I think it was always filled with regressive politics. Anyway, while they give her plenty of valid points, I think that it is also valid to say that as a whole the Republican Party is not really about her valid points even slightly in terms of what they actually do with power. I would honestly love to see a fic where she really has to struggle with that. I would love for her to see the Leviathan for what it is and have to fight it as it were.
Sam Seaborn
The show starts with a sort of push that Sam is the "main" character among the younger West Wing staff. It is also floated that he is a sort of heir apparent and that one day he will run of president. However, it seems that given the meta elements of the show that in-universe, the world changed around Sam and he went back into the private sector and sort of sold out on some of his developed ideals. I would like to see any point in that process or in his coming back from that. Basically just the world changing around him, Josh stepping out into the limelight in terms of "main character" vibes, anything like that.
C.J./Toby
I feel really surprised that the show never actually went there, and yet I shouldn't be. I kind of see them as friends who, at some point, know they're a little bit in love with each other but never act on it. I would like to see a fic where they did, either during their time at the White House or after. Perhaps C.J. is the first one to try and break the ice after Toby's fall from grace, and things happen from there if you want to go with mostly canon compliance. If not, then I would love any fic where they did get together during canon, messiness and all.
Donna/Josh
As mentioned in my prompt for Donna in particular, I'm not a big fan of S8 Donna's personality being changed to make her more of a Tough Professional Woman (TM) or something. At least that's how I perceived it. I would like any sort of rewrite of how they actually get together in canon if you understanding my frustration. On the other hand, I would also really like a fic that happens earlier in canon where they end up acting on their attraction to and affection for each other while Donna is still working for Josh. I would like to see them deal with the ethical issues and power imbalance.
Ainsley/Sam
Both of my individual prompts for them involve their respective worlds getting turned on their ears. I get the sense that if the actors had been content to stay put, we would have gotten canon Ainsley/Sam. If you have a take on that, go for it. On the other hand, I even mentioned infrastructure collapse above. Anything from the status quo to dealing with the Evil Republicans Ruining Everything and having to deal with the fallout, I would like to see Ainsley and Sam running into each other again and their mutual trust and respect becoming something much deeper and more desperate.
Arrowverse
Character Requested: Laurel Lance
Ship(s) I like: Laurel/Tommy; Laurel/John (Diggle)
The Media in General
I like Arrow and the rest of the Arrowverse, but I am really angry about how they dealt with Laurel and will never be over it. I have only requested a treat for this fandom and character, because I would like to have a fix-fic or at least some kind of vindication for Laurel. I think that they wrote her "out of the way" for Olicity when she literally didn't have a problem with them and was no kind of threat to it. And it makes me MAD. Please help.
Laurel Lance
I would love to see a fic that allowed her to survive her canon death. OR I would like to see a fic where she was brought back from the dead and the monkey's paw fallout of it eventually leveled out and turned out for the better. I would like to see her being more responsibly handled as a young and inexperienced superhero. I would like a fic where she actually got meta-powers like her Earth-2 counterpart. I would like any kind of fic where both she and Tommy live and get to be together so that the Powers that Be don't think she's gonna be a threat to Olicity. If she and Tommy had kids, I would like to see them play with Oliver and Felicity's kids. If you want to leave Tommy dead but bring Laurel into the superhero fold a little earlier in canon, that was where I was thinking Laurel/Diggle might be an interesting rarepair to explore.
I would love to have gen about Laurel and having healthy friendships where she wasn't seen as a failed love interest "extra." I would like to see her with her sister Sara. I would like to see her developing a healthy friendship with Oliver and/or Felicity and maintaining it rather than having to die for it. I would like to see her with any of the other Arrowverse characters, holding her own.