those men you never read about in the papers

[daken]

dear rare-writer!

Thank you for offering any of these fandoms.

I'm so excited to see what you come up with! I tried to make this as skim-friendly as possible. The tl;dr of it all is that if you touch on anything I mention liking even slightly — and, as you will surely find, I have a lot of things that I like — I'll be elated ♥

I always have way too much fun when it comes to letter writing; below is a page jump so you can hop to whatever fandom we matched on quickly. Please take my note at the top seriously, pick whatever you like, and burn the rest of it, honestly.

(LIKES | DISLIKES)
ALIEN SERIES | THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) | DOMINION (TV)
THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) | TERMINATOR (MOVIES) | X-TREME X-MEN

( quick note )

I’ve tried to break the prompts into a format that works for the less-is-more writer and the more-is-more writer. Feel free to pick and choose aspects of the prompts that you like and disregard or change whatever doesn’t work for you.

If you come up with an idea that’s similar to a prompt I left below, but not quite on the nose, go for it! If ¾ of a prompt really works for you, but the final ¼ doesn’t, only work with the bit that does! Mixing and matching is also well and good.

⟿The top level prompt suggestions are generalized, complete ideas. Know what you want to write now? Great!

Not sure what to write? Mind swimming with too many possibilities? Not enough possibilities? The questions and ideas following the top-level are here for you, just in case you need more prompting!

Also please don't feel like you have to spend a bunch of time on setting up a universe or plot. I already know what 'verse I requested or what situation I've set up in a prompt, so please feel free to jump right in the "middle" of a story/in media res and start right when stuff is getting interesting.

likes!

⟿ I really love strong relationships. I am super into reading about how their relationships work; their dynamics, how they support one another, how they relate to each other, how they interact [pre-, post-, and during-canon when “offscreen”], where their wants and needs mesh up, where they differ; all that interests me immensely.

⟿ I also love fucked up, varying-degrees-of-unhealthy relationships. Codependent relationships, dependent personality disorders being exploited by someone with a histrionic personality disorder, obsessive relationships: you can be giving it all to me. I love when a character is willing to literally let the world burn, should the world try to come between them and the person they love (romantically or platonically).

I love them doing questionable things or neglecting themselves in order to make their partner happy. I don't need it sugar coated or spun to make it seem healthy and alright, in fact I love it when the characters know — fully or merely suspecting — that what they're feeling, to the level they're feeling it at, isn't healthy, but they enjoy it so much they wouldn't even think of getting help or trying to back off. Them being equally, fuck-up-ed-ly invested in their relationship is what I live for.

⟿ Continuing off that, I love it when people are equally invested in whatever they’re doing, period: completing a mission, building a relationship, putting together IKEA furniture. Them putting in the same amount of care and time into what they're doing/building together, and them respecting each other enough not to play games, are all stuff that I like.

Rather than miscommunication causing drama, I love it when bluntness and frankness causes that tension instead! Characters saying what they want or what they've done, point blank, and then leaving it to the other character to decide if they can handle that; quiet characters taking their time and really mulling over their choices before telling the other person what they want — it’s all great.

⟿ I love codas, alternate canons, semi-alternate universes, and canon divergences, and/or slight changes to canon. I also love established relationships/friendships, and domesticity. If you want to write me slice-of-life that details their routine or daily life, I'll eat that shit up.

⟿ I actually really like stuff that starts in the "middle"/in medias res of a fic. I don't need a lot of world building, especially if that's not something you're super into doing. If you've decided to take up one of my AU or canon-divergence ideas, I already know the basic background of what's going on so you can go right on ahead with the action of the story instead of spending a lot of time and efforting explaining how the situation came to be. However, if it’s half the fun of AUs and divergences for you, then go wild.

⟿ When it comes to ratings, anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 PWP sex is alright in my book.

Should you write a sex scene, here’s a list of kinks/scenarios that I like to read:

age regression, age differences, underage, made-them-do-it, a/b/o, water sports (for marking/scenting and/or intimacy; less about being super into pee or humiliation), conditioning, frottage, gentleness, roleplay, rough sex, marking/branding, switching/no set sexual “roles”, possessiveness, power issues, abuse of power, dubcon, semi-public sex, sensory overload, sex addiction/compulsion, silence, d/S that’s focused on taking care/being cared for more than pain/humiliation, size differences and power dynamics — feel free to have the "smaller”/younger/more docile dude be more "dominant”/aggressive member of the relationship—, touching, slavefic, delayed emotional intimacy, captivity.

⟿ Finally, a general list of tropes/scenarios that I never turn down, in case none of my prompts strike your fancy (or you just want to toss in more shit into my already convoluted promps):

stuck in isolation together, forced closeness, age gaps, amnesia, viking/tribe/barbarian/pre-history au, android aus, hooker aus, western/rancher/farmer aus, trope inversions & subversions, sex before feelings, d/s that’s focused on taking care/being cared for more than pain/humiliation, soul mates/soul bonds, fake relationships, forced/arranged marriages, bodyswaps, exploring physical disabilities (losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak).

dislikes!

⟿ Deathfic wherein the character(s) I requested dies and then the story ends; if they’re brought back to life via something supernatural, are reborn, are turned into a cyborg, etc. or the story continues on in the ~afterlife~, then fine! As long as the story doesn't end with "[…] and they died, the end", it's perfect.

⟿ Excessive angst wherein the majority of the fic is sadness/miscommunications and a tiny bit at the end is happy/resolution; if from the outside, as an observer, it's sad but the character(s) living that reality as their everyday lives are happy/content/blind to it, then that's fine! I just don't like it when 50% or more of the fic is focused on someone's sadness/angst and how they react or wallow in said angst.

⟿ Embarrassment/humiliation (kink or otherwise), painplay/torture kink, cheating/infidelity, high school/university au, yentas/matchmaking/meddling friends, epistolary fic, crossdressing, noncon, genderswap/always-a-[opposite gender].

⟿ Not a fan of crossovers, but fusions are always cool.

An Alien fusion with Dominion, where David and Walter are archangel twins who are obsessed with one another would be fantastic. A X-Treme X-Men fusion with Terminator where Logan is given his adamantium and has his healing factor used against him so that he can be sent to the future (past?) and meet Hercules could be fascinating. Or even a Hateful Eight fusion with The Accountant where Mannix and Warren are estranged something who are reunited when they realize they’re both working on the same job from opposing sides would be really interesting to read.

(Feel free to look at fandoms I’ve requested in the past if you’d like other fusion potentialities.)

⟿ No preference between past and present tense, although I prefer 3^rd-Person Narration well above all others.

ALIEN SERIES

David 8/Walter.

Torrent it here.

⟿ David’s ‘let’s you and I rule be the creators of our own world’ pitch works and Walter decides to team up with him.

⟿ In a clearly alternate canon, the crew was wise enough to only send Walter down to scope out the planet, and kept their asses on the ship with the intention of not risking any human lives until the storm died down and/or until Walter radioed back that it was safe for them.

Without the crew down there to keep Walter’s eye on the prize, would his clear fascination with David have won over? Walter was built to care, so I could see him radioing back that he had been contaminated and that the Covenant should leave him behind and not risk coming down, ensuring that they’d get away safe and sound while he and David had their rule of the roost.

Or, perhaps David takes things into his own hands if Walter feels too guilty to abandon his crew?

Maybe David doesn’t want to risk having Walter escape or having his work found out by humans (perhaps there’s still animal life for David to experiment on so he doesn’t need humans; maybe David knows that between the two of them they could get the ship working again and find other planets to experiment on?)?

⟿ Alternate Canon where David is given charge of Walter.

The “too idiosyncratic” issue with the David 8s was discovered pre-Prometheus and his line was shelved, with only our David being left in use, as he was Weyland’s ‘son’. As Weyland got older, David takes over more of the day-to-day running of the company and Walter is assigned to him as an assistant?

David’s whole thing is that he’s tired of the inferiority and constant disappointment of humanity (#same) and so he’s constantly hoping to move on and create something better. Is this need of his mitigated/mellowed out by having Walter, who he can craft into his perfect everything — or is that the taste of ‘creation’ that pushes him over the edge?

Maybe, and I know this is a major stretch yet again, the Prometheus mission is precursored by a synth-convey to scope out the planet before the valuable scientists — and fucking Peter Weyland himself?! — visit.

⟿ David brought Walter back to the Covenant with him.

Regardless of any and all of the theories on how David had enough time to take Walter out and assume his identity that you subscribe to (I’ve seen them all: bodyswap theory, Walter hesitated on killing David and then David had the upper hand, and so on and so forth), clearly David had time to maim himself/swap bodies, so I feel as if he’d have the time to break Walter (perhaps similarly to what had happened to him at the end of Prometheus) and somehow smuggle him back onto the Covenant. I genuinely don’t care how this happens and welcome you to handwave anything and everything.

With everyone either dead or locked away in hypersleep, David spends the rest of the journey to Origae-6 working to get Walter on his side. Or maybe he makes Walter be his slave?

Is it a gradual stockholming and rather smooth sailing? Are there lots of hiccups, with David being Very Disappointed™ in Walter? Is David smarter than Shaw had been, and refuse to put Walter back together/let him be at 100% until he has David’s trust?

⟿ I stan Lawrence of Arabia nearly as much as David, so a fusion with that would be amazing.

Some alternate universe where the USA — as I type this I realize it isn’t as alternate as I’d like, help — or the Americas in general are a mess and David comes over to participate in the solution. It’s then that he meets Walter, who he subsequently falls from disagreeing-animosity to lust to love toward.

Perhaps the opposite, where Walter comes to whatever country/company/planet/ship/what-have-you that David is located at, and falls so deeply into David’s world and pants. As much as David wants to be Lawrence, it’s clearly a case of wanting to fuck him just as much, so I doubt he’d mind Walter playing the role while he’s Sharif Ali.

⟿ David isn’t all that different from Magneto in the X-Men franchise, so feel free to run with that fusion.

Which I suppose would make Walter the foil!Charles in this situation, which also works.

Too-devious David grows tired of humans, which clearly means that humans need to be eradicated and synths shall inherit the Earth? Pulling a coup to take over the whole world seems pretty hard, but if anyone could do that, it’s David.

Maybe David thinks humans deserve their failing planet? With Peter aging (and thus needing to be put in hypersleep more and more) and David’s access to Weyland Industries money/tech/power, seems like it would be pretty easy for him to create a need to visit some planet as a cover for fucking off with his boyfriend to do their own thing?

THE ACCOUNTANT (2016)

Braxton/Christian.

Watch it here.

⟿ Filling in the years before their estrangement.

Braxton clearly saw Christian going with/asking their dad to come with him to go to their mom’s funeral as a betrayal of their relationship, so what exactly was that relationship like?

We saw their grade school years — what were their teen years like?

What about Christian’s time in the military? Were they more than brothers then? Was it a long distance relationship? Was it platonic? When did that change? Was Braxton also in the military? What was he doing while Christian was off doing his thing?

⟿ Working together post-film.

Anything exploring how they had completely different reactions to the environments they grew up in (neurotypical-ness aside) and yet both ended up in the same ‘field’. How do their different-yet-the-same styles carry into their lives post-film?

After they reunite at the end of the film, could they team up together? How would that work: is Braxton doing more of the physical aspect while Christian handles the ‘books’ of their operation? Is Christian equally involved in the neck breaking? Do they work separately and then come home at night/on the weekends?

They both clearly care a lot about ‘fairness’ and don’t take an entirely devil-may-care mercenary approach since they’re both selective about the jobs they take. The Batfleck comparisons are obvious, but really I could see them as being a quasi-Batman & Robin duo. I can equally see them in a Superman & Batman situation where they do things independently.

⟿ How they got together.

It felt as if the film dropped a lot of hints/coded references to Braxton being gay; it seemed, to me, like their father was trying to toughen Braxton up to make up for his homosexuality in the same way he was doing for Christian up to make up for his autism. Given the type of guy their father seemed to be, there really didn’t seem to be a reason for him to be as hard on Braxton as he was unless he was “helping” Braxton too.

Did Braxton have boyfriends before he and Christian got together? How did Christian take that? How did their dad take it? Did Braxton see it as a bonus act of rebellion against their father, or did he keep it secret and only tell Christian?

Or has Braxton only ever been with Christian?

⟿ Living together post-film.

Setting aside their jobs (i.e. if you aren’t looking to write some kind of action-thriller alongside the romance, please feel no obligation to do so), their little reunion scene made it pretty obvious that Braxton knows how to handle Christian like a pro.

How will things be now that they’re back in one another’s lives?

Is what we saw during their reunion — Braxton ‘helping’ Christian by voicing the things he forgets/doesn’t know how to say (“I missed you, Braxton. ‘I missed you too, because I love you. You're my brother.’ ”); Christian being awkward but clearly not in his usual way where he wants to get the fuck out of dodge — their usual dynamic?

Is Christian awkward due to him being unused to being around someone who knows and accepts him?

Is Braxton out of sorts too, and his openness was out of the norm, e.g. neither of them are really at their ‘best’?

What does ‘their best’ look like, and how do they get back there? If their best if exactly what we saw in the film, why was it so easy to pick everything back up, and how do they feel about that?

⟿ Actually, “I missed you, Braxton. ‘I missed you too, because I love you. You're my brother.’ ” is totally worthy of its own prompt? Give me Braxton voicing all the things Christian has a hard time saying, and Christian being all shy and happy every single time Braxton does it.

DOMINION (TV)

Gabriel/Michael.

Watch on Amazon or stream here or here.

⟿ Lucifer’s return strokes their obsessive/possessive/codependency even higher that it was at S2’s peak.

This is essentially my Tell Me What You Think Michael & Gabriel’s Throughline Arc for S3 Would Have Been, Except Actually Let Them Kiss and/or Bang, Please prompt.

We all know that Lyrae did a great job of turning Gabriel's love/faith/obsession with Michael against him and making Gabriel find new depths when it came to his obsession with his twin, which I honestly hadn’t thought possible but was very glad to watch all the same. Michael's love managed to #save him at the end of S2 and it was amazing, but what if Lucifer coming back managed to trigger him into that desperate, obsessed mess who only wants Michael for himself again?

And, I mean, it’s not like Michael is all that great at sharing either. Gabriel and Lucifer are probably on a much more similar wavelength than they’d been before Lucifer’s fall. Would Lucifer and Gabriel have far more in common and start to strike up a bond over their now-shared views? Is Michael worried that Gabriel will leave him again? How does he feel about that, considering all he went through to get his twin back? Is he threatened by Lucifer? Is it a less serious, more harmless brotherly competition for Gabriel's affections? Is it a serious, Light vs. Dark situation?

⟿ Exploring how Gabriel's mind and body is always connected to Michael's.

Take it any way you see it. Can be smutty; can be how even when they're at odds, they still checked in with one another and got feedback on their plans just like how they would have a "truce" when they would meet up in person; can be set during their Old Testament days or closer to modern canon-era.

⟿ Things that Gabriel has done for Michael that Michael has no idea about, and vice versa.

⟿ Michael needing Gabriel to speak for him.

Just by wont of their respective roles, Gabriel is so much more articulate than Michael.

How often was it that Michael let Gabriel do the talking? During his Flood/Sword days, were there ever times where Michael wouldn't talk at all and Gabriel had whole conversations by himself? They can communicate with their minds and their bodies are in tune with one another, but that hasn't ever seemed to stop Gabriel from needing to physically speak.

⟿ Michael/Gabriel&David: What it was like for Michael to be on the outside of Gabriel being in a two-person unit that didn't include him.

We saw how badly Gabriel dealt with Michael's relationship with Alex on the show, but never really got to see how Michael dealt with Gabriel & David. Gabriel was absolutely besotted with David. (If you're familiar with futbol, their few scenes reminded me of a ye olde version of Cristiano & Cristianinho, seriously.)

I'd love to see how the bitter & jaded version of Michael that existed during that time felt towards David? Was it jealousy? Apathy? Something else?

Michael was vengeful and standoffish with everyone besides his twin during his Flood era, while Gabriel was domestic and kind, with most of his attention trained on newfound son. Did Michael like this changed Gabriel? Did he hate it? Were the only glimmers of Michael's "humanity" to be found when he was spending time with Gabriel & David, or was the "loss" of his brother to some human one of the reasons Michael went so hard during his Flood?

⟿ Canon divergence where, when threatened with the very real reality of Michael choosing the humans over him pre-S1, Gabriel folds and goes with Michael to set up Vega and protect the humans.

What changes? What stays the same? Are things easier/safer with Gabriel not constantly trying to get Michael back and take out the city? Does a different villain reveal themselves? Do they catch wind of what Lucifer's up to sooner without the distraction of their rivalry?

If you'd like: how does Alex come into play? If Gabriel's history can be taken into account, we've seen that he's very hands on when it comes to chosen boys. Does him being in Vega mean that he (& Michael?) plays a larger role in Alex's upbringing? Does that change how he is seen by the other citizens of Vega? How he views himself? Does Gabriel's interest in him have Michael being more active just to try to counterbalance Gabriel's parental POV? Does Michael continue to be standoffish and so Alex becomes Gabriel's David 2.0? Does his/their constant meddling turn him into the same kind of apocalyptic, separate-from-thou prophet that Jesus was?

⟿ Canon divergence where Michael did "choose" Gabriel pre-S1 and was totally up for taking over the Earth from the humans and running shit until God came back.

What changes? What stays the same? Is Vega absolutely toast without an Archangel on their side, or does someone else pick up the slack? Does Michael's tactician prowess have him convincing Gabriel to forget the humans so they can focus on readying the world for God's return? Does he set forth another Flood?

If you'd like: how does Alex come into play? Is he turned into a slave? Do they raise him as a sort of David 2.0, the one good human amongst filth? Do they sorta brain-wash him into thinking that humanity deserves to be wiped out, so he turns into the same kind of apocalyptic, separate-from-thou prophet that Jesus was?

THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)

Chris/Marquis.

Watch it here.

⟿ Semi-role reversal. Warren's the new sheriff of Red Rock, Chris is the shit-kicker everyone expected him to be.

If you've seen Justified, think sorta like that, only set during the 19^th century?

If you want to follow canon events, Warren's gotten tired of the bounty life and gets himself a job as sheriff in a forward-thinking town in Wyoming. He gets picked up by Ruth, etc; Mannix picks up bounty work just to get by. Picking up at the end of the film, they survive and…what? Does Mannix take over Minne's? Does Warren have a moment of total insanity and make Mannix his deputy?

If you want to do an divergence where they avoid the whole Domergue drama, maybe Warren and Mannix roll into Red Rock on the same day and from that point on Warren is constantly hauling Mannix into the jailhouse and hoping that one day this stupid white boy fucks up bad enough that he can hang him? (Except maybe not, because the town sure would be boring without Mannix around giving Warren something to do.)

⟿ Them as partners, because honestly I'm so sad that they aren't a buddy cop style TV show that I can watch every week. Bounty hunters, sheriff & deputy, 1800's American Sherlock & Watson-type detectives, anything.

⟿ They've met before.

Any explanations for why, despite the animosity, they're both practically a dynamic duo right from the moment they step into the Haberdashery in a way that two strangers who should hate and mistrust one another more than anyone else in the joint shouldn't be?

Maybe during the Civil War, Warren or Mannix were injured and the other cared for them in secret? Warren has no idea why he didn't just put a bullet through Mannix's head himself, but here he is, taking care of this white bastard who starts off saying hateful shit but becomes downright cuddly after just a few days of tending? Or, Mannix risking both their asses by hiding an injured Warren from his daddy and brothers, but there's something about Warren that keeps him coming back to the little cabin Mannix stashed him in with food and conversation each day?

Maybe they met up just before the events of the movie. Mannix was one of those white boys who searched out Warren in the depths of Wyoming hoping to bring in his head more for the glory than the cash before he started his new life as a righteous lawman, and all he got for it was nearly freezing his ass off in the snow, a horse with a bullet in its brain, and a bellyful of Warren's come with the taste of his dick still in his mouth?

⟿ Bullshit kings! After getting past whatever hand-wavy or detailed explanation of your choice for why they live, Warren & Mannix spend the rest of their lives answering people's questions about that night. Each time they tell the story it's different and they pretty much get-off on trying to one up each other with a crazier version every time.

⟿ Dealing with PTSD/trauma.

Warren has been through & committed a whole lotta some-sorta shit in his life. Mannix, hopefully past the entirely racist part of his life, realizes that he actually feels kinda guilty over the shit he's done. That's not even factoring what happened at Minnie's and how that fucked them up.

They use each other to cope with just how much of a toll their sorta lives would put on a person. They support one another, too, in their own way. As healthy or utterly & completely as fucked up as you'd like; maybe some of their ways of dealing with things are healthy and helpful and others are just textbook 101 What Not To Do.

⟿ Somehow working in a relationship with John Carpenter's The Thing.

I could get more tl;dr than I already have thus far, so I'll just C&P from TVTropes.

Some of the lighting during the exterior shots of Minne's Haberdashery during the blizzard are reminiscent of The Thing (1982). O.B. and Mannix setting up a guide rope to the outhouse establishes another prop that was important in The Thing, and the overall story ends with the last two surviving members of the cast (two men, one black and one white) victorious...but nonetheless in conditions that all but guarantee that they won't be surviving for that much longer.

Spiritual Successor: To The Thing (1982). The story of characters isolated in the snow and having heavy themes of paranoia and share the bleak tone. Both feature Kurt Russell as the lead and a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. Three songs from The Thing's soundtrack even show up in Hateful Eight (two unused in the film but featured on the soundtrack, and one used when they find the site of the UFO). Both films also end with the two main characters, one black and one white, calmly waiting to die.

So — maybe something ain’t right about the storm they’re caught in?

TERMINATOR (MOVIES)

Kyle/Marcus.

Watch it here.

⟿ Kyle is a bit reckless and clearly thinks with his heart and not his head. What if he went back in time to save Marcus?

How far back would he go? Right before Marcus committed the crime that got him locked up in the first place? To when Marcus was Kyle's age, to save him from getting involved in his brothers shit? Just a few days prior, right before he and Marcus first met?

Regardless of the period, how does Marcus feel about some kid showing up in his life, one who obviously thinks Marcus is the moon and the stars?

How does that change things? Do they stop Skynet and prevent Judgement Day? Does Judgement Day still happen? Does Kyle Prime still find John somehow (sans-Marcus) and go back in time and have that baby with Sarah, while time traveler!Kyle and Marcus lie low and spend their days fighting in the resistance under assumed names?

⟿ Canon divergence where John dies at the end of the film and Kyle (+ Marcus?) have to lead the resistance.

⟿ The Terminator creators are really into John Connor as a Jesus parallel. Kyle was obviously one of the believers, but I think that he found his own personal savior — literally, since Marcus was made for him — in Marcus and that became even more clear when he was more worried about Marcus than he ever was John.

I'd love to see an canon-divergence/alternate-canon where there's a fraction in the resistance where some people think that John is humanity's savior, while other people think that Marcus (…which in this case I suppose is Judas?), who straddles the line between man and machine but sides with man, is the one who can stop this, just like he took down the San Francisco Skynet headquarters.

⟿ The original leaked ending for the film was: to have John killed, and his image kept alive by the resistance by grafting his skin onto Marcus' cybernetic body. Marcus would have then murdered Kate, Barnes, Kyle, and Star. Which would have been intense as hell.

Leaving off the murder, the idea that Marcus would literally become John and carry on the resistance is actually really interesting. With John dead, Kyle wouldn't really need to go back in time, because clearly John isn't the savior, Marcus is? So how in the hell does that change things?

⟿ Prison Alternate Canon. Kyle is born earlier and ends up in prison with Marcus.

Is this a universe where Judgement Day still happens? Does Marcus still become a cyborg? Does Kyle?

If it's an AU with no Terminator threat, how does Kyle end up under Marcus' protection? Does Marcus end up under Kyle's? Is John in prison too? John's such a charismatic force, I could see him being a gang boss; maybe he gets tough guy Marcus to look after his son?

⟿ Skynet kills everyone except Marcus — and Kyle, by extension, because there's no way that Marcus would fail at keeping him safe. What's being the last two people on earth like? Kyle will keep aging; will Marcus?

⟿ Feral Kyle

Kyle had to raise himself from a young age and other adults probably were the last thing from trustworthy, so it would be perfectly reasonable for him to have gone a little wild. If you want him to be 100% wolf boy, his father could have died when Kyle was around toddler age rather than pre-preteen.

I'd love Marcus having to gentle him. Or maybe something inside of Kyle knows that Marcus is his and is very territorial?

If you want to go pre-Judgement Day, maybe Marcus finds Kyle right as or just after shit hits the fan. I'd imagine that Kyle would be more civilized for having Marcus with him, but such a traumatic event might leave him feeling very possessive of Marcus and result in an unhealthy fixation, right? Marcus is his whole world! Does Marcus freak out about it and try to make Kyle look beyond him, or does he actually really love that Kyle is his and he is Kyle's?

⟿ Alternate Canon where Judgement Day happened pre-technology in either the Middle Ages or a period where humans were largely tribes.

Maybe there's a prophecy about how young Prince-King Kyle Reese will find some random woman who will have a son named John, who will be his one true heir — moreso than any bio kid? — and save their kingdom from the Terminator kingdom/clan? Marcus as his hunky older knight? skakdkjh;asdhsdk I don't know. A non-technological take on the Terminator 'verse could be fun!

⟿ And, finally, random tropes/aus. Change them any way you like, and if you can figure out a way to make them canon divergences or alternate canons then I will be mega impressed and very interested.

“Sure, you could send a bunch of knights to their deaths by having them compete for my hand in marriage, or like, you know, I could just “marry” my best friend/bodyguard” AU

"So I accidentally peeked at your laundry once and saw your superhero uniform and now I’m trying to play it chill.” Superhero AU

“I’m your roommate and you keep coming home at the ass-crack of dawn exhausted and covered in bruises, are you okay?” Another Superhero AU

AU where Superhero!Marcus takes on a villain and almost dies, but random stranger Kyle takes him in and cares for him as he heals? Neither of them pry into the other's real identity?? (I'm just now realizing that a superhero AU for this fandom is something I could be Very Into, help.)

Marcus/Kyle was Kyle/Marcus' imaginary friend as a kid. Boy was he surprised when they met in real life.

X-TREME X-MEN V2

Hercules/Howlett.

Read it on ReadComicOnline (+ Age of Apocalypse #13-14 + Astonishing X-Men #60-61 + X-Termination) or here

⟿ We know they fell in love during their adventures and were the world's greatest heroes, so give me the adventures of Hercules and Howlett.

How did they get from A (dynamic duo) to B (secretly dating) and then finally to C (coming out and changing their lives forever)?

What exactly was the progression of their relationship? Did Hercules' no-shame attitude have him talking Howlett into brothers-of-arms shield-lovers who had celebratory sex after each victory to make sure their bond could never be broken and they'd be a cohesive unit, as good ol' Pammenes advised? Did it then morph from a buddyfucking situation into something with feelings?

Were there already feelings by that point and so the "buddy" aspect was a lie anyway?

Did they share lots of glances during shared-bathing times? All the tenderness of a relationship without the physical aspect until they finally couldn't take it anymore?

When did Hercules gift Howlett the Adamantine? It's the same material as Hercules' Golden Mace; was it Hercules' way of proposing?

⟿ Hercules is so tactile. It's hard to believe that they successfully hid their relationship for however long as they did! What was their closeted time like?

Was Hercules only touchy in private and somehow managed to be stoic in public? Was he just as hands-on as he is when we first meet him, and Howlett had to play it off as a joke?

Anything about their private time in general, honestly. Hercules is so aggressively-tender and affectionate. Howlett doesn't really seem to mind at all. How much of their down-time was Hercules fawning over Howlett while Howlett quietly revelled in every second of it? Does he actually hate it and only puts up with it because he knows it's what Hercules needs to be happy in a relationship?

⟿ Those four years of banishment to the pits of Tartarus.

Was it the worst time of their lives or the best? They clearly love killing things, so being banished together in a place where all they have to do is fight damned souls and fuck? doesn't seem like the worst punishment. They were together, after all, and they didn't have to hide their relationship.

Was it a hell for them? Heaven?

⟿ Domestic happy family.

I love domesticity and established relationships; feel free to give me both of those things. If you can invent a way for Howlett and Hercules (and Kurt?) to be happy in one of the multiverses, I'm all for it.

You can be as world-building specific — they end up in a good place? Reborn into a world where they can finally be together? Canon divergence where Earth-12025 does forbid homosexuality and so their coming out wasn't a big deal and they got to live a life worthy of a Governor-General and demigod? — or hand-wavy as you like, just deliver that sweet, sweet established goodness.

⟿ Ancient Greece canon divergence/alternate universe?

Hercules as the demigod he is and Howlett as the mortal he loves? Is Howlett well-respected in the military not only because of his prowess in battle but because he's favored/sponsored by such an amazing god?

Howlett being sacrificed for his village at the temple of Hercules — and instead of killing him, Hercules takes Howlett as a lover? Perhaps as a sex slave?

⟿ Late 1890s/early 1900s canon divergence/alternate universe?

Governor Howlett and the very strong, very tall, very handsome foreman of his ranch/farm/spread?

That Governor/etc sure is a real catch, it's too bad that he's so surly that he scares away all the girls that might be good for him. That big place of his must be so lonely and he hardly ever takes care of it. Maybe that strong new guy who just showed up in town can help him run it right?

Sheriff/General/Marshall (Mountie?) Howlett and his deputy Hercules?

⟿ "Ha! Come on James…I've always said you should wear more leather."

⟿ "Howlett! You've come back to me! And just as sweet as ever!"

⟿ Howlett is taller than Wolverine but Hercules can still man handle him until the cows come home. Give me something about their size — and strength? Exactly which of them is stronger? — difference.

⟿ Fix-it!

They don't die, take it from there!

There do die and are reborn in another multiverse/the same multiverse, take it from there!

They die and end up back in Tartarus or a different level of Hades, take it from there!

⟿ A tie-in with Logan?

Howlett and Hercules have been taking care of Charles as he grows progressively worse, having to stay on the low and pull odd jobs?

Howlett & Hercules’ latest quest has them going into Mexico to raid a sketchy facility and they find a bunch of kids there, including Kurt, who they take in as their own?

⟿ Marvel's Midnighter/Apollo?

Though they're from rival publishers, I think it's kinda fun that Howlett/Hercules are similar to Midnighter/Apollo in more than a few overlapping ways?

A new52!Midnighter and Midnighter & Apollo inspired The Adventures of Young Hercules & Howlett as they figure out their shit together? (I feel like the whole M&A arc of Apollo being sent to hell merged their plotlines even more they they’d already been a semi-mirror of one another!)

A The Authority/old!Midnighter era version of them if the Apocolypse stuff hadn’t ended the way it did, with Apollo and Midnighter being old marrieds raising their kid and trying to juggle time-hopping and their relationship?

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