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Thank you for offering any of these fandoms β‘
The tl;dr is that if you touch on anything I mention liking even slightly — and as I'm sure you'll realize, I have a lot of things that I like — I'll be elated. Beyond that, feel free to skim if you aren't someone that needs guidence.
For this exchange I've done my best to come up with prompts for all the potential canon options I had ideas for. If someone is left off who you wand to ship my LBD with, please do — their absence only means I couldn't think of anything, not that I have a preference for those listed. The generic prompts & π write-ups apply to all potential ships, canon to OMC to crossover alike, but they certainly aren't the full scope of what I'd enjoy to read. Similarly, if you think a specific prompt I gave would work better with someone else (with or without some tweaking), have at it.
Please take my note at the top seriously & I'll see you at reveals ♥
Bruce (Nolanverse Batman) | Simon (Bridgerton) | Ren (Godzilla vs. Kong) | Jack (Kings)
Legolas (LOTR) | Ardeth (The Mummy) | Sodapop (The Outsiders) | Sulu (Star Trek) | Dani (Ted Lasso) | Erik (X-Men)
MADNESS: Gabriel (Dominion) | M (Craigverse Bond) | Logan (Westworld)
- The comments, ideas, questions & specific references exist in case you want more to work with. If you come up with an idea that's similar to a prompt, go for it! If ¾ of a prompt works for you, but the final ¼ doesn’t? Only work with the bit that does. I’d also love to see prompts combined or to have some of my general likes used to shape their direction.
β‘ Prompts are formatted to (hopefully!) work for the less-is-more & more-is-more creator. Top-level prompts like this are are generalized, complete ideas &/or references. Know what you want to make by this point? Go for it.
- β‘ The main thing I'm looking for in all my fannish pursuits is a focus on relationships!
What are their unique dynamics? How do they support or challenge one another? How do they interact pre-, post-, & in the off-screen canon moments? Where do their needs match up, where do they differ, and how do they resolve that? I'm not much for found-families or ensembles, & generally prefer good ol' fashioned us versus the world dynamics for the character(s) I request.
Established relationships are near & dear to my heart for this reason — after they've (at least somewhat) gotten together all the fascinating ...and then? aspects become possible. Regardless of the plot or tone of canon, I am always hungry to see what the day-to-day is like for them, and the intricacies therein. How do their priorities shift now that they have someone they care about & who relies on them? How does the relationship muddy or strengthen their existing priorities or moral compass? How does the world or their general social sphere treat them, and how do they react to that treatment? (That said, I enjoy get-togethers as much as the next person, especially if it has them dealing with these considerations outright prior to being an item.)Codependent relationships, obsessive relationships, & so on: you can be giving it all to me. Doing questionable things or neglecting themselves to make their partner happy? Putting themselves or the other person in precarious situations just so they can have their desired outcome? Letting the ends justify the means? All amazing.
I love digging into the realities of what that kind of life & dynamic would look like. What does it mean when characters know — be it a growing suspicion or outright surety — that what they're feeling, the degree to which they're feeling it, isn't healthy, but they enjoy it so much they can't bring themselves to care or change? Them being equally, fuck-up-ed-ly invested in their relationship is what I live for. Character(s) willing to let the world very literally burn if it keeps the world from coming between them & the person they love — or perhaps better yet, being willing to set the world on fire if it ensures that person remains theirs alone.
β‘ Rather than miscommunication causing drama, I love it when bluntness & frankness cause tension instead.Characters saying what they want or confessing what they've done, point-blank, & leaving it for the other to decide if they can handle that; quiet characters taking their time & mulling over their choices before telling the other person what they want; different cultures or moral constructs & the unique ways needed to bridge/overcome them; as well as any other communication-based drama that you can think of that doesn't hinge on not having the full story or hearing the wrong thing at the worst time are always timeless sources of conflict that engage me.
I actively ship it in most cases, don't mind if it's enthusiastically consensual or dubcon (or noncon that doesn't hit my DNW below), underage and age gaps are fine, and you're welcome to make the incest itself be a non-issue or to lean into that as much as you want — pretty much the only preference I have is that if you do want to lean into the incest angle, I'd rather it not all be about them getting off on the general dirty-bad-wrong taboo.
As I mention above, I prefer whatever conflict or arousal to hinge on their interpersonal relationship & the power dynamics therein (who is more invested? who has more to lose if it became public? is it physical desire they can't control or is the sex another factor in making sure the other's world is all about them/they stay one another's most important person & don't ever look elsewhere for that connection? are they terrified of losing a lover and a family member should the relationship not work out?) than a back & forth about how wrong-hot-dirty it is that they're together. β‘ Codas, alternate canons, canon divergences, &/or slight changes to canon that don't end up changing much at all because fate always finds a way are all my bread & butter. My prompts typically range from potential plotty monstrosities to short, domestic slice-of-life details & I'd adore receiving either, or seeing you depict a prompt that might fall into the former camp into something that fits the latter. I don't need a lot of world-building setups, especially if that's not something you're really into doing. If you've decided to take up one of my alternate canon, AU, or divergent ideas, please rest assured that I already know the basic background of what's going on & you are welcome to go right ahead with the action of the story, if that's what you want. (However, if half the fun in creating involves delving deep into the universe & making yourself at home there, go wild!)
β‘ I love, love, love genre mashups.Slice of Life Action, Noir SciFi, Heist High Fantasy, Historical Dynamics Set in the Modern Era, Vampire Westerns, Werewolf RomComs, Social Commentary Horror — many of the, uh, out-there prompts below probably get this across, but I'm the person who you can create weird, off-the-wall works for any day of the week.
β‘ Art is absolutely witchcraft to me and I'm impressed by many of the forms it takes. All of my prompts and general likes (and dislikes) absolutely pertain to what I like to see in art; that includes always being excited for explicit artwork if that's what you wanna make!The most important thing for me in art is the comoposition/subject matter. I enjoy looking at things, finding little details, decoding symbolism β and because of that, I typically enjoy a wide range of styles. For composition or subject matter I've given specific ideas (as well as the prompts) for each character, but in general you can't go wrong with genre scenes or an emotional or pivotal moment that looks like it could be proudly displayed in the middle of a chapter β or even as the 'cover' of a comic book, novel, or DVD box. I adore a focus on details (hands, eyes, body postures, et cetera), in case you'd like to zero in on that rather than do anything full-bodied. For styles, I enjoy Realistic, comic-book or anime & similar styles, and especially abstract & stylized takes! From a design perspective, I adore sketch-like and rough-edged pieces, as well as any sort of coloring that is "messy"/goes "outside" the lines.
In terms of color palettes & style/mood/composition, I'm into Renaissance Art, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Luminism, Surrealism, & Baroque Art. Extrapolating from that, I guess I like pastels or really strong colors, the interplay of dark/light & shadows with a close focus on the subject involved where the background can vary from nothingness to a whole piece in itself.I always end up feeling charmed/moved by anything with a strong sense of aesthetic or personality, as annoyingly vague as that probably is. I'm not sure if this is helpful & please do not take this as a reason to change your style (since that's the opposite of what I'm asking for, ha β & obviously these are finished pieces for the most part, which I do not expect at all; I would absolutely die of joy to receive the initial conception or any in-stage process version of whatever you're inspired to create), but in the interest of concrete examples, here is a random pull of what comes to mind when I say that I like "personality" & the types of "composition" I enjoy in art: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
β‘ As a sub-category to the above, I never tire of fucked-up, unhealthy relationships!
β‘ Opting-in to all possible incest ships for the characters I request!
β‘ Stories that start in the "middle"/in medias res of the overarching prompted plot.
β‘ Anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 sex is alright in my book. Should you include a sex scene, here’s a general list of kinks/scenarios that I'm cool with:
age gap βΏ underage βΏ made-them-do-it βΏ water sports for marking/scenting &/or intimacy (rather than humiliation) βΏ conditioning βΏ frottage βΏ gentleness βΏ identity porn/anonymous sex βΏ rough sex βΏ marking βΏ switching/no set sexual “roles” βΏ possessiveness βΏ power dynamics βΏ abuse of power βΏ dubcon βΏ semi-public sex (e.g sex in places where they could be caught, but aren't) βΏ sensory overload βΏ sex addiction/compulsion βΏ silence βΏ d/s that’s focused on taking care/being cared for (rather than for wont of pain/humiliation) βΏ size differences and power dynamics (feel free to have the "smaller”/younger/more docile be more "dominant”/aggressive member of the relationship) βΏ touching βΏ slavefic βΏ delayed emotional intimacy paired with very quick physical intimacyβ‘ And finally, tropes that I never fail to eat up:
forced closeness βΏ amnesia βΏ viking au βΏ gladiator/greek/roman au βΏ tribe/barbarian/pre-history au βΏ android aus βΏ western/rancher/farmer aus βΏ power differentials βΏ trope inversions & subversions βΏ soul mates/soul bonds βΏ fake relationships βΏ sugar daddy/transactional relationships βΏ forced/arranged marriages βΏ woke up married βΏ bodyswap with themselves from a different universe (both or one party) βΏ mirrorverse-type alternate universes in general (bonus points for a version of someone from universe!A being transported into the mirrorverse) βΏ stuck in isolation together βΏ sex before feelings βΏ exploring physical disabilities (e.g. losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak) temporarily or permanentlydislikes!
If they’re brought back to life via the supernatural, reincarnation, consciousness uploaded into an android, et cetera — or the story continues in the afterlife, I'm good. As long as the story doesn't end with "[…] and they died, the end", you're fine. The death of non-requested characters or original characters are all fine, although a focus on that as a driving plot point may hit my next item.
β‘ Whump/excessive angst wherein the majority of the fic is (self-)pity, sadness or miscommunications, and a tiny section at the end is happy/resolution.If the events are sad but the character(s) experiencing them believe their lives to be normal, content, &/or are generally blind to the awfulness of their situation, then that's fine! I dislike when half or more of the work focuses on a character's sadness/angst and how they react or wallow in said angst.
β‘ Plots driven by embarrassment &/or humiliation (as a kink or situationally) that rely on actions that focus on humiliating them (e.g. A and B are forced to have sex in front of an audience; A verbally humiliates B in a sexual context or just to be cruel and B is thoroughly humiliated) make my second-hand embarrassment kick in hard, especially if they are shown or described in detail with particular focus on the embarrassment the character feels.However, if the character doesn't think they did anything embarrassing &/or it doesn't phase them that something embarrassing occurred (e.g. A walks in on B masturbating. B keeps going while A enjoys the show or joins in; or, A says "sorry", leaves, and then obsesses over hot B is, rather than being mortified), you're fine. Characters briefly doing something embarrassing (e.g. tripping while walking), or a character being 'weird' (e.g. a spy making a scene as cover for their mission; an alien making a cultural error due to not being of that culture), do not come close to hitting my second-hand embarrassment. The line is crossed when embarrassment or humiliation is the whole point/allure of the scene/plot.
β‘ Deathfic as an ending.
β‘ Painplay/torture kink βΏ cheating/infidelity (if one or both persons in a ship are in a canon relationship, I'm happy for it to be set pre-that relationship, in a divergence or alternate canon where everything is the same except that relationship never happened, or that relationship ended via break-up or divorce pre-your work) βΏ manips βΏ high school/university au βΏ yentas, matchmaking or meddling friends/family βΏ unrequested polyamory or open relationships βΏ epistolary βΏ crossdressing βΏ noncon wherein one or both halves completely hates the sex (if they come to like it, Stockholm Syndrome kicks in, a convenient mindbreak occurs, or anything similar — we're good!) βΏ genderswap/always-a-[opposite gender]/changes to canon gender
β‘ No preference between past and present tense, but I only prefer 3rd-Person Narration.
Start a marathon on Netflix or here.
π The Nolanverse perfectly encapsulates the identity porn aspect of why I adore Batman so much. Bruce is the total platonic playboy archetype ideal, napping at board meetings & hanging out with models that never mind that he dips out on them without an excuse or explanation. I love how he flirts with everyone without a care in the world — & how a switch flips when he returns to the Batman identity that has consumed his life.Batman is...Batman. I love that the man cannot quit, that he's basically disabled (or on his way to being there) at the end of the franchise, & that there are so, so many attractive villains in his past that aren't big on letting things go.
π An evergreen trope for me when it comes to superheroes & those who date them is jealousy between the identities: Bruce jealous at the thought of X thinking Batman is wonderful & Bruce is just a vain idiot; Batman miserable over X constantly deriding his vigilante antics whole on a date with Bruce. And the ultimate: X dating Bruce and feeling guilty whenever Batman drops in for an inevitable hookup. I'd also love to see someone who is able to bring the Bruce out in Batman, and vice-versa. Who can make Batman have a little fun or have see hope in the world? Who makes Bruce want to drop his playboy act? Bruce being compromised (or healed in a way that has him struggling to keep what he thinks is his core identity) by love & having to deal with that!
π¨ Tending to wounds. Clandestine meetings. Role-reversals. Watching from the darkness. Worship. Allegories or metaphors. Domestic moments. The mundane made sinister or ominous.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Lestat (Interview with the Vampire) • Marc Spector | Moon Knight (Moon Knight) • Protagonist or Ives or Neil (Tenet) • Dick or Damien or Jason or Tim (Any Iteration) • Larry Trainor | Negative Man (Doom Patrol) • Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) • Superman or Lex Luthor (Any Iteration) • James Bond (Craigverse) • Homelander or Billy Butcher (The Boys) • Ozymandias | Adrian Veidt (Watchmen) • Roger Smith (The Big O) • Oberyn Martell or Renly Baratheon or Loras Tyrell (Game of Thrones) • James Flint or John Silver (Black Sails) • Logan Delos (Westworld) • Bob Benson (Mad Men)
π« None
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Bruce only had Alfred for a long, long time. Give me Bruce having an ~unnatural attachment or obsession — the only one that cares for him! the only one who has never abandoned or given up on him! — that Alfred shuts down & rebukes...until he realizes just how awful Bruce's taste in romantic partners is. Maybe giving Bruce what he wants is the best thing to keep him safe?; Alfred's trials & tribulations to get Bruce to be a normal boy; Bruce retiring to be with Alfred & them struggling to dissolve the master/servant relationship (or thinking that they must, even though they actually want to keep it going)?
Give me hero worship gone awry! Can Bruce bring Ra's to the light?; what would happen if Ra's succeeded in keeping Bruce on the side of the League?
Something something Bruce pursuing Gordon from two angles: aggressively flirting & trying to be a younger!Sugar Daddy as Bruce + trying to win Gordon's approval by cleaning up the streets as Batman? Does Gordon like one more than the other? Does he know both are Bruce? Does Bruce try to confess, but Gordon refuses to hear it in order to keep them both safe from blackmail/torture risks? Who does Gordon fall for first, Batman or Bruce?
Crane puts Bruce into a nightmare & is not prepared for Bruce to be so fucked up that it doesn't even really phase him — he also isn't prepared for them to start fucking; they say you never forget your first, and Bruce and Crane have found this to be true; good ol' fashioned woke-up-in-a-universe-where-they're-married would be great for these two. What is the deal? Are they both villains? Both do-gooders? Somewhere in between? Are they rivals in costume but husbands out of them? How long are they there, what does it take to get back home, and what does this newfound knowledge of their apparent compatibility bring them?
I'd love anything that kind of deals with Bruce becoming attached to Ken!Ra's & not wanting to let him go even when the real Ra's reveals himself. And if that means Bruce bringing Ken!Ra's back to Gotham with him (and Ken!Ra's & Alfred absolutely hating one another's guts)? All the better.
Half the crazy shit Bruce asks for is just an excuse to flirt with Fox. Which is fortunate, since Lucius is doing the same thing in gifting Bruce all those outrageous gadgets, half of which he doesn't even ask for.
Joker isn't about to just let Batman retire; Joker being a hit-it-and-quit-it dalliance in Bruce's youth that is also the-one-that-got-away is very appealing to me, especially if both sides of him have to deal with that over the course of The Dark Knight; "A little fight in you! I like that." "Then you're gonna love me."
Prior to becoming Two-Face or after, give me Harvey being a Batman fanatic, for good or bad.
Bane getting Batman on his side & the world reeling at a truly socially conscious 1%-er that puts his money to work; the two of them coming up under Ra's. What sort of tension would there be with Bane barely being tolerated & Bruce being the chosen one; Bane taking Bruce to be his prize for having conquered Gotham.
Bruce adopting Blake when he was younger so that he can have the proper Robin experience; Bruce feeling guilty that he didn't go the ward route like he was always tempted to do & trying to take care of Blake as an adult without actually talking to him about it, and Blake taking it the entirely wrong way (and Bruce having nothing else to do but role with it); Blake takes up vigilantism to fill in the gap of Batman's absence. What if Bruce left his cave to test the new kid out, and got himself a pet vigilante that won't stop checking in on him for his trouble?; Bruce being lonely and seeking out company that doesn't require him to be the life of the party, and getting Blake for his trouble?
β¨ Who patches Bruce up at the end of the night? (And is it the same one who gave him the injuries to begin with?)X would think Batman is amazing? Too bad Bruce met them as Bruce! Bruce would charm the pants off of X? Too bad he saved them as Batman! Give me Bruce having to come back from making the worst first impression without (or perhaps being forced to) revealing himself.
β¨ Bruce is actually pretty hilarious, so please give me someone finding him funny while everyone else is like, "you seriously think this psychopath is amusing!?"
β¨ / Alfred
β¨ / Henri Ducard | Ra's al Ghul
β¨ / James Gordon
β¨ / Jonathan Crane | Scarecrow
β¨ / faux Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe)
β¨ / Lucius Fox
β¨ / Joker
β¨ / Harvey Dent
β¨ / Bane
β¨ / John Blake
β¨ Batman in a historical setting is always welcome. The Wild West, Italian Renaissance, European Middle Ages, Heian or Ashikaga Japanese — feel free to transport to the time period & region of your choosing.
β¨ Do you have a uber-rich fav who would find Bruce hilarious, either knowing the full story of Batman's Deal™ or only knowing him as Bruce as a ridiculous idiot? Please, let Bruce date this man.
β¨ Another superhero or well-doing keeps saving Bruce. Bruce finds himself oddly charmed. Batman can't tell if this is a trick or the other hero/do-gooder is just that blind.
β¨ "What is the point of all those pushups if you can't even lift a bloody log?!"
β¨ "Not a lot of people know what it feels like, do they? To feel angry in your bones."
β¨"Know your limits, Mister Wayne." "Batman has no limits." "Well you do, sir." "Well, I can't afford to know them."
β¨ Bruce meets X wearing the wrong suit.
β¨ "Strange injuries, a nonexistent social life. These things beg the question as to what does Bruce Wayne do with his time and money?" Would your fav provide Bruce with a good cover for his odd ours & various injuries?
β¨ It's been like eight years, but I still am haunted by this & would love anything inspired by it, Superman need not be included (but welcome all the same.)
Simon Bassett Bridgerton (TV)
Catch it on Netflix or here.
π Bridgerton sure was a show I watched & that's all I'll say about that! I truly adore Simon and want nothing but the world for him. Please feel free to take or leave whatever you need from the series itself & then not give it any more thought, or to go as deep into the world-building as you'd like. Historical accuracy is never a big deal to me, so research or handwave as you see fit. I appreciate Simon's commitment to live as he chooses (for as long as that lasted, anyway) & how he's always honest even if it's for the benefit of another party & not himself, and that he's able to navigate the world as he sees fit.
π I'd love him to be with someone who is as happy to carve a place for themselves in the world as he is, either by traipsing through Society to suit their desires or who might even live outside of it. Someone who doesn't want to change him, who understands his traumas & respects his resolutions; who is willing to compromise rather than Simon needing to bend to their will. Perhaps even someone who can be his partner in crime rather than being out to tame him — or, if they do change him, it's through Simon's own choosing & not an ultimatum, and perhaps it isn't even a change for what society deems to be for the better.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Thomas Barrow or Henry Talbot (Downton Abbey) • Loki (MCU) • Jack Benjamin (Kings) • Charlie Hesketh (Kingsman) • Rick O'Connell (The Mummy) • James Flint or John Silver (Black Sails) • Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones) • Bruce Wayne (Any Iteration) • James Fitzjames or Cornelius Hickey (The Terror) • Kit Marlowe (Will)
π¨ Sensualism. Body Worship. Hedonism. Time alone in nature. Luxurious moments. Secret rendezvous. Bowing, hand-kissing, & other forms of loyalty declartions. Roughhousing & playfulness. Pining from out of sight. Unrestrained or blatant lust.
π« Lord Hastings
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Simon realizes early on at school that being with men solves basically all of his problems — now it's just getting Anthony to get along with the program; Anthony trying to get Simon's attention; Anthony coming up with the bright idea that shacking up a man will finally be what makes his mother stop counting on him to take over as head of the family (it's not like being disowned is the worst thing in the world!) and is not at all prepared for what he thought would be a scandalous engagement to be made the crown jewel of the season. Simon mostly went along with it for the chaos to put the final knife in his reputation once and for all; Anthony being so thusly affected by his wooing is just a bonus — that's his story, anyway.
β¨ / Benedict BridgertonBenedict goes to visit his eldest brother off at school on school on a lark. It's awful luck that Anthony's taken off with his latest love interest. It's frightfully good luck that Anthony's best friend is there to look after him. There are rakes about, after all, and a Bridgerton's virginity would be a delightful feather in their cap!
β¨ / Colin BridgertonAs Colin approaches marrying age, he finds himself more and more disquieted with Society as he witnesses its effects on his siblings. Anthony insists that he'll grow out of it, suggests that he sow his oats as Anthony himself had once done, in order to see that a family is really all that a man needs. Though he hasn't heard from Simon in ages, he's certain that his friend is just the person to send Colin off to visit to see him properly-seen to.
β¨ / Prince FriederichMy kingdom for Friederich coming to London and falling right for Simon & making it his mission to get his hand. Explain this however you want: prior to King George III falling for Queen Charlotte, his Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (his mother, Google tells me) fell for another woman and that's how Society uniformly came to accept same-sex marriages? Or perhaps it's still taboo, and it's one of those wonderfully timeless historical blind eyes where everyone accepts Simon as his favourite and pretends they aren't fucking all over the palace, because Prussia can't be picky and Friederich really is perfect otherwise?
β¨ / Henry GranvilleSimon is one hell of a muse.
β¨ Simon always finds an excuse to stop in on the household of one of his friends. People assume it's for one reason or another, but really it's down to Simon being especially fond towards a member of the staff.Where's he going? The Continent? Out East? America? Give me Simon making waves wherever you please.
β¨ Simon meets a man worse off even than him, and decides to offer his hand in marriage to get the poor bastard out of his rough spot.Simon's got a title, money, & a devil-may-care attitude — he's ready to rescue your favorite woobie from whatever their canon has thrown at them.
β¨ Simon in the modern age.What's his deal? A modern royal that is so attractive that nobody ever brings up taking away his title, even in #AbolishTheMonarchy talks? An influencer? A James Bond-type?
β¨ / Anthony Bridgerton
β¨ Another royal shows up on the scene, one who they say is more attractive than even Simon himself. Simon decides he's duty-bound to see this new addition to the Ton, & have him.
β¨ Simon gives up on the Ton and decides to reside abroad.
Ren Serizawa Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Catch it on HBO Max or here.
π [stands up from my chair] Life-long Shun stan here, unironically enjoyed the hell out of this movie (despite there not! being! enough! Shun!), very happy to see Godzilla & Kong doing their things. I loved that the film leaned into everything ridiculous (similar to Kong: Skull Island) and took it seriously without being too serious. Despite Serizawa not having much screentime, I enjoyed literally everything that going on with him. Serizawa's got the brains, but he's also positioned into the typical beauty role too in the scenes where he pops up at Simmons' side. I love the hints that he's following on the darker side of what his father started; the muddy & potentially sinister relationship he's got with his boss, the way he's able to provide both charm and legitimacy in Simmons' scheme. How did he end up being the human host for the telepathic pilot program?
π What is his life like away from work? What is he like after the events of the film, assuming he's survived — is there anyone out there worried about him, or eager to nurse him back to health? What type of man gets Serizawa's attention: someone away from the chaos of the Titan world which he would doing anything to protect, or someone who can advance his goals within it? Is Serizawa always intense or does he have moments of silliness?
π¨ Downtime. Flirting during research. Honeypot. Comfort during moments of frustration or failure. Work continuing into domestic moments (bathing, cooking, et cetera). Exhaustion. Working late into the night.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Adrian Griffin (The Invisible Man (2020)) • Saito or Fischer or Arthur (Inception) • Raleigh Becket (Pacific Rim) • Erik Stevens | Killmonger (Black Panther) • Dr. Robotnik (Sonic The Hedgehog) • Rust Cohle (True Detective) • David 8 (Alien Prequel Series) • Victor Frankenstein or His Monster (Any Iteration) • Harry Osborne (Any Iteration) • Yusuke Ono or Eiji Kanda (Antique Bakery) • Kurosawa Yuichi (Cherry Magic) • Anyone who has ever been signed to a contract with Johnny & Associates (except Akanishi Jin) at any point in their lives even though (read: especially because) the Jimusho existing in the Godzilla-verse is hilarious (RPF)
π« Kong
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Are they partners in this venture? Or is Serizawa one of Simmons' many bargaining chips?; How did he recruit Serizawa into this insane project — was he a friend of IshirΕ's who slid in into Serizawa's life the minute his dad died?; Did Serizawa bring the project to him and at first this was all just Simmons' entertaining a hot young thing until he realized the idea had merit?
β¨ / Nathan Lind"Your book was very impressive." "Oh yeah? Well, I got about 30 unsold boxes at my apartment if you want some." I'm on to you, Lind! The direct look he gives Serizawa does wonders, as does Simmons' pleased chuckle at their interaction. Does Simmons bring Serizara along as bait to make sure Lind gets on board (using whatever means at Serizawa's disposal, looks included), or Serizawa's interest in Lind's research genuine?; What if rather than Lind becoming to Dr. Andrews' side of things, he bought into Serizawa's telepathy pitch?
β¨ / Bernie HayesBernie finds Serizawa amongst the rubble. At first he totally means to kidnap him and get #Answers...but he's only human, and that man is fine. Feelings are caught.
β¨ / MechagodzillaSerizawa finds himself becoming more aggressive as the telepathic project wears on, even when he isn't linked to Mechagodzilla. Sometimes it doesn't feel like he needs to use the machine at all.
β¨ / GodzillaRather than see Mechagodzilla as a threat, Godzilla is pleased to finally have another one of his kind. Serizawa finds himself in the position of having to strap in to go on dates with the humanities protector to keep him happy. Does Godzilla ever realize there's a man behind the curtain? (Does he ditch Mechagodzilla once he does & starts pursuing Serizawa himself? Give me Serizawa and his big terrifying boyfriend that only wants to see him smile!)
β¨ / IshirΕ SerizawaI'm not going to pretend to have a solid, scientifically sound way to explain how this happened — teenaged Ren hooking up with his dad while he was still alive; something something telepathy lets him see his dad's Force Ghost; Hollow Earth time travel? — but if you want to make content of Shun & Ken Watanabe getting it on with fun bonus incest, I am never going to prevent that from happening. Hell, whatever Aaron-Tyler-Johnson's-character's-name-was can join in too.
β¨Godzilla vs. Kong, but make it a BL seriesSerizawa is beginning to suspect something odd about his life. Namely all the cute men (...and monsters) that keep trying to woo him. All he wants to do is save the world, but everyone else's priority #1 seems to be focused on winning his heart?!
β¨ Sometimes it's nice to come home to someone who has no idea what he does.If you want to take this literally & do something with Ghidorah being in control of Ren's body after all that happened & do some one-body-two-minds shipping? Well, all I can say is that I loved the movie Upgrade and therefore godspeed, friend.
β¨ / Walter Simmons
β¨ Most guys find Serizawa a bit too intense, so he ends up going for ones that are just as batshit as him. If nothing else, it keeps things interesting in bed.
β¨ Serizawa is tired of having to be the one in control. It's nice to give it all up to someone else for a change.
Jonathan "Jack" Benjamin Kings (2009)
Catch it on NBC or here.
π No, I'm still not over it. I show up for every single Torah-adjacent Bibleverse canon & Kings remains one of the few that came so close to giving me everything I wanted. Jack was set up to have so much growth and potential and β well, the one upside to the way the series ended is that you can go pretty much anywhere, so have at it. I loved who he was with Joseph, who he was beginning to come as he & David got closer. I love that he's messy, I love that he clearly needs a hug, & I love that what happened to him at the end of the series has him set up for either giving literally no fucks about whatever his dad does once he's finally free &/or for being a major villain who will make his dad rue letting him live.
π I'd love for Jack to be happy, is pretty much the sum of it. Give me someone bringing the best out in Jack, or who supports him in indulging his worst instincts. Someone whisking Jack away from the awfulness of Gilboa or helping him bring about change within the kingdom so that it will rightfully be his.
π¨ Mythological or Biblical references. Acts of worship & fealty. Domestic interludes. Attempts at seeking attention. Kissing at the end of the (known) world. Quiet moments in nature. Stolen moments. Scheming. Comfort.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Kendall Roy or Roman Roy or Tom Wambsgans or Greg Hirsch (Succession) • Michael or Gabriel (Dominion) • Thranduil or Aragorn or Thorin or Legolas or Faramir or Éomer (LoTR & The Hobbit) • T.J. Hammond (Political Animals) • Jack Twist or Ennis Del Mar (Brokeback Mountain) • Thomas Barrow (Downton Abbey) • Cesare Borgia (The Borgias) • Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo (2021)) • Simon Bassett (Bridgerton) • T'Challa (Black Panther) • Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (Versailles)
π« William Cross
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
David goes for Jack rather than Michelle; David breaks Jack out of his exile prison; Anything bringing them a bit more in line with how they are in the Book of Samuel, which is to say: codependent soulmates.
Joseph doesn't die! Would Jack ever give it all up and come out for him?; what if Joseph was a prince from a foreign nation that offered Jack his hand & a way to escape the rule of his father?
Something something God gives the Reverend a vision that has him creating a cult in worshiping Jack, which includes taking care of Jack's body just as much as it means tending to his everlasting soul?
β¨ / Andrew CrossThe reason Andrew was exiled was because he & Jack were in a relationship. Neither of them are sure what to do with themselves now that Andrew is back &/or Andrew refuses to let Jack go through anything similar to what happened to him, and breaks him out.
β¨/ Silas BenjaminThere are times where Silas is kind to him. It's the only thing that keeps Jack sane, even though holding those moments in his heart to keep him from breaking during the times where Silas isn't are what will surely drive Jack mad.
β¨ Silas sees Jack as an ever-looming threat to his position as king & marries Jack off to the son of another kingdom (a) to increase his power & (b) to remove Jack's claim on the Gilboan throne.Is Jack so happy to finally be free of his father that he goes along with it? Does he recruit his new husband to take down his father? How does their relationship develop: lust and then feelings? Have they met (and hooked up) before?
β¨ Jack fucks off & disappears into the most rural part of Gilboa he can find, resigning himself to a lonely existence, willing to trade any potential of happiness for peace.Of course that happens to be where he meets the love of his life, who could not be more different than him. Does Jack do the pursuing, or does his suitor?
β¨ A member of the Royal Guard hates watching what the Benjamin family does to Jack. At a certain point, he just can't keep being a silent bystander. What are they famous for? Bravery or some great scientific discovery? An actor? Another royal?
β¨ Jack serves as the muse to a prominent artist.
β¨ / David Shepherd
β¨ / Joseph Laslie
β¨ / Ephram Samuels
β¨ God is fucking Tired of how badly these mortals are treating his boy
β¨ Jack finds himself meeting someone famous & doesn't know what to do with himself when they hit on him.
β¨ Jack is exiled & finds himself installed as a favourite in a rival king's court.
β¨ If you go for a SebStan multiverse crossover event, dealers choice to lean into them Looking The Same™ or don't comment on it & have them bond over their extreme woobiness instead.
Legolas Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (Films)
Start a marathon on HBO Max or here and here.
π The man, the myth, the leg. I love how ridiculous Legolas is while also somehow managing to be the most graceful bastard alive. I love how he's the guy any random background character could probably catch the eye of and share A Look™ with over how wild the thing they were witnessing is. I love how self-serious he was in The Hobbit, trying so hard to be like his father, and the complete 180 he made in the LotR. Any period is fine by me, including a delay in Legolas' passage into the Grey Havens so he can play around in the Age of Man, if you so choose!
π I'm open to literally anything where it comes to Legolas. Give him someone that he can go on adventures with, or someone that makes him want to stay home and put down roots. Someone he strives to impress, or someone he can't seem to stop making a fool of himself in front of. Someone older, someone younger. Another elf, or someone of a different race. Someone who is charmed or driven mad by a Legolas younger than he was in The Hobbit (and probably even more of a Thranduil clone?) or someone intimidated or entranced an older Legolas, even more sure of himself in his own skin. Legolas showing off & wanting the attention of the one he likes, or Legolas being more low-key, and still having all eyes on him despite not even trying.
π¨ Size/body differences or similarities. Tenderness. Cultural differences or exchanges. Sparring. Shounen series vibes. Resting. Travel and journeys. Protectiveness.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Westley (The Princess Bride) • The Dauphin (The King) • Alexander the Great or Hephaestion (Alexander) • Oscar Wilde (Wilde) • Poe Dameron or Luke Skywalker or Han Solo (Star Wars) • Kal-El/Clark Kent (Any Iteration) • James Bond (Craig Bondverse) • Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones) • T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) • Thor or Loki (MCU)
π« Treebeard
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Anything with them being obsessed with one another. Thranduil unwilling to allow his most precious son to be stolen from him in the world. Legolas seeing no other in the world who could compare to his father. Is it a natural attraction? Is Thranduil grooming Legolas? ...Is Legolas grooming Thranduil?
There's a special sort of satisfaction that comes from fucking your greatest rival's son. Is it an added bonus for Thorin, or the whole reason he went after Legolas to begin with? Does it stay that way, or does Legolas get the upper hand? Did Legolas start the relationship to piss his dad off, or is his one great hope that they'll mend their relationship so that it isn't so awkward any longer?
You know what would fix things between Erebor and Mirkwood? Arranged marriage. You know what would cause chaos that neither royal family would want the exact details getting out to the general public? Marriage via elopement?
Kíli thirsting after Legolas from the jump. That's it, that's the prompt. Alright, fine: the two of them flirting with bows; Legolas is promised to Fíli and Kíli thinks he's helping his brother out by spoiling Legolas and is in for a shock when the kings are just as happy to shift the arrangement over to him?
Some have said Mithrandir taught Legolas everything he knows, and is the one that got Legolas so interested in those outside the Elven race to begin with.
They're husbands, what more is there to say. What if Legolas has stayed closer to home after the Battle and Gimli & he grew up in much closer proximity?
This was one of my childhood OTPs so you could literally copy & paste their names over and over and I'd nod along sagely. Youthful fumbling; political marriages; fuck-we're-gonna die &/or holy-shit-we're-alive; identity porn where Aragorn knows exactly who Legolas is when he comes asking after a man named Strider and he claims to've never heard of him, but he's got a bed if Legolas is looking for a place to stop for the night — and that fun eventual realization when decades later Legolas shows up in Rivendell and there's the man he's been hooking up with randomly for years (in Legolas' credit, he did find his lack of aging strange, but also he was homeschooled, so what does he know about the race of men anyway!?).
Bard's the first person Thranduil has treated like something of an equal — as a friend — in as long as Legolas can remember. Is he fascinated by the man who has earned his father's trust? Does he want to take Bard away from Thranduil before Bard can take Thranduil from him? As a father himself, does Bard see right through him or does he play along? Is he too naive to understand the strange depths and jealousies that lie in the heart of elves?
Legolas does not care &/or is intrigued by the relationship his father has with the Bowman, and so he looks for his own Man to befriend.
Legolas was little more than a child when he declared that Elrond was to be his. At first everyone thought it sweet, but the boy never shook the sentiment. Now that he's old enough to do something about it, Elrond is starting to believe that this won't be something he can dodge forever. Oh well, it's not like he and Thranduil were ever really on all that great of terms anyway.
Legolas has never been with a creature so large, but Thranduil never raised him to be a quitter; the two of them bonding over being deadly things that adore & protect nature.
Gandalf, Bilbo, Sam — it would seem Frodo is so used to heartbreak & rejection. Legolas would not see so dear a friend left with no slice of happiness to call his own. (Same prompt for Bilbo, honestly.)
There are tales of someone living in the unmanned stretch of land between Gondor & Rohan, who leaves any Orc or beast which crosses his path rotting for the riders & soldiers of either nation to find, with nary a trace of the man who did the act. Éomer or Faramir go in search of him & are surprised to find an Elf behind it all; Arranged marriages for political gain; Seeing Legolas as a youth & resolving even then to make the elf prince theirs, even if it takes a good 15+ years to make good on such a vow.
Something something in the midsts of all his various scheming, Saruman either bags Legolas, talks Thranduil into giving him Legolas, or makes it his side-hustle to give him the time of day.
Something something either of the Dark Lords wins the fight for Middle Earth and installs himself as the one king to rule them all. But what is ruling if you don't have someone by your side, and is there a jewel more coveted in all the realms than that of Legolas Greenleaf?
My universe for a fic to play it straight that the second Sméagol sets his sights on Legolas he cares fuck-all about the ring and decides that Legolas is his true precious. Is Legolas charmed? Freaked out? Does he have to take one for the team because Sméagol not constantly scheming & actually being a useful member of the team does wonders? You win my whole heart if you manage to work in some identity conflict wherein Sméagol & Gollum are jealous of one another when it comes to Legolas. Do they have to work together to come across as sane enough to get Legolas to give the time of day? Does Legolas reward this behavior? Is sex technically like a threesome, and that's what finally gets Legolas to see the upside? Does Legolas actually enjoy having someone so thoroughly obsessed with him? (Is this what sends Thranduil to the Grey Havens?)
Something something Legolas' beauty & valor revives feelings long dead in either of these men. Does Denethor stick with his creepy ways & do anything he can to make Legolas his, or does this newfound tenderness bring out the better in him (or is he at least willing to fake it until Legolas is his)? Is Théoden very traditional & sweet in his courting, or does the dominance of his youth reappear? Bonus points for them both being hit with a Legolas obsession & so now the animosity between the two nations is over who bags the hot twinky elf.
With so wide a world open to him, what sort of elf catches Legolas' eye? Another royal? A lowborn elf? Someone younger? Older?
It's so nice to find a race that adores nature so much as he. Are their meetings clandestine & limited to the times Legolas is free to venture near? Do the hobbit's friends think he's making it all up? Is Legolas a regular fixture within the community as he tries to court his hobbit beau?
Other elves are either intimidated by Legolas' status or find him much too rough for what an elf should be. Men find him gorgeous and impressive, which is much more Legolas' speed.
Legolas & dwarves are like peanut butter & chocolate, what more do you want me to say?!
Something about Legolas bringing an Orc home just to fuck with Thranduil pleases me greatly, I don't know what more to say than that. Perhaps Legolas' tastes run wild & rough and orcflesh is the only race that can suit his desires? Perhaps just as Legolas is a bit wild for an elf, there is an Orc that is a bit too gentle or regal to be an Orc, and they find a kinship in one another?
β¨ Michelangelo's David, Leon Bonnat's Samson's Youth, Henry Scott Tuke's The Critics, William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Dante et Virgile au Enfers — Legolas makes a career for himself in serving as the muse & model for the majority of history's heroic male nudes. It comes to a point where you aren't considered a master in the art world if you haven't had Legolas model for you (and amongst the gay artists of yesteryear, if you haven't had Legolas, full stop).
β¨ / Thranduil
β¨ / Thorin
β¨ / Fíli
β¨ / Kíli
β¨ / Gandalf
β¨ / Gimli
β¨ / Aragorn
β¨ / Bard
β¨ / Alfrid
β¨ / Elrond
β¨ / Beorn
β¨ / Frodo
β¨ / Éomer or Faramir
β¨ / Saruman
β¨ / Sauron or Melkor
β¨ / Sméagol & Gollum
β¨ / Denethor or Théoden
β¨ / Elves
β¨ / Hobbits
β¨ / Men
β¨ / Dwarves
β¨ / Orcs
β¨ Legolas keeps running into this man. Literally, as in barreling into him. It might be embarrassing if he wasn't so pleased that their paths keep crossing.
β¨ Legolas showing off for the object of his affection? Are they impressed? Do they find Legolas embarrassing &/or try-hard? Does Legolas have to adapt his courting technique to fit their culture?
Ardeth Bay The Mummy (Series)
Start a marathon on HBO Max or here.
π Characters that clearly hate the movie they're in are my favorite & Ardeth might be the origin of that preference in me. I love that he's super stoic, doesn't get sarcasm or modern jokes (or perhaps does but isn't about to pretend it's funny), and that he is always, always right. Ardeth puts up with so much! The least he deserves is to have the idiot that's always causing him grief also see to his needs in bed &/or to have someone of his own to keep safe along with saving the rest of the world. Also, if you wanted to play around with Older Ardeth, please feel free to set the fic later in his life, because Oded has aged magnificently.
π Anything & everything. Opposites attract, birds of a feather. Would he mesh well with another secret-society knight, or an adventurer, or a home-body? Is there anyone within his sect waiting for him to return home? Someone in a nearby city? What is Ardeth's reputation amongst the other Medjai? Is he a virgin (or as good as)? A rake? Is he one to do the courting, or to be courted?
π¨ Meetings in the desert. Luxury. Demonstrations of loyalty. Heroism. Bashfulness. Courting gone awry, or right. Clandestine meetings. Worship. Reincarnation or rebirth.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones) • Sebastian Le Livre or Yusuf Al-Kaysani or Nicolò di Genova (The Old Guard) • Mark Watney or Vincent Kapoor (The Martian) • T.E. Lawrence or Sharif Ali (Lawrence of Arabia) • En Sabah Nur | Apocalypse (X-Men) • Any Slave or Roman Character (Spartacus) • Loki or Thor or Skurge (MCU) • James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
π« Winston Havelock or Allen Chamberlain
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Rick trying to show off to Ardeth & only annoying him more; a curse makes it so that the two of them can't be more than a rooms-length distance from one another; forced to marry to avoid cultural-related lawbreaking & subsequent death.
...also forced to marry to avoid cultural-related lawbreaking & subsequent death; Ardeth needs to go to England for Reasons™ & Jonathan is the only one with space for him to stay with?
The Mummy but Imhotep was gay & was mummified for breaking his vow of chastity — or something — to lay with a Medjai, or are also meant to forego love. He's risen from the dead and boy is he pleased to see Ardeth!
Ardeth is very good at treating everyone the same — polite and firm, he's good at keeping a distance. For Beni, who is used to being persona non-grata & treated like dirt, it's practically a kindness. Or flirting, even, if you ask Beni, which nobody ever does, and so he runs with it.
The odds of group statistics alone mean that at least one of them was probably gay. Please give them a side-story where half the reason they keep messing with these historical sites is to have the Medjai show up & give them an opportunity to flirt with Ardeth.
Alex imprinted hard on Ardeth during his youth & now his main goal as a teenager/adult is to get his man. Is Ardeth charmed? Alarmed?
For some inexplicable reason, the Scorpion King follows Ardeth's commands.
I'm not about to pretend I have a logical plot for this. Jet Li has a very good face that would look great next to Oded Fehr's. Maybe in a past life he went to Shangri-La and caught the eye of the Dragon Emperor, who instantly knew this mysterious Medjai was meant to be his blood-brother & most trusted knight, who he shares a bed with for reasons?
β¨ Ardeth, like many of the of the Medjai, is immortal. Who goes there just to spend time with the mysterious Ardeth Bay host? Does Ardeth have a love interest in his loop? Was his lover moved to another park? Does he become sentient & want to break out with them, or is he similar to the Ghost Nation notion of sentience where protecting his people within the confines of the world is his purpose?
β¨ / Rick O'Connell
β¨ / Jonathan Carnahan
β¨ / Imhotep
β¨ / Beni Gabor
β¨ / Bernard Burns or Isaac Henderson or David Daniels
β¨ / Alex O'Connell
β¨ / Mathayus | Scorpion King
β¨ / Han | Dragon Emperor
β¨ Something something curse magic results in someone developing a telepathic bond with Ardeth, which isn't the end of the world, except for how Ardeth is good at keeping his thoughts quiet so their bond keeps being awkwardly and loudly flooded with their thoughts of how fit Ardeth looks.
β¨ Ardeth as the titular mummy. What if he was risen from the dead & wasn't in a mood to bring upon the end of days, and just wants to live his life in modern times? Would the universe allow such an extraordinary power to be mundane?
β¨ Ardeth complaining about all the nonsense the O'Connell-Carnahan get him into to his beau.
β¨ The Mummy is actually a Westworld world?! The Mummy is actually a Westworld world.
Sodapop Curtis The Outsiders (1983)
Catch it on Tubi.
π It's the incest for me. The vibes are so strong that even the unrelated characters still somehow have that dynamic bleed into their friendships. I love the hyper-loyal, insular, closed-off world they've created for themselves (beyond even what teenagers are known to do), how weirdly everything actually is life or death in a way. I love the socio-economic considerations of their poverty & how their lives are so up-in-the-air as to how things will go for them in the future in terms of escaping poverty, finding happiness within it, or having it consume them.
π Any continuation of the us-verses-the-world dynamic & what the added romantic angle brings to it; someone being willing to give it all up for Soda because they know he'd do it for them. That feeling of inferiority on not knowing if they're Soda's favorite or #1; putting Soda in situations where he has to prioritize them. For OMC or crossover ships, I'd love with Soda having to deal with having deep feelings for someone who isn't related to him (or as good as) — and for that person to have to deal with reconciling just how completely full-on & all-consuming Soda's love is. I would also love someone who is just completely enamored by someone looking like Rob Lowe at his peak & makes a fool of themselves to get Soda to give them the time of day.
π¨ Sensualism. Roughhousing. Care & tenderness. Body exploration. Domestic moments around the house. Shy flirting. Outright flirting. Role reversal; caring for the caretaker. Nonexistent boundaries.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Will Hunting or Chuckie Sullivan (Good Will Hunting) • Mike Waters or Scott Fauvor (My Own Private Idaho) • Aaron Livsey or Robert Sugden (Emmerdale) • Ben Mitchell (EastEnders) • Handsome Bob (RocknRolla) • Deran Cody (Animal Kingdom) • T.K. Strand or Carlos Reyes — and yes, feel free to have Owen be like "but he looks like me?!" — or Owen Strand (9-1-1: Lone Star) • Eames (Inception) • Rusty Ryan (Oceans Eleven Series)
π« None
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Soda is literally married to Darry and it's wild! Give me them having their childhood cut short to raise Ponyboy & just why it is that they didn't stop at sharing a bed for practical reasons, and share a closet, clothes, shower at the same time, and on & on it goes. Nobody seems phased by it; just how much can they get away with? Are they an open secret? Do they keep the true depths of their relationship to themselves? Is it scary, the unknown of what it means to break up with your own brother? What was it like when Pony was younger? What are they like when Pony finally leaves the nest?
Darry often has to be the bad cop when it comes to raising Ponyboy, and it seems to've left Soda as the softer touch in Pony's life. What does Soda let Pony get away with? How does Pony show his appreciation? What do they get up to when Darry, ever the voice of reason, isn't home? "Oh, Ponyboy, your tuff hair!": does Soda start to look at Pony differently after he goes blond?
The OT3 is fine with me. Give me the inner workings of this relationship. Is Pony a little intimidated since Darry & Soda have a history he wasn't a part of, while the two of them have known Pony since he was born? Is there a d/s tinge to their relationship, with Darry having to play father to both of them? Is he able to make himself vulnerable, and who to? Does anyone suspect (or know) that the three of them are family in more ways than one?
Dally so clearly wants to be a part of the Curtis gang. Does he try to get with Soda to make that happen? Is it transactional & all a con? Does he catch feelings? If it's genuine from the start (or even if it isn't), what is it like to be in a relationship with someone you idolize? What kind of anxiety or terror is associated with the paranoid fear of misstepping & losing not only your boyfriend, but potentially the whole family that you get by association? Does Soda realize that Dally lives with this eating at him? If he does, how does he try to reassure him? Does he go after Soda after his dispair at losing Johnny, the one who was most 'his'? (Were he and Johnny a thing or was it platonic? Was he looking for something platonic with Soda & ended up with more?)
Their first for Soda is so really, most notably during the shower scene. Give me them knowing Soda is out of their league & taking what they can get. Does Soda know and likes that he idolizes him? Or does he think they're on the same page and their complex about him comes as a shock?
What if Soda fell for a Soc? Would the boys try to accept it because of their love for Soda? Would it require Soda stepping away from his family? What kind of pressure would it put on their relationship, for that Soc to step in for his family? Are they up to the challenge? Do they relish it; having Soda all for themselves?
β¨ / Johnny CadeJohnny & Soda may be the two most well-adjusted members of the bunch, so give me them finding an oasis in their little hyper-masculine universe.
β¨ Soda's first time.
β¨ / Darrel Curtis
β¨ / Ponyboy Curtis
β¨ / Darry/Ponyboy
β¨/ Dallas Winston
β¨ / Keith Matthews or Steve Randle
β¨ / Nicolas Cage & Flea as Uncredited Socs
β¨ Someone tending to Soda whilst he's ill.
β¨ "You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you."
β¨ Soda nets himself wealthier &/or older. Soda isn't quite sure how he feels about his man trying to take care of him, but he certainly does not care for how the boys keep teasing him for having gotten a Sugar Daddy.
Hikaru Sulu Star Trek (Alternate Original Series)
Start a marathon here.
π Nothing but respect for my president! I love how competent Sulu is, how he has a sense of humor without being a joke himself or cruel about it, & how everyone seems to love and respect him exactly because of the balance he manages. It was done in the laziest, most Hollywood-nonsense way possible, but him being the canon gay character was actually god's gift to me, so I'll take it. I'm always drawn to characters who seem fed up with the canons they're in (read: with the characters they're forced to spend their time with); it's why Sulu is my forever boy. Also, I'm a big fan of the Mirrorverse: fics set there, or one or more characters being transported over & having to find a way to stay alive, so if you'd like to do mirrorverse!Sulu &/or pair him up with a mirroverse version, please go right ahead.
π Sulu is the ultimate little black dress: give him someone that'll make him laugh, piss him off, turn him on, cause him to be protective, or any combination therein, as well as a million others. Give him your shy softies or douchebags — he'll tame them both. Let someone see & appreciate Sulu for the competent badass he is.
π¨ Showing off. Downtime. Exploration & Adventures. Cultural indulgence. Roughhousing. Domesticity.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Poe Dameron or Han Solo or Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) • Pete Mitchell or Tom Kazansky (Top Gun) • Joseph Cooper (Interseteller) • Din Djarin or Cobb Vanth (The Mandolorian) • Jose Vladimir Austria (Gaya sa Pelikula | Like in the Movies) • Rayland Givens or Tim Gutterson (Justified) • Gene or Nubsib (Lovely Writer) • Kurosawa Yuichi (Cherry Magic) • Kang Seo Joon or Han Ji Woo ( λμ λ³μκ² | To My Star) • Steven Hiller or David Levinson (Independence Day) • Tony Stark or Stephen Strange (Any Iteration) • Kit (Monsoon) • Felix Lutz (Westworld)
π« Keenser (sorry, king)
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
We got so little of them that I'll take anything. Where did they meet? What do they like about one another? Is Ben serious or is he even more of a troll than Sulu? What type of vacations do they go on? What's a day in life like now that they're dads?
Sulu having just as much as a reputation as Kirk at the Academy without any of the fuckboy baggage — able to get any guy he wants, and with a 100% success rate when it comes to stealing the guys who Kirk wants right out from under Kirk's nose. Kirk decides to make Sulu his next target, but it ends up being harder than he expected; Kirk being Very Lonely™ after realizing that Spock possibly was his soulmate in the other timeline and definitely isn't in this one & Sulu feeling adrift in a similar manner, and how they come together; Sulu being the one that Kirk trusts the most; Kirk being turned on by all the secret talents that reveal themselves whenever they go on a mission.
Sulu's the type of boy you can take home to your parents. Literally, as in Spock needs to take someone home to his parents and Sulu ends up pulling the short straw? Are they together already & this escalates the relationship? Just friends? Casual coworkers? Is it a bit more figurative, or perhaps pointed? Sarek likes the look of Sulu whenever they run into one another & pushes for Spock to make it a thing? Has Spock been trying?
Them being the only sane people on the ship; Sulu actually being insane and McCoy trying to figure out just why in the hell Sulu being in peril bothers him even more than when Jim is; it's TOS but this is their AOS energy as well, so give me McCoy & Sulu being fed up with everyone they know & bonding in that shared judgment; even though it pisses him off in Jim & Spock, McCoy finds Sulu's aggressive-streak hot as hell.
Scotty's used to being on the fringes of the bridge crew, but Sulu actually gives him the time of day. More than the time of day, even. Scotty has no idea what to do with himself!
The dream team. Feel free to play around with the usual for these two: (near-)virgin Sulu being led on a wild sex adventure by experienced Chekov; a probably too-confident Chekov actively courting trying-to-stay-professional Sulu; the two of them stranded on a planet & needing to take care of one another; aliens give them telepathy or make it so they can't be more than a few paces apart at any given time.
Nero takes Sulu as a hostage & doesn't want to give him back; Sulu was on Romulus when it was destroyed and it was that as much as anything that drove Nero mad — when he sees Sulu alive it kind of takes the wind out of his sails. Now Sulu is faced with keeping his freedom or taking one for the intergalactic team by dating Nero & giving him a reason to stay sane?
Pike sees a lot of himself in Sulu. He's still working on actually getting himself into Sulu, but the point is that he likes what he sees as-is; Pike grooming Sulu (dealers choice of sinister or professional — or both!); Sulu likes older men. Pike isn't sure how he feels about this, but Sulu isn't one to let that sort of thing get in his way.
Sulu figures out that the Prime version of himself had a thing with Spock Prime, once upon a time, and wants a go himself. It turns out it was more than a 'thing', and Spock Prime is probably the best lay of his life.
Give me Kahn thinking that humans suck yet rationalizing his obsession with Sulu as logical. Sulu is the best of the best & Kahn deserves to take a prize from the cultures he's conquered; Sulu volunteering to be hostage if Kahn lets the rest of the crew go; the Enterprise is the one to find Kahn & his people, and Kahn imprints on Sulu right from the start?
β¨ Something something Sulu has to marry a crew-mate — or member of wherever they are visiting — for reasons.For how long? Are eventual the feelings new, or have they been there for a while? Worse, is it his ex, and have they gotten over one another or is this something they both jumped at the chance to do?
β¨ I said it above but seriously, Mirrorverse welcome.
β¨ / Ben Sulu
β¨ / James T. Kirk
β¨ / Spock
β¨ / Leonard McCoy
β¨ / Montgomery Scott
β¨ / Pavel Chekov
β¨ / Captain Nero
β¨ / Christopher Pike
β¨ / Spock Prime
β¨ / Kahn
β¨ Sulu finds the love of his life on one of the planets they've landed on. The Prime Directive really needs more nuance on how to handle this stuff.
β¨ Everyone thinks that Kirk is the crazy reckless one (with the intense sex life), but really it's Sulu. Someone has their third eye opened to this fact.
β¨ Sulu saves the day in an action &/or disaster movie scenario he randomly finds himself in with much less death, destruction, and time that the hero's original canonical plan would've taken, and they find that to be the hottest thing they've seen in their life — or they find Sulu to be the most aggravating bastard because of it, but damn is he hot.
Dani Rojas Ted Lasso (TV)
Catch it on Apple TV+ or here.
π Football is life!!!! I absolutely lived for these skits whenever NBC would drop a new one & I was so happy when they turned it into a show β the fact that it ended up being such an amazing series was the icing on that particular cake. I love everyone, I love how it has a decent amount of actual football in it, and I love the archetypes they picked for the players. I love that it's is kind and earnest and anyone who tries to act above it all or take the piss out of the kind characters have to change themselves and become less jaded, while characters like Ted & Dani are presented as the coolest and best things since sliced bread.
π tl;dr take Ted Lasso and make it a BL with Dani as the lead, please? Pair Dani up with someone just as happy-go-lucky as he is, or allow him to be the bright spot in a moody character's day. Does Dani have someone back home in Mexico, or does he meet his man abroad? Are they at the same place professionally or is one of them more famous? Give me someone trying to get Dani's attention, someone not knowing what to do with Dani's attention, &/or someone knowing Dani's one worth changing themselves for.
π¨ Promotional material. Joy. Candid moments. Social media. Drawing out &/or inspiring a smile. Skill sharing & teaching.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Aitor Cardoné (Club de Cuervos) • Jude Kincade or Zero (Hit the Floor) • Mackenzie Boyd or Robert Sugden (Emmerdale) • Thor (MCU) • Ray Person (Generation Kill) • Richie Tozier (I.T. Franchise) • Ashley Greenwick (Sirens UK) • Peter Parker or Johnny Storm (Any Iteration) • Gareth Bale or Son Heung-min or Sergio Ramos (RPF)
π« None
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
Give me grouchy, confirmed bachelor Roy who is thrown for a loop by how openly gay Dani is; Roy is prickly with everyone but just can't seem to manage it with Dani, & everyone makes fun of him for how soft he is for that boy; alternatively: body swap. Roy doesn't know what to do with Dani's energy — he is also thrown for one hell of a loop when it's all he can do to keep himself from getting an erection when he spots Dani-in-his-body in the showers (...or Sam, which? Fair. But also Jamie!? Which, no?????!!!), the fuck?
Dani is new in town, Ted is new in town (and far too much of a homebody, for Dani's liking) — obviously the solution is for them to go out on dates together! (Ted insists that if Dani can't keep from shouting so loudly that they're going on on dates, they're gonna have to call it something else.
Coach knows that Ted's got his hands full with Jamie and Roy, so he takes Dani under his wing.
Dani's energy drives Jamie up the fucking wall. The least that bastard can do is put it to good use. (Jamie's much less annoyed at Dani for showing him up in bed as he is to Dani doing it on the field...but a man's got pride too, yeah? So he tries to give as good as he gets.)
Pick your tropes and run with them: bed-sharing during an overnight trip; they hooked up prior to knowing who the other was; they were childhood sweethearts on the farm team; anything about these sweet lads being sweet & having their own, full-on BL arc while everyone else is dealing with their respective nonsense.
"Oh, I like him." Having someone like Dani look at him the way he does makes Nate feel invincible.
Dani always makes himself available to practice with a teammate whenever they need him...however they need him.
Trent's heard that the latest ace at AFC Richmond goes for the lads. What starts as a stealth fact-gathering mission turns into Dani & he spending more and more time together, and the next thing Trent knows, he's technically got to write an article about himself. So much for journalistic ethics!
β¨ There's only one person in Dani's life who can get him to sit still. If you wanted to write a fic where Dani is a service top/bottom who has &/or hooker who gives dudes the fuck of their lives & then waves off their attempts to pay, who am I to deny you?
β¨ Dani meets someone outside of the team.What's their deal? Do they know he's famous or could they not give a toss about football? Are they affiliated with another sport, or football outright? Do they play for another Premier team? For a lower-rated league? A team abroad?
β¨ Though Dani missed football like crazy during his injury, he learned a lot about himself while he was off healing.
β¨/ Roy Kent
β¨ / Ted Lasso
β¨ / Coach Beard
β¨ / Jamie Tartt
β¨ / Sam Obisanya
β¨ / Nate Shelley
β¨ / Colin or Richard Montlaur
β¨ / Trent Crimm
β¨ Seriously, if you wanted to go with a Harem plot where everyone is trying to lock Dani down I would treat it as gospel.
β¨ "I like to give away joy for free."
β¨ Dani's not entirely human.
β¨ If you're in the extremely tiny sliver of the venn diagram of people who have seen both Ted Lasso & Club de Cuervos, Danny & Aitor would literally be unstoppable. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Erik Lehnsherr X-Men (Alternate Timeline Series)
Start a marathon on HBO Max or here.
π #MagnetoWasRight! Erik is that one character I will always messily apologize for & will be on my deathbed insisting he is just Misunderstood™. I love how everything he does is extra as hell, that he is ironclad in his morals, that after all he's been through he looks out for he & his while refusing to play into respectability politics, but also that he's willing to step back from doing what probably actually needs to be done, because at the end of the day he does love the people who love him, even if he is #right & not allowing himself to become the monster he clearly has the potential to be usually puts the world at a disservice later on down the line. I love him because of that monstrous instinct, and not in spite of it.
π Someone who agrees with Erik, even if his means make them question the ends. Someone willing to be ride or die with him & participate in those ends! Someone who enjoys that Erik is essentially their pet berserker; someone who tries to come to terms with that darkness within him. Someone who Erik is able to convince to join him on his side, either through his political platform or body or both. Someone who thinks they're getting Erik on their side, just for Erik to be humoring them & then do whatever he wants anyway — and that person realizing that there's nothing Erik could do that would make them stop loving him, and what that says about them as a result. Someone who is so infuriating that Erik actually begins to question his ideas around mutant superiority (or so he tells himself anyway, because the fact that he finds them charming or eliciting fondness within him just will not do).
π¨ Vindictiveness. Capture & dominance. Comfort. Planning. Learning & tutelage. Body worship. Portraiture & propaganda. Domestic moments earned or stolen.
π Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
π Crossovers, with anyone of your choice, including this non-exhaustive list to get you thinking: Erik Stevens | Killmonger (Black Panther) • Eric Northman or Godric or Alcide Herveaux (True Blood) • Tyler Durden (Fight Club) • Light Yagami (Death Note) • Q or Spock (Star Trek) • Thranduil (The Hobbit) • David 8 (Alien Prequel Series) • Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood) • Hercules or James Howlett (X-Treme X-Men) • Midnighter or Apollo (Any Iteration)
π« Sebastian Shaw, Striker, The Blob
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
The original! I'd kind of love it if Charles chooses Erik for once, instead of Erik always needing to choose him. Charles joins up with Erik's cause, or lets Erik do what he wants, and then they deal with the aftermath; Erik and Charles having clandestine meet-ups while the whole world thinks they're angry with one another; bitter ideological debates that devolve into hate fucking (as both of them pretend that isn't half the reason they debate either way); maybe an alternate meeting where Charles first enters the Mutant Rights fight by attending one of Erik's basically-terrorism plotting meetings?
Give me Erik realizing that Peter is his son and becoming obsessed with him having expirenced so much loss! Does it creep Peter out, but at least he finally has a dad? Does he actually love it, after how apathetic Erik was toward him for so long?; Who pursues who? Does Erik take it to a romantic level or does Peter? Does it happen before or after the parentage reveal?
Erik helping the young men in his life figure out their powers. Reassuring them that they're beautiful & likely being one of the few (if only) person who actually is genuinely attracted to the weirder aspects of their powers that other partners ignore or love them in spite of; Erik having to put up with his moody teenage boyfriend & questioning his life choices; Erik marveling at the man his boyfriend has become under his tutelage; Erik's boyfriend sticking up for him when those more aligned with Charles' ideology try to pain him out to be the bad guy; them becoming Erik's pet psychopath, happy to do Erik's dirty work for the rewards it nets them?
Erik enjoying to be around someone who is as pessimistic as he; Erik treating them as weapons & them struggling with the power imbalance; Erik turning on all his charm and methods of persuasion to recruit them; sporadic, not-relationships as they hook up whenever they're in the same area — and their disgust with themselves as it starts happening more and more frequently?; bonding over the tortures they have faced & finding solace in each other?
Bobby struggling with being gay at the School & looking to find himself outside of it, so to speak, and wouldn't you know but Erik is more than happy to help him explore that part of himself; Bobby feeling stifled by the School and going to join the Brotherhood as his act of teenage rebellion. Does Erik take a shine to him? Want to keep him safe? Does Erik groom him to need his approval, so Bobby does anything he asks?; Bobby bringing Erik home for Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur & Charles just about has a stroke; the two of them bonding over their Jewish heritage in general?
Eternally here for En Sabah Nur telling Erik he is the best, beautiful, empowering him to do awful stuff, isolating him from his friends (& family). Give me the Age of Apocalypse with En Sabah Nur running the world with Erik by his side.
Let them bond over their mutual hate & how hot they both are. It's from a different Fassbender movie, but "No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams" is the vibe!
It would probably require stalking on Wade's part & some sort of odd soul bond or magical curse on Erik's to keep them in the same room, but damn, what a pairing.
β¨ The odd mid-80 Polish social-realist depiction of Erik at the start of Age of Apocalypse is my absolute favorite so if you just wanted to give him a mutant-tinged slice-of-life interlude, I'll be there with bells on.
β¨ / Charles Xavier
β¨ / Peter Maximoff
β¨ / Scott Summers or Alex Summers or Sean Cassidy or James Proudstar or Hank McCoy or Azazel or Armando Muñoz or Riptide or Kurt Wagner or Warren Worthington III
β¨ / Caliban or Logan or Peter Rasputin
β¨ / Bobby Drake
β¨ / En Sabah Nur
β¨ / Original Timeline Magneto
β¨ / Wade Wilson
β¨ Erik succeeds in however you see his House of M-style mutant supremacy goals to shape up in the film's universe. Who does he take to be his co-ruler? Do they get together before or after Erik reigns supreme? How do they feel about this development? Did they have a choice in this arrangement, romantic or political? Are they happy with it, or is that still a work in progress?
β¨ X-Men set during a different period in history.
no subject
Catch it HBO or here.
( SPECIFIC & GENERAL PROMPTS )
β¨ / Bernard Lowe or Ashley Stubbs- Logan's so intuitive; give me him meeting either of this men & instantly knowing something is off. Does he try to rile them up? Befriend them? Invite them out of the park? Are they allowed by Ford to go, in order to keep up the ruse?
- I'm eternally here for William having his own fell-in-love-with-a-host origin story.
- Lee's such a character that Logan assumes he's a host, and decides to shut him up by insisting they fuck. Lee, turned on, says yes. Please give me all the awkwardness of what Lee then has to do to keep up this act whenever they run into one another at company functions. (Has Logan known the entire time?)
- The timelines don't match up at all, but I'd be interested in one of them being a double agent for Logan, or someone that Logan courts. Maybe Logan's still around at the time he's hired, or they're together prior to his being hired on to the Ops team.
- Logan somehow being planted into Caleb's memories.
- Serac learning about Logan's warnings toward androids & being fascinated by him, leading to a meeting via The Forge version and the two of them developing a relationship. (Same prompts for Jean Mi, honestly)
- Logan existing as a host within the park & Felix being obsessed with him; Felix always having had a crush on one of the long-forgotten original investors of the park & creating a host that looks like him.
β¨ / Teddy Flood or Hector Escaton or Akecheta or Hiroyuki or Lawrence or Major Craddock
Who does Logan keep coming back to the park for? Do they remember him?; one of them is utilized by Argos to entice Logan into investing in the park; James or William decide to give Logan one last 'gift' by giving him a host to look after him. The host is programed to do what's 'best' for Logan, even if Logan refuses to go along; one of them rescuing Logan after William leaves him for dead and nursing him back to health; Logan unlocking a romance path during one of their adventure storylines that he hadn't known — or perhaps their fondness for Logan causes them to start down the road to sentience, thus making a previously unpragrommed romance plot possible.
β¨ / Lee Sizemore
β¨ / Karl Strand or Fares Fares
β¨ / Caleb Nichols
β¨ / Engerraund Serac
β¨ / Felix Lutz
β¨ Logan as the Man in Black! What would things have been like with someone not actually evil and self-involved being the one constant at the park?
β¨ Logan meeting a guest at the park that fascinates him even more than the hosts.
β¨ Logan falling for a host in a park we haven't seen before. (Middle Earth World? Sparta World? Age of Sail World?)
β¨ A Logan Host exists out there in the park. What's his narrative? How close is he to the real deal? Does he have someone, or does a wondering host or guest take a shine to him?
β¨ When Logan comes back from the trip with William broken & raging, who helps put him back together for a while?