My Rare Pair Letter

[themisto]

Dear Author,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I like to think I am fairly easy to write for so don't worry about whether or not I will like it. I am sure that anything you come up with will be wonderful! I don’t have many 'dislikes' and you are free to include pretty much anything you need to tell the story the way you like it. Any rating from teen to explicit is fine with me as well.

I adore get together fic and slow burn, and while I enjoy domestic and mundane narratives I lean a tad more toward the romance set during missions, and the angsty, dramatic and emotional side of the spectrum. Also, it's quite fine angst or hurt/comfort where the characters suffer the entire time, as long as there's an upbeat, positive note by the end of the story.

I like the exploration of relationship dynamics, I'm cool with the most (if all) of the tropes and genres (fluff, sharing a bed, road trip, mission fic, competency and badassery, rescuing/be rescued from a tight situation or bad ordeal, hurt/comfort, dark fic, humor and shenanigans, downtime and dates, all marriage tropes, role reversal, time paradoxes, BDSM, ABO... IDK, anything crossing your mind is fine by me), Divergent Canon AUs and What Ifs are my favorite AUs, but I also enjoy mundane/non powered AUs or the ones with sci fi or historical themes.

Hardcore Kinks I enjoy particularly for dysfunctional ships, or for dark-scenarios with problematic ships: I like (forced or consensual) dom/sub dynamics, dubious consent and denial of consent. Some of my kinks are pain play, bondage, orgasm delay and denial, use of toys (penetrative or external, constraining or ornamental, 24/7 or only during the play, all is welcome), whips, objectification. If rape happens (for dark scenario/pairing, or for Hurt/Comfort or recovery fic), I'd like a realistic portrayal where the victim not enjoying it, and if there's recovery, no healing cock please. Stockholm syndrome and gaslighting, brainwash, or general mind manipulation games are fine with me. -- I don't really like watersport (except for the scenario where the master controls whenever the slave is permitted to relieve himself, as a form showing power or training to dependency etc, I'd enjoy this) and I do-not-want: scat, infantilization, pet play, spanking.

DNW: Friend or lover betrayal, cheating, break up fic between the requested characters, death character fic, depressing or hopeless ending, gen or pre-slash, canon ships, character or ship bashing.


Some of my likes: 

• Accidental Sex
• Accidental Marriage 
• Accidental Soul Bonding
• Alternate Canon
• Alternate Universe: No Powers (No Coffie Shop though, please)
• Amnesia/Memory Loss
• Anal Sex
• Angst with a Happy Ending
• Arranged Marriage
• Brainwash and/or Recovery
• Canon Compliant
• Celebrating Holidays with Family of Choice
• Coerced to Have Sex
• Comfort Sex
• Coming Out
• Consensual Sex
• Drunk Confession
• Dubious Consent
• Earn Your Happy Ending
• Enemies/Friends to Lovers 
• Fake/Pretend Relationship
• Fix-It
• Gentle Sex
• Getting Together
• Handcuffed Together 
• Happy Ending
• Huddling For Warmth 
• Hurt/Comfort
• Hypothermia 
• Kink Exploration
• Idiots in Love
• Loss of Powers
• Love Confessions
• Marriage Tropes
• Mating Cycles/In Heat (especially for canon alien characters, or AUs where character is alien/werewolf)
• Moving In Together
• Non Consensual Sex
• Non-Human Genitalia 
• Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
• On the Run Together/Runaways
• On Vacation Together
• Orgasm Delay
• Outing
• Oviposition
• Pain Play
• Plotty/Long Fics
• Power Exchange
• Post-Apocalypse Survival
• Post-Canon
• Prison Break
• Rape and/or Recovery
• Realizing You Care
• Road Trip
• Role Reversal
• Rough Sex
• Secret Agent Character
• Secret Past
• Sex in Prison
• Sex Pollen, or what comes after it
• Slow Burn
• Snowed In
• Soul Bond (especially if accidental, but any kind is good)
• Stranded Somewhere
• Stranded Somewhere as Consequence of Time Travel
• Stranded or on Vacation on an Alien Planet
• Switching
• Time Travel
• Torture and/or Recovery
• Trapped
• Undercover as a Couple
• Undercover as Married
• Werewolves 
• Woke Up Married
• Woke Up Married due to messing up with time travel

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DC Animated Universe

• John Stewart/Wally West or Alt!John/Alt!Wally

I love everyone and everything of this cartoon, though John and Wally's friendship was my favorite part and I completely love each and every fic about the two of them as a couple. I was intrigued by the Justice Lord alternate Earth, and I think it would do an interesting playground for fics, there's so much to explore about it. About my request for the alternate pairing, though, if you're writing them instead of John/Wally, I'd really prefer if Alt!Wally's death gets ret-conned, maybe a time travel fix-it?

Some optional story ideas: a fic exploring their friendship while it changes to a romantic one? Alternate ending to The Savage Time, where John and Wally are left behind and trapped to the past when the portal closes up before the two of them are able to jump in too? Or maybe stranded somewhere else, and needing to stick together to watch each other's back? A story where they need to share one bunk, snuggle for warmth, maybe something like snowed in in a place where their powers don't work? Or else maybe a road trip? A mission on another planet? A diplomatic mission where a misunderstanding sets them to have marry each other to avoid diplomatic disaster? Alt!Flash comes back from the Speed Force and helps the Justice Lords to redeem themselves? Scenario where they share a prison cell, they protect each other, they take comfort in being still together. Apocalypse survival story where they take comfort the other is there with them too? What if they're sent to a maximum security prison for the most dangerous criminals of the quadrant? Undercover as couple, or fake boyfriends.

How any of these scenarios brings John and Wally or their alternate selves into a romantic relationship?

If none of these prompts inspires you for a fic, feel absolutely free to write a different romantic story. Or check the prompts below, if you want.

Any rating is absolutely fine with me.



DC's Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash (TV 2014)

• Jefferson "Jax" Jackson/Ray Palmer/Mick Rory
• Jefferson "Jax" Jackson/Ray Palmer/Leonard Snart
• Rob/David Singh/Eddie Thawne
• David Singh/Eddie Thawne
• Rob/David Singh
• David Singh/Leonard Snart

I adore these shows and I'm completely fond of the most of the main and background characters. Time travel stories are something always up to my alley, and I also enjoy their generated set of problems like paradoxes, deleted timelines, undoes redoes etc etc. In a way, the whole The Flash plotline is a huge rewriting of the history due to Eoboard Thawne in primis, a concept that I intrigues me because I think it offers story options like 'what was character's life before the history rewrite?' to be explored.

I've requested some old and new ships of mine, I'd be thrilled with a alternate scenario about Singh and Eddie and/or Rob where they get together, or a friends/enemies to lovers about Jax/Ray/Len/Mick or any combinations of two or three of them. About the latter group, I'm intrigued about their interaction on Legends of Tomorrow, and I'd be interested to read what-if scenarios set on The Flash, or Legends of Tomorrow. 

 

What if one character gets killed during a mission, then the time gets reset and the death's undone, but for ~handwave~ reason the survived character remembers that the other one was killed? What does he do about this knowledge? Or something else happens, maybe it's the formerly-died character to do something instead, maybe? What if this event is what makes him realize his true feelings? Or maybe a runaways together scenario? Or a cracky or serious take of a scenario where for example Len and/or Mick do some robbery job and end up kidnapping Ray or Jax or David in order to run away (they steal his car, with him into it?) and getting hunted down by the police who misunderstand and think they are all crime partners? Or anything that turns unresolved romantic tension into resolved romantic tension, maybe accidentally (AMTD? Sex pollen? Accidental marriage on alien world?). Len/Mick gets arrested and Ray/David/Jax clears his name, or vice versa? Recovery story with a permanent injury, for example what if part of The Flash 1x15 happenings didn't get reset? Singh still in the hospital, Rob taking care of him when he goes back home, time passes, this sort of thing? I'm fine with this scenario explored with any other character/ship too. Role reversals? Alternate reality where one of them is a cyborg or an android? I'd be absolutely thrilled with any time travel or time stranded scenarios whatsoever, especially if they get weaved with a romantic plot or a first time story of any kind! Apocalypse survival story where they take comfort the other is there with them too? Scenario where they share a prison cell, they protect each other, they take comfort in being still together. What if they're sent to a maximum security prison for the most dangerous criminals of the quadrant? Undercover as couple, or fake boyfriends?

How any of these scenarios brings the characters into a romantic relationship? 

If none of these prompts inspires you for a fic, feel absolutely free to write a different romantic story. Or check the prompts below, if you want.

Any rating is absolutely fine with me.



Farscape

• John Crichton/Scorpius

My favorite character in this show was Scorpius, as I know he was bad news for the main guys, I felt his story was too a tragic and lonely one. That's why I'd love a fic with some kind of redemption arc for him, or just to find a way for him to turn the page and get him some peace at last? You don't need to make it look like he's a good guy though, just give him a chance to an happier, healthier (if possible) life, later in the show or in an alternate canon or an AU? I'm fine with sticking to canon facts but I'm also fine with divergent AUs and complete AUs, if you want explore alternate plots.

I also completely enjoyed the whole narrative-arc concerning John Crichton, where he evolves from an young and naive astronaut just wanting to go home into the mature, worldly-wise, character he's through the end seasons.

That said, I'd love a story exploring Crichton and Scorpius' relationship (you can include 'Harvey' too into the mix if you wish so) or set alternate events in motion to change the course of their stories and interactions. Slash fics are my favorite kind of reading, so I'd be most thrilled with them portrayed falling into a relationship at some point. Thumb ups for each and every shippy tropes: amnesia takes them to get together, from enemy (to friends) to lovers, a dark sexual Slave/Master dynamic trope, maybe a scenario where one's captured and manipulated into liking to be the other one's sexual slave - I'd like for either to be the slave and either to be the master, a worse enemy makes them allies that makes them falling for each other, stranded together alone somewhere, or any other trope, where there's romance or and possibly first time, or sexual coercion if you prefer a darker route (and I don't mind a couple of my DNWs getting bent in this case).

Any rating is absolutely fine with me.

Young Justice Cartoon 

• John/Wally
  
• Barry/Hal/John
  
• Kaldur/Wally

 

This cartoon was so great, story arc kind of narration is my favorite for a series, and Young Justice had both great main story arcs and shorter ones intertwined to the main one. Besides the secret alien invasion is one of my favorite fictional tropes and sci fi themes and I loved the way it was plotted (I love politics, conspiracies, etc). I loved all the characters both junior and senior (though I would've enjoyed more screen time for the senior leaguers besides Red Tornado, Black Canary, Batman, Superman and Flash), Kaldur, Wally and Jaime were absolutely my favorites among the main cast.

 

About fics, I always love get together fics I'd be thrilled to get a story featuring any of my requested pairings. If my prompts don't inspire you feel free to write the story of your heart, I just ask you to not include my DNWs.

 

Maybe I'd love a story where any of the requested characters get together at the Happy New Year party? Maybe  while staying at the place of one of them during the holidays, or taking a vacation together, at the cabin by the lake, or on another planet? Or anything that turns unresolved romantic tension into resolved romantic tension, maybe accidentally (AMTD? Sex pollen? Accidental marriage on alien world?). John and Hal get arrested and Barry is the one who can clear their name for reasons...? About John/Wally, I know this is completely headcanon, but I love the potential mentor/student dynamic that this canon could offer for this ship (most likely in the event Barry weren't there and someone else, a superpowered friend, needs to step into Barry's shoes or something like that)? How that turns into a romantic relationship? I'm also OK if you decide to age up Wally a bit to avoid the uderage thing. A scenario that fixes Wally's death, that ends up with them (Kaldur or John and Wally) getting together? Apocalypse survival story where they take comfort the other is there with them too? Scenario where they share a prison cell, they protect each other, they take comfort in being still together. What if they're sent to a maximum security prison for the most dangerous criminals of the quadrant? Undercover as couple, or fake boyfriends?

How any of these scenarios brings the characters into a romantic relationship? 

If none of these prompts inspires you for a fic, feel absolutely free to write a different romantic story. Or check the prompts below, if you want.

Any rating is absolutely fine with me.



Crossover Fandom

• Clark Kent (DCEU)/Steve Rogers (MCU)

My fandom specific DNW: please no Bucky, pretty please.

They are my favorite characters of their respective fandoms, I absolutely adore honest nice guys with a dorky personality and always wanting to do the right thing, no matter what, and as soon as I saw this ship in the tag set I knew I had to request it. Are they living on the same Earth, or one crosses over and gets stranded on the other's universe? 
Some things that I could enjoy for this ship are: identity porn, apocalypse survival, teaming up to fight a strong opponent makes them bond, accidental soul bonding, where maybe they can't get away from each other for too long without suffer consequences? They growing up together, in Brooklyn during the big depression or was it in a Kansas farm? Or were they two orphan boys grown up into an ? Was their first kiss with a girl, a boy or with each other? What if they're sent to a maximum security prison for the most dangerous criminals of the sector? Undercover as couple, or fake boyfriends.

 

How any of these scenarios brings Clark and Steve into a romantic relationship? 

 

If none of these prompts inspires you for a fic, feel absolutely free to write a different romantic story. Or check the prompts below, if you want.

 

Any rating is absolutely fine with me.

 

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General tropes or broad prompts for any ship, feel free to change or completely ignore them:

• Accidental Marriage? Maybe because of a cultural misunderstanding on an alien planet? Or due to a misunderstood statement aired worldwide on TV news reports, where the Justice Leaguers can't just rectify when it becomes so important for the queer communities? Does John starts feeling guilty for the fan mail or liking to hang out with Wally? Does Wally feel guilty for liking the 'better half' jokes too much?

• Addiction/Withdrawal? I'd love this tag paired to an angsty story, I'm good with gritty narration of the ordeal, if you feel like to write those for me. For example (but you can write something different) where one of them gets kidnapped and drugs forced into him for a few weeks (?) to make him addicted to them, and when the other character finds him, he have to fight with him and for him to make him getting through pain and desperation of the withdrawal. This experience brings them together. In canon, or normal-people AU are both fine.

• Blindness? I'd prefer the vision-loss-due-to-injury over born-blind, but do what you think it works better in your story. I'm a sucker for when hurt/comfort scenario brings two people together, though.

• Aliens Made Them Do It. A classic trope having many interesting connotations. Embarrassment for being forced (with treats, or with sex pollen, mortal if ignored, where just one of the parties was injected, etc), embarrassment for being watched and filmed, guilty because it wasn't as bad as they expected it would be, maybe troubled because 'I'm not gay, but...', maybe worried his friend realized too, or worried to be the only one to feel this way....

• Coming Out / Getting Outed? I love LGBT themes! Characters admitting they are gay to their friends, or to the press because reasons, or just because. Characters getting outed by a photographer, or their last night stand, and having to deal with the consequences. Characters afraid to get their bi or homosexuality discovered because of their own internalized homophobia. Characters learning to accept their own sexuality. Any road you take, I'd like a first time with a happy (or hopeful at the very least?) ending for the pairing.

• Drunk Confession?

• Earn Your Happy Ending

• (Enemies to) Friends to Lovers / Getting Together / Slow built relationship through the canon happenings?

• A road trip? Or a vacation to un-vent sees them sharing a cabin, getting to be accidentally or purposefully alone together? 

• Enemy as the accidental mach-maker?

• Hurt/comfort gets them together? Having to take care/getting cared by the other to make them realize or admit feelings? Or maybe it's the forced proximity, they getting infected with alien virus and having to keep touching each other to stay alive that forces them to confront their mutual feelings? I'll let it to you to decide what's the story you wish to tell me.

• Permanent Injury? I'd like situations like the other character helping with the rehabilitation process and the possible lingering trauma, the nightmares. With the depression. I'd like the experience bringing them closer, or more open. Character feeling guilty to be the (direct or indirect) cause of the injury of his friend. Anything goes tbh, if you wish to expand your story on a different route, by all means. I'd like if there's also some space for a first time.

• Undercover as a Couple?

• They Wake Up Married?

• 1940s AU, Romance or secret affair? Maybe Noir style. Or during wartime, or during the quiet moments in between fighting the war? Or describing the romance as an insert of living the realty of these times while a war is raging on the other side of the ocean. Internalized homophobia, the uncertainty a guy could feel when he finds he likes men, when society just expect of a guy to marry a nice lady juxtaposed to how happy being together with this man makes him, despite of all the rest of the world tell them they aren't supposed to feel that way?

• Non-A/B/O mpreg? I love the mpreg happening on non A/B/O stories, that is on a setting where men aren't supposed to be able to carry a child (so yay to all the angst, doubts, uncertainty, fears, etc coming with the pregnancy), and magic or other kind of superior intervention (aliens? People and technology from future?) is in the works to make it happen. It can be wanted, non consensual or dub con mpreg, basically feel free to explore the trope the way you think it would be truer to the characters/setting.

• BDSM or Dom/Sub themes? I like it being about power exchange, dominance and submission consensually given and taken in every ship mostly, but with some ships (for example Scorpius/Crichton) I'd also enjoy dub and non consensuality for this dynamic. For those feel free whether or not to go dark and in dub or non con territory. I enjoy a broader specter of BDSM dynamics, scenarios, kinks, though I lean more on the hardcore side, that means while I'm likely to enjoy virtually anything you'll write for me I have a preference for painful over painless, rough over gentle. I also like when characters experience sub space, sub drop, after care. Or emotional and mental trials of any sort.

• Is (character) secretly yearning to Sub for someone, or to dome someone in particular? What if he's given the chance? Or what if he's given no choice?

• Regency AU? “In the Regency time period proper decorum is of the utmost importance, but anything can happen behind closed doors. Story of how a prohibited and conflicting affair between two single gentlemen is born.”

• Supernatural Creatures and Hunters AU. World building is something I particularly love on non-Canon AUs. The story beginning in the standard way where one's the hunter and the other one's the hunted down creature (a were wolf? An incubus? A creature from the Ice Realm? Other?). I enjoy this trope in conjunction with others like imprinting on a lover, rituals to create life-bonds, generally bonding for life, different or stronger kind of loving, make love, needs, or where urges to mating becoming more important than 'we are different species'. Mpreg (consensual, dob or non con) also welcomed. Magic or psychic powers, emphatic or telepathic mind-link with thought/feeling sharing when they get to bond, whether it's wanted from both sides, or happens accidentally, etc... really, go wild!

• Lost/Stranded Somewhere, fighting to survive, sleeping close at night, bonding at a deeper level in the whole process.

• Soul bonding? If it's accidental in particular and the parties take some time to accept or make it work? Canon setting, divergent canon, or any kind of AU. They meet each other and boom! they are bonded. Neither half expects to get stuck with the other as their bonded-for-life or something, but that happens and neither could be more unhappy about that revelation, at the beginning. That's until they realize they're falling for their bonded one, despite their initial annoyance with the situation. Happy ending, please?

• VA or Mental Health Clinic Inmates AU? 

• While I'm cool with a story set in a non military based mental health clinic AU, I'd prefer the VA Hospital angle, where they are War Veterans too broken to go back to a normal life among civilians, with no family to take care of them in the real world, or something along those lines that in your opinion would fit the characters better. The VA ward is their home now, some inmates (and the staff?) the closest they have to a family. I'm OK with patient/patient and staff/patient ship. Feel free to explore the dark paths of the souls, or to write something with a lighter mood. I'm cool with either, as long as the ship has an happy (or at least hopeful) ending.

• Dystopia AU / Sexual Slavery AU, or divergent dystopic canon: I'll admit, this is a favorite, because of the dark, angsty setting the premise would suggest. Dystopic alternate reality where the canon is bent to make slavery possible, or it could be a complete AU, or be a fantasy with a historical flavor (so no modern tech and people more prone to superstitious believes -- depending on the era you get inspiration from), modern, or sci fi (there can be societies approving of slavery in space too, right?). In each scenario, I'd love read about the sex-slave angle if you do that, where one character gets to be enslaved and the other character becomes his master (to save the first character, or for more egoistical and lustful reasons?). I'm fine with dub or non-con (implicit or graphic, as background info or happening on the story) that comes with the trope, but I'm also cool with the master to be a kind 'master' too, acting like his slave is not a possession but a human being. I'm totally open to your take of this trope.

• Post-Apocalypse Survival? This is a favorite too, I just love when characters lose everything and angst, and Post-Apocalypse survival is the most literal to this meaning, or keep on and fight because that's the only way they know to cope with the hurt, or because they want to help the others to make it all better, but in this scenario the only thing you are left are the people who survive and your memory. Is it hopeless, or where there's life, there's hope?

• Prison/Penitentiary inmates AU or divergent canon: one inmate as the savior from gang-rape or beating of the other inmate? Or he's abusive too, just a lesser evil than to be alone? Happy-ish ending with them falling for each other is the preferred course, but I'm open to your take, if you've got a plot bunnie you'd like to explore.

• Character gets brainwashed to be on the evil side. Time Masters brainwashing character, the other character trying to save him and undo the brainwash, or becoming his sexual slave? Or else, Crichton brainwashed to be a pawn of the Peacekeepers and Scorpius' personal plaything? Or Crichton brainwashed to be a loyal servant of the Peacekeepers who gets Scorpius as his personal sex slave in exchange for his services? About DCAU, go wild! Well, about all the canons go wild. :)

• Role Reverse AU?

• Rescue from kidnapping/getting stuck for a long time under a crumbled building, and recovery fic describing character's PTSD process of recovering from lingering trauma (pain and thinking he was going to die or from rape and humiliation or torture etc).

• Different First Meeting/Divergent Canon where they grow up together, or meet each other way earlier, how that would impact their lives, how they would get together eventually? For example Len's a problematic boy at his school, or a little thug from his neighbor? Wally and John got enrolled in the same unit? Or went at school together?

... Etcetera.