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Dear investigator,

Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to write for me. While I’ve included prompts for each fandom in case they're helpful, please don’t feel constrained to them if they aren’t working for you, or if some other plotbunny really inspires you; I am a genuine believer in Optional Details Being Optional and will be very excited to read whatever you come up with. <3

Casefic-specific likes:

  • Hurt/comfort, whump, and caretaking of all sorts. Any sort of case centered around our protagonist(s) getting hurt, sick, or otherwise put through the wringer will be right up my alley. Maybe they get kidnapped? Maybe a routine case/mission goes horribly wrong and now they're struggling to make it out alive? I love the catharsis of a character stoically enduring all sorts of nasty stuff only to collapse and be taken care of when the mystery is finally solved and the adrenaline runs out.
  • Unreliable narrators. Give me a case where our protagonist’s perception of what's going on, or their memory of what's already happened, isn’t as it seems! I love reading about altered mental states, which ties in nicely with the hurt/comfort bullet above.
  • Heists, thefts, characters going undercover, all sorts of espionage and Spy Stuff.
  • Fic that Gets Weird With It (if you’re ever worrying “is this fic concept too weird?”: the answer is no)
  • Casefic where the case facilitates a deep dive into some unexplored corner of the canon’s worldbuilding, or that one background plot detail that never came up again
  • Psychological mind games
  • Organizational politics and bureaucracy
  • Casefic as a vehicle for character/relationship study
  • Horror (psychological horror, body horror, supernatural horror, cosmic horror - all the horror!)
  • Genre/trope subversions
  • Competence porn: people being clever and capable and doing what they're good at, and applying their skills intelligently in unconventional ways/settings
  • People using logic & reasoning from first principles to deal with a situation / investigate a problem
  • Dramatic irony: love the juicy tension created when two characters have completely different frames of reference for what’s going on in a given situation, and they’re unwittingly talking past each other…
  • Engineering & systems, especially the kind that keep things running behind the scenes: maintenance, security, logistics, fault analysis, infrastructure design, etc
  • Dread, paranoia, the subtle building realization that something is terribly wrong

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • #FreeBart2K25!! I’d love to see Dirk and co. break her out of Blackwing, or her breaking out herself (with or without Ken’s help — I’m good with him getting a redemption arc/secretly having been good all along OR him actually being a card-carrying evil asshole) and in the process bringing a new case to the agency’s doorstep.
  • More holistics! And more Blackwing, for that matter. I’m a huge SCP nerd and in that vein I’d love to see more of how and why Blackwing operates. Why did the projects start, and what are they leading up to? Where did the kids come from?
  • What happens to Friedkin post-S2?
  • Dirk on a self-discovery journey — what was his past/family like before Blackwing? What might have happened at Blackwing that he no longer remembers? How does his connection to the universe really work in practice?
  • Dirk or Bart getting whumped!
  • Anything that captures the show’s telltale “seemingly-random insane chaos that somehow all perfectly connects at the end” vibe, and reality generally being out to lunch.

DNW: explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!), pregnancy, crossovers


Disco Elysium
  • Anything about the pale!! A routine case complicated by the presence of pale? A case set on an interisolary airship mid-flight with all the pale weirdness that implies? A look into how the government deals with the pale? Harry and Kim having to deal with weird memory/perception issues caused by pale exposure? A case set many years post-canon as the pale apocalypse is slowly consuming Revachol? I find the pale so interesting and I’d love to see it explored in any capacity.
  • The genius loci that is La Revacholiere, and how Harry might interact with it on a case
  • Kim getting whumped
  • The RCM dealing with the leadup to, or fallout of, Le Retour

DNW: explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!), pregnancy, crossovers


The Penumbra Podcast
Beyond the events of the first two seasons, feel free to draw inspiration from OR entirely ignore/contradict canon from Seasons 3-5 as you see fit. I just want these two solving crimes (and maybe also doing a little crime on the side) together so bad. Post-canon is probably the easiest route here, but I’d also enjoy a casefic set during a canon-divergence AU (maybe Juno and Nureyev reconciled somehow post-S1 before the Curemother job?). Or TBH I’d be perfectly happy with a fic set at some nebulous point in time where there’s no good canon-compliant reason why they’re working together; go ahead and get handwavey with it.
  • More about Hyperion City/Mars. (What happened to all those people who disappeared at the end of Season 2, and what might the aftermath of the THEIA takeover look like? What goes down in the Cerberus Province aside from it being your standard wretched hive of scum and villainy?) Or about the galaxy at large! Or Dark Matters!
  • Nureyev’s past with the Brahman resistance.
  • Them going undercover and Nureyev assuming one of his trademark ridiculous aliases.
  • I love seeing Nureyev whumped so any sort of case involving that would be a delight.

DNW: explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!), pregnancy, crossovers, canon compliant fic set during Season 3


Trigun Stampede
Plucky Journalist In Over Her Head and her Two Monster Boyfriends: it’s an excellent dynamic. Love the contrast between Wolfwood struggling with fresh, raw trauma/loss of humanity and Vash carrying the weight of two centuries of trauma that’s both scarred over and festered beneath the surface. And Meryl, the outsider, serving as the grounding force between them while maintaining her own agency, even as she’s gradually losing her naïveté about the world. I’m vaguely familiar with the major plot points of Trimax but have not read it (and am not familiar at all with the ’98 anime) — in the event of contradictions between Stampede/Maximum/’98, please stick to Stampede canon, but you’re welcome to otherwise draw plot elements from other Trigun continuities if you’d like!
  • A canon-typical “monster-of-the-week”/“mystery-of-the-week” set vaguely post-S2 after the three of them have gotten back together again. Or the process of them getting back together again — maybe some amnesia shenanigans involving Eriks?
  • A look at Meryl and Wolfwood post-S1. How are they coping in the immediate aftermath of July with the loss of Vash and Roberto + everything else they’ve been through, and what do they end up doing in the two years between S1 and S2? I’d like to think they stick together for at least part of it. Maybe Wolfwood comes home with her for lack of anything better to do, and winds up as her Watson helping her investigate her next story? What sort of trouble do they get into looking for Vash together?
  • Anything involving Wolfwood getting whumped! He’s just so whumpable. I’d love a case that gives us a more in-depth look at the Eye of Michael, or his past with Livio, or a look at some of the other child soldiers the Eye produced. What’s really up with those vials?

DNW: explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!), pregnancy, crossovers
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Dear Author, 

Hello! I'm kubernetes on AO3. Congratulations on your great taste re: whatever fandom(s) we ended up matching on, and thank you for taking the time to write for me!

While I’ve included prompts for each fandom in case they're helpful, please don’t feel constrained to them if they aren’t working for you, or if some other plotbunny really inspires you; I am a genuine believer in Optional Details Being Optional and will be very excited to read whatever you come up with. TBH hurt/comfort is my favorite trope and I'm just happy to be here. And while some of my requests are longer/shorter than others, I want to stress that I love all of these fandoms equally — everything I've requested is here because it's something I'd love to receive!

Major spoilers below for all of my requested fandoms. Also: I love treats!

Quick fandom navigation links:
Disco Elysium | Harry/Kim (hurt Kim)
Original Work | Shapeshifter learning to be human/retired general learning to live again (F/F) (hurt both)
There Is No Antimemetics Division | Marion & None, Marion/Adam (hurt Marion)
The Half-Life of Valery K  | Valery/Shenkov (either or both hurt)

Some hurt/comfort likes:

A few character archetypes I tend to enjoy (that seem to be a common theme throughout my requests):
  • control freaks struggling with the loss of control caused by whump/recovery
  • stoic emotionally-repressed types approaching their breaking point
  • hypercompetent badasses getting fucked up and still being hypercompetent badasses
  • well-put-together characters showing cracks in their polished facade 
  • independent characters who don't know how to be taken care of
And a few random hyperspecific tropes I tend to enjoy (that are of course nonexhaustive - literally any kind of injury, illness, emotional whump will probably be up my alley):
  • Altered mental states: hallucinations, delirium, intoxication, induced fear, sensory overload / deprivation, PTSD, paranoia, memory alteration, mental breakdown, etc. Not being able to trust your own mind or body, and the angst caused by that lack of trust extending to the hurt character's partner, and/or the catharsis of their partner being the one thing they're still able to trust despite it all.
  • Caretaking / convalescence / trauma recovery (love characters being taken care of. Needing help with basic stuff; bed rest; being able to get by on their own & realizing they don’t have to; being out of the woods but still weak & exhausted & reliant on the care of others; grinning & bearing increasing awfulness until the adrenaline suddenly runs out…)
  • Learning to live in the aftermath: stories about people rebuilding physically, spiritually, and emotionally (and maybe getting messy and codependent about it along the way)
  • Characters who dissociate, compartmentalize, or who just have poor interoception - figuring out exactly what's wrong is complicated when they feel emotionally and/or physically disconnected from their body
  • "Post-victory collapse" (with "victory" defined very loosely - character has Serious Business to attend to & puts off the big collapse/breakdown/what have you until it's done, or until they're alone/with just their partner, at which point said big collapse/breakdown happens promptly and dramatically)
  • That thing where a character needs help sitting up and drinking/taking meds/whatever
  • Exhausted burned-out characters getting to (/being forced to) rest and take a break for once in their lives
Some other more general likes:
  • Acts of service (whether between acquaintances, friends, family, or lovers)
  • Allusions (historical, literary, science, tech)
  • Canon-divergence AUs (whether they make things better for the characters, much worse, or just weirder)
  • Casefic / missionfic / “monster-of-the-week” / “day-in-the-life”
  • Character / relationship studies
  • Competence porn 
  • Consequences of actions and choices
  • Domesticity
  • Dramatic irony / foreshadowing of future events in canon / subtle gut-punch moments
  • Dysfunctional / messy / codependent / unhealthy relationships (platonic & romantic)
  • Established relationship
  • Engineering & systems, especially the kind that keep things running behind the scenes: maintenance, security, logistics, fault analysis, infrastructure design, etc
  • Fic that Gets Weird With It (if you’re ever worrying “is this fic concept too weird?”: the answer is no)
  • Horror (psychological horror, cosmic horror, body horror - all the horror!)
  • Humor / black comedy
  • Neurodivergence headcanons (demonstrated implicitly via the way characters think/act, rather than explicitly stated)
  • Nonsexual intimacy
  • Organizational politics & bureaucracy
  • People using logic to deal with a situation / investigate a problem
  • Psychological mind games
  • Secrets: keeping them, letting them slip, trying to figure them out
  • The subtle, building realization that something is terribly wrong 
  • Unreliable narrators
  • Worldbuilding 

I’m perfectly fine with darkfic, graphic violence / gore, ambiguous / bittersweet / unhappy endings, etc. (Although, given the theme of this exchange, unless you're writing for a "& None" relationship I would like there to be at least some comfort happening!)

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Disco Elysium
Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi (hurt Kim)

Selected freeforms under cutBAMF character A is hurt/sick and is still a BAMF; character B provides comfort anyway
Character trying to hold it together is clearly fraying at the edges
Hurt/Comfort During A Case/Mission
Hurt/sick A trusts B to drive them home in A's car; B knows it's a big deal to A
Independent character being taken care of for once
adrenaline crash
Aftermath of Solitary Confinement
Altered States - Drugged Into A State Of Confusion and Fear
unravelling timeline
Fear of loss of control
Character Reassured They Are Allowed To Rest
Stoic character only lets themself be looked after when alone with partner
Character A Gets Head Injury; B Cares For Them During Concussion/TBI Recovery
This fandom is small; I consent to any hurt/comfort scenario you think I'd like

Disco Elyisum is an urban fantasy noir RPG (playthrough time approx. 20 hours) available for purchase on Steam.

Kim! What a guy. I love how he’s the “stoic snarky straight man who’s secretly a giant lovable weirdo” foil to Harry’s “outright giant lovable weirdo”, how he’s spent his life trying to do what’s right within a corrupt system that resists him at every turn, his hypercompetence and his hyperprofessionalism and his love of ritual and routine that all really stem from a deep-seated fear of not being in control. Which is why I just think it's neat seeing him unravel when he's not in control :) and of course Harry emotionally can-opening him, being somehow both eerily good and hilariously bad at being his rock to lean against, and you can’t even hold the “hilariously bad” against him with how earnestly he’s trying his best in his own strange way.
 
While I tend to go for post-canon established-relationship fics with these two, really anything you come up with will delight me here. Whumpy hurt/comfort during a case, or in the aftermath of a case, or on just another day at the station, might be fun. Or something about them dealing with the fallout of Le Retour, or the Pale (the slow breakdown of memory and reality does not sound like a particularly fun thing to experience, but it does sound like a deliciously whumpy thing to read about!)

DNW: 
AUs other than canon-divergence (i.e. I DNW setting-change AUs and DNW trope AUs such as soulmates, hanahaki, etc); crossovers; explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!); pregnancy; Disco Elysium-style text formatting, i.e. prose formatted like a video game dialogue system, from Kim’s POV (from Harry’s POV is fine!)
 
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Original Work
Shapeshifter learning to be human/retired general learning to live again (F/F) (hurt both)

Selected freeforms under cutAftermath of Torture - Long Recovery
aftermath of war
Character A is used to following orders; Character B comforts them through learning not to
Character experiences burnout
Character pushes their body past the breaking point to win; now has to deal with broken body
Characters survive dangerous situation together; no longer know how to function separately
Created as a weapon and then learning to be a person
Character who's been stressed for a long time finally gets chance to relax and falls very ill
A helps B through war-related PTSD
Highly competent traumatized character loses ability to function after additional trauma
Human Experimentation
Older Character is Comforted After Lifetime of Trauma
Post-saving the world breakdown
Recovery from Long-Term Dehumanization
Slow recovery from life changing injury
Slow recovery from major illness with multiple relapses
Spy/secret agent gets hung out to dry
Stoic character breaks down
Weakened character needs help with basic tasks (eating/bathing/using bathroom/etc.)
Recovering from Shared Trauma that Bonded Characters Codependently and Changed Them Permanently
 

I saw this in the tagset after signups began and I didn't know until now just how badly I needed this in my life. (Great taste, nominator, whoever you are!)

I love recovery plots (see the "learning to live in the aftermath, and maybe getting messy and codependent about it along the way" bit of my likes section). I love weird scifi settings. And these are two character archetypes I will never not be obsessed with: the chameleon who's worn so many faces to survive that she’s forgotten who she really is beneath all of the masks (aside from a weapon to be used), and the hypercompetent stoic badass who’s spent so long acting perfectly composed under immense pressure, only to start unraveling when that pressure suddenly disappears and she realizes it was the one thing that's been holding her together. Anyways I just think they should kiss.

I’m imagining some sort of sci-fi-adjacent military milieu here (although feel free to interpret “general” loosely — maybe they were involved with some sort of black ops intelligence bureau, or Men in Black/SCP style paramilitary agency?) And I think I'm most interested in there being some sort of established dynamic between these two. What sort of horror are they dealing with the aftermath of, and how has it changed them? (Perhaps it has trauma-bonded them at the hip?)
 
DNW: Crossovers; explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!); pregnancy.
 
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TINAD
Marion Wheeler & None (hurt Marion)
Marion Wheeler/Adam Wheeler 
(hurt Marion)

Selected freeforms under cutAftermath & Comfort For Canon Hurt
Altered States - Overdose
Amnesia - character forgets the trauma they went through; the physical/psychological effects remain
Amnesia - subconsciously missing a loved one you don't remember
caretaking in small but obvious ways
Character goes looking for answers; it's a mistake
Character Is Exhausted From Overworking Themself
Character pushes their body past the breaking point to win; now has to deal with broken body
Ghosts still feeling their illnesses/injuries even after death
Memory Loss - A tries to help B as their memory slowly gets worse
Surviving Canon Death with Nonetheless Life-Altering Consequences and Injuries
too important to be ill
Trauma Nightmares
boss hurt in front of subordinates
Stoic character only lets themself be looked after when alone with partner
Snarky comfort
Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
Character A picks Character B up from hospital
This fandom is small; I consent to any hurt/comfort scenario you think I'd like

There Is No Antimemetics Division is a sci-fi/cosmic horror web serial novel (approx. 70k words), available for free online here. I wrote up a Yuletide promo for this canon here.

I adore "blunt, hypercompetent, traumatized, constantly calculating, ungodly-amounts-of-caffeine-and-tobacco-consuming science hero suffers more than Jesus" types in general, and making her a middle-aged woman is a surefire way to have me banging down your door. I love Marion's thought process as she’s triaging a situation or working through a difficult decision, and how she’s stoic and caustic and kind of weird and also a brilliant, respected leader who cares deeply about her people, and I’m kind of insane about her marriage?

She's dealing with so much horrible shit at all times and this isn't a book that’s particularly interested in dwelling on it, which makes it all the more heartbreaking when it casually drops some detail of how awful her life is and then unceremoniously moves on. (Like, of course she’s slowly losing her memories of everything and everyone she’s ever loved. Of course she’s destroyed her body with toxic drugs to buy everyone a little more time. Of course she barely sleeps or takes care of herself between the constant nightmares and being on call 24/7. Of course she spent two years reliving her own death on loop. NBD.) And so I’d love something that explores the physical/emotional ramifications of all the trauma she goes through - and her general tendency to work herself into the ground - further than canon does. God could she use a hug and/or a vacation and/or a 15 hour nap. 
 
  • "When you come home, on the nights you make it home, you are ready to fold up. It has never been an easy job, but these past few years have been the worst they've ever been. (…) I can tell, from the… rattle in your hands and the things you don't say, and the way you sleep, that there is some kind of war going on back here. And you're losing people to it. And you're almost at the end. And you're going to win. So I scramble your eggs, and I play the violin for you, and between us we hack out about three-tenths of what I would consider to be normalcy. Not because you can't do this without me, you could take the whole universe by yourself if you really had to, but: to blazes with that, you don't have to." <—— that. that’s the prompt
  • How did she first discover 4987, and how does having to manage it impact her life?
  • What is it like to somehow survive a Class-Z mnestic? If she'd survived through the end of the war, what would she have done in the aftermath?
  • TBH I will be very into any sort of canon-compliant whumpy casefic/missing scene/character study/etc that you can think of. (Or canon divergence/fix it AU!) Go wild.
DNW: AUs other than canon-divergence (i.e. I DNW setting-change AUs and DNW trope AUs such as soulmates, hanahaki, etc); crossovers; explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!); pregnancy. 

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Valery K
Valery Kolkhanov/Konstantin Shenkov (hurt Valery)
Valery Kolkhanov/Konstantin Shenkov (hurt Shenkov)
Valery Kolkhanov/Konstantin Shenkov (hurt both)

Selected freeforms under cutAftermath & Comfort For Canon Hurt
Characters survive dangerous situation together; no longer know how to function separately
Characters live together while one recovers from hurt
Comfort focusing on little hurt because the big hurt is massive and unapproachable
Radiation Sickness
Recovering from Shared Trauma that Bonded Characters Codependently and Changed Them Permanently
This fandom is small; I consent to any hurt/comfort scenario you think I'd like

The Half Life of Valery K is a historical Cold War-era LGBT thriller (approx. 110k words).

Some things I love about this book: Science used to build tension and suspense, and brilliant characters who succeed by The Martian-style “sciencing the shit out of this”. Realistic depictions of trauma and the complicated ways it expresses itself. Intimacy and small kindnesses and mutual caretaking between people who’ve done awful things to survive, in the face of dystopian power structures and immense tragedy. Our good friend Albert the octopus. And of course all of the whump.

I’d love to read something set during Valery and Shenkov’s life in witness protection in Durham post-canon, recovering from everything they’ve been through and figuring out a way to move forward. Do Anna and the kids make it to England, and how does that change Valery and Shenkov’s relationship (or not, as the case may be)? Or some canon-compliant moments of quiet hurt/comfort-y domesticity from when Valery was living in Shenkov's apartment. Or maybe even a canon-divergence AU where Valery and Shenkov are reunited at the embassy and leave for England together?

DNW: AUs other than canon-divergence (i.e. I DNW setting-change AUs and DNW trope AUs such as soulmates, hanahaki, etc); crossovers; explicit on-page sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!); pregnancy; Anna or her kids explicitly dying. 

 

(also: I didn’t think to DNW this until right after signups closed, and so if you put it in your fic that is of course completely fine, but I would prefer the story not focus heavily on Valery’s time in Germany.)

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My wonderful gifts:

The Assistant
 | The Employees - Olga Ravn 
Decades after canon, a scientist and her plucky assistant race to find a commercial use for the Objects before their lab loses funding — but not all is as it seems. Some really fascinating worldbuilding here; twisty fun from start to finish. 2.0k.

Final Maintenance Report | The Employees - Olga Ravn 
The last surviving custodian of the Six Thousand Ship prepares a message for their employers. Voicey and stylistically impressive and darkly funny and heartbreaking in all the best ways. 1.1k.

Memetic Fallout | There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm 
Love in the time of cholera being slowly twisted into an entropic hole in reality. A really touching postcanon fix-it with a fun nonlinear structure and some cool in-universe documentation. 1.5k. 

Fresh Hell Dating Simulator | There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm 
What if the hacking-an-eldritch-finger-monster-to-death-with-a-fire-axe meet cute from canon was a dating sim? This is so silly, and so fun, and filled with excellent puns, and random lines from it keep popping into my head and making me crack up. 2.6k, interactive fiction.

Some more recs:

Report on the Hal 9000 unit aboard the Discovery One | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A postmortem report on the events of the movie, investigating what caused HAL to malfunction — and uncovering some unsettling truths. Does very cool things with multimedia, from some wonderfully creepy visuals to inventing an entire programming language?? 3.0k.

Family Rules | Bullet Train (2022)
In the aftermath of the Shinkansen job, MI-6 takes Lemon and Tangerine's foster mother in for questioning, but she isn't going to give them up without a fight. A charming, delightfully voicey postcanon fix-it that made my heart do a bunch of funny things. 2.6k.

Amongst the Oranges | The Fall (2006)
Twelve years after the events of the film, Roy visits Alexandria at the orange grove. The fic I've wanted to read since I first watched this movie - such a beautiful epilogue to their story. 1.4k.

Parallels | Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self - Isabel J. Kim 
A teenage boy and his family get a Christmas visit from his clone. Lovely and heartwarming and also a fascinating exploration of how “instancing” would work in practice. 2.7k.

The Yellow Sine | The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
The general premise of "The King In Yellow, but make it cyberpunk" was an instaclick for me, and the actual fic did not disappoint. So cool and so wonderfully creepy. 1.1k.

A Very Normal Day in the Life of a Polar Explorer | Rayuela | Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar
Went into this fandom blind, but all of the brilliant wordplay in this surrealist romp delighted me enough that I went to go check out the canon. ~2k, interactive fiction.

Until the Storm Recedes | Serious Weakness - Porpentine Charity Heartscape 
Being chained to a bed all day in your parents' vacation cabin leaves you a lot of time to think. You have until the storm recedes to find a way out. Fun and technically inventive, with a strong sense of atmosphere and a knack for building tension. 5.1k, interactive fiction. 

seams | The Substance (2024) 
Elisabeth locks Sue in her apartment… things get much worse from there. Brilliant, visceral body horror, and some deliciously weird character dynamics. 2.1k.

binary black holes | Taste - Sabrina Carpenter (Music Video) 
Vignettes from two immortal women’s centuries-long cat-and-mouse quest to kill each other, and the romance they didn’t expect to fall into along the way. Really fun structure, great chemistry, some truly striking imagery. 2.6k.

What Julian Doesn’t Grow Won’t Burn Him | Trailer Park Boys 
Julian and Ricky get fake-married in a madcap scheme to get Ricky a fancy new trailer to grow weed in. Delightfully fun - feels just like an episode of the show. 6.3k.

Turning a Sphere into Two Spheres | Turning a Sphere Outside In (Huggbees)
A kid genius and her dad work out the Banach-Tarski paradox, and also their family’s… deeply complicated history. Really good pastiche of the original; hilarious and educational to boot. 2.2k.
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Dear Author, 

Hello! I'm kubernetes on AO3. Congratulations on your great taste re: whatever fandom(s) we ended up matching on, and thank you for taking the time to write for me!

While I’ve included prompts for each fandom in case they're helpful, please don’t feel constrained to them if they aren’t working for you, or if some other plotbunny really inspires you; I am a genuine believer in Optional Details Being Optional and will be very excited to read whatever you come up with. And while some of my requests are longer/shorter than others, I want to stress that I love all of these fandoms equally — everything I've requested is here because it's something I'd love to receive!

Major spoilers below for all of my requested fandoms. Also: I love treats!

Quick fandom navigation links:
Anything for Jackson | Henry/Audrey
Scavengers Reign | Kris/Azi
Squid Game | In-ho/Gi-hun, In-ho & Jun-ho, In-ho & Il-nam
Succession | Tom/Shiv
There Is No Antimemetics Division | Marion & Antimemetics Division, Marion/Adam

Some general likes:
  • Acts of service (whether between acquaintances, friends, family, or lovers)
  • Allusions (historical, literary, science, tech)
  • Altered mental states: hallucinations, delirium, intoxication, induced fear, sensory overload / deprivation, memory alteration, mental breakdown, etc.
  • Canon-divergence AUs (whether they make things better for the characters, much worse, or just weirder)
  • Casefic / missionfic / “monster-of-the-week” / “day-in-the-life”
  • Character / relationship studies
  • Competence porn 
  • Consequences of actions and choices
  • Domesticity
  • Dramatic irony / foreshadowing of future events in canon / subtle gut-punch moments
  • Dysfunctional / messy / codependent / unhealthy relationships (platonic & romantic)
  • Engineering & systems, especially the kind that keep things running behind the scenes: maintenance, security, logistics, fault analysis, infrastructure design, etc
  • Fic that Gets Weird With It (if you’re ever worrying “is this fic concept too weird?”: the answer is no)
  • Horror (psychological horror, cosmic horror, body horror - all the horror!)
  • Humor / black comedy
  • Hurt/comfort
  • Learning to live in the aftermath: stories about people rebuilding physically, spiritually, and emotionally (and maybe getting messy and codependent about it along the way)
  • Neurodivergence headcanons (demonstrated implicitly via the way characters think/act, rather than explicitly stated)
  • Nonsexual intimacy
  • Organizational politics & bureaucracy
  • People using logic to deal with a situation / investigate a problem
  • Psychological mind games
  • Secrets: keeping them, letting them slip, trying to figure them out
  • Sickfic / caretaking / convalescence / trauma recovery (heavy on the caretaking; love characters being taken care of. Needing help with basic stuff; being able to get by on their own & realizing they don’t have to; being out of the woods but still weak & exhausted; grinning & bearing increasing awfulness until the adrenaline suddenly runs out…)
  • Stoic, hypercompetent, otherwise in-control characters approaching their breaking point
  • The subtle, building realization that something is terribly wrong 
  • Unconventional fic formats (nonlinear narrative, epistolary, pastiche, metafiction, CYOA / IF, found documents, etc.)
  • Unconventional POVs (2nd person, outsider POV, multiple POVs, nonhuman POV, etc.)
  • Unreliable narrators
  • Whump >:)
  • Worldbuilding 

I’m perfectly fine with darkfic, graphic violence / gore, ambiguous / bittersweet / unhappy endings, requested character death, etc. 

Some general DNWs:
  • AUs other than canon-divergence (i.e. I DNW setting-change AUs and DNW trope AUs such as soulmates, hanahaki, etc)
  • Crossovers
  • Explicit sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!)
  • Pregnancy (with the exception of Anything for Jackson and Succession)
  • References to real-world current events from 2010 or later (with the exception of Succession)

Anything for Jackson
Henry Walsh/Audrey Walsh

Anything for Jackson is a black-comedy supernatural horror film (1.5 hrs) available for streaming on Prime, Apple TV, and Shudder. I wrote up a promo post for it here.

If there is any truly bulletproof trope for me, it’s “terrible people who are also fiercely, desperately in love with each other fondly bicker like an old married couple as they do horrible things together and gradually realize they're in way over their heads”, and let me tell you, Anything for Jackson DELIVERS. They're just so fun to watch together.
 
  • How exactly did these two become Satanists: was it after Jackson’s death, or had they gotten into it long before then?
  • As much as I felt their end in the film was fitting, I’d love to see an AU where they do end up burning the house down and going on the run to Mexico.
  • But really, any kind of relationship study that captures their dynamic in the film would make me very happy.

Fandom-specific DNW:
  • Discussion of pregnancy is fine (and would be difficult to avoid given the general premise of this canon), but please no on-page descriptions of pregnancy-related medical procedures or physical consequences of pregnancy on the body.
  • Also, please don't kill Shannon. (Feel free to kill Henry and Audrey, though.)

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Scavengers Reign
Kris/Azi

Scavengers Reign is a 12-episode sci-fi animated TV series (total runtime approx. 5 hours), available for streaming on Netflix (in the US, UK, Ireland, and New Zealand). I wrote up a Yuletide promo for this canon here.

I really enjoy Kris’s hyper-pragmatic, calculated efficiency, her control-freak tendencies and the possessiveness with which she effortlessly dominates her crew. And I love Azi: “brilliant butch lesbian mechanic” is already catnip for me, but also I love the way she connects to others even as she keeps her own heart guarded, and her stubborn determination, and how her relationship to Vesta transforms over the course of the show. They go together like oil and water, but man I simply cannot resist toxic butch4butch psychological mind games.
 
  • I found Kris treating Azi as Terrence’s replacement goldfish weirdly compelling. What if Azi took Kris up on her offer? What if she didn’t, but was forced to leave with Kris (and potentially Barry) anyway? What if the shuttle took off without either of them?
  • Or, really, any Kris/Azi mutual-manipulation, enemies-to-lovers, forced-to-work-together-to-survive, etc. situation is going to be right up my alley. 
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Squid Game
Hwang Inho | Front Man/Seong Gihun
Hwang Inho | Front Man & Hwang Junho
Hwang Inho | Front Man & Oh Ilnam

Squid Game is a 2-season dystopian thriller TV series available for streaming on Netflix.

I binged the new season of Squid Game a few days ago and I was definitely not expecting In-ho to be my favorite part of the whole thing, but here we are. I just think he's neat! I love the charming facade he keeps up as Young-il (to mess with Gi-hun's head and prove some Longwinded Point on the Nature of Humanity) and the weird sort of chemistry that creates between him and Gi-hun, and the angry, raw moments where that facade cracks, and how we never quite figure out what the hell he's up to. And I really enjoy the dynamic between him and Jun-ho - Jun-ho's obsessive devotion towards finding him in S1 (and unwillingness to give his identity up to Gi-hun in S2), In-ho being visibly affected by Jun-ho when nothing else seems to faze him & keeping Jun-ho alive from the shadows even at a cost to himself... 

  • I'd love to read about how he won his Games, his life afterwards (why did he keep living such a modest life? how did the Games change him, and his relationship with Jun-ho? did the trauma of it stay with him?), and about his path to becoming Front Man under Oh Il-nam's mentorship. 
  • What happens after the curtain closes on the Season 2 finale? (I find the idea of In-ho using Gi-hun as his pawn somehow for some sinister ulterior purpose very compelling. Seems like a dude with ambitions. Does he want to gain power outside the South Korea branch? Is he secretly playing some crazy long game to assassinate the VIPs and/or take down the Games? Is he going to try and mindbreak Gi-hun into becoming the next Front Man?)
  • Maybe an AU where Jun-ho and co. successfully manage to break into the Games and get Gi-hun/In-ho/the rest of their team out, except Gi-hun still thinks In-ho is Young-il, In-ho is still playing along, and Jun-ho is like "what the actual fuck..."
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Succession
Siobhan “Shiv” Roy/Tom Wambsgans

Succession is a black-comedy corporate drama TV series (4 seasons) available for streaming on Hulu and Max.

They are so delightfully awful for each other and they are everything to me. The power games on top of power games! The desperate craving for human connection even as they’re unable to ask for it! Their protectiveness of each other even as they actively work to screw each other over! The irony of Shiv being much more attracted to the person Tom is when he’s not around her, and by the time he’s finally worn down enough to show her that side of himself things are (almost?) broken beyond repair! Tom loving her and loving nice things and those not being mutually exclusive! The glass scorpion! Bitey! Anyways, for these two I’m most interested in pre-canon and Season 4 onwards.

  • It’s implied that Tom met Shiv at a dark time in her life and helped her through it; what was that like?
  • What else was going on with them behind closed doors during S4?
  • And what happens after the series finale: now that Matsson’s golden handcuffs have essentially stuck them together, how do they reconcile all the awful things they’ve done to each other? How do they approach parenthood — do they try to break the cycle of abuse, and if so, do they succeed?

Fandom-specific DNW: Discussion of pregnancy is fine (given that I'm prompting for Shiv during Season 4), but please no on-page descriptions of pregnancy-related medical procedures or physical consequences of pregnancy on the body. 
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Marion Wheeler & Antimemetics Division
Marion Wheeler/Adam Wheeler


There Is No Antimemetics Division is a sci-fi/cosmic horror web serial novel (approx. 70k words), available for free online here. I wrote up a Yuletide promo for this canon here.

Marion is one of my favorite characters ever — I love "blunt, hypercompetent, traumatized, constantly calculating, ungodly-amounts-of-caffeine-and-tobacco-consuming science hero who suffers more than Jesus" types in general, and making her a middle-aged woman is a surefire way to have me banging down your door. I love her thought process as she’s triaging a situation or working through a difficult decision, and how she’s stoic and caustic and kind of weird and also a brilliant, respected leader who cares deeply about her people, and I’m kind of insane about her marriage? (What if you were the only person I’d ever met who thought in the same way I did, & we built a weird little life for ourselves as the world fell apart around us, & then we had to throw it all away in a desperate, doomed effort to keep each other safe. What if we were ride-or-die to a feral degree even after we no longer remembered each other. What if I went crazy.) Write her doing anything and I’ll be delighted.
 
  • What is her day-to-day when there’s no imminent crisis? How did she first get involved with the Division, and from there to where she is today? What was the Division like back when it was the leader of a worldwide Antimemetics Coalition? How does asynchronous research work? What is it like to grieve for something you don't remember?
  • I’d love some whump, sickfic, caretaking, hurt/comfort, etc. that explores the physical/emotional ramifications of all the trauma she goes through - and her general tendency to work herself into the ground - further than canon does. God could she use a hug and/or a vacation and/or a 15 hour nap.
  • What was 2015 actually like for her and Adam? Marion’s endless loop of destroying herself for the cause and then forgetting it ever happened, even as the scars remain; Adam remembering it all (except, potentially, what she doesn’t want him to? What if that wasn’t the first time she mindwiped him?) and trying desperately to hold her & their marriage together through the fallout as he starts connecting the dots of what’s really going on… I want more of that. (I want more of them in literally any context, tbh.)

Fandom-specific DNW: While I don’t care whether you mention her kids or handwave them out of existence, please don’t explicitly confirm them dead. (FWIW, my headcanon is they’re alive in witness protection somewhere, and Marion did the same thing to them that she did to Adam.)
 
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Hello! I'm kubernetes on AO3. Welcome to my Oops! All Weird Sci-fi Horror signup. Congratulations on your great taste re: whatever tiny fandom(s) we ended up matching on, and thank you for taking the time to write for me!

While I’ve included prompts for each fandom in case they're helpful, please don’t feel constrained to them if they aren’t working for you, or if some other plotbunny really inspires you; I am a genuine believer in Optional Details Being Optional and will be very excited to read whatever you come up with. And while some of my requests are longer/shorter than others, I want to stress that I love all of these fandoms equally — everything I've requested is here because it's something I'd love to receive!

Major spoilers below for all of my requested fandoms. Also: I’m opting into the Interactive Fiction Challenge and Crueltide for all of my fandoms, and I love treats!
 
Quick fandom navigation links:
There Is No Antimemetics Division | Marion
The Employees | Worldbuilding
Scavengers Reign | Kris, Fiona

Some general likes:
  • Acts of service (whether between acquaintances, friends, family, or lovers)
  • Allusions (historical, literary, science, tech)
  • Altered mental states: hallucinations, delirium, intoxication, induced fear, sensory overload / deprivation, memory alteration, mental breakdown, etc.
  • Canon-divergence AUs (whether they make things better for the characters, much worse, or just weirder)
  • Casefic / missionfic / “monster-of-the-week” / “day-in-the-life”
  • Character / relationship studies
  • Competence porn 
  • Consequences of actions and choices
  • Domesticity
  • Dramatic irony / foreshadowing of future events in canon / subtle gut-punch moments
  • Dysfunctional / messy / codependent / unhealthy relationships (platonic & romantic)
  • Engineering & systems, especially the kind that keep things running behind the scenes: maintenance, security, logistics, fault analysis, infrastructure design, etc
  • Fic that Gets Weird With It (if you’re ever worrying “is this fic concept too weird?”: the answer is no)
  • Horror (psychological horror, cosmic horror, body horror - all the horror!)
  • Humor / black comedy
  • Hurt/comfort
  • Learning to live in the aftermath: stories about people rebuilding physically, spiritually, and emotionally (and maybe getting messy and codependent about it along the way)
  • Neurodivergence headcanons (demonstrated implicitly via the way characters think/act, rather than explicitly stated)
  • Nonsexual intimacy
  • Organizational politics & bureaucracy
  • People using logic to deal with a situation / investigate a problem
  • Psychological mind games
  • Secrets: keeping them, letting them slip, trying to figure them out
  • Sickfic / caretaking / convalescence / trauma recovery (heavy on the caretaking; love characters being taken care of. Needing help with basic stuff; being able to get by on their own & realizing they don’t have to; being out of the woods but still weak & exhausted; grinning & bearing increasing awfulness until the adrenaline suddenly runs out…)
  • Stoic, hypercompetent, otherwise in-control characters approaching their breaking point
  • The subtle, building realization that something is terribly wrong 
  • Unconventional fic formats (nonlinear narrative, epistolary, pastiche, metafiction, CYOA / IF, found documents, etc.)
  • Unconventional POVs (2nd person, outsider POV, multiple POVs, nonhuman POV, etc.)
  • Unreliable narrators
  • Whump >:)
  • Worldbuilding

 

Re: my Crueltide signup - I’m perfectly fine with darkfic, ambiguous / bittersweet / unhappy endings, requested character death, etc. 


Some general DNWs:
  • AUs other than canon-divergence (i.e. I DNW setting-change AUs and DNW trope AUs such as soulmates, hanahaki, etc)
  • Christmas fic
  • Crossovers
  • Explicit sex (fade-to-black and the like is fine!)
  • Pregnancy
  • References to real-world current events from 2016 or later
  • Some body-horror-specific DNWs (that are somehow relevant to all my requests this year): Amputation of body parts other than fingers/toes. Things in an eye socket that should not be in an eye socket.


There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
Marion Wheeler

There Is No Antimemetics Division is a sci-fi/cosmic horror web serial novel (approx. 70k words), available for free online here. You can find a Yuletide promo for this canon here.

I’m so excited to see this book traditionally published. I love how it plays with memory and perception via its cast of unreliable narrators, and the themes it explores really resonate with me. (How much of who we are is our past experiences and relationships, vs. our innate nature? How much injustice / discomfort do we ignore, even tolerate, before we break, and why? How do we go on with our daily lives in the midst of unspeakable tragedy? Why do we tell ourselves “never again,” only to see the same tragedy repeat itself years later?)

Marion is one of my favorite characters ever — I love "blunt, hypercompetent, traumatized, constantly calculating, ungodly-amounts-of-caffeine-and-tobacco-consuming science hero who’s constantly being kneecapped by the narrative" types in general, and making her a middle-aged woman is a surefire way to have me banging down your door. I love her thought process as she’s triaging a situation or working through a difficult decision, and how she’s stoic and caustic and kind of weird and also a brilliant, respected leader who cares deeply about her people, and I’m kind of insane about her marriage? (What if you were the only person I’d ever met who thought in the same way I did, & we built a weird little life for ourselves as the world fell apart around us, & then we had to throw it all away in a desperate, doomed effort to keep each other safe. What if we were ride-or-die to a feral degree even after we no longer remembered each other. What if I went crazy.) Write her doing anything and I’ll be delighted.

  • I’m always down for a missing scene, or some worldbuilding, or a casefic, or a character / relationship study. Marion is living in the ashes of a world she and her coworkers have mostly forgotten, and a life she’s mostly forgotten; I want to know more about that world, and about that life, and how she copes with the insanity of it all. What is her day-to-day when there’s no imminent crisis? How did she first get involved with the Division, and from there to where she is today? What was the Division like back when it was the leader of a worldwide Antimemetics Coalition; what other innovations like germs & Vegas rooms did they have? How does asynchronous research work? What is it like to grieve for something you don't remember?

  • I’d love some whump, sickfic, caretaking, hurt/comfort, etc. that explores the physical/emotional ramifications of all the trauma she goes through - and her general tendency to work herself into the ground - further than canon does. God could she use a hug and/or a vacation and/or a 15 hour nap.

  • What was 2015 actually like for her and Adam? Marion’s endless loop of destroying herself for the cause and then forgetting it ever happened, even as the scars remain; Adam remembering it all (except, potentially, what she doesn’t want him to? What if that wasn’t the first time she mindwiped him?) and trying desperately to hold her & their marriage together through the fallout as he starts connecting the dots of what’s really going on… I want more of that. (I want more of them in literally any context, tbh.)

  • AU: I find the idea of her and Adam somehow making it out alive (or at least staying in each other’s lives longer than in canon) compelling - mostly because I love the “characters live with the consequences of decisions they made while they were sure they were going to die” trope. I’d love anything with them interacting post-"Where Have You Been All My Life", amnesiac or not. (Maybe she "beats the universe and comes back to find out why"; maybe she survives through the incarnation of వ and they meet in the apocalypse; maybe she just hasn't sent him away yet? Or maybe they’re just both inexplicably alive post-canon, feel free to get handwavey with it.)

  • 4987! I love her eldritch purse poodle and would love to know more about how it works, or how it went from “wants Marion dead” to “would die for her”. Something about Marion having to create new trivial memories to keep it from eating the important ones, or how she first discovered it? 4987’s POV might be fun.
 
  • Feel free to count WILD LIGHT as Marion, because tbh I’d read an entire book about WILD LIGHT. What does it feel like to be her — an amalgam of your own memories and someone else’s memories of you, a 3-D mind transposed onto a 5-D space? Maybe humanity rediscovers her years later, with explosive consequences? (Or maybe Adam ends up as WILD LIGHT’s avatar and Codependent Bodysharing with the Elder God That Used to Be Your Ex-Wife ensues.)

 

Fandom-specific DNW: While I don’t care whether you mention her kids or handwave them out of existence, please don’t explicitly confirm them dead. (FWIW, my headcanon is they’re alive in witness protection somewhere, and Marion did the same thing to them that she did to Adam.)


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The Employees - Olga Ravn
Worldbuilding

The Employees is a sci-fi novella (approx. 30k words), available on Amazon/Bookshop/wherever you get your books. You can find a Yuletide promo for this canon here.

I read this book the day after last Yuletide’s signups closed and have been waiting to request it since. I love its gorgeous, lyrical prose — how it turns on a dime from detached clinicality, to insane horror, to a raw, profound expression of empathy that will then proceed to live in your head rent-free for months, and back again. I love how its fragmented puzzle-box-y format invites the reader to take an active role in piecing the story together right alongside the Committee, and how that format highlights its themes of alienation and corporate absurdity, and how its world feels so richly layered and lived-in despite the short space the story has to develop it.

There’s so much the book leaves unexplored, or only vaguely alludes to, and that all creates a lot of room in the sandbox for fanwork to play around in. Pick one of those unexplored or vaguely-alluded-to things and tell me more about it!

  • What’s going on back on Earth with Lund and co., or elsewhere in space? How’d humanity get to this level of crazy-advanced space travel as early as the 22nd century? What is Homebase planning to do with the objects the Six Thousand Ship is collecting? What are the objects, anyway?

  • What do the dynamics of human-humanoid relationships, platonic or romantic, look like? How do the subtle differences between their lived sensory experiences of the world influence their personal lives? (On the ship, or on Earth, or elsewhere. Feel free to make up your own characters, or take, for example, the third officer and his lover, or Cadet 14 and her friend who refused to rat her out?)

  • The committee responsible for collecting the HR statements that make up the book’s structure is fascinating to me. Even if we don’t get to hear much from them, they’re present in every interaction we see in the book, the not-necessarily-impartial window the entire story is filtered through… and then, at the very end of the book, we learn that they’re humanoids pretending to be human, responsible for making sure the truth survives for posterity amidst a human-humanoid civil war. Who are they? What’s their perspective on all of this, on being pulled towards both sides of a conflict, when they’re not in full view of their corporate overlords? What was the leadup to their decision to “submit themselves for cleansing,” and what happens to them in the aftermath?

  • I want to know more about the child holograms. It’s interesting to me that the humanoids seem to get them too. Are they sentient? Tell me more about the absurd experience of raising a fake child in the depths of space, knowing full well that your child will never grow old and even if they did you’d never live to see it.

  • What happens to the final eight humanoids? Do they die together while exploring New Discovery? What happens to them after they wake up, rebooted, presumably back at Homebase - do they ever find each other again? Or do they somehow manage to avoid the biotermination altogether - in the aftermath, what do they want to do next, and what happens when Homebase sends reinforcements to New Discovery to collect the ship and its cargo?

  • This is a particularly fun canon for epistolary fic of all flavors. Pastiche of the canon format is something I’d love to receive (although I’m equally down to receive a fic written in a normal format!), but so is literally any other kind of epistolary thing you can think of. Corporate found documents? SCP-style writeups of the objects? 22nd-century Wikipedia? Go wild. 

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Scavengers Reign (Cartoon)
Kris, Fiona
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)


Scavengers Reign is a 12-episode sci-fi animated TV series (total runtime approx. 5 hours), available for streaming on Netflix (in the US, UK, Ireland, and New Zealand). You can find a Yuletide promo for this canon here.

Definitely the most underrated show I've watched in the past several years. I'm so obsessed with its bonkers speculative biology and body horror, its gorgeous Ghibli-esque animation, how it manages to strike such an effective balance at the individual scene level between evoked feelings of dread and wonder, its themes of transformation and finding meaning amidst horror and the awe that the natural world inspires... I love all of the show's main cast and their interwoven arcs, but I’m specifically requesting the two minor characters I've been thinking too hard about for almost a year now & really wish there was more fic about:

Kris


Mean women! Give it up for mean women!! I really enjoy her hyper-pragmatic, calculated efficiency, her control-freak tendencies and the possessiveness with which she effortlessly dominates her crew. I find it very compelling how, in a story that's all about how your physical environment and your connection to the natural world changes your character and values, she is trying so desperately hard to avoid that change (and yet maybe it happens anyway, despite her best efforts). Anyways, the show left me wondering where exactly all of that came from.


  • How did Kris become Kris - what was the colony she comes from like? How did she first become acquainted with Terrence and Barry, and what did the trio’s working relationship look like before Vesta?
 Who or what shaped her view of the world? (Feel free to go wild with OCs here, including if you want to give her a relationship with an OC — I headcanon her as being into women, but any gender is fine.) 

  • That ending scene of Season 1 left me with so many questions, and it rankles to know that we might never get an answer to them. (And as both a Kris enjoyer and a whump enjoyer it was also really iddy to me specifically.) What was the leadup to it? What happens to Kris in the aftermath, alone and half-dead among mysterious cultists? Does her path cross with the Demeter crew again?


  • I found Kris treating Azi as Terrence’s replacement goldfish weirdly compelling. Platonically or non-platonically: what if Azi took Kris up on her offer? What if she didn’t, but was forced to leave with Kris (and potentially Barry) anyway? What if the shuttle took off without either of them? (Or, really, any Kris/Azi mutual-manipulation, enemies-to-lovers, forced-to-work-together-to-survive, etc. situation is going to be right up my alley. I simply cannot resist toxic butch4butch psychological mind games.)

Fiona

I just think she's neat and I wish we'd gotten to know her better. We only ever see her filtered through the unreliable, often biased perception of others — the memories Hollow weaves together to get Kamen to do its bidding, the seeds of her personality and spirit that might still live on within Levi — and I’m curious about what kind of person she actually was. (While I’m okay with a fic about her and Kamen — because I guess that’s the path of least resistance, no? — I’d really appreciate if the fic focuses heavily on her, as opposed to Kamen, if that’s the route you go.)

  • Tell me more about what her life was like before the Demeter, or on the Demeter before the crash. Besides what we see in canon via flashback, what went into her decision to follow Kamen into space, and what did she leave behind? What were her dynamics with the rest of the crew? 
I'd love to read about her relationship with any canon character you'd like.

  • How much of her, exactly, is in the Levi units? Levi says that Fiona "put a lot of herself" into them — while this could certainly be meant figuratively, an interpretation that's at least partly literal could be interesting to explore. Where does Levi end and Fiona begin, can Levi communicate at all with the parts of themself that are Fiona, and does Levi's fusion with Vesta's mycelial network complicate things? (As a side note, I'm good with whatever pronouns you'd like for Levi.) What else did Fiona design beyond the Levi's, and did any of it survive the crash of the Demeter? 

  • AU: what if she survived the crash of the Demeter? I just think it’d be really fun to see how she would have fared on Vesta, either alone or with one of the canon groups - Azi and Levi (mechanic / roboticist / robot trio!), Kamen (divorce court!), Sam and Ursula, or even Kris and co. 

Also: while I have no idea how Kris/Fiona as a ship would work in practice, writing this letter has made me weirdly fascinated by the prospect, so if you have any ideas to that end — I’d love to see what you come up with. Yuletide: inventing new and exciting rarepairs since 2003!
 

Fandom-specific DNW: Kris/Terrence or Kris/Barry; Kamen being portrayed as a good husband prior to the crash of the Demeter.


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