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Fest: Chocolate Box Letter
Dear Chocolatier-
Thank you so much for signing up! This is my first time participating in this exchange, though far from my first time in exchanges. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you do.
Letters for this exchange seem to be running really long, so I'll try to put things in order of depth. If you already have an idea for a story, or get one while you're reading through, please don't feel obligated to study every word. If you're like me and you want ~all the information~, then buckle up.
Also, a lot of the prompts below are pulled from previous letters. If you happen to see a more exciting prompt in a different letter/general rambling/casual-chat-on-Discord that sparks your interest, I'd love to see what you do with that, even if it's already been filled or I haven't requested it 8000 times.
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Requests
All requests are for fic
The Defenders
Highlander: the Series
Julie and the Phantoms
Leverage
Psych
The Tomorrow People (2013)
Crossover Fandom – Leverage/Psych
General Likes
canon-based or canon-divergent AU stories
h/c
whump
drama
humor
secret identity revealed/discovered
trapped!
unexpected allies
outsider POV
characters talking about their powers/superstate in a way that provides insight into what it means for them
friends with benefits (that stays that way)
characters who don't trust each other learning to
when two characters believe they're talking about the same thing and aren't
real world situations complicated by the supernatural
clever or unusual uses of a character's abilities
trope inversion
time-travel gone wrong (e.g. timeloops, accidental time travel, Quantum Leap style travel)
crossovers
General Do Not Wants
non-canon AUs (e.g. omegaverse, mpreg, coffee shop, etc.)
non-con
permanent requested character maiming or death
PWPs (romance, sexual activity, UST, or sexual tension are all fine as part of a larger story)
E or NC-17 rated sexual material
stories based on jealousy
character assassination/bashing
torture!porn (e.g. the Saw movies)
incest
identity headcanons (e.g. trans*, autistic, furry)
1st or 2nd person POV
reader insert fic
zombies
The Defenders
I'm late coming to the Daredevil and The Defenders TV shows. The former was too violent for my tastes, and the latter was a lot of fun (crossover!), but didn't mean much the first time I saw it. Then, last year, someone suggested the beauty of the Daredevil episode “Nelson vs. Murdock” to me, and I became an instant convert. Matt is such a hurt cookie, and the sheer amount of time he spends in his show being too injured to move (or otherwise tied up) and being forced to confront/admit to things he’s been trying to avoid really pushes all my whump-love buttons. I love his terrible decision making and his need for connection to his friends while he also desperately wants to distance them to keep them safe. His heart's in the right place, even if his head needs some serious therapy. I also love that he has superpowers, of a sort, yet he's still blind, and his abilities give him different tools to work with without erasing his disability. Not surprisingly, I also love Foggy and Karen and their relationships with Matt and each other. They're all a package deal to me.
Spoilers for the various shows that feed into The Defenders are fine!
Pairings Requests:
Karen Page/Matt Murdock
Foggy Nelson & Matt Murdock & Karen Page
Foggy Nelson & Matt Murdock
Fandom Specific DNW: Use of comic book exclusive canon. I haven't read them and won't get it.
Optional Prompts:
Matt and/or Foggy get blackmailed. Now what? (This does not have to be a DD-related blackmail, though it certainly can be.)
"You're blind!" / "So they tell me. That won't be a problem, will it?" - Foggy and Matt negotiate being roommates and becoming friends, and we learn about Matt's and/or Foggy's bad experiences with former roommates.
Foggy or Karen (or both) gets the opportunity to go back in time and stop Matt from becoming/continuing to be Daredevil. Do they take it? Why or why not?
You know that trope where the civilian identity gets kidnapped to try to flush out the superhero? Yeah, let's get Matt dealing with that one. Or maybe the inverse, where somehow DD is captured because the villains think that'll get Matt to follow directions.
"I Saved the World Today" by the Eurythmics (link to YouTube)
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Highlander: the Series
I've been in or near the Highlander fandom for most of the last two decades. My favorite character—and therefore most of my requests—center on Richie Ryan, who I adamantly insist was not killed off. Twice. Mostly, I'm interested in the stories of the side characters, and the interactions of characters who got little or no canonical screen time together. I just want to know more about them than we ever got to officially learn. Feel free to mix and match pairing requests, too.
I love the immortals and explorations of the consequences of immortality on this show, but I also love the Game and the bigger worldbuilding aspects it provides. The Game is so brutal and what it requires of its players so awful, yet I enjoy the purpose and conflicts it provides. How the characters understand the rules, whether they choose to follow them, whether they even choose to play or not, and how they stay sane amidst it (or why they don't) are all draws to me. I especially love that the characters don't know why all this is happening; Quickenings are real, but the Game is an article of faith. On the lighter side, I'm also into all the fun that can be had with the characters' ability to die temporarily.
Pairing Requests:
Joe Dawson & Richie Ryan
Ceirdwyn/Methos
Methos & Richie Ryan
Cory Raines & Matthew McCormick
Charlie deSalvo & Richie Ryan
Fandom Specific DNWs: Reference to, or use of, the Ahriman storyline as canon. Use of movies 2-5 as canon.
Fandom Specific Comment: While Richie is the only character for which I actively ignore final death, I'm happy to join you in ignoring anyone else's final death too.
Optional Prompts:
Five times Cory was sentenced to be transported, and one time the ship made it to its new location with him on it. (Or three times. Whatever.)
Matthew and Cory's first meeting
Richie and Methos deliberately re-enact the Fake!Methos scam, only this time Richie is playing the role of Methos and Methos is playing the role of the wide-eyed innocent who's been seduced into the Cult of Methos.
Methos and Richie get thrown at least 500 years into the past and have to figure out either how to get back or how to wait it out without messing up the timeline.
Ceirdwyn and Methos are old friends who happen to cross paths every now and then, spend a night or weekend together, and then go their merry ways. Usually this isn't noteworthy. Sometimes it has the worst possible timing, such as when Ceirdwyn shows up suffering from a bad Quickening while Methos is embedded with the Watchers.
Quickenings cause tropes, such as accidental telepathy, time travel, body swap (that is, the Quickening itself works in a magical handwavy way that results in the trope happening)
Charlie also didn't die (but please don't make him Immortal) and he and Richie have to team up for something. (Maybe this is how Charlie finds out about Duncan and Immortals.)
As Charlie continues to try to train Richie, Richie's explanations for why he's not getting hurt/staying hurt become increasingly implausible.
(Late add) - Joe helps Richie make peace with the concept of the Watchers and being Watched.
(Late add) - For some reason, Joe gets pressed into playing the part of Richie’s dad/uncle, or Richie has to play the part of son. (Family dinner with Richie’s new SO? Cover story for someone who overhears them talking at the bar? Joe’s in the hospital and needs a next of kin?)
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Julie and the Phantoms
To my surprise, I fell completely head-over-heels with this fandom after being kinda meh on the first episode. Sunset Curve is my primary draw, both because the boys being ghosts (powers! secrets!) and because they're functionally time-travelers who have been thrust into a world/situation they have no handbook to deal with (much to Alex's lament). The fact that they're 90s teens also speaks to me as a former 90s teen myself. Likewise, I love Julie because she's so real and she clearly has a life and relationships before the boys arrive in it, and outside of them.
Pairing Requests:
Julie Molina & Luke Patterson
Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer & Julie Molina & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer/Luke Patterson/Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters
Fandom Specific DNWs:
the boys being corporeal to Julie all the time
the boys becoming actually alive again
the boys crossing over or ceasing to exist (threats of this are fine; follow-through is not.)
Fandom Specific Exception to DNW: As far as I'm concerned, both Luke and Reggie are bi/pan
Optional Prompts:
Someone (classmate, reporter, music exec.) figures out that Julie is the only member of the band with a “life” outside of performances and starts to investigate why; Julie has to figure out how to throw them off the scent.
Julie needs the boys' ghostly help with something that isn't music
The boys have to face something/someone from their past that isn't Trevor or their parents
A lot has happened in 25 years. The boys get blindsided by something (other than gay rights, because that's been thoroughly covered in fanfic already) that Julie now takes for granted about the world. (This could be completely frivolous, like the fact that MTV doesn't play music videos anymore, or really serious, like the fact that school shootings are routine, or anywhere in between.)
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Leverage
The characters don't technically have superpowers, but they do seem to be super-humanly good at everything. I loved the cons and heists with the Robin Hood motivation, the incredibly gray morality of everyone, and the scale of what they were able to pull off. The interactions where a character says or does something that's perfectly normal for him/her and everyone else WTF's at them always make me laugh, especially when it's in reference to a past crime or indiscretion. Alec, Eliot, and Parker are my favorites, but the whole team is also my favorite, and this may be one of the only shows I've ever seen where I can't name a bad episode.
Pairing Requests:
Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer/Parker
Alec Hardison/Parker
Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Parker
Eliot Spencer & Parker
Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Nate Ford/Sophie Devereaux & Parker
Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Nate Ford & Parker & Sophie Devereaux
Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer
Fandom Specific Exceptions to DNWs: I've requested slash pairings; assign characters' sexualities as needed to make them work.
Optional Prompts:
The characters get involved with the bootleg escape room business.
The characters have to play an escape room the way regular people would and they are spectacularly bad at it.
(Confession: I usually think of Leverage in terms of crossovers, so devising stand-alone prompts turned out to be really hard. Please don't take my lack of imagination as a sign that I'm less interested in this fandom over others.)
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Psych
I love this show for its core premise: Shawn using his incredible memory and analytical abilities to pretend to be psychic, which constantly getting himself into and out of trouble with his incredible smart-assery. I also love how Gus spends as much time aiding and abetting Shawn's antics as he does calling Shawn out on them, and how he has his own cards to bring to the table. Juliet took awhile to grow on me, though in fairness, so did the show. I actually ended up watching this one backward, starting with season 6. Seeing Juliet's development from this perspective as she became a person who was tough and competent rather than a person who only perceived herself as such made her one of my favorites. And, no matter which direction I re-watch the series, I still always root for Shawn and Juliet to get together.
Pairing Requests:
Burton "Gus" Guster & Shawn Spencer
Burton "Gus" Guster/Shawn Spencer
Burton "Gus" Guster/Juliet O'Hara/Shawn Spencer
Juliet O'Hara/Shawn Spencer
Fandom Specific Exceptions to DNWs: I've requested slash pairings; assign characters' sexualities as needed to make them work.
Optional Prompts:
Gus or Juliet actually becomes psychic for a day. Surprisingly, Shawn thinks this is the coolest thing ever.
Shawn and Gus/Juliet keep getting involved in innocuous-seeming things where it turns out someone is using that event to actively commit a crime (e.g. a couple's date night cooking class, hot yoga at the Y, book club, etc.)
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The Tomorrow People (2013)
The Tomorrow People, in all its variations, is my comfort food show. I've been a fan since the 1973 version and will be a fan of whatever version comes next, no matter what its flaws may be.
The very idea of children and teenagers with something more to offer the world, yet who have to hide what they are from the world for their own safety, speaks powerfully to me. I love that the characters are thrust into situations that they don't have the experience to deal with, yet have the responsibility to take on because their powers make them the only ones who can solve the problems. I love how they are forced to rely on each other, and how although their powers separate them from their family and friends, the Tomorrow People still consider themselves part of the world at large. I also love how they continually have to grapple with the question of whether they are superior to or better than the people they're descended from, and how often the answer is “only in some ways.”
The 2013 show brought us a new generation of characters with the problems of the modern world. Further, while the other versions of the show limited the TP experience to a small and fixed group of people--which is easy to teach and monitor--this one throws the doors open to myriad people, many of whom aren't good people. This would completely change the overall TP experience. I'm really interested in seeing the characters live and function in the 21st century where new breakouts are happening all the time, and CCTV, iPhones, satellites, and social media surround and affect us all whether we want it to or not.
Pairing Requests:
Luca Jameson & Stephen Jameson
John Young & Stephen Jameson
Cara Coburn/John Young/Stephen Jameson
Cara Coburn & John Young & Stephen Jameson
Optional Prompts:
Bring in the aliens, mad scientists, evil pop culture, or time travel (including timeloops or Sliding Doors scenarios) that existed in the other versions of the TP and put these characters through their paces.
Luca was learning stage magic. Strangely an opportunity arises where he gets to use it against (or on behalf of) his brother whose real powers are the problem.
After John comes home, Cara and Stephen have to reexamine their relationships with him.
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Crossover Fandoms
Pairing Requests:
Eliot Spencer & Shawn Spencer
Fandom Specific Comment: I totally buy the Word-of-God that Eliot and Shawn are cousins. You don't need to, but if you do, I'd love to see it explored.
Optional Prompts:
Eliot (reluctantly) recruits Shawn to be part of a con.
Shawn invites Eliot to his wedding as a courtesy. He didn't expect Eliot to actually show up. The reason why Eliot showed up is also unexpected.
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Thank you for writing for me!
Thank you so much for signing up! This is my first time participating in this exchange, though far from my first time in exchanges. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you do.
Letters for this exchange seem to be running really long, so I'll try to put things in order of depth. If you already have an idea for a story, or get one while you're reading through, please don't feel obligated to study every word. If you're like me and you want ~all the information~, then buckle up.
Also, a lot of the prompts below are pulled from previous letters. If you happen to see a more exciting prompt in a different letter/general rambling/casual-chat-on-Discord that sparks your interest, I'd love to see what you do with that, even if it's already been filled or I haven't requested it 8000 times.
Find Me
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argentum_ls, and Requests
All requests are for fic
The Defenders
Highlander: the Series
Julie and the Phantoms
Leverage
Psych
The Tomorrow People (2013)
Crossover Fandom – Leverage/Psych
General Likes
General Do Not Wants
The Defenders
I'm late coming to the Daredevil and The Defenders TV shows. The former was too violent for my tastes, and the latter was a lot of fun (crossover!), but didn't mean much the first time I saw it. Then, last year, someone suggested the beauty of the Daredevil episode “Nelson vs. Murdock” to me, and I became an instant convert. Matt is such a hurt cookie, and the sheer amount of time he spends in his show being too injured to move (or otherwise tied up) and being forced to confront/admit to things he’s been trying to avoid really pushes all my whump-love buttons. I love his terrible decision making and his need for connection to his friends while he also desperately wants to distance them to keep them safe. His heart's in the right place, even if his head needs some serious therapy. I also love that he has superpowers, of a sort, yet he's still blind, and his abilities give him different tools to work with without erasing his disability. Not surprisingly, I also love Foggy and Karen and their relationships with Matt and each other. They're all a package deal to me.
Spoilers for the various shows that feed into The Defenders are fine!
Pairings Requests:
Karen Page/Matt Murdock
Foggy Nelson & Matt Murdock & Karen Page
Foggy Nelson & Matt Murdock
Fandom Specific DNW: Use of comic book exclusive canon. I haven't read them and won't get it.
Optional Prompts:
Highlander: the Series
I've been in or near the Highlander fandom for most of the last two decades. My favorite character—and therefore most of my requests—center on Richie Ryan, who I adamantly insist was not killed off. Twice. Mostly, I'm interested in the stories of the side characters, and the interactions of characters who got little or no canonical screen time together. I just want to know more about them than we ever got to officially learn. Feel free to mix and match pairing requests, too.
I love the immortals and explorations of the consequences of immortality on this show, but I also love the Game and the bigger worldbuilding aspects it provides. The Game is so brutal and what it requires of its players so awful, yet I enjoy the purpose and conflicts it provides. How the characters understand the rules, whether they choose to follow them, whether they even choose to play or not, and how they stay sane amidst it (or why they don't) are all draws to me. I especially love that the characters don't know why all this is happening; Quickenings are real, but the Game is an article of faith. On the lighter side, I'm also into all the fun that can be had with the characters' ability to die temporarily.
Pairing Requests:
Joe Dawson & Richie Ryan
Ceirdwyn/Methos
Methos & Richie Ryan
Cory Raines & Matthew McCormick
Charlie deSalvo & Richie Ryan
Fandom Specific DNWs: Reference to, or use of, the Ahriman storyline as canon. Use of movies 2-5 as canon.
Fandom Specific Comment: While Richie is the only character for which I actively ignore final death, I'm happy to join you in ignoring anyone else's final death too.
Optional Prompts:
Julie and the Phantoms
To my surprise, I fell completely head-over-heels with this fandom after being kinda meh on the first episode. Sunset Curve is my primary draw, both because the boys being ghosts (powers! secrets!) and because they're functionally time-travelers who have been thrust into a world/situation they have no handbook to deal with (much to Alex's lament). The fact that they're 90s teens also speaks to me as a former 90s teen myself. Likewise, I love Julie because she's so real and she clearly has a life and relationships before the boys arrive in it, and outside of them.
Pairing Requests:
Julie Molina & Luke Patterson
Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer & Julie Molina & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer/Luke Patterson/Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters
Fandom Specific DNWs:
Fandom Specific Exception to DNW: As far as I'm concerned, both Luke and Reggie are bi/pan
Optional Prompts:
Leverage
The characters don't technically have superpowers, but they do seem to be super-humanly good at everything. I loved the cons and heists with the Robin Hood motivation, the incredibly gray morality of everyone, and the scale of what they were able to pull off. The interactions where a character says or does something that's perfectly normal for him/her and everyone else WTF's at them always make me laugh, especially when it's in reference to a past crime or indiscretion. Alec, Eliot, and Parker are my favorites, but the whole team is also my favorite, and this may be one of the only shows I've ever seen where I can't name a bad episode.
Pairing Requests:
Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer/Parker
Alec Hardison/Parker
Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Parker
Eliot Spencer & Parker
Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Nate Ford/Sophie Devereaux & Parker
Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Nate Ford & Parker & Sophie Devereaux
Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer
Fandom Specific Exceptions to DNWs: I've requested slash pairings; assign characters' sexualities as needed to make them work.
Optional Prompts:
(Confession: I usually think of Leverage in terms of crossovers, so devising stand-alone prompts turned out to be really hard. Please don't take my lack of imagination as a sign that I'm less interested in this fandom over others.)
Psych
I love this show for its core premise: Shawn using his incredible memory and analytical abilities to pretend to be psychic, which constantly getting himself into and out of trouble with his incredible smart-assery. I also love how Gus spends as much time aiding and abetting Shawn's antics as he does calling Shawn out on them, and how he has his own cards to bring to the table. Juliet took awhile to grow on me, though in fairness, so did the show. I actually ended up watching this one backward, starting with season 6. Seeing Juliet's development from this perspective as she became a person who was tough and competent rather than a person who only perceived herself as such made her one of my favorites. And, no matter which direction I re-watch the series, I still always root for Shawn and Juliet to get together.
Pairing Requests:
Burton "Gus" Guster & Shawn Spencer
Burton "Gus" Guster/Shawn Spencer
Burton "Gus" Guster/Juliet O'Hara/Shawn Spencer
Juliet O'Hara/Shawn Spencer
Fandom Specific Exceptions to DNWs: I've requested slash pairings; assign characters' sexualities as needed to make them work.
Optional Prompts:
The Tomorrow People (2013)
The Tomorrow People, in all its variations, is my comfort food show. I've been a fan since the 1973 version and will be a fan of whatever version comes next, no matter what its flaws may be.
The very idea of children and teenagers with something more to offer the world, yet who have to hide what they are from the world for their own safety, speaks powerfully to me. I love that the characters are thrust into situations that they don't have the experience to deal with, yet have the responsibility to take on because their powers make them the only ones who can solve the problems. I love how they are forced to rely on each other, and how although their powers separate them from their family and friends, the Tomorrow People still consider themselves part of the world at large. I also love how they continually have to grapple with the question of whether they are superior to or better than the people they're descended from, and how often the answer is “only in some ways.”
The 2013 show brought us a new generation of characters with the problems of the modern world. Further, while the other versions of the show limited the TP experience to a small and fixed group of people--which is easy to teach and monitor--this one throws the doors open to myriad people, many of whom aren't good people. This would completely change the overall TP experience. I'm really interested in seeing the characters live and function in the 21st century where new breakouts are happening all the time, and CCTV, iPhones, satellites, and social media surround and affect us all whether we want it to or not.
Pairing Requests:
Luca Jameson & Stephen Jameson
John Young & Stephen Jameson
Cara Coburn/John Young/Stephen Jameson
Cara Coburn & John Young & Stephen Jameson
Optional Prompts:
Crossover Fandoms
Pairing Requests:
Eliot Spencer & Shawn Spencer
Fandom Specific Comment: I totally buy the Word-of-God that Eliot and Shawn are cousins. You don't need to, but if you do, I'd love to see it explored.
Optional Prompts:
Thank you for writing for me!