Candy Hearts 2023

[winternachtao3]

Dear writer,

Thank you for writing for me! Below, you’ll find a list of my prompts. If they don’t do it for you, feel free to use the general or fandom-specific likes for inspiration instead. :) Mixing and matching of prompts is fine too! And if you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the mods! The prompts themselves are generally light on the smut, but I'm definitely not opposed to smut involving the requested pairings.

Likes

• huddling for warmth
• haunted artefacts and curses
• hanahaki (feel free to lean into the body horror!)
• hurt/comfort
• bedsharing
• characters dealing with loneliness/isolation/depression
• Self-destructive behaviour
• co-dependency
• secrets
• dreams
• case fic

Kink likes

• unwilling arousal
• coming untouched
• D/s dynamics
• breathplay/choking
• voyeurism
• barebacking/coming inside
• intercrural
• cock warming
• clothed/naked
• bath/shower sex
• bondage (all kinds, rope/honour/predicament/necktie/tentacles)
• hair-pulling
• hand holding during sex
• huddling for warmth leads to sex

DNWs

• Scat/watersports
• character death (referencing canon deaths is fine)
• noncon (exception: John/King in Yellow)
• excessively graphic depictions of violence
• foot fetish
• First/Second person PoV (statements in TMA fic are fine. For Vespertine, I prefer 3rd person PoV for fic.)
• mundane modern/setting AUs
• kink/consent negotiations
• issuefic
• real world -isms/-phobia
• character/ship bashing
• break-ups
• cheating
• body-sharing entity getting a human body
• unrequested relationships. Vague references to past relationships with unnamed characters (think “X’s girlfriend in college”/high school crush/etc.) or past canon relationships (e.g. Jon/Georgie, Arthur/Bella) are fine.
• one-sided/unrequited Jon/Elias or breaking them up

Vespertine: Artemisia/The Revenant, Gabrielle/Sarathiel

I adore this book and particularly the relationship that develops between Artemisia and her Revenant, but the brief glimpse we got of Gabrielle with Sarathiel was also deeply intriguing to me. And while I didn’t request a specific relationship, I’m fine with Leander also playing a role in both relationships – in fact, feel free to be a bit more flexible about the timeline: I’m fine with fic being set after the main story, but I’m equally here for stretching out the timeline of his more antagonistic relationship with Artemisia or his suspicion of Gabrielle.

Vespertine likes: fic focused on exploration, artefacts, lore, trust being tested, the joys of body-sharing

Prompts: Artemisia/The Revenant
• Huddling for warmth: Artemisia and the Revenant encounter a powerful Frostfain while hiding/exploring old ruins
• Artemisia and the Revenant explore Chantclère together. Either secretly as a canon-divergence where their adventures led them there while hiding from Leander, or post-canon, where presumably they’d be invited to stay there, and Artemisia wants to take a break from “official” business.
• Circumstances require an old magic ritual. Artemisia trusts the Revenant, but she’s still pretty wary. Maybe Leander has to be involved somehow, complicating things?
• An artefact temporarily forces the Revenant to return to the relic. Or perhaps Artemisia is trapped with it this time?
• In her dreams, Artemisia encounters the Revenant in its true form.

Prompts: Gabrielle/Sarathiel
• What happened when they first encountered each other?
• Same as above, but with smut: Gabrielle has a very ecstatic experience at the altar.
• Missing scene: Sarathiel comforts a conflicted Gabrielle while they try to figure out their next steps, after Artemisia is locked away in the tower.
• I’m also interested in Gabrielle’s side of the cat and mouse game with Leander.

Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy: Thrawn/Thrass

I fell in love with this ship the very instant Thrass appeared on the page in Lesser Evil. He provides such a great contrast to Thrawn and draws out a very different side of him, and it recontexualises a lot about what we saw of Thrawn in the first book of this trilogy.

Note: I have read the 2017 Thrawn Trilogy, but I’m not familiar with Legends!Thrawn or his relationship with Thrass there.

Star Wars likes: Chiss family politics, secrets, mysterious artefacts, planetary exploration, competency kink, taboo relationships

Prompts:
• Huddling for warmth: A planetary exploration gone wrong, a trap that was set by pirates, just a technical malfunction on a ship/or while travelling across Csilla? As for when it happens, maybe just shortly after they reconnected? Or perhaps shortly after Thrass declared they were brothers, while Thrawn is still dealing with insecurity about it?
• Taboos: Thrawn and Thrass navigate a forbidden relationship. Thurfian is onto them (though preferably, he never actually finds out one way or another or actually gets them in trouble.) He just makes their encounters just a little riskier.
• Remember when Thrass offered to take Thrawn on a guided tour? They finally find the time to do it.
• Thrawn suffers from hanahaki disease after Thrass dies. It’s not lethal, but it is a steady reminder of his loss.

The Magnus Archives: Jon/Elias

One of my favourite things about this ship is the variety it offers. Every season has something new in store for them and changes the context of the previous ones. And there are so many aspects of their relationship that I love seeing explored at different points in canon or AUs. But a constant I always enjoy is Elias seducing Jon to the dark side, whether overtly or subtly, and Jon finding himself conflicted but also deeply intrigued. The connection Beholding gives them is a particular draw for me – power explorations, tingliness, a mutual understanding on a deeper level. I have a slight preference for Jonah!Elias being referred to as Elias in fic rather than Jonah, but if it works better for the specific story, Jonah is fine too.

I’m completely fine with nebulous timelines of any sort and tweaking of events, especially in season 3 and 4. (Example: A season 4 AU where Elias is still running the Institute and not in jail for whatever reason or no reason at all, but the Unknowing has happened, Jon has been in a coma, Peter is around, etc.) I’m also open to different portrayals of the apocalypse.

TMA likes: mysteries, casefic (particularly involving cursed books or objects, supernatural coldness, nightmares, haunted houses, creepiness involving nursery rhymes or fairy tales…), forced proximity, secrets, quiet moments

Prompts:
• Canon divergence, inspired by episode 3: Elias and Jon live across the street from each other. Can be pre-Institute, or perhaps Jon only realises after moving while he works at the Institute. Either way, watching Elias becomes his shameful hobby.
• Season 5 AU: Elias finds Jon who’s completely overwhelmed with agonised bliss by all the fear around him and takes him in, comforts him in his sweet and twisted ways. Elias’s presence helps Jon cling to the remainder of his humanity (and potentially, the reverse is true as well. For a slightly more regretful Elias.)
• A case requires Jon and Elias to travel somewhere together, bringing them closer, perhaps at times a bit involuntarily (only one bed!) Can be set either during early canon or season 3.
Casefic: Are they exploring a mystery together because Elias happens to be involved somehow? Is early-canon!Jon elated that Elias would task him with such an important mission, or later-canon!Jon extremely reluctant but at the same time intrigued and eager for an opportunity to draw some information out of Elias? Are Jon and Elias exploring an unfamiliar domain together during the apocalypse? Or the place where it all began (the original Institute in Edinburgh? Maybe even the Schwarzwald graveyard?) When it comes to casefic, I’m generally interested in themes like
• AU where Jon doesn’t work at the Archives: Elias is simply looking for a Beholding snack, and finds his new Archivist instead. Or alternatively: Jon has a very intense encounter/one-night stand with Elias and is desperate to find out more about him.

Malevolent: Arthur/John, Arthur/Yellow, John/The King in Yellow

I adore the relationship between John and Arthur, and the theme of humanity in both their arcs. But I am also very fond of Yellow and wish there had been more time to see the relationship between him and Arthur develop. And I’m intensely intrigued by what happened to John while he was with the king. So while I’m very happy with John/Arthur being assumed and part of each story, I decided not to choose it specifically since my prompt focus is more on the time they spend separate from each other.

Malevolent likes: the joys of body sharing, mysteries, co-dependency, pining, guilt

Prompts:
• Hanahaki: Either Arthur develops it during John’s absence, or John (and subsequently the King) develops it instead.
• John remembers parts of when he was Yellow. Perhaps while he and Arthur are taking a nice relaxing bath.
• “Feel free to call me John.” Yellow gets a little pushier about it, tries to fit harder into the role, tries to explore different aspects of their relationship. And Arthur, much to his own dismay, responds to it.
• The King taunts John with visions of Arthur, maybe provides a distorted vision of what happens to Arthur after their separation. Maybe he lets John see Arthur and Yellow together.
• John draws on the King’s powers to appear in Arthur’s dreams.