revolver | Darkest Night 2019

First, I want to say thank you! I have requested fic for all the fandoms and characters listed below, and I am so excited to read what you write!

General likes: unreliable narrators; nonlinear storytelling; moral complexity and/or ambiguity; backstory; missing scenes; outsider POV; blurring the lines between professional and personal relationships; mentor/protege relationships; epistolary fic; power play; codependency (both healthy and unhealthy); loyalty; identity porn; unexpected intimacy and physical intimacy; case fic; super messy, complicated, and difficult to categorize relationships between characters (made all the better if/when they share a history and maybe probably repressed feelings); repression, generally; sexual tension; slow burn; infidelity; hurt/comfort; fake dating; AUs, both of the canon divergence variety and the whole new setting variety (though, that said, I am not a huge fan of mundane AUs, i.e., coffeehouse AUs, high school/university AUs, etc., unless specified).

If you’re interested in writing smut, likes include: friends to lovers; enemies to lovers; first time; workplace sex; rough sex; hate sex; drunk sex; infidelity; dub-con of the sex pollen/fuck or die/villains made us do it variety; biting, bruising, and marking; breathplay and choking; orgasm delay/denial; frottage; dirty talk; voyeurism/exhibitionism; under-negotiated kink or D/s; sex as negotiation; wet and messy; overstimulation; size kink; experienced/inexperienced; mutual masturbation; praise kink; loyalty kink; power dynamics and power play.

DNWs: A/B/O or omegaverse; scat or watersports; formal BDSM; issue fic; asexual or trans headcanons (unless requested); kid!fic; soulmates or soul marks or soul bonds; and character bashing.

For this exchange, feel free to get as dark as you want, though it's not required! I am cool with you going pitch black if that's the story you want to write just as much as I am cool with a "light at the end of the tunnel" kind of story. Additionally, as a final housekeeping note, for the requested pairings below I am fine with non-con or dub-con of the coercive or manipulative bent as opposed to physically violent non-con.

Just kidding! As an actual last note: feel free for the fandoms below to use any combination of the freeform tags. The prompts are merely suggestions, and if you have your own idea in your head, by all means, run with it.

DARK (TV 2017)

Jonas Kahnwald/The Stranger | Older Jonas Kahnwald; Jonas Kahnwald/Noah | Hanno Tauber

Tags: Aftermath Of One Character Finding Out Another Character Would Sacrifice Them For The Greater Good; Apocalypse; Becoming The Thing You Most Hate/Fear; Character In Time Loop Suffers Side Effects Which Worsen With Each Repeat; Character Is Haunted By Bad Things They Had To Do For A Good Cause; Character Will Not Let Another Character Die (Even When They Beg); Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane; Dimension Hopping To Find A Timeline That Isn't Doomed; Every Choice Is A Terrible One; Identity Issues; Loss of Faith; Pyrrhic Victory; Self-cest; Sexual Relationship As Unhealthy Coping Mechanism; Stuck In A Bunker; Time Loop Slowly Eating Itself; Time Travel To Change The Past Works Badly; Touch-Starved

+ Before we even get into the two pairings I requested, one of the things I love most about this show is what an absolute horror it makes both time and identity. I would love if you wanted to play with one or both of these concepts! Dive deeper or get uglier, get cosmic or eldritch!, with the ramifications of time travel. Go the body horror route! We know from Adam that continued time travel (and, well, radiation exposure) that the body gets broken down with each trip through time. Feel free to lean into that! And on the identity front, give me the horror of Jonas -- either teen or older Jonas -- knowing that Adam is his endgame. That is who, and what, he becomes. What are the psychological ramifications of knowing that you become the enemy of your own story? Or, even, teen!Jonas knowing that he will grow up into adult!Jonas. What is the psychological effect of that? Or, even, the physical? Seeing all the scars on adult!Jonas's body -- what's that like to know you will inherit all of that pain?

+ Which brings us to: what's the point of a time travel story if you're not going to engage in a little self-cest? lol. Go the Identity Issues route if you want to where teen!Jonas has no idea who The Stranger is (and then, of course, learns) or go the extra fucked route with both of them fully knowing who each other is. What I keep getting hung up and fascinated by is the idea of adult!Jonas all too aware of what he will done/has already done. In the show's universe, there's a certain doom assigned to all these predestined fates inside the time loop. What the hell is it like to live with the knowledge that your older self fucked your younger self and while you experienced being fucked, you're fast approaching the age when you have to fuck your younger self thanks to the conscripts of time loop time travel?

+ The bunker. The bunker! Stick them (Jonas and Jonas, Jonas and Noah, whichever duo you want) in there as the apocalypse comes to Winden and, dear author, feel free to fuck their lives up that much more, lol. One of my favorite things story-wise is when two people with a complicated and distrustful relationship are stuck in a confined space together.

+ Also, as mentioned above, for Jonas/Noah, feel free to make this any or all combinations: teen!Jonas/adult!Noah or teen!Jonas/teen!Noah or adult!Jonas/teen!Noah or adult!Jonas/adult!Noah or, you know, all of the above. I loved, loved, loved the episode in the second season when Jonas traveled back to the 1920s and woke to find a younger Noah in his room who led him to adult Noah, and then Adam. (I just thought of Jonas/Noah/Noah, and, uh, yeah, if you want to go to there, by all means). I would love that scene before Noah delivers Jonas to Adam to be drawn out. Give me frightened Jonas! Give me the two Noahs! Noah exercising his resentment and frustration from his doubt-filled relationship to Adam with Jonas and taking it out on him, in whatever way you want that to me, lol.

+ DIMENSION-HOPPING!!! How many dimensions are there? Just the two? Infinite? What is the Jonas or the Noah like in these alternate universes? Season Two ended on one hell of a cliffhanger and I would love to see that played out however you would like. What is this other dimension like? Is it worse than where Jonas came from? How can he get back? Does he want to come back?

+ The only way to win is to lose. If there is a way to close the time loop, it will come at great (and most likely fatal) cost for Jonas. I feel this has been made abundantly clear by the show. Feel free to play around with that, and all the doomed horror that comes with it.

THE FAVOURITE (2018)

Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough/Abigail Masham

Tags: Assassination Attempt(s); Blackmail; Character Only Cares About Themself; Choking; Enemies to Lovers; Exile; Failure To Consider The Consequences Of Your Actions Until It's Too Late; Hate Sex; Jealousy; Manipulation; Orgasm Delay/Denial; Resentment; Revenge; Revenge Backfire; Rough Sex to Stave Off Other Violent Urges; Sex Used as Bargaining; Stealth Public Sex; Weapons Kink

+ Coercion, blackmail, hate sex to end all hate sex, sex as negotiation tactic, power imbalances, assassination attempts -- all the various manifestations of mutually-assured destruction you can think of!

+ For a canon-divergent AU, Sarah is not removed from court and she stays to witness Abigail’s star rise and her own diminish. Passive aggressive to full-on aggressive encounters at various balls or in hidden hallways as Sarah learns she has no negotiating power left with those in Anne’s court? I'd love it.

+ Or, run darker with that canon-divergent AU and have a whole lot of escalating violence between Abigail and Sarah after Sarah returns from Abigail's poisoning. Maybe it leads to a series of assassination attempts against each other, more bodily personal each time until each attempt has taken on a more sexual bent with actual murder or assassination just as a pretext to be allowed to touch or hurt or fuck each other.

+ I feel this film lends itself beautifully to epistolary fic. If you wish to go this route, I would love that. Go as dark or as sad or as funny as you would like, all the letters exchanged between Abigail and Sarah after Sarah is forced out of Anne's court. Or! Go the blackmail route, both of them trying to use what the other committed to the page against each other. Both lying to each other in writing while harboring very different private emotions.

+ Abigail's character fascinated me, and I am all for fic that has her plots for vengeance or simply plots to forward her own ambitions blow up in her face. Have her underestimate Sarah at her peril -- but I am also all for the inverse to be true as well.

+ And speaking of "blowing up in her face," perhaps Abigail's machinations finally fail her and she finds herself ostracized from court same as Sarah. Exile them together! Plop them down in some sad country house where the two are to live out their remaining days, or until Anne forgives them. Whichever comes first.

+ Gunplay. All the gunplay. I loved the scenes of Abigail and Sarah shooting together, and I am all for that becoming all the more dangerous (and kinkier?) between them.

GAME OF THRONES (TV)

Tormund Giantsbane/Jon Snow/Sansa Stark; Tormund Giantsbane/Sansa Stark

Tags: Alternate Universe - Villains Win; Asking For Rough Sex As Unhealthy Coping Mechanism; Captivity; Character A Pretends They Don't Notice Character B's Descent Into Madness; Characters Incorrectly Believe They Are In A Fuck-Or-Die Situation; Codependency; Comes Back Wrong; Exile; Forced Cohabitation; I Saved You Now You Owe Me; Imprisonment; Killing Someone You Love For A Greater Cause; Partially Failed Resurrection; Political Marriage For The Greater Good With Public Consummation; Ruined Castles and Fortresses; Self-Punishment; Sex Magic; Sex Required For Magical Ritual; The War Was Lost; Touch-Starved

+The Villains Win Scenario! Take your pick as to who the villain in this situation is: the Night King, Cersei, Daenerys. All three? lol. What does that worst case scenario look like? Are they captured? Imprisoned together? Tortured? Pawns or entertainment in either Cersei's or Daenerys's victor's court? Waiting to be executed and this fic is a "last night on earth" sort of thing? Or maybe they are in hiding in a horrifically cold apocalyptic hellscape after the Night King's victory? Or maybe they are the resistance, fugitives, planning to stage on last siege against the enemy.

+ Jon's dead. One option is, he completely gave himself over to Daenerys, and in order to save the North, Sansa saw the only way forward as to kill him or have him killed. Now she has to live with the guilt and the consequences for actions she continues to view as unavoidable. Maybe her guilt leads to her own self-punishment. Maybe that self-punishment looks a lot like sex with Tormund, a man who hates her for what she did to Jon. Or maybe Sansa, similar to Jon's fate in the finale, is exiled. She winds up Beyond the Wall and is reluctantly taken in by Tormund.

+ Or, as punishment Sansa is made to marry him? I love little more than a forced political marriage and the forced consummation in such a scenario, so by all means, if that pings your id as much as mine, run with it.

+ Ruined Winterfell -- give me Sansa with Jon and Tormund or just Sansa and Tormund left with the remains of Winterfell as the rest of the country burns (or freezes) or whatever great calamity has befallen them. Miserable people in ruined isolation -- I love it.

+ Jon Came Back Wrong. Rewind to Season Six, and maybe when Melisandre resurrected Jon something went wrong. He came back, but his humanity didn't. He came back, but there's something ugly and wrong about him now. Maybe both Sansa and Tormund notice this about it but both choose to ignore it, both to eager to have him alive again. Maybe they notice, but rather than ignore it, they encourage it. Sansa wants Winterfell back and Ramsay dead; if that means enabling Jon as he is now, then so be it.

+ Or, relating to Jon's resurrection, Melisandre needed something more to bring him back, and Sansa arrived at Castle Black before he was revived. Sex magic! Ritual sex magic! There is little I love more than the trope of "sex needs to be had to save someone one or both parties love," and oh boy, would that work well here. Maybe it's Tormund and Sansa who are required to fuck; maybe Jon is involved in the proceedings somehow. Maybe, in order for him to stay alive, they have to fuck him regularly. Get dark and weird with it, man. I am here for it.

SUSPIRIA (2019)

Susanna "Susie" Bannion/Madame Blanc

Tags: Body Horror; Character Becomes One With An Ancient Horror; Cults; Dark Magic; Dream Invasion; Dreamsharing; Folie a Deux; Magical Corruption; Mindfuck; Murder is Considered The Highest Form of Aesthetic Appreciation; Ritual Gone Wrong; Ritual Public Sex; Sex Magic; Sex to Power Dark Magic; Witchcraft

+ All the ritual nonsense you can think of. Maybe sex is required as part of the preparation of Susie's body for Mother Markos to take? Susie is unaware at first this is a part of any ritual, instead thinking it is only Madame Blanc's genuine interest in her as she "seduces" her each night to fulfill the ritual? Does Madame Blanc develop either guilt or feelings (or both!) as the final ritual approaches?

+ A different sort of ritual entails Susie (now possessed by Mother Suspiriorium) use sex to bring the grievously wounded Madame Blanc back to a living state. Use all the body horror, blood, and all the weird fucked-up eldritch shit you want here.

+ Dreamsharing! Each night, Madame Blanc invades Susie's dreams. At first, it is part of the demands of the coven. But, then, it becomes personal. A personal connection between the two women. Or it becomes sexual. Literal mindfucking? I am here for it. Or, more nebulous mindfucking, where the divide between what Susie knows and Susie believes to be true is deliberately blurred and smudged by Madame Blanc each night. Go as corrupt and terrible as you want.

+ Murder as a higher art form! Maybe this is Susie as Susie with Madame Blanc leading her into the macabre or Susie as Mother Suspiriorium -- either way or both, I am into it. I would especially love to see the evolution of the power balance and imbalance between them, with Madame Blanc thinking she is the one in control, that she is the one guiding all of this, only for the tables to be turned between them.

+ And as a potential AU, maybe only Susie and Madame Blanc believe in any of this. They are the only ones to worship this higher power and to engage in witchcraft, they fuel each other's delusions and spur each other on, developing a deep and deeply fucked up codependent relationship, much to the horror and confusion of the rest of the school.

Last, I can be found as arbitrarily on AO3 and widespindriftgaze on tumblr. I want to thank you again for writing for me, mystery author! I am sure I will enjoy whatever you come up with, and I hope you have fun!