Yuletide Letter (2020)

[millepertuis]

Dear Writer,

Sorry about finishing up the letter so late! The main things were laid out in my sign-up, so if you've already come up with something go right ahead. This letter just adds possible directions if you're still looking for inspiration, don't feel obligated to add any of it.

I hope you have fun writing, and thank you!



GENERAL LIKES:

best friends in love, antagonists in love, mutual obsession!!, codependency, domesticity, female friendships, female agency, found families, messed-up families, slow build, character/relationship studies, unreliable narrators; i have a preference for canon or canon divergence settings rather than complete AUs, but it's definitely not absolute

on the more light-hearted side of things, i love banter and silly antics and domesticity—and domestic polyamory—and i love all the usual cliché tropes (mutual pining, mistaken to be dating, fake relationship, accidental relationship, accidental marriage, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, soulbonding, bed-sharing, temporary amnesia, mistaken identity shenanigans, etc.)

on the more serious side of things: loyalty kink!!, king and lionheart dynamics!, people on a mission, morally gray characters, amoral characters, righteous characters, where do you put the line and what do you believe in and what are you willing to compromise on and what are you wiling to sacrifice, just the different ways people relate to right and wrong and guilt and responsibility and all that jazz; time travel shenanigans; unhealthy dynamics as long as they're recognized as such by the text if not by the characters; characters who aren't quite there yet—there being a healthy dynamic or being good or happiness—but want to work together or push each other towards it


GENERAL DISLIKES:

unhappy or generally depressing endings, character bashing, rape/non-con, (permanent) major character deaths, unrequited love, cheating, nominated characters being romantically or sexually involved with people outside of the ships requested

• CRAZYHEAD; amy, raquel francis, suzanne

(i’d be perfectly happy with gen fic but i also ship both amy/raquel and amy/suzanne, though very much in an either/or way, please no poly situation or unrequited love scenario.)

i absolutely /loved/ the zany spirit of the show, so anything playing off that would be great, but i'd also welcome a more serious approach to these characters, their trauma, their issues. or both. both at once is also good.

i'd particularly love anything set post-s1, maybe some amy/raquel where amy realizes her 'i love you' wasn't as platonic as she had thought, or the three of them trying to somehow lead a normal life even with suzanne being undead (which can totally have amy/suzanne or be a gen fic), or some silly demon-slaying shenanigans in the spirit of the show (bonus if someone has to make up a lie on the spot to hide the existence of the supernatural and fails spectacularly)

or an AU inspired by the dark days club books—no prior knowledge required—that might be fun if canon doesn’t particularly inspire you: demon-slaying shenanigans in regency england


if you happen to be interested in writing amy/raquel or amy/suzanne fic, i'm adding additional details i put for them on another exchange, if anything inspires you:

Was Amy lying when she later told Raquel she had meant it as friendly love, or in denial? Does Raquel secretly wish Amy had meant it? Or perhaps a more partners-to-lovers approach, something dealing with the dangerous situations they find themselves in and the trust they have in one another, and the codependency that might result from that.

We see Susanne is (un)alive at the end of the finale, but where do they go from there? Does Amy feel guilty over everything that happened to Susanne? Does Susanne feel guilty over being used to bait Amy and almost hurting her? Do they just go back to being best friends and roommates? Were they always in love, or did they only know it after Susanne died and came back and died again (and came back again)? Does Amy keep feeding Susanne her blood??

• DON'T DARE TO DREAM / JEALOUSY INCARNATE; ko jung wo, lee hwa shin, pyo na ri

this is one of those love triangles that REALLY work as an OT3, but i'd be happy with any platonic or romantic exploration of their relationship, be it a post-canon or canon-divergent getting together fic, or the three of them relearning how they fit together after pyo na ri and lee hwa shin's wedding--or even more shenanigans set in the 'why don't you date us both' period

Some other prompts if you're looking for ideas:

→ Pyo Na Ri and Lee Hwa Shin working together

→ anything about Lee Hwa Shin and Ko Jung Wo's codependency
→ amnesia fic! maybe Pyo Na Ri thinks she's still dating Jung Wo, maybe Ko Jung Wo doesn't remember meeting her and is thrown by this new person who kind of stole his place in Lee Hwa Shin's life but also he likes her apparently?, maybe Lee Hwa Shin is thrown back to the time before they got together and he learned how to deal with his feelings, any scenario works tbh
→ again, the Two-Timing Era shenanigans

• GOBLIN; ji eun tak, kim shin, wang yeo

i fell deeply in love with the show up until/even after it wrecked me emotionally, and i absolutely loved this trio of more-or-less willing roommates, so my only request when it comes to them is, DON'T BREAK MY HEART EVEN MORE.
roommates shenanigans? you bet. found family feelings? A+. OT3(/4 if you want to include sunny)? hell yeah! post-canon all finding each other again? you're allowed to break my heart a lil' bit.
(i didn't end up requesting sunny for matching reasons but you're absolutely welcome to feature her as much as the others if you had offered her)

Some other prompts if you're looking for ideas:
→ maybe a role reversal AU? Ji Eun Tak as the Goblin? Kim Shin as the Goblin's Bride (who definitely still has a girl ghost gang)?
→ the one where Kim Shin was in love with his king (and his king with him)
→ the one where they all find each other again post-canon
→ maybe Wang Yeo and Ji Eun Tak met during those years she couldn't remember a

 

 

• KILLJOYS; dutch, johnny jaqobis

Basically this scene happened,
 

(source)

and I never recovered.

There's just, he's just so completely devoted to her and she has so much faith and relies so completely on him in return that I don't know how to deal with myself. (QUEEN AND LIONHEART, but she's also her own damn knight.) The love and trust and respect between them is my happy place, and if you want to go romantic with this, yes, absolutely, but there's no need to if you enjoy the platonic aspect of their relationship, I'd just like anything focusing on them, though if you want to feature the absolute nonsense that is their found/grudgingly extended family, I'd welcome it as well.

Maybe some pre- or post-canon job shenanigans. Maybe they kind of got legally married at some point on some planet for some reason and it comes up again. Maybe some friends to lovers/mutual pining. Maybe an alternate take on the post-S4 fallout (they were MARRIED). The world is your oyster!