Trick or Treat Exchange 2018

[kiraly]

Hello, Trick-or-Treater! Or maybe I should just say “Treater” as I’ve only requested treats. I hope you’ll find something to inspire you, but as long as you keep my DNWs in mind, feel free to do as you like! If you need more ideas, you can check out my previous letters, find me on Tumblr: worldsentwined, or check out my AO3: Kiraly
General Likes:
Cute, fluffy stuff. It probably isn’t possible to write something too sweet, so feel free to pour the sugar on! I don’t mind a bit of angst, but it has to have a happy ending. For gen fics, I love to see characters building friendships, working together, going on adventures, getting into (and out of) trouble. Anything with characters out in nature is pretty great too. For shippy fics, I have a huge weakness for cuddling, (mild) hurt/comfort, and, uh...characters getting soaked and having to snuggle to warm up, haha. Kisses are good (awkward or sweet or steamy). I’m also totally down for things like “characters have to share a bed for some reason” or other situations where the characters kind of get thrown together and then develop feelings for each other.

I’ve requested art or fic for every fandom, so do whichever you prefer! For art, I really enjoy a wide variety of styles, from sketches to watercolors to digital pieces. I love bright, saturated colors if you decide to work in color, but I also love greyscale and black and white. Since this is Trick or Treat, one art-specific request is to draw the characters in some kind of Halloween costume. (I got an amazing drawing of Reynir and Tuuri dressed as characters from Zootopia two years ago, and one of Hannu and Ville as Ghostbusters last year). I think most of my fic prompts will work for art too, but if you don’t see anything you like, feel free to do your own thing. :)

Dislikes (Do Not Want):
Character death or maiming, including (for No End and SSSS) characters getting infected who do not do so in canon. (More on that in the fandom-specific sections). Violence beyond what is canon-typical. Abusive relationships. Sexual violence of any kind. Explicit sex (allusions to sex or situations that get kind of steamy are okay, just...keep it teen rated or lower, please). It’s also probably best to avoid AUs (unless otherwise specified) or unrequested crossovers.

Please do not include romantic pairings other than the ones I’ve requested, with the exception of canon relationships like Torbjörn/Siv or the Prologue Hotakainen couples. No characters in two simultaneous relationships.
Anyway, enough of this. On to the fandoms!

In Other Lands

Requested Characters: Elliot Schafer, Golden-Hair-Scented-Like-Summer, Luke Sunborn, Serene-Heart-In-The-Chaos-Of-Battle

Acceptable Pairings: Elliot Schafer/Luke Sunborn, Golden-Hair-Scented-Like-Summer/Serene-Heart-In-The-Chaos-Of-Battle

In general, I’d love a story about any of these characters (or all four of them!) after the events of the book. Where do they end up? What new challenges do they run into (and how do they make everything worse before it gets better?) Are there mermaids? And although I love the shippy stuff, if you want to focus more on the friendship between the group of them, that’s fine too.

Shippy Stuff:

Elliot/Luke: I love this pair so much! Elliot is a little sass-bucket and Luke is a ball of feelings wrapped in muscles and feathers. Their romance (or what counts as a romance, when one party is totally oblivious for most of it) is one of my favorite parts of the book. I think it’d be cool to see something from Luke’s perspective, especially during the events of the book. When did he first realize he loved Elliot? What was he thinking during Elliot’s various mad schemes (especially the whole thing with the school play)? On the other hand, it’d also be fun to see how the two of them grow into their relationship post-canon. I imagine there might be various bumps in the road as they figure out how to be boyfriends, so I’d love to see that explored. Alternatively, if you want to create something that’s entirely fluffy cuddling, I won’t say no to that either. And if you want to get a bit steamy, I feel like something in which Luke figures out that Elliot is super into the wings (or Elliot figures out that Luke is actually okay having the wings touched if it’s Elliot doing the touching) would be great. ;)

Golden/Serene: So elven gender roles (and the hilarious contrast between them and human ones) are one of my favorite parts about this canon. Which makes me love Golden and Serene’s relationship even more, because we get to see Serene learn that maybe Golden isn’t such a delicate flower after all. So I’d love to see more interactions like that - Golden learning more about Serene’s life as a warrior, and constantly surprising her with the things he’s capable of (while still enjoying things like nice clothes and fancy hair).

Other Stuff:

Elliot: I’d love to hear more about his experiments to bring technology to the Otherlands! What was the incident with the food processor? Does he ever go back across the wall to get new tech after they graduate?

Luke: Anything about adapting to his wings; humorous incidents with clothing (which I’m sure Luke wouldn’t find funny at all, but Elliot would) finding ways to keep the feather situation under control, whatever. Also I’d be all about something that showed Luke’s thoughts during the canon events, because it becomes so clear at the end that Elliot has badly misjudged what Luke was thinking in so many situations.

Serene: One of the moments I really liked was at the end when Elliot thinks Serene may be realizing she’s not quite the strong emotionless type she thought she was, that she actually does need emotional support sometimes. Because I love badass fighter Serene - and I’d be totally okay with getting art or fanfic of badass fighter Serene - but something introspective where she realizes that maybe women are allowed to have emotions would also be cool.

Golden: Oh goodness, what we don’t know about Golden could fill a whole book, but we get all these tempting glimpses in canon that I’d love to see explored. What exactly was he getting up to at finishing school? When did he make his plan to run off and join Serene at the battle? Did he spend lots of time thinking up ways to torment Serene before he allowed her to court him?


No End

Requested Characters: Benjamin Yeong | Benny, Jenna Reid, Jeremy Edison | Jerry, Jonah Reid | Wight, Modra Blauschild, Tristan Khouri | Cotton

This romance comic set in a post-apocalyptic zombie world has eaten my heart! (Not...literally. Though there is some cannibalism). There is also, for some reason, NO fanfiction for it as far as I can see. So if you write something, I will automatically love it because it will exist! And of course I welcome fanart too, I can never see enough of my favorite characters.

Just a note regarding my death/infection DNW: I’m fine with the presence of existing Undead - Wight’s whole backstory and present condition is fine. I just don’t want to read about anyone else getting infected, please.

Benny: Certainly a ray of sunshine, isn’t he? I would really like to read something where he gets to have a good day for once. Or, alternatively, a miserable day with a sweet moment at the end to make him feel better. I don’t really ship him with anyone yet, but you can include a romance if it doesn’t disrupt any of the current canon ships and takes characters’ orientations into account. (And please don’t ignore the fact that Jerry has turned him down, if you’re writing something that takes place after that.)

Modra: I LOVE THIS PUPPY BOY SO MUCH! I would happily read anything about him, from how he decided on blue hair to a story about his time as a lawyer before the story starts. Or once he leaves Zeus, there are so many possibilities for “clueless sheltered zone-dweller” shenanigans, so I’d be delighted by that too. I am a HUGE fan of Wight/Modra, I think they’re totally adorable and the forehead kisses get me EVERY TIME. So yes, please, any shippy thing you want to write with the two of them would be great! In addition to the kinds of interactions we see in canon, I’d love to see Modra combing/playing with Wight’s hair, or vice versa.

Wight: Other than cute shippy stories with Modra (*whispers* forehead kissessss), I think it’d be neat to get inside Wight’s head a little and see what he’s thinking. He’s been very quiet about the current Benny > Jerry > Cotton debacle, so his thoughts on that (or his own worries about dating Modra in his condition) would be neat to see. I also love the sibling relationship between him and Jenn, so a story about their past would be cool too!

Jenn: I LOVE HER. It’s clear that she’s trying so hard to keep the group focused and smooth out the relationships between everyone else, even though it’s like herding cats. It’d be nice for her to get a quiet moment to herself, or maybe a nice day with Wight or Cotton when events are less crazy than in canon. Jenn and Cotton are kind of my BroTP for this fandom, so seeing them interact and work together would be nice. (Or like, Jenn chewing Cotton out about his TERRIBLE romantic decisions, either in the current setting or in the past after his fling with Wight). I don’t ship her with anybody and would prefer not to read anything shippy with her, at present.

Cotton: Oh, Cotton. I love his ridiculous sense of humor and his ability to be COMPLETELY oblivious to relationship things while also being really good at the leadership side of things. I’m hoping he gets to be reunited with Jerry soon (because it really seems like they’ll be a thing) so I’d love to read some fic about the two of them making things work. Or, like I said before, Cotton’s friendship with Jenn, or him building a friendship with Wight after having hoped for something more.

Jerry: He’s kind of a mystery man, but I do love the dynamic he has with Cotton, and the way he seems to know more than he lets on. If you choose not to write shippy fic with him and Cotton, I’d love to see his past explored, maybe other dangerous situations he’s gotten into or out of. Also, the way he helped Benny when Benny was just starting out - did someone do that for him once? I’d love to see something like that.


The Queen’s Thief

Requested Characters: Attolia | Irene, Eugenides, Costis Orimenides, Kamet

Acceptable Romantic Pairings: Attolia/Eugenides, Costis/Kamet

Attolia/Eugenides: I know this ship gets all the canon love, but one can never have too much of a favorite ship, right? Right. Anyway, I’d love to see deleted scenes from any of the books (especially post QoA) or little moments alone when they can just relax and unwind from the stress of court life. Bonus points for anything involving the secret passage between their bedrooms, or Irene’s private reactions to Eugenides’ stunts with the court.

I don’t particularly have non-shippy prompts for either of these two, but anything exploring their early lives, or things that are mentioned in canon that we only sort of get to see (Gen getting held down in a water barrel by his cousins, Irene meeting Relius or poisoning her first husband) would be cool.

Costis: Okay, so I definitely subscribe to the headcanon that Eugenides has passed the mantle of “Thief” to Costis - and that Costis has no actual idea, until maybe the end of Thick As Thieves. I’d kind of love to see his reaction when he actually finds out. Or, also, something later down the road where he’s grown into his own style of Thievery - I don’t think he’ll ever do the job quite like Gen does, so it’d be cool to see a more mature Costis as Thief. (Bonus points if Kamet is there too, or if they’ve each taken up part of the job and work together to do it).

Costis/Kamet: I love the slow build of their relationship in canon, all the ways they gradually learn to trust each other and every time Kamet thinks of running off and instead chooses to stay. I would actually love to see a story that takes the scenario I mentioned in the previous prompt (Costis realizing he’s the Thief) and includes Kamet in the equation where Costis figures out he’s the new Thief of Eddis/Attolia. Or anything post-canon, honestly, with the two of them going off together and starting their new lives as spies researchers. I love the thought of these two opening up to each other more, finding a rhythm of life and learning more about how they complement each other.


A Redtail’s Dream

Requested Characters: Hannu Viitanen, Jonna Kuikka, Joona Kuikka, Jouko Kuikka, Oona Kuikka, Puppy-Fox, Riikka Skärsholm, Ville

Acceptable Romantic Pairings: Jonna/Riikka, Hannu/Human!Ville, Hannu/Joona.

Rather than a set of prompts for each character, here are some random prompts involving various characters:

*Hannu, Jonna and Joona getting up to mischief as kids/teens, maybe involving something spooky/supernatural? Can also involve Paju, Riikka, and Anssi if you like.

*Hannu and Ville continuing to encounter weird supernatural stuff after Ville becomes human. They end up becoming something like the ghost hunters/paranormal investigators of Hokanniemi, which Ville enjoys and Hannu complains about. Bonus points if everyone else either doesn’t notice, or just think the two have a weird new hobby. (I got some awesome art of Hannu and Ville as Ghostbusters last year, so if someone wants to turn that into a story, please do!)

*Jonna/Riikka being cute together, going on dates or just enjoying each other’s company. Maybe how their families react to the news that they’re dating (I like any range between shocked surprise and “lol of course we’ve known all along”). Maybe how they got together in the first place - who asked who out? Was there pining? How do they make their relationship work when they both have other life/family obligations that keep them busy?

*Oona & Puppy-Fox: Okay, I really just want to see something where these two meet and it turns out Puppy-Fox has met his match in an adorable (but slightly evil) little girl. It’d be especially great if Puppy-Fox attempted to play tricks on her and they all backfired on him.

*The Kuikka family as a group just kind of fascinate me - I’m SO curious about how Jouko is a single dad raising his kids on his own but one of those kids is 18 years younger than the other two. I would love to see some exploration of that, whether you take the “Oona is a magical baby found in the woods” approach or the “Mama Kuikka left when Jonna and Joona were kids, came back when they were teens for a brief stint, had Oona and left again” theory or something else I haven’t thought of.

*On the subject of Jouko, I feel like that man deserves a medal and also a vacation. So something where he gets a break (maybe some friends take over the bakery for a day so he can have some time to himself? Or the kids get off their lazy butts to do something nice for him?) would be excellent.


Stand Still Stay Silent

Requested Characters: Emil Västerström, Ensi Hotakainen, Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Lalli Hotakainen, Onni Hotakainen, Ragnar Árnason, Reynir Árnason, Sigrun Eide, Tuuri Hotakainen, Author of the Info Pages, Ukko-Pekka

Acceptable Romantic Pairings: Ragnar/Hildur, Ensi/Author of the Info Pages, Ensi/Ukko-Pekka, Ensi/Ukko-Pekka/Author, Emil/Lalli, Sigrun/Tuuri, Reynir/Tuuri, Reynir/Onni, Onni/Bjarni. (I don’t have specific requests for all of these, but feel free to include them if you have ideas)

A note about my “do not want” for death/infection with the Rash: In general, I don’t want to read a story about any requested characters getting infected with the Rash, though Prologue characters worrying that they’ve been infected (when it turns out they haven’t been) is fine. And I just...don’t want to read fic about Tuuri’s death. If you’re writing Y90 characters, I’d prefer you take one of the following approaches regarding Tuuri:

*Canon-divergent AU where she doesn’t get infected and does not die, or

*Something in the canon setting, but taking place before she is infected, or

*Something in the canon setting which focuses on characters not involving Tuuri (like, if you want to do one about Emil and Lalli fleeing the dusklings or something)

*A fix-it fic that involves her coming back to life somehow.

Anyway, moving on! Here are some pairings I like, and specific prompts for them:

Ensi/Ukko-Pekka/Author of the Info Pages: Look. This seems like a crazy group, but hear me out! If you’ve read any of my Dreamworld Ladies fics, you’ll probably remember that my take on the Author of the Info Pages is an Icelandic mage named Rúna Snorradóttir who basically shows up at various points in Ensi’s life and annoys/falls in love with her. Ensi is...not always pleased by her presence, but she usually lets her stick around for a while. (I kind of headcanon Ensi as aromantic, so the falling in love is not mutual). Anyway, enter Ukko-Pekka, aka “Ensi’s one-night stand” aka “that guy who was Definitely Not A God Of Any Kind Where Did You Get That Idea” aka future Grandpa Hotakainen. Pairing either of these two with Ensi is a recipe for excellent crackfic, but all three of them together would be amazing! I can just imagine Rúna and Ukko-Pekka getting along like a house on fire, and Ensi getting so irritated at the pair of them.

You could also write either Ensi/Ukko-Pekka or Ensi/Rúna. OR, I’d be okay with a fic where Rúna gets jealous when she finds out about Ensi/Ukko-Pekka, because she has much stronger romantic feelings for Ensi than Ensi has for her. But I’d like there to be some kind of closure or happy ending. (Maybe it ends up with the three of them together, or with Rúna gaining a better understanding of Ensi’s aromantic-ness).

Ragnar/Hildur: Okay, we know nothing about these two except that they’re Reynir’s grandparents, but COME ON. Ragnar looks like he belongs on the cover of a Viking romance novel, and I am 1000% convinced that Hildur thinks so too and would be the one to write this. So that’s my idea: Hildur writing ridiculous pulp romance with a romantic lead who suspiciously resembles her husband. (There is a bit of fic about this already, but the fluff monster craves MORE! And if you choose to do art, the cover of one of Hildur’s books would delight me.)

Emil/Lalli: I love the idea of Emil and Lalli figuring each other out despite all the obstacles in their way - language barriers, different backgrounds, magic/no magic. Neither of them seem like people who have had a lot of friends before, so finding friendship in each other - and then more than friendship - makes me happy. Cuddles, cookies, annoying the rest of the crew with public displays of affection (or trying to hide their relationship and failing). We’ve had so many developments with them recently - body-sharing! Fleeing from the dusklings together! A reciprocated friendly punch! I feel like their relationship has really come along, and it’d be great to see that incorporated. Any ideas about how they’d make things work post-canon (does Lalli move to Sweden? Does Emil actually manage to learn some Finnish so he can move to Keuruu? Do they both move somewhere else to be together?) would be lovely. I’m kind of a sucker for post-canon established relationship fics with these two, so feel free to run with something like that. (Also, if you want to write an AU where they retained each other’s languages after the dream-sharing thing, that would be pretty exciting too).

Sigrun/Tuuri: I really enjoy shippy stuff with the two of them, but if you want to go gen that’s okay too. I love how they have a shared enthusiasm for adventure despite having completely different backgrounds. And I can definitely see Tuuri having a crush on Sigrun during the mission (“You’re so tall!”) and Sigrun growing steadily more impressed with Tuuri’s competence as time goes on. Post-canon, if you choose to go with a version of events where things work out okay for Tuuri, I’d love to see the two of them figuring out how a relationship will work given their different backgrounds.

Reynir/Onni: This ship has been growing on me lately. I really enjoy their various dreamworld encounters, and Onni’s constant grumpiness failing in the face of Reynir’s determined enthusiasm. It’d be fun to see more stories or art with them exploring the dreamworld, and also maybe coming together in real life once the expedition ends.

Onni/Bjarni: This is my most ridiculous crackship in this canon - two characters who have never met and probably won’t. But I like the thought of like, Bjarni finds out Reynir is missing, tracks him to the expedition, ends up in Mora at Headquarters, and meets Onni. At first they probably don’t really trust each other, but I feel like enforced proximity (and maybe a “there’s only one bed!” situation could make things warm up a bit. ;)

Reynir/Tuuri: I love these two a lot, but I have a really hard time thinking of prompts for them with the current canon events. So if you can think of a way to write them that’s sweet and fluffy and unlikely to make me sad, go for it! Or maybe a story where Reynir goes into Tuonela to fetch Tuuri, a la Orpheus, and manages to bring her out (successfully) could be neat.

Other Prompts:

*Some combination of characters goes into Tuonela to rescue Tuuri. I don’t care how they manage to save her, as long as everyone makes it out okay.

*Deleted scenes from the end of the first adventure! I can’t believe this first arc is basically over, and I feel like there are things Minna chose not to show us in an effort to move the story forward. But like, dangit, I want to see Sigrun realizing Emil and Lalli are alive, the whole crew having a giant hugpile (“Reynir! Go put your mask on before you hug!”), Emil telling the story of their adventures (with much exaggeration and Reynir demanding a translation every five minutes). Seeing Emil try to explain the body-sharing thing - assuming he even tries? Would be hilarious too.

*Reynir’s siblings descending on him on the pickup ship, demanding to know what he thought he was doing.

*Scary stories! Characters relating creepy things they’ve encountered or heard of, stories they were told as children, etc. Bonus points for exaggeration (Sigrun, Mikkel) and characters hearing the stories refusing to sleep without the lights on (Emil, Reynir?)
*For any of the main characters (including Mikkel, though I didn’t request him, and also Onni) I’d be okay with some kind of modern setting where they end up exploring a haunted house or encountering the supernatural in some other way. Maybe someone’s a vampire? Maybe lycanthropy runs in someone’s family tree? Maybe Lalli goes out into the woods looking for Mothman, and comes back with a boyfriend? Basically some kind of silly, campy Halloween-themed story would bring me joy, so feel free to play around.


Anyway, I think that’s about all! If you have questions, feel free to ask. Anonymous comments are enabled here, and my Tumblr ask box is also open to anons.