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Horror Exchange
May. 26th, 2021 01:45 amHello, thanks for writing for me! Down here I'll list my DNW (the same as the sign-up really) plus further prompts and explanations. Prompts are optional, as long as you don't write anything that's in my fandom or general DNW you can have fun with your own ideas.
Horror DNW:
Transhumanist horror in which a complete loss of the body happens, for example brains that retain consciousness and are kept under glass, or being put inside machines against one's will (this does not apply to spirits and souls lacking a body because of death and that ghostly bodiless-ness being part of the horror, it is specifically linked to machinery and to the transcendence of/leaving behind the human form). • Some aspects of dehumanisation: being made to act or eat like an animal, like an object or furniture, or intentional humiliation via bodily fluids (be it eating, smearing, or whatever else). • Mind breaks: characters losing their sense of self as the note the story ends on (having lost their personhood but regaining it as the story progresses is fine but tread carefully). Especially no mind break because of sexual acts. If a mind break is part of the canon, it's fine to include it. • Time loops. • Horror that hinges on homophobia or racism or ableism and other such things, for example beatings, kidnappings, murders due to these things. They're totally okay to be present but the horror aspect shouldn't be linked primarily to these. • Requested characters as fleeing hapless victims unless specifically prompted.
Naruto
Solo: Orochimaru, Hidan & Orochimaru
Types: body horror, medical horror, psych. horror, dark fantasy, monster horror
The medical situations DNW doesn't apply to this request. Feel free to explore ideas about Orochimaru's experiments, maybe even on Hidan during his Akatsuki period. Or maybe he goes to find Hidan and finds a way to bring him back? Feelings on body horror in Orochimaru's monster form, or with regard to his decaying arms, also welcome. Any exploration of the characters is fine by me, others like Kabuto or whoever else appearing is good by me.
Le città invisibili
Solo: Cities
Types: cosmic horror, folk horror, dark fantasy, gothic horror, institutional horror, religious horror
This was just a cool idea... just, the thought of an evil city is extremely lovecraftian, but you can bring it wherever you want. The mood of the place is up to you, as well as how to approach it. Are there people who live in it? An outsider or relative from elsewhere arrives and discovers the horrors? Explorers? The city itself is sentient, is there an evil religion? Go wild.
The Silmarillion
SILM DNW: Doubling down on no bashing or making fun of any characters, especially the Feanorians. • Caranthir as greedy or doing embroidery. • Usually LaCE being written as super canon-compliant (banging means marriage and soul-bonding) is a huge dnw, but here, especially for some ships, I'm willing to read it if the idea of the marriage and soul-bond is part of the horror, especially explored in more or less heavy dub-con settings. • All-benevolent Valar or any other group written as "they did nothing wrong". • Outright abusive parenting, especially wrt to Feanor (difficult parenting is okay) • Ignoring the existence of canon marriages/loves for characters in requested ships. • Soft saint Maglor. • Strong preference for all non-canon ships to be secret relationships but I'll read different takes.
Amrod/Amras/Nellas
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, folk horror.
One of my two incest exceptions, though I would still prefer it if Amras and Amrod didn't directly have penetrative or oral sex with each other. I think it'd be cool to explore their personal identity dynamics and issues, and how they get entangled into them or try to step away from them. How could they relate to having a sexual relationship with the same person? Does Nellas realise and is she complicit in this game? If not, do they deliberately keep it from her? Is it ever a true threesome, the three of them together and the twins skirting around each other, elaborating each other's presence, or do they have sex and/or court Nellas separately? The only DWN for this: the twins being in full-on romantic love or the incest's dysfunctional and problematic aspects written as cute.
Celegorm/Luthien
Aredhel/Eol
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, psych. horror.
Their relationship is abusive and unhealthy at best, and I'm not opposed to reading the complicated situations that ensued. Explore it as you wish, though once again, no violent non-con. Also a good ship to lean into LaCE compliance as a source of horror.
Celegorm/Aredhel
Types: psych. horror, dark fantasy, folk horror, monster horror.
The only DNW is writing Celegorm as abusive towards Aredhel. The monster horror prompt is there in case you'd like to have them hunt something horrible together? Also curious to see them both after death in a wild hunt context, under Orome, hunting evil things. My preference is generally that Aredhel is aro and loves Celegorm in a non-romantic way, and Celegorm loves her romantically but never tells her so, all the while having more or less casual sex. If you have a different interpretation, however, I'll read it! If you go with my hc, though, please avoid lingering on Celegorm angsting over her Not Really Loving Him. Down to read anything you come up with.
Fingolfin/Lalwen
Types: psych. horror, dark fantasy, folk horror.
The other incest exception. DNW for Fingolfin being abusive towards Lalwen. Love ideas of codependency in Barad Eithel, and I'm okay with direct sexual situations, other than that go wild. May or may not include LaCE as horror, as you prefer.
Solo: Celegorm, Celegorm & Curufin & Celebrimbor
Types: dark fantasy, folk horror, monster horror.
The first thing I thought was the three of them having to go through the Nan Dungortheb as they and their people flee Himlad. That's why I included monster horror in it as well, but if you have somehow other thoughts, go for it. I love family dynamics, even complicated ones, and how they react to horrible situations. DNW for Celegorm and Curufin to be abusive towards Celebrimbor, or Celebrimbor being treated as a child and infantilised (or being a child).
For Celegorm's solo, his soul being in Orome's wild hunt is an idea again, but I like modern villages being haunted by him as well. Monster horror, him hunting something terrible, is also good.
Solo: Maglor, Maglor & Houseless Elf, Solo: Houseless spirits / elf
Types: psych. horror, dark fantasy, folk horror.
DNW for maglor hating his father. Other than that... Maglor on the shores alone, interacting with ghosts? Or maybe lingering spirits haunting him, or him fading? I'd enjoy a kinda hopeful ending here, but feel free to go wild.
Solo: Feanor, Feanor & Sons
Types: dark fantasy, folk horror, cosmic horror, religious horror.
My first idea was Feanor and/or his sons trapped in the void and fighting still the dragons and balrogs and other things that exist there as they try to climb back into Ea. Also, Eru as a distant and not-understanding god? Or them haunting modern England, or other legends born around them? Someone finds a Silmaril and the oath is awakened and calls on their spirits? I'd love to have family feels in the midst of everything else.
Solo: Miriel, Miriel & Vaire, Ingwe/Varda/Manwe
Types: religious horror, psych. horror, cosmic horror, dark fantasy
Creepy Valar, eldritch interactions, religious ecstasy. How does closeness to divinity affect these people? Exploring power imbalance should be good. I don't imagine Ingwe to have direct penetrative sex with the Valar but however else you can spin it should be interesting. Also, Miriel in the halls, Miriel weaving her family's history... how does she react to it, how is it to be in the service of Vaire... go wild.
The Vampire Chronicles
Armand/Marius de Romanus
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, religious horror
If I recall correctly, Armand is 16 in the novel when he's human, so here the underage doesn't apply, but I'm not opposed to raising his age to about 18. Also totally down for an interaction when Armand is already a vampire, in modern days. Just fill in the gaps of their story, I'll be happy to read whatever you've got. The only DNW is portraying bdsm like an evil and immoral act.
Dragon Age (Comics & Vidya)
DA DNW: Secret half-elven parentage • Half elf characters having obviously elven traits • Anything about the Chantry being unquestionably right • Fereldan people written as always honest and honourable • Orlesians written as always deceitful or evil • Writing Tevinter as overtly sexual or overtly mysterious or super buttoned up, really just don't do that, it's orientalism and also kinda racist. It's a country with many diverse people, please treat it as such • Dorian written as foppish and submissive or caring primarily about the sex • Bashing Anora • Cousland married to Alistair
Solo: Tractus Danarius, Danarius Senior & Tractus Danarius
Types: institutional horror, dark fantasy, medical horror, psychological horror
How did Tractus grow up as a half-blooded child? Who's his mother? How did he interact with Danarius, and how did he end up an extremist, was it in attempt to be accepted by his father's peers as a human? Explore this to your heart's content.
Tevinter Slave(s), Tevinter Magister(s), Calpernia & Corypheus
Types: institutional horror, dark fantasy, body horror, psychological horror
So many things to explore here. Obviously the OCs can be taken on their own, or interact with each other, like only the slaves, or only the magisters, or an interaction between them. SO many themes to: abominations, demons, the horror of society and/or enslavement, being haunted by evil magic, social plots and people who wish you harm... the same goes for Calpernia & Cory, with of course added in the plans that Corypheus had for her.
Felix Alexius & Gereon Alexius, Felix Alexius & Dorian Pavus
Types: body horror, dark fantasy, cosmic horror
Trying to cure Felix anyone? The cosmic horror tag is there for the dark future of In Hushed Whispers, which is nightmarish enough. I'm also okay with somehow saving Felix via grey wardens, and obviously the mind break thing in the dark future can happen. Go wild.
Loghain Mac Tir/Morrigan, Loghain Mac Tir/Female Hawke
Types: dark fantasy, cosmic horror
Two very different flavours of ship here, but for Morrigan I always think about Kieran the demon baby and what that can possibly mean... in general. Maybe after DA:I Loghain joins them for a while and stuff happens? Or maybe this is during the dark ritual or shortly after, did anything else happen there? And for Loghain and Hawke, how about the DA:I period when they're on the run and fighting the fake calling and the other wardens, or how about they're both stuck in the fade to fight the nightmare, orrr other adventures afterwards? There's enough creepy stuff in Thedas to come up with something really wild.
Architect & Corypheus, Architect/Corypheus
Types: cosmic horror, religious horror, dark fantasy, body horror
One of my fave ships. If you go the sexual/romantic route, I have some preferences for it, namely the Architect topping and Cory needing to let go of some of that stress and anger by submitting, but if that goes strongly against your headcanons I'll read something different too. I'd love to see this relationship during their human years in ancient Tevinter, when Cory begins convincing the other that they need to break into the Fade, but I'm down for some darkspawn action as well. I am partial to the hc of the Architect being very gender non-conforming. For ancient Tevinter, be my guest with the worldbuilding, it's delicious. You could explore what they did to reach the golden city? Also I like the name Callistus for the Architect, feel free to use it.
The Architect & The Warden, Avernus & The Warden
Types: dark fantasy, medical horror, psychological horror, body horror
Okay clearly the warden had one hell of a time in the mines where the Architect was hiding, I would love an exploration of that. You can even go AU, decide that the warden is staying there. Maybe there's mutual fascination in what the Architect is doing? I would love to see a "collaboration" route with Avernus as well, rather the warden as a victim, a descent into whatever they're willing to do to study the properties of their blood.
Solo: The Messenger, The Messenger/The Warden
Types: dark fantasy, body horror, folk horror
I think folk horror for a benevolent nightmare creature works wonderfully! How does the messenger interact with people he cannot get close to lest they are infected by the taint? And the ship with the warden... listen idk, go wild with it if anything about the idea calls to you.
Horror DNW:
Transhumanist horror in which a complete loss of the body happens, for example brains that retain consciousness and are kept under glass, or being put inside machines against one's will (this does not apply to spirits and souls lacking a body because of death and that ghostly bodiless-ness being part of the horror, it is specifically linked to machinery and to the transcendence of/leaving behind the human form). • Some aspects of dehumanisation: being made to act or eat like an animal, like an object or furniture, or intentional humiliation via bodily fluids (be it eating, smearing, or whatever else). • Mind breaks: characters losing their sense of self as the note the story ends on (having lost their personhood but regaining it as the story progresses is fine but tread carefully). Especially no mind break because of sexual acts. If a mind break is part of the canon, it's fine to include it. • Time loops. • Horror that hinges on homophobia or racism or ableism and other such things, for example beatings, kidnappings, murders due to these things. They're totally okay to be present but the horror aspect shouldn't be linked primarily to these. • Requested characters as fleeing hapless victims unless specifically prompted.
General DNW:
AUs unless requested • No BIG canon divergencies unless requested, though I'm okay with "pick your canon" unless I state a preference. • Crack fic. • Focus on pregnancy or childbirth. • Focus on gender dysphoria. • Character bashing. I am happy with characters disagreeing passionately and having negative opinions of other characters, but don't make them into your mouthpiece. Also don't make fun of or belittle characters, especially those of the requested ships. • Focus on scat, piss, vomit. I'm fine with mentions of unsanitary things, but nothing that is deliberately trying to squick the reader out or is kinking on these fluids. (Blood is perfectly fine.) • Second person writing. • Issuefic also known as educational fiction. • No writing out of canon-compliant various -isms or phobias. If a world or time period is homophobic, I don't want the struggles of characters that have to live with it written away. However, if such things are not present in a given world, don't add them in for the sake of it. • A/B/O, genderswap, alien genitalia, m!preg. • Maggots and cockroaches, terminal illnesses, feederism and eating disorders, soulmates. • Daddy/mommy kink, de-aging of characters, ageplay and infantilisation, diapers, pet play, feet, enemas and urethral plays, insistence on how large a penis or breasts are, objectification. • Medical play or assorted medical kinks and situations, unless requested. • Underage and violent non-con (dub-con is fine if requested and some ships lend themselves to forms of non-con). Parent/child or sibling/sibling incest unless requested (cousins okay). • Any variation of the word "come" spelled as "cum".
Naruto
Solo: Orochimaru, Hidan & Orochimaru
Types: body horror, medical horror, psych. horror, dark fantasy, monster horror
The medical situations DNW doesn't apply to this request. Feel free to explore ideas about Orochimaru's experiments, maybe even on Hidan during his Akatsuki period. Or maybe he goes to find Hidan and finds a way to bring him back? Feelings on body horror in Orochimaru's monster form, or with regard to his decaying arms, also welcome. Any exploration of the characters is fine by me, others like Kabuto or whoever else appearing is good by me.
Le città invisibili
Solo: Cities
Types: cosmic horror, folk horror, dark fantasy, gothic horror, institutional horror, religious horror
This was just a cool idea... just, the thought of an evil city is extremely lovecraftian, but you can bring it wherever you want. The mood of the place is up to you, as well as how to approach it. Are there people who live in it? An outsider or relative from elsewhere arrives and discovers the horrors? Explorers? The city itself is sentient, is there an evil religion? Go wild.
The Silmarillion
SILM DNW: Doubling down on no bashing or making fun of any characters, especially the Feanorians. • Caranthir as greedy or doing embroidery. • Usually LaCE being written as super canon-compliant (banging means marriage and soul-bonding) is a huge dnw, but here, especially for some ships, I'm willing to read it if the idea of the marriage and soul-bond is part of the horror, especially explored in more or less heavy dub-con settings. • All-benevolent Valar or any other group written as "they did nothing wrong". • Outright abusive parenting, especially wrt to Feanor (difficult parenting is okay) • Ignoring the existence of canon marriages/loves for characters in requested ships. • Soft saint Maglor. • Strong preference for all non-canon ships to be secret relationships but I'll read different takes.
Amrod/Amras/Nellas
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, folk horror.
One of my two incest exceptions, though I would still prefer it if Amras and Amrod didn't directly have penetrative or oral sex with each other. I think it'd be cool to explore their personal identity dynamics and issues, and how they get entangled into them or try to step away from them. How could they relate to having a sexual relationship with the same person? Does Nellas realise and is she complicit in this game? If not, do they deliberately keep it from her? Is it ever a true threesome, the three of them together and the twins skirting around each other, elaborating each other's presence, or do they have sex and/or court Nellas separately? The only DWN for this: the twins being in full-on romantic love or the incest's dysfunctional and problematic aspects written as cute.
Celegorm/Luthien
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, psych. horror.
Listen... if you can find a way to write this that isn't outright violent non-con, I'll be so down to read. So... however else you can spin it. An AU in which there's enough emotional manipulation that she ends up accepting his marriage proposal? Unwilling attraction on Luthien's side? A political move and she somehow agrees with it? OR! Switch it around and use the fact that apparently everyone was under Luthien's spell to make it dubiously consensual on both sides -- maybe she feels guilty about it? Celegorm knows and doesn't care? Idk just... go wild. The sole DNW here is Celegorm written as a monstrous and wholly unsympathetic figure to Luthien's heroine role, I'm not interested in that. This is also a good ship to use LaCE compliance as a source of horror.Aredhel/Eol
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, psych. horror.
Their relationship is abusive and unhealthy at best, and I'm not opposed to reading the complicated situations that ensued. Explore it as you wish, though once again, no violent non-con. Also a good ship to lean into LaCE compliance as a source of horror.
Celegorm/Aredhel
Types: psych. horror, dark fantasy, folk horror, monster horror.
The only DNW is writing Celegorm as abusive towards Aredhel. The monster horror prompt is there in case you'd like to have them hunt something horrible together? Also curious to see them both after death in a wild hunt context, under Orome, hunting evil things. My preference is generally that Aredhel is aro and loves Celegorm in a non-romantic way, and Celegorm loves her romantically but never tells her so, all the while having more or less casual sex. If you have a different interpretation, however, I'll read it! If you go with my hc, though, please avoid lingering on Celegorm angsting over her Not Really Loving Him. Down to read anything you come up with.
Fingolfin/Lalwen
Types: psych. horror, dark fantasy, folk horror.
The other incest exception. DNW for Fingolfin being abusive towards Lalwen. Love ideas of codependency in Barad Eithel, and I'm okay with direct sexual situations, other than that go wild. May or may not include LaCE as horror, as you prefer.
Solo: Celegorm, Celegorm & Curufin & Celebrimbor
Types: dark fantasy, folk horror, monster horror.
The first thing I thought was the three of them having to go through the Nan Dungortheb as they and their people flee Himlad. That's why I included monster horror in it as well, but if you have somehow other thoughts, go for it. I love family dynamics, even complicated ones, and how they react to horrible situations. DNW for Celegorm and Curufin to be abusive towards Celebrimbor, or Celebrimbor being treated as a child and infantilised (or being a child).
For Celegorm's solo, his soul being in Orome's wild hunt is an idea again, but I like modern villages being haunted by him as well. Monster horror, him hunting something terrible, is also good.
Solo: Maglor, Maglor & Houseless Elf, Solo: Houseless spirits / elf
Types: psych. horror, dark fantasy, folk horror.
DNW for maglor hating his father. Other than that... Maglor on the shores alone, interacting with ghosts? Or maybe lingering spirits haunting him, or him fading? I'd enjoy a kinda hopeful ending here, but feel free to go wild.
Solo: Feanor, Feanor & Sons
Types: dark fantasy, folk horror, cosmic horror, religious horror.
My first idea was Feanor and/or his sons trapped in the void and fighting still the dragons and balrogs and other things that exist there as they try to climb back into Ea. Also, Eru as a distant and not-understanding god? Or them haunting modern England, or other legends born around them? Someone finds a Silmaril and the oath is awakened and calls on their spirits? I'd love to have family feels in the midst of everything else.
Solo: Miriel, Miriel & Vaire, Ingwe/Varda/Manwe
Types: religious horror, psych. horror, cosmic horror, dark fantasy
Creepy Valar, eldritch interactions, religious ecstasy. How does closeness to divinity affect these people? Exploring power imbalance should be good. I don't imagine Ingwe to have direct penetrative sex with the Valar but however else you can spin it should be interesting. Also, Miriel in the halls, Miriel weaving her family's history... how does she react to it, how is it to be in the service of Vaire... go wild.
The Vampire Chronicles
Armand/Marius de Romanus
Types: gothic horror, dark fantasy, religious horror
If I recall correctly, Armand is 16 in the novel when he's human, so here the underage doesn't apply, but I'm not opposed to raising his age to about 18. Also totally down for an interaction when Armand is already a vampire, in modern days. Just fill in the gaps of their story, I'll be happy to read whatever you've got. The only DNW is portraying bdsm like an evil and immoral act.
Dragon Age (Comics & Vidya)
DA DNW: Secret half-elven parentage • Half elf characters having obviously elven traits • Anything about the Chantry being unquestionably right • Fereldan people written as always honest and honourable • Orlesians written as always deceitful or evil • Writing Tevinter as overtly sexual or overtly mysterious or super buttoned up, really just don't do that, it's orientalism and also kinda racist. It's a country with many diverse people, please treat it as such • Dorian written as foppish and submissive or caring primarily about the sex • Bashing Anora • Cousland married to Alistair
Solo: Tractus Danarius, Danarius Senior & Tractus Danarius
Types: institutional horror, dark fantasy, medical horror, psychological horror
How did Tractus grow up as a half-blooded child? Who's his mother? How did he interact with Danarius, and how did he end up an extremist, was it in attempt to be accepted by his father's peers as a human? Explore this to your heart's content.
Tevinter Slave(s), Tevinter Magister(s), Calpernia & Corypheus
Types: institutional horror, dark fantasy, body horror, psychological horror
So many things to explore here. Obviously the OCs can be taken on their own, or interact with each other, like only the slaves, or only the magisters, or an interaction between them. SO many themes to: abominations, demons, the horror of society and/or enslavement, being haunted by evil magic, social plots and people who wish you harm... the same goes for Calpernia & Cory, with of course added in the plans that Corypheus had for her.
Felix Alexius & Gereon Alexius, Felix Alexius & Dorian Pavus
Types: body horror, dark fantasy, cosmic horror
Trying to cure Felix anyone? The cosmic horror tag is there for the dark future of In Hushed Whispers, which is nightmarish enough. I'm also okay with somehow saving Felix via grey wardens, and obviously the mind break thing in the dark future can happen. Go wild.
Loghain Mac Tir/Morrigan, Loghain Mac Tir/Female Hawke
Types: dark fantasy, cosmic horror
Two very different flavours of ship here, but for Morrigan I always think about Kieran the demon baby and what that can possibly mean... in general. Maybe after DA:I Loghain joins them for a while and stuff happens? Or maybe this is during the dark ritual or shortly after, did anything else happen there? And for Loghain and Hawke, how about the DA:I period when they're on the run and fighting the fake calling and the other wardens, or how about they're both stuck in the fade to fight the nightmare, orrr other adventures afterwards? There's enough creepy stuff in Thedas to come up with something really wild.
Architect & Corypheus, Architect/Corypheus
Types: cosmic horror, religious horror, dark fantasy, body horror
One of my fave ships. If you go the sexual/romantic route, I have some preferences for it, namely the Architect topping and Cory needing to let go of some of that stress and anger by submitting, but if that goes strongly against your headcanons I'll read something different too. I'd love to see this relationship during their human years in ancient Tevinter, when Cory begins convincing the other that they need to break into the Fade, but I'm down for some darkspawn action as well. I am partial to the hc of the Architect being very gender non-conforming. For ancient Tevinter, be my guest with the worldbuilding, it's delicious. You could explore what they did to reach the golden city? Also I like the name Callistus for the Architect, feel free to use it.
The Architect & The Warden, Avernus & The Warden
Types: dark fantasy, medical horror, psychological horror, body horror
Okay clearly the warden had one hell of a time in the mines where the Architect was hiding, I would love an exploration of that. You can even go AU, decide that the warden is staying there. Maybe there's mutual fascination in what the Architect is doing? I would love to see a "collaboration" route with Avernus as well, rather the warden as a victim, a descent into whatever they're willing to do to study the properties of their blood.
Solo: The Messenger, The Messenger/The Warden
Types: dark fantasy, body horror, folk horror
I think folk horror for a benevolent nightmare creature works wonderfully! How does the messenger interact with people he cannot get close to lest they are infected by the taint? And the ship with the warden... listen idk, go wild with it if anything about the idea calls to you.
