the_wavesinger | 'Twas A Dark And Stormy Night [Trick or Treat Letter]

Dear Trick-or-Treater,

So hi, dearest creator. I’m so excited for this exchange, and I hope you are too!

I’ve requested both fanart and fanfic, and tricks and treat, for all my requests.

If you want to know more about me , I’m

the-wavesinger and The Wavesinger (Silmarillion Writers’ Guild) on my fannish haunts. You can also find me here on DW, and as

the_wavesinger on LJ, but I don’t frequent those places often. I If you want more on my fic preferences (however unlikely that is, after this very long letter!), my fic rec tag on Tumblr and my AO3 bookmarks may be of some use, and for art, my art and fan art tags on Tumblr may be of some use You may also want to poke through my previous exchange letters.

This letter has a list of DNWs and general likes, and also fandom-specific prompts. However, please don't feel obliged to stick to my prompts—as long as you don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I'll love whatever you like.

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DNWs
General Likes
Agent Carter
Chronicles of Narnia
Game of Thrones
Harry Potter
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Percy Jackson
The Lord of the Rings
The West Wing
Torchwood

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DNWs:

Gore/guro/vore, necrophilia.
Torture of animals. (Humans/humanoids/other sapients being tortured is more than fine!)
Graphic descriptions of nausea/vomiting.
Reader inserts.
Unrequested depowered/non-powered AUs, unrequested modern AUs.
Non-femslash A/B/O; femslash for this trope is fine!
Crossovers/fusions between fandoms I haven't asked for. (Crossover within any fandom in my letter or previous exchange letters, along with mythology and folklore, are more than fine!)
Age regression, de-ageing, or AUs in which one character is suddenly older than a previously older-than-them character (ageswap?).
Girl!penis. (Trans characters are fine, just please no inexplicable g!p.)
For smut, bloodplay, scat, watersports, age play (including daddy/mommy kink), and any sort of permanent marking/scarring/body modification (scarring and permanent markings outside smut is perfectly fine) unless I've prompted these things for the specific pairing.
H/C fics centering on characters with depression and/or anxiety, and/or characters who self-harm or have eating disorders (all of these things are more than fine in non-H/C fic, but not as things which can be hugged/cuddled better, please.)
Unrequested relationships as a focus. (Canon relationships and background relationships are fine unless otherwise indicated.)
Unrequested parent/child incest.
Extreme underage (pre-pubertal children), unrequested smut for underage relationships
Anachronistic discussions of sexuality and/or characters lecturing other characters on SJ issues.

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General Likes:
Tropes, Genres, and (for fic) Story Elements

Angst. Drama. Politics. Tragedy.
Philosophical ponderings!
I love canon divergence AUs, and For Want Of A Nail and other what-if scenarios. I'd love both longer fic (for fic) and art/ficlets as snapshots of what could have been, all the things that could've happened, but didn't.
Soulmates! Not necessarily soulmate AUs (although that'd be more than fine), but soulmates as in 'I knew you the moment I saw you', or 'I felt you in my soul' or any other version of that—the electric connection is something I adore. Soulmate things I love include in every version of every reality, in another life, fated to be separated again and again.
Regency AUs.
Fake dating within the canon setting.
Arranged marriage within the canon setting.
Time travel and time loops, especially timefuckery where everything is fucked up!
(For femslash only) A/B/O
M/M mpreg! Especially (but not limited to) mpreg as body horror
In-world mythology.
Cultural differences and clashes that occur due to cultural differences.
Worldbuilding in general.
Battle couples!
Lovers to enemies.
Enemies to lovers.
Trope subversions.
I have A Thing for sister/sister, and focusing on the sister aspects of the relationship—how they're alike and how they're different, and just how they're sisters.
Competence porn!
I also adore people being messes and general failboats, because, uh, contradictions?
I have zero problems with fics dealing with misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism etc. I like realism, but not overly-depressing fics or fics centered on issues at the expense of characterization. (I define 'overly-depressing' as continuous angst focusing on Issues and Only Issues.)

Tone, Setting, and Miscellaneous Things

Characters dancing and spending time outdoors.
Characters in situations that shouldn't be funny, but are.
Characters who're comfortable around each other, and who tease and laugh with each other.
Slice-of-life fics and, for relationships, a look at all the quirks/annoyances of cohabitation.
Banter! I feel like I've repeated this a million times in this letter, but I adore banter!
Casual situations and everyday annoyances
Drama interspersed with humor.
Characters sleeping on each other, making out for hours, drinking from the same cup, and generally being cohabit-y.
Characters solving mysteries and going on journeys together!
Bittersweetness.
All the hard questions with no answers, characters trapped in unsolvable dilemmas, loss and grief and moving on.
Gallows humour, and humour in otherwise dark situations generally.
And just humour in general.
And if you want to go in the crack-y direction, I wouldn't mind that as well!
I adore OFCs and textual ghosts, for many, many reasons.
I'm more than fine with most side relationships, unless stated otherwise.
Transgender characters would be amazing, as would non-binary characters and just fucking with and/or ignoring traditional gender roles in general.

Character and Relationships Dynamics.

Characters who and relationships which fall just short of the mark, the almost-most-not-quite. I think the closest word to this would be hamartia in its original sense?
Hurt, and not necessarily comfort.
Fucked-up families and messy friendships which really, really aren't good for the characters, but they love each other very much anyway. I don't mind either characters finding ways to move past the fucked-upness and the relationships end up flourishing, or moving past fucked-up-ness and leaving what they don't want behind, but I also don't mind a constant cycle of messing up.
Found families!
Intense friendships which play a central role in the characters' lives.
For longer works, plotty fics are always welcome!
Stoic and/or emotionally incompetent characters
Characters finding ways to come to terms with themselves, with their pasts, and with their loved ones and/or finding their place in the world (think Circle of Life).
Characters who're broken, characters who're tired, characters who're lost, characters who refuse to be found, characters who're hurt over and over again, characters who never ever win, characters who've given up. And characters who love, characters who give, characters who're selfless and kind even after everything they've been through, characters who give their all and then some more to people they love, characters who never give up, characters who keep on hoping and keep on fighting even beyond the bitter end. And characters who're a mixture of both types.
I love characters with flaws and unpleasant qualities! Awesome ladies can be awesome and flawed :).
I like relationships that are fated to end in tragedy, but I also really don't mind a pinch of humor with my angst, if that's your thing.

Stylistic Things for Fic

I like all kinds of fic, so go wild—linear narrative, flashbacks, epistolary…whatever you think of is lovely, the more daring the better. I especially adore faux-historical documents and faux academia.
Relatedly, interactive fiction!
Characters teasing and bantering with each other.
I don’t mind any type of POV (including second person!). In fact, POV switches and outside POVs on relationships would be lovely.

Smut Likes

I will always want F/F or M/M smut, even if I haven't explicitly requested it! Femsub is preferred for F/M D/s smut, though I'm down for femdom if that's your thing, too.
I prefer a balance between sensuality, emotions, and physical sensations. Anything from playful to creepy is more than fine (although there are a few things I'd prefer not to see, as outlined in the kink DNWs).
Helplessness and humiliation. These are the two main things I love in kinky smut, and everything else derives from there.
Bantering and laughing during sex is lovely, as is gentleness.
And banter between the dom and the sub in D/s scenes (which can edge towards slightly cruel on the dom's part!).
Angry sex/hatesex, smut that gives off vibes of slightly creepy but in a way that can't be pinpointed
Dubcon and emotional manipulation!
Explorations of power dynamics. I especially like service submission, and power dynamics based on the characters' titles/positions! (I do confess to having a kink for honorifics and titles!)
Doms having control over the sub's everyday minutiae (although for short periods of time—24/7/365 high-protocol D/s is a turn-off)
Punishment play, especially unusual forms of discipline! (I don't like erotic spanking in and of itself, but spanking as punishment is great! And whatever interesting punishments you can come up with.)
Corner time, especially kneeling on rice/somehow having to display themselves/after a spanking.
In general, being put on display/having to put themselves on display.
Tickling! Both playful tickling and tickle torture (bondage + tickling = yessss).
Gags and other ways to prevent speech. And weirdly specific, but fingers of one character in the other's mouth.
Groping, especially pulling breasts out of tops (and sometimes letting them just hang there, if you're into humiliation).
Orgasm denial, especially chastity devices.
Fuck-or-die scenarios.
Creative bondage (including predicament bondage. No, strike that, especially predicament bondage, and especially if the predicament is partly psychological).
Similarly, ordering a partner to stay still/hold a certain pose.
Incest kink.
Hairpulling.
Directed masturbation (one character instructing the other how to masturbate).
Dirty talk (including long distance dirty talk).
Navels, inner things, ribs, and kinks for these body parts.
(Not really a like, but I'm afraid my AO3 bookmarks won't say much about my smut likes, because I have a separate account for smutty bookmarks. Sorry.)

Darker Likes

Dark places and enchantments which entrap people without their knowledge
Getting lost in creepy surroundings
Corruption and decay
Explorations of the darker side of magic (or its equivalent), especially magic that's considered 'good'.
Exploration of the supernatural aspects of the canons.
Nature being eerily alive and dangerous.
Child soldiers, trauma, and really ugly, messy wars.
Characters trapped in vicious cycles.
Characters who think they're 'not good enough' for their partner(s).
Situations where characters are blackmailed/coerced into doing things they don't want to do.
Fucked-up families and friendships and relationships; people codependent to the point of almost-insanity, and far beyond anything healthy.
Looking into messed-up characters' thought processes.
Terrible things being done in the name of good by characters who see themselves as good.
Perversion of the 'good' side of magic to do evil things.
Mindfucks and powerplay.
Torture for the sake of torture, and characters being stoic through torture.
Noncon. I like both works focused on sexy (for fic and art purposes) noncon as well as more seriously-dealt with noncon and noncon aftermath.
Pregnancy due to F/F or M/M noncon.
Badtouch that doesn't lead to noncon, it's just there and creepy. (Especially when coupled with emotional fuckery and mindgames.)
Relationships where one characters is in love, but the other isn't.
Partners doing terrible things to each other.
Characters who hate themselves and lash out at the world and do fucked-up things as a result.
Really, really dark stories which end in the 'everyone dying' sort of tragedy.
AUs where everything goes wrong.
For darkfic especially, I love outsider PoVs—it makes everything 100% more terrible for me.

Art-Specific Likes and Prompts

I adore all kinds of jewellery—the more elaborate the better!
And elaborate hairdos! And elaborate clothes! And elaborate makeup!
I do, however, also enjoy seeing characters in their workaday attire, doing everyday things.
Characters with visible height differences from each other!
Elaborate weapons
In-universe art. (Famous portraits, posters for events, propaganda/health-and-safety leaflets, handwritten notes, maps etc.)
In-universe statues and tapestries and architecture
Court settings with pomp and circumstance or everyday life are both things I enjoy seeing.
I also enjoy seeing outdoor settings. Lakes, mountains, spooky forests, bustling cities, rivers, tiny hamlets, cottages, forests...
Specific canon locations (like the Withywindle for Tolkien, the Spirit World for A:tLA etc.)
Studies in opposites
Limited palettes
Non-traditional art mediums would be welcome.
Characters doing things they love together (I know this sounds very pairing-specific, but I'd lovelovelove this for friends and/or parents and children and/or siblings, too).
Ceremonies and events (coronations, balls, feasts, weddings etc.)
Picnics, garden parties, outdoor events, riding, hunting etc.
Characters arguing or debating with each other.
Starlight and warm colors and pastels.
Colour palettes that fit the character (golds and greens for Goldberry in Tolkien, for example, or shades of red for Natasha Romanov in MCU)
Characters passionate with and about each other and about things they love
Seasonal settings (falling leaves or snowed-over land or flower-filled meadows or golden fields etc.)
Characters fighting and having each other's backs, and, for A:TLA, bending!
Bloodied and bruised characters leaning on each other on on the nearest available upright surface after a hard battle
Characters facing each other across the battlefield (especially friends-turned-enemies)
Gift-giving, both literal and metaphorical
Characters reading or writing
Characters in libraries/otherwise surrounded by books
Characters who've fallen asleep (in bed, on a pile of books, sprawled across the sofa, on the floor, on another character—anywhere, any place, any time)
Characters in meetings/teams seated around tables or in lounges
For modern-era canons, airports!
Characters who look messy and/or rumpled and tired and way too fucking busy why is this my life
Possessive touches (one character having their arm around another, hand at the small of back, cupping another character’s face etc)
Characters in a private moment.
Casually intimate gestures, like handholding or hands on shoulders or arms around waists/on shoulders, or just reaching out to adjust the other's clothing
Kneeling and hand-kissing for pairings where I specify loyalty kink, or for gen or shippy combinations which involve a superior and subordinate in a setting where kneeling would work
Forehead kissing!
Kissing and making out, especially making out in bed/in unusual places and/or a significant height difference between characters
Tickling and playful tussling
Day-to-day activities (eating, bathing, morning rituals etc.)
Characters being cheesy or tender or dorky or awkward with each other (or all or some of these!).
All the smutty things I've indicated in the smut section! For art especially, a visual focus on power difference (standing/kneeling, clothed/unclothed etc.), looking well-fucked and/or humiliated, straining against bondage, decorative bondage.

Other Stuff I like (i.e. a very skippable section)

Action/Adventure:fight scenes between individuals ◈ big battle scenes ◈ going on quests/missions ◈ fighting bad guys together ◈ period-typical/canon-typical weapons ◈ characters being very very good at fighting/tactics/strategy ◈ strategy and tactics in general ◈ movements of large armies ◈ end-of-the world scenarios ◈ high-stakes battles or missions ◈ covert operations ◈ supernatural elements being involved in the mix in canons with supernatural/magical elements ◈ fighting techniques ◈ plotty missionfic
Angst: musings on futility □ hopeless situations and things falling apart □ characters' flaws getting the better of them □ battles being lost □ stuck in situations without support □ forced to deceive loved ones □ unhappy endings □ everything that could go wrong going wrong □ (internalized or otherwise) homophobia □ struggles with religion/faith/belief □ ethical/moral dilemmas □ misunderstandings □ feeling unloved □ being forced to hurt loved ones and do other bad things □ having to compromise on their ideals □ Hobson's choice situations □ betrayals of trust □ star-crossed lovers or the platonic version of this □ the world changing and leaving the characters behind □ things being lost to the ravages of time
in spaaaace ◎ different canon format (eg: musicals –> TV scripts) ◎ tone changes (eg: drama to comedy, tragedy to romance) ◎ crackification ◎ adding magic/supernatural elements to canons ◎ focusing on a different aspect of a story than the canon does
Established Relationship: arguments and fights ○ vicious cycles ○ drama ○ compromising and learning to live together ○ date nights ○ banter and flirting ○ falling into bed together after a long day ○ characters organizing their lives around each other ○ unhealthy, obsessive relationships ○ smut ○ meeting the family ○ acquiring pets and/or kids and/or property
Getting Together: meet-cutes (including canon divergence AUs) ◌ angst about each others' feelings ◌ obstacles that have to be overcome ◌ A is convinced B doesn't like them ◌ characters who haven't met in canon meeting for the first time ◌ fake dating leads to real dating ◌ fucking for the greater good ◌ something makes them do it ◌ enemies to lovers ◌ friends to lovers ◌ soulmate AUs ◌ reincarnation AUs ◌ slow burn ◌ hey I just met you this is crazy ◌ one night stands to lovers ◌ angst over not being allowed to be together ◌ A has been hurt by other people in the past and has to slowly fall for B ◌ unrequited love turning requited ◌ A falls for B, who's been nursing a crush on A since forever
Hurt/Comfort: noncon aftermath ◘ torture aftermath ◘ recovering from an abusive relationship ◘ other kinds of post-abuse trauma ◘ injury aftermath ◘ characters stitching themselves together ◘ partner/other person hurting character and then comforting them ◘ PTSD (in a canon-appropriate way) ◘ contrast between current gentleness and past violence ◘ the comfort not helping with certain instinctual reactions (touch aversion, flinching, hyperawareness, hypersensitivity etc.) ◘ comforter feeling helpless in the face of comfortee's issues ◘ two hurt/fucked-up characters trying to comfort each other ◘ attempts to comfort/make things better backfiring ◘ comfortee refusing to accept comfort
miscommunication ◍ wanting different things in life ◍ wanting different things from each other ◍ betrayal ◍ lying to friends/partners ◍ arguments ◍ blow-ups that have been a long time coming ◍ deliberate miscontsructions ◍ deliberately hurting each other ◍ unintentionally hurting each other
Slice of Life: I love seeing glimpses into character's everyday lives in canon-appropriate ways. I love slice-of-life fics as insight into characters' backstories and histories, as well as as looks into their heads and as ways to figure out what's making them tick, or to make it clear that the characters' everyday lives are immensely atypical/fucked up. I also love these kinds of fic as worldbuilding vehicles.

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Agent Carter

Can I just say 'I'd love absolutely ANYTHING for this fandom'? Because if I were to compile a complete list of everything I adore about Agent Carter I'd probably be here all day. I love all the characters and ship basically everything in Agent Carter.
I am ridiculously sad that the show was cancelled, so anything post-Season Two would be great.
Since I can't say 'anything' (or, well, I could but it wouldn't be helpful): I adore the secret spy shenanigans and Peggy's over-the-top badassery. All the secret agent things are ridiculously iddy for me.
I love the very human antagonists and the handwavey science of Season One, but I also love the supernatural elements (and obviously again handwavey science) of Season Two.
International conspiracies and shadowy spy organizations!
I love how magnified everything is (and I think Agent Carter is a lot more comics-style than the MCU).
I love that Peggy is arrogant and over-confident and dismissive and kind of an asshole. (Also a great person, but she has flaws that aren't tied to her being a woman and I adore that, and also Agent Carter was actually what made me ship Peggy/Steve because they are ridiculously similar and yet completely different.)
The humour! I love Peggy's deadpan humour especially.
I also love that Peggy is the only female agents in an organization of, um, male agents, and she faces and fights misogyny even after she's proved herself over and over again, but she also has lots of significant female relationships and there's no Exception To The Norm narrative.
I also love what little we got to see of Peggy with the Howling Commandos and how much more comfortable she is in the field than behind a desk.
The end of Season Two left so many threads open, but then Season Three didn't happen and I'm so disappointed. So maybe something set post-canon?

Howard Stark

My ships: Howard/Colonel Phillips, Howard/Jarvis, Howard/OMC, Howard/Sousa, Howard/Steve, Howard/Thompson
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: any of the Howling Commandos, Jarvis, Peggy, SHIELD/SSR members, Steve

-I love Howard’s arrogance and self-confidence and also how he keeps making the same damn mistakes over and over again, his obsession and his genius.
-Anything about Howard's childhood, or about how he eventually came to become the businessman/inventor/a thousand other things that he is. Who are his friends and family?
-Howard and Jarvis’ first meeting, or something about Jarvis’ loyalty to Howard
-A WWII mission, maybe, something with Peggy/Steve/the Howling Commandos (or anything about that era)
-Grieving for Steve (in as fucked-up a way as you want to depict it!)
-His later life: establishing and working with SHIELD, and the rabbit hole down the path of developing the new serum.

Peggy Carter

My ships: Peggy/Angie, Peggy/Ana Jarvis, Peggy/Dottie, Peggy/Dottie/Whitney, Peggy/F!Sousa, Peggy/F!Thompson, Peggy/Maria Hill, Peggy/Ms. Fry, Peggy/Natasha, Peggy/Violet, Peggy/Sharon, Peggy/Whitney
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: any of the above characters, and in addition, Howard, the Howling Commandos, Fury, Jarvis, Jason, Michael, Pierce, Rose.

-Post-canon! Canon left us on such a huge cliffhanger that went nowhere, and I’d love to see that be continued. How is Michael alive? Who is he working for? What kind of shady things are being buried?
-While, post-WWII, she was relegated to secretarial work, during the war she was obviously well-respected to the point where she was training supersoldier candidates—how did that come about?
-Peggy getting tied up/thrown around/drugged/tortured for information/held hostage
-But also Peggy in the midst of combat, or on a mission, with the Howling Commandos or while she’s at SHIELD
-Founding and running SHIELD, and the more political side of shield
- A mad scientist's experiment gone wild creates a monster which Peggy has to subdue, or she's sucked in by zero matter and discovers what's on the other side
-Peggy doing crazy spy shit in general

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Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

For Narnia fic, I’d love either pastiche or your own style; both are great!
For art, visualizations of what Narnia looks like, whether you go with the move or in a completely new direction
Explorations of the themes of faith in the book, either similar to the book or a more critical/examining viewpoint (either is good)
Worldbuilding! More about the world of Narnia and what it looks like and how it works
Gapfillers, especially what goes on in the Golden Age of the Pevensies’ rule

Susan Pevensie

My ships: Susan/Aravis, Susan/Jadis, Susan/Lucy, Susan/OFC, Susan/Peter, Susan/Polly
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: Susan and Aslan, and Susan & her siblings and/or her parents especially, but anyone around her, really

-Post-canon, Susan was left the only one alive from her entire family. How does she deal with it and what does she do with her life, after?
-Susan struggling to adjust to having Narnia taken away from her not once, but twice
-Growing pains and growing up
-Susan as a Queen of Narnia; the day-to-day life of being a royal (and especially for art, a portrait of Queen Susan commissioned by someone)
-Susan going exploring and stumbling into a different world, or being trapped by some monster, or falling for a fair lady
-An AU where Susan stays in Narnia for some reason
-Rebuilding Narnia in the aftermath of Jadis

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Game of Thrones

Dany/Jon isn’t my favorite relationship. Background Dany/Jon is fine, but please don’t let it be the focus of a fic. For that matter, I’d prefer no Jon-centric fic at all.
For GoT especially, I love worldbuilding. There’s such a wide world to explore, so much history and politics and cultural details that just don’t have room to exist on the show.
I prefer the Essos/Dany-centric storyline just because my favorite characters are mostly part of that storyline, but I have other faves too so whatever part of the show you want to focus on is great.
I’d love to see things going in both directions for this show: both happy fix-its and darker AU.
And I’d love to see crossovers with other fantasy canons of the ‘they all exist in one world, just on different continents’ sort.

Daenerys Targaryen

My ships: Dany/Arya, Dany/Brienne, Dany/Cersei, Dany/Drogo as fucked up Stockholm Syndrome, Dany/her dragons, onesided Jorah --> Dany, Dany/Missandei, Dany/Olenna, Dany/Sansa, Dany/Yara
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: Dany interacting with pretty much anyone is awesome. (Especially her advisors or any of the Dothraki or Unsullied or any of the Starks or Tyrells, but also whoever else is your fave.)

-If you have Dany burning shit down I'll be happy, honestly
-I don't generally ship Dany/Jon but a snippet of an AU where they push each other to madness and bring out the Targness in each other is great
-Dany from the POV of her dragons
-Dany being happy (pre-, during, or post-canon)
-AU where Dany takes her people back to Vaes Tolorro and makes the dead city bloom, or where she finds her way back to the house with the red door (i.e. a bookverse fusion)
-AU fix-it, either Dany not going batshit (even maybe deciding not to go to Westeros) or Darth Dany ruling the world from the Iron Throne
-Alternately, when Jon tries to kill Dany he fails--does she go even more Darth Dany or does she peace out and fly away into the sunset with Drogon?
-All the people loyal to Dany

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Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling

I haven't watched Fantastic Beasts or read The Cursed Child, and, while I don't mind spoilers for the former, I'd prefer not to read or see anything about the latter. I'm sorry, but it's just not my thing.
Magic! I adore magic, and all the wackiness of the magical world. I'd love to see explorations of both the dark, not-so-dark, and in-between magics, especially the inbetweens (how do you call something Dark Magic? Where do you draw the line? And how blurred is the aforesaid line?).
I'd love to see more about how the wizarding world works, particularly the Ministry of Magic. Are there any commercial centres other than in Diagon Alley? How does the wizarding world work in other countries? How does the Order work? Basically, the nitty-gritty details we didn't see in the books. We only got a general overview of how magical society functions (I imagine Hogwarts is very isolated from the rest of society), and that through Harry's limited PoV, and I'd love to know more.
Several of the characters are, ahem, magical beings, magical creatures (except obviously not, because they're people, and even that word is a perfect embodiment of prejudice against them). An exploration of the magic and mechanics of this would be lovely. How do other people see them? How do they see themselves? And, of course, dealing with prejudice and discrimination is more than fine
HP is rife with weird, wacky, and wonderful(ly spooky) settings and magical artefacts, and I'd love to see them incorporated into your story/artwork. Ghosts, Inferi, Dark Creatures—I'd love to see them all!
War, especially if you're writing the First War with Voldemort. It was a war run from the shadows, and I'd love to see something about that—perhaps Order missions and meetings? I'd love to see how the war fucks everything up, and people dying and suspicions cast on each other.

Albus Dumbledore

My ships: Dumbledore/Aberforth, Dumbledore/Elphia Doge, Dumbledore/Grindelwald, Dumbledore/OMC, Dumbledore/Remus, Dumbledore/Slughorn
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: in addition to the above characters, academic colleagues, Harry, former Headmasters/Headmistresses of Hogwarts, the Marauders, Order members, Wizarding politicians

-Explorations of Dumbledore’s specific brand of morality, his ethics and why he does what he does
- How his worldview was affected by his past actions and his perception of it being necessary to atone for them
-Dumbledore and Grindelwald: their time together, and how they influence each other for good and bad, and how Dumbledore defeats him (for art: a moment while they were young, or the duel between them), or an AU where Grindelwald wins
-Dumbledore as a teacher and a Headmaster, and how he interacts with and relates to his students -For art specifically, his ridiculous sense of fashion and propriety
Dumbledore's role in the Order and the politics of the Wizarding world. Maybe him at an Order meeting, or fighting Death Eaters, or overseeing in Wizengamot meeting, or anything else concerning the running of the magical world
-Something about the Deathly Hallows; maybe he temptation Dumbledore faced when he found the Resurrection Stone (he was able to wield the Elder Wand, but the temptation of the Stone was too much for him and caused his death, which I find interesting)

Amelia Bones

My ships: Just about every one of the older women in Harry Potter, and quite a few of the younger ones, too, so feel free to write/draw any femslash you like; I ship her especially with Lily, McGonagall, and Griselda Marchbanks, but whatever your ship is would be great.
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: as above, her with basically any character is great

-In the first war, did she work for the Order alongside her work at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement? Was her work at the Ministry part of her work at the Order?
-Did she join the Order in the second war, post-GoF? I get the impression that she wasn't in the Order from OotP (or at least until post-OotP), but if you want to have her working to aid the Order covertly, that'd also be great
-Maybe a day-in-the-life of her work at the Ministry, something involving everyday minutae? Or maybe something about how she rose through the ranks to the position she's in?
-Mentoring a younger woman, maybe? Showing her the ropes or teaching her? And/or mentor/mentee femslash
-Ministry and/or Order politics!
-For art, either based on the movie or something else entirely for her appearance is great! I’d just prefer to have her visibly not young-looking if it’s book-era art (or a clear indication that it’s art set earlier if it is set earlier)

Fleur Delacour

My ships:Fleur/Bill, Fleur/Hermione, Fleur/Gabrielle, Fleur/Ginny, Fleur/Luna, Fleur/Tonks (or tbh any other femslash you can think of)
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: fellow Beauxbaton students, Harry, Order members, the Weasley family

-Fleur doesn't seem to have moved to the UK only for Bill—I'd love to see her other reasons for doing so
-What does she end up doing after the war? She was one of the most talented witches at her school, after all, so something about her future hopes and plans, and what becomes of her eventually
-Auror!Fleur would be cracktastically amazing
-Sex pollen Veela magic!
-Fleur’s Veela grandmother and Fleur’s relationship with her
-Do the Veela (even the not-fully-Veela) have in-group traditions and rituals and secrets? Or just anything about the Veela in general—I find the idea of Veela fascinating, especially the fact that they turn into horrific bird-creatures when angered and the whole appearances can be deceiving thing and the dichotomy of the stereotypes of femme fatale vs. horrible monster (which was very much played up with Fleur, but I'd love to see more). Art of this especially would be very interesting

Lily Evans

My ships: Lily/Alice, Lily/Andromeda, Lily/James, Lily/James/Remus, Lily/Narcissa, Lily/Petunia, or Lily/any female character really
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: other than the character from above, James’ family, Lily’s parents, the Marauders, Order members

-Lily’s complicated relationship with her family and sister and magic
-Dealing with the magical world as a Muggleborn, especially in the context of Voldemort beginning to gain power
-Who are her friends in school? Where does she fit in, at Hogwarts? Lily at her classes or studying or hanging out with friends
-What she goes through when being introduced to the Order, fighting Voldemort and running Order missions, and later, personally being hunted down by Voldemort
-For art especially but also fic, I'd love to see Lily fighting, either solo or with a partner or against Death Eaters
-Or Lily tortured/tied up/held hostage; all the Lily whump, please!
- What are her flaws? She can't be a perfect person, of course, but we have a very sparse picture of who she is. I do see her as an idealist. But does she have a vicious streak? Is she petty, sometimes? Annoying? I'd love to see her as a good, kind, but still very much flawed person. (And she has a very huge blind spot when it comes to seeing her friends' flaws, canonically; something about that?)

Nymphadora Tonks

My ships: Tonk/Fleur, Tonky/Ginny, Tonks/Hermione, Tonks/Sirius (or Tonks/any other female character except Andromeda)
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: her colleagues, her fellow Order members, Remus

-Tonks as part of the Order—boring and not-so-boring missions, light moments with other Order members, on the run after Voldemort took over
-Or as an Auror, fighting Dark Wizards (or doing unglamorous Ministry work, too—I imagine there's lots of that to be done)
-Something about the legacy of the Blacks, which I imagine didn't go away just because Andromeda was disinherited
-Was Tonks recruited to be an Auror because of her Metamorphmagus abilities especially? Her abilities are so fascinating and they create so many questions. Does she ever have identity crises or angst about it? In a world where Metamorphmagi exist (not to mention Polyjuice Potion and stuff), is eyewitness testimony even considered at all? What are the laws which regulate Metamorphmagi? And are the abilities genetic? Are there any others in her family who have the ability (and considering the Black side of her family is full of Dark Wizards, what does this mean for the wizarding world)?
-Tonks using her Metamorphmagus abilities for sex! Roleplay, perhaps (maybe fake kidnapping and/or interrogation, or maaaaybe selfcest roleplay), or some sort of guessing game? (Or tentacles! Tentacles are always good.)
-Fun with Metamorphmagus abilities in general—pranks, jokes, moments where it’s really useful for whatever reason

Character

My ships: Remus/Dumbledore, Remus/James (and especially Remus  James), Remus/James/Lily, Remus/OMC, Remus/Peter, Remus/Sirius
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: any of the Order members, Remus’ students

-Remus being the last of his friends, and one of the few members of the Order who survived the First War
-Remus' passive-aggressive, mildly dickish side, and his (understandable) desire to not stick out
-Teaching: how did he get into it, and his relationship with his students
-What he did in those twelve years between Voldemort’s first defeat and PoA
-On the darker side, the Werewolf Registry (and wizards in general) treating a werewolf like an animal, fucked up things he has to do to earn a living
-In general, dealing with being a werewolf in wizarding society
-Canon divergence AUs! Branching off from whatever specific point in the timeline, and they can be fix-its or darker, whatever you prefer

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

Fandom-specific DNWs: Wanda/Vision, including passing mentions
There's such a vast world to play in in the MCU, and so much of the characters' lives we don't know about because of the way time works in the movies! There's a lot of room for exploration and worldbuilding. My favourite MCU movies are the Cap movies, and I'd love to see what happens between them (and the. Avengers movies)! Between Avengers & TWS, between TWS & AoU, between AoU & CW—I'm really curious as to what happens in the in-between years where obviously important stuff has happened.
I'm very interested in politics for this fandom, because so much of the storyline is influenced by in-world politics which we don't get to see. For example, HYDRA's ideology, the politics behind the US supersoldier program, Project Insight being authorized, the Accords—there's so much to explore.
CW brought up some interesting questions about the fact that the majority of the problems the Avengers deal with are things they've caused, albeit sometimes necessarily, so maybe something about that.
For this fandom especially I'd love to see outsider POVs, whether that be people who are working closely with the characters or people who only see the characters on TV.
I love the sheer scale of the events of the movies, so maybe something about that?
There's a common thread of the end not justifying the means across the Cap movies, so something about that, maybe?
With so many supervillains floating around, there's plenty of room for lots of H/C (or H without C) with characters being captured and tortured and injured.
I love fun and asskicking and just superheroes being superheroes too.
I adore the fact that the characters have very individual senses of humour!
Other things I'm not fond of include AoS in general, the way AoS handled SHIELD in particular, all the Avengers living at the Avengers tower (especially post-Avengers but pre-TWS; I don't really mind pre-AoU since there's some element of canon to it).

Carol Danvers

My ships: Carol/Gamora, Carol/Hela, Carol/Jane, Carol/Mar-Vell, Carol/Minn-Erva, Carol/Monica, Carol/MJ, Carol/Natasha, Carol/Nebula, Carol/Peggy, Carol/Sif, Carol/Steve, Carol/Valkyrie, Carol/Yon-Rogg, Carol/muscles
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: other than the above character, Fury, Goose, and Maria

-Carol punches shit. Carol is so OP and I love it and her. Anything you like about Carol throwing her weight about.
-The years between CM and Endgame
-The years Carol spent thinking she was Kree
-Her life pre-Mar-Vell, becoming who she is
-Carol meeting any of the other MCU women (especially the ones in the cosmic part of the MCU, where there's a lot of opportunities for them to meet)
-Carol and Steve: an AU where they meet pre-Endgame, or post-Endgame adventures
-Carol and Fury bonding moments (+Maria?)
-Carol being drugged and rendered powerless, and whump and/or smut ensures

Natasha Romanov

My ships:Natasha/Carol, Natasha/Dottie, Natasha/Jane, Natasha/MJ, Natasha/Nakia, Natasha/Natasha, Natasha/Peggy, Natasha/Pepper, Natasha/Sif, Natasha/Sharon, Natasha/Wanda (I also like Natasha/female!Steve, or introduce me to your favorite Natasha femslash rarepair)
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: any of the above characters, Fury, Steve, Sam

-Natasha before and during her time at the Red Room, before she joined SHIELD
-Natasha as a spy
-What exactly happened in Budapest???
-Natasha and Steve moments, at any time--I love how their relationship grows
-AU where Natasha doesn't die, or is brought back to life
-Natasha and Fury's relationship--anything about it
-Natasha and the rest of the Avengers team on a mission together or during downtime
-This is my totally-out-of-the-left-field prompt: Natasha!Cap or Natasha lifting Mjolnir

Steve Rogers

My ships: Steve/Brandt and Steve/Pierce as fucked-up dub/noncon, Steve/Carol, Steve/Fury, Steve/Howard (or Howard -->Steve), Steve/Hydra noncom, Steve/Rhodey, Steve/Sam, Steve/Scott, Steve/Steve, Steve/T'Challa, Steve/Thor, Steve/Wanda
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: any of the above characters, plus Peggy, Sharon, Natasha, the Howling Commandos, the rest of the Avengers, Nebula, Gamora

-Rule 63: female!Cap would be great!
-Steve punches shit. Punches lots of shit
-The five years between IW and Endgame: I'd love to see more of what Steve does with himself
-Steve post-Endgame, an AU where he doesn't go back or doesn't stay back. What does he do instead?
-Or a snippet of the quest to replace the Stones
-Steve in spaaaaaaace
-Steve suffering and sad and bad things happening to Steve, being powerless and tortured
-Turns out that a side effect of the serum is immortality. Oops?

Wanda Maximoff

My ships: Wanda/Carol, Wanda/female Raft guard noncon/dubcon, Wanda/Gamora, Wanda/Hela, Wanda/Natasha, Wanda/Nebula, Wanda/Pietro, Wanda/Sharon, Wanda/Steve, Wanda/Valkyrie
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: in addition to the above characters, Clint

-Playing with her powers casually, or training (either while she's with Ultron et al or with the Avengers)
-Something about her ability to delve into the depths of a person's psyche and see their darkest thoughts and fears—does it turn on her at some point?
- And I love the red mist as a visualization of her powers, especially her more mind whammy powers for art
-On the run, or post-canon, trying to adjust and rebuild
-Her childhood and her trauma and dealing with it and moving past it as best as she can
-Being captured or otherwise made powerless, and whump
-Wanda being angry and letting all her rage out

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Rick Riordan

I really love the world of these books that’s a fusion of myth and the real world we live in, so anything playing with that
And I love the lighthearted first person narrative if that’s something you want to preserve
Playing with/echoing Greek myths, if that’s your thing
How do their powers work, as demigods? For art, visualization of their powers.
What it means to be a demigod and a child of one of the gods in general.

Annabeth Chase

My ships: Annabeth/any heroine from Greek myths, Annabeth/Artemis, Annabeth/Athena, Annabeth/Hera, Annabeth/Nico/Percy, Annabeth/Percy, Annabeth/Piper, Annabeth/Rachel, Annabeth/Reyna, Annabeth/Thalia, Annabeth/Zoe Nightshade
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: other than the above characters, Luke, Biance, and of the gods/goddesses, inventor/genius figures from legends and myths, Chiron, her siblings and other family

-Annabeth when she was younger, pre-canon, either her childhood at home or coming to Camp Half-Blood
-Annabeth meeting a famous historical/mythological figure, for some reason
-Getting and going on a solo mission
-Rebuilding Olympus and Camp Half-Blood
-Her roles and how she fits in at the Athena cabin and at camp
-Her plans and hopes for the future vs. how things actually work out
-Dealing with a monster who’s out to get her

Percy Jackson

My ships: Percy/Achilles, Percy/Annabeth, Percy/Annabeth/Nico, Percy/Apollo, Percy/Ares, Percy/Calypso, Percy/Hercules, Percy/Hermes, Percy/Jason, Percy/Leo, Percy/Luke, Percy/Nico, Percy/Perseus, Percy/Triton
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: in addition to the above characters, Bianca, Chiron, Frank, Hazel, Poseidon, Rachel, Reyna, Sally (and Paul), Tyson, Zoe Nightshade, any of the Greek gods/goddesses and other figures from myths

-Dealing with the fallout of Tartarus and the dark parts of himself he’s discovered
-Dealing with all of the things he’s gone through and the things he’s done and all the associated trauma and fucked-up-ness in general
-Going on some sort of mission/fighting a monster
-Wrangling or fighting or debating or working with a god
-Falling under a curse of some sort
-Maybe he gets his invulnerability back! And dealing with that and its effects
-Percy’s powers, whether that’s the ocean-related powers or other powers associated with Poseidon’s children, and what it means to be a son of Poseidon in general
-Dealing with the fact that he’s a hero and whatever legends exist around him and about him in the camp

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The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien

There aren't enough fics based on the Myths Transformed version of Middle-earth, and if that's something you'd like to explore, I'd love that, especially a more scientifically accurate (and sometimes, to my mind, a more tragic-and-dark-but-beautiful) vision of Middle-earth. (Other versions would also be wonderful, of course! This is just a specific thing I don't see much of.)
I love the fact that Tolkien's canon is a patchwork of different stories and mythologies, both in the Doylist and Watsonian sense, and fic exploring that would be wonderful.
Linked with the points above, I'm interested in lived vs. written stories, and Those Pesky Historians, and how unseen forces affect history.
Nature that comes alive.
The mortals and Elves/free will and destiny debate and the role of the Valar would be a wonderful thing to read about—I'd love exploration of any of the philosophical questions of Tolkien's world, really, but especially this, as detailed in the Athrabeth and writings about the role of the Valar.
All things Darkness and Light, really—I'm very fascinated by how these polar opposites work in Tolkien's world (and you can go back right to the beginning, to the Music, if you like), and how Arda is both grim and uplifting at the same time.
I love the way magic and power operate in Tolkien's world—the work he's done to make it believable is wonderful. Writing a green sun, indeed! Anything you can write about this would be welcome and much-adored.
I especially love the Noldor and Númenor, although every Age of Middle-earth holds my heart.
For interspecies relationships, I'd love to see an emphasis on otherness and trying to understand each other.

Éowyn

My ships: Éowyn/F!Aragorn, Éowyn/Arwen, Éowyn/F!Faramir, Éowyn/Galadriel, Éowyn/Goldberry, Éowyn/Lothíriel, Éowyn/Malbeth, Éowyn/OFC, Éowyn/F!Witch-King
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: in addition to the above characters, Ents, Éomer, Éothain, Gandalf, Merry, Morwen of Lossanarch, Saruman, Théodred, Théoden, Théodwyn

-Éowyn’s relationship with Rohan and its people and the land
-Her childhood with her family and growing and facing grief and loss
-Learning to ride, and to fight, and training with her brother and cousin and in secret
-The dark years while Gríma was controlling Théoden, still taking care of her uncle and trying to protect him, and angst about that
-Post-canon, healing and dealing with everything she’s faced (while also still being a shieldmaiden, if you prefer)
-Éowyn and Windfola
-An AU where women are also openly warriors in Rohan -Éowyn bruised and battered by training or battle (or life) but still standing strong and unbent

Goldberry

My ships: Goldberr/Arwen, Goldberry/Celebrían, Goldberry/Galadriel, Goldberry/Gilraen, Goldberry/Haleth, Goldberry/Lady of the Blue Brooch, Goldberry/Malbeth the Seer, Goldberry/Mrs. Maggot, Goldberry/River-woman, Goldberry/Uinen (and tbh Goldberr/any female character of your choice)
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: in addition to the above character, Elrond, Gandalf, any Hobbit, Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadil

-I love the idea of beings who aren't actively trying to harm humans, but are just so different from humans that they don't really get that some things do hurt humans
-Something to do with Goldberry and what happens to humans when they try to approach/understand things beyond their comprehension, whether that's just disappearing, losing their memory, or awful, unnameable tortures
-Goldberry’s more elemental, untameable side
-Alternately, her as some sort of guardian/protection keeping people safe in the Old Forest
-Goldberry as a sort of Middle-earth Calypso, doomed to fall in love with women who can't stay for crimes which may or may not be mentioned
-Sex magic and/or nature magic

Shieldmaiden(s) of Rohan

My ships: Shieldmaiden/Shieldmaiden, Shieldmaiden/OFC
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: the relatives and the spouses of the shieldmaidens, the royalty and the generals of Rohan

-Did they only ride out in desperate times, or were there some women who took up being a warrior as a lifetime's pursuit? If they only rode out in desperate times, what were those desperate times like? What horrors necessitated women riding out? Or, if there were some women who were warriors their entire life, what was their lifestyle like? Were they lone warriors, or did they march with an army or a group of others? Did they take orders from the King of the Mark, or were they perhaps under the Queen's purview? Or were they outlaws who nevertheless wandered the borders of the Mark and protected its people?
-Is there formal training or an apprenticeship, or do you have to learn yourself? I imagine that it must have been a lot more difficult for women than for men—something on that, maybe?
-Did any of them have sweethearts, men or women, back home? Did they long for their lovers when they were riding out? Or maybe shieldmaidens finding comfort in each other (or in their fellow male warriors) on the field? Or maybe a shieldmaiden falling for one of her enemies Or warriors who are also lovers fighting side-by-side?
-What stories and songs were there about these shieldmaidens? Did girls like Éowyn dream of becoming shieldmaidens?
-Maybe an excerpt from an epic about one of the 'fair and valiant' women of old, and maybe even with alliterative verse?
-For art, maybe something incorporating 'where now are the horse and the rider'? I'd love to see a shieldmaiden riding out in full armour, or a shieldmaiden after a battle, bloodied and bruised. Or perhaps one of these warriors training, or in a fight? Or maybe two warriors sharing a tent and huddling up next to each other, maybe trading kisses? Or maybe a tapestry depicting a well-loved story of a shieldmaiden, or a young girl who dreams of being a shieldmaiden when she's grown-up playing with a wooden sword?

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The West Wing

Fandom-specific DNWs: Josh/Donna as even a passing mention other than allusions past UST (please no present, acknowledged UST or any kind of relationship, past or present)
For this fandom especially I love loyalty and devotion. The relationships I've requested all involve characters who are extremely loyal to each other, and canon has a ridiculous amount of loyalty kink, and I'd love any kind of loyalty.
Canon-typical politics and drama is great. I love the politics and how it's done in the show, and however you want to play with that would be amazing! I especially love how competent the characters are at their jobs even if they're not as competent in their personal lives.
Fic/art of the future is also great! I'd also love to see pre-canon stuff.
For this show especially, I'd love to see canon divergence AUs.
TWW has lots of crossover potential with the MCU, DCEU, Harry Potter, Stargate (SG-1 and SGA), Madam Secretary etc. if you want to go in that direction.
Or I would just love to see TWW in spaaaaaaaaaaaace if AUsyou’re your thing.

Josh Lyman

My ships: Josh/Bartlet, Josh/Charlie, Josh/Hoynes, Josh/Leo, Josh/Matt(/Helen), Josh/Sam, Josh/Toby (tbh Josh/basically any male character in the cast)
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen:other than the above characters, Amy, CJ, Lou, Mallory, Mrs. Bartlet, Zoey (and tbh everyone else in the cast)

-Post canon, Josh as Santos' chief of staff or whatever he does after Santos' presidency
-Hurt/comfort, lots of hurt/comfort
-Rule 63--what if Josh was a woman? (This is my one exception to my Josh/Donna DNW; F!Josh/Donna is great!)
-Josh any of the rest of the cast during downtime (especially CJ if it's friendship fic/art)
-A big vote or other political manoeuvring
-A snippet of Josh's past, what he did before jumping on the Bartlet train
-Anything to do with Josh and the people he's loyal to
-A conflict between the right thing vs. what would be better politically
-An AU in spaaaace/in a fantasy world
-Josh being his ridiculous OTT self
-AU where Josh is CoS for Bartlet after Leo ~~personally I think this would end very badly~~

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Torchwood

Fandom-specific DNWs: anything more than a passing mention of Miracle Day. I.e. Miracle Day-specific characters appearing, or more than one or two lines of a fic referencing Miracle Day.
My prompts are a lot more general for this section, especially for art, so I’m just going to list a few art things I’d love for this fandom (or visual imagery/worldbuilding if you’re writing fic):
- aliens/alien planets and landscapes
- alien flora and fauna
- the Doctor’s Gallifreyan physiology
- the characters having time-travelled to a historical era
- visual depictions of time travel
- the inside and outside of the TARDIS
- the inside of the Hub
- period-style clothing and/or Jack’s coat
This is Doctor Who, so I’ll always, of course, love timey-wimey stuff and weird and wacky worldbuilding and adventure, just as a side note.
~~If you’re writing something post-CoE and manage to work OneRepublic’s Stop & Stare into the title or body of the fic you will get lots and lots of Internet brownies.~~

Jack Harkness

My ships: Jack/Estelle, Jack/the Doctor (any version) or Jack --> Doctor, Jack/himself, Jack/John Hart, Jack/Martha, Jack/Nine/Rose, Jack/Original!Jack, Jack/original characters, Jack/Owen, Jack/Sarah Jane, Jack/most of the world tbh
Characters I’d especially like to see in gen: Jack & his team especially, but again Jack and most of the world

-Any of the lives Jack's lived
-Jack pretends he's the Doctor
-Jack's missing two years
-Jack during his Time Agency years and before he joined them
-H/C (I just like torturing Jack, emotionally and mentally, so cause him lots of pain and I'll love it)
-A Torchwood mission
-The people Jack has loved and lost through the ages, and the cost of being immortal (actually, just worldbuilding stuff about Jack's immortality)
-Jack saves the world and/or a lot of people but at a terrible cost
-Jack is bad and needs to be punished
-Jack being pregnant

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