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Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023 letter
Dear Writer,
Thank you for offering to write for me! I can't wait to see what you come up with. I am happy with all length, any rating and any possible combination of freeform tags and pairing tags. Feel free to use one of my prompts, take only part of a prompt, repurpose a prompt from one canon to fit another, work off any of my Likes, or ignore the prompts and follow your own inspiration. Some sections of this letter are longer than others, but I will be equally happy receiving any fandom that I've requested. If you’d like clarification on anything, I’m happy to answer any questions sent via the mods, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I am welcome to both fic and art treats.
General like:
I like stories with: action/adventure, capture and rescue, competence, humour, banter, pining, moral ambiguity, attraction between opposites, outsider POV, people telling stories, people who have each other's backs, people who flat out like each other's company, people suffering stoically, power exchange, people being resolute, secret identity (or lack of it), missing scenes, friends to lovers, fixing failed relationships, things going wrong and navigating the outcomes
Hurt/Comfort tropes I like:
I love both physical hurt/comfort & emotional hurt/comfort:
DNW:
1st and 2nd person POV, unrequested setting change AU, unrequested pairing, requested pairings breaking up, pregnancy/child birth, forced feminization, bimbofication, bathroom related kink, sounding, bestiality, scat, characters under 16 having sex (aged up or nonspecific age works), sexuality/gender/neurodivergence headcanon, lecture or focus on real life social issues: e.g. racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia as the main theme of a fic, current affair, pandemic, child harm (present or flashbacks), gore/vore, major character death, , animal harm/death (hunting is fine as long as not graphic and fighting any kind of monster is fine too--just please don't kill pets or animal companions or the like), torture (mention or reference to backstory is fine), complete mind break, severe illness or permanent injury, such as cancer or paralysis, that does not occur in canon, rape/noncon
Fandom specific DNWs and exceptions are listed in the fandom sections
Requested Fandoms
1. Star Trek: The Original Series
James T. Kirk & Spock (both hurt), James T. Kirk & Spock (hurt Kirk), James T. Kirk & Spock (hurt Spock), James T. Kirk/Spock (both hurt), James T. Kirk/Spock (hurt Kirk), James T. Kirk/Spock (hurt Spock)
Medium: Fic
Request
Freeforms:
About the fandom:
I love this show for its optimism and idealism, that the crew are competent and decent people who like each other and work towards a common goal, that they regularly go extra length to save others.
I love Kirk & Spock because they are great friends who support and inspire each other to improve and how they understand and trust each other. They demonstrate how they are willing to risk everything to save the other regularly in canon. I ship Kirk/Spock, so it's OK if you write them as friends or lovers, but please don't pair them with anyone else or them being broken up at the end of the story.
Prompts:
1. Mission have gone wrong. One of them or both are kidnapped/stranded in a hostile alien planet/another dimension/caught between dimensions and even presumed death by others, but they will never give up on each other. They have to go undercover/get disguised and may have to get hurt to maintain the cover. It can set as a missing scene of canon episode/movies or just make up the missions details.
2. Kirk & Spock are both used to hide their weakness and go on as normal, especially when the situation requires it, but they are more willing to reveal their weakness to each other and get comforted. Maybe after a bad mission, stressful work, or tragedy, one of them or both try to comfort the other.
3. Pining. I'm really into pining. Maybe the pining person doesn't know that it's requited or is resigned that the other won't return his feeling. Maybe they know but can't act on their feeling. Then now they maybe forced to confront that their feeling (and find that it's requited after all) after accidental bonding, near death confession that turns not quite dead, etc.
2. 救殭清道夫 | Vampire Cleanup Department (2017)
Yip Chi Chau/Yeung Chung (Chung hurt), Yip Chi Chau/Yeung Chung (Chau hurt), Yip Chi Chau/Yeung Chung (both hurt)
Medium: Fic
Request:
Freeforms:
Vampire Cleanup Department is a Hong Kong horror action comedy romance film that the titular VCD is a secret government-created agency that disguises themselves as sanitary workers but actually going around to hunt down and destroy jiangshi. The main character Tim is recruited after his immunity to jiangshi is discovered, and he later falls in love with a female jiangshi called Winter.
However, I'm interested in Yip Chi Chau & Yeung Chung: Yip Chi Chau is Tim's 50+ mentor and combat expert of the VCD, while Yeung Chung, or "Uncle Chung," is in his 70s and director of the VCD and a more sociable figure. I like that they are practically an old bickering married couple who have known each other really well, and are protective of each other. My head canon is that Chung has stoically and quietly pined for Chau for years, but you can make a case that they are mutually pining for each other while not even aware of their own feeling.
Fandom specific DNW and exception: DNW Permanent major character death (Temporary death is fine). Please don't kill off Tim nor Winter
Link to the movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH1LehPW9_4
Prompt:
1. Mission goes wrong. Killing jiangshi is dangerous after all. Perhaps they run into canon typical jiang shi dealings, other sort of supernatural creature or ghost. Dealing with curses are great. Evil cults and/or characters being stranded could work great too. Either or both of them get hurt when being heroes and protective of each other.
2. Pining. I'm really into pining. My headcanon is that Chung has stoically pined for Chau for years but has mostly assumed and accepted that it's unrequited. I like the quiet angst that has now mostly been kept off mind. Then now they may have to confront their feeling (and find that it's requited after all) after the canon event or another near death.
3. AU that Chau becomes a vampire permanently and remains with the unit as a good vampire. Dealing with permanent loss and rebuilding their lives together.
3. Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
Male Sidestep & Steel (hurt Sidestep), Male Sidestep & Steel (hurt Steel), Male Sidestep/Steel (Both hurt), Male Sidestep/Steel (Sidestep hurt), Male Sidestep/Steel (Steel hurt)
Freeforms:
Request
About the fandom:
Fallen Hero Series is a text based interactive novel series that the Player Character was originally a superhero telepath named Sidestep until something happened to them. Now, the PC is on the path towards villainy. Unfortunately, things don't go as smoothly as expected when the PC becomes entangled with their former teammate Ortega, and the Rangers once again. Currently there are two games: Fallen Hero: Rebirth & Fallen Hero: Retribution
I have never expected to love Steel so much. I love how they found quiet comfort together when walking Spoon, and how Steels understands when Sidestep phones him after the stressful therapy session. Steel has a lot of physical and emotional wounds himself (war, family, etc), and I feel like they are good at being each other's support. I love how Steel guessed Sidestep's true identity but willing to support and protect him. Their sex scene is very gentle and tender and comfort to each other.
I prefer Sidestep to care about Steel and other Rangers. You can write him as an idealist who saves everyone even against his original plan, or a more ruthless crime boss who is willing to kill re-genes and farm agents, but please don't write him only thinking of the Rangers as pawns or enemies.
Fandom specific DNW and exception: Please don't kill Captain Blaze, the Rangers, Handyman, his wife, Mia and Dr. Mortum . No non-canonical disability for any of them. Don't shut down Steel's implants/armour.
2nd POV is OK. Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK
Medium: Fic
Prompts
1. I like more slice of life quiet moments between them. I love the scenes that Sidestep and Steel walking Spoon and going to restaurants for quiet comfort and just want more of them hanging out together. Sidestep helps with Steel to adapt to cybernetics or quiet help with some daily tasks is great. Banter and humour are great too. Awkward exploration of their new relationship now that they are friends/lovers are great too. If you write then as a couple, I really love how they affirm and appreciate the other's body during the canon sex scene, and I want more gentle sex and touch over the scars and other imperfection. I want Sidestep and Steel to both overwhelm each other with gentleness and body worship and creating good memory.
2. I really like the headcanon that Steel would hear Sidestep's telepathic call for help after Sidestep goes out of control in the Heartbreak Incident. I want the implication of guilt and shared trauma to be explored. Please lay out the angst. If you want to engage Sidestep's telepath by exploring Steel's mindscape, constructing mental defense in Steel's mind and see more than expected, etc.
3. Mission goes wrong; Fight goes rough or a generally stressful day. Sidestep has to fight Steel in his villain identity for his missions, or he abandons plans to save strangers and have to deal with fallouts. Patching up wounds, quiet conversation or hanging out as comfort.
Warhammer 40.000
4. Request
Obyron/Zahndrekh (both hurt), Obyron/Zahndrekh (hurt Obyron), Obyron/Zahndrekh (hurt Zahndrekh)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
About the fandom:
Severed gives me so much feeling about the murder living robot couple! They are incompatible in a number of ways. In the necron society, Obyron is supposed to be only a disposible thing to Zahndrekh, and he's hurt when Zahndrekh seems to agree. Obyron is loyal to Zahndrekh, but also resents him for seemingly blind to the reality. However, Obyron helps covers up the reality for Zahndrekh to protect him. How much Zahndrekh is oblivious that they are robots now or willing blind is up to the readers, but the support of Obyron is essential to his identity. They both at different points openly admit that they feel love towards the other, and essentially defeat the villains due to the power of love.
Request
Prompt
1. Futurefic that deals with Obyron's loss of memory for saving Zahndrekh. What does Obyron feel when he hears their past stories without remembering them? Zahndrekh (unintentionally?) comfort and reassure Obyron that he's more than a disposible weapon to him and still has a soul is great.
2. While Obyron resents how Zahndrekh is detached from the reality, he also helps maintain the pretense to protect him. Please tell me more about Obyron secretly and not so secretly protects Zahndrekh psychologically and physically.
3. After the mutual confession, Obyron and Zahndrekh slowly navigates their relationship in the highly rigid and abusive necron society, which develops into an actual romance. Confusion and angst arise as they neither quite have relevant experience and skill for this. It may be a secret one due to pragmatic reasons, or Zahndrekh may scandalize the court again by insisting on a traditional wedding... for love.
FFA's style Wizard Rescue AU
The following requests are all in FFA's style Wizard Rescue AU. I group the following pairings under different requests by theme to make prompting easier
About the fandom:
Canon: The self-styled 'Emperor of Mankind' made a bunch of supersoldier general sons for himself, and legions of supersoldier space marine grandsons. About half stayed loyal to him, and about half turned against him in a civil war/heresy that nobodies really won.
Wizard Rescue AU: Magnus the Red (“traitor” although not really at this point) and his supersoldier sons got taken prisoner by Leman Russ and his Space Wolf supersoldiers after Magnus did something dumb; Magnus ends up being drained for power in a torture device (and periodically taken out to be raped) while his sons become Space Wolf sex slaves. Eventually his loyalist brother Jaghatai Khan finds out, rescues Magnus, and tells his own sons (White Scars) to rescue Magnus’s sons while they flee the Imperium.. Magnus' sons are convinced that they are still sex slaves and therefore very wary of their rescuers, and constantly trying to sacrifice themselves to protect each other.
Things I generally like in this AU:
- character readjusting, however slowly, to being treated as a person socially again
- characters rebuilding/adjusting to their new lives while acknowledging the irreversible loss,
- injured characters being carried
- unexpected mercy—characters at the mercy of people they don't trust, expecting the worst and then being surprised to be treated well.
- characters sacrificing themselves to protect other people, even when they're injured themselves
- awkward comfort because the comforters don't have the context/aren't used to comfort
- characters thinking that they are hated/disgraced but comforted instead
- angsty misunderstanding because of current power imbalance, cultural difference and neither side having full context of the situation
- petting or hugging as comfort, while the person being petted/touched may have complicated feeling about that
- intense multi layer long term hurt, and intense patient genuinely selfless physical comfort
- characters who have suffered from dehumanization/think their worth is in their usefulness are overwhelmed by being acknowledged as people whose feelings are worthy of respect
Please feel free to make up any OC that match the prompts. If you want more inspiration, there is an index of Wizard Rescue AU OC . It's nice if you elaborate on any OC scenarios discussed, but it isn't necessary.
Request 5
Original Thousand Son/Original White Scar (hurt Thousand Son), Original Thousand Son & Original White Scar (hurt Thousand Son), Vulkan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS), Ilya Ravallion & Original Unfinished Thousand Son (hurt TS), Targutai Yesugei & Amon (hurt Amon), Revuel Arvida & Thousand Sons (hurt Thousand Sons)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
Fandom specific DNW and exception: on screen death of Thousand Sons or White Scars characters. Don't kill Magnus or Jaghatai Khan. Please assume that it's an AU that canonical Thousand Sons or White Scars characters never die.
Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK
Prompts:
1. I like the angst that when characters dealing with irreversible loss and grief while trying to live on their lives, and people around them can't fully understand because they haven't gone through it. Give me the awkward comfort, the quiet grief, seeing the remains of home planet (books, jewelry, etc) and reminded of its destruction, dealing with loss of power and more.
2. Unexpected mercy. The Thousand Sons rightfully sudpect that it's another slavery situation and can't bring themselves to think it will end. Desperate begging or bartering in exchange of protection, trying to guess what the price will be for mercy, interpreting everything in such view to try to prepare or protect other brothers. (And happily their worry are unfounded)
3. Gradual recovery of the Thousand Sons from dehumanization. Getting back self worth because they can make choice without fear of retribution. Experience compassion and respect. Physical comfort that don't come with threat. Things that make their lives more comfortable.
6. Request
Shiban Khan/Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (all hurt), Shiban Khan & Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS), Shiban Khan & Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (all hurt), Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS), Shiban Khan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
Fandom specific DNW and exception: death of requested characters other than canon death of Torghun Khan (AUs where he never dies is fine). Don't kill Magnus or Jaghatai Khan. Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK.
Prompts:
Shiban Khan & Torghun Khan are both canon White Scar characters. They are former good friends. Then Torghun Khan turns not quite traitor, repents and rejoin the White Scars, becomes a suicide squad leader, and sacrifices. Shiban Khan has a love-hate relationship with him after his turning sides and have complicated feeling about him after his death. Their relationships are mostly depicted in Scars, and The Path of Heaven. Shiban later sees a vision of dead Torghun and takes a baby across chaos land in Mortis after heavy injury. Reunited with legion, Shiban Khan still yearned to speak to his old friend Torghun Khan one last time. So any TS picked up by Shiban will be probably aware and worry about Shiban's complicated feeling about his former traitor friend. Worse, Torghun might pick up a TS himself and trusts Shiban to take care of him before his suicidal charge.
You may may the relevant discussion thread under the header Shiban, his baby, the wizard inherited from his dead ex-friend Torghun, and/or his new rescue for more inspiration, but don't feel restricted by them. Anything that explores the potential tension for any of the relationship tag I choose is great
1. Shiban saves a Thousand Son cousin while carrying the baby (or now a toddler). The Thousand Son has complicated feeling about being a live-in babysitter (and babysitting is daunting), but anything is better than being a sex slave. He has also heard shushed whisper of Shiban's former traitor friend, and worries whether Shiban will treats as a substitute punching bag or bed slave. Meanwhile, Shiban is just glad that he has found help.
2. Sex slavery and loss of your planet is horrible enough. Then you're saved by the White Scar suicide squad leader Torghun Khan. He has been decent to you so far, but who knows if he will want to take it out on you to strengthen his precarious position. Worse, he is now dead and entrusts you to his former good friend Shiban, whom Torghun admits to be hating him. Please explore the grief (because you don't trust Torghun completely but at least he saves you), the fear (are you allowed to show sadness for his death? Are you supposed to condemn him now?) in addition to the existing tauma! I really love the angst and misunderstanding potential. Shiban probably has conflicted feeling about the TS who has seen Torghun before his death and has to deal with his own grief.
3. AU that Torghun somehow survives. Torghun has to deal with his continued survival when he think he should have died. Shiban has to deal with his complicated feeling about Torghun. Then somehow they pick up a TS, who worries that he is forced to take sides.
7. Request
Original Thousand Son & Original War Hound (both hurt), Original Thousand Son & Original Night Lord (both hurt)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
Fandom specific DNW and exception: on screen death of Thousand Sons or White Scars characters. Don't kill Magnus or Jaghatai Khan. Please assume that it's an AU that canonical Thousand Sons or White Scars characters never die. Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK
Prompts:
I group this two relationships together because they're both "fellow captives and unexpected friend" dynamic. The War Hound or the Night Lord is used to neglect, fear and hatred. They don't expect their fellow captive Thousand Sons to think of them beyond expendable. Meanwhile, the Thousand Sons would probably never knew them in normal time, but now that they are all sex slaves they felt protective about their friends who protect them in return. For more inspiration, you may read the discussion threads grouped under "the wizards with a fellow World Eater" & "the wizards with a fellow Night Lord" in the index They're only for suggestion. Please feel to come up with anything that fit the prompts.
1. The Thousand Sons and their fellow friend are saved by the White Scars, whom they think are now their new masters and may kill their friend. Cue frantic rush to disguise the Night Lord/War Hound as one of them or other loyalist legions (Raven Guard/Iron Fist/etc) and desperate distraction of the White Scars from them. Meanwhile, the War Hound or the Night Lord may think they're designated punishment sponge and are fine with that (and surprised when they realized no one else really think that.)
2. Aftermath of torture/captivity/rape. Maybe the Night Lord can't tells his intrusive vision of the bad future from his hallucination because of trauma and has light sensibility issues. Maybe they have to make do and patch each other up during captivity. Maybe everyone unconsciously reinforce each other's nightmare. Maybe the War Hound rediscovers a sense of brotherhood after being treated as invisible in their legions for so long. Maybe one (or more) of them can't tell whether they have a flashback/hallucinate from having visions. Group hug, petting and just simple touch for comfort is always great.
Thank you for offering to write for me! I can't wait to see what you come up with. I am happy with all length, any rating and any possible combination of freeform tags and pairing tags. Feel free to use one of my prompts, take only part of a prompt, repurpose a prompt from one canon to fit another, work off any of my Likes, or ignore the prompts and follow your own inspiration. Some sections of this letter are longer than others, but I will be equally happy receiving any fandom that I've requested. If you’d like clarification on anything, I’m happy to answer any questions sent via the mods, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I am welcome to both fic and art treats.
General like:
I like stories with: action/adventure, capture and rescue, competence, humour, banter, pining, moral ambiguity, attraction between opposites, outsider POV, people telling stories, people who have each other's backs, people who flat out like each other's company, people suffering stoically, power exchange, people being resolute, secret identity (or lack of it), missing scenes, friends to lovers, fixing failed relationships, things going wrong and navigating the outcomes
Hurt/Comfort tropes I like:
I love both physical hurt/comfort & emotional hurt/comfort:
- character sacrificing themselves to protect others
- characters downplaying their injury/suffering so that others can get help first
- characters expect abuse but meet unexpected mercy instead
- stoic character revealing their secret weakness because of feverish dream/nightmare/hallucination/etc to friends/loved one and get comforted,
- injuries (accidental, from a battle, etc) that don't lead to permanent disability
- hypothermia and cuddling for warmth
- characters adapting to (often permanent) loss with help
- skin hunger
- Pining angst that leads to requited love
- Proud characters insists that they don't need help and are tough enough to struggle with misery alone. The other characters understand their issues with showing vulnerability, and offer the comfort in subtle, deniable ways that are couched as being for their own peace of mind or just for the sake of convenience
DNW:
1st and 2nd person POV, unrequested setting change AU, unrequested pairing, requested pairings breaking up, pregnancy/child birth, forced feminization, bimbofication, bathroom related kink, sounding, bestiality, scat, characters under 16 having sex (aged up or nonspecific age works), sexuality/gender/neurodivergence headcanon, lecture or focus on real life social issues: e.g. racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia as the main theme of a fic, current affair, pandemic, child harm (present or flashbacks), gore/vore, major character death, , animal harm/death (hunting is fine as long as not graphic and fighting any kind of monster is fine too--just please don't kill pets or animal companions or the like), torture (mention or reference to backstory is fine), complete mind break, severe illness or permanent injury, such as cancer or paralysis, that does not occur in canon, rape/noncon
Fandom specific DNWs and exceptions are listed in the fandom sections
Requested Fandoms
1. Star Trek: The Original Series
James T. Kirk & Spock (both hurt), James T. Kirk & Spock (hurt Kirk), James T. Kirk & Spock (hurt Spock), James T. Kirk/Spock (both hurt), James T. Kirk/Spock (hurt Kirk), James T. Kirk/Spock (hurt Spock)
Medium: Fic
Request
Freeforms:
| Having to rely on injured/ill character's ability or expertise to stay alive in dangerous situation | Character used to suffering alone is gratefully surprised to receive comfort | Character stoically hiding trauma finally gets to talk about it | trying to help a stoic character without hurting their pride |
| Undercover - Hurt/Comfort While Undercover | A won't rest until they find missing hurt/sick B; A falls ill with exhaustion from the search | Trapped Together While One Is Injured | Telepathic Character Enters Hurt Character’s Nightmares to Help Them |
| Stranded on alien planet | Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive | Taking care of hurt friend(s) leads to realization of romantic feelings | BAMF character A is hurt/sick and is still a BAMF; character B provides comfort anyway |
| A’s pining found to be requited as B helps them recover from serious injury | A thinks they're about to die and voices their feelings for B but oops A survives | Hurt/sick A and comforter B are mutually pining and in denial about said pining | Accidental Soulbond - distance and lack of touch causes characters pain and illness |
| Mutual pining during slow recovery from near-fatal injury | Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.) | ||
About the fandom:
I love this show for its optimism and idealism, that the crew are competent and decent people who like each other and work towards a common goal, that they regularly go extra length to save others.
I love Kirk & Spock because they are great friends who support and inspire each other to improve and how they understand and trust each other. They demonstrate how they are willing to risk everything to save the other regularly in canon. I ship Kirk/Spock, so it's OK if you write them as friends or lovers, but please don't pair them with anyone else or them being broken up at the end of the story.
Prompts:
1. Mission have gone wrong. One of them or both are kidnapped/stranded in a hostile alien planet/another dimension/caught between dimensions and even presumed death by others, but they will never give up on each other. They have to go undercover/get disguised and may have to get hurt to maintain the cover. It can set as a missing scene of canon episode/movies or just make up the missions details.
2. Kirk & Spock are both used to hide their weakness and go on as normal, especially when the situation requires it, but they are more willing to reveal their weakness to each other and get comforted. Maybe after a bad mission, stressful work, or tragedy, one of them or both try to comfort the other.
3. Pining. I'm really into pining. Maybe the pining person doesn't know that it's requited or is resigned that the other won't return his feeling. Maybe they know but can't act on their feeling. Then now they maybe forced to confront that their feeling (and find that it's requited after all) after accidental bonding, near death confession that turns not quite dead, etc.
2. 救殭清道夫 | Vampire Cleanup Department (2017)
Yip Chi Chau/Yeung Chung (Chung hurt), Yip Chi Chau/Yeung Chung (Chau hurt), Yip Chi Chau/Yeung Chung (both hurt)
Medium: Fic
Request:
Freeforms:
| A’s pining found to be requited as B helps them recover from serious injury | Taking care of hurt friend(s) leads to realization of romantic feelings | Strong A skilled in combat is injured; weaker B must protect them both | Sick/hurt character doesn't often show vulnerability (so it's a big deal when they do) |
| A thinks they're about to die and voices their feelings for B but oops A survives | Character resigned to their death survives; doesn't know how to cope | Comfort after a mission gone sideways | Character A reveals feelings for Character B while out of it from illness or injury |
| emotional distress from pining/yearning/longing | Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.) | A confession during a desperate situation has to be dealt with later About the fandom: | Character Got Hurt in a Bad Accident; Pined for Character Stays With Them to Help Them to Recover |
| Emotional hurt from (wrongly) believing their pining is unrequited | Time Loop - A is trying to save the life of B; the one they're secretly in love with and pining for | Character insists on completing mission despite illness/Injury | Missions Gone Wrong |
| Sick/hurt character indispensable on case/mission; team looks after them while they get things done |
Vampire Cleanup Department is a Hong Kong horror action comedy romance film that the titular VCD is a secret government-created agency that disguises themselves as sanitary workers but actually going around to hunt down and destroy jiangshi. The main character Tim is recruited after his immunity to jiangshi is discovered, and he later falls in love with a female jiangshi called Winter.
However, I'm interested in Yip Chi Chau & Yeung Chung: Yip Chi Chau is Tim's 50+ mentor and combat expert of the VCD, while Yeung Chung, or "Uncle Chung," is in his 70s and director of the VCD and a more sociable figure. I like that they are practically an old bickering married couple who have known each other really well, and are protective of each other. My head canon is that Chung has stoically and quietly pined for Chau for years, but you can make a case that they are mutually pining for each other while not even aware of their own feeling.
Fandom specific DNW and exception: DNW Permanent major character death (Temporary death is fine). Please don't kill off Tim nor Winter
Link to the movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH1LehPW9_4
Prompt:
1. Mission goes wrong. Killing jiangshi is dangerous after all. Perhaps they run into canon typical jiang shi dealings, other sort of supernatural creature or ghost. Dealing with curses are great. Evil cults and/or characters being stranded could work great too. Either or both of them get hurt when being heroes and protective of each other.
2. Pining. I'm really into pining. My headcanon is that Chung has stoically pined for Chau for years but has mostly assumed and accepted that it's unrequited. I like the quiet angst that has now mostly been kept off mind. Then now they may have to confront their feeling (and find that it's requited after all) after the canon event or another near death.
3. AU that Chau becomes a vampire permanently and remains with the unit as a good vampire. Dealing with permanent loss and rebuilding their lives together.
3. Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
Male Sidestep & Steel (hurt Sidestep), Male Sidestep & Steel (hurt Steel), Male Sidestep/Steel (Both hurt), Male Sidestep/Steel (Sidestep hurt), Male Sidestep/Steel (Steel hurt)
Freeforms:
| Telepathic Character Enters Hurt Character’s Nightmares to Help Them | Subtle and considerate gestures of care where overt comfort is inappropriate or can't be offered | Sick/Hurt Character Falling Asleep As A Sign Of Trust In Comforter | Neither comforter or comfortee will directly acknowledge that comforting is taking place |
| Inexperienced comforter does their awkward best | I'll do the traumatic thing because I can handle it | Hurt character doesn't believe they deserve comfort | A hiding injury because they don't think B would care |
| Headstrong character A refuses offered protection; B protects A anyway | A gives sick/injured B not only comfort but also protection/sanctuary | Character A is self-conscious about their scars; B touches them for comfort and affection | 2AM talk in the kitchen after a nightmare/insomnia |
| A&B’s date has to be canceled when A is sick/injured but B comforts and makes it romantic anyway | Aftermath & Comfort For Canon Hurt | Anxiety over how to navigate boundaries of unestablished relationship | Body worship focusing on the scars and aftermath of trauma |
| character A has a flashback and character B comforts them | Character A has disability/chronic illness flare up and is comforted | Character abandons plans in order to rescue stranger who is suffering | Character used to past traumatic sexual experiences is confused by genuinely loving partner |
Request
About the fandom:
Fallen Hero Series is a text based interactive novel series that the Player Character was originally a superhero telepath named Sidestep until something happened to them. Now, the PC is on the path towards villainy. Unfortunately, things don't go as smoothly as expected when the PC becomes entangled with their former teammate Ortega, and the Rangers once again. Currently there are two games: Fallen Hero: Rebirth & Fallen Hero: Retribution
I have never expected to love Steel so much. I love how they found quiet comfort together when walking Spoon, and how Steels understands when Sidestep phones him after the stressful therapy session. Steel has a lot of physical and emotional wounds himself (war, family, etc), and I feel like they are good at being each other's support. I love how Steel guessed Sidestep's true identity but willing to support and protect him. Their sex scene is very gentle and tender and comfort to each other.
I prefer Sidestep to care about Steel and other Rangers. You can write him as an idealist who saves everyone even against his original plan, or a more ruthless crime boss who is willing to kill re-genes and farm agents, but please don't write him only thinking of the Rangers as pawns or enemies.
Fandom specific DNW and exception: Please don't kill Captain Blaze, the Rangers, Handyman, his wife, Mia and Dr. Mortum . No non-canonical disability for any of them. Don't shut down Steel's implants/armour.
2nd POV is OK. Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK
Medium: Fic
Prompts
1. I like more slice of life quiet moments between them. I love the scenes that Sidestep and Steel walking Spoon and going to restaurants for quiet comfort and just want more of them hanging out together. Sidestep helps with Steel to adapt to cybernetics or quiet help with some daily tasks is great. Banter and humour are great too. Awkward exploration of their new relationship now that they are friends/lovers are great too. If you write then as a couple, I really love how they affirm and appreciate the other's body during the canon sex scene, and I want more gentle sex and touch over the scars and other imperfection. I want Sidestep and Steel to both overwhelm each other with gentleness and body worship and creating good memory.
2. I really like the headcanon that Steel would hear Sidestep's telepathic call for help after Sidestep goes out of control in the Heartbreak Incident. I want the implication of guilt and shared trauma to be explored. Please lay out the angst. If you want to engage Sidestep's telepath by exploring Steel's mindscape, constructing mental defense in Steel's mind and see more than expected, etc.
3. Mission goes wrong; Fight goes rough or a generally stressful day. Sidestep has to fight Steel in his villain identity for his missions, or he abandons plans to save strangers and have to deal with fallouts. Patching up wounds, quiet conversation or hanging out as comfort.
Warhammer 40.000
4. Request
Obyron/Zahndrekh (both hurt), Obyron/Zahndrekh (hurt Obyron), Obyron/Zahndrekh (hurt Zahndrekh)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
| Retainer Lovingly Cared For By Liege | Protectiveness - Character A still tries to protect Character B despite A being injured | A protects B from injury with their own body; B is deeply affected by A being hurt | A is surprised at how much they're willing to risk to protect/save hurt character B |
| Inexperienced comforter does their awkward best | A hiding injury because they don't think B would care | Loyal Character Resents Object of Devotion. Still stay anyway | Injured Character has amnesia and only trusts character B |
| Anxiety over how to navigate boundaries of unestablished relationship | Character Doesn't Expect Tenderness But Gets It Anyway | Character gets hurt; comforter realizes they can't stand to lose them | Character is hurt protecting/helping others |
About the fandom:
Severed gives me so much feeling about the murder living robot couple! They are incompatible in a number of ways. In the necron society, Obyron is supposed to be only a disposible thing to Zahndrekh, and he's hurt when Zahndrekh seems to agree. Obyron is loyal to Zahndrekh, but also resents him for seemingly blind to the reality. However, Obyron helps covers up the reality for Zahndrekh to protect him. How much Zahndrekh is oblivious that they are robots now or willing blind is up to the readers, but the support of Obyron is essential to his identity. They both at different points openly admit that they feel love towards the other, and essentially defeat the villains due to the power of love.
Request
Prompt
1. Futurefic that deals with Obyron's loss of memory for saving Zahndrekh. What does Obyron feel when he hears their past stories without remembering them? Zahndrekh (unintentionally?) comfort and reassure Obyron that he's more than a disposible weapon to him and still has a soul is great.
2. While Obyron resents how Zahndrekh is detached from the reality, he also helps maintain the pretense to protect him. Please tell me more about Obyron secretly and not so secretly protects Zahndrekh psychologically and physically.
3. After the mutual confession, Obyron and Zahndrekh slowly navigates their relationship in the highly rigid and abusive necron society, which develops into an actual romance. Confusion and angst arise as they neither quite have relevant experience and skill for this. It may be a secret one due to pragmatic reasons, or Zahndrekh may scandalize the court again by insisting on a traditional wedding... for love.
FFA's style Wizard Rescue AU
The following requests are all in FFA's style Wizard Rescue AU. I group the following pairings under different requests by theme to make prompting easier
About the fandom:
Canon: The self-styled 'Emperor of Mankind' made a bunch of supersoldier general sons for himself, and legions of supersoldier space marine grandsons. About half stayed loyal to him, and about half turned against him in a civil war/heresy that nobodies really won.
Wizard Rescue AU: Magnus the Red (“traitor” although not really at this point) and his supersoldier sons got taken prisoner by Leman Russ and his Space Wolf supersoldiers after Magnus did something dumb; Magnus ends up being drained for power in a torture device (and periodically taken out to be raped) while his sons become Space Wolf sex slaves. Eventually his loyalist brother Jaghatai Khan finds out, rescues Magnus, and tells his own sons (White Scars) to rescue Magnus’s sons while they flee the Imperium.. Magnus' sons are convinced that they are still sex slaves and therefore very wary of their rescuers, and constantly trying to sacrifice themselves to protect each other.
Things I generally like in this AU:
- character readjusting, however slowly, to being treated as a person socially again
- characters rebuilding/adjusting to their new lives while acknowledging the irreversible loss,
- injured characters being carried
- unexpected mercy—characters at the mercy of people they don't trust, expecting the worst and then being surprised to be treated well.
- characters sacrificing themselves to protect other people, even when they're injured themselves
- awkward comfort because the comforters don't have the context/aren't used to comfort
- characters thinking that they are hated/disgraced but comforted instead
- angsty misunderstanding because of current power imbalance, cultural difference and neither side having full context of the situation
- petting or hugging as comfort, while the person being petted/touched may have complicated feeling about that
- intense multi layer long term hurt, and intense patient genuinely selfless physical comfort
- characters who have suffered from dehumanization/think their worth is in their usefulness are overwhelmed by being acknowledged as people whose feelings are worthy of respect
Please feel free to make up any OC that match the prompts. If you want more inspiration, there is an index of Wizard Rescue AU OC . It's nice if you elaborate on any OC scenarios discussed, but it isn't necessary.
Request 5
Original Thousand Son/Original White Scar (hurt Thousand Son), Original Thousand Son & Original White Scar (hurt Thousand Son), Vulkan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS), Ilya Ravallion & Original Unfinished Thousand Son (hurt TS), Targutai Yesugei & Amon (hurt Amon), Revuel Arvida & Thousand Sons (hurt Thousand Sons)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
| Unexpected Kindness | Unexpected Mercy - Character Expects To Be Tortured/Killed; Begs Mercy For Another But Not Self | Waking up from nightmares while sharing a bed | Unexpected rescue followed by tenderly patching up wounds |
| Touch-Starved Character Melts When Gently Petted | They thought no one was coming; got rescued by unexpected person | Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually comforting | Subtle and considerate gestures of care where overt comfort is inappropriate or can't be offered |
| Aftermath of Slavery | Sharing a bed to keep a close eye on hurt character's well-being & needs | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Rescuee Participates in Later Rescues | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Initially Believes Rescuer is New Master |
| Rescued from Sex Slavery - Rescuer POV | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Slave POV | Misunderstandings - Hurt character initially believes comforter is there to hurt them more | hurt character is (wrongly) convinced the other doesn't like him and is overwhelmed by the care |
| Hurt A expects B to take advantage of them. Is stunned when B doesn't.) | FFA's Wizard Rescue AU (WH40k | Alternate Universe - Character Lives but is still badly hurt | Hurt character believes rescue/help has a price tag; surprised when there isn't one |
Fandom specific DNW and exception: on screen death of Thousand Sons or White Scars characters. Don't kill Magnus or Jaghatai Khan. Please assume that it's an AU that canonical Thousand Sons or White Scars characters never die.
Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK
Prompts:
1. I like the angst that when characters dealing with irreversible loss and grief while trying to live on their lives, and people around them can't fully understand because they haven't gone through it. Give me the awkward comfort, the quiet grief, seeing the remains of home planet (books, jewelry, etc) and reminded of its destruction, dealing with loss of power and more.
2. Unexpected mercy. The Thousand Sons rightfully sudpect that it's another slavery situation and can't bring themselves to think it will end. Desperate begging or bartering in exchange of protection, trying to guess what the price will be for mercy, interpreting everything in such view to try to prepare or protect other brothers. (And happily their worry are unfounded)
3. Gradual recovery of the Thousand Sons from dehumanization. Getting back self worth because they can make choice without fear of retribution. Experience compassion and respect. Physical comfort that don't come with threat. Things that make their lives more comfortable.
6. Request
Shiban Khan/Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (all hurt), Shiban Khan & Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS), Shiban Khan & Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (all hurt), Torghun Khan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS), Shiban Khan & Original Thousand Son (hurt TS)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
| Surviving Canon Death with Nonetheless Life-Altering Consequences and Injuries | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Initially Believes Rescuer is New Master | Character resigned to their death survives; doesn't know how to cope | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Rescuee Participates in Later Rescues |
| Characters don't trust each other but have to work together to get out of bad situation | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Slave POV | Alternate Universe - Character Lives but is still badly hurt | character A and B are trapped together and forced to get along |
| character gets comforted by someone they can't trust but secretly wish they could | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Rescuer POV | Wounded Characters Try To Care For One Another | Hurt character believes rescue/help has a price tag; surprised when there isn't one |
Fandom specific DNW and exception: death of requested characters other than canon death of Torghun Khan (AUs where he never dies is fine). Don't kill Magnus or Jaghatai Khan. Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK.
Prompts:
Shiban Khan & Torghun Khan are both canon White Scar characters. They are former good friends. Then Torghun Khan turns not quite traitor, repents and rejoin the White Scars, becomes a suicide squad leader, and sacrifices. Shiban Khan has a love-hate relationship with him after his turning sides and have complicated feeling about him after his death. Their relationships are mostly depicted in Scars, and The Path of Heaven. Shiban later sees a vision of dead Torghun and takes a baby across chaos land in Mortis after heavy injury. Reunited with legion, Shiban Khan still yearned to speak to his old friend Torghun Khan one last time. So any TS picked up by Shiban will be probably aware and worry about Shiban's complicated feeling about his former traitor friend. Worse, Torghun might pick up a TS himself and trusts Shiban to take care of him before his suicidal charge.
You may may the relevant discussion thread under the header Shiban, his baby, the wizard inherited from his dead ex-friend Torghun, and/or his new rescue for more inspiration, but don't feel restricted by them. Anything that explores the potential tension for any of the relationship tag I choose is great
1. Shiban saves a Thousand Son cousin while carrying the baby (or now a toddler). The Thousand Son has complicated feeling about being a live-in babysitter (and babysitting is daunting), but anything is better than being a sex slave. He has also heard shushed whisper of Shiban's former traitor friend, and worries whether Shiban will treats as a substitute punching bag or bed slave. Meanwhile, Shiban is just glad that he has found help.
2. Sex slavery and loss of your planet is horrible enough. Then you're saved by the White Scar suicide squad leader Torghun Khan. He has been decent to you so far, but who knows if he will want to take it out on you to strengthen his precarious position. Worse, he is now dead and entrusts you to his former good friend Shiban, whom Torghun admits to be hating him. Please explore the grief (because you don't trust Torghun completely but at least he saves you), the fear (are you allowed to show sadness for his death? Are you supposed to condemn him now?) in addition to the existing tauma! I really love the angst and misunderstanding potential. Shiban probably has conflicted feeling about the TS who has seen Torghun before his death and has to deal with his own grief.
3. AU that Torghun somehow survives. Torghun has to deal with his continued survival when he think he should have died. Shiban has to deal with his complicated feeling about Torghun. Then somehow they pick up a TS, who worries that he is forced to take sides.
7. Request
Original Thousand Son & Original War Hound (both hurt), Original Thousand Son & Original Night Lord (both hurt)
Medium: Fic
Freeforms:
| Character A can't tell intrusive vision of bad future from hallucinations | Character A thinks they deserve hurt and bait others into hurting them | FFA's Wizard Rescue AU (WH40k) | Horrific Captivity Also First Time Woobie Experiences Friendship & Solidarity (From Fellow Captives) |
| Rescued from Sex Slavery - Initially Believes Rescuer is New Master | Character gets sick/hurt and expects to be left behind now that they're a burden/no longer useful | Rescued from Sex Slavery - Slave POV | Aftermath of Slavery |
| A and B comfort each other while in C's captivity | Captivity - Trapped with someone in need of medical attention | Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset | Character A can't tell intrusive vision of bad future from traumatic flashbacks |
| Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others | Character A gets in trouble or injured protecting character B | Character A is Touchstarved while Character B notices and tries to help | Character believes it's obvious that they're the expendable one; other characters strongly disagree |
| Character acts like physical/emotional hurt they suffered is no big deal; others strongly disagree | Unexpected Mercy - Character Expects To Be Tortured/Killed; Begs Mercy For Another But Not Self | Hyper-Protective of Each Other After Surviving Horrible Situation Together | Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another |
Fandom specific DNW and exception: on screen death of Thousand Sons or White Scars characters. Don't kill Magnus or Jaghatai Khan. Please assume that it's an AU that canonical Thousand Sons or White Scars characters never die. Mention or reference to rape/noncon/torture as backstory is OK
Prompts:
I group this two relationships together because they're both "fellow captives and unexpected friend" dynamic. The War Hound or the Night Lord is used to neglect, fear and hatred. They don't expect their fellow captive Thousand Sons to think of them beyond expendable. Meanwhile, the Thousand Sons would probably never knew them in normal time, but now that they are all sex slaves they felt protective about their friends who protect them in return. For more inspiration, you may read the discussion threads grouped under "the wizards with a fellow World Eater" & "the wizards with a fellow Night Lord" in the index They're only for suggestion. Please feel to come up with anything that fit the prompts.
1. The Thousand Sons and their fellow friend are saved by the White Scars, whom they think are now their new masters and may kill their friend. Cue frantic rush to disguise the Night Lord/War Hound as one of them or other loyalist legions (Raven Guard/Iron Fist/etc) and desperate distraction of the White Scars from them. Meanwhile, the War Hound or the Night Lord may think they're designated punishment sponge and are fine with that (and surprised when they realized no one else really think that.)
2. Aftermath of torture/captivity/rape. Maybe the Night Lord can't tells his intrusive vision of the bad future from his hallucination because of trauma and has light sensibility issues. Maybe they have to make do and patch each other up during captivity. Maybe everyone unconsciously reinforce each other's nightmare. Maybe the War Hound rediscovers a sense of brotherhood after being treated as invisible in their legions for so long. Maybe one (or more) of them can't tell whether they have a flashback/hallucinate from having visions. Group hug, petting and just simple touch for comfort is always great.