Dear Trick or Treat Author 2022
Dear Trick or Treat Author,
Hello, and happy Halloween! I'm Carly, thecarlysutra on AO3, and this is my fourth year doing Trick or Treat.
I would prefer my actual gift is a story, but am happy with fic or art for anything extra. I requested four fandoms, and I am happy with tricks or treats for all of them.
DNWs: animal harm/death, body horror, gore, rape, asylums/institutionalization unless it's in canon (Channel Zero), the characters I've requested dying (or being dead/dealing with their oncoming death even if it's in canon) or becoming monsters, graphic descriptions of suicide or self-injury, "[s]he was crazy the whole time!" twists
I love stories. They are my favorite thing. I love all kinds of stories, but my favorites tend to be character driven. They have dialogue and small moments that illustrate relationships or grow characters, not just move the plot along. I love small character details. I want to know the perfume the Deer Lady wears. I want to know what song gets stuck in Maverick Mitchell's head. I want everything. You cannot give me too much.
I love found families, and close relationships both romantic and non. I love all the different kinds of love the Greeks had that are all in Tumblr gifsets now. I love people loving each other and enjoying each other's company. It's fucking great, okay? It's the best thing.
I love hurt/comfort (and its cousin, sexual healing) and sudden! intimacy tropes like arranged marriage, fake dating, and "there was only one bed!" I love soulmate stuff, especially soulmarks. I love humor and softness and competence and sexiness and playfulness. I love happy endings. It's not a requirement because of the nature of this challenge, but I do love them.
For art: I love all different styles of art, honestly. My own style tends toward representational with high saturation and high contrast, but I am often most affected by artists whose styles are completely different than mine. It opens my eyes to a new perspective, one I never would have thought of myself. I like small, soft moments between characters. I like intimacy of all kinds: casual touching, sharing a secret or a bed, kissing, sex. I love little comics with jokes or the characters forcing a reaction from each other. I like comics art and I like photorealistic digital (or actual) painting, and most things in between. I know this isn't as helpful as the prompts I've left for authors for each fandom, but I know less about this, and I really just want to assure you that any art you make of any of the characters I've requested is going to put me over the moon.
And now for some info on my requests:
Top Gun (Movies)
- Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
- Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
- Ship: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
- Callie "Halo" Bassett
- Ship: Callie "Halo" Bassett/Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
Overview: I was in the Top Gun fandom for 12 years before Top Gun: Maverick came out. I love Maverick and Ice, and as a couple they are over of my bulletproof OTPs. Honestly I haven't done a ton of exploring in fanworks for the new characters, but I think Halo is really interesting and has so much potential, and I'd love to know what a relationship between her and Phoenix would look like. Again, as I mentioned in my DNWs, I don't want character death or any meditation on death or illness or dying, so I would really appreciate stories where Ice is alive and healthy or happy in remission.
Tricks: AU this one as much (or as little) as you like. I can't stop thinking about Scream Queens (I blame you, Glen Powell), and I think it could work? If you go with the season one plot, there's a masked killer terrorizing (the TOPGUN or some other) campus, and Ice and Maverick have to quit bickering and eye fucking long enough to stay alive. The SQ season two plot could work well for TGM; some blast from the past has a vendetta against TOPGUN or one of the pilots, and once again, Ice and Maverick have to quit bickering and eye fucking long enough to stay alive. It practically writes itself.
Treats: Since Halo and Phoenix are newer to me, my desires for them in fic are a lot more nebulous. Anything related to the vibes from my general likes would be amazing. I've consumed a lot more Icemav content, so I have more specific prompts, but that's all they are: suggestions, possible jumping off points. I love soft things about these boys, and I love sexy things. Write them flirting over the comms up in the air, or write domestic fluff when they're in their 50s and married. Write Maverick accidentally picking up Ice's dogtags from the bedside table instead of his own, and then it becoming a huge deal because he ends up unconscious in the infirmary. Write Maverick buying one of those "paint with your naked body!" kits to decorate the living room and Ice being a million percent against it until Mav makes it into a competition. Write ridiculous bets and intimate moments exploring each other's bodies and discovering each other's scars for the first time. You cannot go wrong, I will love anything you write about these two, even if they're just friends.
Channel Zero (TV)
- Zoe Woods
- Ship: Alice Woods & Zoe Woods
- Ship: Izzy Marcus & Zoe Woods
- Ship: Louise Lispector & Izzy Marcus & Luke Vanczyk & Zoe Woods
- Ship: Louise Lispector & Luke Vanczyk
- Ship: Luke Vanczyk & Zoe Woods
Overview: What I really want from this request is exploration of the relationships between these characters, or the characters working as a family and a team. (For the record, Zoe is my favorite character, so if you want to focus on her, that's awesome, but I so love the little family she finds with Luke, Louise, and Izzy.)
Tricks: This family is already 100% equipped to fight monsters or the supernatural. Maybe they stay in Butcher's Block and find there's still evil even though the Peaches are gone. Maybe they move for a fresh start and, whoops, they now live in a haunted house. Whatever it is: They deal with it. Together.
Treats: Again, what I really want from this request is more about the little family Zoe finds with Luke, Louise, and Izzy. You can show them doing ANYTHING and I will love it. Maybe they're getting Izzy ready to go to school, or they're trying to make a tricky recipe together. I don't care. I love them.
The Umbrella Academy (TV)
- Allison Hargreeves
- Diego Hargreeves
- Klaus Hargreeves
- Ship: Diego Hargreeves & Klaus Hargreeves
- Ship: Diego Hargreeves/Lila Pitts
Overview: I love them. I love this weird, dysfunction, dangerous, loving little family and their bravery and snark and siblingness and did I mention love??
Tricks: These idiots have saved the world twice, possibly three times! They can definitely fight monsters or the supernatural! I mean, think of how long it would take them to figure out they're living in a haunted house, because they all have Drama and no one listens to Klaus!
Treats: Just give me these goobers loving each other on their own special way, and I'll be happy.
Reservation Dogs (TV)
- Deer Lady
Tricks: I am sooooooo interested in the Deer Lady, and I'd love to know more about her. If you look at her a certain way, she's kind of monstrous, and that's definitely worth inspection. I'd love to see her in action.
Treats: It's not all work and no play. The Deer Lady has other stories, surely.