Dear Id Pro Quo Writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! Feel free to mix and match the tags I've requested within each fandom - they're broken down into categories for better organization but I'd be happy with you writing any number of them!
DNWs:
僕だけがいない街 | Boku dake ga Inai Machi | ERASED (Anime & Manga)
Fujinuma Satoru/Yashiro Gaku
I'm all in it for mind games and manipulation and dysfunctional relationships that shouldn't work but do. I love the weird age gap dynamic of "old enough to be my father" except there's also time travel involved so things get messy. I love the whole part where Yashiro feels completely empty until he fails to kill Satoru and actually stops kidnapping and murdering because he's too busy shaving Satoru's face and cutting apples for him. Most of all, I just really love the idea of neither one of them being able to completely change the other - Yashiro will probably always be a sociopath and Satoru can't stop trying to save people.
Please don't make this too bleak and realistic - it's a dark canon, but it's one where I appreciate a little black humor to it. I'd like Yashiro to also have some manipulative ambiguity; please don't make him nothing but a psychotic monster. And I would prefer not to see Satoru paired with other characters, since it's not why I'm really drawn to this fandom. Also, I definitely want Satoru at least physically a teenager for anything sexual - 16 up is fine, but nothing younger please.
General Tags:
Yeah, anything where Yashiro gets away with his crimes is A+ in my book. Does he take Satoru before the coma? During? After the rooftop? There are just so many delicious possibilities for creepy caretaking and threats against other people. Honestly, Yashiro is trying his best. He can't help it if his wooing skills are terrible and also involve a lot of "Don't you ever leave me."
Specific Tags:
You know Yashiro would end up being overjoyed by it, while Satoru would be like "Fuck my life." But hey if it keeps the murder rate down...
Yashiro's still a teacher, but now he has access to Satoru 24/7. What fun!
I'm sorry, Sachiko, but it's something I thought of ever since Satoru wished Yashiro was his father.
There is just so much potential here for fun supernatural stalking. Yashiro would be the type to hide under Satoru's bed just to screw with him and then when Satoru leaves? Well, shit, time to get that human body in order. Alternately, Satoru's mother falls ill and wow, was it a terrible idea to trust his teacher.
Taking off wet clothes! Huddling for warmth! Realizing you're trapped with a kiler and his hands are going in unexpected places!
Satoru's not entirely sure the latest Revival led to this, and to be honest, neither are his friends. Yashiro's just sad he didn't get to have a proper wedding.
Labyrinth (1986)
Jareth/Toby Williams
Look, the cover of the manga sequel to the movie showed me that Toby grew up really pretty and that is something I can completely get behind. So yeah, I'm all about Jareth watching over Toby when he gets older and realizing, wow, I have excellent taste in kidnap victims, go me. I'm there for Toby wondering if the super hot dude that's been stalking him really wants him or just his sister and the angst that comes from that. And really, I'm there for all the tight pants, sparkly jewelry, and dubious uses of magic the Labyrinth provides.
I'm fine with references to Jareth's relationship with Sarah, but I don't want it to be endgame - if he's in love with her at the beginning, I'd like him to have moved on by the end. Also, I would like Toby to be older before anything sexual happens - 16 up is fine.
General Tags:
There's a lot of fun that can be had here. I'm completely down for magic used for dubious purposes, but also for making people's lives happier. It might also be fun to see a more unearthly side of Jareth - humanity's just a game he plays at so what happens when he's bored with it? And of course, there's always the good old "wishing someone away to the Labyrinth," which is a good way of just getting in as many mind games and having to be saved from deadly traps as possible.
Specific Tags:
It's not that Jareth really wants to get married, but if it means keeping Toby for himself, well, look who just discovered an old tradition that they're just going to have to honor. Toby doesn't want the Labyrinth to wither away, now does he?
The fashion in this movie as amazing and I will never stop loving all the possibilities for even more elaborate attire. Also, Toby is so quaint with his concept of clothing having only specific people to wear it.
Because nothing is simple when it involves Jareth, even though with Toby, he really doesn't have to try that hard.
This is all Toby right here. Jareth's lounging around in leather pants and making suggestive comments, and of course, it's really hot, but it's not like he's being serious. I mean, he does that with everyone, right?
Yeah, Toby's never telling his sister about this one.
The Frankenstein Chronicles (TV)
John Marlott/Daniel Hervey
This show got me and it got me good right at the end of the first season when John's waking up from being dead and Daniel's just gazing at him in adoration, like he doesn't care that John's been trying to foil his plans this entire season (whether he knew it or not), because this is the best thing he could have ever done in his life and oh, he's just so lovely and perfect and hey, I cured your venereal disease while I was at it too! He's just so happy about it and meanwhile John is naked and thinking “I hate my life.” It's just so beautiful.
So give me mad science and corpse detectives that can see ghosts and creepy supernatural mysteries with answers that seem to tie back to people meddling with life after and death and above all, John and Daniel and their connection as creator and creation. I really loved how John is definitely older than Daniel, and yet Daniel is the one that takes on the role of father in many respects, being the one that brought him back to life.
I haven't really mentioned Jemima - I'm definitely fine with her being in the picture, whether as a living sister or a dead memory/ghost that haunts the two of them, but I would like the focus (and any romantic interaction if you go that way) to be on the two of them.
General Tags:
I'm completely down with getting as screwed-up here as you want to. The body horror in this show is pretty great, but there's always room for more. Give me Daniel just being so pleased with what he's done and deciding he's not quite done yet improving his creation? Or maybe John ends up on his table (Season 1/2 AU?) hurt and at his mercy, and Daniel is just so gentle, so kind, so utterly unwilling to let him go without proper payment.
Specific Tags:
Daniel wins and John never escapes or is recaptured. But he's invested too much in his creation, so he's just going to have to John it's in his best interest to cooperate.
Morally dubious science that backfires against those that use it? Who would have thought? Also, Daniel as mad doctor forced to flee England and John is hapless shipwrecked survivor that falls afoul of his plans? Yes, please.
I'm definitely cool with some sort of greater evil plot, where neither one of them is terribly happy that they have to work together (well, maybe Daniel is), and at some point, it's pitch black and there's screaming and John is going to make sure they both get out of this if only so he can murder Daniel later...
Oh, I have no idea how you'd work out the difference in time periods, but I'd be willing to completely handwave any explanation because these two would mesh so well together.
Daniel just wants his creation to know how absolutely gorgeous he is. John doesn't have a choice.
This is why you don't raise the dead - it just leads to really uncomfortable moments when all you want to do is sleep.
Original Work
Male Head of Assassin School/Male Former Protege He Blackmailed Into Teaching (OW)
Right, so this started when I thought, whenever I see things where there are schools for assassins, the viewpoint is always from the students, which is fine but kind of boring after a while. And I realized that I always wondered okay, so what about someone teaching there? Were they a student in the past? Why aren't they currently killing people instead of teaching? Do they have their certification to work with minors and who licenses them? Most importantly, do they have sex on a desk with the head of the school, prompted by differing opinions on curriculum and overwhelming sexual chemistry?
If they hooked up when the protege was younger, I'd just ask that he be at least 16, but otherwise, I have no problem with the teacher/student dynamic here. They're assassins so I'm pretty sure the school's lax on those sort of things anyhow.
General Tags:
Look, I have this iddy thing where there's a teacher at the school (or maybe he hasn't even been hired yet) who didn't really want to be one. Oh, he loves his students and is secretly proud when they successfully don't die and graduate, but shit, he just wanted to lead a normal life until the headmaster dragged him back to the school so they could be badass teacher/assassins who are just the worst at dealing with feelings.
Specific Tags:
The protege is about to be married to someone terrible (well, more terrible) and his mentor is like, hey, it turns out there was some extra money in the budget. Also, you have to teach classes now to repay me, but you're fine with that, right?
Being the leading school of assassination comes with its own problems. The headmaster just wants to get laid, and if he has to bring about the end of a few tyrants, a secret government organization, and maybe a rival assassination school to do so, then that's just what's going to have to happen.
Seriously, though, the school can't be all murder and intrigue. At some point, they do have to have basic math skills. Also, how does the textbook industry work here? I'm pretty sure Pearson and Cengage haven't cornered the market yet in this field.
Maybe they've been sleeping together for some time and the headmaster keeps trying to find a way to make it more permanent. Naturally, blackmail! (No one said these characters had reasonable ways of dealing with their issues).
DNWs:
- No permanent nominated character death - characters can be near death, mistakenly thought dead, or supernatural beings brought to undead life through curses, magic, or people commiting acts of dubious science, but I want them to be consciously aware and capable of physically interacting with the world (no ghosts of nommed characters, please). Also, death of any characters not nominated is fine - that includes characters in the tagset that I didn't choose.
- No animal harm, extreme underage, bodily fluids (blood is fine). For things like The Frankenstein Chronicles and my Original Work request, I'm fine with some gore/bloody violence since it's part and parcel of them.
- No focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters. I'm fine with minor characters being paired off (including canon parents of characters) and references to past canon relationships are fine, as long as characters aren't wishing they were with someone else instead - exception made for Labyrinth, since I'm fine with some pining as long as the nominated pairing realize they want to be with each other by the end.
僕だけがいない街 | Boku dake ga Inai Machi | ERASED (Anime & Manga)
Fujinuma Satoru/Yashiro Gaku
I'm all in it for mind games and manipulation and dysfunctional relationships that shouldn't work but do. I love the weird age gap dynamic of "old enough to be my father" except there's also time travel involved so things get messy. I love the whole part where Yashiro feels completely empty until he fails to kill Satoru and actually stops kidnapping and murdering because he's too busy shaving Satoru's face and cutting apples for him. Most of all, I just really love the idea of neither one of them being able to completely change the other - Yashiro will probably always be a sociopath and Satoru can't stop trying to save people.
Please don't make this too bleak and realistic - it's a dark canon, but it's one where I appreciate a little black humor to it. I'd like Yashiro to also have some manipulative ambiguity; please don't make him nothing but a psychotic monster. And I would prefer not to see Satoru paired with other characters, since it's not why I'm really drawn to this fandom. Also, I definitely want Satoru at least physically a teenager for anything sexual - 16 up is fine, but nothing younger please.
General Tags:
- Abduction as Seduction
- Alternate Universe - Bad Guy(s) Win
- Character's Terrible Attempts At Flirting Are Also Real Murder Threats
- Enemies to Lovers - Forced to rely on the enemy
- Enemy openly admits to being in love with the hero; hero doesn't know how they feel about this
- Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual)
- Hurt/Comfort - helping weakened character bathe,
Yeah, anything where Yashiro gets away with his crimes is A+ in my book. Does he take Satoru before the coma? During? After the rooftop? There are just so many delicious possibilities for creepy caretaking and threats against other people. Honestly, Yashiro is trying his best. He can't help it if his wooing skills are terrible and also involve a lot of "Don't you ever leave me."
Specific Tags:
- Accidental Soulbond - Unsuccessfully trying to fight it
- Noncon - to claim (soulbond/omegaverse/forced marriage)
You know Yashiro would end up being overjoyed by it, while Satoru would be like "Fuck my life." But hey if it keeps the murder rate down...
- Alternate Universe - Boarding School
Yashiro's still a teacher, but now he has access to Satoru 24/7. What fun!
- Alternate Universe - Unrelated Characters Now Related and in Incestuous Relationship
I'm sorry, Sachiko, but it's something I thought of ever since Satoru wished Yashiro was his father.
- AU-A Was Child B's Closet Monster; Now Adult B Doesn't Recognize A Who Is Pretending To Be Human
- Eldritch abomination/monster aggressively pursues human who doesn't know how to feel about it
- never make a deal with the fae
There is just so much potential here for fun supernatural stalking. Yashiro would be the type to hide under Satoru's bed just to screw with him and then when Satoru leaves? Well, shit, time to get that human body in order. Alternately, Satoru's mother falls ill and wow, was it a terrible idea to trust his teacher.
- Stuck in a Blizzard (TOGETHER)
- Trapped together - snowed in
Taking off wet clothes! Huddling for warmth! Realizing you're trapped with a kiler and his hands are going in unexpected places!
- Time Travel Aftermath - Return To Present Results In Being Accidental Married to Unexpected Person
Satoru's not entirely sure the latest Revival led to this, and to be honest, neither are his friends. Yashiro's just sad he didn't get to have a proper wedding.
Labyrinth (1986)
Jareth/Toby Williams
Look, the cover of the manga sequel to the movie showed me that Toby grew up really pretty and that is something I can completely get behind. So yeah, I'm all about Jareth watching over Toby when he gets older and realizing, wow, I have excellent taste in kidnap victims, go me. I'm there for Toby wondering if the super hot dude that's been stalking him really wants him or just his sister and the angst that comes from that. And really, I'm there for all the tight pants, sparkly jewelry, and dubious uses of magic the Labyrinth provides.
I'm fine with references to Jareth's relationship with Sarah, but I don't want it to be endgame - if he's in love with her at the beginning, I'd like him to have moved on by the end. Also, I would like Toby to be older before anything sexual happens - 16 up is fine.
General Tags:
- Abduction as Seduction
- Character A tilting character B's chin up with the tip of a sword
- Curses & Spells
- Dubcon - Character is restrained by magical vines
- Eldritch abomination/monster aggressively pursues human who doesn't know how to feel about it
- Magic gives character(s) infinite nice things and/or permanently makes things better
- never make a deal with the fae
- Pampering - with gifts
- Ritual Sex Magic
There's a lot of fun that can be had here. I'm completely down for magic used for dubious purposes, but also for making people's lives happier. It might also be fun to see a more unearthly side of Jareth - humanity's just a game he plays at so what happens when he's bored with it? And of course, there's always the good old "wishing someone away to the Labyrinth," which is a good way of just getting in as many mind games and having to be saved from deadly traps as possible.
Specific Tags:
- Accidental Marriage - Due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
It's not that Jareth really wants to get married, but if it means keeping Toby for himself, well, look who just discovered an old tradition that they're just going to have to honor. Toby doesn't want the Labyrinth to wither away, now does he?
- Crossdressing - Enthusiastically Consenting Crossdressing
- Masked Ball As An Excuse for Inadvisable Sex
- One character wearing the other's clothes leads to feelings realisation
The fashion in this movie as amazing and I will never stop loving all the possibilities for even more elaborate attire. Also, Toby is so quaint with his concept of clothing having only specific people to wear it.
- Getting Together - But Involving an Elaborate Seduction Plot
Because nothing is simple when it involves Jareth, even though with Toby, he really doesn't have to try that hard.
- Pining - Character A thinks B isn't serious about them despite heavy flirting and subsequently pines
- Pining - One character thinks the other is unbearably hot but entirely unattainable
- Pining - One character thinks the other only wants them as a substitute for someone else
This is all Toby right here. Jareth's lounging around in leather pants and making suggestive comments, and of course, it's really hot, but it's not like he's being serious. I mean, he does that with everyone, right?
- Soulmates - Physically Accurate Sex Dreams of Soulmate Start at Puberty
Yeah, Toby's never telling his sister about this one.
The Frankenstein Chronicles (TV)
John Marlott/Daniel Hervey
This show got me and it got me good right at the end of the first season when John's waking up from being dead and Daniel's just gazing at him in adoration, like he doesn't care that John's been trying to foil his plans this entire season (whether he knew it or not), because this is the best thing he could have ever done in his life and oh, he's just so lovely and perfect and hey, I cured your venereal disease while I was at it too! He's just so happy about it and meanwhile John is naked and thinking “I hate my life.” It's just so beautiful.
So give me mad science and corpse detectives that can see ghosts and creepy supernatural mysteries with answers that seem to tie back to people meddling with life after and death and above all, John and Daniel and their connection as creator and creation. I really loved how John is definitely older than Daniel, and yet Daniel is the one that takes on the role of father in many respects, being the one that brought him back to life.
I haven't really mentioned Jemima - I'm definitely fine with her being in the picture, whether as a living sister or a dead memory/ghost that haunts the two of them, but I would like the focus (and any romantic interaction if you go that way) to be on the two of them.
General Tags:
- Aftermath of Non-Consensual Body Modification
- Body Horror
- Body modification - Body modified to increase recipient’s capacity for pleasure
- Enemies to Lovers - An enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted
- Enemies to Lovers - Forced to rely on the enemy
- Enemy openly admits to being in love with the hero; hero doesn't know how they feel about this
- Medical - Initially (pseudo-)serious examination or treatment turns sexual
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- This Is for Your Own Good
- Washing Off The Blood Of Your Enemies In A Sexy Way
I'm completely down with getting as screwed-up here as you want to. The body horror in this show is pretty great, but there's always room for more. Give me Daniel just being so pleased with what he's done and deciding he's not quite done yet improving his creation? Or maybe John ends up on his table (Season 1/2 AU?) hurt and at his mercy, and Daniel is just so gentle, so kind, so utterly unwilling to let him go without proper payment.
Specific Tags:
- Alternate Universe - Bad Guy(s) Win
- Captivity - villain courts reluctant love interest with luxuries,
Daniel wins and John never escapes or is recaptured. But he's invested too much in his creation, so he's just going to have to John it's in his best interest to cooperate.
- Alternate Universe - Island of Dr. Moreau Fusion
Morally dubious science that backfires against those that use it? Who would have thought? Also, Daniel as mad doctor forced to flee England and John is hapless shipwrecked survivor that falls afoul of his plans? Yes, please.
- Characters Team Up To Investigate Something Paranormal/Supernatural
- Trapped in darkness with monsters
I'm definitely cool with some sort of greater evil plot, where neither one of them is terribly happy that they have to work together (well, maybe Daniel is), and at some point, it's pitch black and there's screaming and John is going to make sure they both get out of this if only so he can murder Daniel later...
- Crossover: same-canon ship gets together during adventure in Penny Dreadful’s 1890’s London
Oh, I have no idea how you'd work out the difference in time periods, but I'd be willing to completely handwave any explanation because these two would mesh so well together.
- Noncon - rapist takes care of victim after raping them
- Noncon - Victim Treated Lovingly ×
Daniel just wants his creation to know how absolutely gorgeous he is. John doesn't have a choice.
- Resurrection - leads to accidental soul bond
This is why you don't raise the dead - it just leads to really uncomfortable moments when all you want to do is sleep.
Original Work
Male Head of Assassin School/Male Former Protege He Blackmailed Into Teaching (OW)
Right, so this started when I thought, whenever I see things where there are schools for assassins, the viewpoint is always from the students, which is fine but kind of boring after a while. And I realized that I always wondered okay, so what about someone teaching there? Were they a student in the past? Why aren't they currently killing people instead of teaching? Do they have their certification to work with minors and who licenses them? Most importantly, do they have sex on a desk with the head of the school, prompted by differing opinions on curriculum and overwhelming sexual chemistry?
If they hooked up when the protege was younger, I'd just ask that he be at least 16, but otherwise, I have no problem with the teacher/student dynamic here. They're assassins so I'm pretty sure the school's lax on those sort of things anyhow.
General Tags:
- "Oh No They're Even Hotter Now"
- Antagonistic Sex - 'Make Me'
- Character A Nonverbally Expresses Their Affection for Character B Who is Oblivious
- Character's Attempts At Murder Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Flirting
- Character's Attempts At Flirting Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Attempted Murder
- Competence - highly effective teamwork,
- Competence Kink - Character is extremely impressed proud&supportive of another character's skills
- Enemies to Lovers - A flirts by killing B's enemies
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- Love Confessions - BECAUSE I LOVE YOU- Oops I didn't mean to say that out loud
- Loyalty Kink - Risking Self For Someone
- Roaring Rampage of Rescue,
- Suit Porn
- Trust Kink
- Unapologetically Terrible People Being Unapologetically Terrible
- Washing Off The Blood Of Your Enemies In A Sexy Way
Look, I have this iddy thing where there's a teacher at the school (or maybe he hasn't even been hired yet) who didn't really want to be one. Oh, he loves his students and is secretly proud when they successfully don't die and graduate, but shit, he just wanted to lead a normal life until the headmaster dragged him back to the school so they could be badass teacher/assassins who are just the worst at dealing with feelings.
Specific Tags:
- Arranged Marriage - Contract Bought Out By Someone Else
The protege is about to be married to someone terrible (well, more terrible) and his mentor is like, hey, it turns out there was some extra money in the budget. Also, you have to teach classes now to repay me, but you're fine with that, right?
- If I Must Solve A Dozen Geopolitical Problems Just To Have Sex With You Then I Will
Being the leading school of assassination comes with its own problems. The headmaster just wants to get laid, and if he has to bring about the end of a few tyrants, a secret government organization, and maybe a rival assassination school to do so, then that's just what's going to have to happen.
- Overly detailed depictions of teaching minutiae/pedagogy
Seriously, though, the school can't be all murder and intrigue. At some point, they do have to have basic math skills. Also, how does the textbook industry work here? I'm pretty sure Pearson and Cengage haven't cornered the market yet in this field.
- Pining - Characters develop (mutual) romantic feelings while having a casual sex arrangement ×
Maybe they've been sleeping together for some time and the headmaster keeps trying to find a way to make it more permanent. Naturally, blackmail! (No one said these characters had reasonable ways of dealing with their issues).