escritoireazul

Dear Trick or Treat Creator,

It’s my favorite time of year: horror and Halloween and fall weather and Trick or Treat.

Below, I provide Do Not Wants and general likes, then go into why I like specific fandoms and characters and provide some prompts. If there is a discrepancy between the DNWs and general likes and the fandom-specific information, go with the fandom-specific information. Mixing and matching fandoms and prompts more than welcome, as is making any prompt a trick or a treat.

My absolute favorite things: werewolves, crossovers and alternate universes, and monsters and magic.

I requested fic and tricks and treats. For the freeform tags: I am interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don’t fit my requests. You may ignore my art/fic preferences for extra gifts.

My AO3 name is also escritoireazul.

General Likes

+ stories about women, including f/f, gen, and het
+ werewolves, werewolf packs as families, and werewolf alternate universes in any canon
+ Halloween and horror movies, particularly horror movie alternate universes in any canon
+ chosen families and adoption stories where adoption is treated as totally normal, adoption and chosen families = real families, and the adoption is not a BIG DRAMATIC SECRET
+ alternate universes, a non-exhaustive list: werewolves, witches and witch hunters, IN SPACE, horror movies, haunted summer camps, ghost hunters (including this state-mandated idea), portal fantasies, monsters, canon divergence, weird west/wild west (I particularly like the outlaw feel of it, untamed and wild, big spaces with nowhere to hide, big woods claustrophobic around you, danger at every turn, as long as the AU avoids the magical Indian/savage Indian/white savior bullshit that can show up in weird west and westerns in general)
+ polyam families, threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, in all configurations (Vs, triangles, dodecahedrons)
+ monsters of the week, casefic, adventure stories, mysteries
+ friends and family teaming up to save the world, particularly on road trips
+ crossovers and fusions so long as my requested characters are the main characters
+ tropes, a non-exhaustive list: wilderness survival, huddling for warmth, forced proximity, friends to lovers, enemies to friends (to lovers), there’s only one bed oh no, fake dating, survival horror, abandoned ships, burial at sea, burial by fire, crashed on a deserted island, ghost ships, not-so-safe harbour, locked-room mysteries, came back wrong
+ kink (female top/dom only except for biting and bloodplay): biting, light bondage, impact play, rough body play, bloodplay for supernatural characters, fireplay, marking, sensory overload, orgasm denial/control, pegging

Do Not Wants

+ characters dealing with racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, fat hate, or ableism within the story
+ character bashing or villainizing
+ rape, non-con, and dub-con
+ embarrassment/humiliation
+ animal cruelty or death (except for Tricks where it would be appropriate for farm animals or wild animals to be harmed by a non-human monster -- no matter what, though, no harm to dogs)
+ permanent character death for my requested characters
+ incest
+ big age difference in romantic relationships (except for supernatural characters), particularly an older man/younger woman
+ a/b/o or werewolf stories with Big Tough Alpha Male tropes
+ pregnancy, including mpreg
+ spiders, especially in art

Requests

There are spoilers below for each of my requests, which are:

Criminal Minds: Penelope Garcia
Hobbs & Shaw (2019): Hattie Shaw, Samantha Hobbs, Sefina Hobbs
In Other Lands | Turn of the Story - Sarah Rees Brennan: Louise Sunborn
The Nasty at Bellua - Danny Lore: Kareem, Javier
Rampage (2018): Kate Caldwell
United States of Asgard - Tessa Gratton: Astrid Glyn, Glory | Fenris Wolf, Signy Valborn

Criminal Minds: Penelope Garcia

What I Like About the Source Material:

My favorite part of Criminal Minds is how the main characters become a family and how the show leans hard into that especially, it seems, in the last few seasons. I love the current team make-up and dynamic. I love when the cases are interesting without feeling exploitative and/or ripped from the headlines.

Mostly, I love Penelope Garcia.

I love how she is a literal and figurative pop of color for them in a world that is often dark and gray. I love how smart she is and how she can track down the information they need and usually in a snap. I love how she teams up with the others when she doesn’t know what to look for and how she never takes their suggestions as criticism but as teamwork. I love how she loves the rest of the team, individually and as a group, and how she tries to do little things to make them happy, particularly when they’re in the middle of or coming back from a difficult case.

Prompts:

Case fic! There’s an episode in one of the earlier seasons that uses “Wolf Like Me” by TV On the Radio in the opening, and if they’re going to use an actual song about werewolves, how can anyone be surprised when I want werewolves in a case? Or other mysteries, supernatural or not: ghost stories, impossible murders, finding and rescuing someone in a short amount of time.

Slice of life! Garcia holding one of her holiday gatherings for the team, this time including Alvez. Throwing surprise celebrations (that engagement surprise party turned out pretty great, after all). What happens in the down time between cases. How Garcia reconnects with her (non-team) family.

Survival! We’ve already seen one beautiful case in Alaska and how isolated it was, how tight-knit the community, how Garcia threw herself into trying to help someone even when it put her in danger. Getting stuck somewhere remote and having to rely on the people with her to survive, because she’s not really the outdoorsy type. Haunted house or summer camp or old building or car or spaceship. Chased by monsters.

AUs! Garcia is a genius with spaceships! Solving mysteries from planet to planet. What sort of investigatory teams do they send out in space? Team as werewolf pack! Monster hunters of a more supernatural sort.

Love and romance and sex! I ship Garcia and Luke Alvez like burning: her prickly slow acceptance, the way they snark at each other, how they work together so well even while still being snarky and sharp and flirtatious, Garcia leaping to the wrong ideas and then being adorable in her apologies (I love the stuff with Roxy in the beginning, for example), how they’ve both shown they’re willing to push, if not completely blow up, the lines of legality and the restrictions of the job in order to do what they believe is morally and ethically right -- I love all that and their snark and their banter and their sparks.

I also ship Garcia/Morgan, Garcia/Morgan/Savannah, Garcia/Spencer/JJ, and one big polyam family, but mostly I love how they all love each other so much, the team as it is, the team members who are gone -- they are a family in however you want to define that term, and I love them for it.

Hobbs & Shaw (2019): Hattie Shaw, Samantha Hobbs, Sefina Hobbs

What I Like About the Source Material:

I have loved the Fast and the Furious series since the very first movie came out because even then it touched on one of my favorite tropes, chosen family (team as family) and from about the third movie on, they’ve been all-in for that theme.

I knew I’d love this spinoff the second I saw in the trailers that this was going full on sci-fi with the super soldier treatment on top of the whole family thing, and I loved it even more than I thought possible. Luke and Deckard have great chemistry, snark and anger and slowly learning to work together, and slowly becoming family themselves, and Hattie Shaw was amazing, smart and physically brutal and obsessed with differentiating herself from her family in similar ways as Luke.

And Luke going home, both to make his last stand and then to bring Samantha to meet more of her family, that got to me in my feelings place. The rest of the Hobbs family rising up to help even when they’re angry with Luke, even when they’re furious that he’s brought this threat to their home, that was everything to me. And Luke embracing his heritage, using that to fight Brixton and his team of mercenaries, that was powerful both in-universe and meta level.

(Other meta-level things: Joe Anoa’i’s character Mateo using a spear and a Samoan drop during the battle; two of my favorite wrestling moves from one of my favorite wrestlers. Dwayne Johnson bring in his family to be a part of the family story and other great casting. Surprise!Ryan Reynolds playing Locke like a kind of Deadpool character and turning this into Fast and the Furious meets Deadpool in ways that I love.)

The two big things I don’t like are: Hattie was the only woman who got to do a lot, which is an ongoing complaint I have with the Fast and the Furious series, too, though even they have more women at this point. Deckard being accepted into the team after he killed Han. NEVER FORGET NEVER FORGIVE. I try hard to ignore that retcon, because I love the character in Hobbs and Shaw, and I love the dynamic he brings to both teams, but HE KILLED HAN HOW CAN TEAM TORETTO EVER FORGET THAT?! Ahem.

Prompts:

Chosen family! Luke and Samantha connecting with their family, both this reconnecting with the Hobbs family on the island and Samantha getting to know the Shaws, because by god, they’re family too. Queenie getting out of prison and snarking her way through her new family. Hattie and Samantha endlessly entertained by Luke and Deckard’s sharp-edge and funny communication. Sefina dealing with her family coming home, taking in these people who have been absent and who were actual strangers alike, opening her home to them, making it their home.

Adventures! Samantha helps out on a job, either as a kid or as she gets older. More saving the world for the Shaw and Hobbs families. Team Hobbs leaves the island and takes their heritage and family and hope with them. Team Hobbs and Team Shaw have to join up with Team Toretto for some adventure, big or small. Heists!

Sci-Fi! We’ve got super soldiers in the universe now, what else is out there? Murderous robots? AIs run amok? Creatures created using science and then breaking free from that control? Science opening ways to bring monsters and monstrous creatures into the world. Hell, this leads us into…

Crossovers and Fusions! Monsters from the deep: hello The Meg crossover! Locke: hello Deadpool crossover! Super soldiers: hello MCU crossover! Chosen family saving the world: hello Supernatural fusion and Buffy the Vampire Slayer fusion and etc.

AUs: In addition to supernatural monsters being real in this world (or the sci-fi equivalent thereof), this movie lends itself really well to both Weird West and IN SPACE AUs. Going rogue to save the universe. Fighting without more technologically advanced weapons. Bringing the battle home. Bringing the battle away from highly populated areas. Whatever the spaceship version of street racing is.

In Other Lands | Turn of the Story - Sarah Rees Brennan: Louise Sunborn

What I Like About the Source Material:

I’m repeating myself, but my favorite thing about this story is the chosen family aspect. From Elliot, Serene, and Luke banding together during all their training and adventures to the way the Sunborn clan embraces Luke’s friends wholeheartedly, to the way people team up even when they aren’t close friends, I love the ways people choose to work together and in that become a family.

Elliot, Serene, and Luke’s story feels complete, though I am a little curious about their adventures as adults. What I’m particularly interested in is Louise, Luke’s amazing warrior older sister who lives loud, and laughs often, and fucks a lot. She’s described early on as a golden lioness, and she’s glorious.

Prompts:

Adventures! Louise goes off to fight in the book itself, but she’s had plenty of experience before that, too, and seems to have a solid group of friends as family herself. What adventures did they get up to before Elliot came to shake up their world? What was her training like? How’d she handle her first battle? What sort of silly, fun things do her friends do when they don’t have to be serious warriors? Does she, too, end up fighting alongside the elves, with a swordsister of her own (and all the physical closeness that can imply)? The harpies are lion-sized eagles, and Louise's younger brother ends up being part harpy. Does she go off with Luke to have all sorts of adventures with the harpies as he learns to adjust?

Magic and monsters! This is already a world with both magic and monsters in it. Louise the lion shifter! Louise fighting alongside great talking beasts. Are werewolves good or bad or inbetween in this world?

Meet the mundane world! Late in the book, the mundane world starts to encroach on their world, including weapons like guns. Modern guns don’t work so well, but what if older guns do? What if mundane world comes armed, led by the people who can cross the wall but chose not to stay and learn to fight to save the realm? Does Louise cross over to the mundane world as an envoy? Does the fight go into that world? Is there a peaceful way to resolve things?

Love and romance and sex! I ship Louise with pretty much anyone ever, including women with swords from other fandoms (particularly those from Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series).

The Nasty at Bellua - Danny Lore: Kareem, Javier

What I Like About the Source Material:

WEREWOLVES! IN! SPACE! It's a short story available for free online that was also turned into an episode of the Nightlight Podcast (which is a great podcast and I highly recommend it). Basically, a team is exploring a planet when they get attacked by a creature they call the Nasty, once it's dead it's brought onto the ship for study, and changes start happening to Kareem and Javier. It is wonderful.

Prompts:

Worldbuilding! Where are the other nasties in space? What are other ships dealing with when it comes to them? Are they spread across other planets? Do different alien peoples have different ways of handling them?

WEREWOLVES. IN. SPACE.

Missing Scenes! I'm happy with stories about either Kareem or Javier because they are both dealing with the thing I love best about the story (becoming a werewolf in space). There's a bit of a time skip toward the end of the story, which opens things up to the many, many times one or both of them hunted the other crew members through an enclosed space or fought each other for space or cycled through human and back to space werewolf. Where are people hiding? Do some of them fight back? There's a robust science section on the ship, are there people looking for a cure?

At the end, the ship is going to be boarded by a rescue squad; Kareem knows he won't be able to explain to them why they can't take him off the ship, or Javier if he's even alive, and in the end, knows that the way to make sure no one leaves the ship alive is just to wait for the next change. Unprepared rescue crew + space werewolves + trapped in a ship. Hiding and running and fighting and all sorts of nastiness.

Future! What if Kareem and/or Javier end up on another planet? Back on Earth? On another ship, kept in seclusion until something goes terribly wrong? Is there a way to cure it or control it eventually? Are there others out there who will come looking for them? Other people who were bitten and left the planet?

WEREWOLVES. IN. SPACE. There's so much potential there, and I would read all the stories.

Rampage (2018): Kate Caldwell

What I Like About the Source Material:

This movie is ridiculous and yet I love it. My favorite parts are how Davis is tough but has such a soft spot for animals, particularly George, and how Kate is smart and driven to do what’s right and get revenge for what happened before. I love how Kate, Davis, and George team up to save the world and how much ridiculous science plays a part.

Shallowly, Harvey sauntering all over the place with his hips thrust forward and his flirtatious lounging is the best.

Prompts:

Adventures! Kate teaming up with Davis (and maybe Harvey, too) in order to stop more Evil People Abusing Science! Kate and Davis and George finding more ways to save the world. Kate creating new things via science and keeping them out of bad guys’ hands. More giant creatures rampaging across the wilderness!

AUs! IN SPACE! The movie already starts in space because that’s where experiments are being done. Kate hunting monsters throughout the universe! Kate and Davis and Harvey on a spaceship! Harvey the lawman chasing Kate and Davis the renegade space pirates. Supernatural monsters are real. Trapped in the wilderness and fighting to survive (wilderness may be on an alien planet). Haunted forests and spaceships.

Chosen family! Kate and Davis are both very alone at the start of the movie. I want to see more of a family they create together (and with George) and how two solitary people make things work now that they have more people in their lives (platonically or romantically).

Crossovers! Dwayne Johnson is in E V E R Y T H I N G, and a lot of them work as crossovers. Jumanji and surviving a very different type of wild creature there. Fast and the Furious/Hobbs & Shaw and adrenaline chasing in all new ways. The Mummy and adventures in the desert with the kinds of creatures that get released there.

Love and romance and sex! I ship Kate/Davis and Kate/Davis/Harvey. Tropes here would be great. Trapped in a cabin. Three people one bed. Forced proximity in other ways, e.g., handcuffed together. Wooing without the person being wooed realizing it at first. Kate topping the hell out of Davis or Davis and Harvey together.

United States of Asgard - Tessa Gratton: Astrid Glyn, Glory | Fenris Wolf, Signy Valborn

What I Like About the Source Material:

I love the different journeys these characters go on through this world where the Norse gods are real and present in modern-day life. I love the world Gratton built, the way the gods both are and are not involved in the human world, how they can and cannot be trusted, how the world has changed because the gods are real and active and what that changed about the history of the USA.

Mostly, though, I love the characters. They are young and strong and weak and fierce, afraid and brave and driven, loved and loving, and, always, hungry to make the world better in whatever way that means to them. I love all of these characters, and would love to see their adventures, together and apart.

One thing I hate is the treatment of the indigenous people and [lack of] characters; though there are a handful of references to what happened when the Norse gods and their followers came over, mostly they are erased from the narrative, with the exception of Soren’s Pacific Islander ancestry.

Prompts:

Crossovers and alternate universes! Weird West -- there’s already monsters and magic and gods and great swaths of wilderness lost to the trolls! IN SPACE! The easy crossovers are with other fandoms that have werewolves (Glory + all other werewolves ever, please and thank you) or that have Norse mythology somewhere in them, but all sorts of crossovers would work.

Adventures! Though there are guns and more modern weapons, a lot of fighting is still done with swords, battle axes, steel weapons. I would love to see more of that, the way they fight holmgang instead of going to court, to protect their honor, to protect someone else’s. There are caravans and carnivals of Loki followers, rife with adventures and ghosts.

Astrid Glyn:

The thing I love most about Astrid is that she weaves herself back into the strands of fate after she’s been pulled from them to become Idun. She makes her own fate, and gives herself adventures, and finds a way to be both a goddess and a girl.

Missing scenes! Astrid spent a lot of time with her mother before her mother disappeared. Roadtrips! Seething together! What life was like in the Lokiskin camps and carnivals. How Astrid learned to harness her power and see the future. What she sees for the future after the series once she weaves herself back into the world, visceral and dangerous and amazing.

Slice of life! How does she make life work, being both a goddess and a girl. She finds a way for Idun to publicly love the Sun’s Berserk, the same way that Astrid loves Soren, but that changes a lot of things for them. How do their lives, together and apart, look now? Astrid is interested in making Idun more available to the public; does she ever manage that? What sort of adventures does she get up to now that she is maybe not quite so tied to her orchard but also accepts that she wants to be there with her trees?

Love and romance and sex! I ship Astrid and Soren hard, and would love to see more of them together during any of the books or after, the way they build their lives together, a girl goddess and a very public berserker who would rather not be public at all. I also ship the two of them with Baldur, both during the first book, when he is mortal and gentled without his memories, but also after, when he’s back to being his glorious, flirtatious, overwhelming self. While I love any two of them together as well as all three, the core of this for me is how Astrid and Soren love each other, and I prefer that reflected no matter what else is going on. Astrid has a stream of gods and goddesses who come through her orchard and become close to her, as friends and as lovers. I’d love to see the friendships/lovers Astrid builds now that she’s determined not to lock herself away from the world. What does it look like, for a goddess who is also a girl to be friends with the gods? She and Glory spark off each other, and Glory is, for a long time, forbidden from Astrid’s orchard because of her hunger. Astrid opens her orchard to all, including the elf-as-a-trollmother, and I would love to see more of that in the future, and Glory being welcomed, too.

Glory | Fenris Wolf:

Glory is basically a werewolf, and she’s fated to devour the sun and signal Ragnarok. She’s bound to teenage girl shape, and her hunger rages unchecked. She is amazing.

Adventures! Glory’s been alive a long, long time, and I would love to see the different ways the world looks to her at different times. She’s seen the rise and fall of countries, the changes to the ways the valkyries get to be valkyries, Soren becoming the first berserker in New Asgard history to swear to a god other than Odin; she’s seen and she’s done and she’s become bored of so many things. What sparked her interest, historically? What will catch her eye in the future? What does it look like, when she finally breaks free of her chains and devours Baldur, the sun?

Sex! She’s viciously sexual and violent and only lets the people she’s going to fight or fuck call her Fenris. Her hunger rages in all things. Show me these moments, painful, hot, dangerous, fucking and fighting, violence in the sex. Who does she fuck or fight? What does it take for a human to draw her attention? Soren intrigues her, but who else and what else can (even if only temporarily) sate her hunger? In short: vicious, violent, sexual, basically-a-god werewolf.

Signy Valborn:

Signy is pretty much the most brutal human character in the series, and far more brutal than even a lot of the gods as they are. She fights hard to prove herself as a Valkyrie, and she writes her rage into battle and blood and poetry, and she loves and hates in equal measure.

Adventures! We get to see her quest to take the heart of troll mother to earn her place. This involves brutal training and terrible, vicious fights that nearly kill her more than once and leave many of the people she loves dead. She wants to bring back the brutal, bloody, death-filled ways of the Valkyries of old. What else does she do to fight that? With what she’s learned, does she find new ways to convince people to embrace this change? What fights does she get up to after? What does she hunt? She fights with Soren, with him and with him by her side. She loves the Berserkers, their anger and their hunger and their rage the same as her own. What does she hunt with bands of them, particularly as the trolls come back after The Apple Throne?

Love and romance and sex! I ship Signy and Glory, Signy and Soren, Signy and her band of Berserkers, and Signy with other angry, hungry, fierce women, in the series or crossovers.