Dear Yuletide Writer - 2021
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simplecoffeeHi there! Thank you so much for sharing my fandoms and for writing for me! <3 I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3.
So, the thing I love most in fanfic is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, in either a gen or a shippy way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. <3
I also love hurt/comfort with all my soul, so most of the prompts here will probably contain it to some degree.
I am here for any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship fic, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I like it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the lovin', I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D
I am super open to unconventional medium/narrative styles if you feel inspired to use them - outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, epistolary fic, framing devices such as mission reports, medical reports, audio transcripts/debrief transcripts, text messages or post-its between characters, news articles, even official documentation, are all amazing.
Navigation
> Likes & DNWs
> The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Jack Ryan
Bart Mancuso
Marko Ramius
> Days of Thunder (1990)
Claire Lewicki
Cole Trickle
> The Fugitive (1993)
Sam Gerard
Richard Kimble
> War of the Worlds (2005)
Ray Ferrier
> Collateral (2004)
Vincent
Max Durocher
Daniel Baker
(I am okay with not including all three, as long as Vincent is therein all his deeply fucked up glory)
> Minority Report (2002)
John Anderton
Likes & DNWs
General likes:
• Hurt/comfort of all stripes - sickfic, injuries, emotional h/c, all of it. (This is my favourite thing in all of fandom. Like, I absolutely live for it. ^^')
• Character studies, exploration of canon character dynamics, fallout of canon trauma
• PTSD, scars, illness messing with a character's grip on reality, combat/mission injuries, scars, old injuries acting up, touch starvation, sensory deprivation / sensory overload, characters not believing they deserve comfort or being surprised to receive comfort, selective mutism, hurting characters choking up at moments when they really need to speak (eg. leader unable to tell their worried team they're fine, submissive unable to safeword), stoic characters breaking down when faced with comfort, subdrop, characters bonding over trauma, characters so used to going through hell alone that they can't wrap their heads around someone wanting to help
• carrying, cuddling, characters wrapping ill/injured characters in soft blankets/clothes/their own jackets (especially jackets that are too big for them!), sweater paws, keeping characters warm, aftercare, forehead kisses, hands and touch
• Earned trust and casual intimacy (characters who know each other well or get to know each other well, clothes sharing, characters only allowing touch from people they trust, etc)
• Pain, bittersweetness, sadness, exploring the darker side and implications of canon is great, but I really need some happiness/comfort and hope along with it!
Sexual likes:
D/s overtones. Service subs. Subs With Issues. Praise kink. Hands, fingers, touch; touch starvation. Finger-sucking. Hair petting/brushing. Aftercare. Subdrop and recovery. Tenderness, especially if the person receiving it isn't expecting it, isn't used to it, and it breaks them just a little.
Marking - hickeys/bruising/bite marks; hiding the bruises under clothing. Scar worship. Suit/uniform kink. Partners reverently undressing each other. Wrists bound or held down. Honour bondage. Careful sex / making out when one partner is hurt or ill and feverish (fever sex is, uh, a Thing of mine). Gentleness, affection, emphasis on touch and texture/physical sensation (clothing porn is so very welcome!). Or rough, desperate, life-affirming sex/making out.
There are some fandoms where I like the sex a lot rougher; see the sections under Collateral and War of the Worlds. There are also prompts for dubcon and generally messed up sexual situations under these two, as well as Minority Report.
General DNWs:
• Mundane/depowered/setting change AUs
• Bleak, hopeless endings (as long as there's hope, bittersweet endings are more than fine!)
• Unrequested crossovers and fusions
• Unrequested non-canon background pairings
• Any mention of coronavirus or quarantine/lockdown situations
• Death of requested characters (even if they died in canon)
• Non-canonical character death
• Canon rehash
• Terminal illness
• Non-canonical permanent injury for The Shadow, The Hunt for Red October and Minority Report (to clarify, there are canonical major injuries in The Hunt for Red October and Minority Report that can be interpreted as permanent, and these are a-okay to address as permanent)
• Gastrointestinal illness (nausea/vomiting is okay but not as a focus of the work, and not as a result of GI discomfort - so character getting nauseous or throwing up from a migraine or just severe pain in general, yes; character getting nauseous or throwing up as a result of a severe anxiety attack or PTSD episode, yes; character suffering anything related to food poisoning or GI bugs or overeating and similar, no)
• Pregnancy, menstruation
• Kidfic
• Infidelity (this does not apply to Mr and Mrs Burgess in Minority Report)
Sexual DNWs:
• Noncon or dubcon, except where noted (see Minority Report, Oblivion and Collateral sections)
• humiliation as a kink, except where noted (see Oblivion and Vincent/Max in Collateral)
• gags of any kind (hand over mouth is okay for canons with prompts for dubcon and/or rougher sex like Minority Report, Collateral and Vika/Jack in Oblivion, but I would like it to trigger the character on the receiving end and for there to be some emotional fallout of it)
• anal, dirty talk, spanking, ageplay, scat, watersports, rimming, emeto, A/B/O, d/s-verse, mommy/daddy kink
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And now for some rambling about fandoms and character dynamics, lovely writer!
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Characters: Jack Ryan, Bart Mancuso, Marko Ramius
Ships: Jack/Ramius, Jack/Mancuso, Ramius/Mancuso, Jack/Ramius/Mancuso
Please no infidelity! (I'd like it if Cathy and Jack were never married - they just didn't work out, or were just friends with benefits for a while, and live separate lives while amiably raising their kid together)
I love this version of Jack Ryan so much! I love that he's a strategic expert and knows which hunches to play, but he's not a field agent and knows exactly Fuck All about field operations! I love every single character dynamic he has, especially the deeply promising ones he has with Ramius and Mancuso. I also love his backstory, his lingering PTSD and likely chronic pain from the spinal injury that ended his career as a Marine, and how he ploughs on regardless of how Very Much He Does Not Want To Be Ploughing On.
I really love the warmth of everything about this film - how deeply idealistic Jack and Ramius are, how Jack is an experienced analyst who knows a lot about strategy and history but absolutely nothing about operations (but still knows he has to try to get Ramius in alive), how Ramius makes sure to gain the trust of his officers about the terrible risk he's taking in defecting, how Mancuso's whole crew clearly loves and trusts him and admires him while he is so protective of them in return - indeed, how committed to duty Mancuso is, but how ready and willing to step up when Jack proves his orders wrong.
I love h/c for all my fandoms, but I particularly love it for this one. Jack and/or Mancuso as the hurt character would be great. I love the warmth of this film, and would love that warm atmosphere to carry over into fic. 💛 I'm very here for all kinds of softness and h/c, with Jack or Mancuso as the centre. (If you'd like some more ideas to bounce off of, here's my Hurt/Comfort Ex writeup on Jack; here's the one for Mancuso.)
Thoughts/prompts:
Jack, Ramius and Mancuso bonding post-film
I'd love to see these three getting to know each other better after the events of the film. I'm especially here for the differences between each dynamic, and how they all play off each other - Jack-Ramius, Ramius-Mancuso and Jack-Mancuso are all delightfully different axes, and whether it's friendship or eventual romance I would love to see how they all play out, and how they all form in the first place. Here are some prompts using the film as a jumping-off point:
• Cold and damp are not great for old injuries and chronic pain, and Jack's had a rough few days. When the action is over and Jack stays on the Red October (and later at a CIA safe house) as Ramius' security detail/fanboy in residence, he tries his best to hide how much he's hurting, but Ramius (and perhaps Mancuso, too) sees right through him, and takes care of him as best he can with the Red October's medical supplies.
• Ramius and Mancuso bonding over submarine nerdery and naval expertise, and slowly falling in love.
• Jack and Ramius going fishing, and getting to know each other, perhaps eventually intimately well.
• Jack and Mancuso striking up an acquaintance outside of the mission, and perhaps eventually falling in love.
• Jack and Ramius, and perhaps Mancuso too, spending some time together in a CIA safe house before debrief, and getting to know each other.
The evolution of their dynamics in the years afterward
I'm also here for what these characters are doing years down the line, what their inner lives are like.
• I'd love to see Mancuso's inner life, since we know less about him than the other two. What do Mancuso's quarters aboard the Dallas look like? What books does he have there, what photographs or paintings? (Are there eventually photos of him with Jack and/or Ramius? Does he take some of their clothes with him aboard, to sleep in?)
• Ramius and/or Mancuso getting to know about Jack's fear of flying, about the trauma response it is. One or both of them holding Jack's hand(s) on a plane, or holding him after a nightmare on the ground.
• Jack's back injury from the chopper crash acting up on cold or wet days, and Ramius and/or Mancuso looking after him with heating pads, medication and such. Jack having to learn to admit he's hurting, and Ramius and/or Mancuso making the effort to learn how to help him when he needs it.
• On a a cold and miserable day when Jack is hurting, Ramius and/or Mancuso coax him into a hot shower and cup his head against their shoulder while the warmth soaks into his back.
• Jack gets shot or otherwise badly hurt. Jack is not a field agent, was not on a field mission when he sustained the injury, and does not react to said injury like a field agent would. There's a great deal of medical trauma and pain, and Ramius and/or Mancuso are Absolutely Furious about it.
• Mancuso gets badly hurt or falls ill while on deployment. Jack and/or Ramius comfort him over the phone or via messages through the crew of the Dallas while he's laid up, or camp out by his bed if things get bad enough that he has to be taken to a hospital on shore, and make an enormous fuss of him and spoil him thoroughly when he gets home.
• Jack and Ramius spend more time together than they do with Bart, but when they do get to see him they're always sure to make him feel welcome (romantically or platonically).
Epistolary Fic Prompts
I really adore the idea of epistolary fic for this fandom! Here are some epistolary prompts:
• I'd love to see an article or an excerpt from a book that Jack wrote about Ramius, and/or one that he wrote about Mancuso. Either way, he's clearly in love with the subject - perhaps obliviously, or perhaps he's in a relationship with the subject and just can't talk about it in the article/book. (I'm envisioning it like, as dramatic as this post, for the record)
• Alternatively, this book extract or article coming to light years later when Jack is the President and Ramius and/or Mancuso is/are his husband/s, and the internet losing their entire minds over how head over heels President Ryan already was for his husband(s) way back around like, 1986-1996.
• Jack and/or Ramius writing to Mancuso while he's away aboard the Dallas, and Mancuso writing back. Maybe before they get together, maybe after, maybe both; hell, maybe that's how they fall in love in the first place.
• Ramius keeping a diary of his experiences in the New World, including his relationship with Jack and/or Mancuso.
• Jack or Mancuso stuck somewhere while sick or hurt, in unfamiliar surroundings (maybe Jack got hurt on another field mission he really shouldn't have been on, or fell ill on a book tour or exerted himself too much and is stuck in a hotel room with his back acting up, or Mancuso got injured or fell ill aboard the Dallas and had to be evacuated to an unfamiliar hospital), writing notes or letters to the object(s, could be the other of the two, could be Ramius) of their pining, all while possibly not entirely lucid. Maybe they read them back later and have some revelations about their feelings, maybe they eventually decide to send them after all, or maybe the intended recipient gets to read them years later instead, when they're happily together.
Further Shippy Thoughts
I love every ship on thisship submarine! Whether it's Jack/Ramius, Jack/Mancuso, Ramius/Mancuso or the whole triad, I would love Jack or Mancuso (or both) to get a whole lot of love and gentleness. Getting together, established relationship, G-rated caretaking to M- or E-rated loving, everything is wonderful. I'd love to see these characters look after one another, make room for one another in their lives, kiss and pet one another a lot, any time from right post-movie to years later, possibly with Jack getting into politics and eventually becoming the President with First Gentleman Ramius and/or Mancuso at his side.
I have a lot of feelings about the idea that Jack's back injury from the chopper crash might leave him in lasting pain that resurfaces on cold and wet days, and Ramius and/or Mancuso would learn how to help him through it. I also love the thought of Mancuso, as a career submariner, not having had many relationships and not being used to being comforted, and so that he'd be quietly overwhelmed when Jack and/or Ramius hug and pet him when he's exhausted, or when he's older and his hands start to hurt when it gets cold.
While I don't think these characters would get up to d/s shenanigans often - I see them mostly as sweet, intense vanilla - I am kind of destroyed by the soft-but-firm-d/s implications of the scene where Ramius presents Mancuso with the Red October. Ramius has enormous Dom Energy in general, especially with Jack, but that scene got me feeling things about Mancuso, who also has a lot of Dom Energy, being the only person in the world whom Ramius would submit to. This goes double because when we see Mancuso give orders on the Dallas, he gives them softly, gently, and everyone immediately leaps to obey; I'd love to see him have the same command style in the bedroom, especially if Jack is sick or hurt and feeling guilty about it and needs to be told to let himself be taken care of, or conversely, if Bart himself is mildly sick or hurt and needs to convince the others to stop worrying and kiss him already, damnit.
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Days of Thunder (1990)
Characters: Claire Lewicki, Cole Trickle
Ships: Cole/Claire
This request is the horniest one, okay, that's just how it is. Here for these two getting it on in all the ways. Super mega here for car kink and d/s. On the less horny side, I'm also very here for fluffy h/c, slice-of-life type stuff with them! When it comes to fluff, I'm not opposed to cameos from Harry or the Rowdy family too - I adore them all.
Claire/Cole sexy prompts
Soft d/s porn with Cole unquestioningly obeying every word Claire says, with lots of engine noise as the backdrop? Maybe some shibari or sensory deprivation or finger-sucking? Please? :D
I love how much softer and more sensible Cole is in bed than he is on the track, and how honest and emotionally healthy he and Claire are with each other in general. The dynamic I love for them is both of them being very eager to spoil each other rotten, each of them being incredibly gentle and kind toward the other while also sometimes liking it a little bit rough - Claire because she's playful and wants a little extra fun sometimes, and Cole because sometimes gentleness is Too Much and he'd rather be roughed up a bit so he doesn't have to confront the fact that Claire thinks he's worthy of being loved. So like, ranging from rough, quick and dirty to soft, slow, gentle and dirty.
D/s or no, I'm also generally super here for cars, and sexy times involving cars. Cole and Claire making out or making love in the adrenaline high after a race, or during other drivers' practice laps with cars roaring past the room or shed they're in. Heavy petting in Cole's racecar, or on the hood of it. Claire fucking Cole while they're parked somewhere secluded and he's ziptied to the steering wheel. Maybe Claire fucking Cole in a fancy limo they're given all to themselves as a ride to some event, being all gentle and laying his head down on the plush seat and riding him to overstimulation, or until he begs her to get rough with him. (Very into Claire undoing Cole with gentleness, and withholding roughness and pain until he's been good enough to earn it.) Cole fingering Claire or eating her out while he's blindfolded or in shibari, or just tied down or loosely tied round the neck with whatever she could find (ribbon, dressing gown or bathrobe waistband, bow tie on bare skin rather than around a shirt collar...)
Also super into clothing kink with these two (and definitely super into how much taller Claire is than Cole) - I'd love to see Claire wearing a suit when she appears at a formal press event with Cole, and him delightedly undressing her afterwards, inch by inch, item by item of clothing (possibly with her telling him what to take off and exactly how). I'd also love any kind of foreplay through fabric, especially Cole getting Claire wet by rubbing her through her trousers or jeans, stroking her thighs through her clothes, even breathing on her, or a combination of any or all those things.
Claire/Cole fluffy prompts
I'd love any and all slice-of-life h/c, with either Cole or Claire in the hurt/comforted role and the other providing the comfort. Cole getting injured on the track again, but milder, and Claire looking after him while he rests up? Claire being the one who's ill or hurt and proving to be a surprisingly bad patient, for all she's a doctor herself? Cole looking after her with remedies he learned from his family or from previous girlfriends - maybe just pampering her a bit, washing her hair and making her rest? Maybe they're both under the weather or just exhausted, and showering together? I am very down for any or all of that. 💛
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The Fugitive (1993)
Characters: Sam/Gerard, Richard Kimble
Ships: Sam/Richard
Please pretend the events of US Marshals didn't happen! (Unless you're Fixing US Marshals with a Sam/Richard ending - in that case, feel free. <3)
I love literally everything about The Fugitive, from Sam's, well, everything - his deep compassion, his love for his team of marshals whom he calls his 'kids', his love for coffee and doughnuts, his taking exception to words he doesn't like, his constant Sheer Drama - to Cosmo's trust in him while not taking any of his shit - to Richard's desperate determination, how well he and Sam are matched as foils, and how well they're clearly going to get along.
Both Sam and Richard show a marked tendency toward compassion and kindness as their default, helping people when they have no pressing reason to, caring for perfect strangers despite everything. This movie does not show you Thriller Protagonist Dudes pulling some macho shit; this movie shows you people saving people's lives with gentleness and care, handing over ice packs and warm jackets when they're needed, and sometimes smiling like the sun has broken through the clouds.
To that end, I'd love Sam and Richard getting to know each other after the film, and slowly falling in love without realizing it's happening. I'd also love some hurt/comfort focused on Sam, possibly with him showing up injured at Cook County or Chicago Memorial and Richard happening to not be in surgery at the time, so he looks after Sam instead of whoever's on call at the ER. I'm more than game for anything post-movie with these two, from Richard meeting the 'kids' to Sam meeting Richard's friends at the hospital to just Sam and Richard wearing warm clothes in fall and making out in libraries.
I have some more h/c focused Sam/Richard tags and thoughts in my Hurt/Comfort Ex letter, here!
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Characters: Ray Ferrier
Ships: prompts are mostly gen-focused, but I'd very much enjoy Ray/OMC or Ray/OFC as well
Generally after some serious h/c for Ray after the film - I'd love some exploration of the ways in which he falls apart, and the ways in which he could start to recover. I'm also very interested in worldbuilding and Ray getting involved in communal trauma recovery post-film, and I welcome OCs and varied points of view. Here is a link to my Darkest Night tag cloud for this fandom, to give you an idea of where my headspace is at.
Ray is an exception to my permanent injuries DNW, and I have some permanent injury focused tags and prompts for him.
Thoughts/prompts:
Ray falls apart.
Whether at Mary Ann's house, or otherwise. I'm eternally frustrated by the fact that no one even invited him in for a glass of water after the absolute hell he's just been through. I'm here for Ray doing his best to keep going, possibly not even realizing how exhausted or hurt or sick he is until the kids are safe, at which point his body completely gives out on him.
Maybe Mary Ann doesn't want him around and he doesn't particularly want to impose on her family, but he blacks out literally right there on their doorstep and has to be hauled inside, and there's immensely awkward caretaking while he's very out of it, embarrassed that they're the ones who have to look after him but too messed up to try and leave. (Maybe he does try to leave and not bother them any more, and promptly passes out another time and has to be hauled back in again. Maybe he succeeds in leaving and gets caught in the rain or cold and gets even sicker. Maybe he finds himself crying in secret, or has to explain away the tears to Mary Ann's husband or a stranger.)
Speaking of strangers, I'm also here for Ray getting comfort from someone else - in fact, comfort from a stranger is more likely to be genuine comfort that really helps him. Maybe he passes out in a train on the way home and wakes up in hospital. Maybe, in the longer term, he starts to process all the awful things he's been through and bond with other survivors - does he even have a home to go back to, after Brooklyn was pretty much destroyed? Does the government put survivors and displaced folk up while deciding how to compensate them for the losses they've faced, so does Ray hole up with other people who've suffered, generally try to help out as much as he can with volunteering and relief work, and the people he finds along the way look after him when he crashes? Does he try to help with the rebuilding efforts, possibly while in no shape to do so, and crash on the job? Is he surprised that people care enough about him to make sure he's okay? I'm not opposed to him finding a cute romantic partner (of whatever gender!) who's also been through terrible things and can help him feel less alone, but I'm also very taken with the thought of this small community of traumatized people coming together to help one of their own when he needs it, and him kind of wondering why they'd even notice him or care about him. That's generally what I'm getting at with the injury, nightmare and PTSD-related tags - something happening to Ray, and a stranger, or the community of strangers he ended up a part of, helping him even when he doesn't want to be a bother and doesn't know why they'd care.
My reading of Ray is that he generally didn't see many people outside of work, and that he's the kind of person who does his utmost to help in any situation that needs it but keeps to himself a lot outside of that, so I'm very here for even the slightest bit of comfort, offered hand or kind word sort of breaking him into several pieces.
I've also added the 'child abuse' tag here, as something Ray might find himself having to process. This tag is specifically because of a throwaway line Ray says to Robbie when he's mouthing off and calling him 'Ray': "it's Dad, sir, or if you want Mr Ferrier - that sounds a little weird to me, but you decide." Which sounds to me a lot like he parroted those last two from his own childhood, and I know it's a bit of a reach from there to straight-up abuse but it's a reading I'm really not opposed to. At best there's a lot of emotional distance there between Ray and his own dad, and at worst physical abuse, and I'd read Ray having to confront and/or confess to it having been either, or even verbal or emotional abuse, and that he's tried his best not to replicate it with his kids but still feels like he's failed them in other ways.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through substances.
Ray has...a lot to deal with, and no one to even listen let alone help. A lot of the altered states tags could be fever or illness related or PTSD related, and I'm super here for that, for someone getting to see how messed up Ray really is, and choosing to stay and look after him instead of leaving him to fend for himself. I'm also here for him trying to deal with the pain by getting as drunk as he can, or accepting a pill that someone gives him, possibly not knowing what he's getting into. (To clarify, I'm not looking for an addiction plotline here, more like a 'very tired, slightly clueless, trying anything once' situation. Though I can see Ray drinking every day, I would rather not see him binge drinking every day.) Also kind of here for someone slipping him something in a drink, either with malicious intent or with benevolent intent (getting him to lighten up or have some fun for once, hoping to stop the nightmares, etc) and that not ending well whatsoever.
Here for someone - as above, a stranger or partner or someone from a community Ray's ended up in - being with him while he's in that messed up altered state, perhaps talking him down from a bad trip or flashback or some kind of delirium, or holding him while he spills sad confessions and talks without a filter, without being able to stop himself talking, about everything that hurts. Very here for all the comfort.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through ill-advised sex with strangers.
The Above, But More. This is what the sex/BDSM tags are getting at. I'm here for Ray kind of both trying to seek out physical contact, and trying to seek out physical pain to drown out all the mental and emotional pain, and getting those wires so crossed and knotted that he ends up not really knowing which is which. Maybe, because so many people are hurting and everyone deals in different ways, he finds an abundance of people willing to hurt him, and finds that it kind of gets him off, or finds that it's easier to get off to pain than to gentleness he feels he doesn't deserve. Maybe some of these partners aren't in the best of mental places either, and end up hurting him more than he wanted, or he and said partners both kinda forget what safe and sane mean because they have no barometer for it any more, and maybe aftercare kind of isn't a thing and Ray drops hard more than once. Maybe the drop and the pain are the only way he can manage to let himself cry. (Maybe he finally happens to find someone who is really into the aftercare, and it changes his life. Very here for gentleness breaking Ray into pieces here, too.)
Ray tries his best to hold it together, even if he doesn't always succeed, but then additional terrible things happen post-apocalypse to set him back/make him crumble.
These are plot tags for Additional Angst And Pain that could add on to any of the above thoughts to make the darkness even darker, or make for a dark fic on their own. Thunderstorms, for instance, are probably going to be a major trauma trigger not just for Ray but for everyone else who survived the tripods moving through their area; I could see Ray huddling with a fellow traumatized survivor or a bunch of them, one or several of them shaking or crying, just trying to comfort one another as best they can while they weather the storm. Similarly, a broken down car in the middle of nowhere would be an eerie parallel to what Ray experienced in the film - maybe he's alone this time and doesn't deal with it well, or maybe he's with a few other people who are compassionate and help him deal. Perhaps either of these is even a trapped with someone in need of medical care situation, with Ray hurt or sick and unable to hide it when in close quarters to others, and the storm being too intense for anyone to try and get him help until it passes.
Violence is also not unlikely in a survivor camp or just in general in a post-apocalypse scenario, and I could see Ray either stepping in to try and defuse things and getting hurt because of it, or just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be the kind of quiet, awkward, perceived-as-weird person that those looking for violence like to target. Both the tags for this situation involve impalement or near-impalement - pinned/stabbed to surface as a form of restraint, possibly through a sleeve or through the arm or leg, possibly because Ray was being inconvenient for someone who wanted to steal something or hurt someone else and had to be got out of the way, and crucifixion, for which I'm mostly seeing him being pinned to a surface through the wrist or hand. For both of these I'm interested both in the trauma of the situation itself and in the (probably long-term) healing afterwards - whether Ray ends up just weaker in that arm, or whether he ends up with a limp, or ends up losing the use of a hand entirely, I want to see the healing process and someone, or multiple someones, looking after Ray while he's badly hurt and in shock on top of everything else they've all been through.
There's also a Solitary Confinement tag, for the possibility that Ray is held as responsible by law enforcement for the violent incident as the actual instigators, and is put in a cell while he's hurt, and possibly someone who witnessed the incident or just someone from the survivor camp makes it their mission to get him freed and then help him heal up afterwards.
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Collateral (2004)
Characters: Vincent, Max Durocher, Daniel Baker (you don't have to include them all, as long as Vincent is therein all his fucked-up glory)
Ships: Vincent/Max, Vincent/Daniel (in vastly different ways)
For Vincent/Max, I'm super into rough, kinky hatesex, possibly involving cars; for Vincent/Daniel, I'm super into something softer, with caretaking and lots of reluctant mutual understanding. (I'm also generally very into Vincent's motivations and his cynical worldview, especially considering a lot of it stems from an abusive childhood and being passed around foster homes, and probably a great deal of financial insecurity. It's possible the alienation of being queer compounded that, too.)
Thoughts/prompts:
Vincent finding himself torn down and vulnerable.
For Vincent &/ Max, I see this as dark and bitter and confusingly sexual (with the confusion mainly on Max's side). Vincent is a terrible person, and yet you kind of feel for him; Max is a sad bean who never asked to be caught up in any of this, and yet somehow finds it in himself to be an absolute hero and kick ass. Please tell me more about these messed up people and the rough, kinky hatesex they get up to. I'm a-okay with fic set before the film, during the film, or after the film in a universe where Vincent doesn't die.
Until Max got the better of him, Vincent spent most of the film reading Max like a book, and constantly, mercilessly unmasking him to himself. What I'm after with these prompts is a just reversal of that, a re-balancing of the power dynamic between them by means of Vincent being hurt. I'm here for Max getting to see Vincent torn down and vulnerable, to see what an utter mess he is, how held together with trash and duct tape he is under all the posturing. (He's a dick, to put it mildly, but there's an angle or two from which he's...really fucking tragic? When you start to see him coming undone, you really see him coming undone. We know a few things about him that are established as sore spots - that he's been passed around between foster homes and an abusive dad, and that he was military or a military contractor before he became a hitman.)
Maybe this is the same night as the film, and Daniel at the jazz club convinces Vincent not to kill him, or something happens to convince him to let Annie go, or there's just a skirmish with police or a rival assassin group, and Vincent ends up badly wounded - and Max can neither let him die, nor resist the urge to torment him by providing comfort with no explanation, no reason for it that would conceivably make sense to Vincent (a perfect h/c ex tag for this pairing: "comfort as cruelty"). Maybe Vincent gets hurt and tries to fix himself up in the back of the cab, and Max catches sight of all his scars in the rearview mirror, and one thing leads to another and they end up making out roughly, Max noticing every old injury, every stiffness of a limb, everything that points to Vincent having had a hell of a past; noticing every gasp of pain he can't manage to hide. Maybe, for something completely different, Vincent survives the MTA with permanent injuries from the incident that end his career as a hitman, turns state's evidence or just disappears and possibly grows, like, half a conscience (which he hates but now it's there), and gets a card from the Island Limo Company while he's healing up.
For Vincent &/ Daniel, I see this as softer. Here's a more detailed rundown of my reading of their dynamic, but broadly speaking: there could be a universe where their connection over jazz got strong enough to sway Vincent from killing Daniel, and in that universe, there could be another where Vincent survives the MTA and crawls back to Daniel's club gravely injured, hoping for some music or some conversation, or just hoping to die in the one place that's ever given him something like happiness. Maybe in that universe, Daniel saves his life instead.
I'm fascinated by Daniel, and I think (despite, or because of, his criminal past) that he's a compassionate man. Vincent's not expecting compassion, and doesn't know what to do with it, but he's badly injured to the extent that recovery will probably be somewhat long-term, and he's pretty much at Daniel's mercy, and what Daniel decides to give him is gentleness. I am all about Daniel caring for Vincent with attention and affection, and Vincent suffering in silent powerless fury for every second of it because he knows he doesn't deserve anything like this, no matter how much he's always wanted it - things like changing dressings, carrying him, bringing extra blankets when he's cold, sitting beside him when he can't sleep. I am all about Vincent getting to see Daniel go about his daily life, running the club and practicing the trumpet and being nice to people like a normal, very nice man, while Vincent's essentially an invalid and therefore forced to stay there and witness what a happy, normal life can be. I am all about recovery not being linear and Vincent getting suddenly sicker to the point where he's delirious and miserable and ends up spilling his soul to Daniel, talking about the miserable life he's had without all the propriety filters he had with Max, and for Daniel to share some of his own previous hardships in return, and for them to start to bond over that. Maybe they proceed to build a real acquaintanceship over music and Mysterious Criminal Pasts while Vincent is recovering, too sick to pick up targets; maybe eventually it turns out Vincent's permanently injured to the point where he can't be an assassin any more, and has to figure out how to be a person living a normal civilian life instead, and Daniel has experience in that area and can help him out.
Vincent finding himself torn down and vulnerable: BDSM edition.
For Vincent/Max, again, my take on this is dark and bitter and hopeless (this pairing is the exception to my hopeless endings DNW). I'm here for Vincent And Max Getting It On In All The Rough, Fucked Up Ways, during or after the film. Maybe one or both of them are drugged or drunk or high, maybe Vincent's sick or injured so badly he's hallucinating and isn't sure Max is real (and Max isn't sure Vincent's really consenting). Maybe they use banging each other as an excuse to talk out or fuck out their various issues, like Max's with his limo company and Vincent's with his father. Vincent is definitely a masochist; maybe he's surprisingly eager to please, and Max uses that to get revenge for everything Vincent put him through in the film. Maybe he does that by hurting him, or maybe he does it by getting him to confess to (or just talk about) all the times he's been vulnerable in the past. Maybe Vincent's time in the military comes up, in a kinky context or an angsty, bitter context, or both. Maybe they walk away weirdly healed...or maybe just bleeding and ripped apart.
I'd like whatever they do sexually to be more or less consensual, if not necessarily safe or sane - I could get behind mutual dubcon scenarios, where they could be drunk, both under the influence of a ~substance (really fond of acid for this, but also like, nebulous fictional drug that has whatever effects you want it to is also a pretty good choice), or (as mentioned above) Vincent may be hallucinating and not entirely conscious, but I don't want either of them to use physical force to get the other to sexually comply. I don't want either of them to hold disproportionate power over the other - as Max established in the second half of the film, the leash very much goes both ways. (Also Vincent is weirdly fucking principled for a hitman and I could see him as being laughably obsessed with consent, so make of that what you will.)
There are some dubcon-flavoured thoughts/prompts in my Chocobox/Consent Issues writeup on them, here.
For Vincent/Daniel, again, my reading is softer. I love the two of them discovering each other's scars, I love Daniel being the gentlest dom and Vincent just not knowing anything about how to handle that, never really having received gentleness in life before. Vincent asking for pain because he gets off on it, but also because it's all he knows, and Daniel agreeing (for instance) to tie him down but then doing it so gently instead. Vincent, still recovering, insisting he can take more pain or just more activity in general than he really can, and hurting himself more and being furious at himself for having physical limits, and Daniel being like 'I told you so' but also just treating him kindly, like he's a small angry cat who just needs to be humoured a bit. I'm very into surprisingly soft, gentle fever!sex with the two of them, but I'm also into Daniel using Vincent's extra pliability from the fever to order him into things like (angsty version) talking about something terrible that happened to him when he was a kid, or (slightly fluffy but also still kind of angsty version) talking to him about what he thinks about jazz. Very here for Vincent being deathly terrified of being seen, having spent his whole life making sure he's invisible, and not dealing with it well at all. (He might even have an instinct to lash out at some point, and Daniel being six foot two and built could easily just hold him down till he calms.)
Vincent as lapsed Catholic.
This is out of absolutely nowhere, but we know Vincent spent a lot of his childhood being passed around between institutions and foster homes. I'm fascinated with the idea of his having been...kinda generally shoved into Catholicism, like institutions and some foster homes tend to do. I don't think he ever believed or cared about actively practicing, but I do think he might have been fairly often and fairly consistently exposed to the practices and beliefs. Which, as anyone who's experienced close proximity to religion while growing up will tell you, results in some interesting feelings later on in life. Only some of those feelings are Varying Degrees Of Internalized Bullshit. Some of them are that instinctive flinch of fear if you do something Not Allowed, like have a sexual thought in a place of worship, even if you know intellectually that such things aren't wrong; others are that fear fading into delight at flagrantly disobeying every nonsense rule that was drilled into you.
I'm fascinated by the general imagery of the warmth and safety a church can provide, and specifically the deep sense of alienation that comes from participating in church activities while knowing you, for whatever reason, you are not included in that warmth. Whether it's because you're secretly queer (whether or not you've realized it yet), or because you don't fit what you 'should' be in some other way, or just because you're a sullen, angry child who's been through shit they can't process and is probably still actively going through shit they can't process - just standing there knowing all this supposed warmth and solace can't touch you. Hell, there are lots of ways to be wrong in the eyes of the church, most of them extremely innocuous, and no matter how much you grow up and realize you weren't wrong, the guilt of it all leaves a mark on you. I'm really intrigued by the thought of Vincent having had this experience in childhood, and how it might have shaped him, as the angry kid he no doubt was. Maybe he was messed up, but not quite so messed up yet, not particularly a problem child, just...invisible. Maybe he was a problem child, but like...intermittently, the way abused kids are, trying to melt into the walls one day and acting out the moment he's noticed. Either way, I'd like to see how the church just...kind of doesn't help at all, how he fell through the cracks of that system just as much as he did though those of society at large. Maybe he got to see other kids and other people actually find community and healing, while he was just there, on the fringes, knowing neither how to perform adequate faith and be seen as part of the fold, nor how to be a good enough kid in general to merit, say, counseling or academic help. I could see him developing a deep and bitter resentment of this system, just as he has for every other system, and a deep and bitter resentment of the people there who really managed to belong, whether it was parishioners who seemed to have normal lives, or maybe the other foster kids or institution kids he knew. I could see that going double if he were realizing he was gay or bi. I could see that resentment fading from his immediate consciousness as he grew older and didn't have to depend on these systems any more, but I could just as easily see it welling up again as strongly as before if, for instance, circumstances forced him and (Max or Daniel) to take shelter in a church.
I don't think Vincent would ever regret his life as a contract killer. I think he considers it something he was forced into in order to survive, a fault of the system rather than one of his own, and even if he hypothetically grew a conscience about it I think he'd just shrug it off and stop rather than let it tear him up much. That said, I am delighted by the thought that Vincent might have some kind of uncomfortable feeling that he's a sinner, might consider the thought that forgiveness might be offered but ultimately decide he doesn't believe/trust any potential higher power enough to care to want it. (Also that he might be disgusted at the thought of being 'forgiven' for being gay, when perhaps that's one of the only things that's ever given him something like happiness.) I'm also delighted by the general idea of Making Out and/or Fucking In A Church. Like, you can go all out on the blasphemy kink and I'll eat it up with a spoon. All the conflicted feelings mixed with delight on the part of the characters is excellent. Rough dubcon (with Max as aggressor) is excellent if Max is the partner involved, roughness mixed with gentleness is excellent if it's Daniel, as is just a general feeling of surrealness (fever? injury or pain? alcohol or drugs? exhaustion?) and how that interplays with ingrained Catholic Guilt as well as just religious imagery in general. Maybe Max ends up stabbing Vincent to a surface through the arm to pin him down. Maybe Vincent and Daniel arrive with Vincent already injured, bleeding from his hands or wrists. Maybe there's patching up before, or after, there's making out.Please draw all the sacrilegious parallels you like between this garbage sociopathic contract killer and any saint you want.
I am also very, very down for parallels between Max and any saint you want, or especially between Daniel and any saint you want.
Like...if you happen to be considering this, and wondering how much is too much, the answer is 'please feel free to take this prompt and go full Like A Prayer with it'.
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Minority Report (2002)
Characters: John Anderton
Ships: gen, John/Danny Witwer, John/Lara (as not entirely healthy relationship), John/Lamar Burgess (as manipulative and abusive of Lamar towards John), John/Iris Hineman (as noncon with Hineman as the aggressor)
Here for John crashing hard after the film, and learning to rebuild. Also here for exploration of John in fucked up relationships and their repercussions pre-, during- and post-film - John/Lara as unhealthy and mutually destructive, and/or John/Lamar as deeply manipulative and abusive on Lamar's side toward John.
(Definitely willing for John to eventually end up in a happy relationship with Danny Witwer, assuming Danny Witwer Didn't Die.)
Thoughts/prompts:
Pre-Canon: Lamar Burgess manipulating and taking advantage of John so he can have his Precrime poster boy.
This film is full of sexual creepiness towards John - the doctor and nurse hitting on him, Hineman forcibly kissing him, and on a more subtle, insidious level there's Burgess calling him "my boy" and the film implying he's been John's sole emotional support for the past six years - and then revealing he's been manipulating him all along, been enabling his drug habit and possibly deliberately keeping him emotionally unstable so he can have both Precrime, and John as its public face.
I'm here for any and all exploration of how truly awful Lamar was to John, all while keeping both Lara and John himself convinced that he only had John's best interests in mind. I'm especially interested in this turning sexual, with fucked up, manipulative Lamar/John at any time from six years before the film to during - either implicit with Lamar offering John emotional support and implying romance, offering intimate touch but it never reaching the level of kissing or sex, or full-blown Lamar taking advantage of John when he's vulnerable with grief, making him dependent on him emotionally and for dope, thoroughly messing him up. I could see John having a massive praise kink, and Lamar taking full advantage of that to get him to do more and more work for Precrime as well as sexual favours for him. Maybe Lamar starts him off slow, asking for small favours that gradually turn more and more sexual, and John, adrift and lost and overwhelmed with grief for his dead son with no chance to heal, believes Lamar is his only friend and feels like he can't refuse him anything for fear of losing his support. Maybe Lamar offers romance, starts off kissing John tenderly, and then pushes him away, only touching him when he wants to get off, and leaves John desperately wondering what he did wrong, how he can get his affection back. He might pretend to help John with his grief, but really says 'well-meaning' things that keep him deliberately in pain and unable to heal. Maybe he even enables John's addiction by pretending to help, but really sending him to dealers who give him stronger stuff to keep him hooked. Possibly whenever he notices John's doing better, whether with regard to addiction or to mental health, he makes sure to very gently say things that sound concerned and well-meaning, but really deliberately reopen so many wounds that he knows John will be using that night. Maybe he even convinces himself he's doing it for the good of humanity, keeping John able to do his important work as a Precrime officer so potential killers can get caught.
I'd like any kissing or sex to happen after John and Lara separate, but for the Burgesses this particular scenario would stand as an exception to my infidelity DNW as well - Mrs Burgess can know and not mind, or not know, as you see fit. If she does, I'd like John to be conflicted; if she doesn't I'd like him to be absolutely destroyed by it but still helpless to stop or resist Lamar's advances.
I would welcome dark d/s overtones here, too. John as messed up vulnerable sub who doesn't realize he's being manipulated, and has to slowly heal from this 'relationship', along with all the other things he has to heal from after the film. Some tags from Darkest Night that might apply here: Emotional Manipulation • Unhealthy relationships - character is desperate to please partner • Dub/Noncon - Initially Nonsexual Demands Gradually Become More Sexual • Subdrop • Masochistic sub thinks they deserve genuine punishment • BDSM - Character Is Refused Aftercare / Given Inadequate Or Grudging Aftercare • Unable to Safeword • Character should safeword but doesn't • Dub/Noncon - Aggressor promises victim kink they want in exchange for kink that triggers them • Dub/Noncon - Aggressor uses knowledge of victim's kinks against them • Consensual aftercare after nonconsensual sex • Dubcon due to eagerness to please • Abuse - Condescending praise • Gaslighting • Noncon praise kink
During Canon: Dr Hineman coercing John into sex while he's literally on the verge of dying from her plant poison.
Hineman is so deeply creepy and unsettling - she's almost a more intimidating villain than Burgess. That nonconsensual kiss while John was almost dying was all kinds of horrible, and I could easily see her deciding that wasn't all she wanted. Some tags from Darkest Night that would fit this situation: Altered States - Drugs (Nonconsensual) • breathplay/asphyxiation during rape • Character unsure of own consent • Consensual aftercare after nonconsensual sex • Forced Kissing • Forced to Enjoy It • Inexperienced character is confused by noncon
John's already affected by the poison from Hineman's plants that grabbed him and cut him; he's barely able to speak until a few minutes after he chokes the antidote down. Maybe the antidote takes longer to work than we're shown, leaves John weaker than we're shown. Maybe it's a hallucinogen or other mental state altering substance in its own right. I'm down for Hineman coercing and/or forcing John into sex while he's too desperate and emotionally fucked up to really understand what's going on - I'm also down for him enjoying it, for her really blowing his mind and making sure that he enjoys it, and him having really conflicted feelings about it after the film. I am absolutely here for all the recovery plots
Post-Canon: Trauma aftermath, possible addiction-relapse-and-recovery plot, and John's getting back together with Lara really, really not going well.
Post-canon, I'm really interested in how John deals and how he recovers. I'm here for John suffering through aftereffects of the halo (neurological symptoms, maybe migraines, auras, nightmares, flashbacks, days when he's trapped back in that world of torment and can't make it out, not knowing what's real) and dealing with suddenly being blind in one eye, as well as the loss of everything that's helped him survive the past six years. I'm also very here for his addiction getting worse until it reaches breaking point and he has to suffer through getting clean, withdrawal symptoms and all. (I'm very here for an exploration of the addiction plotline in general - I'm disappointed in the film not exploring it. If you want to show me what neuroin actually does, what its effects are, what makes John reach for it in the first place, how he lives with it in the day to day, and how he finally gets clean, I am absolutely down for that.)
Lara/John-wise, I'm pretty annoyed about the ending of the film, so I'm very much down to read John and Lara making an attempt to get back together that doesn't go well - perhaps with her trying to pressure him into making it work while he's all kinds of fucked up both physically and mentally, and him just not being able to deal with anything about it, especially the constant memories of their past life together on top of all the health issues he's dealing with, and one day just calling it quits and leaving even though it tears him apart. They both seem heavy on denial as a coping mechanism, so I could see Lara just trying to ignore how sick and hurt John is, and him following her lead and trying to ignore it too until it gets bad enough that he can't any more. (I'd be down for a potential dub/noncon situation here too, with Lara pressuring John into sex when he's too sick or hurting too badly or too far gone on neuroin to want it, or even to actively participate. Most of the dub/noncon and BDSM tags apply here too, except for the ones that deal with deliberate coercion and manipulation - I don't think Lara wants or sets out to hurt John, but she has very little patience with his trauma and the long time he takes to heal, and so ends up hurting him badly anyway.)
Further Post-Canon: John finally getting to heal long-term (on his own, or with Danny Witwer)
(Please assume all of this is taking place in a world where Danny Witwer Did Not Die! If you'd like to involve Danny, I'd love to see him also in a state of recovery, since he got shot in the chest and is presumably healing from it.)
Consent issues or no, I could see John kind of running away from Lara - not leaving her in the lurch, but certainly having a deeply stressful conversation telling her he can't do this any more, and then getting as far away from her and the NYPD as he can. Does he hole up in his apartment hoping he'll eventually feel better? Does he go to Agatha and the twins if he realizes he's possibly too sick to be alone? Does he just go somewhere offbeat and cut off contact with everyone until somebody starts to worry (is that somebody Witwer)? Does he go through withdrawal alone and eventually come out okay, or does Witwer find him during and hold him through the shakes? Do things get bad enough that Witwer has to drag him to hospital despite his protests and newfound distrust of the system? Does he even get good treatment if they do, or are the medics in this universe just as cruel and uncaring as the police?
Speaking of which, I'm super here for John quitting the MPD and finding something else to do. He's probably had a revelation about the system he used to trust, and he's probably disqualified anyway now because of the blindness in that eye and his other symptoms post-halo. I'd love to see him reconstruct his life when he gets better, adjust to a new normal with essentially a chronic illness if the effects of the halo get better but never fully leave. I'd definitely love to see him do it with Danny at his side, and both of them learning not just how to be with each other and look after each other but also how to be people, not just bland colourless law-enforcement officers in their bland colourless law-enforcement world.
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Once again, thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you have fun creating. 💛
Also, some extra fun stuff:
• Two for One (crossover prompts)
• Wrapping Paper (art prompts)
• Yuleporn (sexy prompts)
• Crueltide (darkfic prompts)
So, the thing I love most in fanfic is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, in either a gen or a shippy way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. <3
I also love hurt/comfort with all my soul, so most of the prompts here will probably contain it to some degree.
I am here for any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship fic, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I like it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the lovin', I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D
I am super open to unconventional medium/narrative styles if you feel inspired to use them - outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, epistolary fic, framing devices such as mission reports, medical reports, audio transcripts/debrief transcripts, text messages or post-its between characters, news articles, even official documentation, are all amazing.
Navigation
> Likes & DNWs
> The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Jack Ryan
Bart Mancuso
Marko Ramius
> Days of Thunder (1990)
Claire Lewicki
Cole Trickle
> The Fugitive (1993)
Sam Gerard
Richard Kimble
> War of the Worlds (2005)
Ray Ferrier
> Collateral (2004)
Vincent
Max Durocher
Daniel Baker
(I am okay with not including all three, as long as Vincent is there
> Minority Report (2002)
John Anderton
Likes & DNWs
General likes:
• Hurt/comfort of all stripes - sickfic, injuries, emotional h/c, all of it. (This is my favourite thing in all of fandom. Like, I absolutely live for it. ^^')
• Character studies, exploration of canon character dynamics, fallout of canon trauma
• PTSD, scars, illness messing with a character's grip on reality, combat/mission injuries, scars, old injuries acting up, touch starvation, sensory deprivation / sensory overload, characters not believing they deserve comfort or being surprised to receive comfort, selective mutism, hurting characters choking up at moments when they really need to speak (eg. leader unable to tell their worried team they're fine, submissive unable to safeword), stoic characters breaking down when faced with comfort, subdrop, characters bonding over trauma, characters so used to going through hell alone that they can't wrap their heads around someone wanting to help
• carrying, cuddling, characters wrapping ill/injured characters in soft blankets/clothes/their own jackets (especially jackets that are too big for them!), sweater paws, keeping characters warm, aftercare, forehead kisses, hands and touch
• Earned trust and casual intimacy (characters who know each other well or get to know each other well, clothes sharing, characters only allowing touch from people they trust, etc)
• Pain, bittersweetness, sadness, exploring the darker side and implications of canon is great, but I really need some happiness/comfort and hope along with it!
Sexual likes:
D/s overtones. Service subs. Subs With Issues. Praise kink. Hands, fingers, touch; touch starvation. Finger-sucking. Hair petting/brushing. Aftercare. Subdrop and recovery. Tenderness, especially if the person receiving it isn't expecting it, isn't used to it, and it breaks them just a little.
Marking - hickeys/bruising/bite marks; hiding the bruises under clothing. Scar worship. Suit/uniform kink. Partners reverently undressing each other. Wrists bound or held down. Honour bondage. Careful sex / making out when one partner is hurt or ill and feverish (fever sex is, uh, a Thing of mine). Gentleness, affection, emphasis on touch and texture/physical sensation (clothing porn is so very welcome!). Or rough, desperate, life-affirming sex/making out.
There are some fandoms where I like the sex a lot rougher; see the sections under Collateral and War of the Worlds. There are also prompts for dubcon and generally messed up sexual situations under these two, as well as Minority Report.
General DNWs:
• Mundane/depowered/setting change AUs
• Bleak, hopeless endings (as long as there's hope, bittersweet endings are more than fine!)
• Unrequested crossovers and fusions
• Unrequested non-canon background pairings
• Any mention of coronavirus or quarantine/lockdown situations
• Death of requested characters (even if they died in canon)
• Non-canonical character death
• Canon rehash
• Terminal illness
• Non-canonical permanent injury for The Shadow, The Hunt for Red October and Minority Report (to clarify, there are canonical major injuries in The Hunt for Red October and Minority Report that can be interpreted as permanent, and these are a-okay to address as permanent)
• Gastrointestinal illness (nausea/vomiting is okay but not as a focus of the work, and not as a result of GI discomfort - so character getting nauseous or throwing up from a migraine or just severe pain in general, yes; character getting nauseous or throwing up as a result of a severe anxiety attack or PTSD episode, yes; character suffering anything related to food poisoning or GI bugs or overeating and similar, no)
• Pregnancy, menstruation
• Kidfic
• Infidelity (this does not apply to Mr and Mrs Burgess in Minority Report)
Sexual DNWs:
• Noncon or dubcon, except where noted (see Minority Report, Oblivion and Collateral sections)
• humiliation as a kink, except where noted (see Oblivion and Vincent/Max in Collateral)
• gags of any kind (hand over mouth is okay for canons with prompts for dubcon and/or rougher sex like Minority Report, Collateral and Vika/Jack in Oblivion, but I would like it to trigger the character on the receiving end and for there to be some emotional fallout of it)
• anal, dirty talk, spanking, ageplay, scat, watersports, rimming, emeto, A/B/O, d/s-verse, mommy/daddy kink
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And now for some rambling about fandoms and character dynamics, lovely writer!
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Characters: Jack Ryan, Bart Mancuso, Marko Ramius
Ships: Jack/Ramius, Jack/Mancuso, Ramius/Mancuso, Jack/Ramius/Mancuso
Please no infidelity! (I'd like it if Cathy and Jack were never married - they just didn't work out, or were just friends with benefits for a while, and live separate lives while amiably raising their kid together)
I love this version of Jack Ryan so much! I love that he's a strategic expert and knows which hunches to play, but he's not a field agent and knows exactly Fuck All about field operations! I love every single character dynamic he has, especially the deeply promising ones he has with Ramius and Mancuso. I also love his backstory, his lingering PTSD and likely chronic pain from the spinal injury that ended his career as a Marine, and how he ploughs on regardless of how Very Much He Does Not Want To Be Ploughing On.
I really love the warmth of everything about this film - how deeply idealistic Jack and Ramius are, how Jack is an experienced analyst who knows a lot about strategy and history but absolutely nothing about operations (but still knows he has to try to get Ramius in alive), how Ramius makes sure to gain the trust of his officers about the terrible risk he's taking in defecting, how Mancuso's whole crew clearly loves and trusts him and admires him while he is so protective of them in return - indeed, how committed to duty Mancuso is, but how ready and willing to step up when Jack proves his orders wrong.
I love h/c for all my fandoms, but I particularly love it for this one. Jack and/or Mancuso as the hurt character would be great. I love the warmth of this film, and would love that warm atmosphere to carry over into fic. 💛 I'm very here for all kinds of softness and h/c, with Jack or Mancuso as the centre. (If you'd like some more ideas to bounce off of, here's my Hurt/Comfort Ex writeup on Jack; here's the one for Mancuso.)
Thoughts/prompts:
Jack, Ramius and Mancuso bonding post-film
I'd love to see these three getting to know each other better after the events of the film. I'm especially here for the differences between each dynamic, and how they all play off each other - Jack-Ramius, Ramius-Mancuso and Jack-Mancuso are all delightfully different axes, and whether it's friendship or eventual romance I would love to see how they all play out, and how they all form in the first place. Here are some prompts using the film as a jumping-off point:
• Cold and damp are not great for old injuries and chronic pain, and Jack's had a rough few days. When the action is over and Jack stays on the Red October (and later at a CIA safe house) as Ramius' security detail/fanboy in residence, he tries his best to hide how much he's hurting, but Ramius (and perhaps Mancuso, too) sees right through him, and takes care of him as best he can with the Red October's medical supplies.
• Ramius and Mancuso bonding over submarine nerdery and naval expertise, and slowly falling in love.
• Jack and Ramius going fishing, and getting to know each other, perhaps eventually intimately well.
• Jack and Mancuso striking up an acquaintance outside of the mission, and perhaps eventually falling in love.
• Jack and Ramius, and perhaps Mancuso too, spending some time together in a CIA safe house before debrief, and getting to know each other.
The evolution of their dynamics in the years afterward
I'm also here for what these characters are doing years down the line, what their inner lives are like.
• I'd love to see Mancuso's inner life, since we know less about him than the other two. What do Mancuso's quarters aboard the Dallas look like? What books does he have there, what photographs or paintings? (Are there eventually photos of him with Jack and/or Ramius? Does he take some of their clothes with him aboard, to sleep in?)
• Ramius and/or Mancuso getting to know about Jack's fear of flying, about the trauma response it is. One or both of them holding Jack's hand(s) on a plane, or holding him after a nightmare on the ground.
• Jack's back injury from the chopper crash acting up on cold or wet days, and Ramius and/or Mancuso looking after him with heating pads, medication and such. Jack having to learn to admit he's hurting, and Ramius and/or Mancuso making the effort to learn how to help him when he needs it.
• On a a cold and miserable day when Jack is hurting, Ramius and/or Mancuso coax him into a hot shower and cup his head against their shoulder while the warmth soaks into his back.
• Jack gets shot or otherwise badly hurt. Jack is not a field agent, was not on a field mission when he sustained the injury, and does not react to said injury like a field agent would. There's a great deal of medical trauma and pain, and Ramius and/or Mancuso are Absolutely Furious about it.
• Mancuso gets badly hurt or falls ill while on deployment. Jack and/or Ramius comfort him over the phone or via messages through the crew of the Dallas while he's laid up, or camp out by his bed if things get bad enough that he has to be taken to a hospital on shore, and make an enormous fuss of him and spoil him thoroughly when he gets home.
• Jack and Ramius spend more time together than they do with Bart, but when they do get to see him they're always sure to make him feel welcome (romantically or platonically).
Epistolary Fic Prompts
I really adore the idea of epistolary fic for this fandom! Here are some epistolary prompts:
• I'd love to see an article or an excerpt from a book that Jack wrote about Ramius, and/or one that he wrote about Mancuso. Either way, he's clearly in love with the subject - perhaps obliviously, or perhaps he's in a relationship with the subject and just can't talk about it in the article/book. (I'm envisioning it like, as dramatic as this post, for the record)
• Alternatively, this book extract or article coming to light years later when Jack is the President and Ramius and/or Mancuso is/are his husband/s, and the internet losing their entire minds over how head over heels President Ryan already was for his husband(s) way back around like, 1986-1996.
• Jack and/or Ramius writing to Mancuso while he's away aboard the Dallas, and Mancuso writing back. Maybe before they get together, maybe after, maybe both; hell, maybe that's how they fall in love in the first place.
• Ramius keeping a diary of his experiences in the New World, including his relationship with Jack and/or Mancuso.
• Jack or Mancuso stuck somewhere while sick or hurt, in unfamiliar surroundings (maybe Jack got hurt on another field mission he really shouldn't have been on, or fell ill on a book tour or exerted himself too much and is stuck in a hotel room with his back acting up, or Mancuso got injured or fell ill aboard the Dallas and had to be evacuated to an unfamiliar hospital), writing notes or letters to the object(s, could be the other of the two, could be Ramius) of their pining, all while possibly not entirely lucid. Maybe they read them back later and have some revelations about their feelings, maybe they eventually decide to send them after all, or maybe the intended recipient gets to read them years later instead, when they're happily together.
Further Shippy Thoughts
I love every ship on this
I have a lot of feelings about the idea that Jack's back injury from the chopper crash might leave him in lasting pain that resurfaces on cold and wet days, and Ramius and/or Mancuso would learn how to help him through it. I also love the thought of Mancuso, as a career submariner, not having had many relationships and not being used to being comforted, and so that he'd be quietly overwhelmed when Jack and/or Ramius hug and pet him when he's exhausted, or when he's older and his hands start to hurt when it gets cold.
While I don't think these characters would get up to d/s shenanigans often - I see them mostly as sweet, intense vanilla - I am kind of destroyed by the soft-but-firm-d/s implications of the scene where Ramius presents Mancuso with the Red October. Ramius has enormous Dom Energy in general, especially with Jack, but that scene got me feeling things about Mancuso, who also has a lot of Dom Energy, being the only person in the world whom Ramius would submit to. This goes double because when we see Mancuso give orders on the Dallas, he gives them softly, gently, and everyone immediately leaps to obey; I'd love to see him have the same command style in the bedroom, especially if Jack is sick or hurt and feeling guilty about it and needs to be told to let himself be taken care of, or conversely, if Bart himself is mildly sick or hurt and needs to convince the others to stop worrying and kiss him already, damnit.
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Days of Thunder (1990)
Characters: Claire Lewicki, Cole Trickle
Ships: Cole/Claire
This request is the horniest one, okay, that's just how it is. Here for these two getting it on in all the ways. Super mega here for car kink and d/s. On the less horny side, I'm also very here for fluffy h/c, slice-of-life type stuff with them! When it comes to fluff, I'm not opposed to cameos from Harry or the Rowdy family too - I adore them all.
Claire/Cole sexy prompts
Soft d/s porn with Cole unquestioningly obeying every word Claire says, with lots of engine noise as the backdrop? Maybe some shibari or sensory deprivation or finger-sucking? Please? :D
I love how much softer and more sensible Cole is in bed than he is on the track, and how honest and emotionally healthy he and Claire are with each other in general. The dynamic I love for them is both of them being very eager to spoil each other rotten, each of them being incredibly gentle and kind toward the other while also sometimes liking it a little bit rough - Claire because she's playful and wants a little extra fun sometimes, and Cole because sometimes gentleness is Too Much and he'd rather be roughed up a bit so he doesn't have to confront the fact that Claire thinks he's worthy of being loved. So like, ranging from rough, quick and dirty to soft, slow, gentle and dirty.
D/s or no, I'm also generally super here for cars, and sexy times involving cars. Cole and Claire making out or making love in the adrenaline high after a race, or during other drivers' practice laps with cars roaring past the room or shed they're in. Heavy petting in Cole's racecar, or on the hood of it. Claire fucking Cole while they're parked somewhere secluded and he's ziptied to the steering wheel. Maybe Claire fucking Cole in a fancy limo they're given all to themselves as a ride to some event, being all gentle and laying his head down on the plush seat and riding him to overstimulation, or until he begs her to get rough with him. (Very into Claire undoing Cole with gentleness, and withholding roughness and pain until he's been good enough to earn it.) Cole fingering Claire or eating her out while he's blindfolded or in shibari, or just tied down or loosely tied round the neck with whatever she could find (ribbon, dressing gown or bathrobe waistband, bow tie on bare skin rather than around a shirt collar...)
Also super into clothing kink with these two (and definitely super into how much taller Claire is than Cole) - I'd love to see Claire wearing a suit when she appears at a formal press event with Cole, and him delightedly undressing her afterwards, inch by inch, item by item of clothing (possibly with her telling him what to take off and exactly how). I'd also love any kind of foreplay through fabric, especially Cole getting Claire wet by rubbing her through her trousers or jeans, stroking her thighs through her clothes, even breathing on her, or a combination of any or all those things.
Claire/Cole fluffy prompts
I'd love any and all slice-of-life h/c, with either Cole or Claire in the hurt/comforted role and the other providing the comfort. Cole getting injured on the track again, but milder, and Claire looking after him while he rests up? Claire being the one who's ill or hurt and proving to be a surprisingly bad patient, for all she's a doctor herself? Cole looking after her with remedies he learned from his family or from previous girlfriends - maybe just pampering her a bit, washing her hair and making her rest? Maybe they're both under the weather or just exhausted, and showering together? I am very down for any or all of that. 💛
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The Fugitive (1993)
Characters: Sam/Gerard, Richard Kimble
Ships: Sam/Richard
Please pretend the events of US Marshals didn't happen! (Unless you're Fixing US Marshals with a Sam/Richard ending - in that case, feel free. <3)
I love literally everything about The Fugitive, from Sam's, well, everything - his deep compassion, his love for his team of marshals whom he calls his 'kids', his love for coffee and doughnuts, his taking exception to words he doesn't like, his constant Sheer Drama - to Cosmo's trust in him while not taking any of his shit - to Richard's desperate determination, how well he and Sam are matched as foils, and how well they're clearly going to get along.
Both Sam and Richard show a marked tendency toward compassion and kindness as their default, helping people when they have no pressing reason to, caring for perfect strangers despite everything. This movie does not show you Thriller Protagonist Dudes pulling some macho shit; this movie shows you people saving people's lives with gentleness and care, handing over ice packs and warm jackets when they're needed, and sometimes smiling like the sun has broken through the clouds.
To that end, I'd love Sam and Richard getting to know each other after the film, and slowly falling in love without realizing it's happening. I'd also love some hurt/comfort focused on Sam, possibly with him showing up injured at Cook County or Chicago Memorial and Richard happening to not be in surgery at the time, so he looks after Sam instead of whoever's on call at the ER. I'm more than game for anything post-movie with these two, from Richard meeting the 'kids' to Sam meeting Richard's friends at the hospital to just Sam and Richard wearing warm clothes in fall and making out in libraries.
I have some more h/c focused Sam/Richard tags and thoughts in my Hurt/Comfort Ex letter, here!
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Characters: Ray Ferrier
Ships: prompts are mostly gen-focused, but I'd very much enjoy Ray/OMC or Ray/OFC as well
Generally after some serious h/c for Ray after the film - I'd love some exploration of the ways in which he falls apart, and the ways in which he could start to recover. I'm also very interested in worldbuilding and Ray getting involved in communal trauma recovery post-film, and I welcome OCs and varied points of view. Here is a link to my Darkest Night tag cloud for this fandom, to give you an idea of where my headspace is at.
Ray is an exception to my permanent injuries DNW, and I have some permanent injury focused tags and prompts for him.
Thoughts/prompts:
Ray falls apart.
Whether at Mary Ann's house, or otherwise. I'm eternally frustrated by the fact that no one even invited him in for a glass of water after the absolute hell he's just been through. I'm here for Ray doing his best to keep going, possibly not even realizing how exhausted or hurt or sick he is until the kids are safe, at which point his body completely gives out on him.
Maybe Mary Ann doesn't want him around and he doesn't particularly want to impose on her family, but he blacks out literally right there on their doorstep and has to be hauled inside, and there's immensely awkward caretaking while he's very out of it, embarrassed that they're the ones who have to look after him but too messed up to try and leave. (Maybe he does try to leave and not bother them any more, and promptly passes out another time and has to be hauled back in again. Maybe he succeeds in leaving and gets caught in the rain or cold and gets even sicker. Maybe he finds himself crying in secret, or has to explain away the tears to Mary Ann's husband or a stranger.)
Speaking of strangers, I'm also here for Ray getting comfort from someone else - in fact, comfort from a stranger is more likely to be genuine comfort that really helps him. Maybe he passes out in a train on the way home and wakes up in hospital. Maybe, in the longer term, he starts to process all the awful things he's been through and bond with other survivors - does he even have a home to go back to, after Brooklyn was pretty much destroyed? Does the government put survivors and displaced folk up while deciding how to compensate them for the losses they've faced, so does Ray hole up with other people who've suffered, generally try to help out as much as he can with volunteering and relief work, and the people he finds along the way look after him when he crashes? Does he try to help with the rebuilding efforts, possibly while in no shape to do so, and crash on the job? Is he surprised that people care enough about him to make sure he's okay? I'm not opposed to him finding a cute romantic partner (of whatever gender!) who's also been through terrible things and can help him feel less alone, but I'm also very taken with the thought of this small community of traumatized people coming together to help one of their own when he needs it, and him kind of wondering why they'd even notice him or care about him. That's generally what I'm getting at with the injury, nightmare and PTSD-related tags - something happening to Ray, and a stranger, or the community of strangers he ended up a part of, helping him even when he doesn't want to be a bother and doesn't know why they'd care.
My reading of Ray is that he generally didn't see many people outside of work, and that he's the kind of person who does his utmost to help in any situation that needs it but keeps to himself a lot outside of that, so I'm very here for even the slightest bit of comfort, offered hand or kind word sort of breaking him into several pieces.
I've also added the 'child abuse' tag here, as something Ray might find himself having to process. This tag is specifically because of a throwaway line Ray says to Robbie when he's mouthing off and calling him 'Ray': "it's Dad, sir, or if you want Mr Ferrier - that sounds a little weird to me, but you decide." Which sounds to me a lot like he parroted those last two from his own childhood, and I know it's a bit of a reach from there to straight-up abuse but it's a reading I'm really not opposed to. At best there's a lot of emotional distance there between Ray and his own dad, and at worst physical abuse, and I'd read Ray having to confront and/or confess to it having been either, or even verbal or emotional abuse, and that he's tried his best not to replicate it with his kids but still feels like he's failed them in other ways.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through substances.
Ray has...a lot to deal with, and no one to even listen let alone help. A lot of the altered states tags could be fever or illness related or PTSD related, and I'm super here for that, for someone getting to see how messed up Ray really is, and choosing to stay and look after him instead of leaving him to fend for himself. I'm also here for him trying to deal with the pain by getting as drunk as he can, or accepting a pill that someone gives him, possibly not knowing what he's getting into. (To clarify, I'm not looking for an addiction plotline here, more like a 'very tired, slightly clueless, trying anything once' situation. Though I can see Ray drinking every day, I would rather not see him binge drinking every day.) Also kind of here for someone slipping him something in a drink, either with malicious intent or with benevolent intent (getting him to lighten up or have some fun for once, hoping to stop the nightmares, etc) and that not ending well whatsoever.
Here for someone - as above, a stranger or partner or someone from a community Ray's ended up in - being with him while he's in that messed up altered state, perhaps talking him down from a bad trip or flashback or some kind of delirium, or holding him while he spills sad confessions and talks without a filter, without being able to stop himself talking, about everything that hurts. Very here for all the comfort.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through ill-advised sex with strangers.
The Above, But More. This is what the sex/BDSM tags are getting at. I'm here for Ray kind of both trying to seek out physical contact, and trying to seek out physical pain to drown out all the mental and emotional pain, and getting those wires so crossed and knotted that he ends up not really knowing which is which. Maybe, because so many people are hurting and everyone deals in different ways, he finds an abundance of people willing to hurt him, and finds that it kind of gets him off, or finds that it's easier to get off to pain than to gentleness he feels he doesn't deserve. Maybe some of these partners aren't in the best of mental places either, and end up hurting him more than he wanted, or he and said partners both kinda forget what safe and sane mean because they have no barometer for it any more, and maybe aftercare kind of isn't a thing and Ray drops hard more than once. Maybe the drop and the pain are the only way he can manage to let himself cry. (Maybe he finally happens to find someone who is really into the aftercare, and it changes his life. Very here for gentleness breaking Ray into pieces here, too.)
Ray tries his best to hold it together, even if he doesn't always succeed, but then additional terrible things happen post-apocalypse to set him back/make him crumble.
These are plot tags for Additional Angst And Pain that could add on to any of the above thoughts to make the darkness even darker, or make for a dark fic on their own. Thunderstorms, for instance, are probably going to be a major trauma trigger not just for Ray but for everyone else who survived the tripods moving through their area; I could see Ray huddling with a fellow traumatized survivor or a bunch of them, one or several of them shaking or crying, just trying to comfort one another as best they can while they weather the storm. Similarly, a broken down car in the middle of nowhere would be an eerie parallel to what Ray experienced in the film - maybe he's alone this time and doesn't deal with it well, or maybe he's with a few other people who are compassionate and help him deal. Perhaps either of these is even a trapped with someone in need of medical care situation, with Ray hurt or sick and unable to hide it when in close quarters to others, and the storm being too intense for anyone to try and get him help until it passes.
Violence is also not unlikely in a survivor camp or just in general in a post-apocalypse scenario, and I could see Ray either stepping in to try and defuse things and getting hurt because of it, or just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be the kind of quiet, awkward, perceived-as-weird person that those looking for violence like to target. Both the tags for this situation involve impalement or near-impalement - pinned/stabbed to surface as a form of restraint, possibly through a sleeve or through the arm or leg, possibly because Ray was being inconvenient for someone who wanted to steal something or hurt someone else and had to be got out of the way, and crucifixion, for which I'm mostly seeing him being pinned to a surface through the wrist or hand. For both of these I'm interested both in the trauma of the situation itself and in the (probably long-term) healing afterwards - whether Ray ends up just weaker in that arm, or whether he ends up with a limp, or ends up losing the use of a hand entirely, I want to see the healing process and someone, or multiple someones, looking after Ray while he's badly hurt and in shock on top of everything else they've all been through.
There's also a Solitary Confinement tag, for the possibility that Ray is held as responsible by law enforcement for the violent incident as the actual instigators, and is put in a cell while he's hurt, and possibly someone who witnessed the incident or just someone from the survivor camp makes it their mission to get him freed and then help him heal up afterwards.
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Collateral (2004)
Characters: Vincent, Max Durocher, Daniel Baker (you don't have to include them all, as long as Vincent is there
Ships: Vincent/Max, Vincent/Daniel (in vastly different ways)
For Vincent/Max, I'm super into rough, kinky hatesex, possibly involving cars; for Vincent/Daniel, I'm super into something softer, with caretaking and lots of reluctant mutual understanding. (I'm also generally very into Vincent's motivations and his cynical worldview, especially considering a lot of it stems from an abusive childhood and being passed around foster homes, and probably a great deal of financial insecurity. It's possible the alienation of being queer compounded that, too.)
Thoughts/prompts:
Vincent finding himself torn down and vulnerable.
For Vincent &/ Max, I see this as dark and bitter and confusingly sexual (with the confusion mainly on Max's side). Vincent is a terrible person, and yet you kind of feel for him; Max is a sad bean who never asked to be caught up in any of this, and yet somehow finds it in himself to be an absolute hero and kick ass. Please tell me more about these messed up people and the rough, kinky hatesex they get up to. I'm a-okay with fic set before the film, during the film, or after the film in a universe where Vincent doesn't die.
Until Max got the better of him, Vincent spent most of the film reading Max like a book, and constantly, mercilessly unmasking him to himself. What I'm after with these prompts is a just reversal of that, a re-balancing of the power dynamic between them by means of Vincent being hurt. I'm here for Max getting to see Vincent torn down and vulnerable, to see what an utter mess he is, how held together with trash and duct tape he is under all the posturing. (He's a dick, to put it mildly, but there's an angle or two from which he's...really fucking tragic? When you start to see him coming undone, you really see him coming undone. We know a few things about him that are established as sore spots - that he's been passed around between foster homes and an abusive dad, and that he was military or a military contractor before he became a hitman.)
Maybe this is the same night as the film, and Daniel at the jazz club convinces Vincent not to kill him, or something happens to convince him to let Annie go, or there's just a skirmish with police or a rival assassin group, and Vincent ends up badly wounded - and Max can neither let him die, nor resist the urge to torment him by providing comfort with no explanation, no reason for it that would conceivably make sense to Vincent (a perfect h/c ex tag for this pairing: "comfort as cruelty"). Maybe Vincent gets hurt and tries to fix himself up in the back of the cab, and Max catches sight of all his scars in the rearview mirror, and one thing leads to another and they end up making out roughly, Max noticing every old injury, every stiffness of a limb, everything that points to Vincent having had a hell of a past; noticing every gasp of pain he can't manage to hide. Maybe, for something completely different, Vincent survives the MTA with permanent injuries from the incident that end his career as a hitman, turns state's evidence or just disappears and possibly grows, like, half a conscience (which he hates but now it's there), and gets a card from the Island Limo Company while he's healing up.
For Vincent &/ Daniel, I see this as softer. Here's a more detailed rundown of my reading of their dynamic, but broadly speaking: there could be a universe where their connection over jazz got strong enough to sway Vincent from killing Daniel, and in that universe, there could be another where Vincent survives the MTA and crawls back to Daniel's club gravely injured, hoping for some music or some conversation, or just hoping to die in the one place that's ever given him something like happiness. Maybe in that universe, Daniel saves his life instead.
I'm fascinated by Daniel, and I think (despite, or because of, his criminal past) that he's a compassionate man. Vincent's not expecting compassion, and doesn't know what to do with it, but he's badly injured to the extent that recovery will probably be somewhat long-term, and he's pretty much at Daniel's mercy, and what Daniel decides to give him is gentleness. I am all about Daniel caring for Vincent with attention and affection, and Vincent suffering in silent powerless fury for every second of it because he knows he doesn't deserve anything like this, no matter how much he's always wanted it - things like changing dressings, carrying him, bringing extra blankets when he's cold, sitting beside him when he can't sleep. I am all about Vincent getting to see Daniel go about his daily life, running the club and practicing the trumpet and being nice to people like a normal, very nice man, while Vincent's essentially an invalid and therefore forced to stay there and witness what a happy, normal life can be. I am all about recovery not being linear and Vincent getting suddenly sicker to the point where he's delirious and miserable and ends up spilling his soul to Daniel, talking about the miserable life he's had without all the propriety filters he had with Max, and for Daniel to share some of his own previous hardships in return, and for them to start to bond over that. Maybe they proceed to build a real acquaintanceship over music and Mysterious Criminal Pasts while Vincent is recovering, too sick to pick up targets; maybe eventually it turns out Vincent's permanently injured to the point where he can't be an assassin any more, and has to figure out how to be a person living a normal civilian life instead, and Daniel has experience in that area and can help him out.
Vincent finding himself torn down and vulnerable: BDSM edition.
For Vincent/Max, again, my take on this is dark and bitter and hopeless (this pairing is the exception to my hopeless endings DNW). I'm here for Vincent And Max Getting It On In All The Rough, Fucked Up Ways, during or after the film. Maybe one or both of them are drugged or drunk or high, maybe Vincent's sick or injured so badly he's hallucinating and isn't sure Max is real (and Max isn't sure Vincent's really consenting). Maybe they use banging each other as an excuse to talk out or fuck out their various issues, like Max's with his limo company and Vincent's with his father. Vincent is definitely a masochist; maybe he's surprisingly eager to please, and Max uses that to get revenge for everything Vincent put him through in the film. Maybe he does that by hurting him, or maybe he does it by getting him to confess to (or just talk about) all the times he's been vulnerable in the past. Maybe Vincent's time in the military comes up, in a kinky context or an angsty, bitter context, or both. Maybe they walk away weirdly healed...or maybe just bleeding and ripped apart.
I'd like whatever they do sexually to be more or less consensual, if not necessarily safe or sane - I could get behind mutual dubcon scenarios, where they could be drunk, both under the influence of a ~substance (really fond of acid for this, but also like, nebulous fictional drug that has whatever effects you want it to is also a pretty good choice), or (as mentioned above) Vincent may be hallucinating and not entirely conscious, but I don't want either of them to use physical force to get the other to sexually comply. I don't want either of them to hold disproportionate power over the other - as Max established in the second half of the film, the leash very much goes both ways. (Also Vincent is weirdly fucking principled for a hitman and I could see him as being laughably obsessed with consent, so make of that what you will.)
There are some dubcon-flavoured thoughts/prompts in my Chocobox/Consent Issues writeup on them, here.
For Vincent/Daniel, again, my reading is softer. I love the two of them discovering each other's scars, I love Daniel being the gentlest dom and Vincent just not knowing anything about how to handle that, never really having received gentleness in life before. Vincent asking for pain because he gets off on it, but also because it's all he knows, and Daniel agreeing (for instance) to tie him down but then doing it so gently instead. Vincent, still recovering, insisting he can take more pain or just more activity in general than he really can, and hurting himself more and being furious at himself for having physical limits, and Daniel being like 'I told you so' but also just treating him kindly, like he's a small angry cat who just needs to be humoured a bit. I'm very into surprisingly soft, gentle fever!sex with the two of them, but I'm also into Daniel using Vincent's extra pliability from the fever to order him into things like (angsty version) talking about something terrible that happened to him when he was a kid, or (slightly fluffy but also still kind of angsty version) talking to him about what he thinks about jazz. Very here for Vincent being deathly terrified of being seen, having spent his whole life making sure he's invisible, and not dealing with it well at all. (He might even have an instinct to lash out at some point, and Daniel being six foot two and built could easily just hold him down till he calms.)
Vincent as lapsed Catholic.
This is out of absolutely nowhere, but we know Vincent spent a lot of his childhood being passed around between institutions and foster homes. I'm fascinated with the idea of his having been...kinda generally shoved into Catholicism, like institutions and some foster homes tend to do. I don't think he ever believed or cared about actively practicing, but I do think he might have been fairly often and fairly consistently exposed to the practices and beliefs. Which, as anyone who's experienced close proximity to religion while growing up will tell you, results in some interesting feelings later on in life. Only some of those feelings are Varying Degrees Of Internalized Bullshit. Some of them are that instinctive flinch of fear if you do something Not Allowed, like have a sexual thought in a place of worship, even if you know intellectually that such things aren't wrong; others are that fear fading into delight at flagrantly disobeying every nonsense rule that was drilled into you.
I'm fascinated by the general imagery of the warmth and safety a church can provide, and specifically the deep sense of alienation that comes from participating in church activities while knowing you, for whatever reason, you are not included in that warmth. Whether it's because you're secretly queer (whether or not you've realized it yet), or because you don't fit what you 'should' be in some other way, or just because you're a sullen, angry child who's been through shit they can't process and is probably still actively going through shit they can't process - just standing there knowing all this supposed warmth and solace can't touch you. Hell, there are lots of ways to be wrong in the eyes of the church, most of them extremely innocuous, and no matter how much you grow up and realize you weren't wrong, the guilt of it all leaves a mark on you. I'm really intrigued by the thought of Vincent having had this experience in childhood, and how it might have shaped him, as the angry kid he no doubt was. Maybe he was messed up, but not quite so messed up yet, not particularly a problem child, just...invisible. Maybe he was a problem child, but like...intermittently, the way abused kids are, trying to melt into the walls one day and acting out the moment he's noticed. Either way, I'd like to see how the church just...kind of doesn't help at all, how he fell through the cracks of that system just as much as he did though those of society at large. Maybe he got to see other kids and other people actually find community and healing, while he was just there, on the fringes, knowing neither how to perform adequate faith and be seen as part of the fold, nor how to be a good enough kid in general to merit, say, counseling or academic help. I could see him developing a deep and bitter resentment of this system, just as he has for every other system, and a deep and bitter resentment of the people there who really managed to belong, whether it was parishioners who seemed to have normal lives, or maybe the other foster kids or institution kids he knew. I could see that going double if he were realizing he was gay or bi. I could see that resentment fading from his immediate consciousness as he grew older and didn't have to depend on these systems any more, but I could just as easily see it welling up again as strongly as before if, for instance, circumstances forced him and (Max or Daniel) to take shelter in a church.
I don't think Vincent would ever regret his life as a contract killer. I think he considers it something he was forced into in order to survive, a fault of the system rather than one of his own, and even if he hypothetically grew a conscience about it I think he'd just shrug it off and stop rather than let it tear him up much. That said, I am delighted by the thought that Vincent might have some kind of uncomfortable feeling that he's a sinner, might consider the thought that forgiveness might be offered but ultimately decide he doesn't believe/trust any potential higher power enough to care to want it. (Also that he might be disgusted at the thought of being 'forgiven' for being gay, when perhaps that's one of the only things that's ever given him something like happiness.) I'm also delighted by the general idea of Making Out and/or Fucking In A Church. Like, you can go all out on the blasphemy kink and I'll eat it up with a spoon. All the conflicted feelings mixed with delight on the part of the characters is excellent. Rough dubcon (with Max as aggressor) is excellent if Max is the partner involved, roughness mixed with gentleness is excellent if it's Daniel, as is just a general feeling of surrealness (fever? injury or pain? alcohol or drugs? exhaustion?) and how that interplays with ingrained Catholic Guilt as well as just religious imagery in general. Maybe Max ends up stabbing Vincent to a surface through the arm to pin him down. Maybe Vincent and Daniel arrive with Vincent already injured, bleeding from his hands or wrists. Maybe there's patching up before, or after, there's making out.
I am also very, very down for parallels between Max and any saint you want, or especially between Daniel and any saint you want.
Like...if you happen to be considering this, and wondering how much is too much, the answer is 'please feel free to take this prompt and go full Like A Prayer with it'.
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Minority Report (2002)
Characters: John Anderton
Ships: gen, John/Danny Witwer, John/Lara (as not entirely healthy relationship), John/Lamar Burgess (as manipulative and abusive of Lamar towards John), John/Iris Hineman (as noncon with Hineman as the aggressor)
Here for John crashing hard after the film, and learning to rebuild. Also here for exploration of John in fucked up relationships and their repercussions pre-, during- and post-film - John/Lara as unhealthy and mutually destructive, and/or John/Lamar as deeply manipulative and abusive on Lamar's side toward John.
(Definitely willing for John to eventually end up in a happy relationship with Danny Witwer, assuming Danny Witwer Didn't Die.)
Thoughts/prompts:
Pre-Canon: Lamar Burgess manipulating and taking advantage of John so he can have his Precrime poster boy.
This film is full of sexual creepiness towards John - the doctor and nurse hitting on him, Hineman forcibly kissing him, and on a more subtle, insidious level there's Burgess calling him "my boy" and the film implying he's been John's sole emotional support for the past six years - and then revealing he's been manipulating him all along, been enabling his drug habit and possibly deliberately keeping him emotionally unstable so he can have both Precrime, and John as its public face.
I'm here for any and all exploration of how truly awful Lamar was to John, all while keeping both Lara and John himself convinced that he only had John's best interests in mind. I'm especially interested in this turning sexual, with fucked up, manipulative Lamar/John at any time from six years before the film to during - either implicit with Lamar offering John emotional support and implying romance, offering intimate touch but it never reaching the level of kissing or sex, or full-blown Lamar taking advantage of John when he's vulnerable with grief, making him dependent on him emotionally and for dope, thoroughly messing him up. I could see John having a massive praise kink, and Lamar taking full advantage of that to get him to do more and more work for Precrime as well as sexual favours for him. Maybe Lamar starts him off slow, asking for small favours that gradually turn more and more sexual, and John, adrift and lost and overwhelmed with grief for his dead son with no chance to heal, believes Lamar is his only friend and feels like he can't refuse him anything for fear of losing his support. Maybe Lamar offers romance, starts off kissing John tenderly, and then pushes him away, only touching him when he wants to get off, and leaves John desperately wondering what he did wrong, how he can get his affection back. He might pretend to help John with his grief, but really says 'well-meaning' things that keep him deliberately in pain and unable to heal. Maybe he even enables John's addiction by pretending to help, but really sending him to dealers who give him stronger stuff to keep him hooked. Possibly whenever he notices John's doing better, whether with regard to addiction or to mental health, he makes sure to very gently say things that sound concerned and well-meaning, but really deliberately reopen so many wounds that he knows John will be using that night. Maybe he even convinces himself he's doing it for the good of humanity, keeping John able to do his important work as a Precrime officer so potential killers can get caught.
I'd like any kissing or sex to happen after John and Lara separate, but for the Burgesses this particular scenario would stand as an exception to my infidelity DNW as well - Mrs Burgess can know and not mind, or not know, as you see fit. If she does, I'd like John to be conflicted; if she doesn't I'd like him to be absolutely destroyed by it but still helpless to stop or resist Lamar's advances.
I would welcome dark d/s overtones here, too. John as messed up vulnerable sub who doesn't realize he's being manipulated, and has to slowly heal from this 'relationship', along with all the other things he has to heal from after the film. Some tags from Darkest Night that might apply here: Emotional Manipulation • Unhealthy relationships - character is desperate to please partner • Dub/Noncon - Initially Nonsexual Demands Gradually Become More Sexual • Subdrop • Masochistic sub thinks they deserve genuine punishment • BDSM - Character Is Refused Aftercare / Given Inadequate Or Grudging Aftercare • Unable to Safeword • Character should safeword but doesn't • Dub/Noncon - Aggressor promises victim kink they want in exchange for kink that triggers them • Dub/Noncon - Aggressor uses knowledge of victim's kinks against them • Consensual aftercare after nonconsensual sex • Dubcon due to eagerness to please • Abuse - Condescending praise • Gaslighting • Noncon praise kink
During Canon: Dr Hineman coercing John into sex while he's literally on the verge of dying from her plant poison.
Hineman is so deeply creepy and unsettling - she's almost a more intimidating villain than Burgess. That nonconsensual kiss while John was almost dying was all kinds of horrible, and I could easily see her deciding that wasn't all she wanted. Some tags from Darkest Night that would fit this situation: Altered States - Drugs (Nonconsensual) • breathplay/asphyxiation during rape • Character unsure of own consent • Consensual aftercare after nonconsensual sex • Forced Kissing • Forced to Enjoy It • Inexperienced character is confused by noncon
John's already affected by the poison from Hineman's plants that grabbed him and cut him; he's barely able to speak until a few minutes after he chokes the antidote down. Maybe the antidote takes longer to work than we're shown, leaves John weaker than we're shown. Maybe it's a hallucinogen or other mental state altering substance in its own right. I'm down for Hineman coercing and/or forcing John into sex while he's too desperate and emotionally fucked up to really understand what's going on - I'm also down for him enjoying it, for her really blowing his mind and making sure that he enjoys it, and him having really conflicted feelings about it after the film. I am absolutely here for all the recovery plots
Post-Canon: Trauma aftermath, possible addiction-relapse-and-recovery plot, and John's getting back together with Lara really, really not going well.
Post-canon, I'm really interested in how John deals and how he recovers. I'm here for John suffering through aftereffects of the halo (neurological symptoms, maybe migraines, auras, nightmares, flashbacks, days when he's trapped back in that world of torment and can't make it out, not knowing what's real) and dealing with suddenly being blind in one eye, as well as the loss of everything that's helped him survive the past six years. I'm also very here for his addiction getting worse until it reaches breaking point and he has to suffer through getting clean, withdrawal symptoms and all. (I'm very here for an exploration of the addiction plotline in general - I'm disappointed in the film not exploring it. If you want to show me what neuroin actually does, what its effects are, what makes John reach for it in the first place, how he lives with it in the day to day, and how he finally gets clean, I am absolutely down for that.)
Lara/John-wise, I'm pretty annoyed about the ending of the film, so I'm very much down to read John and Lara making an attempt to get back together that doesn't go well - perhaps with her trying to pressure him into making it work while he's all kinds of fucked up both physically and mentally, and him just not being able to deal with anything about it, especially the constant memories of their past life together on top of all the health issues he's dealing with, and one day just calling it quits and leaving even though it tears him apart. They both seem heavy on denial as a coping mechanism, so I could see Lara just trying to ignore how sick and hurt John is, and him following her lead and trying to ignore it too until it gets bad enough that he can't any more. (I'd be down for a potential dub/noncon situation here too, with Lara pressuring John into sex when he's too sick or hurting too badly or too far gone on neuroin to want it, or even to actively participate. Most of the dub/noncon and BDSM tags apply here too, except for the ones that deal with deliberate coercion and manipulation - I don't think Lara wants or sets out to hurt John, but she has very little patience with his trauma and the long time he takes to heal, and so ends up hurting him badly anyway.)
Further Post-Canon: John finally getting to heal long-term (on his own, or with Danny Witwer)
(Please assume all of this is taking place in a world where Danny Witwer Did Not Die! If you'd like to involve Danny, I'd love to see him also in a state of recovery, since he got shot in the chest and is presumably healing from it.)
Consent issues or no, I could see John kind of running away from Lara - not leaving her in the lurch, but certainly having a deeply stressful conversation telling her he can't do this any more, and then getting as far away from her and the NYPD as he can. Does he hole up in his apartment hoping he'll eventually feel better? Does he go to Agatha and the twins if he realizes he's possibly too sick to be alone? Does he just go somewhere offbeat and cut off contact with everyone until somebody starts to worry (is that somebody Witwer)? Does he go through withdrawal alone and eventually come out okay, or does Witwer find him during and hold him through the shakes? Do things get bad enough that Witwer has to drag him to hospital despite his protests and newfound distrust of the system? Does he even get good treatment if they do, or are the medics in this universe just as cruel and uncaring as the police?
Speaking of which, I'm super here for John quitting the MPD and finding something else to do. He's probably had a revelation about the system he used to trust, and he's probably disqualified anyway now because of the blindness in that eye and his other symptoms post-halo. I'd love to see him reconstruct his life when he gets better, adjust to a new normal with essentially a chronic illness if the effects of the halo get better but never fully leave. I'd definitely love to see him do it with Danny at his side, and both of them learning not just how to be with each other and look after each other but also how to be people, not just bland colourless law-enforcement officers in their bland colourless law-enforcement world.
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