Fic in a Box

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Hi! First of all, I’m super excited about this exchange :D Second, please know that all my rambling of head canons and any prompts are meant as jumping off points, not restrictions, and if you have your own ideas, see something in a past letter, or in my general likes, feel free to bring them to the table (as longs they don’t hit my DNWs)!

Although, I’d like to note that while I’m super happy for past letters to be used, please only use my DNW list from this letter (I used to DNW some stuff I’ve since learnt that I love!).

General & Art Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Dimension 20
The Folk of the Air
Hamilton
Murder by Numbers

General Likes
- Casefic
- Darkfic
- PWP
- Angst
- Hurt/comfort & whump
- Characters suffering, especially for reasons they bring on themselves or due to self-hate, but any reason for suffering is good stuff
- Bathing/washing, being dried with a towel, being fed
- Power dynamics being explored
- Bed sharing, fake dating, snowed in, trapped together, huddling for warmth, all those fun tropey setups!
- Being emotionally overloaded or overwhelmed
- Height differences
- Touch-starved or stoic characters
- Sad characters
- Bisexual characters
- Ghosts
- Weddings and wedding nights
- Cooking and food especially food sharing
- Enemies and annoyances to lovers, rivalries especially flirty ones
- Getting together, first kisses, feelings realisation
- Clothes sharing
- Soulmate aus especially words/last words, especially when this trope is twisted to be horror
- Horror in general
- Team as family and found family
- 5+1
- Nonsexual intimacy
- Guilt-laden infidelity
- Messy characters in extremely messy situations

Things I opt-in to: mentioned past relationships or background ships, major character death, experimental formats inc. interactive fiction, pregnancy, second person POV, identity headcanons, graphic violence, sad or ambiguous endings, suicide

Favourite Card & Board Games
Terraforming Mars, Love Letter, The Resistance: Avalon, Tokyo Highway, Splendor, Castles of Burgundy, Betrayal at House on the Hill, The Mind, Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Hearts, Hanabi

Art Likes
I like a wide variety of art! Bold colours, black & white/greyscale, jewel tones, dark neons. I love interesting compositions and perspectives, and shots that feel like the characters were caught in the moment. I like most tones — fluffy and bright or dark and angsty or intimate and intense.

I like comics and gifs too! I don’t have specific art-related DNWs. I have more specific ideas in my individual prompts below, but yeah, I’m pretty open to whatever way the wind takes you, if you want to make art!

Smut Likes
Rough sex, vanilla sex, praise kink, hand kink, biting/scratching, public use and gangbangs, being held down, bittersweet sex, noncon (except my DNW stipulation), dubcon, heat cycles, face-fucking, extremely emotionally charged sex, spanking, first times, humour and awkwardness, aftercare, femsub, finger fucking, cunnilingus, public and semi-public sex, bad guys made them do it, pining while fucking, sex pollen, strapons, affectionate use of the word "slut/whore" (like "you’re a good little slut"), showing trust through sex acts, voyeurism, masturbation (solo, mutual and guided), frottage, clothed and semi-clothed sex, handholding while fucking

I’m okay with either come/cum as spelling and with pussy and cunt as terminology for vaginas.

This list is non-exhaustive, I have a lot of things I like! Feel free to ask via mods if you’re not sure. This is my generic list, it all applies to non- and dub-con too. I think the only things to add is that I also like characters absolutely hating how much they are enjoying what’s happening, and non-sexual non-consensual touch (or boundary crossing in general)! Oh, and either POV is fine by me!

DNWs
- Anyone under 17 in sexual situations
- Het!anal
- Noncon where the victim receives no pleasure (they don’t have to enjoy it, but I want them to receive pleasure whether they want to or not)
- Scat, watersports, emetophilia, belly kinks (inc. feeding & inflation), pussy slapping, fisting
- The phrase “to the hilt”
- Mpreg
- Readerfic

Dimension 20
Fabian/Riz
Season 1: 17 hours + free on YouTube, Season 2: 50+ hours

Opt-Ins:
- /r/AmITheAsshole Post — one of them has hurt the other feelings, and turns to Reddit?
- /r/relationships Post — Riz or Fabian realise their feelings for the other, but aren’t sure what to do about it.
- Adaptation Concept Art — I would be pumped to see anything, especially reinterpretations of some of the physical sets.
- Animatics — I love animatics! I’ve included a list of bits at the bottom of this section I pulled out from season 2 while rewatching that I’d love to see. I don’t have time to go through season 1, but I’d be pumped for pretty much anything. The Ball in the bag scene is great, as is Fabian googling, but anything with them together is fun.
- Any In-Universe Documents — I bet Riz has so many weird notes on things. And I’d love to see any essays Fabian writes for school. But go wild, excited for anything! Grade scores, marked up tests, school records, receipts, invitations, party-planning docs, chat logs from their crystals, etc. etc. I’m into it all.
- Any Nominated Style of Poetry — in-universe or otherwise is great. I love poetry, so I’m open to anything.
- Bestiary — any monsters they encounter or totally new ones! I’d also love a pantheon, if you wanted to go in that direction. And we see a lot of hell & heaven so either of those would be cool in this style.
- Board Game — see above for my list of faves!
- Card Game — ditto!
- Comics — anything would be so cool. Original work or making any of the scenes into the comics would be equally appreciated. I’m up for straight-up traditional comics, or more arty interpretations too.
- Conspiracy Board — Riz is canonically very into conspiracy boards, so seeing one of his from Season 1 would be so damn cool! Does he make them for all his cases? Does he ever make them for personal problems?
- Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook — Riz or Fabian are both good. Or maybe seeing the style of each character? I bet they journal very, very differently.
- Fanart — I adore pretty much all fan art. I’ve included a list of S2 moments for animatics that could work for fan art, but honestly, anything that emphasises their size difference and has them together is great.
- Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic — I’ve written one fic for these two, called Safe Keeping.
- In-Universe Personal Documents — same as above for in-universe stuff. I would be down for pretty much anything.
- Interactive Fiction — either personal drama-style, or small case fiics would be cool, as would adapting bits from the canon into IF! Or anything else you come up with!
- Original Fan Music — Fantasy High has a strong history of fan music, with the Significant Figures fan album! I would dig seeing some more Fabian/Riz-centric songs.
- Stained Glass Sequence — wouldn’t they look gorgeous in glass? :D Feel free to interpret this widely, I’d be up for woodcarvings or stonecarvings or anything like that.
- Tarot Card — Fabian is definitely The Fool in season 1, and the Hanged Man in season 2. I’m not sure what Riz is — maybe the Knight of Pentacles? I’m open to interpretations for both, anyway! Or having them together as The Lovers is also great!

I love these two so dearly. I love Riz, anxious to a fault, methodical and totally uncool. I love Fabian, growing into himself and learning to let go of his pretension — but still not shaking all those upper class sensibilities. I also like Fabian pre-mid-season-two, so if you want to go in that direction, I will eat that up too! On which note, I am more than happy for this to take place in the gap between season 1 and season 2, rather than post-season 2 a lot of time passed that we didn’t get to see! Plus if you want to just watch season 1, which is free and Youtube, and much shorter, go for it!

I love the lengths these two go to for each other, even when Fabian is embarrassed about it. I like their entirely different approaches to life: one, loud and flamboyant, the other, quiet and careful.

I’m really happy to see any characters from Fantasy High included, either in fic or any of my other opt-ins! I love them all.

Possible Prompts:
- The rest of the Bad Kids have been kidnapped or in some way messed with, and it’s up for disaster artists Riz and Fabian to save them! Or any kind of casefic that forces Fabian to have to try and investigate.
- What happens when one of them is under some kind of charm or enchantment that causes them to hurt the other? Do they care more for the enchanted one’s mental wellbeing than about their own injuries? How do they comfort the enchanted one once they’ve been cured?
- It’s years after the Forest of the Nightmare King, and yet they can’t stop reliving it in their dreams. Maybe the reappearance of Baron? I find Baron utterly, terrifyingly creepy, and would love more content for them. Go as horror as your like!
- I love holiday stories. What are holiday traditions like in Sol? Feel free to dig into some world building or lore here, or just fluffy fun with these two preparing for things.
- One of them taking the other to either heaven or hell to visit their respective dads. What’s that like for them, to exist so much on the opposite of the ends of the spectrum in terms of their parents? Equally, I’d love to see Sklonda and Hillarial get together. What do they think of their sons together?

Season 2 Animatic Possibilities (and fan art in general, actually):
- "He grows on you, grandpapa. At the beginning, it’s like "that’s a lot" but then he grows on you." Episode 9, 1:54:30
- Riz jumping on Fabian and holding him back to allow Gilear to ask to marry Hillarial, Episode 9, 1:56:20
- Fabian tango dancing with the elemental to extinguish it, while Riz sobs in the corner, Episode 10, 42:10
- "I’m going to take a cool 15." "[Fabian] is a cool 15." Episode 11, 1:10:38
- Wrapping Riz in a sheet and giving him bardic inspiration, Episode 11, 1:18:50
- Fully crashes into the side of a building, going unconscious, to get to Riz quicker in Episode 16
- "Just glad you’re okay, The Ball. Was scary for a second." Episode 16, 2:08:00
- "Um, my dad says he really likes you guys." "What? I’m flattered." Episode 16, 2:09:15

The Folk of the Air
Jude/Cardan, Jude Duarte
3 books

Opt-In:
- /r/AmITheAsshole Post — there’s something that makes me snort about the idea of Cardan taking to Reddit to try and prove that he was in the right about the situation (and being shot down by the comments — or being told ESH).
- Adaptation Concept Art — anything would be really cool, I’d love to see some imaginings of what Elfhame looks like. Snake!Cardan could be cool especially, as could any of the throne room stuff from The Cruel Prince. But I’m up for anything!
- Any In-Universe Documents — dairies, royal decrees, Elfhame newspapers (or whatever their equivalent is), the perverse ramblings of Cardan, anything is wonderful.
- Any Nominated Style of Poetry — in-universe or outside of the universe, I’d be excited to see any style.
- Bestiary — tell me about the beasties or different kind of fae! Or, even, a bestiary told from the perspective of the fae, talking about humans and human-world-exclusive animals. Notes in the margins from some of the characters would be great too, since I forgot to nominate an exclusive worldbuilding tag.
- Board Game and Card Game — see above for my favourite board games.
- Comics — original or adapting a scene from the book is both wonderful.
- Costume Design — I love the description of some of the outfits in the book, but I’d also be extremely here for anything totally original. What did Jude wear at their actual wedding ceremony, for instance? Or any of Jude and/or Cardan’s outfits from balls or anything else would be spectacular.
- Fanart — I looove art of this series! I’m open to pretty much all styles — I’ve listed some general art likes above. I’d also love anything that matches the style of the illustrations in the book.
- In-Universe Personal Documents — mostly the same as in-universe stuff, I’d be up for anything.
- Interactive Fiction — explorations of their relationships or adapting parts of the book are both cool, as is anything else you come up with!
- Original Fan Music — I’d love to hear music for these books! I have no limitations here.
- Recipe Book — recipes from within the world would be super cool! I’m vegan, but don’t worry about making them so. Also, fantastical, non-real-world ingredients and recipes would be fun too. For the shipping aspect, notes from them could be fun, or show me their wedding reception meal or similar. For some reason, I am entirely convinced both Jude and Cardan would be terrible cooks, and Jude would be very frustrated by that fact.
- Spell or Ritual Instructions — anything would be cool here! I don’t have many prompts, just the idea that it would be really cool to see this.
- Stained Glass Sequence — How pretty either both of them or Jude would look in glass! Scenes from the book, original scenes or simply portraits are all equally wonderful.
- Tapestry — See above!
- Tarot Card — Either the two of them as The Lovers, Jude as Strength or The Magician (maybe?) or Cardan as The Fool (maybe?). As my "maybe"s suggest, I’m actually not sure what Jude or Cardan would be individually, and I’m happy to see your interpretation of their characters as different cards!

How do I adore these books, let me count the ways… They are so lush and gorgeous and incredibly iddy. I love the world building and find Elfhame an absolutely fascinating location. I love how cruel and strange the fae often are, and how Jude is bent and marked by both the landscape and the people she’s surrounded by.

For Jude/Cardan, I love both the antagonistic Cruel Prince period (and am very open to dub- and noncon), and the second two books where the feelings are becoming more clearly enemies-to-lovers. So hit me with whatever takes your mood.

For Jude, I love the lengths she’ll go to to get and hold onto power, the things she feels she must do. She’s an incredible character and I love watching the world trying to break her, and her refusing to let it. I’m interested in her relationships and friendships with her family and other cast members, if you want to go that way.

Possible Prompts but I am more than happy to receive PWP for the ship:
- Valerian comes back to life — and he comes back wrong.
- Jude and Cardan’s honeymoon, they decide to go stay at one of the other court’s. Could be light and fluffy, but maybe there’s something dark in the court? Could be very sexy, too!
- People are dying in the court. Is it a strange new curse? Is there a killer on the loose? Or is there something darker even still that is causing these people to stay away? This could take place any time in the canon, go as AU as you need.
- When spying, Jude discovers some awful secret about Cardan — or, her name written on his skin, a soulmate mark.
- We know that humans being pregnant with half-faerie children is no big deal. But given Cardan’s transformation in the final book, reversed as it may be, is there a chance it’s affected the kind of child Jude has? That the curse has meant she’s pregnant with some monstrous snake? And what ancient medicines do the fae folk inflict on a pregnant Jude to try and right it?
- Some strange infection is taking over in the Undersea and driving the mermaids mad. It just happens to be during the period in which they are keeping Jude hostage…

Hamilton
Hamilton/Burr
Disney+ & Spotify, approx. 2 hours

Opt-Ins:
- /r/AmITheAsshole Post, /r/legaladvice Post, /r/relationships Post — I just really love the idea of one of them being a total drama queen and taking to Reddit to sort out their drama.
- Animatics — I love their conversation in the Story of Tonight reprise, Hamilton visiting him next door in Non-Stop, and Burr being fuming mad at the beginning of Your Obedient Servant. I’ve also listed some favourite songs below in case it’s helpful for any of these prompts.
- Any In-Universe Documents — essays, papers, half-written half-completed exchanges, letters, journals, treaties etc. are all very welcome here.
- Any Nominated Style of Poetry — I’m open to any styles. If you wanted to write some Hamilton-style lyrics, I’d also very much be open to that!
- Comics — original or adapting from the play, either is awesome!
- Costume Design — costume designs from within the play or making whole new ones would be so cool. It could be elaborate — what they wore to the ball — or it could be the outfit they wore to the duel.
- Epistolary — Letters to each other, or letters about each other to other people, both are good. As are unfinished, never-sent letters that Burr keeps at the back of his drawer.
- Fanart — any interpretation is good, although I have a soft spot for the original London cast and original Broadway cast. I’d love anything that made use of the gold that appears in so much of the marketing, but anything goes!
- In-Universe Essay — from Hamilton or Burr — or marked up by either of them.
- In-Universe Personal Documents — journals, letters etc.
- In-Universe Poetry — does Alexander write Burr extravagant poetry? Does Burr secretly scribble snippets of sonnets in the margins of his work?
- Interactive Fiction — new personal drama, or adapting snippets from the play, or anything else, I’m open to all!
- Original Fan Music or Remix — yay, music! Remixes of any current songs, or your own music is both welcome. It doesn’t need to be in the style of the play, either, I’d be open to totally different styles. I’ve listed my favourite songs below, but I’d be open for remixes of anything. And if it’s original fan music, then just go wild, I’d be so pleased to see anything you can come up with.
- Playing Card — they’re both Jacks, right? Or maybe King/Jack, much to Burr’s annoyance.
- Stained Glass Sequence — or anything along those lines. I bet they’d look real pretty like this.
- Tarot Card — The Lovers for both of them! Temperance or Justice for Hamilton (maybe?) and The Fool or The Hermit for Burr (maybe?). I’m not super up on my arcana, so feel free to ignore my suggestions and go in whatever direction you please!

I came out of the West End version shipping this like burning, and that instinct has never gone away. My heart will always belong to that version, but I love the original cast too! And my gosh, my Spotify is forever altered by how much I listened to the soundtrack, shit…

My favourite part of this dynamic is Hamilton taking it casually, and Burr absolutely hating the fact he’s attracted to this guy who has taken so much from him (in his eyes). Anything playing with that, playing with the power dynamic between them or Burr’s jealously, would be wonderful. Burr being an angst machine and tying himself in knots about stuff is so much fun!

Also, I’m not a stickler for historical details oh at all, especially American history, so please don’t worry about being accurate in any way. As long as no one is browsing Twitter on their smartphone or nipping into Starbucks, you’re good.

Possible Prompts (but angsty PWP would be great too):
- Not so much a prompt, but a premise: for these two, I’d actually be up for a bunch of AUs: demon/possessed human, werewolves, vampire/vampire hunter (or vampire/vampire or vampire/human), Shakespearean actors etc.. Just anything that plays with their power dynamics in a new setting would be really cool! I’m not keen on very mundane AUs (college, coffee shop etc.), though.
- What was a time Burr finally gave into his baser desires, and how did it change things?
- Perhaps they were casually fucking for a while in the run-up to their relationship really souring, but I’d love to see an examination of things starting to change between them, including during sex.
- I kind of dig ghost!Hamilton who haunts Burr after his death. Could be cruelly, could be kindly, could be sexily, could be a healthy dosage of all of the above.
- A deep-dive into one of their psyche’s during the duel, or the immediate aftermath, where Burr reckons with what he’s done.
- I’m a sucker for soulmate marks between these two, especially a) not realising it until the duel (or beforehand, but it still being too late to fix things that have broken so fundamentally), or b) Hamilton is Burr’s soulmate, but Burr isn’t Hamilton’s, leading to much angst on Burr’s part.

Favourite Hamilton Songs (in no particular order, and some of these aren’t Hamburr-centric, but…):
- Non-Stop
- Your Obedient Servant
- Satisfied
- Wait for It
- Dear Theodosia
- The Room Where it Happens
- The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
- The World Was Wide Enough
- Yorktown

Murder by Numbers
Richard/Justin
Single film, approx. 2 hours

Opt-Ins: [This part is currently a WIP, will be finished in time for exchange ending!]
- /r/IAmA AMA Post, /r/legaladvice Post, /r/relationships Post
- Any In-Universe Documents
- Any Nominated Style of Poetry
- Board Game and Card Game
- Comics
- Conspiracy Board
- Fanart
- In-Universe Essay
- In-Universe Magazine/News Article
- In-Universe Poetry
- In-Universe Screenplay - I love the idea of the boys (or just Richard) writing a screenplay about the murder, with Richard thinking it’s too audacious for anyone to suspect
- In-Universe Sketch Book Pages
- Interactive Fiction
- Original Fan Music
- Tarot Card

What a delightfully fucked up relationship these two have. It’s the most homoerotic movie in existence (well, other than Rope, but still) and I love every second of Ryan Gosling pawing at Michael Pitt. It’s such a trashy movie and it scratches all my particular itches, especially for villains in love! I love it so much.

I love the tension between them, both due to the manipulative nature of their relationships and due to the fact they’re trying to cover up their murder. But I’d be happy for this to taken place any time pre- or post-canon too. Feel free to hit me with some extreme canon diverging AUs too, if you wanna have fun with a "what if" scenario.

If you want to include Sandra Bullock’s character or her partner, I’m totally up for that too. It’s not the most interesting part of the movie for me, but I still enjoy that plot line a whole lot.

Possible Prompts (but happy to receive dark PWP):
- How did Richard and Justin get to know each other in the first place? They seem like an unlikely pair, and I’d love to know what drew them together — who approached who? How did they come to broach the idea of murder? I’m always fascinated by how people come up with this stuff!
- Ghost AU, with Richard haunting Justin while the latter is in prison. How does he deal with it? What does Richard do, knowing the truth of Justin’s loyalties now?
- As much as I love the UST, I’d also love to see it broken. When’s the first time they fucked? How do they deal with the fact they are both desperate for power when fucking?
- Justin starts dating someone, Richard is wildly jealous and does something drastic about it.
- Dark PWP, maybe with dubcon, possibly involving another person too.
- AU where they get away with the first murder, and go about planning their second. Now that they’ve almost been rumbled once, how does it change their plans? Or do they continue to make similar mistakes? Do they ramp up the violence, or try to bring someone else into the fold?