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Dec 5, 2024, 4:49:54 PM12/5/24
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Grimm (TV)
Once Upon a Time (TV)
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Grimm (TV)
Once Upon a Time (TV)
Doctor Who
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Request 1 by Trobadora
Fandom: Grimm (TV)
Relationships: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton (Grimm TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Summary:
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane/modern AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); omegaverse; mpreg; immortals becoming mortal/nonhuman characters becoming human; unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings; first or second person narration.
Fandom-specific DNWs: submissive or exclusive bottom Renard; Nick/Adalind as more than a passing mention.
Request details/Prompts: (more in my letter - there wasn't enough space)
Generally: I'm fascinated with Hexenbiests/Zauberbiests, their psychology, their relationship with the rest of the Wesen world and with the Royals, and with the Wesen world in general, the roles of Royals and Grimms, the unorthodox places both Renard and Nick carve out for themselves in that world, and Juliette as a Hexenbiest who was created, not born. I'd love anything that explored or showed some details of the worldbuilding around Wesen, Grimms, Royals, the Gesetzbuch-Ehrenkodex, the Wesen Council, Nick's inheritance of Grimm paraphernalia, and/or the various kinds of Wesen and how they interact with the mundane world. Something around the thematic complex of Wesen potentially becoming public knowledge would be fantastic too.
Nick/Renard/Juliette:
I've been fascinated by the dynamic between Nick and Renard from the start - the Grimm who has a badge and a conscience, and his captain the royal bastard. Two people who have been antagonists and allies, who have protected and deceived each other, who have every reason to distrust each other at times - and yet they always ended up setting their differences aside when it mattered. Even after the massive breakdown in late season 5/early season 6, even after trying to kill each other in all seriousness, they still ultimately ended up on the same side.
For Renard and Juliette, I always thought that after they were cured of Adalind's curse, a certain mutual attraction remained, but they never really dealt with the aftermath or any remaining feeling. Juliette turning into a Hexenbiest gave them something fundamental in common, and I loved her turning to Renard for help when she she felt her entire life crumbling around her, but Renard was too caught up in his own issues to help much. And in season 5, the situation with Eve and Black Claw meant they never actually connected again.
As for Nick and Juliette, their relationship was very solid for a long time and then spectacularly broke down, exposing all the things they'd never really dealt with before - from the reasons she turned down his proposal to his bad reaction to what she becomes, and later never acknowledging how he failed to support her. But even though Juliette was changed fundamentally, changed sides, broke up with Nick, tried to kill him, sought Renard's help and allied with his enemies - in the end, despite everything, they all ended up on the same side after all.
Considering all of this, I'd love anything that brings all three of them together to overcome whatever bad things the world throws at them. Perhaps Renard manages to stop Juliette's downward spiral before it goes too far, or Nick overcomes his own issues and can help her through it. Or after season 4 she never ends up with Hadrian's Wall and manages to come back from it otherwise. Perhaps season 5 takes a different turn when Nick decides to trust Renard, and together they break through Eve's conditioning. Maybe post-season 6, they come together after all. Or time-travel fix-it where one of them goes back and gets a chance to do things differently!
But I'd just as much love something set earlier - working on a case after Nick finds out about Renard, or one or two of them saving the other(s), or otherwise forced to rely on each other while things are tense, or trapped or hiding together. Perhaps Juliette and Renard confront their residual feelings from the curse while Nick and Juliette are still together. Or an AU where at the start of canon, Nick learns Renard is Wesen right away, and/or decides to tell Juliette the truth from the start? Or they all meet under different circumstances - maybe Juliette met Renard first, and they're already involved when Nick appears on the scene.
I'm particularly fond of anything that involves trust issues, demonstrations of loyalty, and unexpected (unexpectedly public?) displays of support, but most of all I want the three of them ultimately being good for each other.
Dear Creator Letter https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1219391.html
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Request 2 by Trobadora
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Prince Charming | David Nolan/Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard
Medium: Fanfiction
Summary:
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane/modern AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); omegaverse; mpreg; immortals becoming mortal/nonhuman characters becoming human; unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings; first or second person narration.
Fandom-specific DNWs: submissive Regina; focus on Robin Hood, Captain Hook or Rumple.
Request details/Prompts:
I'm not sure when exactly I started to think of these three as a triad - perhaps when Snow on her wedding night seemed to be fixated on Regina than anything. *g* Snow and Regina have been obsessed with each other for a very long time. It starts with friendship, and Regina saving Snow; it descends into hatred. But even at Regina's worst when she's all about hurting Snow, she can't actually bring herself to go through and kill her. And no matter how much it might be self-defence, neither can Snow bring herself to kill Regina. Then Regina manages to actually climb out of the darkness, and as soon as she can bring herself to believe it, Snow is right there for her, and they find each other again. I love the total breakdown and healing of their relationship. Friends to bitterest enemies to close family - that kind of thing is catnip for me.
But it's not just the two of them, and not merely because Snow and David are a package deal. Snow always knew there was more to Regina than the Evil Queen, but for David, she was only Snow's nemesis, the Evil™ hanging over Snow's head, and it took him a long time to see beyond that. So it was a different journey for him towards the close friendship all three of them end up in, but in the end Regina and David have developed a really cute relationship between them, which I'd never have expected considering how they started out. They still snipe at each other, but it's friendly rather than hostile. I simply adore the dynamic all three of them ended up having, and I'd love to see their obviously close familial relationship turned romantic or sexual or both. Starting with the Missing Year when all three of them were ruling together from Regina's castle in the Enchanted Forest, it feels like it would only take a tiny step sideways of canon to get there. No better expression of how far they've come than the end of that part (shown in flashback in A Curious Thing), where both David and Snow literally put their hearts in Regina's hands: David so Snow can cast the Dark Curse, and Snow so Regina can split it in half. And the next season, when the Snow Queen's Spell of Shattered Sight breaks, they go from trying to kill each other to just bursting out laughing - what their worst selves almost did to each other is just absurd once they're free. ♥ But even earlier, if the obsession between Regina and Snow had turned into something different, David could have been dragged along half willingly, half unwillingly, and entirely baffled by the place they all end up in.
I would particularly love something about them protecting or defending each other - whether in an "only I am allowed to kill you" kind of way during the Evil Queen period, or later as "I'm not letting anything hurt you again" from Regina or Snow, or David having to defend Regina knowing he'd have been on the other side of that argument not so long ago. How does it work when they're all ruling together in the Enchanted Forest? What happens when they have to deal with the Evil Queen as a separate person from Regina in season 6? How does it go when they meet again after Regina left Storybrooke to join Henry? More about Snow and David coming to Regina's aid in the finale? How do they all deal with the aftermath of joining the realms? What if their relationship becomes public knowledge? How do people react? Do they enjoy baffling (and probably horrifying) all of Storybrooke with their relationship? Anything!
(A note - I know the final season is controversial, but personally I loved it, and I'd enjoy fic that engages with it if that's something you're interested in. I also really like Regina's canonical relationship with Emma and Henry, and later Wish!Henry, and would love seeing them if they happen to fit into your story.)
Dear Creator Letter https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1219391.html
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Request 3 by Trobadora
Fandom: Doctor Who
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Jack Harkness/Missy
Medium: Fanfiction
Summary:
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal (except for Master-typical shenanigans); unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane/modern AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); omegaverse; mpreg; immortals becoming mortal/nonhuman characters becoming human; unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings; first or second person narration.
Fandom-specific DNWs: submissive Missy; Jack being or one day becoming the Face of Boe; post-Missy versions of the Master; anything to do with the Timeless Child; Rose Tyler or Clara Oswald as anything more than background characters.
Request details/Prompts:
When Utopia aired, I became a Doctor/Jack shipper overnight, fascinated by Jack being a fixed point in space and time, a "Fact", as the Doctor says, and by the way that truth could both keep him and the Doctor apart and bring them together. Doctor/Master is a pairing I've always just assumed was there in the background. Their love/hate relationship, so much fondness underlying even their tensest, most horrifying conflicts, has always been palpable. And of course ever since Last of the Time Lords, Jack and the Master have their own fraught history - one that consists mostly of the Master imprisoning and torturing Jack on the Valiant. Then Missy appeared, and had such fantastic chemistry with the Twelfth Doctor, I started to ship Doctor/Master in earnest.
I've always wanted to see what would happen if you threw these three together into close proximity, in a situation less immediately antagonistic than what happened on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was, where they'd all have to deal with their complex and conflicting feelings about each other. How would Jack react to Missy's version of the Master - how would they relate to each other? How would the Doctor react? Post-Valiant, Jack knows what the Master means to the Doctor; the Master knows (or thinks she knows) what Jack means to the Doctor and vice versa. Jack and the Doctor clearly care about each other a great deal, but there are lot of issues between them that only start with Jack's immortality and the Doctor abandoning him. And then there's what's between the Doctor and the Master, perhaps even heightened given everything that happens between them in series 10.
I love explorations of how Jack's unique form of immortality affects Jack, and what it means to the Doctor, and I'd love to see Missy's take on both (perhaps in contrast to her previous self's?), but I also love the two of them just having adventures together - and stumbling into Missy, or running into one of her plots. Missing adventures pre-Vault, or once Missy comes out of the Vault? Timey-wimey stuff is always great; so is the three of them meeting out of sequence. One or two of them saving the other(s)? Trapped somewhere together? Being in tune with each other or colliding with very different agendas? Jack and the Doctor have different perspectives on making hard choices, and living with the aftermath - and Missy has her own views on that. How would that go?
Besides, the Master and the Doctor have been flirting since forever, and Jack and the Doctor for not quite as long but certainly long enough - what happens when Jack and Missy start flirting, whether to provoke or manipulate each other, or in earnest? I'd love to see how that plays out, and where it could lead.
So many possibilities for how they could all crash into each other! Meeting by accident, Missy trying to use Jack for a scheme, Missy and Jack working together to save the Doctor, Jack reluctantly helping the Doctor save Missy - or Missy helping the Doctor save Jack? Jack turning up while Missy is in the Vault, or being stuck on the Mondasian colony ship with them? Jack's Fact-ness having some impact on a situation that draws both Time Lords to him? And if Jack meets Missy without recognising her at first, how does he handle the revelation? Whether a fix-it for Missy's death/regeneration, a post-series 10 piece that handwaves her death, canon divergence where the s10 finale never happens (or happens differently), or something earlier in Missy's timeline, with or without canon divergence - seriously, anything, so long as it doesn't end with permanent death for any of them, or (if post-series 10) with the Doctor and the Master clearly being enemies again. (Some ambiguity is fine, and Master-typical schemes are an exception to my betrayal DNW, but I wasn't fond of the way our next encounter with the Master, in Thirteen's era, ignored all of Missy's character development, and so I'd like to remain in Missy's era for this. I don't want all their progress to be undone.)
Dear Creator Letter https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1219391.html
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Request 1 by Trobadora
Fandom: Grimm (TV)
Relationships: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton (Grimm TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Summary:
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane/modern AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); omegaverse; mpreg; immortals becoming mortal/nonhuman characters becoming human; unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings; first or second person narration.
Fandom-specific DNWs: submissive or exclusive bottom Renard; Nick/Adalind as more than a passing mention.
Request details/Prompts: (more in my letter - there wasn't enough space)
Generally: I'm fascinated with Hexenbiests/Zauberbiests, their psychology, their relationship with the rest of the Wesen world and with the Royals, and with the Wesen world in general, the roles of Royals and Grimms, the unorthodox places both Renard and Nick carve out for themselves in that world, and Juliette as a Hexenbiest who was created, not born. I'd love anything that explored or showed some details of the worldbuilding around Wesen, Grimms, Royals, the Gesetzbuch-Ehrenkodex, the Wesen Council, Nick's inheritance of Grimm paraphernalia, and/or the various kinds of Wesen and how they interact with the mundane world. Something around the thematic complex of Wesen potentially becoming public knowledge would be fantastic too.
Nick/Renard/Juliette:
I've been fascinated by the dynamic between Nick and Renard from the start - the Grimm who has a badge and a conscience, and his captain the royal bastard. Two people who have been antagonists and allies, who have protected and deceived each other, who have every reason to distrust each other at times - and yet they always ended up setting their differences aside when it mattered. Even after the massive breakdown in late season 5/early season 6, even after trying to kill each other in all seriousness, they still ultimately ended up on the same side.
For Renard and Juliette, I always thought that after they were cured of Adalind's curse, a certain mutual attraction remained, but they never really dealt with the aftermath or any remaining feeling. Juliette turning into a Hexenbiest gave them something fundamental in common, and I loved her turning to Renard for help when she she felt her entire life crumbling around her, but Renard was too caught up in his own issues to help much. And in season 5, the situation with Eve and Black Claw meant they never actually connected again.
As for Nick and Juliette, their relationship was very solid for a long time and then spectacularly broke down, exposing all the things they'd never really dealt with before - from the reasons she turned down his proposal to his bad reaction to what she becomes, and later never acknowledging how he failed to support her. But even though Juliette was changed fundamentally, changed sides, broke up with Nick, tried to kill him, sought Renard's help and allied with his enemies - in the end, despite everything, they all ended up on the same side after all.
Considering all of this, I'd love anything that brings all three of them together to overcome whatever bad things the world throws at them. Perhaps Renard manages to stop Juliette's downward spiral before it goes too far, or Nick overcomes his own issues and can help her through it. Or after season 4 she never ends up with Hadrian's Wall and manages to come back from it otherwise. Perhaps season 5 takes a different turn when Nick decides to trust Renard, and together they break through Eve's conditioning. Maybe post-season 6, they come together after all. Or time-travel fix-it where one of them goes back and gets a chance to do things differently!
But I'd just as much love something set earlier - working on a case after Nick finds out about Renard, or one or two of them saving the other(s), or otherwise forced to rely on each other while things are tense, or trapped or hiding together. Perhaps Juliette and Renard confront their residual feelings from the curse while Nick and Juliette are still together. Or an AU where at the start of canon, Nick learns Renard is Wesen right away, and/or decides to tell Juliette the truth from the start? Or they all meet under different circumstances - maybe Juliette met Renard first, and they're already involved when Nick appears on the scene.
I'm particularly fond of anything that involves trust issues, demonstrations of loyalty, and unexpected (unexpectedly public?) displays of support, but most of all I want the three of them ultimately being good for each other.
Dear Creator Letter https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1219391.html
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Request 2 by Trobadora
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Prince Charming | David Nolan/Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard
Medium: Fanfiction
Summary:
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal; unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane/modern AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); omegaverse; mpreg; immortals becoming mortal/nonhuman characters becoming human; unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings; first or second person narration.
Fandom-specific DNWs: submissive Regina; focus on Robin Hood, Captain Hook or Rumple.
Request details/Prompts:
I'm not sure when exactly I started to think of these three as a triad - perhaps when Snow on her wedding night seemed to be fixated on Regina than anything. *g* Snow and Regina have been obsessed with each other for a very long time. It starts with friendship, and Regina saving Snow; it descends into hatred. But even at Regina's worst when she's all about hurting Snow, she can't actually bring herself to go through and kill her. And no matter how much it might be self-defence, neither can Snow bring herself to kill Regina. Then Regina manages to actually climb out of the darkness, and as soon as she can bring herself to believe it, Snow is right there for her, and they find each other again. I love the total breakdown and healing of their relationship. Friends to bitterest enemies to close family - that kind of thing is catnip for me.
But it's not just the two of them, and not merely because Snow and David are a package deal. Snow always knew there was more to Regina than the Evil Queen, but for David, she was only Snow's nemesis, the Evil™ hanging over Snow's head, and it took him a long time to see beyond that. So it was a different journey for him towards the close friendship all three of them end up in, but in the end Regina and David have developed a really cute relationship between them, which I'd never have expected considering how they started out. They still snipe at each other, but it's friendly rather than hostile. I simply adore the dynamic all three of them ended up having, and I'd love to see their obviously close familial relationship turned romantic or sexual or both. Starting with the Missing Year when all three of them were ruling together from Regina's castle in the Enchanted Forest, it feels like it would only take a tiny step sideways of canon to get there. No better expression of how far they've come than the end of that part (shown in flashback in A Curious Thing), where both David and Snow literally put their hearts in Regina's hands: David so Snow can cast the Dark Curse, and Snow so Regina can split it in half. And the next season, when the Snow Queen's Spell of Shattered Sight breaks, they go from trying to kill each other to just bursting out laughing - what their worst selves almost did to each other is just absurd once they're free. ♥ But even earlier, if the obsession between Regina and Snow had turned into something different, David could have been dragged along half willingly, half unwillingly, and entirely baffled by the place they all end up in.
I would particularly love something about them protecting or defending each other - whether in an "only I am allowed to kill you" kind of way during the Evil Queen period, or later as "I'm not letting anything hurt you again" from Regina or Snow, or David having to defend Regina knowing he'd have been on the other side of that argument not so long ago. How does it work when they're all ruling together in the Enchanted Forest? What happens when they have to deal with the Evil Queen as a separate person from Regina in season 6? How does it go when they meet again after Regina left Storybrooke to join Henry? More about Snow and David coming to Regina's aid in the finale? How do they all deal with the aftermath of joining the realms? What if their relationship becomes public knowledge? How do people react? Do they enjoy baffling (and probably horrifying) all of Storybrooke with their relationship? Anything!
(A note - I know the final season is controversial, but personally I loved it, and I'd enjoy fic that engages with it if that's something you're interested in. I also really like Regina's canonical relationship with Emma and Henry, and later Wish!Henry, and would love seeing them if they happen to fit into your story.)
Dear Creator Letter https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1219391.html
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Request 3 by Trobadora
Fandom: Doctor Who
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Jack Harkness/Missy
Medium: Fanfiction
Summary:
General DNWs: permanent death of requested characters; partner betrayal (except for Master-typical shenanigans); unrequested pairings for requested characters; humiliation; noncon; woobification; mundane/modern AUs and other unrequested changes to the canon setting or premise; unrequited pining; fake dating; soulmates (except in the zhiji sense); omegaverse; mpreg; immortals becoming mortal/nonhuman characters becoming human; unmitigated fluff where all the characters' problems don't exist; permanent separation of requested ships; unhappy endings; first or second person narration.
Fandom-specific DNWs: submissive Missy; Jack being or one day becoming the Face of Boe; post-Missy versions of the Master; anything to do with the Timeless Child; Rose Tyler or Clara Oswald as anything more than background characters.
Request details/Prompts:
When Utopia aired, I became a Doctor/Jack shipper overnight, fascinated by Jack being a fixed point in space and time, a "Fact", as the Doctor says, and by the way that truth could both keep him and the Doctor apart and bring them together. Doctor/Master is a pairing I've always just assumed was there in the background. Their love/hate relationship, so much fondness underlying even their tensest, most horrifying conflicts, has always been palpable. And of course ever since Last of the Time Lords, Jack and the Master have their own fraught history - one that consists mostly of the Master imprisoning and torturing Jack on the Valiant. Then Missy appeared, and had such fantastic chemistry with the Twelfth Doctor, I started to ship Doctor/Master in earnest.
I've always wanted to see what would happen if you threw these three together into close proximity, in a situation less immediately antagonistic than what happened on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was, where they'd all have to deal with their complex and conflicting feelings about each other. How would Jack react to Missy's version of the Master - how would they relate to each other? How would the Doctor react? Post-Valiant, Jack knows what the Master means to the Doctor; the Master knows (or thinks she knows) what Jack means to the Doctor and vice versa. Jack and the Doctor clearly care about each other a great deal, but there are lot of issues between them that only start with Jack's immortality and the Doctor abandoning him. And then there's what's between the Doctor and the Master, perhaps even heightened given everything that happens between them in series 10.
I love explorations of how Jack's unique form of immortality affects Jack, and what it means to the Doctor, and I'd love to see Missy's take on both (perhaps in contrast to her previous self's?), but I also love the two of them just having adventures together - and stumbling into Missy, or running into one of her plots. Missing adventures pre-Vault, or once Missy comes out of the Vault? Timey-wimey stuff is always great; so is the three of them meeting out of sequence. One or two of them saving the other(s)? Trapped somewhere together? Being in tune with each other or colliding with very different agendas? Jack and the Doctor have different perspectives on making hard choices, and living with the aftermath - and Missy has her own views on that. How would that go?
Besides, the Master and the Doctor have been flirting since forever, and Jack and the Doctor for not quite as long but certainly long enough - what happens when Jack and Missy start flirting, whether to provoke or manipulate each other, or in earnest? I'd love to see how that plays out, and where it could lead.
So many possibilities for how they could all crash into each other! Meeting by accident, Missy trying to use Jack for a scheme, Missy and Jack working together to save the Doctor, Jack reluctantly helping the Doctor save Missy - or Missy helping the Doctor save Jack? Jack turning up while Missy is in the Vault, or being stuck on the Mondasian colony ship with them? Jack's Fact-ness having some impact on a situation that draws both Time Lords to him? And if Jack meets Missy without recognising her at first, how does he handle the revelation? Whether a fix-it for Missy's death/regeneration, a post-series 10 piece that handwaves her death, canon divergence where the s10 finale never happens (or happens differently), or something earlier in Missy's timeline, with or without canon divergence - seriously, anything, so long as it doesn't end with permanent death for any of them, or (if post-series 10) with the Doctor and the Master clearly being enemies again. (Some ambiguity is fine, and Master-typical schemes are an exception to my betrayal DNW, but I wasn't fond of the way our next encounter with the Master, in Thirteen's era, ignored all of Missy's character development, and so I'd like to remain in Missy's era for this. I don't want all their progress to be undone.)
Dear Creator Letter https://trobadora.dreamwidth.org/1219391.html
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