Dear Yuletide Santa 2020
AO3 Name: Croik
Fandoms:
Bloodborne
Among Us
Fantasy Flight Arkham Horror Files (Board Game)
Hades
Hi writer, and thank you for being my Santa! I've been doing Yuletide for years and years now, I love my small fandoms and I'm stoked to get something for any of them. I'm going to leave a lot of details and prompts below if you need them, but to be honest I'm just as happy being surprised. Please feel free to use whatever inspires you, and have some fun with it.
General
In general I like fics that are on the serious side. I like characters that are conflicted, romances that have to be worked for, settings that are scary or mysterious. Sadfics that range anywhere from bittersweet to soul-crushing are welcome. Action, adventure, thriller, horror, dark comedy, all good. Porn is also awesome. I love plot-oriented fics and casefic, but I'm just as happy with characters talking/fighting with each other as they try to work out their relationships, or exploring different aspects of canon.
I'm okay with a rating level anywhere from general to explicit, in terms of violence or sex. I don't have any problem with character death.
Things I like
Here are some specific tropes I'm into in case you want to work them in:
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-First times. Not just in reference to sex, but characters having revelations, doing things they've never done before, exploring sides of themselves they didn't want to admit, things of that nature. And yes first time sex, too, whether it's with a specific person or ever.
-Whump and hurt/comfort in all forms, I enjoy characters being pushed to their physical limits, injured, needing to be held or helped up by each other, especially if danger is still present.
-Shipfic, though I also like gen. I like slash, femslash, and het. I like threesomes and more. I have a section for porn below, but having it or not isn't a dealbreaker for me. In general I like intense relationships with a physical component, so even if it doesn't get to a romantic or porny level, characters touching, lifting each other up, close-quarters fighting, at each other's throats, all that is fantastic.
-Gray morality. I'm am totally okay with the POV character being terrible.
Things I Do Not Want
-Infidelity (open relationships are great if everyone's in on it)
-Watersports/scat
-Alternate Universe. I am very invested in these canon settings and am not interested in taking the characters anywhere else. Canon-divergence and What If stories that keep the setting intact is cool, though.
-2nd person POV or reader-insert. I don't have a preference for tense.
-Omegaverse: I'm open to bizarre pregnancies, "drugs/hormones/magic made me do it," even xeno and bestiality when the canon allows, a lot of the things that Omegaverse has, actually, but I'm not interested in Omegaverse world-building and gender configurations. If a dude gets knocked up by an omnipotent unknownable Eldritch god that's awesome, I don't really care about the biology or hormones involved.
Porn
I am always happy to receive porn! I'll put some gen and pairing options in my fandoms portion, but in general I like porn that is intense rather than sweet. I like complicated situations and when desire overrides inhibition. Here're some of my porn-specific likes:
-Slash, femslash, and het.
-Solo, pairings, threesomes or more.
-Dub-con and Non-con
-Breathplay
-Sex while still partially clothed
-Voyeurism
-Tentacles
-Xeno/demons/Eldritch abominations
-Bondage
-Mind control
-Anonymous sex, like one character blindfolded or in a mask
-Aphrodisiacs and sex pollen
Characters getting off on things they didn't think they would ever get off on is SUPER awesome.
Bloodborne
Micolash, Edgar
I'm asking for Mico and Edgar again this year because I'm still into it!!
Thanks to the Mico boss fight I have spent a lottttt of time in the Nightmare of Mensis, and it never gets less creepy. As much as I hate that brain, I love the tension it gives the area, knowing that at any moment something is going to stab into your skull and destroy your sanity. I'm really interested in how long it's existed, how long Micolash has been its "host," and how Edgar got to be there. We know from lore he's a spy for the church, or at least started out that way. How did he infiltrate? Was his cover ever blown, was he converted to Micolash's cause? When the hunter encounters him, was he defending Micolash from us, or on his way to kill him? By the end, he and Micolash are the only "humans" left in the nightmare. Why are they special?
I'm open to any kind of shipping, whether Micolash wins Edgar over, exposes and torments him, or if one of them has a one-sided pining/obsession, or if they just want each other dead.
Some prompts:
-Edgar trying to cope with being the only "sane" person among so many lunatics, his sanity slowing being chipped away as he struggles to complete his mission for the church.
-Maybe Edgar only infiltrated at the very end, and was in the nightmare hunting Micolash down to kill him before the PC hunter showed up. What might have happened if not for the PC? How did he survive up to that point, and how does their confrontation play out?
-Micolash discovers Edgar's identity and he and the other scholars torture him for information. Maybe they experiment on him to try and get him to birth a Great One (mpreg anyone??). Alternatively, Micolash doesn't let on that he knows and tries to trick/seduce Edgar into the fold by whatever ghastly means.
-An AU where Edgar successfully kidnaps Micolash and brings him back to the Choir. How does the Choir reward him, and what do they do with Micolash? Does Edgar regret this outcome, or does he prove the Choir is every bit as mad and cruel as the scholars?
-Sometime before Micolash became head of the scholars, he and Edgar were friends, enemies, lovers, etc. But Yharnam twisted them, like it does everything.
-Bloodborne in the style of Among Us ;)
Among Us
Any
Among us is a quirky, colorful little game, and I've enjoyed watching lots of different Youtubers fight each other over it. As hilarious as it is, I'm a little more interested in the darker interpretations of the setting. When taken seriously, a dozen people on a science station slowly being killed off by an anonymous, inhuman traitor, all while the system itself fails around them...!? That's fucking terrifying. I would love to see a fic in that tone that treats the murdering and the infighting like the real horror it is.
I asked for Any because there aren't really separate characters anyway. I'm not sure if fandom has any established fancanons for the colors, or what the minis are/represent. So I'm not picky with whatever colors you want to use, what they wear or what their personalities are. Open to all genders and shipping combinations. Some prompts:
-An old fashioned murder mystery from the point of view of a crewmate. Their friends being slowly picked off as things get worse and worse. The crewmate discovering the imposter's identity and the betrayal of that. Maybe even a fight to the death!
-An imposter who is friends with/in love with one of the normal crewmates, who protects them from the other imposter(s), but ultimately still has a job to do (whatever that may be). Maybe they can seduce the crewmate to their side??
-A crewmate, pushed too far by everything going wrong, gets so paranoid they start ejecting everyone who is even a little sus. But there never was an imposter after all.
-Some old fashioned tentacle porn with the alien imposter.
-Two imposters competing over their kills. Enemies to lovers?
Fantasy Flight's Arkham Horror Files
Any
I got into playing Eldritch Horror this year, particularly thanks to quarantine. I love how true it is to the lore (in that it's really hard not to lose you sanity or die lol) and how the characters are all fun archetypes who can't help but spend every play session getting absolutely wrecked by inhuman horrors. I'd love to read something that really makes use of the existential horror, as these different characters struggle to get over their differences in order to survive. A fight against a monster, interrupting a terrible ritual, huddling together in a basement while the world ends? Anything that pits these characters against the terrible unknown. Feel free to include others from the games that didn't make it into the tagset.
I'd be happy to see any of these characters shipped as well.
-Any two or more characters literally huddling together in a basement while the world ends. The stars have aligned, an Old One is awakening, whatever it may be, there's nothing left but a handful of humans at the end of the world, waiting for the end. "We're gonna die so we might as well fuck" welcome.
-Tommy and Michael meet up while hunting terrible creatures. Nothing like the end of the world to get a cop and a gangster to finally see eye to eye.
-Wilson and Vincent meet in Arkham. Maybe Vincent tends to his wounds after an otherworldy encounter.
-Tony is hunting down one of the other characters because of a bounty on their head. The only problem is, they're not guilty of whatever they've been accused of--there's a doppelganger on the loose! Or maybe they were possessed at the time. Can they convince Tony not to kill them or bring them in?
-Michael and Skids are old pals, or else old cellmates. They know the horrible things that are going on, but as a pair of crooks, how are they going to convince anyone?
-Father Mateo's faith is tested when confronted with the eldritch horrors creeping into our world, and he sure can't defend himself physically. It's a good thing there are plenty of allies with big guns around!
Or any of these characters in any situation, really.
Hades
Zagreus, Dionysus
Gonna be real honest here, I haven't finished the game yet. But I will have by the time assignments are out and I'm not picky about spoilers anyway.
Came into this game a little late but I have been loving it. I was a huge fan of Transistor and I love Supergiant's overall aesthetic--great visuals, great characters, great music. The actors are so good you can't help but fall for each and every one of them, though my faves so far are Zagreus and Dionysus.
They have a, um, complicated "relationship" in mythology, and I honestly don't know yet if that is remarked upon in-game, but either way I'd love to see more of the two of them directly interacting. Zag is very dry while Dionysus just oozes that used car salesman sleaze, the thought of them trying to have a legit conversation really makes me smile.
Not going to lie, I'd love to see something shippy, particularly of the "we got wasted and hooked up" variety. The thought of Dionysus' version of dirty talk is hilarious. I also feel like you could take Dionysus down a darker, more predatory path, where that barreling charm of his dips into outright manipulation. It would be fairly easy for even someone like Zag to underestimate him. Some prompts:
-The two of them share a drink in person, if not on Olympus then somewhere in the mortal world. Maybe they were hoping for a good time, but both turn out to be sad and/or angry drunks.
-In the codex it mentions that Dionysus doesn't make any attempt to associate with the underworld, even though he is closer to the mortal world than the other gods, preferring to be everyone's cool uncle. Would love to see Zag call him out on that.
-Sure this isn't a new idea, but maybe gaining a god's boon is semi-orgasmic, and Zag particularly enjoys taking on Dionysus' power. He just seems to have a level of fun you can get in Hades.
-Dionysus is a giant asshole who gets Zag drunk and takes advantage of him. And then Zag kicks his ass (with help?)
-Threesome with some other character.
And that's it! Thank you for reading my letter :D I hope you've found some inspiration in my ramblings. I love all these fandoms equally and will be thrilled with anything from any of them. Have fun and I can't wait to see it come reveals!