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Dear Yuletide Writer,
Oct. 11th, 2018 12:13 pmThank you for writing for me! I personally like long letters with lots of prompts, so that's what I've written, but if that's not your style, please do your own thing! I'm excited to read what you write for me and I love all of these series.
Likes: Pining (mutual or otherwise), hurt/comfort especially when it's heavy on the comfort, pretending to be married/dating, fake dating turns real in general, happy endings, soulbonding/mates/any kind of weird psychic connection bonding scenario. AUs and tropes! Love them! If you want to write me any of my requests but they're werewolf florists who live on Mars, I'm down with it. Similarly, I love all of my requested canon settings and am more than happy to receive fic set in them.
Likes: Pining (mutual or otherwise), hurt/comfort especially when it's heavy on the comfort, pretending to be married/dating, fake dating turns real in general, happy endings, soulbonding/mates/any kind of weird psychic connection bonding scenario. AUs and tropes! Love them! If you want to write me any of my requests but they're werewolf florists who live on Mars, I'm down with it. Similarly, I love all of my requested canon settings and am more than happy to receive fic set in them.
Dislikes: permanent major, non-canonical character death (I’m fine with canon character deaths, such as in FF 2015), character bashing, infidelity between the main couple in case of shipfic, harm to animals. I don't want incest between adopted siblings for Fantastic Four (2015). I do not want any mention of MCU characters, especially MCU Spider-Man and cast, for Venom (2018).
I'm Traincat at Ao3 and tumblr and @hellotraincat on twitter if you want to poke around.
I'm Traincat at Ao3 and tumblr and @hellotraincat on twitter if you want to poke around.
Fantastic Four (Comicsverse)
Johnny Storm, Peter Parker
One thing I love about these two is the sheer breadth of their history, spanning from the ‘60s until today -- the teenage rivalry, the deep trust and affection between them even back before Johnny knew Peter's name or face – and how the relationship has stayed so important to both characters over all that time. Their long history of saving each other. The fact that canonically every Christmas they meet up at the Statue of Liberty. The way Johnny will tell Peter anything (when he messed up by asking Ben to be his best man, that the "Alicia" he married was actually a Skrull spy) and also the fact that he slept naked in his bed. What was up with that one. I love the banter, the jokes, and the goofing off, and how they can flip the switch and be serious with each other in an instant. I admit I'm more partial to fic set post-identity reveal, after they’re adults, but I love them as teens too and identity porn is always fun.
My prompts here trend towards shipping but I'm also happy to receive gen! I'm not going to lie: I would read a thousand fics of them arguing about takeout and movies. I’m also extremely weak to the fact that they canonically hang out every Christmas morning at the Statue of Liberty and would love to get holiday fic.
They have so much history and they've known each other literally their entire careers, so a game I like to play is to pick any point in their shared canon and reimagine it if they were in a relationship at that time. What changes and what stays the same? For example, what does Fraction's Fantastic Four run look like if Peter's along for the ride? How much does it up the angst of Johnny leaving Peter his family if they’re together when Johnny sacrifices himself in Hickman’s run? Do torrid feelings get in the way of Johnny’s wedding in Fantastic Four #300? What’s THAT version of the Clone Saga even look like?
I'm also interested in how Johnny’s celebrity and Peter’s dual identity play into how the public views their friendship and/or relationship. Johnny can define himself by public perception, to the point of his own detriment, while Peter has an extremely mixed relationship with the press. Is Spider-Man ever accused of dragging the Human Torch into shady business? Tarnishing his reputation? Do they get snapped by tourists at Lady Liberty?
Related, there has got to be Spider-Man/Human Torch RPF in-universe. Who are the shippers, what’s the community like, how much tinhatting is there, etc? Ship wars over Spider-Man/Human Torch vs Peter Parker/Human Torch? Do they know about it? Who has read what fanfiction. (Who has WRITTEN what fanfiction and/or gotten into a passionate anonymous Reddit debate about the true nature of their relationship.)
I'm totally down with porn and would feel remiss not pointing out that 1) Peter's canonically used webbing in the bedroom, 2) Johnny really seems to dig the idea of "Peter Parker in charge", and 3) Peter "loves" when Johnny "does what he says." (Thanks, Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man (2017) #3.)
Marvel Noir
Peter Parker, Felicia Hardy, May Parker, Mary Jane Watson
You do not have to use all my selected characters for this request, although of course you are more than welcome to -- I'm interested in any individual one or combination of these characters. This is the only request I would prefer not to get an AU for, as it's already a canon AU setting. I'm not terribly interested in anything that happened with this Peter Parker during or after the Spider-Verse event in comics and would prefer anything after Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face ignored.
One of my favorite things that you can do with a multiverse is examine how shifting one little thing changes a character. For example, with Marvel Noir's Peter, Uncle Ben was murdered before Peter was bitten by the spider, and he wasn't killed by a gun. In reaction, this Peter carries and uses guns, and also may not have as much of a problem with the whole killing thing. (He certainly didn't seem to feel any great remorse or guilt after he killed the Vulture.) I'm interested in an exploration of this Peter and how he feels about violence -- he seems sickened by it when it's inflicted by other people, possibly because of how Ben died? But at the same time, with the timing of the bite and Ben's murder, his sense of responsibility over Ben's death is at least lessened, if not nonexistent: this is not a thing that happened because of him. IMHO Peter's almost crushing sense of responsibility is what keeps him, a man with the ability to crush steel with his bare hands, in check. What then keeps Noir Peter in check? What does he consider to be the hard limit? (I am more than interested in an exploration of Peter Parker’s brutality in the pursuit of justice, especially when it’s balanced with his tenderness towards friends, family, and lovers.)
I'm always a sucker for stories where May finds out Peter's Spider-Man, or scenarios where she's suspected or even known all along. A look at May and Peter in the wake of the Vulture's death would be amazing. I always sort of read Peter as gravitating towards people who have stronger moral centers than him -- people who innately possess the kind of goodness that he has to strive for. This May is moral, perhaps to a flaw. How does that balance out between them in the quiet moments?
I love the bedroom scenes from Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face, especially the lovely one where Felicia gets undressed and leans up to kiss Peter while her cats twine around them. I am 100% down with Peter/Felicia PWP or even Peter and Felicia shop talking in bed while cats climb on top of Peter's head and chew on his hair or try to bat him in the eye. Similarly, I'm interested in Peter and Felicia's attachment to each other despite their different viewpoints -- and despite Peter wanting more than Felicia can give him. I’d love to read anything about Peter and Felicia in the gap between Spider-Man Noir and Eyes Without a Face.
We don't know a whole lot about this Mary Jane, who seems more subdued than her 616 counterpart. I'd love something from her point of view, or just more about her. Additionally, I'm always a sucker for PeterMJ, so I'm more than happy to get shipfic. In 616, Mary Jane knew the whole time that Peter was Spider-Man -- could the same be true of their Marvel Noir versions?
Mary Jane/Felicia?? Mary Jane/Peter/Felicia??? I'm down for any combo of the three.
Fantastic Four (2015)
Johnny Storm
I love this movie. Bite me, Rotten Tomatoes. The whole core cast is great, but I requested Johnny because Johnny Storm is always my favorite and because I feel like there’s so much room to explore this version of the character, not the least because he’s the last of the core Four to be introduced. While I love the Ben/Reed shippiness in the movie and I’m not opposed to them being together at all, I’d prefer to keep them background. I’m very interested in Johnny’s relationship with his sister and his father, which seems estranged at the beginning of the film, and his own personal relationships with Reed and Victor. (I’m definitely not against Reed/Johnny, Ben/Johnny, or Victor/Johnny.)
I'd love something exploring Johnny's absence from Baxter at the beginning of the movie, and how he and Sue haven't (or have) been talking, or a peek into their childhoods. Before Baxter? At Baxter? Their respective relationship with their father? Where is he living? What’s he doing besides building the Toyota? One thing that interests me about main continuity comics Johnny is how, despite having a bright and kind personality and also being a beautiful celebrity, he doesn’t really have much in the way of friends. Does that isolation extend to this Johnny? What are the reasons he left Baxter? (Has he ever made out with the racer he blows a kiss to in his introductory scene?)
Johnny and Sue have very different relationships with their powers -- Sue calls them "abnormal" and wants to get rid of them, while Johnny's embraced them perhaps a little too much -- he seems naively trusting of his military handlers, something I’ve always read, when you compare it to his relationship with his father, as him craving attention and approval. I'd love to read something about if Johnny's ever frightened of his own inherently destructive abilities. One thing I love about Johnny in main comics continuity is his battle to fine tune his control of his powers to the point where he can use them to soothe burns and siphon off body heat, and I’d love to see this Johnny on a similar journey, or get a look into his feelings about what his new powers could do to people.
Johnny Storm and music! While Sue has the bigger connection to music in the movie, Johnny has Standing in the Shadows of Love by the Four Tops playing in his introductory scene. I’d love an exploration of Johnny and music, and what it means to him, or even just a Johnny-focused team karaoke night. (Who else is going to make the other three and/or, while they’re building the teleporter, Victor go, after all?)
I love Johnny's cut line from the trailers: "We should use these powers to help people." Once they're released from the military's hold, what does he do with his powers? It's hard to envision this version of Johnny in a sterile lab space for very long -- although notably, another cut scene has him claiming lab space and saying he needs "a big ass sun roof." What does he want the team to do with their powers? The others seem to have accepted their abilities on the same level as Johnny has by the end of the film, but have they really? How do Johnny’s desires to do more with his abilities connect or separate him from the others?
Venom (2018)
Eddie Brock, Venom Symbiote
Off the bat: I am down for tentacle porn. The tongue can play too.
I was not expecting to request this; I’ve never especially gravitated towards Eddie and Venom when it comes to Spider-Man comics, and while I figured I’d probably like the movie, I didn’t expect to absolutely love it. But I did love it A LOT. It was so fun, and I love the relationship between Eddie and Venom and how it played out in the film with Venom deciding he "liked" Eddie. Thank you, Sony, for having a scene where Eddie and Venom made out For The Plot. (I am definitely here for more Eddie and Venom makeouts, for the plot or otherwise. I’d be cool with Anne coming too.)
I’d really love post-movie fic of Eddie learning to live with Venom, and vice versa. I loved their casual conversation about how “we can only hurt bad people” at the end and would be into Venom’s education on doing just that. Venom ending up as the neighborhood watch. The advantages in Eddie’s line of work that come with having a man-eating alien symbiote. (I would prefer any actual eating of people to not be overly graphic/gory, but I understand it comes with this movie’s territory.) Or even just a guy and his alien symbiote cuddled up on the couch watching movies sharing the same body because yeah it’s a little gay. Venom and Eddie doing “whatever” they want, as Venom sees it. A missing scene set during the movie would also be cool. Venom comes around very quickly to Eddie, so I would love to see some more of the symbiote's thoughts about why it likes this loser so much, and how it connects to him (on every level), or something from Venom's point of view on trying to get back to Eddie after they're separated.
I’d also love an exploration of Venom’s experiences on a brand new and alien planet, and what about Earth (and Eddie) made the symbiote make such a quick turn. Brand new sights, sounds, sensations – I loved the setting of the film, but I definitely would not say no to Venom And Eddie Take a Road Trip.
Basically I just really loved what the movie brought to the table and how it made me really enjoy a property I’d previously never been crazy about and now I want more of it. With tongue.
