Hurt/Comfort Exchange Letter

[learnedfoot]

Dear author/artist,

Hello! You’ve matched (or, if you’re a pinch hitter, chosen) on one of these pairs and a freeform, which means we already have a lot in common. How excellent. I am an absolute sucker for H/C so I am thrilled beyond belief about this exchange, and I’m excited to see what you write!

First off, even though I’ve written a lot here, I want to say I’m actually very easy to please. As long as you stick in the general area of my likes and respect my DNWs, I’m going to be delighted, so please do not feel constrained by this letter. Also, I’m equally excited about all of these options! Some sections are longer than others because I have more specific ideas about certain character combos or freeforms, but I didn’t request anything I wouldn’t be over the moon to receive, as should be obvious from the fact that I maxed the heck out of my choices.

This letter contains the followings:
General likes, DNWs, etc.
Crossover Fandom: Buffy/Angel [Connor/Dawn]
Crossover Fandom: Doctor Who/MCU [Rocket Raccoon & The Doctor (2005)]
Crossover Fandom: MCU/Netflix Defenders [Peter Parker & Various Defenders]
Crossover Fandom: The Good Place/Brooklyn Nine-Nine [Michael & Raymond Holt]
Doctor Who [Eleventh/The TARDIS, Thirteen/The TARDIS]
MCU [Peter Parker/Tony Stark]
MCU [Peter Parker & Avengers, Peter Parker & The People of New York]
Russian Doll [Nadia &/ Alan]
Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse [Miles & Jefferson, Miles & The People of New York]
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy [Rey &/ Kylo]
UnREAL [Rachel/Quinn]

Note that for MCU, I also have an update about incorporating Endgame here.

General Likes
Big Picture Points

Characters are the most important thing for me in fic. I certainly appreciate a good plot, but seeing more of the characters I love is my number one priority.

I’m fairly open on tone and genre. Most of the freeforms I requested for this exchange involves pretty intense pain or emotional suffering, so I’m expecting (and looking forward to!) anything I get having at least some angst level due to that. But generally I’m happy with anything ranging from “fluff and angst” to super angsty. Fandom specific sections will highlight what I’m most eager for in specific fandoms, as some tend darker than others.

For the pairs where I’ve requested ship fic, I define that broadly — everything from pining/flirting/other pre-relationship up through established relationship can make me happy. (Specific sections will give you more detail on what I’m most interested in for each ship.)

Art Likes
I’ve specifically requested art for a couple of these, and would also be happy to receive art as a treat for any of them, if you are so inspired. I don’t really know much about how to describe art, and I will pretty much be guaranteed to love whatever you create because I am just amazed at anyone who can make art, but some specific patterns I’ve noticed in things I like:

Colors

• Black and white + one color (esp. red, but really any)
  
• Rich colors, colors that glow
  
• Blue is my single favorite color, generally

Styles

• Some styles I’ve noticed I like: pop, graffiti, realism, cute & cartoon-y
  
• I’m less of a fan of the chibi style
  
• I’ve enjoyed both sketchier line art type things and more solid filled in things (<--I really don’t know how to use art terminology, sorry!)
  
• For Spider-verse, anything in the general style of the movie or that genre, it’s gorgeous

Content

• Emphasis on touch between two characters (hugging, carrying, hand-holding, cuddling, one arm thrown over the other, etc)
  
• Emphasis on facial expressions
  
• Incorporation of dialogue (even if it’s just one line)

More Granular Likes

H/C Likes

Bad/unhealthy coping mechanisms (drinking/drugs, seeking out dangerous situations, sex as a way to feel better, burying self in work, etc., etc.)

Bedside vigils

Being taken off guard by small displays of affection, unexpected tenderness, etc.

Bonding over shared or similar trauma

Characters who keep getting back up no matter how many times they’re down in fights

Characters who are defiant snarky assholes in the face of torture

Characters working far too hard/exhaustion

Comfort in the form of physical touch, with particular likes including:

• Carrying/catching/supporting a character who is passed out or struggling to walk because they are injured, drunk, ill
  
• Cuddling
  
• Hand holding
  
• Helping hurt character eat or drink
  
• Huddling for warmth
  
• Kissing hands (back or palm) (for ship fic)
  
• Kissing the top of someone’s head or forehead
  
• Long hugs
  
• Sharing a bed (only for characters where I requested ship fic, but in those cases I especially adore it when it’s pre-relationship, whether or not it leads to sex)
  
• Stroking hair
  
• Stroking cheeks, touching faces (for ship fic)
  
• Tending to wounds

Comfort in the form of lending a sympathetic ear

Comfort in the form of sex

Confessions of feelings when out of it (drunk, feverish, exhausted, etc.)

Drug use (esp. pot, ecstasy/molly, hallucinogens), both as a form of self-harm and as a form of comfort/fun

Drinking as a form of self-harm or coping

Drunkenness, hangovers, whether because of alcohol abuse or just going a bit too hard one night

Injured/ill/traumatized characters downplaying their injury/illness/trauma

Injury, exhaustion, or illness manifesting in:

• Being somewhat out of it (esp. if that leads to being more emotionally open/venerable)
  
• Collapsing, difficulty standing, passing out, etc.
  
• Difficultly completing tasks a character can normally do easily
  
• Hands too shaky to complete task

Pining. I really, really love pining.

Sleep issues (nightmares, insomnia)

Smiling to hide the pain, using humor to deflect, etc.

Stoic and/or emotionally closed off character being forced to accept help (emotional or physical)

Time travel and time loops (in particular characters getting stuck in a traumatic time loop together; I am in a very Russian Doll headspace rn)

Thinking they don’t deserve love in general, or the other person in particular

Trapped in an isolated or otherwise dangerous location

Wounded people slowly opening up

Whump. In particular:

• Bleeding/blood loss
  
• Broken bones, esp. broken ribs
  
• Being beat up
  
• Bruises
  
• Bullet wounds, removal
  
• Stab wounds
  
• Wound stitching
  
• Trapped under heavy objects, esp. for characters with extra powers to help them deal (I imprinted hard on the “Peter has a building dropped on him” scene in Homecoming)

Other General Likes

Banter

Characters having conversations we don’t get to see in canon

Characters realizing what someone else means to them, especially when that realization comes as a surprise

Characters revealing what someone else means to them, especially if they are nervous about it but it turns out the feelings are reciprocated

Complex, long lasting relationships with a rich sense of history

People who don’t like each other working together

Strong character voices

Tentative beginnings (romantic or otherwise)

Tropes! Especially:

• Fake dating, where the stakes are commensurate with medium-to-high stakes for the canon (so, for a relationship drama it might just be to avoid another Thanksgiving with relatives asking why one of the characters is single, but for a superhero canon, maybe it's mission related)
  
• Forced to share a bed, huddle for warmth, hide in a tight space, anything along those lines

Unlikely friendships

UST and mutual pining

Using (or even just mentioning) the fact that Peter Parker and Miles Morales are suuuper strong

Smut Likes

Emphasis on what the sex means to the characters/the emotion of the moment

“Come,” not “cum”

Drunk/high sex

Dom/sub dynamics that develop without the characters talking about it in BDSM terms (but not negotiated BDSM relationships), and with particular emphasis on:

• the sub getting off on pleasing the dom
• the dom praising the sub (and the sub getting off on that)
• bondage and blindfolds
• hair pulling, scratching, manhandling, and generally rough sex
• choking (on cocks or otherwise)
• Face fucking
• pain, but nothing that would draw more than a little blood or lead to permanent damage (nipple clamps and spanking are great/the level I’m aiming at)

Sex in semi-public/public places

• Generally prefer it without getting caught, but close calls, or trying to hide what's going on while one person fingers the other under a table or the like is great)

Tender sex, including:

• Being generally amazed at the other person's everything
  
• hand holding
  
• hand/palm kissing
  
• forehead kisses
  
• neck kissing
  
• thigh kissing
  
• hair stroking
  
• face touching
  
• tender kissing
  
• expressions of affection and love, etc.

If you want more information on my smut likes, you can check out my smut swap letter.
+ See DNWs for what I don’t want

DNWs

General DNWs

First or second person

Identity headcanons (trans, race, other) (However, I'm fine with assuming a character’s sexuality is more fluid than canon may let on)

Kidfic involving non-canon children

Permanent death of the requested characters

Poly or otherwise open relationships (unless explicitly asked for in the prompts)

Pregnancy

There are also fandom-specific DNWs in the specific sections

H/C Related DNWs

Injury related:

• Amputation, dismemberment
  
• Ear trauma (nothing being stuck in ears)
  
• Eye trauma (being hit in the face/eye is fine, but please no permanent eyeball injury or things going into eyes)
  
• Detailed descriptions of teeth being pulled out (if you want to do a post-torture scene where that happened, or imply it, or mention that it’s happening in a quick sentence, that’s fine, but I don’t want it focused on)
  
• Wounds so extreme organs fall out

Extended dream/nightmare sequences

• I love characters having sleep problems, as I said, but I don’t particularly care for extended dwelling on the dreams. A paragraph or two is fine, but I’m more interested in how the nightmares or related sleep loss impact the characters once they’re awake again.

Non-canon Amnesia or other memory loss

Sex Related DNWs

Cross-dressing kink

Daddy/mommy kink (in particular, use of the word “daddy” or “mommy”)

Enemas

Extended, on-screen consent negotiations

Feeding, weight gain, inflation, anything in that realm

Formalized BDSM

Insertion of large objects, stretching, sounding

Non-sexual body fluids in sex scenes (with the exception of a few drops of blood from scratching or because they were injured before sex)

Roleplay scenarios

Unrequested non-con

Unrequested dub-con

• However, I am fine with drunk!sex, or sex on drugs, as long as the characters are subjectively aware of what they're doing while they are having sex. So, not when one half of the pair is pass-out drunk. But, for example, I am totally fine with Rachel and Quinn getting smashed and having sex.
  
• Basically, I don't care what would hold up in a court of law, as long as the characters themselves would tell you they were consenting in the moment.

For my age-difference ships where one character is underaged: the older character kinking on the younger one's youth (I would prefer it to be a neutral fact or a point of concern, not an active turn-on. They can -- and preferable should -- find the person hot, but without emphasis on "they look so young" or the like)

AU DNWs
I like canon-divergent AUs where the fic is based in the canon setting but goes in a different direction after a certain installment, or changes the outcome of a certain event, but DNW other AU types. So please:

• No AUs that change the canon setting, era, or rules of the universe (e.g., mundane AUs, addition of fantastical elements in a non-fantastical canon, soul mark worlds, A/B/O, high school setting, different jobs, etc.).
  
  
• No AUs that drastically change the structure of character relationships or fundamentals of their identity (making people related who are not, erasing characters from existence, making major friendships or relationships never have happened, etc.).

A note about the structure of the fandom-specific sections: Since I have nominated a million freeforms per pair and the freeforms mostly work as prompts on their own, in the fandom-specific sections I mostly I focused on general thoughts about the relationships. And then, if I had them, I put general prompts that can be mixed and matched with the various freemforms. Sometimes I also included specific thoughts tied to specific freeforms.

This is all just meant to be helpful. Do not feel obligated to use any of my prompts if you have your own idea of where to go with the freeforms, and definitely do not take any singling out of specific freeforms as a suggestion I want those more, that just meant I had an idea or thought the specific freeform needed more clarification than some of the others. Remember, this letter is meant to be helpful, not burdensome or stressful!

Crossovers

Buffy/Angel
Dawn Summers/Connor [Connor hurt, both hurt]
Fic or Art
• Accepting Injury To Save Another
• Accepting Torture to Protect a Loved One
• Aftermath of Torture
• Badass in Distress
• Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
• Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other
• Character believes no one is coming to save them
• Character can physically feel the other character's pain
• Character insists on being left behind
• Character insists on completing mission despite injuries
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Character Refuses to Stay Down Despite Multiple Hits
• Downplaying an Injury
• Forced to watch the other trying to rescue them
• Forced to watch the other undertaking a dangerous task
• Hurt Character Clinging to Comforter
• Hurt character protects another character
• Hurt with no way of knowing the other is safe
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Magic Curses
• Magical Injury
• More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First
• Pushing through injury
• Refuse to Break under Torture
• Refuse to Leave Other Character's Side
• Rescued after torture
• Surrender to enemy in exchange for the other's safety
• Time Loop of Trauma
• Tortured to extract information from the other
• Trapped
• Trying to push through and ignore hurt makes it worse
• Whump

Why I requested it: This has been a pairing of my heart since I first binged both of these shows about a decade ago. I really like both characters, and feel like they would have so much to bond over. I like to think they’d be able to help each other navigate the crazy world they’ve found themselves in. I’m sad we never got to see them meet. Also, whumping the hell out of Connor sounds fun.

How I see the relationship: What really fascinates me about these two is that they both have origins stories that are infused with magic and crazy circumstances, and they’ve both suffered so much by being unwittingly thrust into the magic world from a young age. They also both have experience with their memories/perception of their past being changed in big ways. But at the same time, their backgrounds are pretty different, because Dawn has memories of a stable and loving home growing up. So the ways in which they would both relate and not relate, and differences between how they approach their world, are really interesting to me. And I love the idea of them finding a kindred spirit in each other, someone to help them deal with existing in this magical world.

Type of hurt: I adore fighter characters who keep pushing themselves to the limit/keep getting back up no matter how many times they get knocked down/try to fight through the pain even when that’s dumb/refuse to give up even in the face of torture. So anything where Connor or both of them do that, and Dawn comforts him or they both comfort each other is great.

Since many of the freeforms are in this general category of physical whump, I’ve kept the prompts as general scenarios that could end up with them in that situation.

Type of comfort: Since this is shippy, I’d love it to be physical in some way, whether that be helping fix wounds/nursing back to health, hugging/hand-holding/cuddling/ETC., or sex.

Prompts:

• Their first meeting happens as one or both are taking on a magical enemy
  
• They have to team up to fight some magical problem
  
• They form an ongoing magical fighting duo
  
• Dawn comes to Connor’s rescue
  
• Connor refuses to give up information that would hurt Dawn, even in the face of a lot of pain
  
• Time loop of trauma: They get stuck in a terrible time loop where they keep dying/being defeated by a villain, etc.
  
• Character can physically feel the other character's pain: a spell or curse connects them

A note on timelines: I'd be most interested in seeing sometime post-both shows.

A note on other characters/ships: Feel free to incorporate any other Buffy-verse characters you see fit. I ship Spuffy and Angel/Cordelia, but I don’t need them to be together in the world of your fic by any means. The only thing I DNW is different pairings involving those characters. (So, for example, it’s totally fine if Buffy shows up and is single, but please no background Buffy/Angel.) Any other ships are fair game.

Fandom specific DNW: Unhappy ending; Spuffy and Angel/Cordila shipped with other people (single is fine).

Doctor Who (2005)/MCU
The Doctor & Rocket Raccoon [Rocket Hurt]
Fic or Art
• Abandonment Issues
• Accidentally revealing trauma
• Aftermath of Torture
• Assuring character they are not broken
• Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
• Character Being Comforted Doesn't Believe They Deserve Comfort
• Character bottling up emotions is coaxed into expressing them
• Character Finally Allows Themself to Grieve
• Character Finds New Normal After Trauma
• Character has to be convinced they deserve comfort
• Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection
• Comforter Rains Down Retribution On Hurt Character's Behalf
• Downplaying Trauma
• Emotional Hurt/Comfort
• Emotional Support
• Existential Angst
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Forced to speak truthfully
• Hiding Trauma
• Live in Happy Alternate Reality or Give it Up to Save the World
• Loneliness
• Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee
• Reluctant Comfortee
• Time Loops
• Time Loop Angst
• Time Loop of Trauma
• Time Travel - Traveler Forced to Witness or Relive Past Trauma
• Traumatic Backstory Revelations

Why I requested it: I’ve thought for a while that it would be fun to see these two interact. They feel like a good fit for this exchange because I think The Doctor has this amazing ability to get through to closed off, hurting people in a way few others can. I’d love to see them provide some comfort to Rocket, who needs it.

How I see the relationship: Damaged, bristly, snarky Rocket is one of my favorite MCU characters. I think he and the Doctor would have such an interesting dynamic. The Doctor would probably find him fascinating and unique, and would instantly see all the pain under the bristliness, even if they would also take issue with his love of guns, theft, and general disregard for the law. On the flip side, I think Rocket would initially find the Doctor weird and annoying, but might eventually come to appreciate their faith in people and/or take the comforting words the Doctor might have for him to heart, even if he can’t admit he appreciates it.

Note that I requested “the Doctor” broadly because I really would be thrilled to get any of the New Who doctors. I’ve watched every episode and love them all very dearly, so feel free to use whoever calls to you the most. (Or, hey, if you want to have Rocket meet different versions of the Doctor at different points, I won’t argue.)

Type of hurt: As you can tell from my freeform choices, I’m mostly interested in the Doctor comforting Rocket over his buckets and buckets of emotional hurt, whether that hurt be because of his past, or post-IW angst about losing his friends.

Type of comfort: Mostly, I’m thinking verbal comfort: The Doctor has this amazing ability to inspire with words. That said, I wouldn’t say no to Rocket letting The Doctor give him a hug or the like.

Prompts:

• They are (or start out) on opposite sides of a situation (for example, Rocket is trying to steal something and the Doctor needs that something to not be stolen for save the world purposes, or needs to steal it themselves), but The Doctor gets through to Rocket anyway
  
• The Doctor needs something stolen or someone caught for save the world purposes. S/he hires Rocket
  
• Rocket and The Doctor team up to stop the people who experimented on Rocket Post-IW
  
• Rocket has taken to traveling the universe post-IW, probably being even more bitter and sad than usual. He runs into the Doctor, who is trying to figure out how to fix things
  
• The Doctor finds Rocket at a space bar, being sad about something
  
• Getting stuck in a time loop together brings them together
  
• Getting captured together brings them together
  
• Comforter Rains Down Retribution On Hurt Character's Behalf: I could totally see the Doctor going all the fury of the Timelord on the people who experimented on Rocket after finding out what happened
• Forced to speak truthfully: Some sort of sci-fi/fantasy whatever forces Rocket to reveal truths he doesn’t want to

A note on timeline: Happy to have this set anywhere relative to MCU canon, from pre-GOTG through post-IW. And obviously anywhere in Doctor Who timeline is fine. What even is a timeline, right?

A note on other MCU characters: I’m mostly interested in seeing focus on the Doctor and Rocket, but I’m down to have the MCU characters pop up as fits. And I’m happy to have Groot around in a larger role — where Rocket goes, so often does Groot, and I think Groot and the Doctor would probably get along quite well.

A note on other Doctor Who characters: I’m mostly interested in seeing Rocket interact with the Doctor, rather than having him interact with a whole Team Tardis. That said, I totally love every companion and love it when the Doctor actually remembers those who have come before, so discussions of past companions and such is fine. I ship Doctor/Master, Rose/Ten, Thirteen/Yaz, and River/Doctor (and Doctor/TARDIS, see the DW section) if that is in any way relevant.

Fandom specific DNW: Unhappy ending.

Defenders/MCU
Peter Parker & Matt Murdock; Peter Parker & Jessica Jones; Peter Parker & Luke Cage; Peter Parker & Frank Castle [for all: either hurt]
Fic
• Accepting Injury To Save Another
• Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
• Awkward Comforter
• Blaming Themself for the Other Character Being Injured
• Bonding Over Similar Traumas
• Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
• Character believes no one is coming to save them
• Character bottling up emotions is coaxed into expressing them
• Character Finds New Normal After Trauma
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Character suffered crushing defeat
• Character Refuses to Stay Down Despite Multiple Hits
• Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury
• Collapsing from exhaustion
• Comforting Out of Obligation Turns Into Real Sympathy
• Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt
• drugged
• Doing Bad Things So Others Don't Have To
• Downplaying an Injury
• Downplaying Trauma
• Emotional Support
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Fundamentally Good Character Tortured By Personally Abhorrent Thing They Did For The Greater Good
• forced to work together
• guilt over inability to stop an injustice
• Hiding Injuries
• Mind Controlled by Villain
• Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee
• Psychological Trauma
• Overcome from over-using superpowers
• Pushing through injury
• Refuse to Break under Torture
• Rescued after torture
• Superpower Malfunction
• Time Loop of Trauma
• Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs
• Whump

Why I requested it: Okay, so obviously the theme here is that I want to see MCU Peter Parker interact with the Netflix Marvel characters. I think it would be so interesting. He, like them, focuses on street-level crime in New York. But unlike them, he’s also been brought into (and buys into) the Avengers “big leagues.” Plus, personality-wise he’s just so different: all of the Netflix characters are various degrees of cynical, hardened, and angry at the world. And then here we have this kid who by all rights should be those things, and yet somehow is a ball of enthusiasm and positivity. That contrast is what really fascinates me.

How I see the relationship: Obviously, this is going to vary depending on the exact character combo, but the overriding theme is that contrast between hardened adult and deeply optimistic youth. I think both sides of any of these relationships could find a lot of comfort in the other, in the right circumstances. I think the adults could give Peter a lot of advice, and I think Peter and his eternal optimism could bring the adults joy.

Peter and Matt: In particular, Matt could help Peter get a handle on his enhanced senses, since that’s something they have in common. And I could see Matt feeling like he had an obligation to take Peter under his wing if he figured out he was young and had similar sensory powers/issues. I think the compare/contrast in their approach to crime-fighting is also interesting. They both believe in non-killing, but Matt is obviously more willing to be incredibly violent up until actual death.

Peter and Jessica: I feel like she might find him annoying but kind of adorable? I can imagine a scenario where they meet and he decides she’s cool and interesting and just sort of keeps popping up trying to help her, and she’s more charmed and heartened by it than she lets on, or is more upset when she sees him get hurt than she would like to admit.

Peter and Luke: Here, what I’m most interested in is contrasting senses of justice. They are both characters who are very tied to a particular place, and want to do right by it. But Peter is young, and seems to be mostly under the impression that doing right is a simple matter of stopping the bad guys. Luke knows it’s a little more complicated than that. (Also fun: very chatty Peter vs. more stoic Luke).

Peter and Frank: The one case where I think Peter would be well and truly frightened of the other character, in a really interesting way. OTOH, I think Frank might instinctively be very protective of Peter, because he is so young.

Type of hurt: Both physical and emotional is great! I’ve requested either hurt for all pairs, and while it wasn’t nominated, I am also down for both hurt for all pairs.

Type of comfort: I want all of these to be strictly platonic, but emotional comfort, or physical comfort in the form of helping with injuries, carrying the other person, making sure they are okay, hugs, etc. is all great.

Prompts: (mix of character specific and general)
General scenarios:

• AU where Tony never contacts Peter during Civil War, and one (or more!) of these characters ends up being his mentor.
  
  
• Post-Homecoming/pre-IW AU where one (or more!) of these characters ends up being Peter’s mentor while he’s also being mentored by Tony. How do the conflicting influences play out? What can this character teach him that has been missing from his heroing education?
  
  
• Peter hires Jessica as a detective, or Matt as a lawyer, but eventually they figure out this kid is more than he seems at first glance.

Emotional scars

• One or both struggles with a difficult loss, the other provides emotional comfort.
  
  
• Discussing how to deal with the difficulties of being a superhero while also trying to have something resembling a life.
  
  
• Post-IW unsnappening Peter falls in with one (or more!) of these characters, because in a post-snap life Peter is not as brightly optimistic as he once was, and this character gets it.

Physical injury

• I adore superheros who keep pushing themselves to the limit/keep getting back up no matter how many times they get knocked down. So anything where one or both of them do that and the other helps/comforts them afterwards (or they both help each other) is great.
  
  
• Feel free to whump the hell out of any of them. Bad guys hurting, the other one rescuing and/or comforting!
  
  
• Peter fights the other character for some reason. Does he initially think they’re a bad guy because they are being so violent? Do they disagree on methods? Is, I don’t know, Matt protecting Elektra while Peter’s trying to take her down? Peter protecting a bad guy from Frank, because he should go to jail, damn it, not be killed? Etc., etc., etc. But in the end, they help/comfort each other after the fight.

Fantasy elements

• AU where either Kilgrave is still alive, or where Peter gets involved with JJ S1 plotline somehow, and Peter ends up being mind-controlled by Kilgrave. Maybe Jessica (and/or Luke) has to fight him? Because a) the idea of Kilgrave using someone as powerful as Peter is truly terrifying, and b) Peter dealing with the aftermath of that would be fascinating.
  
  
• Alternatively, any of them mind-controlled, by Kilgrave or some other villain
  
  
• Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future: What it says on the tin. I’d esp. love it if the two characters don’t know each other well (or at all), and get to know each other along the way while trying to survive/get back.
  
  
• Venom!Peter, or Venom!other character
  
  
• Both stuck in a time loop of pain together (always die, always be defeated by a villain, etc.). Have to figure out how to escape, and bond along the way.

A note about other characters and ships: I added “(or more!)” to a lot of these prompts, because if you want to incorporate more than one of these Netflix characters into the story, I’m all for it (though I will not be at all disappointed if you don’t!). I’m also happy to see any of the other Netflix characters brought into the mix, though I will warn you I haven’t watched Iron Fist, so my investment in Danny is low. In terms of ships, if relevant, I ship Karen/Frank, Matt/Elektra, Matt/Foggy, Luke/Jessica, Luke/Misty, Luke/Claire. And I don’t have any Defenders NOTPs, so really any ship there is fine.

On the Peter side of things, I like all of the characters from Homecoming, and particularly his friendship with Ned. However, I monoshippingly OTP him with Tony. If you want to incorporate that, amazing. But if not, also amazing. I’m not at all expecting it, and I’m more than happy to have their relationship be a strictly platonic one, if it comes up at all. Just please don’t pair Peter with anyone else.

A note on timelines: I’m obviously happy to see things go canon-divergent AU. I also don’t mind if you simply fudge timelines or such to make a story work — I’m not entirely clear on how the Netflix shows are supposed to fit in to the general MCU timeline anyway, TBH.

Canon-specific DNW: Peter Parker paired with anyone other than Tony Stark.

The Good Place/Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Michael & Ray Holt [Michael Hurt]
Fic or Art
• Abandonment Issues
• Accidentally revealing trauma
• Aftermath of Torture
• Assuring character they are not broken
• Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
• Character Being Comforted Doesn't Believe They Deserve Comfort
• Character bottling up emotions is coaxed into expressing them
• Character Finally Allows Themself to Grieve
• Character Finds New Normal After Trauma
• Character has to be convinced they deserve comfort
• Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection
• Comforter Rains Down Retribution On Hurt Character's Behalf
• Downplaying Trauma
• Emotional Hurt/Comfort
• Emotional Support
• Existential Angst
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Forced to speak truthfully
• Hiding Trauma
• Live in Happy Alternate Reality or Give it Up to Save the World
• Loneliness
• Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee
• Reluctant Comfortee
• Time Loops
• Time Loop Angst
• Time Loop of Trauma
• Time Travel - Traveler Forced to Witness or Relive Past Trauma
• Traumatic Backstory Revelations

Why I requested it: Straight up, someone nominated it, it hadn't been requested, it was too brilliant not to be requested.

How I see the relationship: I don't have a lot of thoughts here, tbh, I just honestly want to see whatever your take on this is. Prickly Raymond, and overenthusiastic, loves humans Michael being weird and overenthusiastic and bad at proper social behavior? Or an earlier, still-trying-to-be-evil Michael, maybe attempting to mess with Raymond and being flummoxed when it fails and actually, this human seems to be getting through to him?

The request is only for hurt Michael because that's what was nominated, but honestly happy to see this go in any direction.

I would prefer this stay within the general tone of the two shows: it can get serious, but I'd like it to generally maintain some level of humor and have a happy ending.

Type of hurt: Emotional, physical, existential angst about the nature of the universe, it all works.

Type of comfort: Verbal or physical (though strictly platonic, please -- I ship Raymond with Kevin so hard). Probably very awkward. But maybe Michael would find Raymond's formal mannerisms endearing?

Prompts:

• They meet when Michael is on Earth. Does he get in trouble with the police? Do they meet in a social situation? Does Ray find him wandering the streets of NYC very confused and offer to help, only to get sucked into something crazier than he expected?
  
• They meet in the afterlife. Does Ray somehow get pulled into trying to help make the afterlife a better place? Does he have to deal with living in the neighborhood?
  
• AU where Ray is part of the original Good Place neighborhood (obviously, this trumps my general AU DNW)
  
• They meet in some further future, where Michael has been punished for trying to help the humans. How has that changed him?
  
• TIME LOOPS. IDK, Ray Holt dealing with time loops sounds hilarious to me.
  
• Seriously, GO CRAZY. Part of why I am requesting this is I am not nearly creative enough to do this myself, I trust in you.

A note on timelines: Whenever in either show. What is time once The Good Place is involved, anyway?

A note on other characters/ships: Feel free to incorporate whoever, I love everyone in both these bars. Please only ship Ray with Kevin. I do ship Michael/Eleanor, but also happy to see him single, or if you have another Michael ship you adore, go for it.

Fandom specific DNW: Unhappy ending, shipping Ray Holt with anyone but Kevin.

Doctor Who
The Eleventh Doctor/The Doctor’s TARDIS; The Thirteenth Doctor/The Doctor’s TARDIS [for both: Doctor hurt]
Fic or Art
• Accepting Injury To Save Another
• Aftermath of Temporary Character Death
• Bittersweet Ending
• Bonding Over Shared Trauma
• Captured
• Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other
• Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Character Finally Allows Themself to Grieve
• Character suffered crushing defeat
• Collapsing from exhaustion
• Comfort Sex
• Doing Bad Things So Others Don't Have To
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Fundamentally Good Character Tortured By Personally Abhorrent Thing They Did For The Greater Good
• Hurt Character Clinging to Comforter
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Live in Happy Alternate Reality or Give it Up to Save the World
• Loneliness
• Meltdown
• Mistakenly Believes the Other is Dead
• Self-Sacrifice
• Time Loop of Trauma
• Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
• Time Loop - Character Becomes Increasingly Unmoored
• Time Loop - Character A Keeps Failing to Save Character B

Why I requested it: The Doctor and their TARDIS is a forever love, my true Doctor Who OTP, just the very best. He stole her, and she stole him! She was the most beautiful thing he had ever known! “What makes you think I would ever give you back?” “I just wanted to say hello.” <3

I requested Eleven because he’s my Doctor; I love how he looks so young but feels so old, and has a real sense of alieness but also deep kindness. I requested Thirteen because I absolutely adore her, in her constant enthusiasm and still-figuring-out-who-she-is. Plus, she seems especially appreciative of the TARDIS.

How I see the relationship: The Doctor and the TARDIS are always there for each other. The Doctor knows her inside and out, and she knows the Doctor — including knowing what s/he really needs even when s/he doesn’t. Sure, sometimes they get cranky with each other, but their love has lasted centuries, and they see each other through everything.

Type of hurt: Emotional or physical, both are lovely.

Type comfort: I can see a fic here going one of two ways.

• One is “The Doctor’s Wife” style, where the TARDIS for some reason is given human form (I would prefer if that form is female, though I don’t care if it is the same form as she was in “The Doctor’s Wife” or different). In this case, I would love for the h/c to take advantage of that and involve a lot of talking and/or a lot of physical comfort, of the sexy variety or not. (If you do go the smut direction here, I'd prefer it to be more tender than anything else, and if you incorporate D/s dynamics, the TARDIS as the dom.)
  
  
• The other is for the TARDIS to be the TARDIS, in which case I’m not interested porn, but the TARDIS coming to the Doctors’ rescue, providing physical comforts of various sorts, or being an emotional comfort without strictly talking would be loved.

I also don’t mind if this fic ends up being more gen than shippy — the love between this Time-Lord and their trusty time-traveling machine takes all forms!

Prompts:

• The Doctor is very sad about something (losing a companion, perhaps?), and the TARDIS knows just where to take him/her.
  
• The Doctor is very sad about something (losing a companion, perhaps?), and the TARDIS knows just how to comfort him/her.
  
• “Hello, again.”
  
• How does the TARDIS keep the Doctor entertained during periods of long isolation or lonliness?
  
• Time loops! So many possibilities! They get stuck in one together. Only the Doctor is stuck in one. Etc. If you want to do character A failing to save character B, I would prefer the Doctor failing to save the TARDIS.
  
• Bittersweet ending: esp. if it’s because the TARDIS is human and then goes back to being the TARDIS (“The Doctor’s Wife” style). Also happy for it to be an actual happy ending, but I just wanted to indicate that although a straight tragic ending is a DNW, something bittersweet is more than okay here.

A note on timelines: Happy to see this set whenever in either Doctor’s timeline.

A note on other characters/ships: Throw in whoever you want! You can also include any of the other relevant Doctor ships I like, which are Doctor/Master, Thirteen/Yaz, and River/Doctor if you want — I don’t exactly see this as a monogamous relationship.

Fandom specific DNW: Unhappy ending (bittersweet is fine).

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Peter Parker/Tony Stark [either or both hurt]
Fic
• Accidental arousal while cuddling for comfort
• Accepting Injury To Save Another
• Accepting Rape to Protect a Loved One
• Accidental time travel into apocalyptic future
• Accepting Torture to Protect a Loved One
• aftermath of being drugged
• Aftermath of Torture
• Attempted Kidnapping
• Bad Guys Made Them Do It
• Badass in Distress
• Being bathed while mutually pining
• Blaming Themself for the Other Character Being Injured
• Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
• Breaking Down Upon Finding an Imperiled Loved One is Safe
• Captured by enemy
• Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other
• Carrying
• Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
• Character believes no one is coming to save them
• Character can physically feel the other character's pain
• Character insists on completing mission despite injuries
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Character Is Unable to Pass Out From Pain
• Character Lays Waste To Enemies Who Barely Scratch Their Loved One(s) In A Fight
• Character Refuses to Stay Down Despite Multiple Hits
• Character suffered crushing defeat
• Character Who Came Back Wrong Recovers Through Love
• Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury
• Collapsing from exhaustion
• Comforter Rains Down Retribution On Hurt Character's Behalf
• Downplaying an Injury
• Downplaying Trauma
• drugged
• Enduring Pain to Protect Another
• Fake Dating while Pining
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Feverish Confessions
• Forced to harm a loved one
• Forced to watch other character's trauma
• Forced to watch the other trying to rescue them
• Forced to watch the other undertaking a dangerous task
• Fuck Or Die
• Fundamentally Good Character Tortured By Personally Abhorrent Thing They Did For The Greater Good
• guilt over inability to stop an injustice
• Guilt over Other Character's Sacrifice
• Hiding Injuries
• Hiding injuries to take care of others first
• Hiding Injury To Keep Other Character From Going Ballistic
• Holding a loved one while they're being tortured/raped
• Hurt character protects another character
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Hurt with no way of knowing the other is safe
• Jealousy
• Mind Controlled by Villain
• Mistakenly Believes the Other is Dead
• Mistakenly Believes They Caused the Other's Death
• More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First
• Overcome from over-using superpowers
• Physically Injured Character Comforting Emotionally Distressed Character
• Pushing through injury
• Rape Victim Comforts Distressed Friend/Loved One Who Was Forced To Watch
• Rebound Relationship - Character mistakenly believes they're just a rebound
• Refuse to Break under Torture
• Refuse to Leave Other Character's Side
• Rescued after rape
• Rescued after torture
• Self-Sacrifice
• Sex Pollen
• Sharing a bed while mutually pining
• Superpower Malfunction
• Trapped/Injured in a Cave-In
• Trying to push through and ignore hurt makes it worse
• Torture Victim Comforts Distressed Friend/Loved One Who Was Forced to Watch
• Tortured to extract information from the other
• Touch-Starved
• Treatment Of Injury Leads To Inconvenient Arousal In Injured Party
• Under the Influence Confessions
• Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs
• Whump

Why I requested it: This is my MCU OTP. There can never be enough fic of them for me, simple as that.

[Note: I also requested this ship and got two amazing fics for it for ChocoBox. I’ve kept some of the same prompts. This is not because those fics were in any way lacking — I *adore* them — but because I could read a million variations on the same theme. Similar takes, totally different takes, takes that are completely uninfluenced because you have not read those fics: it’s all great.]

How I see the relationship: I really like to see this ship portrayed with: a) a strong sense of mutual affection, where they are both incredibly important to each other; b) a strong sense of mutual compatibility despite the age difference (I like them bonding over science and superheroing and the loses they've both suffered and how hard it is for other people to understand them); and most importantly, c) a strong sense that their relationship is ultimately a real positive for both of them. I really do not want any flavor of Tony manipulating Peter or Peter feeling used or put in a bad position by Tony — other characters can think that’s what’s going on, Tony can be really self-conscious and worried about making sure that’s not what’s happening, but I ultimately I want their internal dynamic to be a good one.

That said, I also like that this ship has a lot of potential for angst and pining, so feel free to lean into that if you want. I love Tony realizing he’s attracted to Peter and feeling tons of guilt about it and resisting acting on it for as long as possible; I love Peter realizing he has feelings for Tony but assuming he could never see him that way. I like either or both being super damaged by the events of IW, especially if it results in overprotectiveness and intense focus on each other.

I like pre-relationship and getting-together fic for these two best of all. And ultimately, I would also like any fic for this pair to end on at least a hopeful note. They don’t need to get together if you write pre-relationship pining or the like, but I prefer at least a hint that the feelings go both ways, and that, ultimately, they’ll probably get together.

Type of hurt: As you can see, it’s all over the place. Emotional, physical, I want any/all!

Type of comfort: I would prefer the comfort here to have some sort of physical element, though if you keep it in the pining stage, totally fine for that just to be hugging/wound tending/etc., including stuff that is not *really* appropriate, but which they can almost-just-maybe convince themselves is (like, for instance, sharing a bed because it helps them sleep better, or hair petting). And obviously if it does get romantic it still doesn’t have to be smut: kissing, intense cuddling, hand holding, etc. etc. etc. is also glorious.

If you do want to write smut for these two, things I particularly like for this pairing include:

• Peter calling Tony “Mr. Stark” and “sir” in bed (please no use of the word “daddy,” though). Tony calling Peter “kid” in bed.
  
• Tony resisting hooking up with Peter but giving in when Peter jumps him, and/or in a moment of weakness because he (Tony) is drunk, or injured, or high on post-fight adrenaline
  
• Peter as an eager-to-please sub and Tony as a dom who is very focused on making sure Peter is happy
  
• Praise kink (Peter being the one who gets off on being praised)
  
• Peter’s youth and powers making him an energizer bunny; Peter’s powers leading to overstimulation.
  
• Tender sex. Gestures of love like holding hands, kissing palms, inside of thighs, etc. always makes me swoon.

Prompts:
Physical pain, illness

• I adore superheros who keep pushing themselves to the limit, or keep getting back up no matter how many times they get knocked down. So anything where one or both of them do that and the other comforts them afterwards (or they both comfort each other, or one/both tries to insist the other is the one who needs comfort more) is great. FYI, my comments below on the Peter & Avengers/People of NY section on the things I appreciate about Peter being hurt apply equally in the context of this ship.
  
  
• Feel free to whump the hell out of either of them. Bad guys can be really bad to them, as long as they then get a lot of comfort afterwards. If Peter is the one being whumped, I like it when fic plays with the fact that he can take a *lot* of pain. He had a building dropped on him!
  
  
• One is hurt in a fight. The other freaks the fuck out. Especially if this is a way of realizing or revealing feelings.
  
  
• One tries to hide the extent of an injury or illness. The other is the one who realizes, and/or the other doesn’t realize (at least for a bit) and is very upset when they figure it out.
  
  
• One tenderly taking care of the other while the other is ill or injured. I esp. love it if the ill/injured person is resistant/insists they don’t need help. In Peter’s case, I imagine it would be because he doesn’t want to seem uncool or childish; in Tony’s, because he thinks that’s not Peter’s job. Obviously, the other would have none of it.
  
  
• Peter has overstimulation/other sensory issues! Either in life generally, or in the middle of a fight. Great times! I love this one, it *only just* missed the cut for actual requests since I really only want it in the one direction.
  
  
• Feverish confessions yesss. In either direction.
  
  
• One is hurt saving the other; to get information out of the other; in front of the other; etc.: For all of those types of freeforms, feel free to make it super angsty if you want, though as always with this ship, I do want a happy ending where eventually they escape, or at least it’s heavily suggested they will escape.

Emotional Scars, Drugs and Alcohol

• Nightmares. Insomnia. Some combination thereof. I will read a million billion versions of one or both comforting the other through sleep problems due to their various traumas.
  
  
• Dealing with the aftermath of IW. Tony pulling away because he can’t deal with the memory of Peter dying in his arms, or, alternatively, barely wanting to let him out of his sight/touch. Peter being fucked up over having died. Helping each other through that.
  
  
• Either/both using booze (or other drugs if you want) to cope. Tony is the obvious choice and that is another thing I will read a million versions of, but it would also be interesting to see Peter start to go down that route and Tony having to react to/deal with that. I imagine he would not be pleased.
  
  
• Peter getting too drunk — either in a dark way as discussed above, or in a more lighthearted “Peter is new to drinking, is bad at it” way — and Tony comforting him through it.
  
  
• Peter smokes pot to help deal with the overstimulation. Tony joins him, they bond. (If you need inspiration, this scene from Suits has been in my head lately as something that could be riffed on well for this pair)
  
  
• Either is drugged (maliciously or accidently — I like the idea of Peter having a weird reaction to caffeine, because apparently caffeine is crazy for spiders, so that could work here) and the other helps them. Would love to see this mixed with…
  
  
• Drunk/drugged confessions. Forever and always.
  
  
• Touch starved: I was imagining this one would fit well with IW. Like, maybe Tony hasn’t touched anyone since Peter died, or Peter was stuck in the soul stone unable to touch anyone for what feels like forever, or Peter isolates himself after he comes back, etc. If Peter is the one who is touch starved, finally being touched could play in fun ways with his senses.

Misc. Relationship Issues/Other

• Jealousy:
  
  • Someone creeps on Peter. A bad guy, a rando at a party, whatever. Tony does not like it.
    
  • In college, Peter starts dating or sleeping around. Tony does not handle it well.
    
  • After breaking up with Pepper, Tony goes back to his wild ways. Peter is jealous. (But of course Tony really wanted him the whole time)
  
  
• Mistakenly thinks they’re a rebound: Happy to see either thinking they are a rebound. By the end, I very much want it to be revealed that oh no, that’s not what’s going on at all, the other person adores them. But feel free to lean into the angst before that reveal.
  
  
• Peter being sexually menaced (including perhaps by Venom?? Just a thought). Tony flips out in a protective way.

Fantasy elements and etc.

• Feel each others’ pain: Some sort of spell or scientific experiment gone wrong, and now they feel what the other ones does. (Maybe they also feel each others’ pleasure...just saying ;) But just pain is also great!) Also happy to have this run in only one direction! (Ie. Peter feels Tony's pain but Tony doesn't feel Peter's, or the reverse).
  
  
• Mind controlled by villain: feel free to go dark with this. Have the villain really fuck with the other one. I’m fine with dubiously consensual sex of the “have sex while one character is mind controlled and the other doesn’t realize” variety here.
  
  
• Character Who Came Back Wrong Recovers Through Love: I was thinking Peter, post-unsnappening, though if you want to make it Tony that works too. Feel free to make it dark.
  
  
• Venom!Peter, or the aftermath of it. Or Venom!Tony! That would also be a fun twist.
  
  
• Accidental time travel to an apocalyptic future: what it says on the tin. They have to rely on each other to get back, fix it, etc.

Bad guys made them do it/sex pollen/etc.

• I really, really like bad-guys-or-aliens-made-them-do-it/sex pollen dub-con scenarios for these two, but only if they are both already into each other. Mutually pining, not already together is the sweet spot for me for this.
  
  
• I am really down for the sex to be painful because they are forced to go too hard/fast/Peter is overstimulated/etc., and/or for it to be emotionally terrible because of the situation, but I want them to be finding emotional comfort (and preferable some level of sexual pleasure despite it all) in each other. Guilt over enjoying it, confessions of desire/feels, etc. is all great.
  
  
• Bad guys made them do it, sex pollen (both or one sided), scientific experiments gone wrong — it’s all amazing.

Holding a loved one while they're being tortured/raped, other rape scenarios

• For holding a loved one while they're being tortured/raped, I could see it going in either direction in terms of who’s being hurt, and who is doing the holding
  
  • Bonus points if the person being hurt/raped insisted they be hurt/raped to spare the other person.
    
  • Obviously, I am fine with this being non-con, where the person doing the non-conning is a third party.
    
  • I’m fine with it being a completely terrible experience for the person being hurt, and the focus being on the comfort they feel because the other person is there.
    
  • If it’s rape, I am also into the person being raped getting off because of the other person being there comforting them (so, for instance: Peter manages to orgasm while being raped, because he’s looking into Tony’s eyes and Tony is stroking his hair and telling him it’s going to be okay, etc.)
  
  
• For situations where one of the characters is raped while the other one is not there, I would prefer the rape to be portrayed as traumatic, rather than sexy. I like sexy non-con in some contexts, but not this one — here, I’m in it for the hurt side of the h/c equation, with a lot of comfort afterwards. (Also totally down for a fic that is all aftermath without going into a description of the rape at all.)

A note on timelines: I’d prefer fic where the events of Civil War and Homecoming happened as in canon, but after that, it’s free rein. Post-IW, post-Homecoming AU where IW never happens, or going divergent from some point in IW are all good with me.

A note on Peter’s age: Underage is totally fine, but I’d prefer he not be younger than he is in Homecoming. I’m also fine with setting it later if you prefer he be older, though the age difference and his relative youth is part of the appeal, so I prefer he be under 25.

A note on other characters/ships: Feel free to include whatever other characters you desire, and whatever ships between those other characters you may want. However, I DNW poly for Peter and Tony themselves.

When it comes to Tony and Pepper, I really like Pepper, and I DNW her dying or Tony cheating on her with Peter. I also DNW poly/open relationship for them. So I’d prefer a situation where they’ve broken up (or break up over the course of the fic, but before Tony and Peter get together). Alternatively, while I don't want an AU where she and Tony were never together, because to me that's too large a change in Tony's arc, I'm fine with an AU where they just never got back together post-Civil War. Or if you just don’t mention it, I’ll fill in the blank myself.

For Peter, I'm fine with mentions of his crush on Liz or other high school/college romances, but a DNW him cheating on anyone or poly. For the not cheating DNW: carrying a flame for Tony and maybe toeing the line of emotional affair is fine, but not physical cheating.

Ship-specific DNWs: Poly, cheating, Pepper dying, Tony manipulating or otherwise taking advantage of Peter, Tony kinking on Peter’s youth, Peter being under 15 or over 25, unhappy endings.

Peter Parker & The Avengers; Peter Parker & The People of New York [for both: Peter Hurt]
Fic
• Accepting Injury To Save Another
• Aftermath of Torture
• aftermath of being drugged
• Attempted Kidnapping
• Badass in Distress
• Captured by enemy
• Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other
• Carrying
• Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
• Character believes no one is coming to save them
• Character insists on completing mission despite injuries
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Character Is Unable to Pass Out From Pain
• Character Refuses to Stay Down Despite Multiple Hits
• Character suffered crushing defeat
• Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury
• Collapsing from exhaustion
• Downplaying an Injury
• Downplaying Trauma
• drugged
• Enduring Pain to Protect Another
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Fundamentally Good Character Tortured By Personally Abhorrent Thing They Did For The Greater Good
• guilt over inability to stop an injustice
• Hiding Injuries
• Hiding injuries to take care of others first
• Hurt character protects another character
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Mind Controlled by Villain
• Overcome from over-using superpowers
• Pushing through injury
• Refuse to Break under Torture
• Rescued after torture
• Self-Sacrifice
• Superpower Malfunction
• Trapped/Injured in a Cave-In
• Trying to push through and ignore hurt makes it worse
• Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs
• Whump

Why I requested it: Because I love the idea of whumping the hell out of Peter and then having either his teammates/idols or the people he spends so much time protecting coming to his aid/comfort. Or to put another way: that scene in Homecoming where he has a building dropped on him is amazing to me, but I want to see the version where he gets a hug or a “great work, kid” at the end.

The Hurt: I feel like the freeforms basically speak for themselves on this one, so just a note on why I picked them: I love, love, love that Peter is the kind of character who will not stay the fuck down, not when he has an enemy to fight or a person to help. So Peter working himself to exhaustion, fighting through the pain, getting beat up really badly, not backing down even when the person he’s going up against has the edge on him, being tortured by a bad guy but still refusing to give up whatever information they want (and probably being sassy while doing it) — anything along those lines is the kind of hurt I’m looking for here. And then I just really want to see someone (or multiple someones) give him the support and love he deserves after that.

The two freeforms that feels like it needs a bit more explanation are "mind controlled by villain" and "Fundamentally Good Character Tortured By Personally Abhorrent Thing They Did For The Greater Good," since they’re a little out of step with the rest. I just think it would be really interesting to see either happen to Peter, and then the fallout. How does he deal with it emotionally? How does he try to make it better? How does his team, or an individual Avenger, or the city prove they still love and trust him, or make him feel better? How do they try to make him feel better? Etc.?

Peter + Avengers: Feel free to use any of the Avengers, and to interpret that broadly (by which I mean basically anyone who has ever been on the team, and heck, throw in the Guardians too if you want). Happy to have this set a) in an AU or future situation where he is part of the team, or b) in a situation where he’s not officially part of the team, but gets involved in some fight where one or more of the Avengers is around. Here, I’m looking for physical comfort in the form of carrying, taking care of his injuries, etc. and/or emotional comfort of like, giving him a hug and telling him he did great. IDK, I’m easy.

Peter + The People of New York: Peter helps them so much, but when do they help him? The times the city has rallied around their hero to help him during/after a fight, or ways they’ve thanked him after a huge fight where he was publicly very injured, and remind him why it’s worth it — anything along those lines. I know this isn’t very specific, but I’m just such a sucker for the “people of New York rally around Spider-Man trope,” so feel free to do anything you want with it, I will adore it.

A note on timelines: I think part of the appeal here for me is that Peter is so young, and yet so brave and determined. So if you do set this in the future such that he’s part of the Avengers, I’d still prefer him be like, 22 or under.

A note on other characters/ships: As I said, for the Avengers one, feel free to throw in whoever. For the People of NYC one, I want the focus to be on Peter and the people of New York, but a) totally down to have that include his classmates, esp. if they still don’t know who Spider-Man really is, and b) I’m happy to see other canon characters pop up, especially ones from Homecoming, like May, Ned, or MJ.

For ships: Feel free to ship the non-Peter-and-Tony characters as you desire, if you desire. However, I monoshippingly OTP Peter with Tony. If you want to incorporate that into either of these (Peter + Avengers, or Peter + People of NY), amazing. But if not, also amazing. I’m not at all expecting it, and I’m more than happy to have their relationship be a strictly platonic one, if it comes up at all. Just please don’t pair Peter with anyone else, and please don’t pair Tony with anyone other than Peter or Pepper, and if he’s with Pepper, I prefer background mentions only.

Canon-specific DNW: Peter Parker paired with anyone other than Tony Stark; Tony Stark paired with anyone other than Peter or Pepper (either being single is totally fine); unhappy ending.

Russian Doll
Nadia &/ Alan [either or both hurt]
Fic
• aftermath of being drugged
• Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
• All Magic Comes With a Price
• Character Being Comforted Doesn't Believe They Deserve Comfort
• Character can physically feel the other character's pain
• Character has to be convinced they deserve comfort
• Characters Find a New Normal After Trauma
• Comfort Sex
• Comfort Sex - Love Is Requited But None Of The Participants Realize It
• Comforting Out of Obligation Turns Into Real Sympathy
• drinking as self-harm
• Drinking to Cope
• Drug Use As Unhealthy Coping Mechanism
• drugged
• Drunkenness
• Drunken Confessions
• Emotional Support
• Experiencing Another's Pain Through Psychic Bond
• Everyone Thinks They're Together - They're Pining
• Existential Angst
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Fear of history repeating itself
• Feverish Confessions
• Hangovers
• Learning to be Loved
• Physical Intimacy Leads To Hesitant Emotional Intimacy
• Rebound Relationship - Character mistakenly believes they're just a rebound
• Reluctant Comfortee
• Sex As A Distraction From Emotional Turmoil
• Time Loop Angst
• Time Loop of Trauma
• Time Loop - Escape by Revealing Feelings
• Touch-Starved
• Under the Influence Confessions
• unresolved issues from their past

Why I requested it: I, like so many other people, binged this show when it came out, and fell absolutely in love with it. I love time loops, deeply flawed characters, and shows with distinctive visual aesthetics, so this thing was basically crack to me. I especially loved the two leads. Nadia is the flawed female protagonist of my dreams: I love how sarcastic and biting she can be, but also how smart and determined to get things done, and of course, all those undercurrents of pain and caring hidden beneath it all. And Alan — such a total sweetheart, and yet so broken in his own way. I adore them both.

How I see the relationship: What I love about them is the dynamic of two such different people being forced together, and coming to understand and care about each other because of their shared circumstances. I also loved the balance the show struck between them helping each other, and yet each of them having to face their internal demons on their own in the penultimate episode. There’s this sense that they both need each other, but also a deep understanding that no one can fix you but yourself.

What I’m looking for in fic: I’m happy to see this relationship play out anywhere on the spectrum of purely platonic (other than that one time…) up through Together Forever Love, and everything in between (fuckbuddies for comfort, trying a relationship but deciding they’re better as friends, etc.). I liked that the show had a sense of humor and ended on a hopeful note, and I’d prefer fic to keep some sense of that, so not utter despair or a completely unhappy ending. But I’m totally open to it going really dark/angsty on the way there if you want — the show sure did. And bittersweet endings are totally fine.

A note on timelines: Happy to see fic filling in the gaps of the show (moments/loops we didn’t see), or set after the show. If you want to do post-show, I know there’s some debate about whether their timelines merged at the end or not. I’m of the opinion that they did, but I’m interested in seeing either option explored in fic. Merged timeline and figuring out how to go from there; unmerged timelines and negotiating the new relationship(s) where only one half remembers the loops; unmerged timeline but trying to figure out how to merge them back because they each miss the version of each other they knew — it all sounds great to me!

Kind of hurt: As you can see, I requested a range, though with a focus on emotional type hurt. That said, feel free to incorporate physical pain even into the more emotion-focused freeforms if you so desire; canon had a lot of it, and I am fine/happy to see a similar level of pain happening in fic here. More thoughts in the prompts!

Kind of comfort: I’m open to a range: emotional comfort, platonic physical comfort, non-platonic physical comfort... It’s all good! If you want to do sex as comfort here, I am down for a range of options, from openly tender and caring to rough and kind of taking their pain out on each other. I want it to be consensual, but it can be consensually emotionally fraught. (If you want to incorporate D/s dynamics, I see Nadia as the dom).

Prompts:
Emotional scars

• They both made great progress before getting out of the time loop, but that doesn’t mean the work is done. How do they continue to work on themselves? Do they backslide? How do they help each other?
  
  
• Conversations we missed on the show. Getting to know each other. Small revelations of pain from their backstories, or of the stress and terribleness of being stuck in the loop.
  
  
• What was their one hookup on the show like? There seemed to be a lot of emotional H/C going on there. Was there pillow talk? Was the sex ever tender, or was it all anger and roughness and taking out their problems on each other?
  
  
• Falling into sleeping with each other as a form of comfort post-show. Does it develop into something more? Or just two people finding pleasure and escape that way?
  
  
• Comforting Out of Obligation Turns Into Real Sympathy: Post-show, they keep hanging out, but at least one of the two (probably Nadia) is mostly doing it out of obligation, because they feel like that’s what you’re supposed to do after going through something like that together. But eventually it develops into real comfort and friendship. Alternatively, would also be happy to see a take where they tell themselves they are only doing it out of obligation, but where it’s clear that’s not true.
  
  
• Everyone Thinks They're Together - They’re Pining: Post-show, they spend a lot of time together, because of what they just went through. Everyone thinks they’re dating but they aren’t — but they both want to be but are afraid to admit it.
  
  
• Rebound Relationship - Character mistakenly believes they're just a rebound: I was thinking this could fit really well with Nadia thinking she’s just a rebound for Alan after his big breakup, though I could also see it going the other way and Alan thinking she’s still hung up on the guy with the kid.
  
  
• Touch starved: Post-loop, one or both kind of goes monastic as a reaction to what happened (Alan seems like the most likely candidate, but I could be sold either way). Eventually, they allow the other one to touch them.

Drugs or alcohol

• One or both copes with being back in the real world by drinking too much or taking up drugs. If it’s Nadia, does Alan know how to help, or is he overwhelmed? If it’s Alan, has he ever been down that path before? How does he feel about losing control? Or maybe they spiral together?
  
  
• One is drugged at a party, the other helps them.
  
  
• Drunk/drugged confessions! (Or feverish confessions! That’s my only illness prompt for them so it’s not a separate category, but I just love characters who aren’t great at sharing feelings being more open because of being out of it.)

Time loops and other fantastical elements

• They get stuck in another time loop. This time, it has to do with their feelings for each other.
  
  
• Connected and feeling each others’ pain: What if, post-show, they have this kind of connection as a result of the loop? Either in a merged timeline, and it’s something they have to learn to deal with, or in an unmerged timeline, but they can feel what’s happening to the other person in their alternate timeline.
  
  
• All Magic Comes With a Price: I was thinking that the time loop is a kind of magic. Maybe it has after-effects. Physical effects, like random bursts of pain paralleling the deaths they went through? Random flashbacks to the alternate timelines? Slippage between the different ending timelines? Feel free to get creative — those are just the ideas that jumped to mind for me!

A note on other characters and ships: Feel free to include whoever. I especially loved Nadia’s relationship with Horse, and would be interested to see if she continues to check up on him. Other ships are fine: I don’t mind cheating, discussion of past relationships, etc. If Nadia/Alan are being portrayed as Endgame I’d prefer they end up monogamous (I just can’t see Alan being happy with being poly long-term), but an open relationship in the context of them being fuck buddies or still figuring a new relationship out is fine.

Fandom specific DNW: Unhappy ending (bittersweet is fine); poly endgame.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales & Jefferson Davis; Miles Morles & The People of New York [for both: Miles hurt]
Fic or Art
• Accepting Injury To Save Another
• Awkward Comforter
• Badass in Distress
• Blaming Themself for the Other Character Being Injured
• Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse
• Character believes no one is coming to save them
• Character bottling up emotions is coaxed into expressing them
• Character Finds New Normal After Trauma
• Character insists on completing mission despite injuries
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Character Is Unable to Pass Out From Pain
• Character Refuses to Stay Down Despite Multiple Hits
• Character suffered crushing defeat
• Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury
• Collapsing from exhaustion
• Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt
• drugged
• Downplaying an Injury
• Downplaying Trauma
• Emotional Support
• Enduring Pain to Protect Another
• Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You
• Fundamentally Good Character Tortured By Personally Abhorrent Thing They Did For The Greater Good
• guilt over inability to stop an injustice
• Hiding Injuries
• Hiding injuries to take care of others first
• Helping hurt character to eat or drink
• Hurt Character Clinging to Comforter
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Meltdown
• Overcome from over-using superpowers
• Pushing through injury
• Refuse to Break under Torture
• Rescued after torture
• Self-Sacrifice
• Superpower Malfunction
• Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs
• Whump

Why I requested it: I absolutely fell in love with this movie when I saw it. The animation was extraordinary, obviously, but I was also so impressed by how funny it was, how well-crafted and likable all the characters were, and how much emotional punch was packed into their relationships in so little time. I just want to keep playing in this world! And, much like with MCU!Peter Parker, I really want to see Miles get the comfort he deserves while doing such a tough job at such a young age.

Miles Morales & Jefferson Davis: I am such a sucker for parents who love their children but struggle to understand/connect to them, so obviously this relationship is right up my alley. I like how much Jefferson obviously cares, and how hard he’s working to get better at being a dad to the kid he has. And Miles obviously adores him. Also, their interactions when Miles was Spider-Man were hilarious.

Type of h/c: I would love anything that involves Jefferson comforting Miles while Miles struggles emotionally and/or physically with the consequences of being Spider-Man. I especially like the idea of this comfort happening before Miles has revealed he’s Spider-Man. I am happy to see either a situation where Jefferson has totally figured it out and is just pretending not to know, or one where he has no idea what’s going on with Miles, just knows his son is struggling and he wants to help however he can.

Prompts:

• Jefferson and Miles interacting while Miles is behind the mask. Jefferson provides backup to Spider-Man, saves him, helps him with a wound, provides him with advice, etc. — whether or not he suspects it’s really his son.
  
• Miles has a breakdown after something really scary happened/he almost died/he failed to save someone, Jefferson is there for him.
  
• Miles comes home injured, Jefferson is there for him.
  
• Miles nearly being defeated by Kingpin and then struggling to get back up while his dad watched touched my heart so much. A similar situation where Jefferson actually knows (or suspects) who Spider-Man is and freaks out and goes to help him would be lovely.

Miles Morales & The People of New York: As I said above in the Peter & People of New York section, I am just such a sucker for NYC coming to Spidey’s aid. And in Spider-verse, we know that New Yorkers obviously adored Peter Parker. I would love to see evidence of them adoring their new Spider-Man just as much. Whether that means helping him physically, or conversations to cheer him up when he’s down emotionally, or thanking him in some big way — again, I’m a sucker for this trope, so anything you want to do is sure to delight me!

A note on other characters: I loved everyone in this film, so feel free to add whoever. I also liked the canon relationships (Miles’ parents, Peter/MJ in either verse) so incorporating those is fine by me.

Fandom specific DNW: Unhappy ending.

Star Wars
Rey /& Ben Solo | Kylo Ren [hurt Kylo]
Fic or Art
• Accepting Torture to Protect a Loved One
• Begging Another Character to Kill Them
• Belligerent Pining
• Bittersweet Ending
• Blaming Themself for the Other Character Being Injured
• Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
• Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other
• Character Being Comforted Doesn't Believe They Deserve Comfort
• Character believes no one is coming to save them
• Character can physically feel the other character's pain
• Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection
• Character insists on being left behind
• Character is Injured while Protecting Another
• Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury
• Collapsing from exhaustion
• Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt
• Enduring Pain to Protect Another
• Enemies to Lovers - Changed Sides in the Middle of the Fight After Seeing the Other Hurt
• Enemies to Lovers - Were Enemies at the time of Hurt
• Enemies to Lovers - Enemy caused hurt but regrets it and tries to make amends
• Experiencing Another's Pain Through Psychic Bond
• Failing The Other Person
• Forced to harm a loved one
• Forced to speak truthfully
• Forced to watch other character's trauma
• Forced to watch the other trying to rescue them
• Forced to watch the other undertaking a dangerous task
• forced to work together
• Hurt character comforts the one who caused the hurt
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Learning to be Loved
• Losing Control Over Powers Hurts Self
• Loss of Control of Superpower/Magic - Due to Emotional Distress
• Mistakenly Believes They Caused the Other's Death
• Nobody hurts that character except me!
• Surprised Not To Be Viewed As A Villain
• Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
• Time Loop - Character A Keeps Failing to Save Character B
• Time Travel - Traveler Forced to Witness or Relive Past Trauma
• Touch-Starved
• Whump

Why I requested it: I haven’t requested these two in an exchange yet, because I honestly just have so many feelings about them I found it hard to deal with articulating what I even want other than “canon, but more.” But I just can’t pass up the chance to see Kylo hurt, and the freeforms helped me focus, so I figured now’s my opportunity.

How I see the relationship: These two are just — their relationship is everything I’ve ever wanted in a hero/villain relationship, romantic or otherwise. The intensity of their connection, the literal force connection (I mean, what a gift), the way they are both so lonely, and find in each other some solace. The way the fight together. Rey’s attempts to get through Kylo’s self-loathing to the man inside. But all that contrasted with their deeply different views of the world. Kylo’s inability not to be his worst self contrasted with Rey’s heroism. They’re enemies who could be allies, friends, or lovers, and the tragedy of not quite getting there, or the joy if they do, are both really appealing to me.

What I’m looking for in fic: I requested both gen and ship because while I ship it like burning, I also find the idea of them remaining platonic, but intensely linked — because of their literal link and because of all the ways that they see themselves reflected in each other — super compelling as well. I am happy to receive any of the following: platonic/gen, one sided Kylo --> Rey, mutual pining (with feelings revealed/acted upon or not).

I’d rather not get established relationship fic for these two, since what I find most interesting is where we left them off in canon, with all its complexity. It’s totally fine if you want to set it somewhat in the future where they’ve reestablished the force bond or otherwise reconnected on some level, I just don’t want to skip over any feelings reveal that might happen.

This is a pair where I’m really hoping to get just shittons of angst. I’m happy to see the ending range anywhere from happy to completely unhappy, and I really love bittersweet.

Kind of hurt: Both emotional and physical are great, as you can see in my freeforms. I’ve requested “hurt Kylo” because he’s specifically the one I want as the “hurt”/focus character for these freeforms. That said, I don’t mind at all Rey being hurt as well, physically or emotionally.

Kind of comfort: Physical (romantic or not) or emotional are both great. If you want to go the smut route, I am happy to have it be tender, rough, anywhere in-between; if you incorporate D/s dynamics, I prefer Rey as the dom. I’d love incorporation of the force bond into the comfort, sexual or otherwise.

Prompts:
Emotional distress

• Begging Another Character to Kill Them: What came to mind: Kylo wants to stop being evil, but doesn’t trust himself, so begs Rey to kill him.
  
• Kylo thinks he killed Rey, or she was killed in some sort of First Order attack, and is devastated but can’t show it
  
• Kylo watches Rey being captured/injured/tortured/kept prisoner/etc. by the First Order and has to pretend he’s okay with it. I would esp. love it if the Force Bond plays a role, so that he can feel Rey’s emotional (and/or physical) distress.

Physical injury

• Hurt character comforts the one who caused the hurt: Rey hurts Kylo in a fight; he comforts her either because she is also physically hurt, or because she is torn about having hurt him and he wants her to know it’s okay
  
• Injury in battle (against Rey or not)
  
• Kylo has to hurt himself to get his force powers working
  
• Injured in a cave-in

Fantasy elements, political elements, other plot elements, etc

• Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other: What came to mind: Kylo is captured by the Resistance because of staying behind somewhere to help/save Rey.
  
• Feeling pain through psychological link: The Force bond, baby! I’d love to see it turn into a situation where they feel each others’ physical pain.
  
• Kylo loses control of his powers and hurts himself in the process
  
• Kylo and Rey are forced to work together:
  
  • Because he defects
    
  • Because they are trapped in the middle of a jungle/in a collapsed building/wherever and they need to work together to survive
    
  • Because one has been captured by the other’s side and will be tortured/killed, so the other wants to help them escape

A note on timeline: I’m not interested in canon divergence for this canon. Post TLJ, please!

A note on other characters and ships: Feel free to include whoever. I’d prefer not to see Kylo romantically shipped with anyone else (OTOH, rape, sexually coercive relationships where he’s the victim, etc. are fine). I’m fine with Rey shipped with Finn or Poe. If it’s in some way relevant I also ship Finn/Poe, Leia/Han, and Leia/Holdo. Please don’t include ships not listed here.

Fandom specific DNW: Romantically shipping Kylo with anyone else, unrequested ships, any AUs including canon divergence.

UnReal
Quinn/Rachel [either or both hurt]
Fic
• Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
• Being bathed while mutually pining
• Belligerent Pining
• Betrayal
• Character Being Comforted Doesn't Believe They Deserve Comfort
• Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection
• Character suffered crushing defeat
• Comfort Sex
• Comfort Sex - Love Is Requited But None Of The Participants Realize It
• Comforter caused the Hurt
• Comfortee Believes They Have To Earn Their Comfort
• Comforter Is Purposefully Bad At Being Comforting
• Comforter helps the hurt character hide panic/fears
• Comforter Rains Down Retribution On Hurt Character's Behalf
• Deceiving the Other Character for Their Own Good
• Doing Bad Things So Others Don't Have To
• Downplaying Trauma
• Drug Use As Unhealthy Coping Mechanism
• Drugged
• Drunken Confessions
• Dysfunctional Relationships
• Emotional Support
• Failing The Other Person
• Feverish Confessions
• Forcing Exhausted Character to Get Some Sleep
• Forgetting to eat
• Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Insincere Comfort
• Lies and Deception
• Learning to be Loved
• Meltdown
• Mental Breakdown
• Nobody hurts that character except me!
• One Half Of Pairing Insists They’re Not In Love With The Other
• Overworking
• Pretending the hurt is worse than it is to get extra comfort
• sex as self harm
• Under the Influence Confessions
• What Happened Last Night? - Only One of Them Remembers

Why I requested it: I recently watched the fourth season, and while I am sad about the many ways at which this show went off the rails, it reminded me how much I loved the first season, and how much I adore Rachel and Quinn and their twisted relationships, even when the show’s plot has gone insane. They’re both so broken, but so competent, so quick to hurt each other, but also so quick to try to make it right, because they can’t stand being angry at each other for long, not really — it’s perfect for hurt/comfort.

How I see the relationship: How often do we get too such glorious female antiheroes/villain protagonists, let alone with such a fantastically twisted and yet ultimately devoted relationship? I do think these two adore each other, and neither would ever truly be happy to let the other one go (I mean, as much as I didn’t love the later seasons, the ending was amazing for this ship). But they also sometimes hate each other, and are certainly willing to play each other, and I love it all.

What I’m looking for in fic/prompts: I’m happy to see fic here range from twisted and manipulative (did one cause the other’s hurt? Are they comforting the other to get something out of them? Is the hurt character exaggerating the extent of their damage because they enjoy the attention?) to fully genuine — and, of course, anywhere in between. With these two, the line between playing games and expressing real emotion is often incredibly blurred.

Feel free to go as angsty or dark as you want here. The hurt can definitely be in the form of one or both spiraling in a drastic way. I’m here for it. Unhappy endings are fine.

Kind of hurt: A whole range! See the prompts for more details.

Kind of comfort: These two both clearly use sex to make themselves feel better, so if you want to lean into that, please do. Rough, tender, both at once — I’m here for it. And I don’t mind if there is manipulation involved: I want both parties to be into the sex as it is happening, but I’m totally down with, say, one caused the situation that hurt the other and made her crave comfort in the first place, and the second person doesn’t realize it. (I’d also be down for multiple layers of mindgames: For instance, Quinn hurts Rachel to make Rachel want comfort, Rachel realizes that but also wants the sex so doesn’t let on that she realizes it, etc... point is, get as twisty as you want.) If you want to incorporate D/s dynamics, I’m happy to see it go either way (or struggle for dominance!).

I’d also be thrilled with comfort in the form of cuddling/taking care of the person/having a fun time/just talking to them. It definitely does not have to be sex if you don’t want!

Prompts:
Emotional scars

• Quinn comforting Rachel after Rachel is forced to deal with her family. [Possibly Quinn caused the confrontation?]
  
• Rachel comforting Quinn after Quinn had a falling out with Chet. [Possibly Rachel caused the falling out?]
  
• Quinn comforting Rachel after yet another failed relationship (any of the canon ones, or a different one)
  
• Either comforting the other after something about one of the contestants brings up a bad memory. [Bonus points if the one doing the comforting knew this contestant would mess with the other but didn’t warn her.]
  
• Mutual comfort over their emotional wounds
  
• Comforter Rains Down Retribution On Hurt Character's Behalf: Something bad happens to one, and the other goes all out to hurt whoever hurt them (by destroying careers, reputations, etc.)

Drugs or alcohol

• Either comforting the other when the hurt one is suuuper drunk or on drugs. [Bonus points if the one doing the comforting either a) actively drugged the other one, or b) encouraged them to go hard that night]
  
• Confessions while drunk/drugged

Overwork/illness
Note: I was mostly thinking about Rachel as the hurt one with this category, since she’s the one that often seems to push herself to the brink of total meltdown, but I also think it would be really interesting to see the roles reversed on that.

• One forcing the other to take a break
  
• One providing the other with physical comfort when they need it the most (whether that be sex, food, a blanket, a shoulder to cry on…)
  
• One doing something small to keep the other from falling over the edge into total meltdown
  
• One comforting the other during a total meltdown
  
• A love confessions while feverish

A note on timelines: Happy to see any of these prompts set anywhere from pre-show (perhaps part of Rachel’s devotion to Quinn comes from an early affair?) to post-show, and anything in-between. Feel free to go canon divergent at any point — as I made clear upfront, I am attached to these characters, but not the specific plots.

In fact, I'll go a step further and wave my DNW of AUs that change characters’ back-stories/character relationships to this extent: If you, like me until recently, used to love this show but gave up at some point,* feel free to just use what you know and throw the remainder to the wind. I’m not going to be annoyed if, for example, you change stuff about Rachel’s relationship to her dad or don’t include Quinn’s old bestie who was introduced in the later seasons because you didn’t get that far.

*And, if you've never seen it but are inspired to check it out because you, too, love amazing female antiheroes, a) DO, because the first season is amazing, but b) do yourself a favor and stop after the first season. Just imagine it lives on in that 10 episodes of perfection. (This isn't a bid for treats, just general life advice: watch the first season! It's fantastic!)

A note on other characters and ships: Feel free to include whoever, including whatever other ships you desire, though I’ll admit I find Jeremy pretty boring, so I’d prefer not a whole lot of focus on him if possible. I don’t mind infidelity in this fandom at all, so it’s not a problem for me if you have Quinn cheating on Chet or Rachel cheating on any of her various love interests. Open relationships is also fine.