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Dear Yuletide writer,

 

Thank you so much for writing for me! I know I love seeing other peoples’ likes and dislikes and prompts, so I’ve written a little about each fandom, but I love everything I’ve requested and I’m honestly super easy to please. I’m sure I’ll love whatever you come up with, so if you have a totally different idea, go for it. I’m excited to read what you write!

 

Likes: Pining (mutual or otherwise), hurt/comfort, pretending to be married/dating, arranged marriage, weddings, happy endings, soulbonding/soulmates/any kind of weird psychic connection bonding scenario, caretaking, sharing a bed, competence, loyalty kink, protectiveness and possessiveness. Creative use of superpowers and comic book lore. I love AUs, but I also love fic firmly set in canon. I love mysticism and magical realism. I’m open to all ratings.

 

Smut likes: Hands, kissing, body worship, praise kink, possessiveness, manhandling/strength kink, “we’re alive” affirming sex after missions/dangerous situations, use of powers during sex for superheroes.

 

DNWs: Permanent major non-canonical character death (canon character deaths are fine) or extreme injury/mutilation (canon levels or incidences are fine), infidelity between requested characters, noncon between requested characters, watersports/scat, harm to animals, unhappy endings, incest between either biological or adopted siblings, unrequested non-canonical gender or race headcanons, references to current real world politics. For my Marvel Comics fandom requests, please no references to MCU events or crossovers with the MCU.

 

I'm Traincat at Ao3, and on tumblr and @traincat.bsky.social if you want to poke around. I tag everything on tumblr by series name.

 

Treats are welcome!

 

Scarlet Spider (Marvel Comics)

Kaine Parker, Maria Aracely Penalba, Flash Thompson

 

You don't have to use all my requested characters for this request, although you are welcome to do so. I do request that Kaine is included.

I love Kaine Parker, the reason I have to say “permanent” with my non-major character death DNW. “Broody clone of the hero” is such a quintessentially comics trope, but I love that Kaine is very much his own character and not just Peter But Edgier. His Scarlet Spider run did such a good job of growing his character and letting him explore what life could offer him once the clone degeneration was cured: a home, a family, and his own blossoming identity. Kaine sees a lot of himself in Aracely, whether he wants to or not, and I love how their bond grows out of that and how devoted they are to each other. Kaine is her champion! She knows he’d never hurt her! He fought werewolves to protect her! They have a psychic bond!

Kaine and Flash only have one interaction, but their chemistry was so good and I think they should kiss on the lips. I loved their Minimum Carnage banter—if you can call Flash attempting to get along and Kaine struggling like a cat about to get a bath every step of the way banter. I do headcanon both Flash and Kaine as being attracted to men, although I think Flash is much more aware of this than Kaine, who was grown in a basement lab and raised for like two whole months by the only father figure he ever had, an abusive professor in a fursuit who tried to kill him, and so is maybe not very good at self-reflection as a result of that.

For shipfic, I only ship Kaine and Flash together, but I’m also happy to get gen dynamics, especially for Kaine&Aracely, or character-focused fic. I view Kaine and Aracely as having a strictly familial relationship and DNW a romantic relationship for them.

·       I would love to see more exploration of Kaine and Aracely’s psychic bond, of the connection between them and possibly how it ties into Kaine's own former psychic abilities. Does what she can do worry him, given how painful his own former abilities were?
·       I'm also very good with them having a spa day in Houston or ordering everything off the room service menu. Superhero and civilian shenanigans are great – I love Aracely being delighted to drag Kaine to restaurants or to the rodeo, or being annoyed with him because he doesn’t want to be a superhero.
·       I wouldn't say no to a non-powers AU where Kaine's always had a crush on football star Flash but is convinced he only sees him as Peter's moody little brother.
·       I think Kaine has, understandably, issues with intimacy and touch and trust, stemming from the Jackal's abuse but also in more recent canon from being assaulted by Shathra in the guise of Annabelle, and generally from believing he doesn't deserve to be touched kindly because he views himself as a worthless monster. I would also love fic where Kaine explores touch and intimacy with Flash and learns what he does and doesn't like, and maybe that he really enjoys surrendering on his own terms and letting Flash be in charge for a while.
·       Kaine can talk to spiders! This is such a fun power. I would love to see his relationship with his spider network—how do they feel about him, this spider who looks like a man and can speak to them through the web?
·       Any post-Shathra angst, especially with how Kaine’s transformation is forced in front of everyone, and how he sees how they react to his more monstrous form. I really love how Aracely runs in front of him and tries to protect him from that response, the way she holds his hand and says she doesn’t understand why this is bad. They hit the road right after, but I would love to see some platonic hurt/comfort about it.
·       If you do want to use all three of my requested characters, I would love FlashKaine (established or pre-relationship) fic where Flash is convinced he has to win Aracely over and Aracely takes shameless advantage, much to Kaine's chagrin. We know Flash is good with teenage girls with powers, so let her run roughshod over him. He can handle it. 

I don't mind New Warriors canon popping up, but I also don't mind if you choose to disregard it entirely, or if you write a canon divergence where Kaine stays in Houston. I'm partial to Kaine with longer hair, as much as I appreciate his character development buzzcut. (But it's not a deal breaker.)

 

Marvel Noir

Peter Parker, Felicia Hardy

 

One of my favorite things that you can do with a multiverse is examine how shifting one little thing changes a character. 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’m always interested in an exploration of Peter’s brutality in the pursuit of justice, especially when it’s balanced with his tenderness towards friends, family, and lovers.)

 

Similarly, this Felicia is really interesting, a harder take on a character who was already thrust into a bad girl box. I'm interested in her life before Peter, and also in their on-again and off-again affair. I'd love anything that touches on her and her club, whether it was the opening, the day to day operation, or where things stand after she puts on that mask. I’m good with a canon divergent fic where she's the femme fatale who approaches the detective for mysterious reasons.

 

·       I’d love to see casefic, maybe set between the original Spider-Man Noir and Eyes Without a Face, maybe with Peter going to Felicia for help in an investigation. Post-Eyes Without a Face is interesting, too, with both of them dealing with their new separation.
·       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. 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.
·       Role swap! Peter’s the jaded nightclub owner ala Rick from Casablanca and Felicia’s the brash young thief.
·       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. The push and pull between them is so interesting. She’s what he wants. She thinks she can’t be what he needs.
·       Noir is not generally the most lighthearted canon, but if you wanted to go that route, I’d love anything about Peter versus Felicia’s hundred cats in a war for her affection.

My infidelity DNW does not apply here. Feel free to make them cheat on each other. Sexily.

 

For this prompt, I’m okay with passing mentions of the looming WW2 and Nazis (given the canon), but I would prefer to avoid focus on either. Additionally, I have zero fear of spiders, so if that’s the case for you too, feel free to cover that man in spiders. I’m not particularly into any of the canon that came after Eyes Without a Face, but I’m also willing to roll with whatever if you’ve got an idea that incorporates the later comics.

 

Fantastic Four (Original Ultimateverse)

Susan Storm, Johnny Storm

 

Ultimate Fantastic Four is beautiful fucking mess. Have you ever wanted to read a comic book that is only 60 issues long but can’t remember facts it established on page one of issue #1. Have you ever looked at Greg Land art and thought, you know, it could be even more obvious this was traced off porn. Have you ever wondered “what if Dr. Doom got Johnny Storm teen pregnant with an alien parasite a prerequisite for his scheme to bodyswap himself with Reed Richards?” This is the comic for you. It’s so bad. I’ve read it five times.

 

·       Ultimate Johnny has it rough, even for a Johnny Storm, and that’s saying something. I would love to see him get some comfort after all the hurt.
·       I love Ultimate Mary Storm, the Worst Woman in the World, and I think she’s very fun in her general terrible-ness – if you want to disregard some, uh, stuff (cough Ultimatum #5 and it’s retcon in Ultimate FF #5 cough) I would love to see Johnny and Sue just deal with their mother, whether it's in person or with the aftermath of any of their run-ins with her. How does Sue feel about her mother considering her the same as herself, a genius, while she relegates Johnny to a lesser category?
·       I’m also just interested in Johnny and Sue’s sibling relationship. They’re much closer in age to each other here than in a lot of Fantastic Four canons, and that clearly effects their relationship, but I’d love to see some general sibling bonding.
·       I’m intrigued by the way Johnny and Sue’s powers are combined in UFF #37, with Dreamcatcher noting that syncing their powers like that is something that they could learn to do themselves. I love playing around with powers, and Sue and Johnny are both great for that, so I would love to see them learning to combine their powers.
·       In 616, the Storm siblings get to go on shopping trips together, and I would love to see Johnny and Sue bonding in Ultimate in the same way, maybe post-canon.
 

 

Fantastic Four (2015)

Johnny Storm, Sue Storm

 

This is my favorite Fantastic Four movie. Yes, I’m aware of all of the problems and also of the fact that it is, on a storytelling level, Not Very Good, which is a great way to sell why it’s my favorite, but it’s the potential of the movie that I enjoy. There’s so much interesting stuff to explore here, even just in the concept of the Fantastic Four’s origin story as a horror story. (If you wanted to go full tilt in that direction, I’m interested.) I love the struggle between the core cast of characters, and I love the relationship between Sue and Johnny—strained, but you can see how deeply they care for each other under there.

 

I love the entire Fantastic Four and I find this Victor interesting, so I'm happy to see anyone else included, but I'd prefer the focus remain on the siblings.

 

·       Both Sue and Johnny have a love of music. Sue says it helps her focus, and Johnny is introduced with the most Johnny song of all time, The Four Tops’ Standing in the Shadows of Love, playing during his race. I’m a big Motown fan, so if you want, I would love fic centered around Johnny and Motown, or just Johnny or Sue or Sue and Johnny and music in general!
·       There’s a scene from the trailer that never made it into the movie of Sue cradling an injured Johnny and crying, which looks like it was probably supposed to have been in the battle with Doom. I’d love to see a take on that, whether it’s in that fight or a future one.
·       I always love exploring superheroes’ powers. In the comics, Sue manages to weaponize her inherently defensive powers, while Johnny exerts such control over his destructive ones that he’s able to siphon off excess body heat from other people and take the sting out of burns. This Sue and Johnny still have a lot of trouble controlling their powers where we leave them at the end of the movie, so I’d love to see fic of them working together to learn how to control their powers.
·       Similarly, Johnny and Sue have very different relationships with their powers, with Johnny wanting to use his, whereas Sue initially believes their powers are something to be cured. I’d love more exploration of that, maybe in Central City, or just in them becoming the Fantastic Four. (“I gotta say, it’s fantastic.”)
·       The Mole Man was supposed to be in this movie. I am perfectly happy to read about Sue and Johnny having a sibling day fighting the Mole Man.

 

เพราะรักนำทาง | Fourever You (TV)

Arthit, Daotok

 

This show is so, so sweet. Instant comfort watch, and I love these two in particular. They have such great chemistry and I loved watching Arthit fall wholeheartedly for Daotok and how all in he was as soon as he realized he didn't want to live without him. I love Daotok's more guarded nature, too, how unsure he was of Arthit, of whether he'd change, and his breakdown when he thought he might lose him.

 

I love all the couples, although I’m a little more interested in the Part 2 pairs, so feel free to include whoever you like, and I love all the friendships in this series. I’ve seen the special episodes and read the novel, so feel free to include anything from those if you feel like it! I know it’s novel canon, but as a New York lover, I do love that they move to NYC, so feel free to run with that if you’re inclined or ignore it if you’re not, I do also love their special episode marital home.

·       I adore the way Arthit adores Daotok. The way he always wants to be touching him, playing with his hands and kissing his knuckles. I would very happily read a fic that’s just them being in love and Arthit being clingy.
·       Ghosts! The reason I originally picked up the series was because I saw a couple of gifs of the ghosts and was intrigued enough to give the whole thing a try, so if that’s a thing you’re into, I would love to see them incorporated somehow. Whether it’s just the reality of Daotok’s abilities, or if they end up trying to solve another murder, or if it’s hurt/comfort after a ghost harms Daotok (whether it’s him or Arthit who really needs the comforting), I would love anything with ghosts.
·       They’re engaged! They’re getting married! I love marriage and weddings, so if you wanted to lean into that, I’m all for it—any stage of it, from Arthit’s nerves about proposing to the actual wedding planning to after the wedding.
·       Their interactions with each other’s parents are so fun. I’d be down for more of that, on either side—Arthit with Daotok’s parents, Daotok with Direk, or the parents meeting each other. I didn’t request her, but I did really enjoy Emma, Daotok’s imaginary friend, so you wanted to include her, I’d be happy with that, too. The ensemble cast on the whole was really fun, so I’m down for whoever you want to make an appearance.
·       I love Khun John (that cat is seriously so cute) and I’m always happy for cat dad fic.

 

검사실의 제안 | The Prosecutor's Proposal (TV)

Ju Taeson, Lee Chaeha

 

This series was on my radar from the trailer and it didn’t disappoint. This had everything: Murder, Lee Chaeha’s big sad doe eyes, inappropriate workplace relationships, handcuffs, snake imagery. I loved the chemistry and the tension between them and they're developing relationship. The way things evolved when Taeson couldn't stop himself from falling in love. Let's get out of hell together.

 

I was feral about this while it was airing, and would love fic about these two. I’d especially love to see a post-canon take on their developing relationship—I have read the novel and enjoyed it, so if you wanted to include anything from that, I'd be happy, but it's by no means a demand. I'd love something based entirely on the end of the drama, too.

·       I would love to see them post-canon investigating a case, learning how to balance working together with their relationship, especially considering how protective Taeson is of Chaeha towards the end of the series.
·       I love Ju Taeson, the most jealous man in the world. The embodiment of that “you’re the most jealous man I know.”/“you know other men?” meme. Can’t let him wave at another man. Can’t let him drink a soda from another man. Has to put everything that was in Chaeha’s mouth in his own. Incredible. I’d love to see how that jealousy evolves—or doesn’t—after they’re together. Feel free to make him worse.
·       By contrast, or maybe in harmony, I love how protective Taeson is of Chaeha—defending him from his uncle, worrying when he’s hurt. I’m a huge hurt/comfort fan, too, so I would love to see something about Chaeha’s recovery after getting stabbed, with Taeson’s protectiveness in overdrive.
·       Given the tone of canon, I’m also very down for a PWP. The handcuffs can come too.
·       Does Mr. I Separate Work and Pleasure ever get that on-a-stakeout action?
·       Look, I’m shallow. The height difference is hot. Please feel free to lean into it.