Fic in a Box

[mimm]

Dear FIAB creator,

Hi there. We share a fandom? Awesome! First, don't worry too much. I'm fairly easy to please and like a variety of things. If it's the fandom & ship I request and it doesn't include my DNWs, you're fine. If you incorporate a like or two, you're definitely fine. Wondering if I'd secretly prefer one 10k fic or several 1k ones? It's all good. I mean it. If you feel a thing is the length it needs to be, I trust you.

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint if I'm requesting a / ship.

DNW:
- noncon/rape between ship characters
- death of ship characters (temporary, presumed or faked for angsty plot reasons are great)
- bestiality
- A/B/O
- D/s
- daddy/mommy kink
- focus on pets, kids or pregnancy
- scat, emetophilia, watersports
- recreational drug use (getting drugged as an act of violence is good)
- AUs that drastically change the setting (coffeeshops, college, band, etc.)
- underage (teens with teens is fine, otherwise 15-ish and up)
- unrequested poly or trans fic
- ship characters as asexual or aromantic

LIKES:
- canon divergence AUs, roads not taken, what-ifs, fix-its, break-its (that get fixed), showing glimpses of parallel realities Sliding Doors style
- missing scenes, reinterpreted scenes, post-canon, pre-canon meet cutes
- getting together
- friends or enemies to lovers
- unexpected feelings and struggling with feelings (incl. internalized homophobia if it fits the era/character)
- sexual tension and pining that gets resolved
- consensual incest
- older characters pining for younger ones (no grooming!) or vice versa thinking they wouldn't have a chance
- hurt/comfort (any type and any level for either)
- angst as long as there's hope by the end
- humour and banter
- working cases together (office, stakeout, business trip etc.)
- working undercover (that faked death mentioned as a non-DNW would work well here), concealed identity
- missions gone wrong (shooting, hostage situation, shuttle crash, getting caught, lost communication, caved in, stranded etc.)
- road trips, camping
- wilderness survival
- having to share a bed/motel room/cottage/tent/etc.
- "I had nowhere else to go" esp. with enemyships
- all kinds of accidental/deliberate touching
- watching the other sleep (touching's fine but I'm not into full somnophilia)
- first time doing something together (kiss, sex, visiting the other's place, meeting loved ones, fight, break-up that then gets fixed etc.)
- all imaginable time travel tropes (loops and groundhog days, visits to past or future, fixing things, getting stuck in wrong time, distorted pass of time, correspondence between people separated by time, anything really)
- visits to/from alternate universes, parallel dimensions
- elements of horror, haunted places, possessed items, ghosts, folklore being real, secret societies and cults
- for smut, I don't usually have a strong preference for who tops/bottoms (and in rare cases where I state a preference the other isn't a DNW), and I like most sex acts (anal regardless of gender, vaginal, handjobs, blowjobs, intercrural, fingering, pegging, rimming, sex toys or pervertables, condoms or barebacking, partly or fully clothed as well as naked)

Under the cut:
Different for Girls (1996) [Karl Foyle & Paul Prentice, Kim Foyle/Paul Prentice]
Dark Matter (TV) [Teku Fonsei & Ryo | Four, Teku Fonsei/Ryo | Four]
The Exorcist (TV) [Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne, Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega & Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne]
The Umbrella Academy (TV) [Diego Hargreeves/Grace Hargreeves, Number Five/Luther Hargreeves]
Wallander (UK TV) [Kalle Svedberg/Kurt Wallander]


DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS (1996)
Karl Foyle & Paul Prentice (Different for Girls 1996)
Kim Foyle/Paul Prentice (Different for Girls 1996)

I nominated two ships but they're basically the same at different points in time. I'm using pronoun 'him' for Karl because I assume she thought she was a he based on what she says about thinking she was gay. I don't mean to misgender her. You're free to use whatever pronoun you prefer.

DFG on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGR2BN-MvvU (a bit fuzzy but perfectly watchable)

Karl Foyle & Paul Prentice

I love how the movie begins, with Prentice being the protective knight in shining armor and Karl so obviously in love with him. I'd love to see more of their school years, their friendship, how they were around each other, how they spent their time in and outside school. Did they get in trouble? How was young Kim/Karl in comparison to adult Kim? Prentice thought Karl was gay, so did Karl. Did that ever show in their interactions? Was Prentice attracted to him at all? I'd also be fine with friendship & angsty one-sided pining from Karl's side here. How did they lose contact and how did they feel about it during those years?

Kim Foyle/Paul Prentice

They're adorable together. Prentice is a mess, he doesn't stop to think things over instead of acting, and he doesn't really hide what he's thinking or feeling even when it'll get him in trouble. Kim is the opposite, cool and more closed, keeping her feelings to herself so she won't accidentally do something "wrong". I like how they complement each other and how, after they meet, they both start to change. How does their life together continue? Kim's obviously more relaxed and more her true self, while Prentice is a tiny bit more adult. Maybe. :D How are they with their friends, how do they deal with outsiders, what are their future plans, what adventures do they have?

Also, now that I'm more grown up than I was when I first saw this, I noticed I love her relationship with her sister and her brother-in-law a lot. So they're ok to show up, too.



DARK MATTER (TV)
Teku Fonsei/Four | Ryo Tetsuda (Dark Matter TV)
Teku Fonsei & Four | Ryo Tetsuda (Dark Matter TV)

This show is just an endless source of joy. And ships! So many ships. As usual, I could've added about ten here, but I wanted to focus on Teku because on every rewatch I keep wanting more of him and the show won't deliver. He seems like such an interesting guy, a mentor, a teacher, a confidant, a friend, and lots of other things.

I'd happily take anything that focuses on his and Ryo's relationship. Something from years ago when Ryo was young and still training, surrounded by a bunch of people that shouldn't be trusted, Teku being one who he does value and trust. Some missing scenes during canon, from either POV, could be fun. And post-canon, yes please! I would love to know how their relationship develops, whether they're friends or allies or enemies or everything at once. Or maybe a canon divergence where they meet when Ryo's Four, lacking all his memories?

I'm requesting both & and / because I just want more of them together. Please have Ryo be at least 15-16 or so if it gets very sexual. Glimpses from his childhood are also fine.



THE EXORCIST (TV)
Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne (The Exorcist)
Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega & Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne (The Exorcist)

I felt like nominating and requesting Peter so that's what I'm doing. :) I'll borrow from some of my older sign-ups because I realized they're still pretty accurate.

Marcus is my favourite on this show, though I very much enjoy the other main characters & many of the side characters as well (regardless of season). And I want him to be happy. Life's been too rough for him and he deserves some comfort and quiet and lots and lots of cuddles. Love his total disregard for personal space, and the way he can flirt with just about everything that moves. :D And I love the way he uses his hands. To touch, to express things, to console. I don't always have a hand thing but when I do I have it bad.

I ship Marcus with both Tomas and Peter, so these ships make sense to me. Just Marcus and Peter together? Fantastic! Marcus not being able to decide and neither Tomas or Peter being opposed to it? Both. Both is good. Or maybe one ends in break-up (amicable preferred, I don't want anything nasty between them, or maybe there's a death - in this case you can ignore my death DNW, but only in this case) during the story and another begins. Or maybe there are two parallel timelines with both? Something else? I'm not picky here.

Anything during canon or post-canon would be welcome. Continuing the business, travelling, trying to fix things and find peace. Quitting and settling down to do something else, not quite knowing what and how because it's so foreign. I want Marcus to have someone to share it all with, whether it's one person or two.

Feel free to go wherever you want with the religious aspects, whether it's all nice and by the book, something dark and twisted and dirtybadwrong, or something else entirely. You can't offend me, I assure you, and nothing's too blasphemous for me.



THE UMBRELLA ACACEMY (TV)
Diego Hargreeves/Grace Hargreeves (TUA)
Number Five/Luther Hargreeves (TUA)

This show is fun and wonderful and unexpected, and the cast is great, right down to the side characters. I love these siblings (and their robot mother and even their father in all his terrible heartlessness), so choosing just a couple of ships was hard. Anyone else is welcome to show up. Mentioning canon ships is fine.

I'm not familiar with the comics so I'd prefer nothing that requires comic knowledge.

Diego Hargreeves/Grace Hargreeves (TUA)

I ship it. <3 I know my DNWs include mommy kink, but if Diego has a few mommy issues in general in the middle of all the other feels? That'd be fine. I just really don't want a sex scene with him calling her mom in the middle of it, or him kinking on her being someone who raised him. Feeling guilty and ashamed? Yes, please.

Any point during/after canon would be great, including all the canon divergence (or time travel, which on this show is just a regular Tuesday event anyway). I honestly can't think of any specific prompts, but you can't go wrong with physical hurt/comfort. Either direction, but maybe hurt Diego slightly preferred? Good for pining and trying to hide feelings he reallyreally wants to hide.

Number Five/Luther Hargreeves (TUA)

I really enjoy their relationship, and I'm so glad someone nominated a / ship here. Because I want it. :D I'm fine with pre-canon fic where they're both still teenagers (doesn't hit my underage DNW, just keep them 13+ if there's kissing), but I do have a preference for present time or post-canon as the main focus. No need to age Five up, I actually like the weirdness that comes from the fact that he's an old man who just looks so young it makes things feel a bit creepy. Five knows he's a grown-up (and then some), Luther knows he's a grown-up. I mean, Luther may question his reactions and preferences and life choices in general. :D But that's fine.

I don't even know how they'd end up together. They face something life-threatening, unite against a common enemy, get trapped and face (what they think is) a certain doom, or one of them fucks something up and the other shows up to help? Or something else. Or throw a dart at my likes list and go with whatever it happens to hit (or the one above/below), it'll be good.



WALLANDER (UK TV)
Karl "Kalle" Svedberg/Kurt Wallander (Wallander UK)

This is one of my "Huh, I just remembered how much I used to enjoy this thing, and now I can't stop thinking about it so clearly I need to nominate it!" canons. I enjoy the entire cast a lot, so anyone is welcome to show up. Feeling like a team fic with some shippiness on the side? Great. Want to focus entirely on the ship with the rest of the cast on the side? Also great.

This ship broke my heart a bit. I want it. If you can fix it, I'd be so very happy. Maybe the team gets there in time, maybe the case goes differently, I don't care as long as Kalle stays alive for a while longer. Preferably more than a while.

Though I'd also like to read an angstier one-sided crush type of story, maybe one of their cases (feel free to make up your own) but from Kalle's POV. Doesn't have to be a case, either, could be something like a lunch break or just the two of them hanging out, talking about non-work stuff.

I'm really not picky here.



My AO3 for possible treaters: Mimm