Candy Hearts Exchange 2026
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mimmHello, creator/potential treater/other!
This letter is mainly a copy of what's already in my sign-up details, except this one has my general likes list as well. If you already have an idea that you feel fits my requests and doesn't hit my DNWs, just ignore the list and go ahead. :)
Since the minimum is 300 words I'm not expecting to get slowburn longfics (which would be adored though, don't get me wrong :D) even when my likes and ideas can easily veer towards longer stuff. I'm perfectly content with snapshots, short moments and scenes from something larger.
Plotless smut, hate sex
Noncon between ship characters (noncon by villains = welcome, dubcon = welcome)
D/s dynamics, humiliation or degrading talk during sex
Underage featuring characters under 15
Permanent ship character death (temporary death = welcome)
Ship characters described as asexual, aromantic, neurodivergent or trans unless requested, ships deciding to be purely platonic
Unrequested poly (canonical ships having open relationships, breaking them up or ignoring them are all fine, infidelity ok for OW ships)
Focus on pregnancy, parenting or child characters
AUs that drastically change the canon setting (e.g. highschool, band, coffeeshop etc.)
Bestiality, describing humans with animal traits and features (e.g. looking like rodents or birds, being feral etc.)
Omegaverse
Recreational use of weed, edibles, mushrooms
Consensual incest for canonically related ships and OW ships (prefer siblings, uncle/nephew or niece, aunt/nephew or niece, dead ancestor/descendent)
DNW making canonically non-related characters related for this
DNW world where incest is considered widely accepted and no big deal
DNW one character being unaware of being related for the whole fic (one knowing and the other finding out later = great)
Age gaps, incl. teen (15+)/adult ships
DNW kinking on the younger character's young age (prefer ships that fall for each other despite the age, not because of it - feeling guilt for it optional but very welcome)
My likes list is long and sprawling (and ever growing - I've added bits since last use) but I love them all. Pick one or pick more and combine them, I'm sure I'll enjoy it! Not every like will fit every ship and canon, but maybe they'll spark a related idea?
I'm fine with all tenses, all POVs (2nd person POV being a character, not reader), any rating from G to E (for violence or porn), unless specifically DNWed. If there's something that sounds confusing or contradictory, I'm happy to clarify if you ask through a mod.
* Getting together, first times, new experiences, new feelings
* Complicated feelings/relationships, inner conflict, internalized homophobia (external is also good if it fits the canon's world), themes of guilt or shame, esp. when met with trust and reassurance
* Friends to lovers, enemies (to friends) to lovers, enemies joining forces to fight a common enemy
* Falling for someone who's unavailable (either taken or not into character's gender, or so they think) and pining, UST that gets resolved
* Pining, so much pining, whether quietly or in agony or to the point of showing physical symptoms (I'm not into hanahaki and the flowers, but if there's some other type of a pining sickness, like coughing up blood instead, I am there so fast)
* Older characters pining for younger ones or vice versa thinking they wouldn't have a chance because of the age difference
* Redemption arcs for villains, the struggle of choosing to be good/less evil despite impulses, villains having a soft spot for someone good
* Road trips, camping/hiking, movie night, working late together, helping the other move in to a place, attending the same party, casual everyday bonding moments
* Missions gone wrong like a shooting, hostage situation, shuttle crash, getting caught by the enemy, lost communication, on the run from bad guys, stranded or injured in wilderness
* Tropey things like amnesia, snowed/caved in, undercover as a couple, having to share a bed/room, being imprisoned together or separately
* Feelings reveal (and/or hitting on the other character) due to pain/intoxication/truth serum/sex pollen/whatever, esp. when the other one's desperately trying to keep things normal, thinking it's just the drugs and not real and they'll regret when they're clearheaded again etc.
* Something Made Them Do It, whether it's the bad guys or an alien environment or intoxication or whatever (I'm very fine with dubcon, as long as they're both into each other, whether they'd ever admit it, and if it could have happened eventually anyway)
* A gay-for-pay situation (for undercover reasons or as a means to get money) with a feelings realization (esp. when they try to fight it)
* Emotional and physical hurt/comfort, e.g. having to watch the other be hurt, or being forced to lie/hurt to save the other, wounds and cuts, broken bones, dizziness, nausea, fever due to poisoning etc., helping character with addiction (less into period cramps, stomach bugs and runny noses as main hurt)
* Forced closeness, casual intimacy, invading the other's personal space
* Touching, esp. if it's not intended as sexual/romantic at first, intentional or accidental (esp. neck and lower back)
* 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, ending up/visiting in alternate timelines, pulling someone to join you in your own timeline...)
* For time loops and time travel: Having to witness the other one die (and all the angst and helplessness) and finding out a way to stop it
* Canon divergence AUs, roads not taken, what-ifs, fix-its, break-its (that get fixed), missing scenes, reinterpreted scenes, post-canon, pre-canon
* Different first meetings, only one character remembers they've already met before (and maybe even hooked up)
* Horror elements like ghosts, possessions, haunted places and items, curses, exorcism, creepy doppelgängers, things living in one's home
* Scifi elements like dimension travel, alternate realities, telepathic links, being in the other character's dreams/nightmares, devices that make a character live in a reality that turns out to be fake/simulation, planted false memories and finding out they're false
Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia
Cesare Borgia/Micheletto Corella
I first watched this years ago but rewatched it recently. Still love my two ships. <3
Cesare/Lucrezia: I fell in love with them in their first scene together, so I was very, very happy with where they went. :D I'd love a missing scene or something post-canon (but pre-death, obviously), or even a canon divergence for something earlier in the show or a fix-it for the end. Just them being intense about each other, deciding that this is something they choose to do, and being happy they went there. Maybe they pretend to be a couple and find a place where nobody knows they're related and find some peace and happiness.
Cesare/Micheletto: I love Micheletto's devotion to Cesare (even when it might have started as a job) and how far he's willing to go for him, and Cesare showing him the same loyalty. Maybe Micheletto is hooking up with a guy and there's an assassination attempt Cesare thwarts. Or maybe it's the other way around and Micheletto (stoically pining, of course) learns that Cesare's not entirely straight like he thought. I'd also love soft and cozy fluff, or whatever passes for fluff for these two.
I'd also welcome something where both ships exist simultaneously (but not as a threesome) and know about each other.
I'm fine with canon-level murdering of OCs and violence.
Nick Jakoby/Daryl Ward
I just unironically love this movie, no matter how much some people mock it. I went in wondering wtf's going on, what is this, am I watching a modern AU LotR fic or what, but then I just went with it and found it unexpectedly entertaining. Feel free to add or use any fantasy elements you want! LotR or otherwise. I think I saw a dragon there, and that one police had to be a centaur. :D
As for the timeline, I'd be happy with anything. It could be something pre-movie, before the incident with the kid. Or maybe some missing scenes from the movie, a casual, quiet moment. Or something post-movie, either right after or a bit later or even a few years later. I'd just really love a chance to visit this world and their life for a while longer, whether it's magical or mundane.
Maybe there's a stakeout, maybe they're drowning in boring paperwork, maybe it's a night off and one goes cruising and things either go great or terrible. Maybe one or both of them stumble onto a conspiracy, or one or both go undercover for a case and get in trouble (or save someone else from trouble). Insert magic as necessary.
Gold Nose Villain/Secret Agent
I still remember how absolutely delighted I was when I first stumbled upon this video. :D I grew up with Bonds and Bond villains but they never did this, and they should have! This was everything it needed to be. Even the song is nice.
How and when did they start these journeys of theirs? When did they first meet and what happened? What were their first thoughts about each other? Was this the first time our villain caught the hero, or has the hero escaped a dozen times, and if so, what happened all those previous times? Was it love at first sight? Hate at first sight? It's complicated ok at first sight? Or! This feelings realization and happily ever after didn't happen at all, not yet, it was only the villain's dream and he's very [insert emotion] about it when he wakes up. What now?
I'm fine with any names for them, but I'm fond of the idea that they have some flashy names in public but actually they're called something very mundane outside work.
Oswald Cobblepot/Edward Nygma
Another recent rewatch, and oh how I miss this silly show. <3 The comics world where realism is entirely optional, everything is modern-ish but also vintage, and nobody dies for long. Back when this aired, I fell in love with two ships and this is one of them. They're so obsessed with each other and I love their hateship/friendship/more if I got my way. Canon divergence for S3/S4 would be lovely! I'm less into the S5 dystopian setting so feel free to change it up or handwave the timelines as needed.
Maybe one of them dies (once or more, up to you, maybe time loops are involved), the other one rejoices at first but quickly realizes he needs his frenemy back and not just because he's a friend.
Ed insists he's not into Oswald but keeps having persistent dreams that tell him otherwise.
Some evil supervillain(ess) tries to have fun by putting them into shippy situations, thinking it's torture for them, but it only makes them get together for real.
Or whatever else that seems fitting for this show, with any characters, canonical or made up. I'm honestly up for anything that gets them to admit they belong together.
Canon-specific DNWs:
Oswald and Ed becoming enemies and hating each other at the end.
I'm not a fan of the finale so nothing set in that episode please.
George Flood/John Kildare
Two of my favourite moments between these two: Flood tells Kildare he's "on Kildare's side", and Flood tries to reassure Kildare by putting his hand on Kildare's. He's just so open and trusting and sweet, almost worryingly unafraid of showing who he is. I love the contrast between this eagerness to show kindness and Kildare's very restrained and cautious demeanor.
I'd love more of these moments, ones where their personalities clash. Maybe Flood's openness gets them in trouble, maybe it saves them (or just Kildare from doing something stupid when he thinks no one in the world would care).
I have a fondness for very closed-up and restrained people eventually breaking and admitting they in fact do need other people and physical desire is normal and They Are Worthy. Repressed characters too. They're great for all the heartwrenching stuff!
At the end of the film, it looks like Flood's on a date with a guy, and Kildare's almost startled to see them. Who is the guy and are they really together? What goes on in Kildare's mind? Is he shocked by the openness, annoyed, a little jealous, something else? Does he pull away even more, does he act grumpy?
Flood and Kildare work on another case together, whether by choice or because they're forced to.
Flood gets in trouble, either by total accident/misunderstanding or by trusting the wrong person, and now Kildare has to try and save him/clear his name.
Brett Sinclair/Danny Wilde
These two are just absolutely charming together. <3 They're so different and they clash, but they also fit together so well and I could watch them get flirty all day long. I'm totally okay with them flirting with women as well because it's who they are, but I'd still prefer any women being minor characters and the focus being on these two.
Anything from working on a case to ending up in peril with one saving the other would be great. Maybe they have to pretend being a couple for undercover reasons and Danny's going all in but Brett is very much not, until even he has to cave in because otherwise he'll blow their cover. Maybe there's some eccentric billionaire offering a job for one or both. Maybe one of them goes missing. Or any other idea you have!
Peter Kilmer/Mark Scout
I just want all these innies to have all the good things and be happy. And these two need a better ending. <3 This entire world and concept is fascinating and I'd love anything that touches on the worldbuilding aspects if you're into that, but I'll take any brief moment of happiness for these two.
On every rewatch I keep wanting Petey's storyline to go differently, or hope there's a plausible deniability about it, but it never does and there never is, dammit. If you could fix that, I'd be thrilled! A canon divergence where Petey doesn't die, but it's still serious and he might. Maybe he's taken in by Mark who's trying to take care of him? Or maybe Mark takes Petey to a hospital and then creepy people start showing up? Or maybe Lumon's studying and experimenting on time travel and there's a convenient hiccup in the time-space continuum that lets Petey find a way to not die because they can fix the issue?
But also, I love the idea that they had something (very innocent, considering they're being watched) when they were both still severed, but now Mark is unaware of any of it and Petey has to try and deal with it. How does he tell Mark? They don't know each other outside workplace but I'd be open to a situation where they have actually met before, maybe even more than met, and it's just that Mark doesn't remember Petey's face anymore, or the concept of him (apart from something that still lingers) for whatever reason.
Or one of them ends up in the Break Room and the other tries to comfort afterwards. Or maybe they tried sneaking and finding moments to be together and both ended up in the Break Room for it? Both on their own or even together? For these I'm fine with any level of hurt, any level of comfort, as long as there is that comfort.
Or what if Petey doesn't get out and there is no reintegration, or he gets caught before he can do it, so he's taken to another part of the Lumon building, or he's made to join another team, or worse? Or he's just brainwashed/reprogrammed even further, or they do something like they did to Gemma? I feel like there are no limits to how fucked up things the Eagan family's read to do, and I'd be curious to see what else they might come up with to make sure these people stay in their place. Hell, maybe Mark/Petey is a project of theirs, somehow, but they manage to break free from it.
Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky
They're just so very intense about each other and I love it. <3 And honestly, there's so much potential for everything with these two. Like all the undercover stuff (both short-time for a small case, like for a night or two where they attend a party, and longer where one has to infiltrate a group and there are meetings with a handler etc. and it lasts for months), and hurt/comfort and pining, and all the intense and meaningful moments of being really close to each other. They are so married already but they don't seem to realize it. They really should.
I can't decide which ones are my favourite episodes, but I'm 100% a sucker for any where one has to save the other, or one is about to die and the other one's close by, taking care and comforting or trying to find a way to fix it all. So like, being kidnapped and tortured, either just one that the other one saves and nurtures back to health and sanity, or both so they have to see each other suffer and lose it while the bad guys get creative? Yes, please! A weekend at some spa or a skiing holiday and their dates don't show up and now they're on their own? Go ahead.
More (silly) ideas: Some mob boss takes a liking to one of them and the other's not happy about it and he has to save the guy as well. Or one day one of them doesn't show up to work and the other one has to figure out where he is (probably kidnapped somewhere, maybe there's a ransom note, I don't know). Or they're taken by someone who's only willing to let them leave after they do some very indecent things to each other, and it should be a punishment and it kind of feels like it at first because they're unaware of each other's feelings, but the villain doesn't know that and oh.
Just anything, OTT or silly or heartbreakingly angsty and realistic or whatever, if it's these two it's going to be great.
M/M tags:
Closeted Gay Male Superhero/Out Gay Male Supervillain (Original Work)
Seasoned Male Superhero/Inexperienced Male Supervillain Trying to Impress Him (OW)
Desperate Supervillain Whose Life is in Danger/Superhero He Reluctantly Goes to For Help (M/M) (OW)
Man Returning From War Disfigured/His Male Childhood Friend (OW)
Nobleman/Mysterious Man He Danced with at a Masquerade Ball Who Never Gave His Name (OW)
Closeted Actor/Out Actor Who Are Coupled On-Screen
F/F tags:
Female Ghost/Female Psychic(OW)
Governess in Gothic Mansion/Ghost of the Previous Governess (OW)
Girl Exploring her Sexuality/Her Best Friend Who's in Love With Her (OW)
Closeted Actor/Out Actor Who Are Coupled On-Screen
Note: I read the last one as M/M, but I'm very open to actresses as well to make this F/F so I'm putting it under both
Open to M/M, F/F, M/F or F/M:
Ghost that Haunts a House/The New Owner of the House (OW)
Canon-specific DNW:
Non-human ship characters (i.e. no werecreatures, fantasy creatures, aliens, sentient machines etc. - superpowers absolutely welcome)
For all tags, I'm open to anything from modern to historical times and real world to some fantasy land. Non-human characters are welcome as long as the ship is human.
If needed for reference, some superhero canons I've enjoyed over the years:
Most MCU movies and some tv shows, Arrowverse, Gotham, The Boys, The X-Men movies (old and new), Smallville, 60s Batman
This letter is mainly a copy of what's already in my sign-up details, except this one has my general likes list as well. If you already have an idea that you feel fits my requests and doesn't hit my DNWs, just ignore the list and go ahead. :)
Since the minimum is 300 words I'm not expecting to get slowburn longfics (which would be adored though, don't get me wrong :D) even when my likes and ideas can easily veer towards longer stuff. I'm perfectly content with snapshots, short moments and scenes from something larger.
DNWs
Plotless smut, hate sex
Noncon between ship characters (noncon by villains = welcome, dubcon = welcome)
D/s dynamics, humiliation or degrading talk during sex
Underage featuring characters under 15
Permanent ship character death (temporary death = welcome)
Ship characters described as asexual, aromantic, neurodivergent or trans unless requested, ships deciding to be purely platonic
Unrequested poly (canonical ships having open relationships, breaking them up or ignoring them are all fine, infidelity ok for OW ships)
Focus on pregnancy, parenting or child characters
AUs that drastically change the canon setting (e.g. highschool, band, coffeeshop etc.)
Bestiality, describing humans with animal traits and features (e.g. looking like rodents or birds, being feral etc.)
Omegaverse
Recreational use of weed, edibles, mushrooms
Common DNWs I'm opting into
Consensual incest for canonically related ships and OW ships (prefer siblings, uncle/nephew or niece, aunt/nephew or niece, dead ancestor/descendent)
DNW making canonically non-related characters related for this
DNW world where incest is considered widely accepted and no big deal
DNW one character being unaware of being related for the whole fic (one knowing and the other finding out later = great)
Age gaps, incl. teen (15+)/adult ships
DNW kinking on the younger character's young age (prefer ships that fall for each other despite the age, not because of it - feeling guilt for it optional but very welcome)
My likes list is long and sprawling (and ever growing - I've added bits since last use) but I love them all. Pick one or pick more and combine them, I'm sure I'll enjoy it! Not every like will fit every ship and canon, but maybe they'll spark a related idea?
I'm fine with all tenses, all POVs (2nd person POV being a character, not reader), any rating from G to E (for violence or porn), unless specifically DNWed. If there's something that sounds confusing or contradictory, I'm happy to clarify if you ask through a mod.
General Likes
* Getting together, first times, new experiences, new feelings
* Complicated feelings/relationships, inner conflict, internalized homophobia (external is also good if it fits the canon's world), themes of guilt or shame, esp. when met with trust and reassurance
* Friends to lovers, enemies (to friends) to lovers, enemies joining forces to fight a common enemy
* Falling for someone who's unavailable (either taken or not into character's gender, or so they think) and pining, UST that gets resolved
* Pining, so much pining, whether quietly or in agony or to the point of showing physical symptoms (I'm not into hanahaki and the flowers, but if there's some other type of a pining sickness, like coughing up blood instead, I am there so fast)
* Older characters pining for younger ones or vice versa thinking they wouldn't have a chance because of the age difference
* Redemption arcs for villains, the struggle of choosing to be good/less evil despite impulses, villains having a soft spot for someone good
* Road trips, camping/hiking, movie night, working late together, helping the other move in to a place, attending the same party, casual everyday bonding moments
* Missions gone wrong like a shooting, hostage situation, shuttle crash, getting caught by the enemy, lost communication, on the run from bad guys, stranded or injured in wilderness
* Tropey things like amnesia, snowed/caved in, undercover as a couple, having to share a bed/room, being imprisoned together or separately
* Feelings reveal (and/or hitting on the other character) due to pain/intoxication/truth serum/sex pollen/whatever, esp. when the other one's desperately trying to keep things normal, thinking it's just the drugs and not real and they'll regret when they're clearheaded again etc.
* Something Made Them Do It, whether it's the bad guys or an alien environment or intoxication or whatever (I'm very fine with dubcon, as long as they're both into each other, whether they'd ever admit it, and if it could have happened eventually anyway)
* A gay-for-pay situation (for undercover reasons or as a means to get money) with a feelings realization (esp. when they try to fight it)
* Emotional and physical hurt/comfort, e.g. having to watch the other be hurt, or being forced to lie/hurt to save the other, wounds and cuts, broken bones, dizziness, nausea, fever due to poisoning etc., helping character with addiction (less into period cramps, stomach bugs and runny noses as main hurt)
* Forced closeness, casual intimacy, invading the other's personal space
* Touching, esp. if it's not intended as sexual/romantic at first, intentional or accidental (esp. neck and lower back)
* 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, ending up/visiting in alternate timelines, pulling someone to join you in your own timeline...)
* For time loops and time travel: Having to witness the other one die (and all the angst and helplessness) and finding out a way to stop it
* Canon divergence AUs, roads not taken, what-ifs, fix-its, break-its (that get fixed), missing scenes, reinterpreted scenes, post-canon, pre-canon
* Different first meetings, only one character remembers they've already met before (and maybe even hooked up)
* Horror elements like ghosts, possessions, haunted places and items, curses, exorcism, creepy doppelgängers, things living in one's home
* Scifi elements like dimension travel, alternate realities, telepathic links, being in the other character's dreams/nightmares, devices that make a character live in a reality that turns out to be fake/simulation, planted false memories and finding out they're false
The Borgias
Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia
Cesare Borgia/Micheletto Corella
I first watched this years ago but rewatched it recently. Still love my two ships. <3
Cesare/Lucrezia: I fell in love with them in their first scene together, so I was very, very happy with where they went. :D I'd love a missing scene or something post-canon (but pre-death, obviously), or even a canon divergence for something earlier in the show or a fix-it for the end. Just them being intense about each other, deciding that this is something they choose to do, and being happy they went there. Maybe they pretend to be a couple and find a place where nobody knows they're related and find some peace and happiness.
Cesare/Micheletto: I love Micheletto's devotion to Cesare (even when it might have started as a job) and how far he's willing to go for him, and Cesare showing him the same loyalty. Maybe Micheletto is hooking up with a guy and there's an assassination attempt Cesare thwarts. Or maybe it's the other way around and Micheletto (stoically pining, of course) learns that Cesare's not entirely straight like he thought. I'd also love soft and cozy fluff, or whatever passes for fluff for these two.
I'd also welcome something where both ships exist simultaneously (but not as a threesome) and know about each other.
I'm fine with canon-level murdering of OCs and violence.
Bright
Nick Jakoby/Daryl Ward
I just unironically love this movie, no matter how much some people mock it. I went in wondering wtf's going on, what is this, am I watching a modern AU LotR fic or what, but then I just went with it and found it unexpectedly entertaining. Feel free to add or use any fantasy elements you want! LotR or otherwise. I think I saw a dragon there, and that one police had to be a centaur. :D
As for the timeline, I'd be happy with anything. It could be something pre-movie, before the incident with the kid. Or maybe some missing scenes from the movie, a casual, quiet moment. Or something post-movie, either right after or a bit later or even a few years later. I'd just really love a chance to visit this world and their life for a while longer, whether it's magical or mundane.
Maybe there's a stakeout, maybe they're drowning in boring paperwork, maybe it's a night off and one goes cruising and things either go great or terrible. Maybe one or both of them stumble onto a conspiracy, or one or both go undercover for a case and get in trouble (or save someone else from trouble). Insert magic as necessary.
Genghis Khan - Miike Snow
Gold Nose Villain/Secret Agent
I still remember how absolutely delighted I was when I first stumbled upon this video. :D I grew up with Bonds and Bond villains but they never did this, and they should have! This was everything it needed to be. Even the song is nice.
How and when did they start these journeys of theirs? When did they first meet and what happened? What were their first thoughts about each other? Was this the first time our villain caught the hero, or has the hero escaped a dozen times, and if so, what happened all those previous times? Was it love at first sight? Hate at first sight? It's complicated ok at first sight? Or! This feelings realization and happily ever after didn't happen at all, not yet, it was only the villain's dream and he's very [insert emotion] about it when he wakes up. What now?
I'm fine with any names for them, but I'm fond of the idea that they have some flashy names in public but actually they're called something very mundane outside work.
Gotham
Oswald Cobblepot/Edward Nygma
Another recent rewatch, and oh how I miss this silly show. <3 The comics world where realism is entirely optional, everything is modern-ish but also vintage, and nobody dies for long. Back when this aired, I fell in love with two ships and this is one of them. They're so obsessed with each other and I love their hateship/friendship/more if I got my way. Canon divergence for S3/S4 would be lovely! I'm less into the S5 dystopian setting so feel free to change it up or handwave the timelines as needed.
Maybe one of them dies (once or more, up to you, maybe time loops are involved), the other one rejoices at first but quickly realizes he needs his frenemy back and not just because he's a friend.
Ed insists he's not into Oswald but keeps having persistent dreams that tell him otherwise.
Some evil supervillain(ess) tries to have fun by putting them into shippy situations, thinking it's torture for them, but it only makes them get together for real.
Or whatever else that seems fitting for this show, with any characters, canonical or made up. I'm honestly up for anything that gets them to admit they belong together.
Canon-specific DNWs:
Oswald and Ed becoming enemies and hating each other at the end.
I'm not a fan of the finale so nothing set in that episode please.
The Limehouse Golem
George Flood/John Kildare
Two of my favourite moments between these two: Flood tells Kildare he's "on Kildare's side", and Flood tries to reassure Kildare by putting his hand on Kildare's. He's just so open and trusting and sweet, almost worryingly unafraid of showing who he is. I love the contrast between this eagerness to show kindness and Kildare's very restrained and cautious demeanor.
I'd love more of these moments, ones where their personalities clash. Maybe Flood's openness gets them in trouble, maybe it saves them (or just Kildare from doing something stupid when he thinks no one in the world would care).
I have a fondness for very closed-up and restrained people eventually breaking and admitting they in fact do need other people and physical desire is normal and They Are Worthy. Repressed characters too. They're great for all the heartwrenching stuff!
At the end of the film, it looks like Flood's on a date with a guy, and Kildare's almost startled to see them. Who is the guy and are they really together? What goes on in Kildare's mind? Is he shocked by the openness, annoyed, a little jealous, something else? Does he pull away even more, does he act grumpy?
Flood and Kildare work on another case together, whether by choice or because they're forced to.
Flood gets in trouble, either by total accident/misunderstanding or by trusting the wrong person, and now Kildare has to try and save him/clear his name.
Persuaders
Brett Sinclair/Danny Wilde
These two are just absolutely charming together. <3 They're so different and they clash, but they also fit together so well and I could watch them get flirty all day long. I'm totally okay with them flirting with women as well because it's who they are, but I'd still prefer any women being minor characters and the focus being on these two.
Anything from working on a case to ending up in peril with one saving the other would be great. Maybe they have to pretend being a couple for undercover reasons and Danny's going all in but Brett is very much not, until even he has to cave in because otherwise he'll blow their cover. Maybe there's some eccentric billionaire offering a job for one or both. Maybe one of them goes missing. Or any other idea you have!
Severance
Peter Kilmer/Mark Scout
I just want all these innies to have all the good things and be happy. And these two need a better ending. <3 This entire world and concept is fascinating and I'd love anything that touches on the worldbuilding aspects if you're into that, but I'll take any brief moment of happiness for these two.
On every rewatch I keep wanting Petey's storyline to go differently, or hope there's a plausible deniability about it, but it never does and there never is, dammit. If you could fix that, I'd be thrilled! A canon divergence where Petey doesn't die, but it's still serious and he might. Maybe he's taken in by Mark who's trying to take care of him? Or maybe Mark takes Petey to a hospital and then creepy people start showing up? Or maybe Lumon's studying and experimenting on time travel and there's a convenient hiccup in the time-space continuum that lets Petey find a way to not die because they can fix the issue?
But also, I love the idea that they had something (very innocent, considering they're being watched) when they were both still severed, but now Mark is unaware of any of it and Petey has to try and deal with it. How does he tell Mark? They don't know each other outside workplace but I'd be open to a situation where they have actually met before, maybe even more than met, and it's just that Mark doesn't remember Petey's face anymore, or the concept of him (apart from something that still lingers) for whatever reason.
Or one of them ends up in the Break Room and the other tries to comfort afterwards. Or maybe they tried sneaking and finding moments to be together and both ended up in the Break Room for it? Both on their own or even together? For these I'm fine with any level of hurt, any level of comfort, as long as there is that comfort.
Or what if Petey doesn't get out and there is no reintegration, or he gets caught before he can do it, so he's taken to another part of the Lumon building, or he's made to join another team, or worse? Or he's just brainwashed/reprogrammed even further, or they do something like they did to Gemma? I feel like there are no limits to how fucked up things the Eagan family's read to do, and I'd be curious to see what else they might come up with to make sure these people stay in their place. Hell, maybe Mark/Petey is a project of theirs, somehow, but they manage to break free from it.
Starsky & Hutch
Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky
They're just so very intense about each other and I love it. <3 And honestly, there's so much potential for everything with these two. Like all the undercover stuff (both short-time for a small case, like for a night or two where they attend a party, and longer where one has to infiltrate a group and there are meetings with a handler etc. and it lasts for months), and hurt/comfort and pining, and all the intense and meaningful moments of being really close to each other. They are so married already but they don't seem to realize it. They really should.
I can't decide which ones are my favourite episodes, but I'm 100% a sucker for any where one has to save the other, or one is about to die and the other one's close by, taking care and comforting or trying to find a way to fix it all. So like, being kidnapped and tortured, either just one that the other one saves and nurtures back to health and sanity, or both so they have to see each other suffer and lose it while the bad guys get creative? Yes, please! A weekend at some spa or a skiing holiday and their dates don't show up and now they're on their own? Go ahead.
More (silly) ideas: Some mob boss takes a liking to one of them and the other's not happy about it and he has to save the guy as well. Or one day one of them doesn't show up to work and the other one has to figure out where he is (probably kidnapped somewhere, maybe there's a ransom note, I don't know). Or they're taken by someone who's only willing to let them leave after they do some very indecent things to each other, and it should be a punishment and it kind of feels like it at first because they're unaware of each other's feelings, but the villain doesn't know that and oh.
Just anything, OTT or silly or heartbreakingly angsty and realistic or whatever, if it's these two it's going to be great.
Original Work
M/M tags:
Closeted Gay Male Superhero/Out Gay Male Supervillain (Original Work)
Seasoned Male Superhero/Inexperienced Male Supervillain Trying to Impress Him (OW)
Desperate Supervillain Whose Life is in Danger/Superhero He Reluctantly Goes to For Help (M/M) (OW)
Man Returning From War Disfigured/His Male Childhood Friend (OW)
Nobleman/Mysterious Man He Danced with at a Masquerade Ball Who Never Gave His Name (OW)
Closeted Actor/Out Actor Who Are Coupled On-Screen
F/F tags:
Female Ghost/Female Psychic(OW)
Governess in Gothic Mansion/Ghost of the Previous Governess (OW)
Girl Exploring her Sexuality/Her Best Friend Who's in Love With Her (OW)
Closeted Actor/Out Actor Who Are Coupled On-Screen
Note: I read the last one as M/M, but I'm very open to actresses as well to make this F/F so I'm putting it under both
Open to M/M, F/F, M/F or F/M:
Ghost that Haunts a House/The New Owner of the House (OW)
Canon-specific DNW:
Non-human ship characters (i.e. no werecreatures, fantasy creatures, aliens, sentient machines etc. - superpowers absolutely welcome)
For all tags, I'm open to anything from modern to historical times and real world to some fantasy land. Non-human characters are welcome as long as the ship is human.
If needed for reference, some superhero canons I've enjoyed over the years:
Most MCU movies and some tv shows, Arrowverse, Gotham, The Boys, The X-Men movies (old and new), Smallville, 60s Batman
