GENFREEFORMEXCHANGE 2020 LETTER

[rosecake]

Hello ♥! Sorry about the delay in getting the letter finished, but it should be good to go now!

I'm rosecake on AO3 and rose-cake on Tumblr, and I'm very excited to see what you create for these characters! Please feel free to disregard the prompts if you already have an idea of what you’d like to write, they’re just suggestions, not the end all and be all of what I’d like to read. Also, it’s a gen exchange and I’d like it to be gen in focus, but I’m fine with background/incidental relationships - a lot of these requests are for parents and their children, so for example I don’t expect you to just ignore that the parents are married/together.

General Likes:
- action & adventure
- emotional reunions
- tragedy
- mysteries
- backstories
- five things fics
- canon-divergence AUs
- mirrorverse AUs
- time loops & time travel
- hurt/comfort
- domesticity
- holiday fic
- fluff
- team bonding
- huddling for warmth
- empathic/magic bonds
- loyalty & betrayal
- sacrifice
- conflict/antagonism/enemyships
- uniforms/costumes + costume redesigns + visual representations of powers
- magical realism/surrealism
- mind control
- ghosts & hauntings
- captivity
- violence
- deathfic
- torture
- scars & losing limbs
- corruption

General Dislikes/DNW:
- mundane aus


ARCTIC
Wilderness Survival, Snowed In, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Injury Recovery, Huddling For Warmth, Accents and Foreign Languages, Friendships Forged Under Fire, Gratuitous descriptions of hugging, Platonic Cuddling, Healing from trauma, Family Reunions, Rescue Missions, Missing Scene, Hurt/Comfort - character who usually takes care of others is the one taken care of

Overgård & Young Woman
I would really love either a missing scene or something set after the movie - something with Overgård trying to figure out the best way to patch her up or keep her from worse, or something with them huddled together in the snow. Or afterwards in a nice warm hospital! He can hold her baby! Or trying to actually talk at some point once they’re both recovered. Or, I’d love something where they do make it to the station and they’re hanging out there waiting for rescue. If she recovers, maybe she can patch him up at some point later, or maybe an AU where she never gets the gut wound so they’re both upright and coherent for the attempt to get to the station.



CAPTAIN MARVEL
Family Reunions, Rescue Missions, Family Bonding, Childhood Friends, Missing Scene, Character's Backstory, bonding over shared grief, Canon typical missionfic, Characters Teaching Each Other New Skills, parenting, Trauma, Injury Recovery, Usually Powerful Character is Rendered Powerless, Hurt/Comfort - emotional resolution after dead or missing person returnsRaising children

Monica Rambeau & Talos's Daughter
I thought they were so cute together in the move, and I really hate to think that might have been the only time they’d met - I’d love some missing scene from before the Skrulls leave, or something with them managing to stay in contact while the Skrulls are in space. Or maybe Monica goes on field trips into space? Or Talos’s daughter makes return trips to Earth? Or, if the war is keeping the Skulls away, maybe they meet up as adults? Or maybe they’re working together, if Monic ends up a superhero or in SHIELD?

Soren & Talos's Daughter, Talos & Talos's Daughter
Soren being a single mom in space! What’s it like for her raising her daughter in a spaceship with no real contact with the outside world? What does she tell her about the war, and about her missing father? And what was Soren going to do if more years went by without other Skrulls making contact? Or, from Talos’s side - I would love more of him trying to catch up on what he missed, or how she reacts to suddenly having her dad actually in her life and not just a person her mother tells her about. Or I would love something as their daughter is growing up! What’s it like for them going from the isolation of the ship to branching out, how much do they decide to let their young daughter know about the war going on around them? Do they train her to fight, or is that something they want to protect her from? Or I would love any kind of family fluff, Skrull holidays, etc. Or as adults! What is their daughter doing when she’s grown? If it’s fighting in the war, how do they feel about that?



DC’S ARROWVERSE
Difficult Parental Relationships, Time Travel, adult relating to a child as more of an equal than is appropriate, Hurt/Comfort - emotional resolution after dead or missing person returns, Mind Games, Enemies Reluctantly Get Along for the Sake of the Child Both Factions Love, Character is possessed; helps possessor, Regrets, Self-Sacrifice, Fish out of Temporal Water, Trauma Recovery and Learning How to Person Properly, Insomnia & Sleep Deprivation, Desperately trying to restore a character who came back wrong, aftermath of kidnapping

Nora Darhk & Damien Darhk
I have no idea what this next episode will bring, but!!! I love Damien really clearly does love her, even though that doesn't actually make him good parent in any shape or form, and I loved loved loved the big self sacrifice to undo the possession. I would love big tragic familial sacrifices, or anything with them handling their grief together. Or finding a way to bring her mom back? I would also love something when they’re both villains bouncing around in time, OTT costumes and all! Or something where that time travel to when she was a girl went differently. Or I would like more trauma of her going back in time to points where he doesn’t recognize her. Or something where he lived and the Legends are trying to redeem him too!



DOCTOR STRANGE
Characters Teaching Each Other New Skills, Bonding over music, Injury Recovery, Missing Scene, Magic, Undercover Missions, Faustian Bargain, Late at Night, Stranded Together, Slow Realization of Friendship, learning to trust each other, Dumb friendly competitions, Friends who know how to annoy you, Self-Sacrifice, Time Travel

Stephen Strange & Wong
I would love a missing scene with them with Wong trying to teach him something magic! Or bonding over music, or them having to work together in the aftermath of the movie trying to put the sanctuaries back together and getting closer in the process. I would also love anything having to do with magic - teaching each other new things, or exploring what it looks like visually, along with all the quirks of the Sanctorum. I would also love them having to solve magic mysteries, or trying to recruit and train new sorcerers together. Or trying to patch together the horribly damaged timeline after all that Endgame business!



HANNIBAL
Mind GamesViolencecooking togetherTraumaSurrogate Parent Adopts a Traumatized ChildFather FiguresCharacters Teaching Each Other New SkillsInjury RecoveryFailing to keep a secretPhilosophySkeletons In The ClosetFood PornMind ControlTime Travel as TherapyTime LoopMagical RealismHallucinationsDreams - Characters Enter Each Other's Dreams

Abigail Hobbs & Hannibal Lecter
WHAT WAS HE DOING WITH HER WHILE HE WAS PRETENDING SHE WAS DEAD. What was going on in that basement? I would love that, or any kind of cooking lessons, or generally terribly life lessons or advice he tries to give her. I would love anything where he doesn’t actually kill her, or he did kill her and that’s actually ghost Abigail in Season 2, or she’s still kind of half-sticking around somehow. I love manipulation, and a kind of magic realism take on the canon. I would love something where he’s figuring out how best to manipulate her to gain her trust, or how much he sees her as her and how much he sees her as a symbol for something else. And for basically all the shows characters I love horrible endings and happy ones (even if the happy ones are the result of a lot of carefully selected mushrooms)>.



KILLJOYS
Mind Gamesenemy family membersLearning to FightDeath and ResurrectionExpecting clone to be that person but they're differentFather FiguresUnexpected MercyStoic Character Breaks Down And Admits They Need HelpTime Travel - Character Changes the Past to Prevent Traumatic EventsCame Back Wrong and Mad About Itforced to work togetherCharacter gets a hugHurt/Comfort - hiding an injuryProtecting character even after they say not toDifficult Parental Relationships

Dutch | Yalena Yardeen & Khlyen
Their relationship was my favorite part of the show, just how all over the place it was - I would love missing scenes of Dutch growing up, and Khlyen acting as her teacher when she still doesn’t understand the full extent of their relationship. I also love the idea of them running into each other later, once she’s trying to avoid him - or maybe she has to reach out for help? I would also love anything with them sharing memories in the green, or him trying to make up for lost time somehow. AUs, or maybe just visions or alternate lives they could have lived - if he hadn’t still been infected with the green, would that have affected how he’d raised her? Or, I L O V E D the Lady’s using them to torture each other and I would love way more of that. I would also love something post the end of the series, and where they manage to go from there.



ONCE UPON A TIME
Surrogate Father-Daughter Feelsmental illness recoveryAmnesiaAtonement for Past ActionsInjury RecoveryRegretsSelf-SacrificeMagicDimension TravelIdentity - interactions under multiple different identitiesMistaken Identityunlikely friendshipEmotional Hurt/ComfortGratuitous descriptions of huggingTime Travel - Character Changes the Past to Prevent Traumatic EventsProtecting character even after they say not to

Alice | Tilly & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold

Their relationship was my favorite thing about that final season - I love how clearly he wants her to be happy, and how he really does care about her and can’t fully bring himself to screw her over, even if his bad decisions do have consequences for her. I would love something that deals with their lost memories - they’re both cursed and barely remember things, or one of them remembers, or Tilly thinks he doesn’t remember and he’s trying to keep up that lie. Or, something with time travel/dimension hopping! Everyone on this show has like a dozen different identities and doppelgängers, what if they’re talking to someone who doesn’t know them? Or is out to trick them? Or I would love something with her feeling badly about having shot him that one time, or him trying to make up to her for lying or trying to trick her.



POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU
Family Reunionspet acquisitionCharacter's BackstoryAmnesiaHurt/Comfort - emotional resolution after dead or missing person returnsUndercover MissionsLoyalty - Yes We're Fighting But I Still Have Your BackGratuitous descriptions of huggingMaking Your Parent Proudfamily traditionsLearning to Work TogetherFinicky Details About What It's Like To Live In A Particular SettingSaving the WorldCase Fic

Detective Pikachu & Tim Goodman
Harry Goodman & Tim Goodman
Solo: Tim Goodman

I would love something about their relationship, either when Tim is younger or after Harry has his memories back, or when he’s Detective Pikachu! I also really love Ryme City - I would love anything about them exploring it together, or Pikachu/Harry explaining how things work to Tim. Or I would really love Tim’s failed attempts at becoming a pokemon trainer!!! Or I would love to see him trying to find a pokemon partner of his own after the movie. Or, I know Harry ended up back in his own body, but I would love him getting stuck as Pikachu again! Maybe it just keeps happening and he and Tim have to figure out new fixes for it. I would also really love Tim and his father working together - as detectives, as just a sounding board, or maybe Tim goes into journalism or science or becomes a pokemon expert or something that’s useful in cases?



ROGUE ONE
Family DynamicsFamily ReunionsSurrogate Parent Adopts a Traumatized ChildHurt/Comfort - character who usually takes care of others is the one taken care ofMaking Your Parent ProudSelf-SacrificeFriendship - Extremely close with those you've gone through hell withAction/AdventureAtonement for Past ActionsBurning the world to save friend or (former) enemyEnemies Forced To Work TogetherInjured Character Can't Complete Rescue Mission Without Help From Unlikely SourcePregnant character gets emergency help from someone they don't get along withHurt/ComfortLearning to cook and somehow making life better in the processParental Figure Comforting Adoptive Child/Adult Having Nightmare or FlashbackProtective TeamAftermath of Torture

Solo: Jyn Erso
There’s more below for various relationships, but I would just love more with her! Her childhood on Coruscant and then Lah’mu, or her running with Saw, and then trying to find a way to survive on her own. In and out of prison, maybe? Or just trying to survive both the difficult circumstances and the loneliness. I’d love to see her running into, or maybe falling in with, other people in the Star Wars universe - Enfys and the Cloud Riders, Qi’ra and the Crimson Dawn, Aphra in one of her various schemes, Thrawn picking her up to trying to use her against Krennic, The Mandalorian and I guess by then toddler Yoda, etc. Or anything more with her interacting with the rest of the Rogue One teams! Either missing scenes from the movie, or an AU where they survive - or far future fic, what is she doing around the time of the First Order?

Jyn Erso & Bodhi Rook
Ahh the general unfairness of most of the people in this movie having only known each other for a day or so! I would really love some missing scenes from the movie - talking about Jedha, about Eadu, about neither of them really knowing what kind of reception they’re going to get once they make it back to the alliance, or just generally being afraid of dying. Or I am always up for something where they survive! And either how they fight the empire, or how they try to hid, or what kind of lives they try to make for themselves after the war is over. Or bonding over their shared connections to the past - at that point basically anyone either of them ever knew would be dead, but at least they have Galen in common? Or the rest of Rogue One, if you want to have them be sole (or, well, dual I guess) survivors.

Jyn Erso & Chirrut Imwe & Baze Malbus
I really love the intensity of that connection and how fast it came - I would love more on her feelings and trusting in these two people she’s never met, of having to be in that kind of position where you’re taking whatever help you can get, and Chirrut/Baze’s feelings towards her. I would also some version of events where they met earlier - her parents make a pilgrimage when she is very young, or a no-Empire AU, or she stays with Saw’s group up until they’re in Jedha. Or maybe she came to the temple trying to figure out what is going on with her father? Or something where they get to actually fight together on the beach! Or I would love to see them all survive - trying to teach Jyn about the Whills, maybe? And their way of connecting with the force.

Jyn Erso & Galen Erso
I would love something set on Lah’mu, or something that deals with their feelings about each other after they’ve been separated! Or just leaning into that tragedy of her finding him just a few moments late to save or even really talk to him. I would also love an AU where they get taken from Lah’mu together, or something where they get reunited sooner for some reason. Or an AU where they both survive, either until the end of the war or just long to at least hug properly. Of if it’s something where she doesn’t see the message he sent first, where he has to convince her of his feelings. Or where Jyn gets caught by the Empire before the Alliance!

Jyn Erso & Lyra Erso
I would love something when Jyn is younger, when she doesn’t really get what’s going on with her parents, or something from when they’re on Lah’mu. Or, something with her looking back on those memories, and maybe understanding them differently once she’s older. Or something where Lyra survives! Either taken with Galen and then escapes Eadu at some point, or she stays with Jyn and they’re both picked up by Saw. If they’re just on the run, or trying to figure out which Alliance faction to work with, or trying to figure out what happened to Galen, I’d love to see them get to interact with adults and see how that would have changed things.

Jyn Erso & Saw Gerrera
I would love to see what her childhood was like - either coming to know Saw from her parent’s contacts with him, or once he’s taken her out from the hiding cave and is raising her in the Partisans. Or training her! I’d love to see something about his decision to leave her, or how she felt in the immediate aftermath - what if she’d refused to leave and hunted him down? Or what if he’d never left her behind? How would she have reacted to his growing paranoia? Or, I would like something where they were reunited under slightly different circumstances. Or, something where he survives Jedha and helps with the assault on Eadu/Scariff!

Lyra Erso & Orson Krennic
I just really enjoy the level on conflict there - and I really enjoy the shift from Orson being kind of generally petty to honestly pretty chilling at points when he’s threatening her. I would love to see more of them going at each other - earlier on, when it’s mostly just fighting over Galen, or later when it starts to be over life-and-death. I’d enjoy something set on Coruscant, maybe she and Galen get caught before they can leave the planet? Or maybe later on Eadu Krennic ends up taking both fo them alive. Or I would love something where the end up grudgingly teaming up! Maybe to protect Galen, maybe for revenge if somebody else kills or captures him.


STAR WARS: THRAWN
Healing from traumaParental Figure Comforting Adoptive Child/Adult Having Nightmare or FlashbackCharacter gets a hugFound Family - Parent With Secret Agenda for Having a Child Ends Up Loving ThemAction/AdventureRescue MissionsProtectivenessYoung adoptive mothersHurt/Comfort - character who usually takes care of others is the one taken care ofHurt/Comfort - SickficCanon typical missionficTime Travel - Character Changes the Past to Prevent Traumatic EventsSelf-Discovery After Abuse or Trauma

Ar'alani & Un'hee, Vah’nya & Un’hee
I really loved how emotional and dedicated they both were to the idea of the rescue, and I love how Ar’alani clearly sees the young navigators as being crucial to the future of their people and how Vah’nya is coming at it from being a navigator herself. I’d love either (or both) of them trying to help Un’hee recover from her captivity, and balance that with the pressures of needing to get information out of her, and needing her to be to the point where she can work as a navigator. I’d love something where she ends up on their ship long-term! Scenes or shots of them teacher her would be great, or helping her when she’s sick, or bonding. I’d also love fic set when Un’hee is older! What kind of person is she going to be?