Dear Darkest Night Writer!

[derwent_f]

Hello dear writer! Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for offering one of my requests!

You can find me on AO3 as derwent  You can find past exchange letters here.

I'm just really happy that one of my requests get offered, so honestly, as long as you heed the DNWs and include my requested characters, I'll be excited about what you write!

But, if like me, you find prompts helpful as a starting point, I do have some suggestions. Feel free to take inspiration from them - or not! Some of the requests are shorter than the others, but that doesn't mean I want them any less. Also, most of my DNWs are more of the just-in-case variety -- not likely to come up, but just to be on the safe side.

All requests are for fanfic. In general, I think the tags are prompts enough on their own. References to canonical pairings are totally fine. Feel free to write in unrequested characters, OCs, or background pairings if it would help the story.

If you have any questions or need clarification, please don't hesitate to reach me through the mods!

General Likes:

• All level of ratings
• Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness levels all welcome
• Both healthy and unhealthy relationships are welcome! For unhealthy relationships, I like codependency, folie a deux, romanticised abuse, power imbalance, manipulation, possessiveness, and just general dysfunctionality.
• People who hate each other but just can't quit each other
• Conflicted/mixed feelings
• Dysfunctional relationships
• Obsession, possessiveness
• Endings: happy endings are welcome, although not necessary, given the nature of the exchange. Twisted happy endings (the characters consider it a happy ending, everyone else thinks it's horrible) are welcome!
• Setting: pre-, during, or post-canon all welcome. Canon divergence is welcome too.
• Worldbuilding and backstory
• Unconventional format (e.g. interviews, news reports, in-universe meta, historical documents, correspondence)
• Fics that explore characters' daily life/domesticity, slice of life
• Quiet little moments in relationships
• Early relationship friction, where the partners are still adjusting to being with/living with each other
• Simple or unconventional gestures of affection
• Enemies-to-Friends, Friends-to-lovers, Enemies-to-lovers, Enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
• Long relationships that go through changes
• Emotional vulnerability
• Hurt/comfort
• Obvious feelings that don't quite get admitted to
• Morally grey characters and moral complexity
• Sympathetic terrible people/bad guys with moments of goodness/vulnerability
• Power dynamics
• Characters pining for each other, and then finding out their feelings are reciprocated
• Physical affection and intimacy, whether romantic, sexual, or platonic. Generally people being very tactile with each other.
• Little moments that reveal something significant
• Unexpected moments of kindness and connection
• Navigating complicated relationships
• Characters that never say what they mean but eventually have to confront their feelings
• Uncertain intimacy
• Partners pampering each other and physical grooming (especially hair brushing). I particularly enjoy grooming as decompressor or tension/stress release, or as prelude to sex
• Hugs and cuddles. I just love the description (e.g. bodies fitting perfectly, feeling safe and warm)

Smut Likes:

• Consent issues (noncon, dubcon, although fully consensual is definitely welcome too!)
• Both formal or not (in the moment/spontaneous) D/s dynamics (though I prefer the negotiation stage to be skipped)
• Oral, vaginal, anal sex, and other kinds of non-penetrative sex (especially intercrural sex)
• Body worship
• Cockwarming
• Being tied up with rope/belts/neck ties/similar materials
• Breathplay: choking by hands or belts/similar materials or pillows
• Choking on dick, face-fucking
• Spanking
• Blindfolds
• Biting/Marking
• Casual objectification
• Face slapping
• Somnophilia (both consensual or not)
• Sensory details
• Sensation play
• Forced orgasm
• Hair pulling
• Overstimulation
• Gentle aftercare
• Manhandling, rough sex
• Groping (both consensual or not)
• Involuntary arousal
• Object insertion
• Comeplay
• Fingerfucking
• Service kink, praise kink, loyalty kink, trust kink

General DNWs:

• Death of requested characters (threat of death is fine), unless canon
• Unrequested changes to requested characters' canon sexuality/gender/race/disability/ethnicity
• Unrequested alternate setting AUs (e.g. Coffee shop, high school, in space, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, futuristic/high-tech)
• Unrequested pairings for the requested ships (mentions of past relationships or canonical ones are fine)
• Requested ships being asexual, aromantic, or poly/in open relationship. It's fine if they never actually consummate the relationship, as long as the desire is still there.
• Infidelity in requested romantic pairings
• Parody, genderswaps, age regression/de-aging
• Unrequested issue fic or fic where overcoming bigotry (sexism, homophobia, etc) is the focus. Briefly mentioning those issues is fine, but please don't make it the focus of the fic.
• Any mention of current RL politics/situation
• Permanent mutilation/disfigurement/injury, terminal illnesses and unrecoverable injuries, unless canon
• First person POV and all lowercase writing, unless in the form of letters/emails/diaries
• Character bashing
• Canonical human characters being turned into non-human beings or hybrid, like aliens/robots/monsters (doesn't apply if canonically the characters are half/nonhuman)
• Unrequested mpreg
• Whipping (both sexual and non-sexual)

Smut DNWs:

• Scat, watersports, sounding, smegma, vomit
• Vore
• Rimming/felching/any ass-to-mouth/ass-to-vagina stuff (including toys and fingers)
• Fat fetishizing/weight gain fetishizing/feederism/stuffing
• Belly bulge/come inflation
• The spelling 'cum'
• Characters below 14 having sex (having crushes and chaste kisses are fine)
• Genital and breast injury/mutilation/torture. Unless canon (like Bond's) but please keep it to brief mentions
• Diaper/bottle/pacifier sex stuff/age play, daddy kink
• Pet play, Race play
• Noncon where the victim receives no pleasure
• Nipple clamps, Lactation
• Unrequested xeno
• Foot fetish
• Bugs and bestiality
• Genital and nipple piercing

For fandom-specific DNWs and prompts:


DC Extended Universe: Arthur Curry/Orm Marius

Tags:

• Incest - Genetic Sexual Attraction
• Incest - Fear of Secret Incestuous Relationship Being Found Out by Others
• Incest - Family Members Turn Out to be Each Other's Soulmates
• Angst
• Forced - Soulbond forces relationship between characters who hate each other
• Dub/Non-con - Character Forced to Rape Love Interest
• Dub/Noncon - Bad Guys Made Them Do It
• Dub/noncon - Forced to rape victim to spare them from a worse fate
• Dub/Noncon - Sex Required For Magical Ritual
• Dynamic - Dysfunctional relationships
• Alternate Universe - Southern Gothic
• Dynamic - Uneasy Allies
• Fuck or die - Forced to Rape Them or Let Them Be Raped by the Aggressor
• Guilt Marriage - War Prize
• Mental - Eldritch Location Changes Anyone Who Stays There Too Long
• Obsession
• Sex Pollen
• Trapped - Trapped Together
• Dub/Noncon - Consensual aftercare after nonconsensual sex

So basically, I just want these two to have angsty sex/relationship full of conflicting emotions.The setup can be any of the above: sex pollen, bad guys make them do it, genetic sexual attraction, whatever. I want them to feel guilty over their attraction to each other, but at the same time they can't stop themselves from obsessing over the other.


James Bond (Craig Movies): Group: James Bond/M | Gareth Mallory/Q

Tags:

• Scenario - Characters Forced to Choose Which Companion is Raped
• Fuck or die - Forced to Rape Them or Let Them Be Raped by the Aggressor
• Dub/Non-con - Character Forced to Rape Love Interest
• Dub/Noncon - Consensual aftercare after nonconsensual sex
• Time - Time Loop
• A/B/O - Unexpected Heat
• Sex Pollen - Affecting Only One Character
• Sex Pollen
• Dub/Noncon - Bad Guys Made Them Do It
• Dub/noncon - Drugged
• Dub/noncon - Forced to rape victim to spare them from a worse fate
• Dynamic - Age Difference
• Hurt/Comfort
• Plot - Routine Mission Gone Wrong
• Something Made Them Do It
• Time - aware of time loop
• Torture Aftermath - Stoic character shows vulnerability
• Undercover - Forced to have sex to keep their cover
• Hanahaki Disease
• Rescue - Love Interest Comforts Character through Aftermath

My OT3! I think most of the tags explain themselves enough - basically, whump! For the time loop scenarios, I'd love to see how these three highly competent people deal with such an unusual problem, possibly with added despair as they fail to break the loop. Or, if you want to, you can combine the time loop with the dub/noncon prompts and have these three continually having to relive the torture each day.


James Bond (Craig Movies): Group: M | Gareth Mallory & Bill Tanner & Eve Moneypenny & Q

Tags:

• Plot - Routine Mission Gone Wrong
• Plot - People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
• Alternate Universe - Horror
• Time - Time Loop
• Time - aware of time loop
• Murder - Murder Mystery
• Alternate Universe - Noir
• Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse
• Eldritch Architecture
• Ghosts
• Ghosts - Haunted Hotel
• Horror - Character Awakens Ancient Horror
• Horror - Architectural Horror
• Injuries - Bloody and Bruised
• Hurt/Comfort
• Kidnapping
• Location - Eerily pristine abandoned places
• Plot - Falsely Accused
• Plot - Presumed Dead
• Torture - Aftermath of Torture

I don't have any specific prompts outside of the tags for this request. I really enjoy the dynamics between these four and how each are badass in their own way and it'd be interesting to see how they would react when faced with novel situation, like horror/zombie apocalypse/time loop.


Lesson of the Evil (2012): Group: Katagiri Reika & Nagoshi Yuichieo, Group: Katagiri Reika/Nagoshi Yuichieo

Tags:

• Rescue - Love Interest Comforts Character through Aftermath
• Aftermath - Survivor Guilt
• Trauma - Characters bond in traumatic circumstances
• Trauma - Character denies symptoms/refuses to deal with trauma despite supportive partner
• Trauma - Character Is Hiding Aftereffects of Trauma
• Trauma - Holding a loved one while they're in severe pain
• PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Hurt/Comfort
• Plot - People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
• Plot - Faking Recovery So Others Will Stop Worrying About You On the Run
• Mental - Hallucinating Dead Loved One(s)
• In-Universe - Urban Legends
• Grief/Mourning
• Effect - Character Survived Their Adventures/Ordeal But Will Never Be The Same Again
• Dynamic - Codependency
• Drugs - Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
• Dreams - Nightmares
• Altered States - Hallucinations
• Long-term recovery

I'll always have soft spot for this movie for introducing me to Mack the Knife, lol. Anyway, I'm interested in how these two cope with their trauma. Given that Hasumin is almost certain to claim insanity defense during trial, Reika and Yuichieo will have to appear at the trial, potentially retraumatising themselves all over again. And what about their survivor's guilt and grief over Keisuke's death? Also, we don't get a lot of info about these two in the film, so fleshing out their background (how did they become friends?) will be great.


Original Works - All Male: Group: Father/His Illegitimate Son He Has Difficult Relationship With

Tags:

• Incest - Fear of Secret Incestuous Relationship Being Found Out by Others
• Incest Dynamic - Dysfunctional relationships
• Guilt
• Incest - Genetic Sexual Attraction
• Mental - Shame in Sexual Desires
• Abandonment Issues
• Altered States - Alcohol
• Angst
• Dub/noncon
• Dub/Noncon - Character unsure of own consent
• dub/noncon - first time
• Dynamic - Mutual Antagonism
• Dysfunctional Family
• Effect - Regret after giving in to sexual desire
• Incest - unhealthy codependency
• Obsession
• Resentment
• Skeletons In The Closet
• Dub/Noncon - Dubious Consent Due To Mutual Intoxication

Angst! Resentment and obsession! Fucked up family! The dynamics of illegitimacy is something I'm very interested in, so I'd love to see it explored in the fic. What's the story behind the illegitimacy? Did the father marry for duty, but fell in love with the son's mother and basically started a secret second family with her? Or is the son the result of a brief past affair who shows up out of the blue? And what finally drives them to cross the line?

(I feel like vaguely historical setting will be more suitable for this, since these days the stigma of being illegitimate is not as bad as in the past. But I'd be up for present-day setting as well.)


Original Works - Mixed: Group: Legitimate Daughter/Her Illegitimate Half-Brother, Group: Crown Prince/Younger Princess Sister Coveted for Her Beauty

Tags:

• Incest - Fear of Secret Incestuous Relationship Being Found Out by Others
• Incest - unhealthy codependency
• Incest
• Mental - Folie à deux
• Codependency - Siblings
• Unhealthy Relationships - Codependency
• Dynamic - Codependency
• Obsession - Possessive Behavior
• Obsession
• Mental - Shame in Sexual Desires
• Guilt
• Angst
• Dub/Noncon - Character unsure of own consent
• Dub/noncon
• dub/noncon - first time
• Dynamic - Mutual Antagonism
• Dub/Noncon - Dubious Consent Due To Mutual Intoxication
• Resentment
• Effect - Regret after giving in to sexual desire
• Horror - Gothic

Legitimate Daughter/Her Illegitimate Half-Brother: growing up, are they aware of each other's existence? Or did their parents keep it a secret, and the siblings only find out after they already started a relationship? How does their status affect them? Does the brother resent the sister for inheriting what should've been his? Do they resent each other, or do they love each other and resent their parents instead?

Crown Prince/Younger Princess Sister Coveted for Her Beauty: obsession! Possessiveness!


Peaky Blinders: Group: Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark

Tags:

• Dub/noncon - Dubcon due to victim's unconditional loyalty to aggressor
• Unhealthy relationships - character is desperate to please partner
• Dub/Noncon - Dubcon due to eagerness to please
• Trauma - Sexual Relationship as Unhealthy Coping Mechanic
• Self-Harm - Sexual Relationship as Unhealthy Coping Mechanism
• Self-Harm - Asking For Rough Sex As Unhealthy Coping Mechanism
• BDSM- Character should safeword but doesn't
• Belief - Believing Others Consider Them An Inferior Substitute for Someone Else
• Angst
• Belief - Character Who Wants More Thinks Loved One Only Has Sex With Them Because It's Convenient
• Dub/noncon - Character Only Agrees to Try a Kink Because They Think Lover is Bored
• Dub/Noncon - Character unsure of own consent
• Dub/Noncon - Past Rape/Non-con
• Dubcon - character is too devoted to consider saying no
• Love/Hate Relationship
• Mental - Character doesn't care about own well-being
• Motivation - the road to hell is paved with good intentions
• PTSD - Trauma triggered during sex
• PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Trauma - Coping with past rape through sex with unaware partner fails when character has flashback

Ouch, these two are so fucked up. Lizzie knows perfectly well that Tommy doesn't love her and mercilessly manipulates her, yet she mostly comply because she loves him. Tommy knows how Lizzie feels about him and yet manipulates her all the time. The tags are pretty clear on their own, I think. I'd love to see how Lizzie's past as a prostitute, and the trauma she may have as a result, affect her relationship with Tommy - especially during sex.


She Creature (2001): Group: Lillian "Lily" Shaw/Mermaid

Tags:

• Possession
• Horror - Ocean Horror
• Body Horror - Impossible Pregnancy
• Sex With Monster Partner Despite Being Terrified of Them
• Monster - monster understands you better than your human loved ones do
• Monster - Monster Transformation
• Angst
• Dynamic - Mutual Antagonism
• Resentment
• Dub/Noncon - Alien character unfamiliar with concept of rape
• Dub/Noncon - gentle rapist
• dub/noncon - aroused victim
• Dub/noncon - Somnophilia
• Horror
• Love/Hate Relationship
• Violence - Sex in the blood of their enemies
• Bondage - Magical Restraints
• Dub/noncon - Pregnant Victim
• Dreams - Dream Sex
• Dynamic - Dependent on Enemy for Survival

I love this movie so much! For the mermaid, she can be in her mermaid form, or in her Queen of the Lair form (or both XD).

So, why does the mermaid grant fertility to Lily (and her previous captor's wife)? Is it a ploy to make them sympathise with her and help her escape? What about the mechanics - does she simply make Lily fertile (so it's still her husband's sperm that impregnates her), or does somehow the mermaid is the one who impregnates Lily? Given that Lily's daughter at the end is implied to be half-mermaid, maybe it's the latter?

Canon divergence where Lily is stranded in the island and never gets saved by a passing ship would be great. Maybe the mermaid keeps her captive because she wants Lily's (theirs?) daughter?

Sex:the tail. Just - anything involving the tail.

If you're writing body horror-pregnancy, feel free to be as creepy as you want!


Watchmen (2009): Group: Dan Dreiberg/Adrian Veidt

Tags:

• Time - Fixed It But Fixer Haunted By Memories Of Original Timeline
• Time - aware of time loop
• Time - Time Loop
• Resentment
• Mental - Shame in Sexual Desires
• Trauma - Characters bond in traumatic circumstances
• Trapped - Trapped in Another Universe
• Revenge
• Plot - Rescued by the Villian
• Plot - Dimension Hopping To Find A Timeline That Isn't Doomed
• Plot - discovering significant other is the villain
• Motivation - the road to hell is paved with good intentions
• Mental - Character doesn't care about own well-being
• Loneliness
• Hurt No Comfort
• Hate - Hate Sex
• Ethics/Morals - Violating Moral Principles For A Loved One
• Effect - Regret after giving in to sexual desire
• Effect - Character is Haunted By the Bad Things They Did for a Bad Reason
• Effect - Character Is Haunted By Bad Things They Had To Do For A Good Cause

Don't have any specific prompts here, I think the tags are enough.