Dear FFFX Creator
Jul. 29th, 2023 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thracedtHello FFFXer!! That you for offering one of my favorite ships. I’m requesting a mix of current loves and old favorites, and please do not read anything into order or number of prompts or anything like that – I will be delighted with any ship here, I just have more ideas for some than others. Any rating is welcome. I am not squeamish about gore, go for it.
I’ve also tried to include availability when I could; most are available via streaming in the US, but I don’t know about outside the US availability.
Also, some of these ships I have requested before and my tastes are very consistent – if there was a prompt on a different letter that isn’t on this one, it is either because I am a dummy and forgot or because I ran out of space, feel free to use any past prompts if there was one that particularly struck your eye, that would be amazing.
DNWs: noncon (with some minor exceptions in Arrow and Daredevil), A/B/O, D/s with lots of formal negotiation, face-sitting, bathroom related bodily fluids, violence directed at genitals, pregnancy, bashing of canon love interests, daddy kink, permanent character death of named characters not dead in canon, spanking, setting change/no power AUs (except for Victorian AUs for Stargirl)
General likes: UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, fraught handholding (especially combined with the bedside vigiling) angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen especially when it’s one-sided, bloodplay, knifeplay, clothes sharing, dramatic rescues/sacrifices, pining, rope bondage, breathplay, road trips, significant gestures, missing scenes/episode tags, time travel, Groundhog Day loops, True Love Saves the Day, 5 Things fics, crossroad deals/deals with the devil, any and all kinds of supernatural nonsense, unexpected acts of kindness, someone physically putting themselves between a loved one and harm, creative use of superpowers, dreamsharing
Treats of all kinds are very welcome and appreciated!
Stargirl TV
Charles McNider/Richard Swift
Charles McNider & Richard Swift
Charles McNider & Richard Swift & Jennifer-Lynn Hayden & Todd Rice
Stargirl is about Courtney Whitmore, a teenage girl from LA who moves to idyllic small town Nebraska when her mom and discovers that her new stepdad used to be sidekick to the superhero Starman, who was a member of the Justice Society of America until they were all killed by their villainous counterparts the ISA ten years before. She inherits/kind of steals Starman’s cosmic staff to become a superhero in her own right, and she and her friends become the new JSA. It is my favorite superhero show possibly ever?
But we’re not here to talk about Courtney. Charles McNider was in the original JSA as Dr. Mid-Nite; he is an actual medical doctor and a low-key tech genius, but a mob hit on his clinic (targeting a patient he was operating on) left him blind except for in complete darkness. He developed glasses and goggles to help him compensate in daylight and apparently for funsies programed full AI into the goggles that was is a major character in S1. He is the kind of person who builds defibrillators into the gloves of his superhero costume just in case something goes wrong in the field.
Richard Swift is much more commonly called the Shade; he is over 200 years old, is apparently functionally immortal, has control over shadows and draws power from a hellish nightmare realm called the Shadowlands, and was a member of the ISA. He shows up at the start of S2 looking for an artifact called the black diamond, something connected to a very dangerous villain named Eclipso and generally making himself look very untrustworthy, especially since one of the first things we ever see him do is drag Dr. Mid-Nite away into the abyss during the fatal JSA vs ISA fight.
And then we find out that’s not...exactly how it happened. 😊
I love Shadenite so much, you truly cannot go wrong. Early days when they were still ostensibly enemies back in the JSA days, what happened that night with the absinthe (we’ll get to it,) post-canon, everything is good. I also love Jennie and Todd, so feel free to include them if the story is set post-S3. The little bits and pieces we get are so good, and I would love anything that fills in those pieces, both how they got there and what they do now. I’m fine with Myra being mostly ignored, but I do like having some guilt if things are happening while he’s married, or him desperately trying to compartmentalize his life (especially if he’s doing the secret identity thing, meaning there are huge swathes of his life he can’t share with her.) I like his life being messier than he ever let the rest of the JSA know (even currently! Completely headcanon that he was outright lying to Pat about things going great in S3, either because he didn’t want anyone to feel sorry for him or just because he’s so used to keeping up appearances.)
McNider and Shade are only physically in the same room for...maybe five minutes? But here are my favorite scenes with them talking about each other:
The Shade meeting Courtney and the drama of the man all through it. Also features the Shade getting very offended by Courtney’s accusation that he’s working with Eclipso (“Don't you know there's a difference between bad and evil?” is one of the great banger lines) as he tells Courtney how Eclipso murdered McNider’s young daughter. I especially enjoy how he doesn’t actually have an answer for Courtney when she asks why he’s getting so wound up about all this.
“Kill me? No, Beth, he saved me.” McNider is so surprised that anyone could think that the Shade might have killed him! Somehow! Also features McNider dropping Shade’s entire tragic backstory, which seems to know extremely well!
I love the little half-laugh McNider does at the “Because he’s...complicated” line, there’s so much in there. This is when we find out that the Shade showed up drunk and guilty over Rebecca McNider’s murder in the middle of the night, and what a gift to us all that is. And yes, this means Charles McNider tells two different people at two different times that he believes the Shade was different from the rest of the ISA – and he was right.
Jennie shows up in S2, looking for Todd, who finally appears in S3, they are the twin children of OG Green Lantern Alan Scott. Complications from the Eclipso fight in S2 mean that the Shade's powers are getting mixed up with her Green Lantern ones, which is how the Shade gets involved in their business very much against his will. The Shade is the one person Jennie lets herself be cranky at because he is THAT annoying and it is a joy. (This is a character lectured at one point that she doesn't have to be so nice to everyone!) Todd, meanwhile, has shadow powers similar to the Shade's (presumably as a counterpoint to his sister's light based powers.) The Shade agrees to train Todd to use his powers and when the show ends the twins are still with him, which delights me. I would love anything with the three of them + Charles getting into trouble.
I am very up for pre-relationship/pre-slash JSA era fic BTW! As long as there are clear Feelings, even if the two of them aren’t sure about or aren’t ready to speak to what those feelings are yet.
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Prompts
- So why is McNider so convinced that the Shade is different from the rest of the ISA? When did that happen? What did the Shade do that was so convincing that even after all the time trapped in the Shadowlands he was so sure that the Shade had been trying to save him?
- The first time Shade called him “Charles,” and why he keeps letting Shade do it.
- Anything with the Men of Tears – them finding the Shade again, either in the JSA era or current day, McNider finding out about the Shade’s tragic backstory, the Shade being in so much pain or out of it that he thinks they have him again, etc. Bring on the angst, especially in canon time with the Jennie and Todd first finding out about all this.
- Speaking of old enemies, the Maroni crime family getting very interested in why McNider is suddenly back after falling off the face of the earth for ten years
- The Shade and Dr. Mid-Nite having to team up against a mutual enemy back in the JSA days (I am especially weak for the two of them being captured and having to escape together, or being imprisoned together and having to keep each other going.)
- The first time the Shade found out about McNider’s eyes and how they got that way (it’s not strictly canon, but I do like there being visible scarring without the goggles)
- Simon Culp possessing the Shade, either as part of the Men of Tears (because he was definitely one of them) or just him being his charming self.
- JSA era Shade getting badly hurt (the staff, Alan’s green fire, the Spectre, a third party villain, etc) and McNider protecting him from further harm/trying to treat him even though this was definitely not covered in medical school/just staying and sitting with him, and the Shade not really understanding why he would do that.
- The opposite, McNider getting hurt/almost dying and the Shade intervening.
- Everything McNider left out about the night the Shade showed up with the absinthe (or if he didn’t leave anything out, what happened when Shade showed up the next night.)
- The Shade having to go to the Shadowlands for something (maybe the green fire is still a problem, or there’s something else brewing there) but once he’s there the Shadowlands won’t let him leave.
- Alan comes back from the dead, or Sylvester comes back for real, or the Spectre shows up dangerous and unstable without a host; whoever it is, they are VERY confused by the Shade’s apparent change of heart and don’t buy it for a second – and they’re very thrown by McNider not only being alive too, but by he and the Shade being...close
- Someone back in the JSA days finds out about the Shade showing up at McNider’s house, or sees them together, and jumps to the conclusion that the Shade is up to no good and take matters into their own hands.
- Shadow power enhanced sex, or McNider knowing that the Shade is watching him from the Shadows and getting off on in, or both of them getting off on McNider undressing him, or it having been so long since someone touched the Shade like a person instead of a shadow monster that he almost comes out of his skin when McNider touches him.
All three seasons of Stargirl are streaming on Max, and the first two seasons are out on bluray.
DCEU/Black Adam
Carter Hall/Kent Nelson
Kent Nelson is Dr. Fate, one of the world foremost experts on magic and, among other things, the current host of the helmet of Nabu, an artifact possessed by an alien intelligence that half possesses Kent when he uses it, give him visions of the future and is generally made of nightmares. I also extends his lifespan – he’s old enough that he remembers seeing RAF planes going off to war at the start of WW1. Carter Hall is Hawkman – he also has some alien technology, but at least his doesn’t possess him. Instead his wings, armor and mace are made a Thangardian Nth metal, and in addition to enabling him to fly it ups his strength enough for him to pick cars up over his head.Together they fight crime. They’re on the Justice Society together, which is at least to some extent run by Amanda Waller which is…a little strange, since they’re both very opposed to killing, but it seems to be working out?
When we meet them Carter has just pulled Kent out of retirement to deal with Black Adam (“I can’t do this without him”); meanwhile, unbeknownst to Carter, Kent has had a vision of Carter’s apparently extremely imminent death – and he is VERY motivated to keep that vision from coming true.
Black Adam is...not the best movie? It’s fine. It has some fun side characters! Its could probably lose about twenty minutes, and it’s an objectively bad adaptation of Teth Adam as a character – but Dr. Fate and Hawkman are so good in this movie. Aldis Hodge and Pierce Brosnan manage to pack so much history into their maybe fifteen minutes of screentime, you really believe they have known and loved each other forever.
It was actually annoyingly difficult to find good scenes? My kingdom for a Hawkfate supercut. There’s a great scene near the beginning where Kent and Carter are alone in a room for the first time in clearly a while, and they immediately start giving each other shit, Kent complaining about Carter always ignoring his advice and Carter saying how much he’d missed Kent saying cryptic shit to him. They’re so fond of each other and it’s wonderful.
I love how half the time in this clip Kent has his eyes on Carter instead of the big bad they’re trying to bring in.
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Prompts
- Fix-it for Kent being dead, because obviously now
- Early days in the Justice Society, their first missions together, all of that. I’d love to see how it all started
- Bad guys roughing Kent up in demeaning ways – backhanding him, dragging him by his hair, etc – and Carter losing his mind about it
- Carter being injured or near death and Kent using magic to save him, but the spell is slowly killing Kent instead (especially if Carter doesn’t realize what he’s doing at first)
- Kent being held by bad guys far away and reaching out to Carter through his dreams/with magic/etc
- Kent letting himself get captured/tortured/wounded because he’s already seen that Carter will save him/find him in the end
- Kent willingly submitting to a spell or locking himself in a magic device that will save the day but is painful enough to be torture, and Carter can’t help him but won’t leave him either
- A few years after the movie, when the worst of the grief has passed, a new Dr. Fate shows up, but when Carter goes to investigate who this is he find out that it’s not the helmet picking someone new – it’s Kent alive again, but no memory of anything before waking up wearing the helmet, and that includes Carter (because Nabu brought back his body but not his soul? The magic that brought him back was traumatic enough to wipe his mind? Nabu intentionally wiped his memories, thinking it would make him a better/more effective/more pliable host? Go nuts
- Something magic happens and everyone except Carter forgets that Dr. Fate ever existed
- SOUL. BONDS.
- My kingdom for fic where Cater uses his superstrength to hold Kent up against the wall one-handed. Sexy superstrength, PLEASE. Also, Kent using sexy sex magic
- Relatedly, Kent needing to do a sex magic ritual and this is how they find out they have not actually been hopelessly pining after all
- Nabu pulls one of his "KENT NELSON IS GONE, THERE IS ONLY THE IMMORTAL LORD OF ORDER" stunts, subsuming Kent's mind, and Carter is very Absolutely Not about it all
Black Adam is streaming on Max
John Diggle/Floyd Lawton
Love is a bullet to the brain.
We meet John Diggle when he is hired as a half-bodyguard/half babysitter for a just back from Lian Yu Oliver Queen, and he and Oliver quickly become friends and Diggle a valued part of Oliver’s mission to save Starling City. He’s the straightest of straight arrows, served with distinction in the military, is the one who’s there to tell Ollie when he’s doing something even dumber than usual. Meanwhile, Floyd Lawton is a vet too, but that’s where the similarities seem to end – Floyd is an assassin for hire who tattoos the names of his kills on his body, and very shortly after he’s introduced we discover that one of those names is John’s brother Andy. (Although we find out much later that Andy actually faked his own death to join the black ops group HIVE. John does not take it well!) There’s no reason why John Diggle should have any warm feelings about Deadshot.
So it is fantastic that he does! Their friendship is such a great slow burn over three seasons – even John is a little confused about why he cares about whether Floyd Lawton lives or dies, and for his part even though he mocks John’s moral core he admires it, too. John Diggle is the man Floyd wishes he could have been – a good man, a good soldier, a good husband, a good father – but knows he won’t ever be. Floyd is passively suicidal the entire time we know him and it bothers John so much, and Floyd is always kind of bemused about why John cares. There’s also a great throughline with their shared military service – Floyd was turned into a weapon, chewed up and then spit out by the military, and then he goes on to be used as a weapon by a long line of people – HIVE, Argus, Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad, etc., and John knows he could have been Floyd if things had shaken out differently. They’re so great and I will always hold a grudge against the first Suicide Squad movie because it meant Deadshot had to be written out of Arrow.
Clips:
John has Floyd at gunpoint but can’t pull the trigger. “That’s the thing about honor, John. You can’t turn it on and off.”
John breaking orders (he’s working with Argus) to go rescue Floyd:
Some canon hurt/comfort! (the redhead is Cupid, another archer who is not well and thinks she’s in love with Floyd. It was not great.)
I’m fine with Layla being ignored, but I would also be into John feeling guilty about not being able to keep himself away from Floyd (Layla has enough shady secrets of her own! She may even encourage it, thinking that John is leading Floyd on to keep him in line because that’s what someone trained by Amanda Waller would think.)
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Prompts
- John finding out that Floyd didn’t actually die in the explosion but has been buried deep in black ops, with the Suicide Squad or people even worse than the Squad, and making up his mind to find him
- Floyd contacting John when he’s in a very bad situation that’s killing him slowly – bleeding out, caught in a building collapse, trapped somewhere and running out of air – but either not able or not willing to tell John where he is, and John having to figure out how to get to him
- Floyd liking a little pain during sex and risky kinks in general, and John being conflicted on how much he likes indulging him
- The opposite, John absolutely refusing to be anything but gentle with Floyd during sex and Floyd getting so frustrated about that it’s basically edging and works anyway
- These two are made for undercover missions, please have Waller and Argus send the into every gay bar and mafia den and bratva hideout possible
- Floyd having to let himself be hurt or menaced to maintain his cover and John getting very twitchy about it while Floyd is mystified about what the big deal is, that stuff just happens. (Sexual and non sexual menacing is fine! Bad guys can also have a little noncon as a treat.)
- John canonically hallucinates Floyd after he kills Andy – more of that. Maybe John gets fixated on the idea that if Andy was alive, maybe Floyd is too, and he’s right
- Some kind of magic/speed force/whatever nonsense happens and John gets a glimpse of Floyd being alive and trouble, and everyone tries to talk him down but John knows what he saw
- An alive again Floyd tattooing Andy’s name on John after John has to kill him
Floyd shows up intermittently in the first three seasons of Arrow until his death in 3.17. Arrow is streaming on Netflix.
Wilson Fisk/James Wesley
Wilson Fisk & James Wesley
Wilson Fisk & James Wesley & Vanessa Mariana
I love me some loyal right hands, and James Wesley is THE loyal right hand. I love how they talk to each other when they’re alone – Wesley worships the ground Fisk walks on but he’ll still ask questions about what Fisk’s doing and why, and even when Fisk doesn’t tell him everything you get the sense he’s a little sad about it (and especially with the more mystical stuff, that he’s protecting Wesley from having to know about that nonsense.) Fisk leans on Wesley so much, and while he does consider Wesley a friend he also considers Wesley his, and Wesley is completely fine with that. I love it. I love Wesley’s hyper competence, and how badly he needs to be of service to Fisk and how attuned Wesley is to his moods. And of course Fisk absolutely losing his shit when Wesley dies is perfection.
I adore Vanessa and I think she would be 100% on board with that and them being together (Wesley did get there first after all) and frankly would be a little surprised if they hadn’t slept together at least once – like Wilson, you see the way he looks at you, right? Come now. I am very for wild amounts of pining from Wesley during canon periods, but if he comes back from the dead I would like them to on page get together if they hadn’t before then.
I love the way he takes his glasses off to talk to Fisk here, I wonder if he even needs them or if they’re just for the image:
“I just, I don’t...like the way he speaks to you.”
There's another scene where Fisk gets table flipping angry and orders Wesley out of his presence, and Wesley brings Vanessa to Fisk's penthouse because she's who he needs and giving Wilson Fisk what he needs is what Wesley does. It's such a good scene and so complicated, and I wish we had so much more time with the three of them. I looked high and low for it to know avail, it's in 1.08, which is a great episode for them in general.
As a DNW exception, Wesley being sexually menaced/nonconned offscreen by badder guys is great.
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Prompts
- Anything from the early days, when it was just the two of them with very big dreams
- How they met – we know virtually nothing about MCU Wesley aside from him speaking a lot of languages and that he’s not from New York City – how did Wilson Fisk happen to this man’s life?
- Anything with rival organizations hurting Wesley to get to Fisk, or Wesley letting himself be captured so Fisk can get away, and Fisk losing his entire mind over it. It doesn’t happen in canon but it SHOULD have, canon divergence that up
- Rivals or dirty cops torturing Wesley to give up information on Fisk, which obviously he is never going to do
- That first kiss, either in the past or after Wesley comes back to life
- Wesley’s ghost haunting Fisk, or Fisk talking to Wesley out of habit when he’s alone and realizing that maybe he’s not alone, or Vanessa knows Wesley is there but Fisk doesn’t see him because it hurts too much
- Fisk seeing Wesley when he’s near death – maybe Wesley leads him out of the fire at the end of Hawkeye, etc
- Fisk and Wesley being reunited in the afterlife when Fisk gets Snapped (it’s probably pretty hot down there!) but Wesley can’t come with him when Fisk resurrects with everyone else after the five years
- During a multiverse event a different universe’s James Wesley who’s in a lot of trouble manages to contact this universe’s Wilson Fisk, and while Fisk couldn’t save his own Wesley he sure as hell is going to save this one (and maybe keep him, depending on the situation)
- So from the Loki show we know there has got to be at least one Variant Wesley who survived that shooting/didn’t let Karen take his gun/had second thought about that confrontation and got scooped up by the Time Agents, and if that Wesley managed to contact Fisk and tell him that people had him and he didn’t know where he was, Wilson Fisk sure would be upset about that!
- Anything with Welsey and Vanessa bonding - him showing up at her door beat to hell because he knows he can't face Fisk until he pulls himself together/not able to trust anyone else/something REALLY BAD happened to him and he doesn't want Fisk to know, but he knows he shouldn't be alone.
Wesley is in S1 of Daredevil (with mentions in S3.) Daredevil is streaming on Disney+.
Wyatt Earp/Doc Holiday
I have the clip from when Wyatt and Doc reunite in the move and I love how laser focused on they are on each other and how easily they fall in rhythm, the retired lawman and the incorrigible gambler. They’re one of the great friendships in history and Tombstone has my favorite version of them. Throughout the movie you see how much regard they have for each other – the movie is such a love story. They’re one of my oldest OTPs and I would love anything with them.
Reunion
“Wyatt Earp is my friend”
This scene is one the Director’s cut and has Kate trying to talk Doc out of joining Wyatt’s revenge ride.
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Prompts
- A cocky gunslinger rides into town bragging that he shot the great Doc Holliday the next town over and Wyatt completely losing his shit
- Anything from the beginning – how they met, the first time Doc had a consumptive fit in front of him, the first time they got into a gunfight together, first kiss, all of it. Do not feel beholden to history, the movie itself certainly wasn’t
- Wyatt being hurt and Doc going on a self-destructive warpath over it
- Either one of them trying to keep the other alive after he’s shot
- The two of them holed up in an abandoned homestead with a storm rolling in
- Doc having a high fever and Wyatt sitting bedside trying to get him through the night
- 5 times fic of Doc and Wyatt falling into bed
- Wyatt knowing Doc’s in trouble even though they’re towns apart and riding out on the hunch
- Similarly, Doc being hurt/captured by outlaws and Wyatt carving a swath through the town/county to get to him. I'd especially like Doc being very smug and sure that Wyatt will come for him even as he's bleeding and beat up, and ESPECIALLY especially if that really seems pretty unlikely, objectively
Tombstone is streaming on Paramount+ and Tubi.
Huntress/Question
Look how cute these two are:
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Justice League Unlimited is a sequal of sorts to the original Justice League cartood with an expanded cast. Huntress and Question are both street level heroes with no powers; Question is a conspiracy theorist with a chemical mask that makes him look faceless and is, as he himself puts in, a "well-known crackpot," while Huntress is waging a one-woman war against the Gotham mafia underworld. They're both odd fits for the Justice League, all told - while Question's investigating prowess is so great that Batman asks him personally to look into Cadmus, knowing he'll dig up anything there is to dig up, his methods are...unconventional. As the same time he believes deeply in the JLU and at one point he comes very close to committing murder because he comes to believe that if he doesn't kills Lex Luthor, Superman will (he's convinced of this because it's happened in alternate universes) and Question is willing to sacrifice himself to save the League. He's obsessive and brave and tries so, so hard, and Jeffery Combs gives an all time voice performance.
Meanwhile, Huntress actually DOES get herself kicked out of the Justice League for being too violet; Question can fight but Huntress is easily the muscle of the duo and their dynamic is so much fun. Huntress will walk into hell for anyone she cares about and Question becomes one of those people very quickly
The three big Q/H episodes are: "Fearful Symmetry," "Double Date," and "Question Authority" - they're in a handful of others but those are the big story ones for them.
Fandom Specific Likes:
• Huntress calling Question Babydoll and Q, even after he’s calling her Helena, it’s the best
• Question’s absolute disaster of an apartment
• Question being delighted to let Huntress be his muscle, and him being a damsel around her in general (that one time she thought he’d been buried alive and she was ready to dig him out with her bare hands? The best)
• Huntress liking to lead Question along by his tie and Question very much liking her doing that
• I love Question’s conspiracy wall, there is never too much conspiracy wall
• Question being shy about Huntress seeing his face, and Huntress both kinking on his mask but also thinking he has a great face
• The true purpose of aglets being sinister
They’re so much fun. Please let them have adventures and solve mysteries and beat Question up so Huntress can stand over him and dare their assembled enemies to even try touching him again. I love how great each thinks the other is, and how Question went to very extreme lengths to help Huntress in their first episode just because he liked her, not at all expecting anything back (and how charmed she was by it.) I also love how obvious they made it that Huntress wanted to bang this man like a drum despite JLU being a children’s cartoon, please expand on that as much as you would like.
Extra Prompts:
- Question getting captured and tortured by bad guys again, and getting through it both through his usual method of being insufferable but also because he knows with 100% certainty that Huntress is coming for him (and Huntress losing her mind because this is not going to happen to him AGAIN)
- Question being very effectively framed for a murder and Huntress not believing it for a second, even if everyone else does
- Huntress doing something very dangerous and Question backing her without blinking or even asking any...well, questions
- One of Question’s conspiracy theories is actually true and the subjects are after him to shut him up
- Question showing up at Huntress’ door beat to hell and immediately passing out, and she has to protect him while finding out who did it
- Questions is missing but he left her clues to find him, and she has to figure out how to think like him to make sense of it
- Enemies of Huntress think that Question is a soft target, and while they’re wrong about that she’s still going to make them regret ever making that mistake
Justice League Unlimited is streaming on Max.
I’ve also tried to include availability when I could; most are available via streaming in the US, but I don’t know about outside the US availability.
Also, some of these ships I have requested before and my tastes are very consistent – if there was a prompt on a different letter that isn’t on this one, it is either because I am a dummy and forgot or because I ran out of space, feel free to use any past prompts if there was one that particularly struck your eye, that would be amazing.
DNWs: noncon (with some minor exceptions in Arrow and Daredevil), A/B/O, D/s with lots of formal negotiation, face-sitting, bathroom related bodily fluids, violence directed at genitals, pregnancy, bashing of canon love interests, daddy kink, permanent character death of named characters not dead in canon, spanking, setting change/no power AUs (except for Victorian AUs for Stargirl)
General likes: UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, fraught handholding (especially combined with the bedside vigiling) angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen especially when it’s one-sided, bloodplay, knifeplay, clothes sharing, dramatic rescues/sacrifices, pining, rope bondage, breathplay, road trips, significant gestures, missing scenes/episode tags, time travel, Groundhog Day loops, True Love Saves the Day, 5 Things fics, crossroad deals/deals with the devil, any and all kinds of supernatural nonsense, unexpected acts of kindness, someone physically putting themselves between a loved one and harm, creative use of superpowers, dreamsharing
Treats of all kinds are very welcome and appreciated!
Stargirl TV
Stargirl TV
Charles McNider/Richard Swift
Charles McNider & Richard Swift
Charles McNider & Richard Swift & Jennifer-Lynn Hayden & Todd Rice
Stargirl is about Courtney Whitmore, a teenage girl from LA who moves to idyllic small town Nebraska when her mom and discovers that her new stepdad used to be sidekick to the superhero Starman, who was a member of the Justice Society of America until they were all killed by their villainous counterparts the ISA ten years before. She inherits/kind of steals Starman’s cosmic staff to become a superhero in her own right, and she and her friends become the new JSA. It is my favorite superhero show possibly ever?
But we’re not here to talk about Courtney. Charles McNider was in the original JSA as Dr. Mid-Nite; he is an actual medical doctor and a low-key tech genius, but a mob hit on his clinic (targeting a patient he was operating on) left him blind except for in complete darkness. He developed glasses and goggles to help him compensate in daylight and apparently for funsies programed full AI into the goggles that was is a major character in S1. He is the kind of person who builds defibrillators into the gloves of his superhero costume just in case something goes wrong in the field.
Richard Swift is much more commonly called the Shade; he is over 200 years old, is apparently functionally immortal, has control over shadows and draws power from a hellish nightmare realm called the Shadowlands, and was a member of the ISA. He shows up at the start of S2 looking for an artifact called the black diamond, something connected to a very dangerous villain named Eclipso and generally making himself look very untrustworthy, especially since one of the first things we ever see him do is drag Dr. Mid-Nite away into the abyss during the fatal JSA vs ISA fight.
And then we find out that’s not...exactly how it happened. 😊
I love Shadenite so much, you truly cannot go wrong. Early days when they were still ostensibly enemies back in the JSA days, what happened that night with the absinthe (we’ll get to it,) post-canon, everything is good. I also love Jennie and Todd, so feel free to include them if the story is set post-S3. The little bits and pieces we get are so good, and I would love anything that fills in those pieces, both how they got there and what they do now. I’m fine with Myra being mostly ignored, but I do like having some guilt if things are happening while he’s married, or him desperately trying to compartmentalize his life (especially if he’s doing the secret identity thing, meaning there are huge swathes of his life he can’t share with her.) I like his life being messier than he ever let the rest of the JSA know (even currently! Completely headcanon that he was outright lying to Pat about things going great in S3, either because he didn’t want anyone to feel sorry for him or just because he’s so used to keeping up appearances.)
McNider and Shade are only physically in the same room for...maybe five minutes? But here are my favorite scenes with them talking about each other:
The Shade meeting Courtney and the drama of the man all through it. Also features the Shade getting very offended by Courtney’s accusation that he’s working with Eclipso (“Don't you know there's a difference between bad and evil?” is one of the great banger lines) as he tells Courtney how Eclipso murdered McNider’s young daughter. I especially enjoy how he doesn’t actually have an answer for Courtney when she asks why he’s getting so wound up about all this.
“Kill me? No, Beth, he saved me.” McNider is so surprised that anyone could think that the Shade might have killed him! Somehow! Also features McNider dropping Shade’s entire tragic backstory, which seems to know extremely well!
I love the little half-laugh McNider does at the “Because he’s...complicated” line, there’s so much in there. This is when we find out that the Shade showed up drunk and guilty over Rebecca McNider’s murder in the middle of the night, and what a gift to us all that is. And yes, this means Charles McNider tells two different people at two different times that he believes the Shade was different from the rest of the ISA – and he was right.
Jennie shows up in S2, looking for Todd, who finally appears in S3, they are the twin children of OG Green Lantern Alan Scott. Complications from the Eclipso fight in S2 mean that the Shade's powers are getting mixed up with her Green Lantern ones, which is how the Shade gets involved in their business very much against his will. The Shade is the one person Jennie lets herself be cranky at because he is THAT annoying and it is a joy. (This is a character lectured at one point that she doesn't have to be so nice to everyone!) Todd, meanwhile, has shadow powers similar to the Shade's (presumably as a counterpoint to his sister's light based powers.) The Shade agrees to train Todd to use his powers and when the show ends the twins are still with him, which delights me. I would love anything with the three of them + Charles getting into trouble.
I am very up for pre-relationship/pre-slash JSA era fic BTW! As long as there are clear Feelings, even if the two of them aren’t sure about or aren’t ready to speak to what those feelings are yet.
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- Fandom Specific Likes:
• The Shade being obviously not human, especially when hurt: colder to the touch than he should be, not breathing when he’s not making a point of it, bleeding shadows instead of blood, etc
• McNider’s being a doctor affecting how he thinks and his priorities
• Anything with how McNider sees, both the advantages and the limitations. I also like him having visible scarring when he’s not wearing his glasses or goggles which isn’t…strictly canon, I guess? But while we see he eyes through the goggles we never see his eyes open without them, so it’s possible
• The Shade having been a thief and a con artist in his mortal life coming in handy
• McNider getting very hot and bothered by seeing the Shade in less than full get up – missing the just suitcoat but still in the waistcoat and shirtsleeves for example, or in his shirtsleeves but still with the hat, or having to keep himself from staring at the Shade’s hands because he’s so used to seeing him in gloves.
• Shade loving to show off with his powers during sex and McNider loving watching him show off, but the Shade also being a little touch starved and almost coming out of his skin when McNider touches him
Victorian Era AU - the two of them being alive at the same time, with Mr. Swift being very overfamiliar with the upstanding Dr. McNider and no one understanding why he puts up with that from a conman and a thief like Richard Swift, fic set later in the Victorian era with McNider trying to keep his East End clinic going when he hears stories about a man made of shadows, full on Gotham by Gaslight style AU, etc, as long as the Shade still becomes the Shade and McNider still loses his sight (with or without gaining his canon darkvision) it’s all good.
Prompts
- So why is McNider so convinced that the Shade is different from the rest of the ISA? When did that happen? What did the Shade do that was so convincing that even after all the time trapped in the Shadowlands he was so sure that the Shade had been trying to save him?
- The first time Shade called him “Charles,” and why he keeps letting Shade do it.
- Anything with the Men of Tears – them finding the Shade again, either in the JSA era or current day, McNider finding out about the Shade’s tragic backstory, the Shade being in so much pain or out of it that he thinks they have him again, etc. Bring on the angst, especially in canon time with the Jennie and Todd first finding out about all this.
- Speaking of old enemies, the Maroni crime family getting very interested in why McNider is suddenly back after falling off the face of the earth for ten years
- The Shade and Dr. Mid-Nite having to team up against a mutual enemy back in the JSA days (I am especially weak for the two of them being captured and having to escape together, or being imprisoned together and having to keep each other going.)
- The first time the Shade found out about McNider’s eyes and how they got that way (it’s not strictly canon, but I do like there being visible scarring without the goggles)
- Simon Culp possessing the Shade, either as part of the Men of Tears (because he was definitely one of them) or just him being his charming self.
- JSA era Shade getting badly hurt (the staff, Alan’s green fire, the Spectre, a third party villain, etc) and McNider protecting him from further harm/trying to treat him even though this was definitely not covered in medical school/just staying and sitting with him, and the Shade not really understanding why he would do that.
- The opposite, McNider getting hurt/almost dying and the Shade intervening.
- Everything McNider left out about the night the Shade showed up with the absinthe (or if he didn’t leave anything out, what happened when Shade showed up the next night.)
- The Shade having to go to the Shadowlands for something (maybe the green fire is still a problem, or there’s something else brewing there) but once he’s there the Shadowlands won’t let him leave.
- Alan comes back from the dead, or Sylvester comes back for real, or the Spectre shows up dangerous and unstable without a host; whoever it is, they are VERY confused by the Shade’s apparent change of heart and don’t buy it for a second – and they’re very thrown by McNider not only being alive too, but by he and the Shade being...close
- Someone back in the JSA days finds out about the Shade showing up at McNider’s house, or sees them together, and jumps to the conclusion that the Shade is up to no good and take matters into their own hands.
- Shadow power enhanced sex, or McNider knowing that the Shade is watching him from the Shadows and getting off on in, or both of them getting off on McNider undressing him, or it having been so long since someone touched the Shade like a person instead of a shadow monster that he almost comes out of his skin when McNider touches him.
All three seasons of Stargirl are streaming on Max, and the first two seasons are out on bluray.
DCEU/Black Adam
DCEU/Black Adam
Carter Hall/Kent Nelson
Kent Nelson is Dr. Fate, one of the world foremost experts on magic and, among other things, the current host of the helmet of Nabu, an artifact possessed by an alien intelligence that half possesses Kent when he uses it, give him visions of the future and is generally made of nightmares. I also extends his lifespan – he’s old enough that he remembers seeing RAF planes going off to war at the start of WW1. Carter Hall is Hawkman – he also has some alien technology, but at least his doesn’t possess him. Instead his wings, armor and mace are made a Thangardian Nth metal, and in addition to enabling him to fly it ups his strength enough for him to pick cars up over his head.
When we meet them Carter has just pulled Kent out of retirement to deal with Black Adam (“I can’t do this without him”); meanwhile, unbeknownst to Carter, Kent has had a vision of Carter’s apparently extremely imminent death – and he is VERY motivated to keep that vision from coming true.
Black Adam is...not the best movie? It’s fine. It has some fun side characters! Its could probably lose about twenty minutes, and it’s an objectively bad adaptation of Teth Adam as a character – but Dr. Fate and Hawkman are so good in this movie. Aldis Hodge and Pierce Brosnan manage to pack so much history into their maybe fifteen minutes of screentime, you really believe they have known and loved each other forever.
It was actually annoyingly difficult to find good scenes? My kingdom for a Hawkfate supercut. There’s a great scene near the beginning where Kent and Carter are alone in a room for the first time in clearly a while, and they immediately start giving each other shit, Kent complaining about Carter always ignoring his advice and Carter saying how much he’d missed Kent saying cryptic shit to him. They’re so fond of each other and it’s wonderful.
I love how half the time in this clip Kent has his eyes on Carter instead of the big bad they’re trying to bring in.
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- Fandom Specific Likes
• Magical nonsense. Anything and everything, I have no limit for magical nonsense
• Mission fic
• Amanda Waller being just the worst possible human being ♥
• Carter knowing that he reincarnates affecting how he thinks
• So much pining – Kent because he’s so much older and/or he thinks it’s a nonstarter because Carter has a destined soulmate, and Carter thinking that if Kent was interested at all he would have picked up what he’d been putting down at some point.
• Kent running himself ragged using magic and Carter not able to stop him because it needs to be done but hating every second of it. Passing out, coughing up blood, not sleeping for days, bring it all on. Whump that man
• Wingfic, either magically grown wings or with Carter’s Nth metal ones. Kent growing wings would be fun
Prompts
- Fix-it for Kent being dead, because obviously now
- Early days in the Justice Society, their first missions together, all of that. I’d love to see how it all started
- Bad guys roughing Kent up in demeaning ways – backhanding him, dragging him by his hair, etc – and Carter losing his mind about it
- Carter being injured or near death and Kent using magic to save him, but the spell is slowly killing Kent instead (especially if Carter doesn’t realize what he’s doing at first)
- Kent being held by bad guys far away and reaching out to Carter through his dreams/with magic/etc
- Kent letting himself get captured/tortured/wounded because he’s already seen that Carter will save him/find him in the end
- Kent willingly submitting to a spell or locking himself in a magic device that will save the day but is painful enough to be torture, and Carter can’t help him but won’t leave him either
- A few years after the movie, when the worst of the grief has passed, a new Dr. Fate shows up, but when Carter goes to investigate who this is he find out that it’s not the helmet picking someone new – it’s Kent alive again, but no memory of anything before waking up wearing the helmet, and that includes Carter (because Nabu brought back his body but not his soul? The magic that brought him back was traumatic enough to wipe his mind? Nabu intentionally wiped his memories, thinking it would make him a better/more effective/more pliable host? Go nuts
- Something magic happens and everyone except Carter forgets that Dr. Fate ever existed
- SOUL. BONDS.
- My kingdom for fic where Cater uses his superstrength to hold Kent up against the wall one-handed. Sexy superstrength, PLEASE. Also, Kent using sexy sex magic
- Relatedly, Kent needing to do a sex magic ritual and this is how they find out they have not actually been hopelessly pining after all
- Nabu pulls one of his "KENT NELSON IS GONE, THERE IS ONLY THE IMMORTAL LORD OF ORDER" stunts, subsuming Kent's mind, and Carter is very Absolutely Not about it all
Black Adam is streaming on Max
Arrow
John Diggle/Floyd Lawton
Love is a bullet to the brain.
We meet John Diggle when he is hired as a half-bodyguard/half babysitter for a just back from Lian Yu Oliver Queen, and he and Oliver quickly become friends and Diggle a valued part of Oliver’s mission to save Starling City. He’s the straightest of straight arrows, served with distinction in the military, is the one who’s there to tell Ollie when he’s doing something even dumber than usual. Meanwhile, Floyd Lawton is a vet too, but that’s where the similarities seem to end – Floyd is an assassin for hire who tattoos the names of his kills on his body, and very shortly after he’s introduced we discover that one of those names is John’s brother Andy. (Although we find out much later that Andy actually faked his own death to join the black ops group HIVE. John does not take it well!) There’s no reason why John Diggle should have any warm feelings about Deadshot.
So it is fantastic that he does! Their friendship is such a great slow burn over three seasons – even John is a little confused about why he cares about whether Floyd Lawton lives or dies, and for his part even though he mocks John’s moral core he admires it, too. John Diggle is the man Floyd wishes he could have been – a good man, a good soldier, a good husband, a good father – but knows he won’t ever be. Floyd is passively suicidal the entire time we know him and it bothers John so much, and Floyd is always kind of bemused about why John cares. There’s also a great throughline with their shared military service – Floyd was turned into a weapon, chewed up and then spit out by the military, and then he goes on to be used as a weapon by a long line of people – HIVE, Argus, Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad, etc., and John knows he could have been Floyd if things had shaken out differently. They’re so great and I will always hold a grudge against the first Suicide Squad movie because it meant Deadshot had to be written out of Arrow.
Clips:
John has Floyd at gunpoint but can’t pull the trigger. “That’s the thing about honor, John. You can’t turn it on and off.”
John breaking orders (he’s working with Argus) to go rescue Floyd:
Some canon hurt/comfort! (the redhead is Cupid, another archer who is not well and thinks she’s in love with Floyd. It was not great.)
I’m fine with Layla being ignored, but I would also be into John feeling guilty about not being able to keep himself away from Floyd (Layla has enough shady secrets of her own! She may even encourage it, thinking that John is leading Floyd on to keep him in line because that’s what someone trained by Amanda Waller would think.)
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- Fandom Specific Likes:
• Floyd being an absurdly good shot
• Floyd liking being held at gunpoint during sex or otherwise not caring about things being safe or sane
• John caring if Floyd is hurt or in trouble way more than Floyd himself does
• Anything with Floyd losing the eye – whether it still bothers him, his high-tech scope, him adjusting for it when shooting without the scope, etc
• Mission fic
• Floyd’s tattoos – John touching them, him being both repelled and attracted to them, him being turned on by them and feeling a little sick about it, etc.
Prompts
- John finding out that Floyd didn’t actually die in the explosion but has been buried deep in black ops, with the Suicide Squad or people even worse than the Squad, and making up his mind to find him
- Floyd contacting John when he’s in a very bad situation that’s killing him slowly – bleeding out, caught in a building collapse, trapped somewhere and running out of air – but either not able or not willing to tell John where he is, and John having to figure out how to get to him
- Floyd liking a little pain during sex and risky kinks in general, and John being conflicted on how much he likes indulging him
- The opposite, John absolutely refusing to be anything but gentle with Floyd during sex and Floyd getting so frustrated about that it’s basically edging and works anyway
- These two are made for undercover missions, please have Waller and Argus send the into every gay bar and mafia den and bratva hideout possible
- Floyd having to let himself be hurt or menaced to maintain his cover and John getting very twitchy about it while Floyd is mystified about what the big deal is, that stuff just happens. (Sexual and non sexual menacing is fine! Bad guys can also have a little noncon as a treat.)
- John canonically hallucinates Floyd after he kills Andy – more of that. Maybe John gets fixated on the idea that if Andy was alive, maybe Floyd is too, and he’s right
- Some kind of magic/speed force/whatever nonsense happens and John gets a glimpse of Floyd being alive and trouble, and everyone tries to talk him down but John knows what he saw
- An alive again Floyd tattooing Andy’s name on John after John has to kill him
Floyd shows up intermittently in the first three seasons of Arrow until his death in 3.17. Arrow is streaming on Netflix.
Daredevil TV
Daredevil/MCUWilson Fisk/James Wesley
Wilson Fisk & James Wesley
Wilson Fisk & James Wesley & Vanessa Mariana
I love me some loyal right hands, and James Wesley is THE loyal right hand. I love how they talk to each other when they’re alone – Wesley worships the ground Fisk walks on but he’ll still ask questions about what Fisk’s doing and why, and even when Fisk doesn’t tell him everything you get the sense he’s a little sad about it (and especially with the more mystical stuff, that he’s protecting Wesley from having to know about that nonsense.) Fisk leans on Wesley so much, and while he does consider Wesley a friend he also considers Wesley his, and Wesley is completely fine with that. I love it. I love Wesley’s hyper competence, and how badly he needs to be of service to Fisk and how attuned Wesley is to his moods. And of course Fisk absolutely losing his shit when Wesley dies is perfection.
I adore Vanessa and I think she would be 100% on board with that and them being together (Wesley did get there first after all) and frankly would be a little surprised if they hadn’t slept together at least once – like Wilson, you see the way he looks at you, right? Come now. I am very for wild amounts of pining from Wesley during canon periods, but if he comes back from the dead I would like them to on page get together if they hadn’t before then.
I love the way he takes his glasses off to talk to Fisk here, I wonder if he even needs them or if they’re just for the image:
“I just, I don’t...like the way he speaks to you.”
There's another scene where Fisk gets table flipping angry and orders Wesley out of his presence, and Wesley brings Vanessa to Fisk's penthouse because she's who he needs and giving Wilson Fisk what he needs is what Wesley does. It's such a good scene and so complicated, and I wish we had so much more time with the three of them. I looked high and low for it to know avail, it's in 1.08, which is a great episode for them in general.
As a DNW exception, Wesley being sexually menaced/nonconned offscreen by badder guys is great.
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- Fandom Specific Likes
• The two of them being very aware of each other, especially Wesley of Fisk
• Wesley being very deliberate in constructing his image, from his suit to his watch to his glasses, etc
• Wesley being on call 24/7 for Fisk and not seeing anything wrong with that
• How completely ruthless and comfortable with violence Wesley is, as long as he’s not committing it himself
• The day to day of running a criminal enterprise – Wesley getting the car detailed after Fisk decapitates a man in it, having to manage all of the contractors, landing the properties, etc, love that stuff
• Fisk knowing Wesley was in love with him and not knowing how to feel about that, until it was too late to feel anything about that
Prompts
- Anything from the early days, when it was just the two of them with very big dreams
- How they met – we know virtually nothing about MCU Wesley aside from him speaking a lot of languages and that he’s not from New York City – how did Wilson Fisk happen to this man’s life?
- Anything with rival organizations hurting Wesley to get to Fisk, or Wesley letting himself be captured so Fisk can get away, and Fisk losing his entire mind over it. It doesn’t happen in canon but it SHOULD have, canon divergence that up
- Rivals or dirty cops torturing Wesley to give up information on Fisk, which obviously he is never going to do
- That first kiss, either in the past or after Wesley comes back to life
- Wesley’s ghost haunting Fisk, or Fisk talking to Wesley out of habit when he’s alone and realizing that maybe he’s not alone, or Vanessa knows Wesley is there but Fisk doesn’t see him because it hurts too much
- Fisk seeing Wesley when he’s near death – maybe Wesley leads him out of the fire at the end of Hawkeye, etc
- Fisk and Wesley being reunited in the afterlife when Fisk gets Snapped (it’s probably pretty hot down there!) but Wesley can’t come with him when Fisk resurrects with everyone else after the five years
- During a multiverse event a different universe’s James Wesley who’s in a lot of trouble manages to contact this universe’s Wilson Fisk, and while Fisk couldn’t save his own Wesley he sure as hell is going to save this one (and maybe keep him, depending on the situation)
- So from the Loki show we know there has got to be at least one Variant Wesley who survived that shooting/didn’t let Karen take his gun/had second thought about that confrontation and got scooped up by the Time Agents, and if that Wesley managed to contact Fisk and tell him that people had him and he didn’t know where he was, Wilson Fisk sure would be upset about that!
- Anything with Welsey and Vanessa bonding - him showing up at her door beat to hell because he knows he can't face Fisk until he pulls himself together/not able to trust anyone else/something REALLY BAD happened to him and he doesn't want Fisk to know, but he knows he shouldn't be alone.
Wesley is in S1 of Daredevil (with mentions in S3.) Daredevil is streaming on Disney+.
Tombstone (1993)
Tombstone 1993Wyatt Earp/Doc Holiday
I have the clip from when Wyatt and Doc reunite in the move and I love how laser focused on they are on each other and how easily they fall in rhythm, the retired lawman and the incorrigible gambler. They’re one of the great friendships in history and Tombstone has my favorite version of them. Throughout the movie you see how much regard they have for each other – the movie is such a love story. They’re one of my oldest OTPs and I would love anything with them.
Reunion
“Wyatt Earp is my friend”
This scene is one the Director’s cut and has Kate trying to talk Doc out of joining Wyatt’s revenge ride.
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- Fandom Specific Likes
• Wyatt watching Doc’s hands as he plays piano or poker
• Wyatt watching Doc in general really, to catch him if he over exerts himself or mouths off to the wrong people, etc
• Doc enjoying shocking Wyatt
• Wyatt defending Doc to Virgil, who disapproves of all of this (not even in a homophobic way, just in a "why this one, Wyatt?")
• Doc having a death wish and Wyatt desperate trying to save him from it, even if he knows in his head that Doc would rather die in a hail of gunfire than in his sickbed his heart can’t accept it
• Wyatt losing it at seeing Doc hurt or manhandled and not really thinking too hard about why he has that reaction, and Doc being very amused by all of it
• Likewise Wyatt not thinking very hard about how he keeps winding up in Doc’s bed (meanwhile Doc doesn’t care what other people think of him, but he does care what they think of Wyatt)
• Dramatic gunfights and bedside vigils after gunfights
Prompts
- A cocky gunslinger rides into town bragging that he shot the great Doc Holliday the next town over and Wyatt completely losing his shit
- Anything from the beginning – how they met, the first time Doc had a consumptive fit in front of him, the first time they got into a gunfight together, first kiss, all of it. Do not feel beholden to history, the movie itself certainly wasn’t
- Wyatt being hurt and Doc going on a self-destructive warpath over it
- Either one of them trying to keep the other alive after he’s shot
- The two of them holed up in an abandoned homestead with a storm rolling in
- Doc having a high fever and Wyatt sitting bedside trying to get him through the night
- 5 times fic of Doc and Wyatt falling into bed
- Wyatt knowing Doc’s in trouble even though they’re towns apart and riding out on the hunch
- Similarly, Doc being hurt/captured by outlaws and Wyatt carving a swath through the town/county to get to him. I'd especially like Doc being very smug and sure that Wyatt will come for him even as he's bleeding and beat up, and ESPECIALLY especially if that really seems pretty unlikely, objectively
Tombstone is streaming on Paramount+ and Tubi.
Justice League Unlimited
Justice League UnlimitedHuntress/Question
Look how cute these two are:
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Justice League Unlimited is a sequal of sorts to the original Justice League cartood with an expanded cast. Huntress and Question are both street level heroes with no powers; Question is a conspiracy theorist with a chemical mask that makes him look faceless and is, as he himself puts in, a "well-known crackpot," while Huntress is waging a one-woman war against the Gotham mafia underworld. They're both odd fits for the Justice League, all told - while Question's investigating prowess is so great that Batman asks him personally to look into Cadmus, knowing he'll dig up anything there is to dig up, his methods are...unconventional. As the same time he believes deeply in the JLU and at one point he comes very close to committing murder because he comes to believe that if he doesn't kills Lex Luthor, Superman will (he's convinced of this because it's happened in alternate universes) and Question is willing to sacrifice himself to save the League. He's obsessive and brave and tries so, so hard, and Jeffery Combs gives an all time voice performance.
Meanwhile, Huntress actually DOES get herself kicked out of the Justice League for being too violet; Question can fight but Huntress is easily the muscle of the duo and their dynamic is so much fun. Huntress will walk into hell for anyone she cares about and Question becomes one of those people very quickly
The three big Q/H episodes are: "Fearful Symmetry," "Double Date," and "Question Authority" - they're in a handful of others but those are the big story ones for them.
Fandom Specific Likes:
• Huntress calling Question Babydoll and Q, even after he’s calling her Helena, it’s the best
• Question’s absolute disaster of an apartment
• Question being delighted to let Huntress be his muscle, and him being a damsel around her in general (that one time she thought he’d been buried alive and she was ready to dig him out with her bare hands? The best)
• Huntress liking to lead Question along by his tie and Question very much liking her doing that
• I love Question’s conspiracy wall, there is never too much conspiracy wall
• Question being shy about Huntress seeing his face, and Huntress both kinking on his mask but also thinking he has a great face
• The true purpose of aglets being sinister
They’re so much fun. Please let them have adventures and solve mysteries and beat Question up so Huntress can stand over him and dare their assembled enemies to even try touching him again. I love how great each thinks the other is, and how Question went to very extreme lengths to help Huntress in their first episode just because he liked her, not at all expecting anything back (and how charmed she was by it.) I also love how obvious they made it that Huntress wanted to bang this man like a drum despite JLU being a children’s cartoon, please expand on that as much as you would like.
Extra Prompts:
- Question getting captured and tortured by bad guys again, and getting through it both through his usual method of being insufferable but also because he knows with 100% certainty that Huntress is coming for him (and Huntress losing her mind because this is not going to happen to him AGAIN)
- Question being very effectively framed for a murder and Huntress not believing it for a second, even if everyone else does
- Huntress doing something very dangerous and Question backing her without blinking or even asking any...well, questions
- One of Question’s conspiracy theories is actually true and the subjects are after him to shut him up
- Question showing up at Huntress’ door beat to hell and immediately passing out, and she has to protect him while finding out who did it
- Questions is missing but he left her clues to find him, and she has to figure out how to think like him to make sense of it
- Enemies of Huntress think that Question is a soft target, and while they’re wrong about that she’s still going to make them regret ever making that mistake
Justice League Unlimited is streaming on Max.
