cousinshelley | Fluffity Fluff Exchange (Reply)

I'm CousinShelley at AO3.

Thank you in advance for writing one of these fandoms for me! Some requests are newer, and some fandoms generate more ideas, especially if I've requested them a lot. A shorter section than some others doesn't mean I love or want a fandom any less.

My requests in the app.

I offer a lot of prompts and mention what I like about the dynamics because it's fun for me to talk about them. If you hate that kind of thing, just pick a freeform and run with it. The general things I like and do-not-wants are at the bottom (linked from the top) in bulleted lists.

My requests:

Prodigal Son
What We Do in the Shadows
Wellington Paranormal
Stellar Firma
Yonderland
Ghosts
Los Espookys
The Tick

Things I Like
DNWs (Do Not Wants)

Prodigal Son (any nominated characters)

Malcolm Bright & Martin Whitly (Prodigal Son)
Malcolm Bright & Jessica Whitly (Prodigal Son)
Gil Arroyo & Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)
Malcolm Bright & Ainsley Whitly (Prodigal Son)
Malcolm Bright/Vijay Chandasara (Prodigal Son)
Malcolm Bright/Edrisa Tanaka (Prodigal Son)
Malcolm Bright/Dani Powell (Prodigal Son)
Gil Arroyo & Malcolm Bright & Dani Powell & Edrisa Tanaka & JT Tarmel (Prodigal Son)
Malcolm Bright & Sunshine the Bird (Prodigal Son)

Freeforms:

Road Trip
Humor as way of dealing with trauma
The Process of Healing From Past Trauma
Post-Canon Fix-It
Unquestioning support and acceptance
Found Family
Day Off
Character Pets a Bird or Cute Fluffy Animal
Character protects friend from their own bad choices
Character gives terrible advice but it all turns out okay
Terrible attempts at flirting are taken as insults at first
A terrible first date that makes both of them happy anyway
Character A confesses feelings to B when they think death is imminent. Oops they live.
Holding Hands While Sleeping

I'll be happy with any of the characters from the show (and Sunshine!) as long as the story is centered around Malcolm. I don't care if it's him and his father (in a familial relationship only, no slash), his family, a casefic with his coworkers or a shippy fic with him and Edrisa, Vijay or Dani. I'd like Malcolm to have a good day either way. Even just a day off with Sunshine where he feels supported and calm..

Don't worry if you want to include darker things and not have every word be fluff. As long as it ends up positive with Malcolm in a better place than where he started, I'm game.

Just have him happy at the end and not broken or beaten up for a change. Any healing, humor, support and first-romantic-moment types of things will be great.

Some prompts:

Edrisa and Malcolm bond over a crime scene or autopsy and maybe with their heads together peering at a wound or a photo or something, Malcolm turns his face and realizes how easy it would be to kiss her at that moment, maybe wondering why he never had before.
He invites Edrisa over to look at his weapons (or she invites him to look at some medical stuff she's collected or something) and at some point can't believe he's been only looking at her as a colleague all this time.
After Malcolm and Dani kiss, things happen differently so they have a chance to be alone again not long after. What happens?
Malcolm and Vijay keep in touch after the take-down of the jewelry-thieving gang and decide to go out to eat. Who thinks it's a date, and who's clueless at first?
Tags that work for me with any ship are the terrible flirting mistaken as insults, terrible first date, confessing feelings when they think they're going to die, and holding hands while sleeping. Any of them being there for Malcolm when he's trying desperately to sleep and holding his hand to make it easier would be great. That goes for platonic relationships too.
Discussion about his father or his childhood, or anything involving his past, leads his hand to shake and him to obviously be disturbed. Whomever's with him can take his hand to stop his shaking, and things move on from there (or that can be the pinnacle romantic moment, of course!). Works for platonic, too.
Post-series, please let Martin be alive whether he merely survived or the stabbing didn't happen at all. Someone can be there for Malcolm as he deals with all he's just been through. I really like the thought of them discovering what happened with the embolism and the near-torture in the cabin, being upset about all he endured and wanting to help him deal with it.
A post-canon fix-it where he doesn't stab Martin and they keep hilariously road-tripping and, despite Malcolm's misgivings, bonding. I could have watched a whole serious of their adventures, tbh.
Malcolm and Ainsley's relationship either when they were growing up or in present day. Malcolm has been portrayed as a protective older brother, always telling her things would be okay, so him being protective of her as they grew up is a favorite thing of mine. But I like their adult relationship a lot, too. How did they keep in touch while he worked for the FBI? What things did she tell him about her life and relationships that she never told her mother?
Any procedural stuff with his coworkers, or maybe some kind of get-together off work where they'll all be.
A moment with Malcolm and Gil, whether pre-canon, during or post that shows the friendship and mentorship (and father-figure influence) between them.
Malcolm and Dani have to go undercover as a couple and this leads to revelation of feelings. Bedsharing can be part of it and lead to sexy things. I'm always down for oh no there's only bed whatever shall we do? scenarios (as well as Dani getting into the bed with him to calm him down after a nightmare).
Malcolm slips up and references something that happened between them in his hallucinated happy place with her and Dani won't let him go until he admits what happened while he was knocked out, and things move on from there. Maybe he's under the influence of something (which seems to happen a lot, poor guy) and talks to her about it, telling her everything, forgetting it was his secret.
After Vijay drives the car back into the warehouse and helps save the day, what happens? He and Malcolm are both hopped up on adrenalin, maybe they go back to Malcolm's loft to reconnect and talk old times and this leads to shippy and/or sexy things.
Hints that Malcolm or Vijay (preferably both) have been pining all this time would be most welcomed!
Feel free to throw them into another case-related scenario after the episode that brings them closer together. Does Malcolm end up taking Vijay to see Martin for some reason? That could be super interesting. Would Martin assume they're dating and say things like that, would he be jealous and show it so that Vijay might have to assert himself where Malcolm's concerned? Lots of possibilities.

Just about anything that doesn't have an unrequested pairing or DNW in it will be welcome!

What We Do in the Shadows

Doll Nadja & The Guide & Marwa & Nadja (WWDITS TV)
Baron Afanas & The Guide & Nadja & The Sire (WWDITS TV)
The Djinn/Marwa (What We Do in the Shadows TV)
Guillermo de la Cruz/Nandor the Relentless (WWDITS TV)

Freeforms:

Friends have a good old-fashioned sloppy girls' night at home
Best Friends Have Bad Ideas Together
Humor
Domestic Fluff
Character stands up for/protects their friend
Found Family
Normally overconfident character A takes advice and direction from B; it must be love
Character A leaves little gifts for Character B
You're good at ass-kicking and that's hot
Character A confesses feelings to B when they think death is imminent. Oops they live.
Friendly rivalry leads to surprise kiss
Character A thinks losing weight will win over B; B points out they don't need to change for them
Hand-feeding
Character A in denial about loving B starts demonstrating it in little ways without meaning to
Character A turned on by character B's total badassery and can't hide it
Character manipulates every situation to end up with a chance at their love interest
Sweet but almost unintelligible confession of feelings
Awkward Flirting
Terrible attempts at flirting are taken as insults at first
First Kiss

I love this show head to toe, so any characters can show up and I'll love that. Anything involving any of the characters!

Some prompts:

Nadja's "sloppy girls night" is one of my favorite things from the last season. Any excuse for them to get together have fun would be great. And that's true whether it involves the same characters or Nadja with the Baron, the Sire and the Guide. Their shopping montage was a scream.

Some ideas that come to mind for the girls' group activities include:

Winning vacation time at a time-share so they pack up and go
Going to play at community BINGO night
An evening art class

Things that could be either group:

A board game night
Another movie night with a movie they either adore or heckle
Nadja starts a video podcast/Youtube channel to bitch about whatever's bothering her at the moment. It could be either group, because people will assume the Baron and Sire are in makeup.
More shopping. Which one gets a thrill out of shoplifting?

Either group would make a fun story with them just hanging out in some way.

For The Djinn/Marwa, okay, I have a soft spot for Marwa, who deserved a lot better than what she got.

Any story where the Djinn's wish-granting actually was designed to manipulate things to get Marwa away from Nandor because he thinks she deserves better and falls for her himself.
Marwa finds out about the wish that caused Nandor to think of Guillermo whenever he thought of/used his new big dick. The Djinn manipulated that in the hopes that Nandor would stop being interested in sex, because he was jealous.
Maybe the Djinn undoes all of Nandor's wishes except the one for her to be there after she builds the man cave and starts hanging out with her.
After she goes to be with Freddie, the Djinn finds her and gives her the choice of whether to stay as she is or go back to her original self, explaining that if she doesn't love Freddie when she changes back, and him her, it wasn't right anyway, so she goes back, and Freddie goes in search of someone more like himself. Leaving the Djinn to romance her (or maybe for her to be more aggressive about going after him).
I'd just love a fix-it where he wants her, and she falls for him too but with agency.

For Guillermo and Nandor, they don't have to end up even kissing, but it's fine if they do! I'd just like to see Nandor, even if he's denial, treating Guillermo better, and hopefully Guillermo noticing and appreciating it. I love Nandor's journey from 'eh, he's just a familiar, I don't really need him' to being miserable without Guillermo.

Nandor protects Guillermo from another vampire or outside threat (maybe a vampire shows up to take Guillermo because of all the vampires he killed, and Nandor attacks and kills that vampire. Guillermo could be in the room, or he could be secretly watching and when he asks who was at the door Nandor lies or something he'd see as sweet)
Nandor does something nice for Guillermo without being asked (picks him up to take him flying, or gives him a nice meal or a day off or something) and Guillermo's moved by it
Nandor tries to show affection and fails in a funny way, but Guillermo gets what he was trying to do
Guillermo protects Nandor, and Nandor really notices and has feelings
Guillermo is hurt, maybe he got an injury or two saving Nandor and the rest, and Nandor fusses over him in a hurt/comfort scenario, or Nandor is hurt protecting him, and the same.
The weight loss tag is because I love the idea of Guillermo deciding to lose weight and Nandor not understanding because he's just fine the way he is. I don't want him to discourage it if Guillermo's trying to improve his health (though a few mild attempts to get him to eat things out of concern at first would be fine), but thinking he doesn't need to change. That kind of thing sends me.
The hand-feeding tags really stems from either Nandor enjoying watching him eat and getting something out of that, being unable to eat human food, and/or him noticing that Guillermo has lost weight and becoming worried for him. I'm not looking for feederism, but him being worried and thinking Guillermo should eat more, and trying to help out.

Wellington Paranormal

Officer Minogue & Officer O'Leary (Wellington Paranormal)
Officer Minogue & Officer O'Leary & Constable Parker (Wellington Paranormal)
Officer Minogue & Officer O'Leary & Sergeant Maaka (Wellington Paranormal)

Freeforms:

Character protects friend from their own bad choices
One character's becoming a monster. It won't interfere with the friendship.
Character stands up for/protects their friend
Best Friends Have Bad Ideas Together
Platonic support and encouragement
Day Off
Character gives terrible advice but it all turns out okay
Humor
Canon-typical shenanigans

Any kind of paranormal case or everyday interactions between any of these characters would be great. I love their friendships, and really how O'Leary seems to be the lead and Minogue defers to her a lot. And I love how hell can break loose and their reaction is to explain the situation calmly and say "we'd better do something about that, hadn't we?"

Any casefic or just casual conversation about anything driving around in the car or in Maaka's office would work for me.

Some prompts:

Like the tag says, one of them's transforming into a monster (for real or imagined), but it doesn't seem to faze the others while they try to figure it out. I don't want anyone to permanently transform into anything where they can't communicate and keep being a cop, but whatever it is can be permanent if they're happy about it and still able to be themselves, mostly. :P
They have to use a ouija board or some other device to try to contact someone who's passed on for information about a case? How crazily wrong could that go if they lose track of the letters and decipher the message incorrectly?
One becomes psychic and drives the other crazy by constantly saying what will happen next, but only mundane things. Girl in the coffee shop's wearing purple today, before they get there, but not that someone naked is going to dash in front of their car, or something worth predicting.
One gets possessed and the entity has messages show up on their skin or some other way, and they both keep interpreting the meanings wrong, but somehow fix it anyway. Or the possessed one keeps getting scolded by the others for being rude, pushy, nasty, whatever. O'Leary especially will not put up with that nonsense!
Minogue, Parker or Maaka gets abducted by aliens, and can't convince the others that anything truly amazing/frightening/monumental happened. O'Leary especially keeps finding rational explanations for everything.
Minogue or O'Leary has a girlfriend who turns out to be a monster (preferably inhuman in some way so there's no question that the relationship has to end, haha). How is it revealed and what do they do? Does the creature attack Parker and that's how they figure it out?
It's the officers' day off! They end up spending it together anyway. Seeing them hang together outside work would be great. A dinner invitation, helping move a couch, having a beer and discussing a puzzling case, just about anything.

I love this show so much. Any canon-typical hijinks between any of the characters would be great.

Stellar Firma

David 7/Trexel Geistman (Stellar Firma)

Freeforms:

Sweet but almost unintelligible confession of feelings
Character gives terrible advice but it all turns out okay
Awkward Flirting
Character protects friend from their own bad choices
Waking Up Married and having zero regrets
Terrible attempts at flirting are taken as insults at first
Character A confesses feelings to B when they think death is imminent. Oops they live.
Sex Pollen
Humor
Character A leaves little gifts for Character B
Canon-typical shenanigans

I'd love anything steeped in the humor of the show where these two get together, even if it's just barely. Something where Trexel admits his feelings (at least sort of) and David's not completely horrified by the thought that it might be worth pursuing. Accidental marriage on some alien planet or in some sort of agreement to build a planet when they didn't know what they were signing, being trapped together, David saving Trexel from his bad habits and choices, anything ridiculous like canon that ends with them plausibly a couple would be great. I'm fine with either he/him or they/them for David 7, but please stick to just one.

Some prompts

Trexel slips up and reveals his affection and tries to cover in his faily ways.
Trexel is ridiculous, as usual, maybe doing his goofy songs while trying to flirt.
Trexel thinks the Board is going to make him disappear or that he's dying of something so he reveals his feelings, then finds out everything will be fine.
They leave together, either on a special mission or on the run from the Board, and maybe have to pretend to be in a relationship to pass somewhere alien, and it causes feelings.
Trexel is sex-pollened somehow and either trapped with David, or he secretly knows that he's not going to get any help from anyone else who knows him so he goes to David. You don't even have to go as far as writing sex, just his desperation and David's giving in (and maybe not being completely horrified at the decision) would be funny and hit all my buttons
Alternately, David can be sex pollened, with only Trexel around to help, and trying very hard not to have to resort to that. David can discover Trexel's a lot less awful than expected (or is fantastic, really an unexpected and wonderful surprise).
Trexel got David drunk and they wake up in bed together, and David's touched and impressed to discover that Trexel didn't take advantage of the situation, even though he admits he wanted to and is nearly a wreck because he's not used to self-restraint of any kind.
They play truth or dare/can't lie/are compelled from some outside force to say things they ordinarily wouldn't and feelings are revealed.
A David 7/Trexel bodyswap situation where Trexel likes his new clone body a little too much and David can't believe the level of tipsiness and somehow starts to think Trexel's not so bad after all. Maybe Trexel wants to take advantage of his new body and is hysterically struggling to stay respectful and not run his hands all over himself or something.
Trexel helps David 7 escape the room to live amongst the rest of the people, but David has to pretend to be Trexel's spouse to pull it off.
David puts a foot down over something with Trexel who finds he really likes that side of David and does his best to cause David to get stubborn with him because it turns him on.
Trexel is genuinely sweet with David when David least expects it, and it causes feelings.

I'll really enjoy anything silly in the tone of the show but with some sort of mutual feelings or pining underneath, all the way to full-out attempts at being a couple.

Yonderland

Scribe Elder Ho-Tan/Wise Elder Vex (Yonderland)

Freeforms:

Brushing or combing hair gently and kindly
Character tries on clothes and asks love interest's opinion to bask in their approval
Character A wants to be with B no matter what gender they are
Sweet but almost unintelligible confession of feelings
Awkward Flirting
Unquestioning support and acceptance
First Kiss
Humor
Domestic Fluff
Character Pets a Bird or Cute Fluffy Animal
Character A leaves little gifts for Character B
Canon-typical shenanigans

Anything gently sweet between these two will float my boat. I love trans Elder Ho-Tan and how everyone is so accepting, and I'd love for these two to get together. Any other characters are welcome, if you want to throw them in, as long as the focus is on these two.

Some prompts:

Ho-Tan gets jealous of the woman flirting with Vex at Debbie's Christmas party and tries to make her feelings clear.
Vex gets a little jealous of someone who's warming up to Ho-Tan, and it shows.
I'd love to see some flirting and feelings realization in some way as goofy as they always are. Vex brushing Ho-Tan's hair for some reason would be lovely.
Any situation where Vex tells or expresses to Ho-Tan what a beautiful woman she is in that special Vex way (especially after Ho-Tan has reverted post-wish and is disappointed) can never go wrong. I really like the idea that after Ho-Tan eats from the wish-granting tree and gets the body of a cis-woman, Vex is supportive and happy for her, but then is happy when she reverts back because she didn't need to change like that and Vex prefers Ho-Tan as she was. It doesn't need to be a whole screed on being yourself, but anythng even subtle about Vex loving Ho-Tan exactly as she was would be great.
Vex wearing Debbie's bra makes me think trying on different clothes for the other's approval could be fun. I could see either or both of them doing it.
Of course, petting an animal at any point would be awesome. The scene where Vex in particular is petting and cuddling the bunny IIRC was too adorable.
It'd be a lot of fun to see them maybe after a visit to Debbie's get lost outside her house and have to try to pass as non-Yonderlanders for a while together and be seen by someone they encounter as a couple when they don't think they are. Ditto for people in Yonderland assuming it, and it make them realize things.

Ghosts

Pat Butcher/The Captain (Ghosts TV 2019)
The Captain & Kitty (Ghosts TV 2019)
Pat Butcher & The Captain (Ghosts TV 2019)
Alison & Button House Ghosts (Ghosts TV 2019)
The Captain (Ghosts TV 2019)/Original Male Character(s) (Ghosts TV 2019)
Julian Fawcett/Robin (Ghosts TV 2019)
Kitty/Thomas Thorne (Ghosts TV 2019)

Freeforms:

Unquestioning support and acceptance
Group of friends attempt group therapy/support group with each other
character confesses feelings/attraction to character who can't hear them
Stoic character accidentally comes out and instead of being embarrassed they're relieved
Friendly rivalry leads to surprise kiss
Best Friends Have Bad Ideas Together
Friends have a good old-fashioned sloppy girls' night at home
Awkward Flirting
Normally overconfident character A takes advice and direction from B; it must be love
Humor
Domestic Fluff
camping trip
Canon-typical shenanigans

The Captain is my favorite, but only just barely because I love all the characters so much. I love the idea of him coming out accidentally or on purpose. I love his friendship with Kitty, how well he and Pat get on most of the time, Julian and Robin together, Alison and Mike and all the ghosts, and really anything you want to come up with.

I'll be tickled with any characters you want to write in any combo, nommed or not, if none of the specific tags inspire you.

Some prompts:

I adore The Captain's friendship and kinship with Pat. I am happy with friendship or deeper feelings starting to show themselves. I just love how they interact on the show. Give them a secret Morse Code in-joke or something else to bond over.
The camping! Maybe the Captain and Pat convince Alison to set up a tent for them even when she and Mike don't intend to camp so they can sleep in a tent outdoors do camping things like sit around a small campfire and tell ghost stories (ha). Other ghosts can join them or it can be just the two of them.
I feel like even though Pat gets after him about the war being over he'd be interested in specific stories about the troops and protocols and stuff because it's so similar to scouting, and vice versa. I can see The Captain listening rapt to some camping stories he hasn't heard before. Ghosts can clearly still get spooked, so maybe noises they can't identify bring back memories of boyhood and being with friends and scaring themselves while in the woods or something. Just bonding with or without deeper romantic feelings, that's all.
The Captain slips up and says something to or in front of Pat or Kitty that he immediately regrets (maybe a comment about the handsomeness of someone on TV or in the house) and Pat/Kitty agrees with him,, maybe says something else along those lines, and rolls with it, putting the Captain's fears of anyone knowing to rest.
I really feel like ghosts and humans alike should have made a bigger deal about The Captain jumping on that bomb. Of course he's incorporeal to everything but other ghosts and couldn't be harmed, but he didn't think about that or he wouldn't have bothered to uselessly throw himself on it. He, in essence, was ready to give his life for theirs. I think that act of bravery is surely worthy of some kind of acknowledgement..
He could tell Pat about Havers in a way that Pat figures it out, and it's obvious he has, and it's just a moment of confession and comfort, whether friendshippy or shippy. Maybe The Captain clearly wants to say the truth and has so much trouble with it that Pat encourages him to say what he felt about Havers in Morse Code, because they discovered that everybody absolutely does not know Morse Code, and The Captain is able to say that he loved him that way. I think that would be a sweet and poignant moment.
I want The Captain to continue to give horrible names to things, like their Cocktail Social he called Cock Soc, and Pat to try to get him to stop with no luck.
Julian and Robin outside leaning on each other asleep was a great moment. Any excuse for the two of them to go off alone, and if they get spooked and hang onto each other, okay!
Julian and Robin arguing over chess, maybe Julian isn't quite getting his pieces to the right place or something, a little rivalry. I don't have a lot of specific ideas for them, but I love when they interact.
Julian trying to explain complicated political concepts (an exception to my politics DNW) like trick-down economics or something, and Robin cutting right to the chase, summing it up accurately in a handful of words the way he does, while also explaining why it can't work or is a bad idea with examples from his early life, all while it's as flirtatious as possible.
Kitty and Thomas bonding over her appreciation of his poetry and his sense of romance. Like him reciting new poems to her that are about her, and she gradually figures it out.
Kitty reading a steamy romance novel to him because he's curious, and the page ends before any sexual happens. He's enthralled and recites how he'd write it, and it's obvious he's flirting.
Any of the pairings I chose bickering to the point that they kiss would be great.
Anything flirty and cute between them, especially if it takes one of them a bit to figure it out.
I love the idea of cap flirting with men who can't hear/see him, like the film director. (I meant "live" men when I signed up, and somehow wrote human men. :P They should be that too.) Him following someone around Button House, defending their honor to the others, admiring their skills, having a one-sided conversation, all that's fantastic.

Los Espookys

Renaldo & Andres (Los Espookys)
Renaldo & Andrés & Úrsula & Tati (Los Espookys)

Freeforms:

Character realizes they're asexual and tells best friends. None are surprised.
Platonic support and encouragement
Unquestioning support and acceptance
Group of friends attempt group therapy/support group with each other
Best Friends Have Bad Ideas Together
Character protects friend from their own bad choices
Character gives terrible advice but it all turns out okay
Humor
Canon-typical shenanigans

I'd love a story whether it's Renaldo and Andres or the whole gang. Anything in the spirit of the show.

Some prompts:

Renaldo finally gets to the item on his list about figuring out his sexuality, and he points out to his friends that he’s asexual. They know this and can’t believe he thought they’d be surprised.
They’re hired to create a haunt and discover something actually spooky going on. They can be scared and try to sort things out or run, or maybe they see it as some kind of a challenge and try to out-haunt the real ghosts. I can see Renaldo, especially, feel like it's a point of pride to hang in there and do the better, creepier job.
Maybe an actual ghost or demon they uncover helps them make a situation scarier and becomes a sort of sidekick all the while dropping hints and threats that it's going to get them when it's over, but of course that doesn't happen and it's humorous instead of scary. A third-rate demon or something incapable of any really harm but with good horror tips.
Anything involving Andrés' parasitic demon. Maybe it wants more than TV entertainment and lets the others in on what he needs to do to satisfy it so they can help. The stupider, the better.
Anything to do with some power Andrés actually has could be fun. The sillier the power and the goofier its purpose, the better. Maybe he can predict who's going to hook up with whom and seem all wise to his friends with his predictions. Maybe he gets insight into how Father Antonio's lips look so glossy and it's a ridiculous sequence of events no one would guess, or he's addicted to flavored sparkly lips gloss you roll on with the ball and it's a secret shame.
Úrsula dating someone and he can see they're not really human or possessed or just a total shit so they have to break that up could be fun, too.
The neighbor girl who wanted to sleep with Renaldo who ended up sleeping with Úrsula instead was fantastic. Another scenario where someone's pursuing Renaldo to end up with her would be great.
I love Renaldo and Andrés as best friends who are happiest together. Really any story that has them all being best pals, everything to each other, and protecting each other from their worse instincts.
Really any story that contains one or more of Tati’s terrible summarized “written audiobooks” with ridiculous plots would be great. Maybe she and Andrés collaborate on one that ends up with their Mary Sue characters and not much else, almost like superhero fan fiction of themselves with powers that fit what each of them most want.

The Tick

Dorothy "Dot" Everest/Overkill (The Tick)

Freeforms:

Character's hands are injured; their love interest helps.
Character can't control their hands that keep reaching for their love interest
Character A turned on by character B's total badassery and can't hide it
Awkward Flirting
Normally overconfident character A takes advice and direction from B; it must be love
A terrible first date that makes both of them happy anyway
Character A confesses feelings to B when they think death is imminent. Oops they live.
Sweet but almost unintelligible confession of feelings
You're good at ass-kicking and that's hot
First Kiss
Thank god you're alive/we're alive! kissing
Thank god you're alive/we're alive! sex
Canon-typical shenanigans

I love Overkill's strong, silent bit and Dot's more optimistic outlook. I just want flirting, sexual tension, and getting togetherness. It doesn't have to end in a kiss or sex, but I'd love if there's at least promise for the future.

References to past canonical Overkill/Ms. Lint are fine, especially in a humorous light, like the way Dot told them they both needed therapy after witnessing her "torturing" him. Ha! I also really love Arthur & Tick (or Arthur/Tick) so feel free to include them or other characters if you want.

Some prompts:

Awkward flirting or an awkward first date! Does Overkill try hard to do the traditional thing and they're both miserable, but it ends up fun anyway (maybe they change tack). Or maybe he takes her somewhere they can shoot targets or throw knives or something and she thinks they're just training but he thinks it's a date. What does romance look like for each of them? I think there are a lot of great scenarios that could come out of their vastly different worldviews and Overkill's emotional repression.
I like the idea of Overkill being hesitant to have an actual relationship since he's canonically so uncomfortable with being vulnerable, and I would love for him to be vulnerable as things get more intense (and sexual if you want to go there) between them. At a certain point, he can get past that and go all in, and be growly and needy and a bit more aggressive. \o/
A situation where either is hurt and the other comforting them and taking care of them. Things can get sexual or not!
Desperate kissing after defying death and/or saving each other that makes them realize things and leads to more (or not), all good stuff
Laughing and having a good time (though maybe mostly Dot, but him feeling the same even if he doesn't show it as much), and their first really romantic or sexual encounter just being a feel-good happy thing, I'm on board with that. I love the idea of Dot drawing him out of his lonewolf cave.
Overkill being totally blown way by how badass she is? Yes, please. Whether it's her kicking villain's asses in any scenario, intellectually stomping someone or rescuing him.
Maybe Dot takes charge and asks him on an official date, and while he's uncomfortable and a little awkward about it, he obviously wants to be with her, so he agrees.
I really like the idea of one thinking the other has been killed, all the things unsaid and undone and feeling such loss and grief, and the elation on finding them okay being the catalyst for more.
Overkill making his moves after seeing someone else flirting with Dot would be good, too. Pining and jealousy fic as long as feelings are revealed in the end and they're going to be together? I'm good! Dot goes on a date (or he thinks she does) and it makes him absolutely crazy, preferably with an unexpected kiss at some point because he just can't hold back anymore.
Overkill's cyborg hands going haywire would be a great scenario. Either because he keeps grabbing her and hanging on despite not trying to, or because someone's controlling his hands to try to kill her (or him) and he's trying to fight that. Also his hands going haywire so Dot has help him do things like eat or something would be good. There are so many possibilities!

Things I Like

Friendship, found families, loyalty, love, deep emotional connections, devotion, displays of affection and respect
Third person POV
Flirting, pining, UST and getting together fic
Possessiveness and a little jealousy
Missing scenes and fix-its, as well as case-fic and plotty stories
Protectiveness and characters sacrificing their own comforts to help others
Mutual pining with a happy ending, unrequited love finally realized
Hurt/comfort, especially after a nightmare, tending wounds, caring for them when they're ill or injured, hovering after something traumatic and trying to take their mind off things
Tropes like only one bed and every other possible bedsharing scenario, fake couple/marriage leading to real romance, forced proximity and bonus if there’s peril
First kiss, first times, first realization of feelings
Humor, snark and banter, laughing and joking with each other
Happy or at the very least ambiguously hopeful endings

Sex-Related Likes

Porn with feelings and emotional or romantic sex
Dubcon when requested
Desperate kisses and one or both partners overwhelmed with passion and feelings
Manhandling and displays of strength, up against the wall sex
Kneeling (any reason but especially for oral sex or to kiss knees or thighs or anything like that, grand)
Penetrative sex, oral sex, fingers, frottage, mutual masturbation or one watching the other
Naked and half-naked or one clothed and the other naked, basically any combo of clothed/not clothed
Necking, petting, face and neck and body stroking, kissing and/or sucking or licking pretty much anywhere
I really like up against the wall, taken from behind, and one riding the other, but any positions are fine
Thank god you're/we're alive sex
One character being suddenly so overcome with feeling and desire for the other they kiss them and initiate things out of the blue, like they can't wait another second--love those big music swell moments
When requested or present in canon, hair-pulling or ass-slapping in the heat of the moment
With appropriate pairings, like vampires, blood drinking and/or licking blood off the other’s mouth, face, neck, etc. can’t go wrong. With vampires, blood doesn't fall under my bodily fluid DNW.
I like stories with no sex, fade-to-black, or full-on smut, so write whatever level you prefer. I like at least as much if not more focus on the emotions as on what body part goes where.

Do Not Want (DNW)

I have exceptions and qualifications for DNWs in certain cases and will mention those specifically in my requests.

Anything related to COVID19 or politics
AUs except canon divergence
Major character death, disabling or fatal illness or injury
Self-harm and suicide
Unhappy or bleak endings
Script format/only dialogue
1st and 2nd person POV
Original character or unrequested character POV
Unrequested gender and sexuality headcanons
Cruelty to animals or animal death
Infidelity and friend/partner betrayal
Holiday stories
Unrequested crossovers
Speculative elements (ghosts, aliens, sex pollen) in non-speculative canons
Kidfic, pregnancy or birth

Sex-Related DNWs

Non-con
Underage
BDSM, D/s and/or consent negotiations
Generic dirty talk, calling someone slut, whore or other names
Mommy/Daddy kink
Sex toys
Sexual pain and torture, hitting, suffocating, dehumanization, humiliation, even if consensual
Anything related to or focusing on body fluids, secretions or wastes, including spitting and come play, though sweaty sex is fine

To clarify on the serious illness or injury, referencing canon trauma is fine but someone having an amputation, stroke or a life-threatening non-canon disease, or developing any mental disorders like schizophrenia, is a big no.

Injuries and illnesses that can heal are fine, like someone getting shot in a casefic or having the flu or broken bones, for instance.

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