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lostinthewinterwood · 4 years

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Chocolate Box Letter 2020

Dear Chocolatier…

Thank you for writing for me! I hope you find inspiration, if you need it, somewhere in this letter, but either way, good luck with your writing!

(some of the prompts are… rambly and disjointed; the lengths vary wildly, but dw I love them all. I hope the rambly ones still make sense; this letter is uhhh almost 3k and my brain is Tired.)

General DNWs:

Rape/non/dub-con; non-canonical major character death*; smut/graphic sex scenes; heavy angst; hurt no comfort; graphic depictions of deliberate and methodical self-harm**; graphic depictions of suicide; gore; heavy gender dysphoria; grimdark; complete downer endings; character bashing; incest; cringe comedy; a/b/o; mpreg; full setting AUs (canon-divergence, even significant canon-divergence, is fine); graphic eye trauma; graphic and/or permanent hand trauma (unless the setting can provide a more-or-less fully functional prosthetic or equivalent); issuefic.

*exceptions noted below.

**I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. however, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

General Likes:

I like family/friendship stories, things that play with canon in interesting ways, honestly… a lot of things. I don’t know. articulating things I like is hard.

I’m an absolute sucker for identity porn/secret/mistaken identity drama, as well as non-sexualized/non-fetishized crossdressing (either direction, and especially if for plot-relevant disguise purposes!) and if you combine them, well, I’ll be a very happy camper.

Other things I like include wriggling into canon and exploring something left unexplored by said canon, what-if stories featuring some sort of canon divergence, and plotty fic, if you want to write something long enough for that to be relevant.

Order of fandoms:

· Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

· Super Powereds – Drew Hayes

· Tortall – Tamora Pierce

· Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)

· The Dragon Prince (Cartoon)

· Frozen (Disney Movies)

· Little Women (2019)

· Original Prompts

· Crossovers

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rey & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy)

So uh I may be having a slight case of Feels™ over these two, though tbh I’m not entirely sure what those feelings are exactly. I don’t know what exactly I’d most want, though I’d be interested in explorations of their evolving emotions in relation to each other, especially through Kylo Ren/Ben’s whole death/rebirth thing. What-ifs are another thing; what if, say, Ben didn’t die? What happens, then, since they’d have to actually deal with what he’s done? Feel free to retcon the kiss (which I thought was rather devoid of chemistry; in general their dynamic came across to me more as weirdly sibling-ish, especially after the Death Star duel) to a hug or something, if you want.

If you want to go to a lighter place, I can also see all sorts of shenanigans emerging after they discover their Force-teleportation skills.

Also feel free to retcon Rey’s parentage, if that is where your heart takes you: might she be Luke’s secret child? Leia’s? A descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi and, say, Satine Kryze?

Apart from that I’d prefer no full-setting AUs; canon divergence is fine, and if you go that route you can pick a divergence point as far back as you want.

Feel free to include whatever other characters are necessary for the story you want to tell.

(And also do keep in mind that you can absolutely cut off someone’s hand here, or for the Star Wars crossover farther down; in this franchise it is a goddamn motif.)

Super Powereds – Drew Hayes

Adam Riley & George Russel | Relentless Steel (Super Powereds)

I’m utterly fascinated by the relationship these two have; the interplay of Adam’s… vendetta, maybe? I’m not sure what the right word for it is… and the fact that George also serves him as a mentor/almost-parental, in some ways, figure. And, you know, that Adam (maybe) kills him. We don’t actually see that; for all we know he made a different choice.

Consider this an exception to my “non-canonical MCD” DNW, since it’s deliberately ambiguous in canon; you can kill George, if that’s where your muse takes you.

Alice Adair | Legacy & Vince Reynolds | Jack of All (Super Powereds)

Their friendship/cousin relationship is Wholesome and I love it. Any point in the timeline, post-canon, all of it is Good and Welcome. Do they form a legacy children/villains’ kids club? They’re secret cousins; untangling the mess that is the past; so much juicy juicy stuff to work with!!

Phillip Adair | Globe & Charles Adair | Alchemist (Super Powereds)

Brother vs brother! O the drama! But also, they grew up together; they were once best friends; and Charles grew hard and it all fell apart—give me their childhood, maybe, or HCP years or young heroes before Shelby’s powers grew too much for her, or lean into the tragedy of what comes later…

Tortall – Tamora Pierce

Numair Salmalín | Arram Draper & Varice Kingsford (Tortall)

Numair Salmalín | Arram Draper & Varice Kingsford & Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe (Tortall)

Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe & Numair Salmalín | Arram Draper (Tortall)

Varice Kingsford & Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe (Tortall)

I love these kids, okay? And I wish they could all just… be okay. But of course they won’t be; we already know what becomes of them, after all.

There’s a lot to explore here, with these three in their varying combinations of course. Right now I’m most interested in the pre-Wild Magic timeline—what was Varice and Ozorne’s dynamic before Arram came along? what little snippets of things happen offscreen during the timeline of Tempests and Slaughter? how does Arram gain his black robe; how does Ozorne feel about that? Varice? how does Numair end up in exile, and how do the others feel about that whole affair?—but really I’d also be interested in something set during or around the time of Emperor Mage, from any of their POVs. We get all the story there from Daine, who is great! but she doesn’t know the history between the three of them, not intimately as they do, and I’d love any of their emotional reactions to being together again under such strained circumstances, so many years after everything fell apart.

Numair Salmalín & Myles of Olau (Tortall)

He was on a mission, was he not, when he became that hawk at the beginning of Wild Magic? (please ignore if I am Wrong there.) So how did they meet? Why did Numair become an agent? All sorts of questions, here…

Prince Stiloit Tasikhe & Varice Kingsford (Tortall - Pierce)

Stiloit seems so… calm, and level-headed, especially when compared with Ozorne who is not. And he clearly finds Varice interesting, and her company valuable. So maybe tell me something about that—what does he think of her? She of him? What if, perhaps, he didn’t die when he does?

Keladry of Mindelan & Nealan of Queenscove (Tortall)

They have a BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP and also ye gods when I reread First Test at like 19 (having first read it at 10) I was struck by how very, very fifteen Neal is in that book and it’s hilarious. But more seriously—Neal’s PoV on things would be fantastic, since we only see him through Kel’s eyes and he doesn’t let her see everything about himself.

Keladry of Mindelan & Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak (Tortall - Pierce)

What a beautiful mentorship relationship, I love them. Also, how does Raoul feel about this open girl page? Who’s so determined, and has such potential in how she could become more, in an area he knows about (that being military command)—how does he feel about her, living her best life; how does he contextualize it in his intimate knowledge that Alanna could not do what she is doing—and yet it was Alanna, with her deception, who allowed this to be.

Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Numair Salmalín

The renowned lady knight-healer-mage and the black robe on the run from Carthak! How did they meet, anyway? They’re something like the same age, I think, or at least he’s no more than ten years her junior.

Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Thom of Trebond (Tortall - Pierce)

My poor Important Destiny Twins… Look I just, I want some content with poor Thom, right? I’d rather here that we set the story before his death, or that we make it an AU where he gets to live.

Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)

Shadowsan & Hideo (Carmen Sandiego 2019)

There’s… so little of this stated or shown overtly, really, but I’m fascinated. I can’t get over it. Just tell me about the brothers, please.

The Dragon Prince (Cartoon)

Runaan/Ethari & Rayla (The Dragon Prince)

Family fluff! Or angst! Or turn round and give them a reunion! All depends on where in the timeline you pick, really.

(there’s a fic on ao3 with the tag “this fanfiction written by the ETHARI LOOK IN THE FUCKING WATER gang” and honestly that is just such a mood.)

Amaya & Sarai (The Dragon Prince)

…I don’t have much to say here really, just that I love me some sibling dynamics.

Callum & Ezran (The Dragon Prince)

A king by birthright, a prince only by adoption, who by age/maturity would probably be better-suited to ruling… look idk just, bros okay???

Maybe something when they were younger, or canon-era, or… idk I love them.

Callum & Ezran & Rayla (The Dragon Prince)

Friendship! Angst! The gang’s all here! If you want you can include rayllum but for this prompt at least I’d rather it be lowkey.

Claudia & Soren (The Dragon Prince)

I am heartbroken over these kids and just—I need more content with them. Even if it makes me sad.

Callum & King Harrow (The Dragon Prince)

There are a lot of complicated feelings I have about them—how clearly Harrow loves his stepson, and how even after more than a decade, Callum still isn’t quite comfortable with his stepfather.

Frozen (Disney Movies)

Agnarr/Iduna (Frozen)

How did they get together? Why does Iduna stay with Agnarr; why doesn’t she just go home? How does that revelation conversation go—when does it happen? How do they come to decide to block Elsa’s powers; when/how do they decide to sail for Ahtohallan?

Kristoff & Ryder Nattura (Frozen)

Reindeer bros!! What did Kristoff do while Anna and Elsa were off doing the plot stuff? Does he go with the Northuldra? I love the dynamic between these two; it’s adorable and there’s so painfully little of it.

Yelena & Mattias (Frozen)

So clearly they know each other, right? It’s been thirty-four years, and they clearly have some sort of sniping thing going on but they don’t seem to be actively antagonistic towards each other. How do they feel about each other, really? How have they interacted in the past? Is there anything there? What about after Mattias goes back to Arendelle?

Anna & Elsa (Frozen)

There is just. There’s a profound tragedy here—they’re best of friends till they’re five and eight or so, then they don’t interact for thirteen years, they have three years together, and then they go off together to the Enchanted Forest and Elsa doesn’t come back to live in Arendelle, while Anna must return… I don’t know. Tell me about that, maybe. Or give me sweet fluff about them as children. Or something.

Anna/Kristoff (Frozen)

They’re adorable and I love them and I really just want more. Maybe something from between the movies—how do they navigate forming a relationship, when he was raised by trolls and she’s been so isolated?

Little Women (2019)

Amy March/Theodore Laurence (Little Women 2019)

…I don’t know, they’re cute, Laurie is a disaster, I love seeing Amy grow up, I hunger for moar content with them.

Beth March & Mr. Laurence (Little Women 2019)

This has a lot of potential for cute/sad father/daughter dynamics, I think! And I’d love more of it.

Friedrich Bhaer & Josephine March (Little Women 2019)

Friedrich Bhaer/Josephine March (Little Women 2019)

I just want cute content with Jo and her dynamic with this man who actually respects her and her writing okay? Maybe something like, I don’t know, navigation of boundaries around Jo’s writing and his criticism thereof… I don’t know. Have fun with them. And I really don’t care if it’s shipfic or not.

Theodore "Laurie" Laurence & Josephine March (Little Women 2019)

Theodore Laurence & Josephine March (Little Women 2019)

Laurie is still a disaster but I love him anyway, and their friendship is sweet, and I need more content™.

Original Prompts

In general: I’m not super picky about how shippy the shipfic gets; most of the ship prompts here would, I think, work as well for gen, excepting the suitor and the princess (which is not to say I’m asking that it be gen, obviously I’m not, but if your muse takes you that direction then go for it). Likes I put up top still apply down here.

In terms of settings, I especially like high fantasy, space fantasy, or, if relevant, Classic Superhero City Setting, but I’m open to just about anything.

I’m also not tremendously picky about the genders of the characters involved; if it isn’t stated within the prompt, go wild, but please do stick to standard English pronouns; I have a lot of difficulty reading things with neopronouns.

Most of these pairings are prompts in and of themselves, but I’ll add in some bits of commentary for each one.

Disgraced Vampire Queen Moonlighting As A Barista/Exhausted Vampire Hunter In Search Of Caffeine

Okay, so I just think this has great potential for absolute hilarity, and identity shenanigans aplenty.

Dragon & Human Child (Original Work)

I love dragons. I love playing with dragon-lore, though here I’d appreciate it being a relationship wherein the dragon is not evil, at least not to the child.

Female Crossdressing General/Female Crossdressing Enemy General (Original Work)

So uh from my general likes, it should be… fairly obvious what called to me here lmao. But there’s such potential here! The drama! Do they know each others’ real gender? Do they know that they’re on opposing sides? How does this romance across the battlefield work? Is it even across the battlefield—are they at war, or just generally enemies?

Female Failed Chosen One & Female New Chosen One

Such delicious depths to delve here… why did the first one fail? What’s her relationship with her successor? What have they been chosen for? The setup of this makes me think that the failed chosen one is an adult of some age that’s distinctly older than the new one, who I’ve been imagining as an older child or young adult, but you should follow your muse there.

Female Ship's Captain & Grumpy Stowaway Orphan Rebel

What kind of ship are they on, anyway? Sailing ship? Spaceship? What’s the orphan rebelling against—an Evil Empire? The Man? Something else?

Female Suitor Sent As An Insult To Ruling Monarchs/Princess Uninterested In Male Suitors

This seems like… I don’t know, there’s just such potential for dancing around each other and Misunderstandings™ about what’s going on. Is this the princess’s Gay Awakening? Has she known for a while why she’s not into the male suitors? Why was this female suitor selected for the insult?

Injured Male Superhero/Male Supervillain Who Saves His Life

I love superhero identity shenanigans, and ambiguous morals, and I’d love to dive into the emotional turmoil that results from this rescue decision—why does the supervillain do it? How does the hero feel about being saved by his enemy?

Musician/Dancer with magical powers (Original Work)

Another trope I love that I didn’t mention before is magic music and magical arts in general, so this here is right up my alley.

Portal Fantasy Protagonist & Their Mentor In A Trade Useful In Both Worlds (Original Work)

…Look, idk man this is just sweet and wholesome and I Want.

Retired Male Superhero/Male Supervillain Who Keeps Seeking Him Out Because He Misses Him

Is this not just the plot of Megamind? In all seriousness, though, I feel about the same here as I do in the injury situation; I love me some hero/villain dynamics in general.

Witch & Witch's Apprentice

Mentor and student! Always a fun time. I’m picturing this as some pseudo-historical or straight alternate-world setting more than modern, but follow your muse here.

Wounded Werewolf/Female Apprentice Witch who Begrudgingly Rescues him (OW)

Honestly I feel like the dynamic here will probably scratch the same itch that the hero/villain pairings do. Clearly I have a Type.

Crossovers

Oliver Queen (DC's Arrowverse) & Matt Murdock (Daredevil(TV))

Local Vigilante Man With Many Issues Meets Counterpart From Another Universe would be the headline here, probably. I don’t know. I think they’d be fun to bounce off each other.

For reference though I haven’t watched all of either show: I’ve seen the first four seasons of Arrow in their entirety and some of what comes later, and I’ve seen the first two seasons of Daredevil. You can reference later events, I’m not currently really following either show and am not particularly worried about spoilers, but without some degree of context I’ll be fairly lost.

Shmi Skywalker (SWPT) & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (SWST)

How do these two meet? Is it time travel nonsense? Shmi as a Force ghost? Both of them in the afterlife? And if it’s before Ben’s redemption but after his Fall, I do rather hope she’s Disappointed™ in him.

Vince Reynolds | Jack of All (Super Powereds) & Midoriya Izuku (My Hero Academia)

Look. Look. All I have ever wanted since I started watching My Hero Academia (which… I haven’t seen much of, but don’t worry about spoilers I legitimately do not care) is to see Vince meet with the character who I immediately internally dubbed tiny green Vince. How did this happen? Frankly I neither know nor care. I just want to see it happen.

Thank you for writing me fic!!

#chocolate box #chocobox #exchange letters #chocolate box letter #chocolate box 2020 #requested: star wars sequel trilogy #requested: super powereds #requested: tortall #requested: carmen sandiego 2019 #requested: the dragon prince #requested: frozen #requested: little women 2019 #requested: original work #requested: crossovers #requested: star wars

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Circus Children

Hey, so, it’s three in the morning when I’m writing this and I can’t see straight, but I need to finish a thing and this was my procrastination. You’ll find I do that a lot. Heh, but regardless, I hope you enjoy this story. I think I did good for three in the morning on a school night.

Anne crept into the dark room, Phillip close behind her. She approached the far bed, while Phillip turned once in the doorway to face the other one. Anne sat on the edge of the bed as fast as she could, putting as much pressure as her body would let her on the edge. Nothing. No sign of movement from the sleeping body. Anne rolled her eyes and looked over at Phillip. His situation was similar, the body didn’t react. Anne poked the nose of the body, receiving not even a groan of displeasure. With a huff, Anne stood up and moved toward the front of the bed, where the pillow lay, the sleeping head of a little girl placed on top of it. Anne leaned in closer to the face, blowing on it gently, yet still receiving no response.

“She’s out cold,” she muttered, just loud enough for Phillip to hear.

“Yeah,” he agreed. “So is he. He won’t even budge.”

Anne placed her hand on the little girl’s shoulder, shaking it gently. “Minnie. Minnie. Minnie!” She finally woke the girl up, who’s chocolate brown eyes began fluttering after the last time her name was called. Anne smiled, kissing the girl on her forehead. “Get up, and get dressed. Today we’re going somewhere special.”

“Special?” Minnie inquired, sitting up in her small bed.

“That’s right.”

“And what is this special place?” Phillip had woken the boy across the room, who rubbed his eyes with his dark hands.

“You’ll see,” Phillip stood up, winking at the boy. “Get up, Phineas. No going back to sleep!”

Anne could hear Phineas’ groans as they left the room, leaving the kids to get ready for the day themselves. Anne strolled into the kitchen, pouring herself a cold glass of water and taking a sip. Phillip walked in, placing a hand on Anne’s shoulder and another caressing her face.

“Anne, are you sure about this? I mean, what if they-”

Anne took a very long, very audible sip of water to shut Phillip up. She placed the glass on the table once it left her lips and shrugged. “Why not? Phillip, they’ll be fine. They won’t do anything wrong, I mean, they’ve met Charles and Lettie. What can they say?”

Phillip sighed, placing a pale hand on his forehead. “Yes, but that’s Charles and Lettie. What about Leo?”

“Leo? Everyone loves Leo. Leo lives up to his nickname. He is quite literally a dog boy for more reasons than one. They’ll love him.”

“Constantine?”

“Constantine is literally a piece of art. I remember teaching them to appreciate art. Honestly, Philip, why are you so worried?”

“It’s just… they’ve never been to the circus before. Sure, they’ve met some of the people, but not all of them. I’m just-”

“And what were their reactions to meeting the people that they met?”

Phillip sighed. “Positive.”

“Exactly, now if you don’t mind…”

Minnie bounced in as Anne finished her glass of water and placed it on the table. She picked up the small, six year old girl, kissing her nose affectionately. The girl giggled as her mother placed her back down onto the ground. Phillip grinned, looking at Minnie.

“What’s the special place?” She asked, childlike innocence filling her voice.

“Wait till your brother gets in here.” Anne replied.

Minnie groaned. “But Phin takes so long to get ready.”

Phillip laughed. He kneeled down to the height of the girl, placing his strong hand on her shoulder. “He’ll be done soon. You’ll see. And let me tell you, it’s very a special place and you are going to love it.”

He kissed the girl on the forehead and stood up to kiss Anne on her forehead too. Anne giggled, her face growing warm as she playfully swatted Phillip away.

They waited a few minutes, listening to Minnie talk about her school until Phineas finally stumbled in, finally dressed. Finally ready for the day.

“There you are!” Minnie cried. “See, I told you, he takes forever!”

Phin muttered something, too shy to actually say it loud enough for his parents to hear. Phillip beckoned Phineas over to the table. He sat both kids down, looking them in their innocent eyes as Anne walked up next to him, turning her head to face the young children.

“Kids,” Anne began, her voice quivering with excitement, “are you ready to go to the circus?”

The kids squealed. Their whole lives, they had never been to the circus, even though their parents worked there. They always made up some excuse as to why they never brought them, but now they thought they were old enough to go.

“Alright,” Phillip said. “Let’s go to the circus!”

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A squeal arose from Alma, the golden woman, who had always seemed to love kids. She was a caring woman, gentle. Sweet. She joined the circus for her flair for show business and ended up often being the person who stood at the exit, thanking people for coming to see the show. She was always there, people loved her, but she was mainly there because she loved seeing all of the kids. She was always good with them, even better than she was with adults, which was hard to beat. She had to be one of the sweetest people Anne and Phillip knew.

She rushed over to the family, greeting the kids immediately. The kids smiled, answering every question Alma had politely. Anne elbowed Phillip in the rib. Phillip rolled his eyes sarcastically and wrapped an arm around Anne’s waist.

“See?” Anne whispered to her husband.

Phillip grunted. “Yeah, alright, you win this round.”

Anne kissed Phillip on the cheek as sort of a passive aggressive gesture. He rolled his eyes dramatically then looked at her with a slight grin. Anne giggled.

“Anne! Phillip!” They turned around to see Lettie walking towards them with Charles and DW at her sides. “You finally gave in and brought the little ones to the circus?”

“Yeah,” Anne looked at Phillip. He scoffed.

“Finally,” Charles laughed, “somebody my own size!”

“Yeah,” DW chimed in. “Do you think you’ll teach Minnie over there to trapeze.”

Phillip and Anne have a response at the exact same time, both of them the complete opposite of each other’s.

“Absolutely,” Anne said.

“Never,” Phillip hissed.

They flicked their heads to look at each other.

DW started to chuckle, while Lettie was laughing hard.

“Well, you better figure something out,” WD chuckled.

The three left to meet the kids while Anne and Phillip continued to look at each other.

“You know I’ll get her to even without your permission, right?” Anne giggled.

Phillip stared her down for a moment before giving up and sighing. “Yeah. But, be safe with her. Make sure she won’t get hurt.”

“Are you kidding me, Carlyle? I’m the safest person on Earth!”

#the greatest showman #the greatest show #tgs #phillip carlyle #anne wheeler #anne x phillip #carlwheeler

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