Darkest Night 2019 Letter

[seinmit]

My ao3 if you want to investigate: https://archiveofourown.org/users/seinmit

Hello! Thank you for writing for me, I’m very excited. In general, your brief should be to write the best story you can. I like a bunch of different things and a lot of different takes on characters. Don’t feel constrained by any of the prompts here and feel free to mix and match the freeform tags.

General Likes: I like characters who are in over their heads and struggling to get their shit done. I like action, angst, and high drama. It is almost impossible to be too melodramatic or intense for me. Some of my favorite stories are those that give badasses time and space to be badasses--complete with loving descriptions of weaponry and cunning plans. I like whump and h/c, I love when my faves get tortured and broken down. I like for those faves to respond with a combination of roaring rampages of revenge and cuddles by those they love. I like when my fave wears black leather and smoke cigarettes and drinks whiskey while contemplating their mortality.

At the same time, I also like stories that are soft and slow and contemplative. I like curling up in a slice of existence and getting to know all the details of daily life. I like fluff, mpreg, soul bonds, found family, and finding spaces for comfort within difficulty. For me, with most of my canons, what I like is the contrast between the drama and the ways they can find small spaces of comfort.

I like characters finding themselves and making choices about what type of person they want to be. I like embracing authentic living and overcoming struggles. I love stories about trauma recovery and the revelation of deep dark secrets. I like struggling against the world that is against you.

I like formal experiments and unusual formats--different tenses, documentation styles, nonlinear storytelling, drabble series. Feel free to go super high concept and to bring in Big Ideas. I like ambition. In general, I want you to tell the story you want to tell and make the choices you need to make in that context.

Weird specific thing I like: male omega parents being referred to as mothers and female alpha parents referred to as fathers.

Shippy Likes: I like friends-to-lovers and even when the ship is enemies-to-lovers, I like for there to be a sense of warm intimacy. I love when the characters are the most important people in the world to each other. I love when there’s a sense of “us against the world,” where they have to put each other first. I love one character going crazy-eyed and deciding to tear down the world for the other one. I like secrets and in-jokes. I have a passionate relationship with the “coming out” scene, where the world or just their friends realizes a relationship is romantic.

Porn Likes: I love porn with feelings, kink, rough sex, D/s, dirty talk, bondage, kink discovery, breeding kink, feminization, objectification, mpreg, praise kink, xeno/non-human sex, tentacles, humiliation, hair pulling, comeplay, inflation, marathon sex until it hurts, public sex, gangbangs, unrealistically high sex drives, and more. I’m pretty kinky and into most types of kink fic. For an established ship, I’d like for the kink to grow out of love, though I don’t need complicated negotiations of the scene happening actually in the fic. I love A/B/O and D/s universes.

Darkfic Likes: government conspiracies, torture, kidnapping, evil versions of characters, twisted versions of shippy relationships, monsters, being captured as a breeder, unspeakable eldtrich horror, self-sacrifice, being forced to sacrifice yourself for your partner, being forced to watch your partner sacrifice themselves for you, shared capture and torture, being totally broken down and accepting one’s status as an object, grooming, manipulation, gaslighting, sinister authority figures taking advantage of power, going on the run, making a last stand, mind control, forced sex work, sexual slavery, forced feminization, public use, dehumanization, sex addiction, mental conditioning, bestiality

DNW: mundane AUs, “littles,” unrequested poly relationships with requested ships, children being called “pups,” scat.

Specific Requests:

Captain America (Movies) - G: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

I will love almost anything dark with these two that has their relationship as part of it. Some ideas to play with. In general, I prefer sexualized torture happening to Bucky while Steve watches, but I am not at all locked on that-- there would be something great about Bucky being the one to watch Steve undergo something like he had to deal with. One thing is that I would like Bucky--and Steve for that matter--to stay dangerous to his captors, even as he is being tortured and abused by them. I love when he’s feral, even in cases where he is conditioned to obey. Think more: snapping abused dog, less helpless child.

Please have the story go AU sometime before IW, but it can also be divergent from canon at any point, as long as the characters keep roughly their canon powers.

Ideas:

Both Steve and Bucky are captive together -- possibly they both fall of the train, possibly this happens post-TWS. They undergo torture. Maybe Steve has to watch Bucky fall into old patterns of subservience and obedience that he has worked so hard to get out of. Maybe they are being used against each other. Maybe the bad guys have won and the whole world is a dystopian Nazi hellhole, with Captain America as the biggest prize.

Bucky emerges from his experience at Hydra totally addicted to sex and using violent, degrading sex as a coping mechanism. He doesn’t know how to relate to people except through sexual service. Maybe he hides this from Steve, as they try to pick up their relationship again. Maybe he cheats on Steve with outrageous numbers of people, looking for fulfilment. Maybe Steve knows about it and is struggling to deal. For this one, Bucky can sleep with other named characters, but it shouldn’t end in a threesome: the pairing should still be Steve/Bucky.

Maybe one of them has been kidnapped and the other one has to do horrible and violent things to free them. If it’s Bucky, maybe this additional torture sends him way back in his recovery and Steve has to struggle to cope. Maybe Steve lashes out and gets angry, unable to understand what happened to him.

Maybe one of them turns bad and turns all of his dark, possessive energy on the other one. I’m particularly into the idea of Steve/The Winter Soldier, full assassin mode, competent and dark. Maybe Bucky isn’t quite “bad” or “evil,” but post WS he doesn’t really have a working morality system and Steve has to hold him back from unnecessary violence.

Maybe Bucky is totally feral from his trauma during his time as the Winter Soldier and Steve has to deal with him being insatiable and uncontrollable. This works particularly well with A/B/O.
Maybe Steve takes advantage of residual Hydra Trash conditioning from Bucky. Maybe they never were in a relationship before, and he uses Bucky's sex slave training to get what he's always dreamed about.

Pairing specific DNW: compliance with Endgame ending.

Marvel Cinematic Universe - Group: Erik Killmonger/T'Challa (MCU)

I love, love, love this ship, but I want it done in a kind of twisted way. I want them to have an unhealthy relationship where they at least start out not very good for each other. I am totally fine with a happy ending, where they end up having grown into a functional couple, but I’m fine with it not ending that way, too. I would like both of them to remain reasonably authentic to their canon selves. This means I do not want T’Challa to be a pure villain -- I want him to have good intentions and to be trying hard, but unable to deal with the way Erik refuses his worldview and makes him feel. I want Erik to be bitter and angry and prone to lashing out. I want you to take his politics seriously. They can grow to have affection for each other, but it should be hardwon.

The basic prompt I would like is T’Challa saving Erik against his will and the outcomes of that. He could save him in a bunch of different ways -- ignoring his wishes and rushing him to medical help, time travel, wish on the Tesseract, whatever. Erik could come back normal or Come Back Wrong. There could be time loops where T’Challa tries a million different ways to avert Erik’s death and none of them work.
And, then when Erik survives, they could end up fucking from some sort of magical realism device like sex pollen or just as an unhealthy, angry coping mechanism. I just want to explore the fucked-up dynamic here.

Pairing specific DNW: dark/evil!T’Challa

Doctor Strange (2016) - Stephen Strange

The thing I like about Doctor Strange is all the potential for grand, cosmic level magic and horror. I would like something plotty and high concept here. I love the idea of exploring him having to deal with a cosmic-level threat. I do not have any familiarity with his comics storylines, so feel free to borrow from them at will but do not presume that I will know what you are talking about. I’d love if he had to make hard choices and sacrifice some of his own humanity in order to achieve the greater good.

This could be a fic spelling out his meditation in Infinity War and all the myriad universes he had to imagine in order to find the one where they were able to succeed. It could be totally unrelated. I find him interesting as a character when he is forcibly humbled by things entirely outside of his control and I think the tags I picked here are a variety of plotty ways that could happen.

Fandom specific DNW: porn.

Original Work - Sports Team Sponsors/Rookie Superstar; Sports Coach/Rookie Superstar; Ageing Sports Veteran/Rookie Superstar

All of these pairings are pure id to me. I love the idea of someone young and super talented being taken advantage of by people who are there to profit off of him. I’d prefer this to be M/M, if possible. I definitely want the Rookie Superstar to be male.

I don’t have strong opinions about which sport it is, but I know hockey far and away the best. (Feel free to have the Rookie Superstar be a Sidney Crosby expy, but you don’t have to do that if you do not want to.)
In general, things that turn me on are focused around grooming the less powerful party to be of sexual service. Taking advantage of his eagerness to please and belong in this new circumstance. Making him think that he owes the team service sexually. Maybe even slowly shifting circumstances such that he is more useful to the team for his willingness to suck dick than he is for his skills in [sport]. I also love the idea of him being flattered into doing things that he is uncomfortable with. Alternately, maybe they drug him or get him drunk. Maybe he likes all of this, maybe he doesn’t! I do want him to gain pleasure out of it, if unwilling. It could end up being a type of relief: it is easier to take a cock than it is to have all the pressure of superstardom on your shoulders.

If you want to use fandom specific tropes, maybe he is an omega and they decide to breed him for the good of the team.

Other ideas: fucking him with something they use in the sport, punishing him sexually if he does not perform to perfection in the sport, gangbangs, sharing him around to other teams, a consensual D/s relationship escalating wildly.