Darkest Night 2017

Hey there, dear writer!

I hope you’ll find this letter useful – I’ve gone ahead and listed some prompts/ideas for my requested fandoms, but please don’t think they’re the be-all end-all. If you’ve got something else in mind already or have an idea for something completely different, go right ahead and do that instead! I’m looking forward to reading whatever you come up with :D (Similarly, the lengths of the different sections do not in any way correlate to my enthusiasm for said fandom/characters, just with how well I was able to condense my thoughts.)

Likes:

Dubious consent,  banter, us against the world, moral conflicts, pragmatic characters, competence, horror, cosmic horrors – the more grotesque and inhuman the better, things getting destroyed in totally over-the-top ways, action scenes and battles, trust and trust issues, power dynamics/power imbalance, dysfunctional/codependent relationships, ambiguous or downright unhappy endings, breathplay/choking, worldbuilding

 

DNWs:

pregnancy/mpreg/kidfic, A/B/O, mundane AUs, overly graphic descriptions of bodily fluids other than blood

Alan Wake
Thomas Zane/the Dark Presence

Conflicts have worn them down, Cosmic Horror, Eldritch Abomination, Dream Invasion, Possession, Mind Games, Hallucinations, Imprisonment, Loneliness, Person thinks they can’t say no to sex

What’s it like, at the bottom of Cauldron Lake? There’s all these hints that it’s not really a lake at all, but if it’s not a lake, and perhaps not even an ocean, then . . .? In-game we got an idea of what was like for Alan, but how awful is that place when you’ve been there for years and years? Tom has been stuck down there for a long time now, and the Dark Presence has been there even longer – how does Tom cope, being imprisoned there with the very thing that took his wife from him? (The thing that now wears his wife’s form, in the world outside of the lake?)

 

In the game he says that he can keep the Dark Presence at bay, but only briefly; what happens when, at the bottom of the lake, he has no more power left? What’s the Dark Presence like, in the heart of its own realm? I’ve always read it as a bit incomprehensible and Cthulhu-like, but really there’s so much room to go wild here! Does the Dark Presence taunt Tom, does it wear the faces of all the different people he knows that it has manipulated and taken over in order to try and break him down – Emil Hartman, Barbara, other people from Tom’s Bright Falls?

 

Blindsight
Jukka Sarasti

Architectural Horror, Abandoned in Space, Mind Games, Sentient Evil Spaceships, Space Horror, Things no one talks about, Mind Meld

SPACE VAMPIRES. And also, like, space horror and ruminations on consciousness and sentience and what it means to be human. But SPACE VAMPIRES were definitely one of the highlights of the novel.

What was Sarasti’s life like before he got put on a ship en-route to the Oort Cloud? Was there a life? And why did he get put onto the mission in the first place – he’s a vampire, yes, but why him? What would have happened if he had gone into Rorschach? He’s a vampire, so how would being inside Rorschach have affected him – would it have affected him at all? What if he’d gone exploring, instead of the rest of the crew? What would he have seen, how would Rorschach have reacted?

I’d also be super down for any kind of look into what was up with Sarasti and the Captain. What’s it like having only an AI be on the same level as you, both intellectually and consciousness-wise? How far did the Sarasti-Captain meld really go – just what was going on there? (Before the Captain killed him and openly melded with him, I mean.) If you want to go straight-up body horror with this, feel absolutely free!

 

Demonata Series
Lord Loss & Death

Bad Guys Win, Betrayal, Conflicted Loyalties, Cosmic Horror, Deception, Self-Sacrifice

The two main antagonists of the series, and yet they never properly interact on-page! So: what was their relationship actually like? Death being a sentient force of entropy and all, why exactly did he team up with Lord Loss of all people? Was it because of his connection to Bec and the Kah-Gash, was there something else going? What exactly was going through Lord Loss’ head when he decided to support Bec and betray Death? And how did Lord Loss deal with Death residing in Bec’s body, how did he react to Death bringing Juni back from the dead? Just. I would love any kind of interaction between them.

What would things be like in a world where Death made it to the Old Creatures’ Ark, what would have happened if Bec’s plan had failed? Would Lord Loss have still tried to go against Death, would he have tried to come up with some other way to set things back to the status quo, or would he have given in and –however reluctantly – thrown his lot in with Death completely?

Kill Six Billion Demons
Incubus/Jagganoth, Mottom

Dubious Consent, Grand Schemes Gone Wrong, Hatesex, Manipulative Masochism, Mind Games, Pyrrhic Victory, Power Imbalance, Body Horror

Incubus/Jagganoth

Incubus proving himself to be the king of bad life decisions, news at 11.

Unholy alliances are my jam, so I’d be super interested in why exactly these two decided to ally up. Who approached who, what were the terms, what were the circumstances? Incubus seems to be mainly in it to screw over the other Demiurges (but why go to Jagganoth, of all people?), but what exactly is Jagganoth, a dude so powerful the other six had to team up to stalemate him during the first war, getting out of allying with him? The power differential there is ridiculous, is all I’m saying.

Plus, all the potential for manipulation and backstabbing and the consequences of that! Is the sex part of the initial deal, or yet another way to try and keep an eye and some control over the other party – or both? (If you feel like going all out on the ridiculous size difference between them there, you have not only my blessing but my encouragement!) And what happens when Incubus realizes that he's in way over his head?

Mottom

For Nadia I’m really interested in aaaall the body horror tropes. She killed her husband, and now she has to deal with eating the fruits that grow from his corpse in order to stay young and not wrinkly? That’s got to suck on so many levels. Was the fruit always that short-lasting? How exactly did Nadia figure out that she had to eat dead body fruits to stay young, what was it like the first time she decided to take a bite?

Plus, proper horror in having to figure out a way to kill her husband before she herself ends up as just another statue down in his cellar – before Nadia killed him, Hastet Om was a Demiurge, with all the power and general creepiness that comes with that. And then of course afterwards, dealing with the fact that not only did she kill her husband, but now she has to feed him even more young girls in order to survive herself.

Basically, go wild with all the horror and creepiness you can think of, whether it’s of the body horror, suspense, psychological horror or whatever else variety.

Hope you have fun :D