Dear Heartbreaker (Wintertime Woes 2024)

Hello, thank you for creating for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms.

 

Most of these are fandoms where I'd be happy to mix and match freeforms, I've elaborated on a few prompts for each fandom, but if you see an idea that strikes you for a different fandom than I've requested, go for it. (The tags I'm interested in for "Debrief" have less overlap with the others.)

 

I opt into Major Character Death and Graphic Descriptions of Violence for all of these, and opt out of Rape/Non-con and Underage. In general I'm not interested in receiving explicit sexual content, but happy with kissing/fade-to-black for / ships!

 

When it comes to unhappy endings, I like "rocks fall, everyone dies;" "due to plot circumstances someone needs to die to save the world," "due to even more contrived circumstances someone needs to kill their friend/partner/comrade-in-arms to save the world," whump and angst! I'm not really interested in endings where the primary unhappiness is "this relationship didn't work out," "this misunderstanding was never resolved," cliffhangers, "nothing matters, what's the point," "we failed and now everything is doomed forever" (although starting the story in a post-apocalyptic/villains have already won setting is great!)

Treats are enabled on Ao3.

Tags for some or all of Animorphs, Farscape, Harry Potter, Star Wars Original Trilogy:

A forced to choose between B and the greater good - chooses greater good because it's what B wants

A promised to kill B in circumstances that until now they thought would never happen

Both/All Of Us Dying Was Always The Plan; Only One Actually Did

Canon Divergence - A Different Character Dies

Canonical Tragic Ending Not Averted - Path to that Ending Explored

Character A Doesn’t Know How To Help Hurt B Because Of Their Nonhuman Biology

Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything

Cradling A Loved One As They Die In Your Arms

Dealing with Death of Closest Friend(s)

Dimensional Travel - Having To Impersonate Alternate Evil Version of Self

Emotional Distress After Meeting An Evil Version Of Yourself From An Alternate Universe

Ensemble cast killed off one by one

Experimented on in an evil lab

Hypothermia

leaving to save the world

Meeting An Evil Version of a Loved One

Realizing the Person You Love Can't Be Redeemed and You Have To Kill Them

Roaring Rampage of Revenge (but it won't bring them back)

Soulmate AU - last words soulmarks

The only way Character A can help Character B is by killing Character B

Time Loops - Breaking the Loop Requires Letting a Loved One Die

Time Travel Fix-It Goes Wrong

Time Travel Plan Fails

Trapped on a deserted space station

Winter Setting Sets Desolate/Ominous Mood

 

Animorphs

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Jake Berenson & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill/Menderash-Postill-Fastill

Solo: Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Tobias

Cassie & Rachel

Jake Berenson & Marco

Jake Berenson/Cassie

Rachel (Animorphs)/Tobias

-Some of the "canon AUs" from book 41, 7, Megamorphs 3 or 4, expanded on further?

-Menderash dealing with the body horror of sacrificing his Andalite self for Ax, and the fallout

-Time-travel shenanigans

-Crayak whisks them off to some horrific death trap planet as part of some deal with the Ellimist
-Jake and Rachel have the talk in book 26 about "your morph is probably the only one that can stop me if the Howler instincts are out of control," what a vibe.

Harry Potter

Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter
Luna Lovegood/Harry Potter
Regulus Black

-Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything: How does Regulus figure out what the Horcruxes are? Does Voldemort have other evil plans that make a lot more sense in retrospect?
-Luna and Harry being imprisoned together in Malfoy Manor seems like a great opportunity for "one of us has to kill the other to prevent a worse fate at the Death Eaters' hands." Maybe the escape plan doesn't work and they're stuck there indefinitely?
-For Cedric/Harry in a GoF timeframe, I'm amused by the idea of them having chemistry and being more interested in helping each other than competing, and everyone else is just like "oh come on" until things go completely off the rails. I'd also be interested in an AU where Cedric survives GoF and he and Harry get together a year or two down the line, but then the war is tragic anyway. Time travel is great for expanding the timeframe in all sorts of ways, but for this request, I'm not interested in "Cursed Child" as canon.

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Bail Organa & Breha Organa & Leia Organa
Leia Organa & Darth Vader
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader
Leia Organa & the Rebel Alliance
Leia Organa/Han Solo
Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker & the Rebel Alliance

-Any of the Skywalker family connections could have come out in (differently) disastrous circumstances! How does the rebellion react, or Alderaan?
-Freezing to death on Hoth?
-Vader doesn't interfere in time to save Luke from Palpatine and has to live with the consequences, or not?
-I'm primarily interested in OT-era action, but "one of the characters is a time traveler from the sequel trilogy era and is trying to prevent that future but at terrible cost" could also be fun.

Farscape

John Crichton/Aeryn Sun
Pilot & Aeryn Sun
Bialar Crais & Talyn

-For John, I'm not really interested in the whole Harvey/mind control aspects of his plotline, but feel free to come up with new and exciting ways for Scorpius to experiment on him in an evil lab!
-Canonical Tragic Ending Not Averted - Path to that Ending Explored: I'd be interested in something canon-compliant from Talyn's POV, giving him more of a characterization and showing us more of what he thinks about Crais and the galaxy.
-Pilot gets sick and Aeryn has to help him because they share DNA now, but it's not enough? Or the other direction, something goes wrong with Aeryn and normal Sebacean/human methods can't fix her because of her Pilot DNA?
-The whole "please kill me before the heat delirium becomes uncontrollable" setup seems like a great opportunity for Chekhov's gunning, with Aeryn or for that matter Crais.

Debrief RPG

George Russell & or / Robert Alderidge
(I'm requesting both the & and / versions, I'm fine with any level of shippiness or lack thereof. "not romantic not platonic but some weird third thing" also great.)

A & B Make Emotionally Significant Promise to Each Other When Younger; Promise Is Later Broken

Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything

Characters' inability/refusal to discuss past conflict between them makes resentment fester

Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment

Dealing with Death of Closest Friend(s)

Farewells

Feelings Realization (Come Too Late)

From now on we're strangers/enemies (optional I still care about you anyway)

Ghosts are actually the memory of a building or place; character meets the ghost of their trauma

good old fashioned manipulation and betrayal

Keeping a promise to a dead loved one even though the promised thing has stopped mattering

Keeping a promise to a friend-turned-enemy even though the promised thing has stopped mattering

Love Turns To Hatred (But The Love Never Goes Away)

We were once so close but now we're practically strangers (optional I still love you anyway)

You Were Everything I Believed In; What Am I Supposed To Do Now?

So on the one hand, RPGs can be kind of difficult to prompt for, in that everyone's playthroughs are different and will result in slightly different characterizations; on the other hand, I have so many feelings about these guys and would absolutely love any version. A retelling of your playthrough, what happened next, more backstory, fix-it, "fix-it" that makes it worse...
-Even in the best possible situations there is still going to be a lot of grief and mourning!
-Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything: I love the dramatic irony of seeing the same incidents from different POVs in the character sheets, and then trying to talk about it just makes it worse. (The Catholic Underground in Spain, Courtenay's investigation.) Anything expanding on those or another memory that they technically share but actually remember differently.
-AU where ghosts work differently and it's more focused on the site itself rather than specific people; how does being a spirit medium work? How do Alderidge or other mundane people experience the ghosts of Weston or the Eastern Front?

-Note: some of the DNWs I've listed for other exchanges do not apply to this request. For instance, I think the use of second-person POV works very well in the character sheets, so I enthusiastically opt in to second-person POV fic here! (As well as first or third.) Also, go as dark as you want in terms of "possible outcomes include ghosts being destroyed forever with the disruptor, or haunting the world until they decay and lose all coherence."

--

Again, feel free to ignore this as needed, and don't hold back with the melodrama. Thank you in advance for the woe!