Press Start 2021 Letter
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tally[GENERAL LIKES/DNWS] . . . [GENERAL PROMPTS FOR ANYTHING!]
[DEAD BY DAYLIGHT] . . . [DEAD SPACE] . . . [DEUS EX] . . . [OVERWATCH] . . . [MASS EFFECT]
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Treats are welcome, any medium.
Regarding shippiness, I'm down for anything from subtle to overt. Similarly, if I've requested &, no worries if things seem like they're drifting into shippy or sexual.
I have some song prompts! I've presented them without comment. The fun of song prompts for me is seeing how other people are inspired by them!
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Hurt/Comfort, size/strength/age/power differences, accidental/forced intimacy and proximity, loyalty, Catholic imagery or symbolism, possessiveness, protectiveness, spontaneous kink, competence, casual touching, mutual pining, horror of all kinds, characters defiant in the face of complete helpless/hopelessness.
DNW:
Animal harm, gender identity headcanon, kidfic or pregnancy, unrequited pining, kink negotiation, crack, and any focus on urine, feces, vomit, or pus.
- Sit Next to Me, by Foster The People: https://youtu.be/BKLVpDTZOPQ
- Jesus was a Crossmaker, by The Hollies: https://youtu.be/56c5h88H4L0
- Classic horror settings! Cornfields, haunted old mansions, creepy forests, ghost ships, abandoned asylums, remote cabins, medical labs, etc.! Could be the characters find themselves physically here, or could be they're having a nightmare or hallucination!
- Extreme weather. Violent thunderstorms, torrential rain, blizzards, sandstorms, etc. I love either characters caught out in the midst of it or huddled in safety and comfort while nature rages outside. Also like characters stuck in blackouts because of the weather!
- Some general art prompts:
- Masquerade! Could be for infiltration or a mission. Could also be like a benefit or high class party or something the characters are supposed to be at! Or it could be an unreal kind of situation, a surreal nightmare masquerade, a grotesque pageantry—something going on either purely in their mind or in some dreadful alien planescape, or even fabricated by someone else!. :D For artwork I would LOVE some mask and costume design for any characters!
- Sparring turns sexy! - Or even the unbearable sexual tension that can't get resolved/acknowledged for whatever reason if you want to go that angle!
- Sparring turns sexy! - Or even the unbearable sexual tension that can't get resolved/acknowledged for whatever reason if you want to go that angle!
- Jesus was a Crossmaker, by The Hollies: https://youtu.be/56c5h88H4L0
- Classic horror settings! Cornfields, haunted old mansions, creepy forests, ghost ships, abandoned asylums, remote cabins, medical labs, etc.! Could be the characters find themselves physically here, or could be they're having a nightmare or hallucination!
- Extreme weather. Violent thunderstorms, torrential rain, blizzards, sandstorms, etc. I love either characters caught out in the midst of it or huddled in safety and comfort while nature rages outside. Also like characters stuck in blackouts because of the weather!
- Some general art prompts:
- Fusions with other media, like characters as their Homestuck godtiers, as My Little Ponies, Sailor Scouts, D&D classes, etc.
- Characters drawn in motifs you associate with them like a tarot card, a planet of the solar system, their zodiac sign, one of the seven deadly sins, a season of the year, with/as animals that you feel represent them, etc.
- Characters in formal wear, beach wear, winter clothes, stuff like that. Show me what other things they wear for different occasions!
- Tattoo designs for characters! Would love to see them in ink!
Felix & Ace - Felix & Dwight - Felix & Kate- Felix/& Jill - Felix & Leon
Ace solo - Felix solo
Trapper/&Felix
Ace solo - Felix solo
Trapper/&Felix
Notes:
I love the bleakness of this setting, the oppressive and hopeless atmosphere, the unrelenting dread and torment. And how the survivors might carve out some solace for themselves amidst it all. I'm also all about the overwhelming power of the Killers compared to the Survivors and how oppressive it must be facing the Killers.
I also love all the Survivors and Killers, and would be THRILLED to see any extras show up, even ones I didn't specifically request!
Something interesting about Ace is that while he's a grifter and a conman, two thirds of his perks are entirely team-focused. Up the Ante and Open-Handed are both about benefiting the whole team. So I like to read him as having a team player side. Still a grifter, but a grifter that will go to bat for his friends or who will maybe be good at reading the mood of the group and helping to keep spirits up, that kind of thing. Just a fun read I took from his perks!
Finally, I'm always on board for ~ * handwavy Entity reasons * ~ if you have a cool idea and need a way to make it work.
I love the bleakness of this setting, the oppressive and hopeless atmosphere, the unrelenting dread and torment. And how the survivors might carve out some solace for themselves amidst it all. I'm also all about the overwhelming power of the Killers compared to the Survivors and how oppressive it must be facing the Killers.
I also love all the Survivors and Killers, and would be THRILLED to see any extras show up, even ones I didn't specifically request!
Something interesting about Ace is that while he's a grifter and a conman, two thirds of his perks are entirely team-focused. Up the Ante and Open-Handed are both about benefiting the whole team. So I like to read him as having a team player side. Still a grifter, but a grifter that will go to bat for his friends or who will maybe be good at reading the mood of the group and helping to keep spirits up, that kind of thing. Just a fun read I took from his perks!
Finally, I'm always on board for ~ * handwavy Entity reasons * ~ if you have a cool idea and need a way to make it work.
Prompts:
- Felix or Ace: First time in a trial! How did they break him in? And/or first time at the Campfire, learning the true extent of his new horrible eternity.
- Felix with Jill or Leon: Competence! Specifically, anything highlighting Jill and/or Leon's skill and competence in these kinds of horrific situations, especially given Felix's cushy life pre-Entity. So, Leon or Jill being protective and cool and Big Fucking Heroes! With Felix maybe providing some comfort or patching them up afterward!
- Any Survivor(s): So we know there are cults around that worship the Entity, and I want the Survivors to encounter one of these cults! :D Before the Survivors were pulled into the realms or in an effort to escape or just because of handwavy Entity reasons, bring them face to face with an Entity cult!
- Any: The Killer catches a survivor (or more than one), and is brutalizing them. One (or more) survivors have managed to hide very close by, and they have to listen to every second of it. Do they try to help? Keep hiding and try to muffle their sobs? Is the exit nearby and do they have to make a choice on whether to escape or help? Are they actually safe, or does the Killer know they are there and comes for them too in the end? For the brutalizing, go nuts. Get as bananas horrific as you please. Aside from my DNWs, everything's on the table here.
- Any Survivors: Hurt/comfort around the Campfire! Where the comfort is meager and weak because everyone is so very traumatized and wrung out and they have almost nothing left to give. :D Art-wise, I can picture characters huddled together, grim and haggard, taking whatever pitiful comfort they can from each other. :D
- Any: Art or fic of any character interacting with, making, burning, or using their offerings! Some of the offerings are so evocative or funny. Any kind of lore-focused piece on these would also be welcome. A few favorites: any of the shrouds, any of the various herbal/plant sachets, the wards, the wreaths, the coins, Bloody Party Streamers, any of the cakes.
Isaac/Ellie - Isaac/Carver - Isaac /& Jacob - Isaac/Daina - Isaac & Norton - Isaac & Stross
Notes:
Isaac getting beaten and menaced and tormented is the best thing ♥. I love watching him suffer, but I also love how he will NOT quit, and the crazy lengths he will go to make a thing happen. And then, on top of all that, he's always the one building other people up, keeping other people together, even when he's falling apart himself. And finally, I love those rare moments when he gets proper righteous angry. It doesn't happen often, but it is soooo cathartic when it does.
I love the eldritch, unknowable nature of the Markers/Moons and Isaac's relationship to them, how they're irrevocably a part of his life now and there's no escaping their touch on his mind. And I also loooove cults so I'm totally enamored with Unitology and how obsessed they are with Isaac and how it must be for him to be constantly be the object of their obsessions.
If you need to mess around with the circumstances of Norton's canonical death, or even ignore it entirely, go for it.
Isaac getting beaten and menaced and tormented is the best thing ♥. I love watching him suffer, but I also love how he will NOT quit, and the crazy lengths he will go to make a thing happen. And then, on top of all that, he's always the one building other people up, keeping other people together, even when he's falling apart himself. And finally, I love those rare moments when he gets proper righteous angry. It doesn't happen often, but it is soooo cathartic when it does.
I love the eldritch, unknowable nature of the Markers/Moons and Isaac's relationship to them, how they're irrevocably a part of his life now and there's no escaping their touch on his mind. And I also loooove cults so I'm totally enamored with Unitology and how obsessed they are with Isaac and how it must be for him to be constantly be the object of their obsessions.
If you need to mess around with the circumstances of Norton's canonical death, or even ignore it entirely, go for it.
Prompts:
- Any: What if, amidst Isaac's madness during his captivity, he carved Marker language into his own body? Or what if STROSS did it to him? Now, he has to live with seeing it every day, and has to deal with the possibility of someone else seeing it. What happens when Ellie or Carver discover them? And what if Norton caught a glimpse of them? He'd be VICIOUS about it. And for an entirely different direction, what if Daina or Jacob need the formulas and secrets Isaac inscribed upon himself? Art-wise, seeing Isaac with Marker scrawl scarring any part of him would be real dope. :D
- Any: Someone encounters extensive video logs of everything the Unitologists did to Isaac in his three years of captivity. Isaac can be there to discover it with them or not. Shit, Norton could get access to them via his EarthGov connections. What would he do with them? Show them to Ellie or Carver?? And Daina or Jacob would be most interested in examining every second of them.
- Any: Running Up That Hill, by Placebo: https://youtu.be/d-mYX0qKkB8
- Isaac & Norton: Norton's strange and manic paranoia points to at least partial influence by the Marker to me. Take that up to eleven. Have him go full stalker killer on Isaac in those frozen, claustrophobic hallways on Tau Volantis. Involve Carver or not as you like!
- Isaac with Daina or Stross: Unitology rituals on Titan! They had Isaac for three years. They knew he had intimate contact with the object of their worship. What did they put him through? I want to see ritualistic medical torture/mindfuck/experimentation! Religious rites combined with evil space science!
Adam/Koller- Adam/Miller - Adam/Pritchard
Notes:
Adam's iron woobie-ness is great, and one of my favorite things about the games is how they put him through hell but how he just keeps on surviving and enduring, but also while never losing his compassion. So any and all angst or suffering piled upon Adam is delightful.
The hardships heaped on augs are especially interesting to me, particularly when contrasting how Adam, Pritchard, or Koller react differently to them and also when contrasting the very different way society treats Miller versus Adam.
And I super love all the things unbalancing Miller/Adam. :D Age difference, the boss/subordinate thing, the vast social and class power difference, the vast physical power difference!
Prompts:
- Any: A party! Like a TF29 or SI office party, or Koller having a party at The Time Machine!
- Any: Handcuffed together! Could be some kind of special aug restraint that even the augs can't break out of, so Adam just has to be attached to someone until a specialist or whatever can be found to free them. :D :D
- Adam/Miller: Established relationship fic that gets into the headaches of hiding their relationship. Or failing to hide it because maybe someone finds them out! Maybe someone figures out what they're doing, or maybe someone comes to Miller to tell him that Jensen is acting shady, lol.
- Adam/Koller, Pritchard: I would so enjoy getting to see Adam really laid out, badly injured, depowered maybe, his batteries drained, overclocked, etc. Anything so that Koller has to be there in his apartment fixing him and helping him out with even basic tasks for awhile!
- Adam/Koller, Pritchard: Adam teaches Koller or Pritchard gun/knife/self defense skills!
- Adam/Miller, Koller: An earthquake strands them in TF29 or underneath The Time Machine respectively!
Reaper/Soldier - Reaper/Soldier/Ana - Reaper/Baptiste
Maximilien & Anubis, Maximilien & Doomfist
Genji/Mercy
Maximilien & Anubis, Maximilien & Doomfist
Genji/Mercy
Notes:
God I love Max. The whole suave, luxurious, evil robot accountant vibe. And I'm interested in how he fits into Talon as well as how he might feel about common sentiments other omnics share. Like, what's his own internal relationship to his status as an omnic? To the place omnics have in society and to what went on during the war? Very interested in his whole internal world and any conflict or lack thereof he might have!
For Reaper/Soldier and Reaper/Soldier/Ana, I'm most interested in pre-Overwatch or anytime before or during the collapse of Overwatch!
And I just love pretty much any angle on Genji/Mercy. I love that she asked him out first, I love that them having a relationship didn't solve all Genji's problems and he had to go off on his own and do a lot of work on himself. I love that Mercy in her personal life can be standoffish and kind of off-putting to people and how that's what kind of brought them together because Genji wasn't put off at all.
I absolutely ADORE the entire cast of characters, so anyone you want or need to include, bring them the heck on! ♥
God I love Max. The whole suave, luxurious, evil robot accountant vibe. And I'm interested in how he fits into Talon as well as how he might feel about common sentiments other omnics share. Like, what's his own internal relationship to his status as an omnic? To the place omnics have in society and to what went on during the war? Very interested in his whole internal world and any conflict or lack thereof he might have!
For Reaper/Soldier and Reaper/Soldier/Ana, I'm most interested in pre-Overwatch or anytime before or during the collapse of Overwatch!
And I just love pretty much any angle on Genji/Mercy. I love that she asked him out first, I love that them having a relationship didn't solve all Genji's problems and he had to go off on his own and do a lot of work on himself. I love that Mercy in her personal life can be standoffish and kind of off-putting to people and how that's what kind of brought them together because Genji wasn't put off at all.
I absolutely ADORE the entire cast of characters, so anyone you want or need to include, bring them the heck on! ♥
Prompts:
- Reaper/Soldier(/Ana): Frank, private conversations they had immediately post-Retribution. I'm guessing that what Gabe was willing to say in the debriefing is not necessarily what he was willing to say to them when they were alone.
- Reaper/Soldier(/Ana): Early/first encounters! Maybe during the soldier enhancement program, or during Gabe's time as THE hero of the Omnic Crisis, when he was just Soldier: 24. Or maybe Ana's first meeting with them. Was she aware of them at all before she joined Overwatch? Did she have a fleeting encounter with either of them previously at all?
- Reaper/Baptiste: First encounter! When did they first meet and why? Did Reaper come in to salvage a mission gone wrong and end up saving Baptiste? Was Baptiste assigned as a medic for Reaper's unique condition? Was Baptiste just another nameless soldier in a squad meant to back Reaper up on a mission?
- Reaper/Baptiste: Post-desertion! Baptiste has fended off every Talon hit squad that came after him so far...until Reaper shows up.
- Genji/Mercy: Something set very early in their timeline when Genji is still in his angry stabby Blackwatch phase. Would love to see him trying to get his awkward bone on with this hot doctor who doesn't put up with his bullshit. ♥
- Maximilien & Doomfist: Max finally facing the consequences of betraying Doomfist! Or doing what he does best and managing to talk/negotiate himself out of those consequences.
- Maximilien & Doomfist: Art prompt! I want to see something just dripping in luxury. Doomfist must take time to enjoy all the resources at his disposal SOMEtime, right? I'm seeing champagne, jewels, expensive decor, a great view, and Doomfist in his formal attire!
- Maximilien & Anubis: I could see where other omnics might consider Max a traitor to his own kind, so what if Anubis got Max within his reach? I'm guessing he would not be happy with Max, and his presence in Max's head would be pretty horrifying considering Anubis can override Max's free will. D:
Kaidan/Male Shepard
Notes:
I always use a custom Shepard, so avoidance of his canon physical description iwould be appreciated.
While I do wish Kaidan were romanceable for both Shepards in ME1, I do absolutely love the slow burn aspect of his friendship with mShep, turning into an estrangement in ME2, and finally reconciliation and a deeper relationship in ME3. Honestly I wouldn't change a thing about it even if I could! So feel free to lean in to all that!
Prompts:
- Outsider perspective! Especially for a renegade Shepard with a dire reputation. Kaidan is a pretty staunch paragon, so what do people think about this mismatched pair? James probably had a few thoughts on Mars watching the two of them argue. Jack probably would have had an opinion! Maybe Dr. Chakwas? Anyone you think would have an interesting perspective on them, go for it!
- Kaidan's POV on Horizon! Would be really cool to get into his head when he sees Shepard, especially if Shepard shows up with those renegade scars. It must have made things even worse, seeing Shepard look like that.
- Any correspondence or fleeting encounters between Shepard and Kaidan post-Horizon and pre-ME3. Did either of them reach out or were they both mostly avoiding each other? Even if they were, they still ran in the same circles and would have to encounter each other some times!
- Kaidan's POV during the ME3 Citadel standoff with Shepard, or immediately after! That scene is so tense. What's going through his mind while he and Shepard have their guns pointed at each other? Or what about afterward, when he makes the decision to join the Normandy again. I would love something introspective on how he came to that decision.
- Kaidan clashing with a renegade Shepard over some ruthless action Shepard took! The contrast between Kaidan and a renegade Shep is so compelling. I want to see them clash a little bit!
