Trick or Treat 2021 Letter
Sep. 15th, 2021 12:09 am[GENERAL LIKES/DNWS] . . . [GENERAL PROMPTS FOR ANYTHING!]
[DEAD BY DAYLIGHT] . . . [DEAD SPACE] . . . [DEUS EX] . . . [OVERWATCH] . . . [MASS EFFECT]
Find me at:
DreadlordTally on AO3.
Tallyarts on Tumblr.
Tallymarks on Twitter
Treats are fine, 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!
»»————- ♡ ————-««
- Cults, cults, cults! Cuuuults! Love 'em. Show me their rituals, their altars, their heinous rites. Draw characters in cultist robes! Pit characters against them! Characters investigating them! Reading their holy texts and going mad from it! :D Cults!
- 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!
- Halloweeeen! Costumes, Halloween parties, black cats, curses, festive decor, candles, pumpkins...! Likewise, autumnal themes! Coffee, scarves, hoodies, autumn leaves!
- Some general art-specific 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!
- Cozy autumnal art!!
- Characters in Halloween costumes, or reimagined as witches, devils, cultists, or other Halloween creatures!
Ace solo - Felix solo
Any Survivors & Any Survivors
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 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.
- 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 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 Survivors: Art or fic of any character interacting with, making, finding, 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 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.
- 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? And 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? 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: Running Up That Hill, by Placebo: https://youtu.be/d-mYX0qKkB8
- 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!
- Isaac/Carver: Carver reading up on the intel EarthGov has on Isaac. He'd want to know who this guy is before encountering him right? Or something set further forward, after they've gotten to know each other better, and Carver has to square the person EarthGov SAID Isaac is with who Isaac actually is, because I'm guessing EarthGov didn't exactly give an accurate impression of Isaac. Carver put Isaac on the ground in two seconds flat at the start of the game—what made him think he had to bring that kind of heat?
- Isaac/Carver: Carver's presence is criminally glossed over in so many cut scenes to make the single player campaign make sense...fill in some of that silence! Any scene that seems fun, go for it. What about when he and Isaac are literally trapped in a tiny cage together after Norton locks them both in?
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!
- Any: Halloween office partyyy! At TF29 or SI, 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!
For Gabe/Jack/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! ♥
- Reaper/Soldier/Ana: Those tough, private conversations they must have 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. ♥
- Genji/Mercy: Genji helping Mercy practice her self defense skills!
Notes:
I have a custom Shepard that you're welcome to use for artwork if you like. Totally up to you! This is him!
While it would be nice if 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 no need for fix-it for ME1, I like them just as is there!
- Kaidan/Shep: 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/Shep: 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.
- Kaidan/Shep: 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.
- Shep & Squadmates: Halloween on the Normandy! :D How do they wrench some holiday fun out of their harrowing existence? Who wears a costume? Who insists on being festive and who is getting begrudgingly dragged into the festivities?
- Shep & Squadmates: After the ending of ME3! When they discover that Shepard actually survived! O:
Dead Space Promo Post
Aug. 10th, 2021 04:34 pm── ✧《 FAV CHARACTERS & SHIPS 》✧ ── ── ✧《 HOW TO GET IT 》✧ ──

Genres:
Sci-fi, horror, survival horror, psychological horror, third-person shooter
But what IS it?
You play as Isaac Clarke, a ship engineer, responding to a distress call from the USG Ishimura. What you find there kicks off a story of horror, grief, and trauma that spans years of Isaac's life.
- Whump, iron woobies, and lots of suffering heaped on your protagonists. Canon pummels Isaac forwards, backwards, sideways, and diagonal from beginning to end and it never lets up. The best part is that none of it EVER keeps him down, and it's so very cathartic those rare times when he gets proper righteous angry.
- Cults. The entire story centers around a cult worshiping an eldritch alien artifact and, of course, this cult's obsession with Isaac!
- Cosmic/psychological horror and mindfucks. The question of what's real and not real is central to Dead Space. It really leans in to the mindfuck aspect of its lore. No specifics—I wouldn't want to ruin the surprises!
- Slash potential. The first two games pass without much potential for slash ships, but the third game really brings its A game in this regard with a great new character.
- Likeable male protagonists. Isaac is sweet, empathetic, and relatable. But he's also heroic, relentless, and absolutely balls-out awesome when he needs to be!
- Lore and story-rich games. I assumed Dead Space was all about shooting space zombies, and wow was I wrong. These games follow a continuous story with tons of lore and worldbuilding!
Dead Space has a smallish cast that centers around Isaac Clarke, the protagonist! Here's a quick rundown of my favs!
Isaac Clarke - It's always nice when you can fall in love with the main character! Isaac is great. As I said above, he's easy to like—the events of the story affect him deeply, but no matter how much he goes through, he's always trying to be a rock for the people around him. And he's a space engineer! Which ends up being relevant to the story in some cool ways. He also looks fantastic in those space suits!
Carver/Isaac - They start out as straight up adversaries, and we get to watch their relationship evolve as they come to rely on each other through some intense survival horror, and that's always a good time! (THIS is their first meeting, for reals.) I was quite pleased with the shippiness between them. There's plenty of casual touching, they get in each other's faces about Deep Personal Shit, they get stranded alone on an ice planet together, Carver hallucinates Isaac is his dead wife...like I said, real shippy!
- As of this writing, the games are all available on Steam, as well as through EA itself. They are amazing games, well worth the time to play for yourself. If you do play them, the third is co-op and best played with a friend—it will make all the difference! If you can't play the third with a friend, I heartily recommend watching an LP for the truest experience of that one. The game does some very cool things with the Marker's mindfuckiness...the two players literally experience different things while in the same space sometimes!
Watching a Let's Play (LP) is every bit as good as playing a game yourself, especially if you find an LPer who takes the time to read the lore and listen to the dialogue! You get the same experience as if you were playing the game, but it's lots more accessible to everyone! :D
- Scribe - He has a lot of appreciation and love for both the game design and lore, and he makes sure to highlight all the best details! Unfortunately, he didn't play Dead Space 3 as co-op, which as I said above does make a BIG difference, however I will still link that LP for his insights in that game!
- Dead Space 3 - Here's a short collection of nice Dead Space 3 LPs specifically, for the full experience! The latter parts of the game are where most of the divergent POVs matter.
Cutscene movies cut together the major story beats of a game, but will sometimes miss out on readable lore or small details that occur during gameplay. They're best if you need a refresher on things or if you only need the broader strokes of the canon!
- Dead Space 1 Cutscene Movie - Concise version here.
- Longer Dead Space 1 Cutscene Movie - A longer one with some gameplay to tie things together more!
- Dead Space 2 Cutscene Movie - Concise version.
- Longer Dead Space 2 Cutscene Movie - Longer version.
- Dead Space 3 Cutscene Movie
- Dead Space 3 DLC Cutscene Movie - Takes place after the main game!
Press Start 2021 Letter
Jun. 15th, 2021 01:51 am[GENERAL LIKES/DNWS] . . . [GENERAL PROMPTS FOR ANYTHING!]
[DEAD BY DAYLIGHT] . . . [DEAD SPACE] . . . [DEUS EX] . . . [OVERWATCH] . . . [MASS EFFECT]
Find me at:
DreadlordTally on AO3.
Tallyarts on Tumblr.
Tallymarks on Twitter
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!
»»————- ♡ ————-««
- 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!
Ace solo - Felix solo
Trapper/&Felix
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.
- 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 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.
- 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'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!
- 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!
Maximilien & Anubis, Maximilien & Doomfist
Genji/Mercy
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! ♥
- 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:
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!
- 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!
Multifandom Horror Exchange 2021 Letter
May. 28th, 2021 04:06 pm[GENERAL LIKES/DNWS] . . . [GENERAL PROMPTS FOR ANYTHING!]
[DEAD BY DAYLIGHT] . . . [DEAD SPACE] . . . [OVERWATCH]
All requests are for both art and fic!
Find me at:
DreadlordTally on AO3.
Tallyarts on Tumblr.
Tallymarks on Twitter.
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 they inspire others!
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- Blackouts! The lights go out, it's now pitch black. How do things go? Do things get terrifying? Sexy? Terrifyingly sexy?? What put the lights out in the first place? Just a bad storm or did someone (or someTHING) cut the power?
- Character designs spookyfied or gothed up. Witch/cult versions, slasher versions, black lace, demonic versions, classic horror aesthetics, etc!
- Seven Devils, by Florence and the Machine: https://youtu.be/RLkGKkfmgjU
- Classic horror settings! Cornfields, haunted old mansions, creepy forests, ghost ships, abandoned asylums, remote cabins, medical labs, etc.! For art, I'm picturing characters just absolutely drowning in classic creepy environment tropes...standing in the fog of a dark forest, looking down a dim hallway staring into blackness, standing in the corn unaware of the glowing eyes behind them, etc.!
Kate solo - Kate/Jeff
Freddy & Pyramid Head - Freddy & Michael Myers - Freddy & Trapper - Freddy & Trickster - Freddy & Quentin
Trapper/&Kate - Trapper/&Felix - Trapper/&Dwight - Trapper & Trickster
Ghostface & Legion - Ghostface & Trickster
David/Dwight
I'm really into 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've requested a lot of Freddy. ♥ Please feel free to include or throw out any elements from the originals or the 2010 remake as you like. I LOVE the claw. The claw is everything.
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!
And Leon was announced after nominations ARGH. If you like, assume he is requested as well!
- Felix: 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.
- Horror types: Monster, Psychological, Survival, Violent
- Any Survivor(s) - So we know there are cults around that worship the Entity, and I want one or more 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!
- Horror types: Folk, Religious
- Any: The Killer has caught 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. What do they do? 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 the DNWs, everything's on the table here. For art, take this as a prompt for some lovingly crafted torture ♥
- Horror types: Monster, Survival, Violent
- 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 physical contact.
- Horror types: Psychological, Survival
- Any: Artwork or fic of any character interacting with, burning, or using their offerings! Some of the offerings are so evocative or funny. Some of my favorites: any of the shrouds, any of the various herbal/plant sachets, the wards, the wreaths, Bloody Party Streamers.
- Horror types: Dark Fantasy, Paranormal, Survival
- Any Killers: I'm totally enamored with the idea of two or more of the Killers hunting together. Would love fic or art of this! Art-wise you could go the straight horror route or you could even do something cute or funny! For a story, I'm just so interested in how they'd get along! How successful or unsuccessful they might be at working together. Are the Legion total fans of Ghostface and spend their time with him quietly squeeing? Does Freddy think Trapper is just SO BORING UGH. :D And, of course, tag team torturing Survivors is always on the table!
- Horror types: Survival, Violent
- Freddy & Quentin: Quentin's situation is just so uniquely horrible to me. Not only is he stuck here like everyone else, but he has to face <i>Freddy</i>, over and over, until he becomes an empty shell drained of all hope or humanity. D: Would be cool to see how he keeps going, or how he's unraveling.
- Horror types: Psychological
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.
Dead Space hits some fantastic horror elements for me. There's the Markers themselves, and I just love their eldritch, unknowable nature 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 is for him to constantly be under their power!
Feel free to mess around with the circumstances of Norton's canonical death if you like.
- Any: What if, amidst Isaac's madness during his captivity, he carved Marker language into his own body. Or shit, what if STROSS did it to him? Now, he's got to live with seeing it every day. Or throw in Ellie or Carver and have them discover for the first time what he did to himself. 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 pretty dope. :D
- Horror types: Psychological, Religious, Sci-fi
- Any: Someone's got the extensive video logs of everything the Unitologists did to Isaac in his three years of captivity. What if Ellie or Carver come across them? And they get hit in the face with the living nightmare Isaac went through? The sadder and more horrific his torment was, the better. Isaac can be there to discover it with them or not. Shit, Norton could get access to them via his EarthGov connections. Does he use them to try and hurt Isaac? Show them to Ellie or Carver?? And Daina or Jacob would be most interested in examining every second of them.
- Horror types: Body, Medical, Psychological, Religious, Sci-fi
- Any: Running Up That Hill, by Placebo: https://youtu.be/d-mYX0qKkB8
- Horror types: Any
- Isaac &/ Carver, Ellie, Norton: Let someone else be under the Marker's sway, and let Isaac have to handle it. What does the Marker make them see? Make them do? How is their perception distorted? Where does it take them to and how does Isaac get them back from there? What would happen if Carver perceived Isaac as Damara, or Norton saw him as Ellie, or Ellie saw him as Stross??
- Horror types: Psychological
- 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!
- Horror types: Killer, Sci-fi, Survival
- Isaac solo or Isaac /& Daina, Stross: Get into Isaac's time in captivity on Titan. What did they do to him? What was he going through mentally? Physically? Did he have any lucid periods? Or bring in Stross, as well. They built the Marker together. That is a truly singular experience to share with another person—what horrors did they endure together in that place? How did they sustained each other? And what was it like for Daina and the other Unitologists to have Isaac in their hands—a man who had such intimate contact with the object of their worship? For artwork, I'd be stoked to see any visual interpretations of the experiments they put Isaac through for those three years. Things were kept intentionally vague in-game—substantiate some of that mystery visually!
- Horror types: Body, Medical, Religious
- Isaac solo: Get into Isaac's head and into his own relationship with the Markers, with the Brethren Moons, with whatever immense eldritch intelligence is moving these forces. I want to know what thoughts encroach when he doesn't have a survival situation to keep him busy. For fic this would very much be an introspective thing, but for artwork I'd love a visual representation of his madness and desperation!
- Horror types: Cosmic, Psychological
Ana /& Slasher: 76 - D.Va /& Slasher: 76
I've requested some Slasher: 76, so you can take a lot of liberties with that! In terms of any backstory or contrivances you'd need for a fic, I'm down for basically anything regarding him. For the characters I requested him with, I'd like if they're reasonably close to who and what they are in canon. Like, I'd want Ana to still be a sniper, or D.Va is still a famous gamer, etc., but you can definitely take them out of the world of Overwatch!
I absolutely ADORE the entire cast of characters, so anyone you want or need to include, bring them the heck on! Though just a reminder, no young Pharah please and thanks! (my kidfic DNW) Pharah in upper teens at least please if she's there! ♥
- Slasher: 76 /& Ana - Ana is sent to track down and kill this menace! How do things go?? Does she succeed in taking him down? Does she lose completely?? Does she succeed, but not after he takes a piece out of her, either literally or figuratively? Bring her to his lair, maybe let her be a bit cocky before making her realize she's in serious trouble and this will not be as easy as she thought.
- Horror types: Killer, Survival, Violent
- Slasher: 76 /& Any - The opposite of the above...home invasioooon~! And this could be their actual home, or a lovely remote cabin getaway, or he could even be terrorizing a bigger place like a resort they're at or a hotel or something. Slasher inflicting his terror on a place that should have been safe!
- Horror types: Killer, Survival, Violent
- Slasher: 76 /& Any - For artwork, anything actiony or creepy is great! Violence is also good. I really like the glow of Slasher's eyes, so anything emphasizing that would be dope. Find some interesting uses for that weirdass chainsaw gun maybe? Anything with him brutalizing someone, really.
- Horror types: Killer, Violent
- 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: Which means not only psychological horror, but potentially body horror as well since Anubis can physically MAKE Max do whatever he pleases. Make him sufferrrr.
- Horror types: Body, Psychological












