Dear Author - Fic in a Box

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Hello, hello! Thanks for taking my prompts! I'm really excited to see this event with how different it can be. Because of all the possibilities of multiple fics, I'm going to try to give a whole bunch of ideas down below. You don't need to take any of them; they're just launching points!!

Navigation

• Divergent - Veronica Roth
• Star Trek: Discovery
• The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
• Captain America (Movies)
• The Hollows - Kim Harrison
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Seafire - Natalie C Parker
• Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

General Likes (all fandoms)

- Character study or exploration fics. How or why does that character think that way? What makes them tick? How do they approach a new situation they've never experienced OR how do they deal with something they've experienced - and messed up - before?
- Emotional hurt/comfort. For some fandoms, physical hurt/comfort might be applicable if it's canon-typical
- Canon Universe (feel free to play with the timeline or events as needed though) - not a big fan of unrequested Modern AUs, Fantasy AUs, etc.
- Gen, romantic , fluff, drama, tension, whump -- all genres are OK!
- Genderswaps are OK! Queer relationships are wonderful! Poly is also OK.
- Stuck Together Because Reasons. This includes Handcuffed Together, Fake Relationship, Administrative Mistakes, etc
- 5 + 1 fics
- 1st or 3rd person POV

Length Opt-Ins

For each fandom, I am 100% good with any of the various length fills. So drabbles, exactly X number of words, etc. All good! Or if you just want to tackle one single 10k story, that's cool too!

Divergent - Veronica Roth

Essentially all of these prompts can be mixed and matched together as well, especially with platonic setups.

Eric/Tris or Eric & Tris

My mainstay ship. I like when this pairing can be presented in a healthy way. That's not to say that you have to just wipe away Eric's many, many flaws. Making that young man grow first is welcome, too. Or just slapping in an AU and calling it a day is good :)
Prompts!

• AU - Tris as Leader, Eric as initiate
• Divergent!Eric
• Trying to hide their relationship from friends/family
• Begrudging mentor/mentee situation

Christina/Tris or Christina & Tris

• Bonding together over something unconventional (danger, mutual dislike of someone, etc)
• Training partners
• AU - friends before Choosing or Initiation
• Struggling to figure out how to come out to family

Lauren & Tris

Lauren has such great potential as another source of support to Tris in the faction. I would love to see it!

• Tris gets advice from Lauren during an intense part of Initiation or new faction life
• Tris isn't doing well mixing in with her fellow Initiates. Lauren notices and tries to help
• Mentor/mentee training together

Natalie Prior & Tris Prior

• Mourning after her death
• Sneaking out to ask her mom for advice on Initiation in Dauntless once she realizes her mother's birth faction
• Learning about extended family in Dauntless/ learning stories about her mother from extended family in Dauntless

Tris Prior / Original Character(s) or Tris Prior & Original Chracter(s)

Any gender OCs!

• Bonding with someone from another faction
• Pre-Choosing friends from school

Star Trek: Discovery

Michael Burnham/Mirror Gabriel Lorca

• AU - Stuck in the mirror-verse
• Pre-mirror-verse flirting and relationship gets messed up once Michael realizes that he isn't Prime!Lorca (or does he tell her?)
• Mycelial network shenanigans brings Lorca back after he fell into the core.

Michael Burnham/Mirror Gabriel Lorca/Ash Tyler

• Getting together - which part of the poly unit realizes that they want to open things up first?
• Away mission gone wrong. A has to be rescued by extremely upset B and C
• Jealousy between the unit needs to be addressed to keep from turning into a problem

Michael Burnham/Sylvia Tilly or Michael Burnham & Sylvia Tilly

• Michael helping Tilly with her command goals
• Getting split up from being roommates and realizing, oh no, feelings were there
• Sharing hobbies together - Michael teaching Tilly chess, Tilly gushing over her engineering hobbies with Michael

Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po/Sylvia Tilly or Po & Sylvia Tilly

• Long-distance relationship
• AU - Po goes with Discovery into the future
• Po trying to devise a way to get Discovery back from the future without breaking the timeline/physics/etc
• Tilly getting to visit Po's planet for the first time
• Diplomatic drama between the Federation and Po's planet can only be solved by Tilly helping out

The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

Nile & Booker

• Bonding over being the "youngest" of the immortals together
• Nile seeking out advice from Booker because she thinks the rest of the team won't get whatever it is about
• Booker helping Nile out on the down-low without letting the rest of the team know

Andy & Booker

• Pre-movie, Andy trying to help Booker to cope with his obvious depression
• Post-movie, Booker worrying about how Andy is doing and not knowing if he can or should ask
• Post-movie, Andy accepting the fact that she won't see Booker again before she dies

Andy & Booker & Joe & Nicky & Nile

• Trying to find a way to get Andy's immortality restored
• AU - Booker hadn't betrayed them & remains on the team
• Sharing stories from the past with Nile.
• Helping Nile to adjust to being immortal, emotionally and practically (your goals suddenly become much more big picture vs you can cancel your health insurance and get back that 200 bucks a month)

Captain America (Movies)

James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov

• Shared history together in the Red Room (which is the hill I will die on, canon-wise!)
• Natasha tracks down Bucky before Steve does in CA:CW. Has to decide what to do with that information
• Working together on spy gigs! Classic James Bond tropes are fun to do here - over dramatic, glitzy events together, car chases, and by-the-skin-of-their-teeth victories
• Mutual pain from their past

The Hollows - Kim Harrison

Rachel Morgan/Ivy Tamwood or Rachel & Ivy

• Roommate issues due to Ivy's vampire needs
• Working a case together
• Ivy's POV when Rachel gets stuck in the Ever After (to lay low, because she's got something critical to do there, cursed, etc)

Rachel Morgan/Algaliarept or Rachel Morgan & Algaliarept

• Mentor/mentee training together
• Al trying (maybe failing) to teach Rachel how to be diplomatic with other demons
• Rachel learning how to clean her aura and trying to help Al, too

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Katara & Sokka

• AU - Sokka is a waterbender and Katara is a martial artist
• Dealing with their conflicting desires to go back home after the war vs going with their partners to continue to help with reconstruction
• Helping one another with relationship issues - being the other person's sounding board

Katara/Zuko

• AU - Katara gets captured by the Fire Nation as a kid and grew up to some degree with Zuko
• Katara helping Zuko to figure out what happened to his mother (feel free to ignore the comics)
• Sparring together
• Rebuilding trust after Zuko joins team Avatar (there can never be enough of these scenes/stories)

Seafire - Natalie C Parker

Note: haven't read Steel Tide yet!

Caledonia Styx/Pisces

• How did they build their crew together?
• Caledonia admitting to Pisces what happened on the night their families were killed
• A helping B after getting hurt in a battle
• Pisces stepping in to act as leader while Caledonia isn't able to
• Pisces going with Caledonia at the end of book 1

Caledonia Styx/Oran

• Oran building his reputation with the crew by training them on Bullet methods/procedures
• Dealing with the uncertainty of "are we a thing?" after the kiss incident
• Oran trying to prove his trustworthiness and getting hurt

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Armitage Hux/Rey/Kylo Ren | Ben Solo

• Bounty Hunter AU - how did these three end up working together?
• AU - Both Hux and Kylo defect from the order without knowing the other did, too. Rey helps both of them separately and finally they all end up together, now realizing that the other one defected as well
• Dark!Rey growing up as Palpatine's heir apparent
• Dark!Rey accepting Kylo's offer to train her

Armitage Hux/Rey

• Hux defects prior to the events of TROS, in part because of apparently burgeoning Force abilities. Rey gets the task of dealing with him
• Hux is captured by the Resistance and they ask Rey to help with interrogating him
• AU - Hux and Rey meet while on Canto Bight/similar setting

Phasma/Rey

• Tie-Fighter Rey falls for her superior officer
• Medieval AU - Rey and Phasma are opponents in a combat arena but find feelings for one another between the rounds
• Phasma goes undercover to infiltrate a Resistance base. Rey doesn't realize it until some time has passed while bringing her there.

Jessika Pava/Rey

• Flying in a squadron together, saving one another's lives in fire fights
• Trying to maintain their relationship through the tension and horrors of the war

Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

• Dark!Rey, Light!Ben Solo AU
• Rey convinces Kylo to leave the Order after TLJ. They have to figure out Palpatine's plan without any inside knowledge now
• Force Bond + Pining
• Resurrection quest to bring Ben back to life
• Modern AU - Mechanic!Rey and Tattoo Artist!Kylo