Trick or Treat Letter 2018
Sep. 18th, 2018 08:27 pmLikes:
- what ifs, case fic, fix-its
- drama, travel, fantasy, action, adventure, magic
- friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends
- found families, clans
- medical themes
- animals or pets (cats, dogs, rabbits, fish, birds, etc.)
- introspection/character studies
- devotion, loyalty
- slice of life, hurt/comfort, fluff, domesticity
- romantic imagery, art or literature references
- slow burn, missing scenes, fixing failed relationships, role reversal
- changing fate, things going wrong unexpectedly, different outcomes
- canon compliant, canon divergence
- any POV, any tense, IF
- friendship, platonic relationships, asexual headcanons, polygamy
- established relationships, fake dating, arranged marriage, pining
- happy or hopeful endings
- holidays, sickfic, time travel, amnesia, dreams/nightmares, etc.
- revenge: eye for an eye, taste of their own medicine, vengeance feels empty
- choice: fate worse than death, designated bullet (special preparation for a target)
- evil: cute is evil, ancient evil, nature is not nice (ways nature fights back)
- violence: break their heart to save them, being tortured makes you evil, murder is the best solution
- decision: moral event horizon, good people do bad things, honor among thieves or no honor, never hurt an innocent, enemy mine (enemies working towards a common goal)
- character: heart of gold, moon rabbit, clean freak, eye scream
- setting: ominous mundanity (it's too normal-what is it hiding?)
- angst
- possessive behaviors, jealousy, clinginess, twisted love
- traumatic or intense feelings, bottling up emotions
- manipulation, grey morals, ambiguity
- yandere, stalker, sociopathic tendencies, secret identities
- working themselves too hard or to the breaking point, silent struggling
- unhealthy coping mechanisms
- co-dependency, kidnapping, captivity
- self-destructive tendencies (self-loathing, self-harm)
- power imbalances, betrayal, revenge, mind games, telepathy
- good intentions gone wrong, sacrifice
- wilderness survival
- canon typical violence
- psychological themes, gaslighting, mental torture, hallucinations
- dark or bittersweet endings
- Stockholm/Lima syndrome
- festivals
- harvest moon, red or blue moonlight
- harvest fields, crops/crop lines
- candy/wrappers
- millions of lights in the darkness
- fireflies or lanterns
- weapons like scythes/swords
- fruits/vegetables
- abandoned buildings, dark forests, cemetary
- fire, ice/snow, other elements
- bleak surroundings like deserts
- falling/colorful leaves, autumn scenery
- blood stains
- castle ruins, oddly shaped/thorny flowers, pumpkins, skulls, fangs, monsters or spooky animals (ex. black cats, bats, snails, butterflies, frogs), candles, dark skies or storms, etc.
- hugs/cuddling, forehead or hand kissing
- brushing hair, running hands through hair, long hair
- kisses (food in mouth like pocky)
- emphasis on eyes/hands, laying on back
- seasons (especially spring and autumn)
- nature settings, leaves, flowers, cherry blossoms, sun/moon shots
- pastel colors, black/white schemes, muted colors, dark schemes
- detailed/intricate
- minimalist, complementary colors (orange/blue), monochrome
- digital or traditional art
- abstract/surreal, chibi, character portraits
AUs:
- Games: Pokemon, Pokemon GO
- movies/shows: Harry Potter, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, CLAMP, Utena, Death Note, etc. (too many to list)
- knights and royalty
- childhood friends
- assassins, spies, serial killers, death games
- historical (feudal Japan, China, Romans, Greek, etc)
- flower shop, hospitals, art school, magical school
- magical girls, idols
- card games
- space travelers, guardians of a place, guardian angel, thieves
- d/s dynamics, dubcon/noncon, BDSM
- long or flowy hair (any gender)
- age differences, sibling incest
- hand holding, forehead touches/kisses, touch starved
- biting/marking, spanking
- testing limits, kink exploration, mixed ways of showing affection
- blindfolds, leashes/collars for ownership
- formal clothing (kimono, ball gowns, suits/ties)
- cuddling, first times, praise kink
- focus on the senses, body worship
- ritual sex whether cultural or family custom
- bloodplay, knifeplay, a/b/o
- awkwardness, checking on each other, aftercare
- unrequited love, forbidden love
- soulmates, soulbonds, red string of fate
- UST and the tension of it
- aphrodisiacs/love potion, bed sharing, crossdressing
Trick, Treat
Fanart, Fanfiction
- Akimichi Chouchou
- Mitsuki
- Uchiha Itachi
- Uchiha Sarada
- Uchiha Sasuke
- Uzumaki Boruto
+ Anything in their teams! Team 7 together or Chocho with Team 10 out on a mission, something spooky happens.
+ Itachi isn't alive, but then he is, so how does that come about? On Halloween?
+ Mitsuki's darker thoughts about who he really is. Does he make some decisions he shouldn't while he tries to find out who is? And to Boruto?
+ Sarada spends time with Sasuke.
+ Sarada breaks rules on Halloween she doesn't expect--it leads to spooky things happening.
+ Boruto pulls pranks that go wrong. Something about Boruto's unrevealed powers.
+ Konoha has a Halloween celebration.
+ Art: The Uchiha family sitting together--Sakura, Sasuke, and Sarada, although I'd love Itachi to be included in that. An older Itachi that lived into Boruto era would be nice all around. Boruto and/or Mitsuki with creepy moon/sun symbolism? Chocho eating/surrounded by candy.
Trick, Treat
Fanart, Fanfiction
- Lelouch Lamperouge | Lelouch vi Britannia
- C.C.
- Euphemia li Britannia
- Rolo Lamperouge
- Arthur
- Kururugi Suzaku
+ The academy holds a Halloween celebration for the whole campus. As you'd expect, it's chaos.
+ Is Arthur actually bad luck? Is him being around Lelouch an indicator of it? Or him biting Suzaku?
+ Euphemia's thoughts before she died. Or she lives. But she also has other problems.
+ C.C.'s live as an immortal person.
+ Suzaku's darker thoughts about Lelouch, the military, his father, anything.
+ Suzaku and Lelouch go to a cemetery and visit someone...
+ Werewolf, vampire, ghost AUs!
+ Art: long capes, fangs, jack'o-lanterns, cemetery, usual CLAMP-esque designs
Hataraku Saibou | Cells at Work!
Trick, Treat
Fanart, Fanfiction
- Red Blood Cell AE3803
- White Blood Cell U-1146
- Natural Killer Cell
- Platelet Division
- Killer T Cell
+ The body's host accidentally hurts themself while cutting a pumpkin. What does the platelet division do? Does something happen that's different? Will the wound close easily? Was the pumpkin cursed?
+ The body is cursed. How do WBC, NKC, or KTC handle it?
+ Art: RBC super happy there's more sugar to eat than usual, WBC and ghosts, NKC and KTC working together/looking scary to defeat antigens
Treat, Trick
Fanart
Characters:
- Kunikida Hanamaru
- Kurosawa Ruby
- Tsushima Yoshiko
+ Ruby dressed as a pumpkin. Carrying a large bag of candy (she drops it). Ruby in a sheet trying to scare anyone.
+ Hanamaru dressed up like an angel. Perhaps in contrast to Yohane's demon. Angel wings, tiara, halo, white gown.
+ Demonic imagery. Shadows, red eyes, fire.
+ Any of them with Halloween-themed hairstyles or shirts.
Treat, Trick
Fanart, Fanfiction
Characters:
- Kriemhild Gretchen
- Original Puella Magi
- Kaname Madoka
- Charlotte the Dessert Witch
+ Charlotte and her desserts in general. Or add other spooky elements. A bones design on a cake?
+ Art: Dark, gloomy images of Madoka in space. Lightning. Checkerboards. Fingers. Sucking energy. Gretchen's form up-close. Earth.
Naruto
Fanart, Fanfiction
- Haruno Sakura
- Uchiha Itachi
- Uchiha Sasuke
- Uzumaki Naruto
- Hoshigaki Kisame
+ One of Team 7 dies — what do the others do about it? Or thinks they do anyway.
+ Itachi before or after the massacre. If the massacre hadn't happened. The origins of his illness. Illness.
+ Sasuke didn't see Naruto's way of things at the end of the series. He never got better.
+ Naruto dies but comes back as a ghost. Sasuke and Sakura will never get peace, and they kind of don't want to.
+ On a mission they visit a haunted house, or a spooky place in the woods.
+ Konoha holds an autumn festival.
+ Sakura is a secret she has to hide from the others. Sakura has to prove herself.
+ Sasuke hasn't fallen in love with Sakura yet. She finally gets tired of it and decides she has to do something about it--even if that's against his will.
+ Art: Itachi's hair down in general--flying in the wind/eating sweets. Bloody Sasuke. Sasuke and lanterns/leaves. Sasuke touching a bloody eye after a battle. Kisame swimming, or touching water, or surrounded by rain/shadows. Sakura in costume--maybe a princess, witch, or a Grim Reaper? Naruto and Kurama. Sharingan imagery.
+ Darker AU. Seduction. Poisons. Maybe murder.
Ships: Sakura/Naruto/Sasuke, Sakura/Itachi/Kisame, Sakura/Kisame, Sakura/Itachi, Sasuke/Naruto, Sasuke/Itachi, Itachi/Naruto, Itachi/Orochimaru, honestly do what you want with pairings
Original Work
Fanart, Fanfiction
Characters:
- Owner of a Haunted Violin
+ Possessed each time they're on stage.
+ Art: performing on stage, what the owner looks like while they play, evil spirit coming out of the violin
- Queen of the Cats
+ She has a black cat army. Halloween is interesting with pranks.
+ Halloween festival in the land of cats.
+ Art: queen sitting on a throne of cats around her, queens pets cats, queen admires cats
- House In The Space Between Realities
+ Who lives at the house? A family, a child, siblings, or a two friends or lovers that set out to explore the house before it disappears?
+ The house used to be on a burial mound, or other strange ritual site. The energy of it transported the house between realities. Is the between realities a gloomy place?
+ There's no way out of space between realities.
+ Art: Surrealist sort of look with mist and clouds surrounding the house.
- Card Magician
+ Magician uses different tarot/playing cards for magical use
+ Actually having to battle with the cards.
+ Art: fire, metal, wood, joker, queen, giant monsters, flashy blackgrounds
- Destined Hero Who Just Wants A Quiet Life
+ What if the super villain has a thing for the hero! They're totally ready for this hate relationship to begin, but the hero isn't buying it, and they have to be creative about this kind of thing.
+ Art: hero dressed up as a hero, holding destined object (magic ball, sword), posing with the super villain
- Female Counselor Working at the Camp Where Those Murders Happened Years Ago
+ Suddenly, years later, one of the kids is targeted. The counselor notices the signs.
+ What kind of camp is it? A summer camp with sports events? Art?
+ The person who committed the murders never wanted to leave. Neither did they want anyone else.
+ Counselor/whoever is at the camp is welcome. Another counselor that agrees the camp is creepy, or someone that is taking part at the camp and takes a liking to the counselor.
+ A cabin is haunted.
+ Art: Water. Curved weapons. Bloody clothing. Evidence.
- Last Survivor of an Exploration Party in Uncharted Territory
+ A soldier. An anthropologist. A normal civilian there because they won a trip to the uncharted territory and this isn't what they expected, but the make do with it.
+ How do they go about surviving? Monsters attack them. They come close to dying often.
+ Art: Dust. Long stretch of long. Stars. Long roads. Tools.
- Magic student
+ Rivalry with another student.
+ Art: Wands, potions, sparks, performing magic (elemental?). Wearing robes. Familiar.
- Moss Covered Unicorn
+ A piece of the unicorn's moss is worth gold.
+ Moss is a curse. The once beautiful, proud unicorn is covered in it. It needs to break the curse.
+ The unicorn lives in a swampy/forest area.
+ Art: Green/blue moss. Long, flowy moss all the way to its legs. Bright green/blue/white horn.
- Slowly Dying GPS System on a Rural Road at Midnight
+ Eventually, they have to get out of the car and explore.
Fanart, Fanfiction
Characters:
- Daiba Nana
- Kagura Hikari
+ Nana's struggle to keep the other girls safe and make it to the top.
+ Hikari's feelings about trying to be the top stage girl. How does the surrealism translate to her own feelings?
+ Art: Halloween themed revue.
Ships: Hikari/Karen, Nana/Junna
Treat, Trick
Fanart, Fanfiction
- Ortfiné Federicka von Eylstadt
- Izetta
+ Eylstadt throws a Halloween celebration for witches, although it's mainly for Izetta.
+ Finé and Izetta's life post-canon. Is it happier after everything, or are there still dark times?
+ A deeper look into Izetta's power.
+ If things hadn't been resolved peacefully.
+ Ghost of a previous witch gives Izetta advice.
+ Art: Finé dressed up like a witch herself. Pumpkins, candy, bats, cauldrons, cobwebs.
Ships: Finé/Izetta
Treat, Trick
Fanart
- Sumeragi Subaru
- Sakurazuka Seishirou
+ Emphasis on the ofuda, spells, circles, pentagrams (the one on Subaru's hand).
+ Ghosts. The dark/shadowy curses. Subaru exorcises one? A malevolent one for Seishirou.
+ Blood and shikifuku.
+ Seishirou with vampire fangs.
+ Subaru dressed up as a werewolf or mummy? Seishirou unraveling the mummy bandages.
+ Since Seishirou likes candy, a picture of him surrounded by it.
+ Mirrors. Glass. Cup with blood.
Ships: Subaru/Seishirou, Hokuto/Seishirou, Subaru/Hokuto