Trick or Treat Exchange 2024

!Please, just because I have more prompts or more to say about a fandom (or prompt) doesn’t mean I want it more, it just means that I have more to say. I want all of these equally!

Using unrequested characters, as long as a requested character is also included is fine by me, especially if it helps you create a better piece that you have more fun working on. The same applies to creating original characters for the purpose of a fic, especially for AUs or ideas that take place pre or post canon.

And please remember, I'm a huge fan of 'optional details are optional' and if none of what I've written out for the different characters and fandoms here matches what you want to write for me, feel free to ignore it and write the fic that you want!

General DNWS:
- Permanent Protagonist death (killing antagonists is fine - I specify antagonists because this being horror, a protagonist could be a villain)
- Mindbreak/total loss of sense of self (I want the character to have some hint of what they were, even if they're not totally the same)
- Scat/Watersports
- Mundane AUs (but I love ‘what if?’ style fics and AUs focused around bad ending scenarios)
- Vore (cannibalism, monsters and monstrous characters mauling/eating someone are all totally fine and even encouraged when appropriate, I just don't want anyone getting swallowed whole)
- All the way through penetration
- Characters ending up as Mundane Zombies (any sort of more heavily mutated zombie adjacent things are fine though)

What I Like: I love monsters in all contexts and situations. If you're looking at my prompts and don't know what to write for me minimum wordcount of whatever you like as long as it features a nonhuman character is going to be a safe bet for something I'll adore. Seriously, give me monsters or anything similar any way you like and I'll be happy.

In horror/trick style pieces don't feel the need to shy away from violence or gore, especially with characters who can dish out (or survive!) that kind of punishment. This extends to the kinds of injuries/gore (dismemberment, harm to hands, fingers and fingernails, eye trauma, damage to teeth and tongues, disembowelment and so on) that are typically considered opt-in or are often DNWs for people.

Graphically described body horror, traumatic transformations and the like are very fun for me.

And in the opposite direction of horror - I love fluff, the more tooth rotting the better. Creepy fluff, or tender moments with characters where you don't expect that kind of thing is super fun for me as well, but fluff in general is something I enjoy. Attack me in the feels with the sweetest things you can think of, go for it, I'm ready!

 

 

Resident Evil

- Carlos Oliveira: Remake won me over with Carlos and I now love him. Give me pre-canon adventures working for Umbrella, missing scenes set during the events of the game, or his adventures afterwards (working as a mercenary I assume, but if you want him running, haunted by his past, that’s cool too!). I’d love to see him in all sorts of dangerous situations, dealing with B.O.W.s and zombies during the events of the game, coming to terms with who he’s working for, and afterwards. Or if you're in the mood for something light and happy, what does he do on his down-time, how does he unwind and relax between all his adventures - maybe he has what would be considered a really mundane or boring hobby that he's super into, something you wouldn't expect of a badass mercenary, like baking or knitting or something similar (note, I do not consider these to actually be boring and if you want to use a hobby you have feel free to go into technical details about it because that's awesome). I think things like that would be especially cool if he's actually really good at whatever it is.

- Chris Redfield: Chris is one of the characters where I’d love to see missing scene style fics or focus on what’s happened to him between games. Or pre-canon, I wonder about his time in the military, or before that him and Claire growing up together. What was childhood like for the Redfield siblings?

I mean I’m always up for what-if situations like if he were the one to infect himself with the C-virus instead of Piers, but Chris is very much one of the characters where I just want to see more of what he does when he’s not trying to hunt down Wesker or stop the next world-ending viral outbreak.

- Claire Redfield: Again, I’d love focus on her childhood, her relationship with her older brother though I’m also fond of fics set later on in the series and her dealing with survivor’s guilt. I wish I had more to say about Claire and Chris, but they’re just characters I love seeing different people’s takes on and would love to see the fic that you wanted to create when you offered either of them.

- Jake Muller: With Jake there’s so much potential for horror. Missing scenes from his time a NeoUmbrella’s captive, post RE6 him continuing work as a mercenary, fighting B.O.W.s, escaping from them, the people who created them and possibly the BSAA while he’s there. He could end up in a bad situation because some organization manages to discover that he’s Albert Wesker’s son (imagine how valuable that must make him for research purposes!).

And because I’m always up for infected characters, maybe being Wesker’s son doesn’t mean he’s immune to the viruses of the setting, maybe it just means that he stays sane and himself after being infected. An AU where he’s not as resistant to the C-virus would make me so happy, or maybe something set post-RE6 where Jake starts realizing there’s something wrong with him. Maybe it starts as receiving an injury that should have killed him, but doesn’t, or he realizes he’s stronger, faster, his senses and reflexes seem better, which is awesome, but it doesn’t stop there…Mutations could be subtle or drastic, how does he cope with them? Is he bothered, or is there something about what’s happening to him, some mental change that means he’s not as horrified as he knows he should be? Maybe it takes actual effort for him to keep track of what’s going wrong. Does he seek help or does he continue working as a mercenary afterwards?

Or go for something that happened way, way before RE6 from when Jake was still an innocent little kid. Give me a glimpse into his childhood, doing ordinary things and having as happy a childhood as was possible for him growing up with his mother and the lies she must have told him about his absent father. Along those lines, go straight for the feels and write something about Jake as a little boy imagining what his father must have been like and how wonderful it would be to get the chance to finally meet him.

- Jill Valentine: Missing scenes between the mansion incident and being pursued by Nemesis would be fun, her dealing with STARS being disbanded and discredited, regarded as mentally unstable because of what she’s seen and how no one could possibly believe her.

The worry she felt during any of the times that Chris went missing, vanished without a trace.

Her thoughts falling out the window, hands at Wesker’s throat, only to wake up in a lab.

Her time as Wesker’s captive, the experiments she must have been forced to help him with, or been a test subject for.

After that, being rescued by Chris and then seeming to vanish from the series. Were there lingering effects from the P-30 and everything else she was exposed to?

Or infected character AU scenarios. When Nemesis infected her with the T-virus, if the T-Abyss virus vaccine didn’t work, her time as Wesker’s captive and test subject (Jill infected with Uroboros is an idea that’s long fascinated me). Or even go post canon, the reason she’s vanished is complications from all of everything she’s been exposed to and she’s not exactly (or if you want to go all out, even remotely) human anymore.

For treat style pieces, the early days of S.T.A.R.S., before Umbrella was revealed for what it was, hanging out with friends, having good times, just being ordinary. Or moments set during the series, between missions, her relaxing on her downtime and finding ways to have fun. Long phone calls catching up with friends, finding ways to make time to have fun between saving the world, finding fun where she can.

- Piers Nivans: What exactly made him decide to join the BSAA? Because I’m going to be honest with you, ever since he was introduced I was trying to figure out what place a sniper has in an organization that’s primarily about killing monsters. Like really, how does that help against a pack of Hunters or a swarm of zombies, and then I thought, what if he’s there to take out the people who make them? Like, visualize, a researcher is walking down the street or the CEO of some biomedical company is on the way to their car after a board meeting and…

Because that’s a definite kind of horror there, especially in you want to play with darker aspects of the setting.

Or dive right in with the events of RE6 and give me some body horror (I will not say no to this, I love body horror!), or give me an AU where he survives and mutates further or tries to figure out if he can still work for the BSAA, or he washes up on the shore and just starts dealing with the zombies and J’avo on his own.

- Sherry Birkin: Ah, adorable little Sherry. Give me missing scenes of her out in Raccoon city, searching for her father, her encountering him where he’s mutated beyond recognition, delirious fever dreams when she’s infected, her growing up basically belonging to Simmons as a pet project, bargaining for her freedom, getting sent out on a mission that she only half understands, finding out the truth about Simmons, ending up a captive of NeoUmbrella. There’s so much potential for horror with Sherry.

Again, because I’m predictable, infected AU situations are always something I’ll enjoy. Claire being too little too late to save her and us finding out what successful integrating of the G-virus with a host means, her mutating under Simmons’ care (possibly as the result of something he does to her, not that she might know), hitting puberty and having the added horror of becoming something not at all human (and all too reminiscent of her late father?), or something happening while she’s a captive of NeoUmbrella.

But it's not just horror that I want with her, I'd love to see scenes from her childhood, her parents doing the best they could to raise her right. This is kind of an aside, but I like to imagine that before things when bad and the events of the games started the Birkins tried to be good parents even if they might not have been the best at it. I'd love family fluff and feels with Sherry and her family.

And because of this exchange I cannot stop thinking about Sherry out trick or treating as a little kid with one or both of her parents. Is that not the most heartbreakingly adorable thing imaginable?

- Sheva Alomar: Sheva’s a character that hardly ever gets any attention and I kind of just want anything featuring her – her career in the BSAA before the events of RE5, or the events that lead to her joining the BSAA in the first place are interesting to be – supposedly her family were killed by B.O.W.s and that’s stuck with me about her. Was the tragedy an accident, creatures escaping from a lab somewhere, or was it deliberate – part of a test of the effectiveness of a new variety of Hunter or Licker, or was it part of some conflict going on in the background of the rest of the events of the series?

And what happens after the events of RE5? Is it back to business as usual for her as a member of the BSAA or did the truth about Tricell leave the whole organization shaken. I mean Excella and her company provided a not insignificant portion of the BSAA’s funding and to be the one who was there when it was revealed that the company was basically just a surviving branch of Umbrella had to have been a lot to process.

- Any B.O.W./Any Player Character: I like monsters, this series is full of ‘em. Pick a monster, pick a character, go wild. Seriously, I’m up for anything you can think of.

The standard situation of one of the many creatures of the series catching the protagonist off guard with something other than murderous intent is fine by me, but if that’s not your thing I’m up for fluff and feels where the B.O.W. is another character who was infected and the encounter is pure romance and sweetness as the two of them reassure each other, figuring out what is different and what remains the same.

- Carlos Oliveira/Chris Redfield/Jill Valentine: I want to read about this particular Jill sandwich. I'd prefer that none of them are coerced into the situation by the other requested characters and that there's no awkwardness during or after. These three having good, fun, hot sex that all enjoy in the end (even if that comes as a surprise to one or more of them!) is what I want, though a bit of humor is always appreciated. Set it up any way you like, sexpollen, a drunken good idea, something that all of them've just thought about doing, anything, go wild. Oh, and don't think that you need to make it that the two of them are strictly double-teaming Jill, anyone can do anything to anyone at any time. I have no hierarchy of who I like doing what to who in threesomes as long as everyone's enjoying it.

- Sherry Birkin/Jake Muller: I just love these two as a couple, him the tough guy, cynical and jaded, Sherry incurably optimistic and endearing despite having been through hell. An extended or missing scene from the game, a chance encounter between them on some future mission, anything where the two of them are getting through some tough situation together, or them just having the chance to do something kind of ordinary and share a tender moment together. Sherry and Jake deserve all of the nice things and I'd love silly, cute, endearing, or just plain heartwarming fluff featuring these two.

If you want to go with something full on horror, I’m always up for depictions of Sherry where her G-virus infection does more than make her stronger, more durable and makes her age at a slower rate. Eyes in unnatural places, extra limbs, fangs, things being just not right are very fun for me if you want to play around with body horror ideas. Sherry having to explain or show Jake why she doesn’t want to consummate their relationship would be awesome, and Jake’s reaction is up to you, ranging anywhere from totally fine to nope! and being glad that Sherry wasn’t want their relationship to get physical.

Or, since the G-virus does funny things to the infected, making it so that reproduction comes first and foremost, maybe Jake doesn’t get a choice in the matter and is lucky to survive an encounter with an amorous (visibly infected?) Sherry. Despite my love of monsters, Sherry doesn’t need to be one for this situation, Jake being ravaged by an amorous, adorable little blond who won’t take no for an answer while the two of them are captives of NeoUmbrella would be so much fun.

 

Prototype

- Alex Mercer: Since he’s a not human, I’d love something focused on that, him fighting the infected, him tracking down someone to consume them, him dealing with all of the conflicting memories he’s acquired. Or him trying to pretend to be human for Dana’s sake. Or him losing control of his powers, becoming something more obviously inhuman, fighting with instincts that he doesn’t want to act on. Body horror is my jam here and Alex is body horror the character.

Or give me an AU where after the events of the first game he's trying to be a better brother to Dana or a better person in general, even if he's not terribly good at it by virtue of not being human.

Or here’s something that’s rarely explored – literally anything pre-canon about Alex. Him growing up, him getting a job with Gentech, him starting work on the Blacklight virus or learning (too much about Hope and Elizabeth Greene?)

- Robert Cross: With Cross I have two wildly divergent lines of thought for works that could be considered 'tricks'. One is that I’d love a fic about him doing his job, tracking down runners and killing them and all the infected they might have created. Or to put it another way, Cross being a horrifying, masked pursuer, mercilessly tracking down a frightened young girl, killing everyone she’s met in her attempt to escape him and then killing her. Because his job description is basically ‘be the villain of an old slasher movie to protect humanity from a horrible, mutagenic virus’.

Other line of thought is a sort of bad end AU where he ends up infected, somehow, not like in the game where the supreme hybrid consumes him and steals his form and memories, but Cross himself genuinely infected. I want to see either how it happens, or his thoughts on becoming what he’s spent the better part of his life eradicating. Is he conflicted, wondering how long he should let things carry on before reporting what’s happened and turning himself in to be destroyed (or worse, kept for research?) or does he keep at it, determined to track down Alex and have one last victory, trying to die a hero rather than a monster?

And if you want to write me a treat, please go for it! I definitely want to see what Cross does between missions or when he has down time. He's such a horrifying badass that I'd love to see something focused on him getting the chance to just be a normal person, something that humanizes him.

- Elizabeth Greene: Anything about her during or before! The events of the game would be super fun. How much of her is left, how does she feel about the situation she’s ended up in, what kind of experiments did she undergo? Or take things all the way back to Hope, what was it like when the infection first began to manifest and/or things first started falling apart?

Or go even further back to write me a treat style fic, back when everything was fine and she was just an ordinary young woman, full of dreams and ambitions and in a situation where everything seemed like it was only going to get better.

 

Original Work

- Angler Fish Mermaid: I like mermaids, I like fish, combining unusual types of fish with mermaids is something that I think is so fascinating. Yeah, horror works for this given appearances and biology and the deep sea in general, but what about this mermaid just living her best life in a world of inky blackness punctuated by occasional flashes of bioluminescence? I mean she’d have no frame of reference to how frightening a human would find her.

- Girl Who Just Got Transformed Into A Real Version Of The Halloween Costume She Was Wearing or Guy Who Just Got Transformed Into A Real Version Of The Halloween Costume He Was Wearing: Is it just them or have other people been transformed as well? Did this happen at a costume party, while they were still at home, or on the way to somewhere? Do they notice at first or does it take a bit for them to piece together that something's strange? Are they horrified or are they happy? This could be humor just as easily as horror and I'm fine with either direction.

- Angel Carcass Fallen From the Sky & Scientists Studying It: I saw this and immediately started thinking about the crisis of faith this would create for anyone, no matter what religion they are and no matter what cosmology the angels appear to come from. I mean, why are they falling now of all times? Are they from some vast heavenly war that took place untold eons ago and are only reaching earth now (like the divine version of a whalefall in the deep sea?!?) or is there a new divine conflict taking place? Is that what the scientists are trying to figure out?

Bonus points if the angels are enormous and terrifying as some descriptions of them would suggest that they can be.

- Baby Bigfoot & Mother Bigfoot: Oh my goodness! This is the most adorable thing ever and I would love a slice-of-life fic about these two. Tell me everything there is to know about these criptids and their lives.

- Bigfoot/Mothman: How do two criptids meet each other and form a relationship? Especially when Bigfoot is so shy and cautious and the Mothman is an omen if impending disaster. Is it a kind of opposites attract situation or is the dating scene for criptids so small that geographical overlap is enough and then you make things work?

For silly fun, do they enjoy playing pranks on hikers and unwary travelers late at night?

- Goth Monster Girl/Girly Pink-Loving Monster Girl: I like monsters and the idea of these two aesthetically opposite individuals as a couple is adorable. And when I say that I like monsters, I really like monsters so feel free to be as creative as you want and go wild with what you imagine them looking like. Feel free to go more monster than girl if you feel inspired to and make this as adorable or as horrifying as you want!

 

 

James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small

No character specific prompts for this one because what I love is just the general feel of this setting and the potential for either horror or delightful and adorable twists after tense buildup that comes with being a country vet working in remote areas with a wide variety of clients and animals.

Did any of the characters have an encounter late at night, or in broad daylight down a deserted road in on the way to or from a farm? Remote areas can be frightening even in the middle of the day after all and sometimes that makes some of the things that happen even all the more difficult to believe. It’s fully possible to get lost on a perfectly straight stretch of road after all, or at least feel that way as you drive along, convinced that some landmark should have appeared already or that you looked the wrong way at the exact wrong moment and missed it.

And then there are the animals themselves. Sometimes you encounter an animal, of any sort, that just doesn’t seem right in some way, supernatural or otherwise.

Not to mention all of the ghosts, criptids and monsters that inhabit the English countryside. If you were to write me something featuring one of them, be it well known or obscure (I love learning about myths or local legends!) I would be so happy.