Candy Hearts 2024 Letter

Thank you so much for writing for me! I've done my best to list any relevant general likes and prompts/ideas, but they're by no means comprehensive - please go in any direction you like for these relationship dynamics. I love surprises!

General Likes:

• Characters trapped in a confined space/any place they can't leave, and growing closer as a result of the experience.
• Enemies, rivals, or unlikely allies forced to work together towards a common goal and/or for their survival.
• Found family dynamics; choosing to love a person/group of people unconditionally as family.
• Intense, all-consuming relationships where two (or more) characters are inextricably bound by circumstance or trauma and develop a unique connection as a result.
• Strange circumstances and/or traumatic events bringing two (or more) people closer in a way that makes them feel like no one else understands them.
• A character finding out about another character's trauma or pain and doing their best to comfort/support them.
• Emotional and/or physical hurt/comfort.
• Friends with benefits dynamics.
• Characters who were once close reuniting after many years and difficulties that parted them.
• Deep bonds between two people who should (and maybe do) hate one another but feel like the other is the only one who understands them.
• Characters seeing an unexpected side to another character and growing closer as a result.
• Crack treated seriously.
• Time travel, particularly if it deals with the shock of being in a completely different cultural context and/or the time travelling character having to adjust to the differences.
• Forced intimacy - including bodyswaps, sex pollen, Fuck or Die plots, characters being magically bound together.

DNWs:

• Depiction of sexual acts featuring any character below the age of 18 (brief references to a character having had underage sex or references to childhood abuse are fine).
• Vore; disembowelment.
• Scat; cock & ball torture; cock cages; castration; sounding; rimming.
• Mafia or sci-fi AUs.

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Ghosts (TV 2019)

Fandom-specific DNW: no AUs where the ghosts are living humans in the modern world (unless they are "brought back to life" one day during their tenure as ghosts, or else time-travel from their original era to the present day).

 

Humphrey Bone & Alison Cooper

I would love to read anything about their dynamic! I loved it when they teamed up to prank the other ghosts on April Fool’s Day. I also love it when Humphrey gets to join in the fun. Maybe Alison finds a way to bring Humphrey with her on “adventures” around the estate? Or maybe Alison tries to get him to help with a Tudor homework assignment for Mia, and he ends up telling her a bit about his life and marriage?

The Captain & Mike Cooper

I just think the Captain would love to be friends with Mike (and they’d probably both be incredibly awkward and earnest at each other if they could actually interact properly). Maybe the Captain discovers a ghostly ability that allows Mike to hear/see/communicate with him in some way? Or else Mike comes up with some creative ways to befriend the Captain without being about to hear or see him?

The Captain & Alison Cooper

It strikes me that Alison wasn’t there to hear the Captain’s story about his death, or his feelings for Havers. I’d love to read something where they delve into his history together a bit. Perhaps Alison looks into the lives of the soldiers who lived at Button House during the war at the Captain’s request – and maybe she finds out what happened to Havers after the Captain died?

Alison Cooper & Julian Fawcett

I feel like Alison sometimes reminds Julian of the daughter he wasn’t able to raise, and I’d love to read something where he takes on a paternal, comforting, and/or protective role towards her (especially if he’s quite bad at it and falls back on his usual off-colour jokes and general crassness).

Humphrey Bone/Alison Cooper/Mike Cooper

Honestly I just think it would be really funny if both Alison and Mike got a crush on Humphrey. (Imagine how mad about it Thomas would be...) I'd read literally anything for this trio, the more unhinged the better - maybe Humphrey wakes up corporeal one day, with his head reattached, and Alison and Mike both realise he's actually really handsome. Maybe Alison and Mike time travel back to Tudor England and Humphrey takes them under his wing. Maybe Humphrey accidentally sees something he shouldn't when his head is left in Alison and Mike's bedroom (and maybe Alison/Mike decide they actually don't mind at all?).

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山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)

Shen Shen & Wen Kexing

I think the history between these two is fascinating – and although there will always be a part of Wen Kexing that can’t forgive Shen Shen, they are the last two who really remember Wen Kexing’s parents. I’d be interested to read anything featuring a tentative reconciliation or friendship post-canon, and/or the ways they both grudgingly unite to protect Chengling.

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괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV)

Kang Minjeong & Park Jeongje

I’d love to read anything about Park Jeongje’s role in Minjeong’s life growing up, and how she came to trust him. Does she ever find him “weird” or unsettling, like her father, or is there something different that she sees in him that helps her relate to him? What would have happened if Jeongje hadn’t walked her back to her father’s house that night, but instead let her stay at his or took her to Dongsik’s place?

Park Jeongje & Yoo Jaeyi

I find Jaeyi’s relationship with Jeongje – the way he goes straight to her shop when drunk and messily blurting out secrets, the way she tells him he needs to do the right thing, the way they deal with Oh Jihun together at Minjeong’s funeral – to be really intriguing. I’d be really interested to read about the way their friendship is affected by the revelation of Jeongje’s role in Yuyeon’s death, and if Jaeyi is able to forgive and/or re-establish their connection. Does she ever feel scared of him? Does she see something of her own denial around her mother’s death in the way he repressed his role in Yuyeon’s death? How did they become friends in the first place, and what did that dynamic look like before the events of the show?

Han Juwon/Lee Dongsik/Yoo Jaeyi

I love how these three parallel each other. They've all lost so much and connect with each other in a way that's difficult for anyone outside that dynamic to get. I'd love to read anything for this trio - perhaps something mid-show where Han Juwon still doesn't fully trust either of them/thinks he's only getting closer to them for 'information', when he's actually developing real feelings? Or a post-canon reunion, with the three of them being the last ones left in the butcher shop after the other members of the group leave?