Shipoween Letter
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person4Sorry for how lackluster half my sign-up was! I was literally dozing off when I suddenly realized "Oh crap, Shipoween is about to close! Double shit, in less than an hour!" and then my computer was working so poorly that I couldn't even get to the form until ten minutes before closing. ;_; But it's functioning again, so hooray!
Billie Eilish (Musician)
Billie Eilish/Finneas O'Connell (Billie Eilish RPF)
I'm usually not really a RPF person, but man does the whole story of these two click with me.
Anything focusing on the two of them making music with each other would be great. Or, in pairings with musicians I love them getting all hopped up on a good set and a good crowd and jumping their love interest as soon as they get backstage, though obviously in this case there would be the added twist of needing to hide it until they could get in private so nobody could see anything inappropriate between the siblings. Something where neither of them ever actually considered it until they saw people online speculating about whether they were too close? Finneas say that some of the songs he writes he just hands straight over to her because he likes hearing them in her voice better, something where he does that with some more romantic songs hoping she'll pick up that they're to her as well as for her? Or other way around, where he realizes she's singing something she worked out herself for him.
Or, if you'd rather go a bit sideways from straight RPF, something based on one of her videos would be cool too. Like, something based on Bury a Friend would certainly be Halloweeny! Finneas breaking into the haunted building/hospital to try to rescue her? Something where the background of Everything I Wanted gets less innocent after the part we're told of?
Ready or Not
Daniel Le Domas/Grace Le Domas
Obviously, I'd love any type of fix-it where Daniel survives the night. I'd rather Grace not end up in her own deal with a devil for it though, I'd rather they fight like hell and come away hell-free. I think I could get behind the opposite though, her getting approached by an angelic being (especially if it's one with a creepy inhuman vibe) who'd consider managing to extract even one soul from Le Bail's deal to be a win and will help her out to get it.
While time loop fic set the night of the game has already become a big standard trope for the pairing, I'd also be interested in seeing something where one of them travels back even further than that to try to fix things. Like, she's meeting him for the first time pre-movie and she suddenly goes from being mildly perturbed at her lover's married brother hitting on her to scrambling to grab him and get the hell away from Alex. Or he tries to figure out where she is before she and Alex first meet, so he can be the brother she encounters first.
Or something where the win condition of the wedding night loop isn't Daniel and Grace both making it through, but a pass where most everyone survives (maybe because they arrange a sacrifice or someone else, maybe because the win condition is successfully summoning Le Bail up and renegotiating the contract, maybe because the win condition is Grace just going 'You know what, you're right, we don't need to get married' and getting on the phone without a lawyer before she can draw a card) and she needs to deal with the fallout of Alex still being alive and thinking they still have a loving relationship when her affections have shifted fully over to his brother.
I'd also be interested in a story that just glosses over how the fix-it happens, and instead focuses on the two of them connecting after the stress of that night wears off and they face each other again with clear heads, her knowing everything, and him knowing that his entire family is dead because of them.
Or an AU where when she was little Grace was adopted by Helene (or by Tony for Helene whether she wants a child or not) to try to give her something else to focus her affection on after her own game of Hide and Seek, and as she grows up she starts to fall for her trashfire cousin that almost nobody else seems to care about. Is she in on the family secrets in this world, or does Helene lock her out since she doesn't view her as really being a Le Domas? If she was locked out of the loop does Daniel realize that, or does he go on with the relationship thinking that she's fully aware what she's potentially facing if they get married and realizes too late that she doesn't have a clue?
Or an alternate meeting AU where Daniel is just the brother Grace meets first, before he marries Charity, they click well together, and he gets all messed up about the fact that he should not be letting himself like someone that he'd be unwilling to possibly see dead so much.
Ghostbusters (2016)
Erin Gilbert/Jillian Holtzmann (Ghostbusters 2016)
I will freely admit that I'm mostly into this pairing because I love Holtzmann and want her to be happy (not that I don't like Erin, but she's not the one whose dorky flirting with a girl who's too distracted by the resident hot guy to notice calls out to my own dorky queer heart, lol). I'm fine whether you'd want to run with an Erin who's never figured out (or just never allowed herself to figure out) that she's bi before or with one who knows but just takes some time to get start seeing Holtz that way.
I've always liked the old stuck in a Canadian Shack with only one blanket trope, so maybe a Ghostbusters twist on that where they're stuck in a haunted house that splits up the party and Erin and Holtz end up trapped in a room together long enough for sparks to fly?
Erin finally spends enough time around Kevin to get used to his hotness (I'm fine with keeping that crush in spite of my unrequested pairing DNW, btw, I just forgot to edit it in), or even successfully hooks up with him, and her brain finally clicks that she would not be down for that level of intelligence gap in an actual relationship and opens itself up to the fact that there's been another hot blonde flirting with her this whole time that doesn't have that issue?
Something sciencey where Erin's the one helping Holtz out with one of her inventions? Flirting over the innards of some new weapon as it comes together? Or working on it with her and Dr. Gorin, with this being Holtzmann's way of having her mentor get to know and hopefully her new girlfriend?
Something where as a sign of affection Holtzmann hunts down Gretta DeMille's ghost and busts it for Erin? (Something where as a more cracked sign of affection she loses Gretta DeMille in the middle of Erin's next high school reunion the show them all Ghost Girl was right about her nasty neighbor becoming a ghost? ...Though she might need to be recording what happens, since I doubt Erin would be interested in going.)
Or just pull out any ghosty, ghouly, or folkloric nasty that you feel like to have them fight against! Feel free to run with the same lose definition of 'ghost' the old cartoon shows had, where any type of mythological creature or urban legend could turn out to actually be one.
Baccano!
Chane Laforet/Claire Stanfield (Baccano!)
First of all, while I'm not super-strongly familiar with the novels I do know enough about what happens with Chane and Claire that if you want to pull some from them instead of purely from the anime it's not going to throw me if everyone is calling Claire Felix or if Leeza or Renee show up.
I really love the mix of creepy and sweet between these two, that both are absolutely deadly if need be, and everything about the shadow of Huey behind Chane. Claire understanding Chane even though she can't say a thing is great too.
Something focusing on their wedding? With how far their connections stretch out it could be the event of the underworld if they wanted it to- I can imagine Claire wanting to give that to her even if she doesn't actually care about a large wedding. (Does Ladd crash? I wouldn't be surprised if Ladd crashed.)
Chane being forced into a position where she finally needs to decide the answer to the question of whether she would pick Claire over Huey if it ever came down to it?
AU where Claire hadn't run off with the circus yet when Huey and Chane tried recruiting him back in the twenties, and how things would have developed between them if they'd met and worked together sooner?
Something where Renee comes up with an idea for an experiment she just needs to run on the little guinea pig she produced regardless of the promise she made Claire and shows up to try to snag Chane, and how that goes with Claire defending her (or enjoying not needing to defend her but having fun fighting his mother-in-law alongside her anyway). Or where she does keep her word and Leeza's the one she targets insead, and Chane and Claire go together to save her sister from the parent they're less fully willing to be used by?
Billie Eilish/Finneas O'Connell (Billie Eilish RPF)
I'm usually not really a RPF person, but man does the whole story of these two click with me.
Anything focusing on the two of them making music with each other would be great. Or, in pairings with musicians I love them getting all hopped up on a good set and a good crowd and jumping their love interest as soon as they get backstage, though obviously in this case there would be the added twist of needing to hide it until they could get in private so nobody could see anything inappropriate between the siblings. Something where neither of them ever actually considered it until they saw people online speculating about whether they were too close? Finneas say that some of the songs he writes he just hands straight over to her because he likes hearing them in her voice better, something where he does that with some more romantic songs hoping she'll pick up that they're to her as well as for her? Or other way around, where he realizes she's singing something she worked out herself for him.
Or, if you'd rather go a bit sideways from straight RPF, something based on one of her videos would be cool too. Like, something based on Bury a Friend would certainly be Halloweeny! Finneas breaking into the haunted building/hospital to try to rescue her? Something where the background of Everything I Wanted gets less innocent after the part we're told of?
Daniel Le Domas/Grace Le Domas
Obviously, I'd love any type of fix-it where Daniel survives the night. I'd rather Grace not end up in her own deal with a devil for it though, I'd rather they fight like hell and come away hell-free. I think I could get behind the opposite though, her getting approached by an angelic being (especially if it's one with a creepy inhuman vibe) who'd consider managing to extract even one soul from Le Bail's deal to be a win and will help her out to get it.
While time loop fic set the night of the game has already become a big standard trope for the pairing, I'd also be interested in seeing something where one of them travels back even further than that to try to fix things. Like, she's meeting him for the first time pre-movie and she suddenly goes from being mildly perturbed at her lover's married brother hitting on her to scrambling to grab him and get the hell away from Alex. Or he tries to figure out where she is before she and Alex first meet, so he can be the brother she encounters first.
Or something where the win condition of the wedding night loop isn't Daniel and Grace both making it through, but a pass where most everyone survives (maybe because they arrange a sacrifice or someone else, maybe because the win condition is successfully summoning Le Bail up and renegotiating the contract, maybe because the win condition is Grace just going 'You know what, you're right, we don't need to get married' and getting on the phone without a lawyer before she can draw a card) and she needs to deal with the fallout of Alex still being alive and thinking they still have a loving relationship when her affections have shifted fully over to his brother.
I'd also be interested in a story that just glosses over how the fix-it happens, and instead focuses on the two of them connecting after the stress of that night wears off and they face each other again with clear heads, her knowing everything, and him knowing that his entire family is dead because of them.
Or an AU where when she was little Grace was adopted by Helene (or by Tony for Helene whether she wants a child or not) to try to give her something else to focus her affection on after her own game of Hide and Seek, and as she grows up she starts to fall for her trashfire cousin that almost nobody else seems to care about. Is she in on the family secrets in this world, or does Helene lock her out since she doesn't view her as really being a Le Domas? If she was locked out of the loop does Daniel realize that, or does he go on with the relationship thinking that she's fully aware what she's potentially facing if they get married and realizes too late that she doesn't have a clue?
Or an alternate meeting AU where Daniel is just the brother Grace meets first, before he marries Charity, they click well together, and he gets all messed up about the fact that he should not be letting himself like someone that he'd be unwilling to possibly see dead so much.
Erin Gilbert/Jillian Holtzmann (Ghostbusters 2016)
I will freely admit that I'm mostly into this pairing because I love Holtzmann and want her to be happy (not that I don't like Erin, but she's not the one whose dorky flirting with a girl who's too distracted by the resident hot guy to notice calls out to my own dorky queer heart, lol). I'm fine whether you'd want to run with an Erin who's never figured out (or just never allowed herself to figure out) that she's bi before or with one who knows but just takes some time to get start seeing Holtz that way.
I've always liked the old stuck in a Canadian Shack with only one blanket trope, so maybe a Ghostbusters twist on that where they're stuck in a haunted house that splits up the party and Erin and Holtz end up trapped in a room together long enough for sparks to fly?
Erin finally spends enough time around Kevin to get used to his hotness (I'm fine with keeping that crush in spite of my unrequested pairing DNW, btw, I just forgot to edit it in), or even successfully hooks up with him, and her brain finally clicks that she would not be down for that level of intelligence gap in an actual relationship and opens itself up to the fact that there's been another hot blonde flirting with her this whole time that doesn't have that issue?
Something sciencey where Erin's the one helping Holtz out with one of her inventions? Flirting over the innards of some new weapon as it comes together? Or working on it with her and Dr. Gorin, with this being Holtzmann's way of having her mentor get to know and hopefully her new girlfriend?
Something where as a sign of affection Holtzmann hunts down Gretta DeMille's ghost and busts it for Erin? (Something where as a more cracked sign of affection she loses Gretta DeMille in the middle of Erin's next high school reunion the show them all Ghost Girl was right about her nasty neighbor becoming a ghost? ...Though she might need to be recording what happens, since I doubt Erin would be interested in going.)
Or just pull out any ghosty, ghouly, or folkloric nasty that you feel like to have them fight against! Feel free to run with the same lose definition of 'ghost' the old cartoon shows had, where any type of mythological creature or urban legend could turn out to actually be one.
Chane Laforet/Claire Stanfield (Baccano!)
First of all, while I'm not super-strongly familiar with the novels I do know enough about what happens with Chane and Claire that if you want to pull some from them instead of purely from the anime it's not going to throw me if everyone is calling Claire Felix or if Leeza or Renee show up.
I really love the mix of creepy and sweet between these two, that both are absolutely deadly if need be, and everything about the shadow of Huey behind Chane. Claire understanding Chane even though she can't say a thing is great too.
Something focusing on their wedding? With how far their connections stretch out it could be the event of the underworld if they wanted it to- I can imagine Claire wanting to give that to her even if she doesn't actually care about a large wedding. (Does Ladd crash? I wouldn't be surprised if Ladd crashed.)
Chane being forced into a position where she finally needs to decide the answer to the question of whether she would pick Claire over Huey if it ever came down to it?
AU where Claire hadn't run off with the circus yet when Huey and Chane tried recruiting him back in the twenties, and how things would have developed between them if they'd met and worked together sooner?
Something where Renee comes up with an idea for an experiment she just needs to run on the little guinea pig she produced regardless of the promise she made Claire and shows up to try to snag Chane, and how that goes with Claire defending her (or enjoying not needing to defend her but having fun fighting his mother-in-law alongside her anyway). Or where she does keep her word and Leeza's the one she targets insead, and Chane and Claire go together to save her sister from the parent they're less fully willing to be used by?