Dear Chocolate Box Writer 2017

[minebyrights]

It's Chocolate Box time again!! Whoever you are and whatever canon(s) brought you here, I hope you find this pleasing, rewarding, and low on stress.

The following skirts the lines of TL;DR, but I want to emphasize up front that I am genuinely in love with all of these relationships, as well as desperate for fic for them, so anything you produce that doesn't hit my squicks will be A++. Prompts are mostly me throwing wild ideas at the walls and seeing what sticks; if you have something roiling around in your brain you really want to write for these relationships, go for it! In general, all ratings from gen to depraved NC-17 porn are good, and all gender combos are fine.

For matching purposes, all of these are prompts specifically for fic, but if something in here sparks a desire to draw in you, I welcome any potential art treats as well!

If you want to find me in the wild, I'm:
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And with that, on to the letter itself!

Likes and Dislikes | The Americans (TV 2013) | The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison | 아가씨 | The Handmaiden (2016) | His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman | James Bond (Movies) | Kingsman (Movies) | Mr. Robot (TV) | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - All Media Types

LIKES AND DISLIKES

Likes: worldbuilding, Holmes/Watson dynamics, undercover work and casefic, bedsharing, huddling for warmth, fake relationships/fake married, bickering and bantering like old marrieds, clothing descriptions (especially period clothing, suits, kilts, tall boots), hands and feet, bathing and cleaning one another, adrenaline junkies and partners in crime, found families, snow/winter/autumn settings, 5+1s/vignettes with some thematic growth/resonance, daemons, clothed sex, frottage/intercrural/nonpenetrative sex, dubcon (sex pollen etc), light/casual BDSM (especially with subby men), topping from the bottom, oral sex, dirty talk, threesomes, masturbation, outdoor sex, voyeurism/exhibitionism

Please no: first or second person POV, pregnancy/childfic, deathfic, angst without some light at the end of the tunnel, horror/gore, character bashing, AUs (except canon divergence, future fic, and daemon AUs), tentacles, body horror/extreme body modification, omegaverse, rape/noncon, bodily fluids/watersports, anything dealing with the sexual humiliation of women (even for kink) (exception to this is some femslash--see below where relevant)

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THE AMERICANS (TV 2013)

I love The Americans for so many reasons: the period piece setting, their flawless use of 70s and 80s music, the subtle pisstakes they do of Reagan, the gray morality/use of antiheros, the deliberate blurring of lines and parallels between Americans and Soviets (both legal and illegal) and their relationships with their governments, the action, the black humor, the absurd wigs and costuming. With these various relationships, I'm all about exploring those levels of grey, the life of spies, the adrenaline thrills they get, the blurring of selves and that influence over time as American and Soviet worlds collide and absorb one another.

• Elizabeth/Philip:What was Elizabeth and Philip's wedding night and/or earlier relationship like? What about them on a stakeout, discussing things they shouldn't, fucking? Anything with them developing their relationship, either in one moment or across the years, would be great--it's okay, despite my general dislike of pregnancy/childfic mentioned above, to mention Paige and Henry, but please don't linger on that.
  
• Arkady/Oleg: God, these two looking out for one another despite themselves <3 Hatesex in Arkady's office in S2? Oleg pranking Arkady (about the radio room?) and it going wildly out of control? D/S (either configuration--Arkady taking Oleg out of his worries about his dad or Oleg taking Arkady out of his worries about being Rezident and/or being kicked out of the US)? Bitterness about Nina? Playing on the whole "you're a good son" thing in the S4 finale? Do they end up together back in Russia since they both seem to be headed that way, and if so, what do they do? (Do they get tied up with Mischa Jr. somehow?)
  
• Elizabeth & Zhukov: Remember how Elizabeth told Zhukov she was pregnant the second time before she told Philip? That's super interesting to me! In general, I love their devoted soldier/general vibe we get glimpses of; I'd love to see earlier moments in it, as well as any momentary reversals of it. Does Elizabeth learn more of communism at Zhukov's feet? How does she continue to feel about him years after the fact, as everything else around them starts to fall apart? Sex between them is also fine if you want to go there as long as it's not romantic/serious. (Zhukov eating Elizabeth out as a reward for a job well done?)
  
• Elizabeth & Claudia, Elizabeth & Gabriel: How do Elizabeth's relationships with their various handlers differ? She is comfortable with Gabriel and was antagonistic toward Claudia, but has that changed? Is Gabriel different in S3 compared to how he was precanon? Did Elizabeth's relationship with Claudia and the betrayal of trust that period involved change any of how she sees handlers and Moscow Centre in general? Does Elizabeth feel differently toward Gabriel after the glanders scare and his letting them "vacation" in S4?
  
• Oleg/Tatiana: I loved them playing off each other in season 4, their sex that seemed mostly for release but also the respect they have there. Canon divergence where Oleg goes with her to Kenya? Tatiana as Rezident after all in the States with Oleg at her side? More reminiscences of the Soviet Union? Them having a coded pen pal-ish relationship post-S4? Tatiana learning how Oleg betrayed her program to Stan?
  
• Elizabeth & Young-hee; Elizabeth/Young-hee: I really loved Young-hee in S4, and I felt so extremely bad for her (never knowing what would become of "Patty") and, yeah, bad for Elizabeth for having to do something she really, aggressively did not want to do there. I loved how you could tell that Elizabeth--Nadezhda--genuinely liked her as a person, not just within the Patty persona and how it got to tear Elizabeth up, emotionally, while also giving us such a good side character in Young-hee, how they could relate over being immigrants (even though only Elizabeth knew they were both immigrants). Any scenes of their evolving friendship and its duplicity would be fantastic, and if you want to Go There and have them make-out/fuck/whatever, I'm also completely on board.
  
• Elizabeth & Paige: Elizabeth and Paige got to bond over beating people up in S4, even as Elizabeth (and Philip) are low-key running Paige into the ground by bringing her in on the double act. How does mother-daughter work after Paige learns the truth? Does Elizabeth provide those self-defense lessons? Does she tell Paige further stories of Russia?
  

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THE GOBLIN EMPEROR - KATHERINE ADDISON

I love the worldbuilding, the loyalty kink, the playing around with language and formality and customs and blending of elves and goblins. With these I'm particularly interested in all of that, as well as the burgeoning feminist movements in the Ethuveraz, secretly transgressing the office of the emperor, and in general the ways races and sexes mix and match, changing bits of culture and their own levels of formality over time, in the lavish world Addison has created.

• Chenelo & Maia: I'd love to see some worldbuilding of a sort with them--more into the goblin religious beliefs, or just their culture in general, and Maia learning from Chenelo? Meditating together? Maia comforting Chenelo at one of her lower points as best as a young boy knows how? Maia asking about his father but ultimately taking the most comfort in his mother and reassuring her of that?
  
• Csevet/Maia: God, the trust that develops between these two is so beautiful. I'd love a bit of loyalty kink-ish devotion there, playing with formality, but also turning that on its head and Maia worshipping Csevet the way Csevet deserves to be worshipped. Office/desk sex? Maia taking Csevet to his bed despite the danger?
  
• Csethiro/Maia: These two took time to grow on each other and on me, but I really like Csethiro's spirit, how she opens Maia, and also Maia being forthright with her. I'd love experienced!Csethiro and virgin!Maia, their first time maybe? Csethiro teaching Maia something in general and them letting go of formality?
  
• Csethiro/Csevet/Maia: All three are lovely, and all three belong together. A preexisting relationship integrating the third somehow? All three working on some problem at court and it slowly turning into more? Csevet teaching Maia about how to love a woman--it starts out formal and devolves into real lust? Csethiro teaching Csevet how to make the lord emperor scream? Csethiro getting off watching the two men?
  
• Cala/Beshelar/Maia: Nohecharei are made for loyalty kink, of course. I'd love to see them taking Maia apart, with or without Csevet added, getting a sort of filthy thrill off of the inappropriateness but it also involving real trust and warmth.
  
• Cala/Beshelar, Cala & Beshelar: I'd love to see the nohecharei away from Maia as well, a little bit of their off-duty shenanigans somehow, be it hanging out with others, being called in while haivng alone time to go serve Maia, exploring more of the palace, whatever.
  
• Csethiro & Csevet: I love both these guys separately, but we don't get to really see them interact in canon! Do they help each other out without Maia knowing it? Does Csethiro help Csevet with a sudden thorny issue? (Politicking in general with them is great; I love the "Csethiro and Csevet skillfully politick" angle.) Have they somehow (??) even briefly (?) met before canon or before Csethiro enters Maia's life much, even if without realizing it?

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아가씨 | THE HANDMAIDEN (2016)

I loved this lush, sensual, male-gazey movie to hell and back. I loved the setting and worldbuilding, the costumes, the language games (when they spoke Korean and when Japanese), the colonial/imperial politics in the background, and all the tropes involved (crossdressing, maids and mistresses, spies/thieves, falling in love with your mark, role reversals, sensuous bathing each other, sex toys/erotica, women working together to fuck over men and free themselves, etc.), amongst so many other things. I'd love pretty much anything with them, although keeping in tone with the movie (especially its overall triumphant ending) would be appreciated.

• Hideko/Sook-hee: God, I loved them. More of them bathing each other? Exploring erotica/kinkiness without the male pressure involved? Sook-hee teaching Hideko how to pick pockets or similar? Hideko teaching Sook-hee to read? Them crossdressing again for some reason once they're free? Stolen moments before they escape, like that kiss in the doorway in the movie? What do they do with themselves now that they're free?

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HIS DARK MATERIALS - PHILIP PULLMAN

I love, love, love daemons in general, the extra dimension they add to all human interactions, especially intense ones like Asriel/Marisa, and I love Pullman's humanism/the whole idea of "we must make heaven where we are, for there is no other world." I love the weird, hyperintense, fucked-up politics of the Church in this world and the dimension-hopping and how uncanny valley it can get in places.

Asriel/Marisa: I am all about the fucked-up power couple possibilities these two represent, that idea Asriel says at the end of book one about how they could take the universe apart and put it back together. They're intelligent, arrogant, and driven, bound by their child neither of them appreciates until it's nearly too late, and I love how they vacillate between not giving a single fuck what others (and each other) think and then deciding to spend an eternity in a literal free-fall to save their daughter. I love imagining them in worlds other than their own, among the mulefa or in Asriel's adamantine tower or out on the ice somewhere. My one complaint with canon with regard to these two was how Marisa ended up somewhat defanged later in the series, so while I'm fine with her attempting to redeem herself (or at least let Lyra et al win), I do like interpretations of her that have her more steely and venomous right through to the end and/or interpretations where Asriel is more obviously emotionally undone by Lyra, just as Marisa is, just to make the stakes more even/less divided along obviously gendered lines.


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JAMES BOND (MOVIES)

These two are my favorites in Bond, and I love their snippy yet devoted relationship, be it platonic or sexual. I'm down for most things with them, especially stuff involving missions, loyalty kink, queen/knight-esque vibes, AUs where M lives, emotional claustrophobia wherein they don't have many other friends/emotional outlets aside from each other, all the classic spy tropes, and porn (particularly with a sub!Bond vibe, if that's your thing). Although I have seen all the Craig Bond movies, I have not seen any other eras of Bond (even the non-Craig ones that still have Dench in them), so I'd prefer references to other Bonds to be kept minimal or nonexistent.

James Bond (Craig)/Female M: I love, love, love older woman/younger man dynamics, especially with the weird blend of maternal and yet decidedly not that Dench and Craig have going on. I love someone like Bond submitting (grudgingly at first, maybe) professionally (and/or personally) to M, to the power she has over him and yet how loyal toward her agents and gruffly affectionate toward Bond she can be. They're both ruthlessly competent people in their lines of work, something I can see them admiring/respecting in one another, and there is a lot of inherent trust in handler/agent relationships to be explored. (M trusts Bond, however snarkily, to be back on the force in Skyfall; Bond is devoted to her and to saving her, even if she complains.) I love queen and knight dynamics, the politicking woman and her right-hand man doing the dirty work, particularly if the woman can be implied to have skills in the field as well. I love spy shenanigans in general, gadgetry and play-acting and the limited number of people you can be "true" with as a result, and love to see that come into play with these two, who are both spies with limited genuine social spheres and who might thus be deliciously intertwined emotionally as well as in work.

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KINGSMAN (MOVIES)

Kingsman is a big exuberant mess of a movie, and I love the absurd spy tropes, the 80s-heavy soundtrack, and the million myriad pornish fantasies it's all inspired. Reveling in that tropey spy goodness is highly encouraged, and yet also I am hoping to see some middle-aged dudes in love somehow, be it with each other or with the bright, strong young folks who have forcibly won their way in. The ways in which these four play off each other is my catnip--my only hard request is to ask that you not write solo Eggsy/Harry, as there's already quite a lot of them, and I'd love to see rarer configurations!

• Harry/Merlin: My baes--two sexy spies being sexy together. I love casefic with them, but also them just hanging around being middle-aged dudes in love with each other, with a bit of a bite. Them as young recruits? Them and their dogs over the years? Their first time together after Harry's magic resurrection? Sex in the office? Basically anything.
  
• Eggsy/Harry/Merlin: Two pranking the third? Eggsy and Merlin taking Harry apart while he whines desperately for attention? Harry and Merlin thoroughly corrupting Eggsy? All three of them living together temporarily and it being awkward but delicious as hell?
  
• Harry/Roxy: Friends with benefits yes hello. Sometimes the others are too busy, and it's just these two getting off together--Roxy pegging Harry, Harry practicing his cunnilingus skills, whatever.
  
• Eggsy/Harry/Merlin/Roxy: The foursome we deserve. All sorts of permutations welcome, but ideally they're all in the same room being cute/fucking one another and giving pretty equal share, all things considered. My personal fave is established Harry/Merlin integrating the other two, but it doesn't have to be that way as long as they're all having fun and Roxy's getting as much love as the men
  

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MR. ROBOT (TV)

I love spy dramas (see...a lot of the rest of my sign-up, oops), and Mr. Robot has that feel even though it's not really a spy drama--the secretive aspects, the hacking/tech angle, and so on. I love the mental illness explorations too, the digging into Elliot's struggle with himself, Dom's low-key loneliness at points, Angela's and Darlene's various neuroses/anxieties, etc. I love how sharp and yet feverish canon feels, in cinematography/directing as well as in some writing and plotting choices (detoxing Elliot in bed, heh heh heh). I love the dark humor (fucking cracked up at the 80s sitcom dream schtick). I love the identity porn aspects, as people try to figure out who fsociety is, who Whiterose is, etc., and the game of who knows what about whom. I love the boardroom/white-collar shenanigans. I love the sense of futility about the revolution and yet how damn hard they'll try anyway, how even Dom seems to have sympathy a bit for them. I love Dom's competence and tenacity, her humanity, her curiosity, her interactions with Angela and Darlene and Whiterose (unknowingly). I ship many things (Angela/Dom, Angela/Darlene, Darlene/Dom, Dom/OFC or OMC, Elliot/Tyrell, Joanna/Tyrell, etc.), so feel free to throw them in as it moves you.

• Darlene/Dom: Just two Jersey girls swearing at each other in an interrogation room--and now maybe going to work together? Dom trying to work Darlene for more info on Tyrell would be amazing, as would Darlene trying to work Dom back to figure out how to protect Elliot. Does Dom get sucked into further sympathies for fsociety? How do they react to news of Stage 2? (Assuming it goes off in some form.) Do they team up to fight The Greater Danger (?) of the Dark Army? Anything enemies-to-friends/lovers (however uncertain and tenuous) would be great.
  
• Angela/Dom: That was pretty hot, tbh, Dom basically letting Angela know she's onto her (and Angela fighting back). What if they had weird hatesex around that? What if they cross paths again later, Dom bringing food again, and play the "I'm not interrogating you but actually I am" game again? What if Angela, since she now seems to be in with the Dark Army, starts interrogating back?

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - JANE AUSTEN

I love Austen's humor, the biting satire, the wittiness, the vivid pictures of interpersonal life in a world different from ours now and yet in some ways still very much the same. With these relationships I particularly enjoy playing around slightly with social classes and gender, inasmuch as one can do in the Georgian period, as well as playing with the trappings of that world: the cravats, the boots, the large houses, the bustling families, the drama of families and wards, the repression and where it breaks, the potential for subtle rejection of the prevailing social norms in and around this vivid glimpse of another version of our world.

• Bingley/Darcy: I love the idea of Georgian/Regency friends trying to hide that they've been something more at some point, or just lowkey also being fuckbuddies on the side. How did they meet? Do they occasionally fuck (with permission) after they're married? All the cravat/clothing porn especially welcome.
  
• Lizzy/Darcy: These two <3 Always so delightful. I love their bickering in canon, Lizzy bringing out the spirit in Darcy, and I love imagining their married life. (Mention of children is ok but please nothing focusing on pregnancy.) What's their first time like? Do they prank each other ever? Do they make out or something ~~more before they're even married? Bonus points for Lizzy pegging Darcy.
  
• Darcy/Wickham: Ah, yes, the resentful/hatesex possibilities. Before things go sour, or after, either is fine. Grumping and bitching and somewhat rough sex welcome, as is drunken, slightly confused sex, or even tender sex that goes sour in retrospect (if set before Darcy Senior's death). Comforting each other after Darcy Senior's death?
  
• Kitty/Georgiana: A younger pair (almost like a younger generation in some ways), but I'd love to see them getting together while Kitty is at Pemberley, getting into scrapes of some sort, playing music together, and learning illicit teenager-ish love at one another's hands. A time skip ahead to later in life, and their correspondence with one another and love (or Kitty, maybe, remaining a spinster and still being with Georgiana from time to time?) would also be great.

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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - ALL MEDIA TYPES

One of the most realistic spy canons possible, a glorious autumnal ache, all beautiful muted colors and deception and emotional warfare and betrayal with none of the classic tropey flash. I love to have that as background for romps in the interpersonal world, be it the Greek tragedy of Bill/Jim, the Holmes/Watson affair of George/Peter, or some less common pairings I would love to see explored, along with the issues of betrayal, cuckolding, love despite better sense, or desperate loyalty in order to keep one's sanity in a murky amoral world.

• Bill/Jim, Bill/Jim/OMC: Almost literally anything, but I'd especially love earlier days, thick as thieves together working some case and fucking on the side, or attempting to do something non-spy-like (and failing?). I'm especially fond of seeing the potential ways in which Bill loves Jim (despite himself), even later when Bill is a committed mole, since that's more opague in canon. And for the threesome: Jim loves watching Bill with a third person--Peter Guillam? Some random OC picked up?--and loves watching Bill seduce another person...and then be taken apart by either that person or by Jim himself for his infidelity. While I love the idea of Jim having a slight infidelity/almost cuckold-esque kink, I also like the idea of Bill being peculiarly undone by Jim despite all the other people he's had, so showing Bill's weakness for Jim even with others on his skin is intoxicating to me.
  
• Bill/George: The cuckold porn, both literal and figurative, is here for the taking, and I love both versions of it. Were Bill and George ever actually close? Do they feel a weird bond/hate-affinity in being lovers of the same woman? Does Bill have a subsumed admiration for George, even later, he can't hide? And of course kinking on fucking each other, knowing full well the cuckolding going on even if it's never directly referenced, is A++.
  
• George/Peter: In some ways a version of Holmes and Watson, but also with differences in age and temperament I'd love to see explored. How do these two relate on longer cases involved? Do they fuck in a safe house somewhere? Does George gently take a desperate and off-the-rails Peter apart in order to calm him down? Peter having to calm George down in a rare explosive moment from George would also be amazing.
  
• George & Karla, George/Karla: They're such mirror images of each other, and I love it. Them over the years, thinking of one another, interacting professionally even if they don't realize it? One obsessing about the other somehow? If you know the whole Karla Trilogy, I'd also be game for exploring what happens after Karla crosses the bridge, or just some sort of postcanon in general with the trading of spies and whatnot.

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