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acequeenking) wrote2019-06-25 10:35 pm
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Every Woman Exchange 2K19
Dear lady lover,
Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I am looking forward to seeing whatever you create!
I consider all prompts as optional, but I added some ideas below in case you might find them helpful. Some are longer than others, but all are things I would love to receive! If none of my prompts work for you or you’d rather just work with a likes list, please feel free to use my general likes as something you can base your fic/art on, and ignore my prompts entirely.
In fact, feel free to be creative and create what you want as long as it doesn’t cross my DNW. I love everything from G-rated gen fic to E-rated smut-bangs, so feel free to go where the spirit moves you. If you are wondering if you can twist prompts/take them in different directions/etc. the answer is always an enthusiastic yes. Whether it be something sad, scary, fun, or just plain weird, as long as it avoids my DNW I am always down to play.
Eurydice (Hadestown): I’m absolutely fascinated by Eurydice’s journey in Hadestown and how it takes what had been a very flat character (woman gets bit by snake, dies, gets failed by her lover when he attempts to drag out of the world of the dead) and makes her a dynamic and fully fleshed out one (woman gets sweet-talked into signing her life away by a man, woman loses faith in her husband for faith in her own hard work, woman who loves and believes in the best of circumstances in the worst of times only to be betrayed twice over). I’d honestly love to see anything about her life in Hadestown! What happens to her post-canon? Does she continue to work in Hadestown (at least until the next “loop” starts)? Does she start a rebellion under Hades own thumb? Does she fade away? If you go by the sing it again part at the end being a straight reset, then does the fact she has the flower from Orpheus change anything in the next loop?
Favorite Gen Relationships: Hades! Post-signing the papers in his office, they don’t really interact, but I’d love to know just how things follow with him. They’re both very practical characters married to dreamers who have somewhat disappointed them (with Hades, I think the fact that Persephone is gone so often and doesn’t really seem to write/communicate with him when she’s gone; with Eurydice, well – the whole ending, really, and all the times Orpheus failed to provide for her before). And yet, there’s a lot of conflict there — it’s an unequal relationship, Hades is the Mean Old Boss and Eurydice is just one of many peons, and one who he ground under his heel by stacking the deck against her. I would live for any interaction between them.
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: Orpheus is a favorite; they’re very cute together, and I enjoy the bitter angst of their relationship effectively having this one tragic hinge, and that’s that they’re potentially repeating that same faithless cycle over and over where one loses faith, then the other, and both times it just hurts in the worst way possible. Are they doomed to always live this way, or is there a way where they might get free of the cycle? I know people tend to idealize them vs the Hades/Persephone pairing, but I think they had their own troubles that would require some work to overcome (if, perhaps, not as many or as long as the other couples.)
I also have a real soft spot for Eurydice/Hades/Persephone; maybe Hades makes the decision to bring her in as a gift to his wife, since he knows she’s soft on the girl? Like all things in their marriage, this is not a great decision as far as improving their relationship, since they’re both rather worried that the other will find someone else — but Eurydice is pretty and Persephone does want to look out for her in the underworld, and figures better to share her husband with this girl than have him fuck her on his own time; Hades would find it easier that, if Persephone has to be shared with someone, it’s a mortal and a woman who can’t give her what he can (and who he can kill/get rid of if Persephone gets a little too fond); as for Eurydice, she might find them attractive but mostly I think would be into it for the security — what safer place can be found than sleeping with the boss and his wife? I would love the smutty side of it, but also kind of the horribly complicated side of how on earth these three would deal with the issues of not just Orpheus, but their own potential pitfalls: How do Hades and Eurydice navigate the times Persephone isn’t there — does Eurydice go with Persephone, or does she stay and if she stays, do she and Hades have the same relationship without the third around? Do Hades and Persephone only keep Eurydice as a partner for sex, and focus more on their marriage for emotional intimacy, or do they make her a semi-equal partner? Does Eurydice miss Orpheus and how does she cope with it? How does she handle being the only non-god in this sandwich — are there parts of their sexual lives or decisions they make that Eurydice just can’t even fathom?
Group: Eurydice & Persephone (Hadestown):
Gen Relationship: It’s really clear that Persephone is fond of Eurydice during most of Act 1, pushing her to interact with Orpheus and go dancing with the entourage — but then Chant happens, and Hades leaves, and next time Eurydice and Persephone meet, its during “step into my office”. Persephone clearly assumes that Hades has cheated on her, though I think the musical keeps it fairly ambivalent as to whether he did or not. Persephone spends most of act 2 watching Eurydice and trying to help her; how does she come to figure out either that Hades didn’t sleep with Eurydice, or become willing to forgive Eurydice if you want to go with the version that he did? How does Persephone find it within herself to try to help Eurydice — does she see herself in the girl, or is it more Hades that she sees there? Does she believe the two can avoid the doubt that has kept her and her husband down, and if so, what is her reaction to Eurydice being redoomed to the underworld?
Romantic/Sexual Relationship: I can see Persephone being as attracted to Eurydice as Hades is, and I would love to see a version of them getting together post canon; I’d prefer Hades knowledge/permission (even if he, perhaps, isn’t happy with his wife’s attention on the songbird) or outright participation in a relationship between them rather than outright infidelity. Eurydice is a lot like Hades in how practical minded she is and a lot like Persephone in her faith that things can get better; I’d love to see what Persephone thinks of that. Does Persephone’s special “attention” make things easier for Eurydice (a literal blast of springtime air from up above), or does it make her life way down under the ground harder (Hades, perhaps, taking out his displeasure at this new “pastime” of his wife’s out on her lover; or the other workers being uncomfortable about the relationship between Eurydice and Persephone and/or the boss)?
Group: Persephone & Persephone's mother (Hadestown):
Gen Relationship: While Demeter doesn’t appear in the musical itself, Hades and Persephone both make a couple references to her, with Hades sniping that Persephone always leaves the moment “mother nature calls” and Persephone giving Eurydice some advice she got from her mother about seizing the moment. How does Persephone’s mother cope with this new sudden onslaught of Hades’ picking up his wife earlier and earlier? Is she mad at Hades for perverting this natural order, or does she tell Persephone to try to live with it? Why doesn’t she ever appear to help stress to Hades that no, what he’s doing is actually a very bad, no good thing, and he needs to stop? Does Persephone’s relationship with her mother change as things get worse with Hades, and if so, does the bond between them get stronger, or does theirs begin to devolve as well? What do they do those six months Persephone comes up to visit?
Romantic Relationship: : Gen only for this one, please.
Persephone (Hadestown): Persephone is by far my favorite character in this musical and, in my opinion, the real heart and soul of the show. I love how her foibles in her marriage are so-very-relatable, that she is neither without fault nor without strength. While in the original myth, Persephone was a girl whose marriage was basically forced on her by older men, Hadestown Persephone chose this path, and is not victim; I’d really love to see something about how she feels she’s “complicit” in what Hadestown has become. Did she original go with her husband more often, in terms of going early — and was she happier about it? Did she used to like Hadestown, or at least be honored that he made this neon necropolis for her? Does she love him but know if she gives too much into that love, she’ll ruin the world forever — and if so, how does she deal with that?
Romantic Relationship: s: My OTP for her is Hades, always. I know they have their hard times, and I love reading about those hard times, and the good times, too. I would love to know how they got started on this road to Hadestown; what was it that made Hades or her begin to lose faith in one another? When did Persephone realize they had such a storm on their hands? How has their relationship changed over the ages? I think Amber Gray said that Hades and Persephone have been together since “dinosaur times” – what is it like to see how the world changed since then? What road can Hades and Persephone take, post-canon? Like Hermes, are they aware of the world “reboot” (if that’s how you interpret the ending)? Are they trying to fix things in each cycle? Or are they doomed to go over the same path, again and again and again, and if so, is that heaven, hell, or somewhere inbetween? (I’m also fond of Persephone/Hades/Eurydice as noted in Eurydice’s section, and Persephone/Eurydice, which is written in the group for that pair.)
Gen Relationships: I would love, love, love to see more of her adventures with Hermes. They have such a cute little brotp bit, where they’re constantly winking and nudging one another. I would love to see Hermes reaction to Hades and Seph’s marriage; how does he help her sister cope with things going south? Does he ever try to smooth things over for her? What sort of adventures did they have together when they were younger? How did Persephone react to Orpheus when Hermes took him under his wings — did it make her want children, and/or is she sad she never had any?
I’d also love to see Persephone with the workers. It’s clear she feels for them from how she looks at them during chant – I’d love to see how she tries to make Hadestown more bearable for them. What does the lady of ways/the lady of means do? What sort of power is in her fingertips? Has she ever gotten Hades to do what she wanted in hopes of making things better for others?
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Demeter (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore): I adore Demeter, who is such a strong mother figure in a pantheon that is often quite cruel to women. She comes from a horrible background — abused by her dad, literally imprisoned with her two sisters and two brothers — and isn’t freed until it’s time for a terrible war that she has to fight in. By the time that’s done, she marries/has sex with Zeus, who wins the most powerful position in all of the pantheon, and you’d think things were looking up — but then he marries her sister, Hera, instead. So does Demeter rue and lament? Nope, she pours all her energy into raising a damn awesome daughter, and it’s not until something happens to that daughter that she comes undone. I would love to see anything on Demeter in her earlier days; how did she come to fight in the war? How did she feel about her sisters and brothers who were trapped with her — and how did she fall for Zeus? When Zeus spurned her for Hera, did she later come to feel like she dodged a bullet? I’d also love to see how people treat her post-Persephone’s marriage, where she has shown the gods that she is not a woman to be cowed into doing what they want. Do people see her as more of a threat? Do the other gods favor her more, or resent her? What’s her relationship like with her daughter?
Favorite Gen Relationships: I would love to see more on her with Persephone — how do they handle the six month split? Does Demeter insist on keeping her daughter by her side, or does she learn to loosen up? Do they spend all their time together? How do they talk about the six months she isn’t there, if they talk about them at all? Does Demeter help her daughter get past any stumbling blocks in their marriage — or is she happy to ferment resentment in Seph towards Hades?
I would also love to see anything with Demeter and Hades before/during the war — for daughters who had been abandoned by their father and didn’t really have the opportunity to see other males given the erm, reigns of their captivity, Hades must have been a new and even strange addition. Did Demeter basically raise him or did she try to avoid having interacts with him? Did they get along or did they keep their distance, even then? How did she feel when Hades ran off with her little girl – and how did that change their relationship over time? Do they ever reconcile?
I would also love to see Demeter with her sisters, especially Hera. It’s got to be weird when you’ve both slept with the same man (never mind that that man is your brother), but I think over time Demeter would kind of pity Hera, given that Hera has to be faithful to a man who has literally never been faithful to her, not even once, and Demeter, while not married and thus not having the social standing that Hera does, is free to sleep with who she wants and how she wants. Do they ever seek solace together? Hera is the goddess of marriage — whose side does she take in the dispute between Hades and Demeter, and how does Demeter react to it?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: God honestly I am just so thirsty for Demeter with a woman. Demeter finding her late in life groove with Aphrodite, Hera, or Hestia? One of Persephone’s little friends (Athena, Artemis) starts spending time trying to help Demeter move on, and it becomes more? Perhaps Demeter decides to spend more time in the underworld to better understand the other world that claims her daughter half the year and finds Hecate there and realizes she and the mistress of the crossroads have a lot in common and start a romance? Other than Persephone, pretty much any f/f would be GREATLY welcome.
Group: Demeter & Melinoe (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: I would love to see how Demeter takes to becoming a grandmother! Especially with a child that definitively has more of Hades powers than Persephone; how does Demeter handle this little, perhaps slightly spooky child? Is she thrilled to have a grandchild? Worried about it? Does she help Persephone through her pregnancy, or does Persephone simply show up for spring at some point, and Demeter sees a little girl with her and Hades for the first time? Either way, how does she feel about it?
Romantic Relationship: : Gen only for this one, please.
Group: Medea & Hera:
Gen Relationship: Hera and Medea have such a complicated potential relationship. Hera is her (ex)husband’s patron goddess, but Medea is a goddess (or demigod, depending on source) in her own right and she’s done a lot of horrible things for him. When Jason leaves her, how does Hera take Medea’s being left behind? How does she take Medea’s desire to put the children she murders in Hera’s grove — is this a sacrifice meant to honor Hera, or an insult? As they are both goddesses and/or children of gods, at least, did they ever meet before/after the whole thing with Jason?
Romantic Relationship: : Hera likes the clever ones and there is no one who is more of a lightning bolt of god/demi-godhood intellect than Medea. Hera’s someone who’s willing to go full-tilt on her schemes and Media will literally murder a man to prove a point. I want to see them working together and kicking ass and figuring out how to take the pantheon by storm. Does Zeus ever find out about Hera having an affair with Medea? What does Hera think of Medea’s family? Do they bond over both being the children of titans?
Group: Penelope & Athena:
Gen Relationship: Athena is clearly Odysseus’ patron goddess, but is she Penelope’s? Does Penelope ever pray to her for her husband, and if so, does she ever know if perhaps her husband’s paron goddess answers back? What sort of relationship would they have: does Penelope share her husband’s faith in Athena? Is there tension after Odysseus fails to show up, year after year after year? Does Penelope feel bound to worship Athena, even if she is perhaps conflicted in her feelings about the deity (or outwardly despising her)? Does Athena help her with her weaving or her suitor problem? I am not sure what, exactly, their relationship would be like, but I know I would love to read any interpretation of it.
Romantic Relationship: : I would love to see some conflicted romance here between Penelope and her husband’s patron goddess; she reminds her of Odysseus so much, and yet, there are parts of her that are just not really understandable; she is a goddess after all and I imagine things like, oh, letting her husband wander a good decade or two is something that really sticks in the craw of Penelope – even if, in other ways, she is absolutely in love with Athena. How does a human love a goddess? Does Athena respond? If so, how does she display her affection? Are there downsides/upsides to loving a god?
Group: Persephone & Demeter (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: Demeter and her daughter have a fascinating history, always together for exactly half the year. I would love to see something set later in their relationship, after this whole thing has gone on for several centuries. What are Demeter and her daughter doing at important points in history – how do they handle things like the black plague, world war I, hippies, etc? Are they an environmental power duo, inspiring environmentalist movements through time? Do they just live as normal people, enjoying the world as it passes? How does Persephone change during time - - does she bring Hades up with her, ever, and if so is this her choice or him trying to take more of her time? Does their relationship change through time, or do they remain static? How does Olympus/the Earth/Underworld change as they meet up, year after year?
Romantic Relationship: : gen only for this one, please.
Group: Persephone & Hera (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: I think that Persephone and Hera would have a fascinating relationship with a lot of thorns in it: first, Persephone is the daughter of her sister…with her husband. That’s hard hard dealt to begin with –especially when Hera has a hot temper when it comes to the products of her husband’s extramarital affairs. But then when you add in the complication that Persephone is also a queen – a queen married to Hera’s other brother, one who is considerably more true to her (or at least, has considerably fewer mistresses) than Hera’s own husband has. Persephone is a lot younger, but wields equal power, despite being a bastard child of her husband – but the catch is that, like Hera, Persephone never really asked for all that. How do they get along? Does Hera hate the girl and try to spite the underworld, because she can’t stand that one of Zeus’ bastards was promoted to so high a throne? Or does she feel some sympathy for the girl, whose marriage was based perhaps as much in trickery as her own? Does Persephone find this fellow queen intimidating, or dread dealing with her – or does she find her a surprising friend?
Romantic Relationship: : Honestly, I’d be curious how this gets started. Both of them are married women, but, well, Persephone didn’t get a lot of choice in her matter, and Hera barely got any in hers. Hades certainly isn’t around six months, but Zeus seems ever present unless he’s fucking one of his new waifs/cupbearers — which is uh, frequently. Is this something Hera concocts out of revenge? Is this something Persephone seduces the older queen into — she is someone who enjoys power, after all, and what is better than having one throne but having two? Do their husbands ever find out, and, if so, how do the woman react to this?
Group: Persephone & the Furies (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen: Persephone is a younger goddess than the Furies in 90% of the retellings, even she is their younger sister. Suddenly, after marrying Hades (which doesn’t seem to have been her decision in most versions, though feel free to subvert this), she’s their boss. How does she deal with bossing around these ancient goddesses who are there to help women, especially mothers, who have been wronged by society? Are they friends? How do they adjust to this? Do they help her find her role as queen of the underworld, or are they antagonists Persephone has to conquer to prove herself the rightful queen?
Alternatively, if you want to go with Persephone being their mom, as in the Orphic version: I would love, love, love to see some raising-little-hellfire-babies ficlet. How do she and Hades wind up with triplets? Is he mad they all have her hair? What’s the logistics of raising children when you spend your time half upstairs, half downstairs?
Romantic: Look, there are three goddesses with snakes everywhere and I am but a mere mortal. If Persephone gets to enjoy one, two, or all three furies as they administer justice, who am I (or Hades!) to get in her way? I’d love to know how this happens, and how they come together — how did they meet? How did they start getting together? Is there love there, or is it purely a sexual thing? Are they literally horny for justice?
Hera (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Favorite Gen Relationships: I love Hera! Though often portrayed as Queen Bitch of Greek Mythology, I feel like she gets a raw deal. She’s swallowed by her dad, then married to the King of Heaven, but he cheats on her constantly and their relationship never feels so…warm and fuzzy. She is the queen of marriage and children and yet is constantly forced to suffer her husband’s adultery and bastards. She has a raw deal, but she never backs away or takes the easy way out, and I find her ultimately a sympathetic character. I would love to see something about how she stays Queen of Heaven despite all these challenges – is Zeus afraid of her? Are the others? Does she have allies? Whats her relationship with her sisters and brothers like — does she ever wish she’d married one of her other brothers? Does she ever visit her mom or dad post-titanomachy and if so, what is it like?
Some stories also note that she was sheltered by Oceanus and Tethys during the Titanomachy, which I’ve always wondered about because a) she’s either first-eldest or third, depending on if you favor Homer or Hesiod, and thus could fight because she was as much an adult as Hades or Poseidon, both of whom are confirmed to have battled in the war, and b) her sisters are not said to be sheltered by someone else, so how exactly and why exactly did Hera get this special treatment? Was she pregnant? Frail? What was it like going from living in her father’s stomach to living under the sea?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: I would love to see her with anyone but Zeus. He cheats on her all the time — has she ever decided she is going to turn the tables? Does she ever fall in love with someone else? There are stories where Hera uses her wiles to get with Zeus — has she ever used them to get with someone else? I’d particularly love to see Hera with another woman in the pantheon, or a human. I’d particularly love to see her with Athena, who is the child of only her husband, and thus the closest to him — but with the key difference of being a) female and b) more coy in her affairs. How would Hera fall in love with her? Would she be conflicted about falling in love with someone who is close to being her daughter or, being how the gods are, would that not bother her at all? How would Athena view Hera — as a step-mother, as a friend, as an enemy to be conquered?
Medea (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Favorite Gen Relationships: Oh boy, Medea is such a fascinating character for me, because she is not only whip-smart and utterly merciless, but someone who has it made and then loses it all for love. Medea is literally born into privilege as a goddess or at least a demi-god, seems to have it all made…and then spits in the gods face, running away with this mortal, Jason. And when Jason, in turn, spits in her face, leaves her for a younger, more Grecian bride, Medea takes her revenge in the cruelest way possible. I would love to see anything regarding her growing up in her father’s court; how she interacts with the Olympians, or even how she felt murdering her brother/kids, and if she knew just what doors she was closing behind her. Medea’s fate is infamously open, and I’d also love to see what happened to her after Medea closes – where does she go? What does she do? Who is she doing it with?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: I would be interested in any f/f pairing for Medea, especially with another goddess on Olympus. I would also love to see something with her with Circe, her aunt, who “absolves” Medea of the murder of her brother. How did Circe do this and why would she do so, knowing that this would likely make the Gods turn against her as much as Medea?
Persephone (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Favorite Gen Relationships: Persephone is pretty much amazing 100% of the time for me and I’d love to see something about her coming into her unique situation. How does she feel about constantly having to go back and forth between the upper world and the lower one? Does this give her a unique perspective among the gods, or is it just tedious? How does she change over time? Do her relationships with Artemis and Athena get harder to maintain when she’s under the ground? How do things change with her mother as time goes by? Do they get closer, or is distance inevitable when you age up a bit?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: Hades is my favorite for her and I’m so interested in what their relationship is like, not just at the start but hundreds of years down the line: does being married to the lord of the dead cause tensions in her marriage? It isn’t like he can take time off to go visit her upstairs much so how do they make it work, six months out of every twelve? Do they even want to make it work? If you go by Persephone being tricked by Hades into being her bride – how long did it take her, to forgive him for that? Does she ever? Does she keep him eternally at her beck and call, because he is so desperate not to lose her? And why did he kidnap her in the first place – what was it about Persephone that made the long-solitary man give up his solo rule?
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Group: Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) & Medea (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: I am absolutely in love with the idea of these crossovers. Medea's tragedy is so
much a part of her times, and I'm dying to know if her admittedly merciless ways -- one of the only ways a woman could get justice in those times for being wronged -- would translate to different times and different settings. Would she see Amy as a woman in the same sort of situation, and agree with the steps she takes? Or would she be horrified to find Amy following her footsteps, when so many other paths were available?
Romantic Relationship: : Honestly, I feel like these two could be a real hot disaster together, and I’d love to see it. I think that they have exactly the right amount of sharpness that I could see them encouraging one another on things like murder and mayhem. I’m not sure if this would be a sort of meeting-of-the-minds between these two, or a sort of deadly rivalry turns deadlier, but either way I would appreciate some hot make-out sessions.
Group: Medea (Greek Mythology) & Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Gen Relationship: For Medea and Daenerys, I would love to see if she thinks of Daenerys' path and whether she agrees with her on her romantic choices. Or just anything with them discussing, honestly, the role of women in whatever canon they wind up in; both seem more aware than not about how much of a mans game it is, and both have been used and abused by foreign men and, in many ways, conquered them. Do they get along? Do they hate one another? What would Medea think of Daenerys’ dragons — and what would Daenerys think of Medea’s witchcraft?
Romantic pairing: I am a simple creature with simple needs and one of them is seeing Khaleesi tango with a murderess every bit as cunning as her own. Medea, too, is sometimes alleged to be a queen, post-Jason — what if she came to Daenerys in King’s Landing and made an offer to the queen? Or, perhaps, what if Daenerys became Medea’s wife instead of drogo? Honestly I just want to see these two make out a lot, I think it would be very nice.
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Lorelai (Suikoden):
Favorite Gen Relationships: Lorelai has always been my favorite Suikoden girl and I am beyond thrilled she was nominated here. I would just honestly love to see more adventures with her -- what is she doing between Suikoden V and II? Does she ever find the Sindar she seeks so much? Why is she looking, and willing to travel the world to get it? Why does she switch weapons so often? I would love to see gen with her and pretty much either of the canon Sindar hunters — or a lost scene of her confronting Vicky in Suikoden II; after all, she remembers Vicky from Suikoden V, but for Vicki, that hasn’t happened yet…
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: Please, please, please give me all the rivalmancing between her and Killey. I adore them together, their bitter sniping, their moments where they help one another, the dedication to a shared goal (but not reaching it together) — anything going into that rivalry that ends with at least one make-out? Heavenly.
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Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I am looking forward to seeing whatever you create!
I consider all prompts as optional, but I added some ideas below in case you might find them helpful. Some are longer than others, but all are things I would love to receive! If none of my prompts work for you or you’d rather just work with a likes list, please feel free to use my general likes as something you can base your fic/art on, and ignore my prompts entirely.
In fact, feel free to be creative and create what you want as long as it doesn’t cross my DNW. I love everything from G-rated gen fic to E-rated smut-bangs, so feel free to go where the spirit moves you. If you are wondering if you can twist prompts/take them in different directions/etc. the answer is always an enthusiastic yes. Whether it be something sad, scary, fun, or just plain weird, as long as it avoids my DNW I am always down to play.
- 5 Times/Five Things
- Canon-Divergent AUs e.g. "What if Character A went left instead of right?"
- Darkfic, including bad-guys-win and character death
- Epistolary/Found Documents Fic
- In-World (fiction or nonfiction) articles/stories
- First time(s)/ Last Time(s)
- Hurt/ Comfort
- Metafiction/ Interactive Fiction
- Past Third, Present Third, Second or First Person Perspective(s)
- Third Person Narration/ "Different Points of View" (e.g. Char A observes Char B & Char C)
- Arranged Marriage
- Bad guys win / Villian Victorious
- Body horror
- Came Back Wrong/resurrection tropes
- Changing Sides
- Characters who say "I love you" in their actions without actually saying/being able to say "I Love you" in their words
- Complicated Relationships
- Conflicted Loyalties
- Desperate kisses and embraces
- Domestic scenes
- Doomed relationships
- Dystopias
- Eldrich/Eerie things
- Experienced/Inexperienced partnerships
- Fake Marriage/dating
- Fluff/moments of happiness
- Forbidden/Star-Crossed Relationships
- Gender fluidity/experimentation
- Generational Divide/complications in may/december relationships
- Ghosts or other spooky/supernatural occurrences
- Gods being inhuman/unusual
- Grey Morality
- Hurt/Comfort in pretty much any form
- Irreconcilable differences leading to conflict between lovers (but not an absense of love)
- Jealousy
- Lovers caught on opposite sides of a conflict
- Loyalty Kink
- Lust/UST/Pining
- Mindfuckery - the more twisted the better
- Mission/Case fic
- Misunderstandings
- Myths/legends/cultural traditions
- Non-Canon exploration of Character's Gender
- Non-Penatrative sex
- Non-verbal communication and quiet intimacy
- Outsider POV
- Penatrative Sex
- Phyrric victories
- Physical recovery from injury
- Playing with danger, eg a character being able to hurt another but not doing so (despite them both knowing they could);I also love this being subverted (e.g. known bad-ass A has to be rescued by not-so-badass B)
- Politics
- Possessiveness
- Power differences
- Powerplay
- Pregnancy, including alien/unusual pregnancy
- Protectiveness
- Redemption being complicated and not easy
- Rule 63/Genderswapping from M to F for one or more requested characters
- Relationships bringing out the worst in one another
- Shows of trust and intimacy
- Snippets of long-term relationships at different points in the relationship
- Trapped in a snowstorm/eathquake/etc
- Trust kink
- Unhappy and/or complicated endings
- Unhealthy Relationships and/or Codependency
- Unreliable narrator
- World-building
- Aftercare
- Anal sex
- Bathing
- Body worship
- BDSM
- Blowjob(s)
- Breathplay/Chokeplay
- Cunnilingus
- Dubcon
- First Time/Losing Virginity
- fail!sex or humorous sex
- Fem-Dom
- M!Dom
- Pegging
- Porn with plot/porn as a character exploration
- PiV sex
- Pregnancy/Impregnation kink
- Quickies/Sex in Public Places/Situations
- Ritual(istic) Sex
- Rough sex
- Sex Pollen
- Sex on tables/desks/chairs/other furniture
- Switching/Reversal of top/bottom dynamic
- Shows of total trust
- Size kink
- Slow and tender sex
- Tending to another's scars/cuts/etc
- Voyeurism
- xeno or other kinds of "unusual" sexual organs (I am up for anything here:tentacles, burrs, cloaca, whatever)
- Atmospheric glimpses of a scene
- Costume Redesigns (especially for characters who are clotheshorses)
- Cuddles, kisses, and other displays of affection
- Family/couples/friends portraits or snapshots
- Limited pallets (black and white, two toned, etc)
- Unusual viewpoints (e.g. not seeing someone head-on/three-quarters)
- Views that tell a story by what they hide as much as what they reveal - eg, a smut scene illustrated by two characters' hands and nothing else)
- A/B/O
- Aged-Up/Aged-Down characters (setting stories in the future/past is fine, just please don't make A magically the same age as/closer in age to B)
- Extremely Underage Characters in Sexual Situations
- Infidelity
- Non-Con (Dub-con, even Extreme Dubcon is fine, I just want some sense of consent!)
- Scat/Urine/Vomitplay
- Hades being an abusive monster (which is not to say he can’t be the antagonist or even cruel; I just don’t want him wholly without redeeming features) ,
- Eurydice being “punished”/shamed for the decisions she makes
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+ Favorite Kinks and Tropes:
+ Smut-Specific Likes:
+ Art-Specific Likes:
+ Do Not Want:
Prompts:
Hadestown - Mitchell
Eurydice (Hadestown): I’m absolutely fascinated by Eurydice’s journey in Hadestown and how it takes what had been a very flat character (woman gets bit by snake, dies, gets failed by her lover when he attempts to drag out of the world of the dead) and makes her a dynamic and fully fleshed out one (woman gets sweet-talked into signing her life away by a man, woman loses faith in her husband for faith in her own hard work, woman who loves and believes in the best of circumstances in the worst of times only to be betrayed twice over). I’d honestly love to see anything about her life in Hadestown! What happens to her post-canon? Does she continue to work in Hadestown (at least until the next “loop” starts)? Does she start a rebellion under Hades own thumb? Does she fade away? If you go by the sing it again part at the end being a straight reset, then does the fact she has the flower from Orpheus change anything in the next loop?
Favorite Gen Relationships: Hades! Post-signing the papers in his office, they don’t really interact, but I’d love to know just how things follow with him. They’re both very practical characters married to dreamers who have somewhat disappointed them (with Hades, I think the fact that Persephone is gone so often and doesn’t really seem to write/communicate with him when she’s gone; with Eurydice, well – the whole ending, really, and all the times Orpheus failed to provide for her before). And yet, there’s a lot of conflict there — it’s an unequal relationship, Hades is the Mean Old Boss and Eurydice is just one of many peons, and one who he ground under his heel by stacking the deck against her. I would live for any interaction between them.
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: Orpheus is a favorite; they’re very cute together, and I enjoy the bitter angst of their relationship effectively having this one tragic hinge, and that’s that they’re potentially repeating that same faithless cycle over and over where one loses faith, then the other, and both times it just hurts in the worst way possible. Are they doomed to always live this way, or is there a way where they might get free of the cycle? I know people tend to idealize them vs the Hades/Persephone pairing, but I think they had their own troubles that would require some work to overcome (if, perhaps, not as many or as long as the other couples.)
I also have a real soft spot for Eurydice/Hades/Persephone; maybe Hades makes the decision to bring her in as a gift to his wife, since he knows she’s soft on the girl? Like all things in their marriage, this is not a great decision as far as improving their relationship, since they’re both rather worried that the other will find someone else — but Eurydice is pretty and Persephone does want to look out for her in the underworld, and figures better to share her husband with this girl than have him fuck her on his own time; Hades would find it easier that, if Persephone has to be shared with someone, it’s a mortal and a woman who can’t give her what he can (and who he can kill/get rid of if Persephone gets a little too fond); as for Eurydice, she might find them attractive but mostly I think would be into it for the security — what safer place can be found than sleeping with the boss and his wife? I would love the smutty side of it, but also kind of the horribly complicated side of how on earth these three would deal with the issues of not just Orpheus, but their own potential pitfalls: How do Hades and Eurydice navigate the times Persephone isn’t there — does Eurydice go with Persephone, or does she stay and if she stays, do she and Hades have the same relationship without the third around? Do Hades and Persephone only keep Eurydice as a partner for sex, and focus more on their marriage for emotional intimacy, or do they make her a semi-equal partner? Does Eurydice miss Orpheus and how does she cope with it? How does she handle being the only non-god in this sandwich — are there parts of their sexual lives or decisions they make that Eurydice just can’t even fathom?
Group: Eurydice & Persephone (Hadestown):
Gen Relationship: It’s really clear that Persephone is fond of Eurydice during most of Act 1, pushing her to interact with Orpheus and go dancing with the entourage — but then Chant happens, and Hades leaves, and next time Eurydice and Persephone meet, its during “step into my office”. Persephone clearly assumes that Hades has cheated on her, though I think the musical keeps it fairly ambivalent as to whether he did or not. Persephone spends most of act 2 watching Eurydice and trying to help her; how does she come to figure out either that Hades didn’t sleep with Eurydice, or become willing to forgive Eurydice if you want to go with the version that he did? How does Persephone find it within herself to try to help Eurydice — does she see herself in the girl, or is it more Hades that she sees there? Does she believe the two can avoid the doubt that has kept her and her husband down, and if so, what is her reaction to Eurydice being redoomed to the underworld?
Romantic/Sexual Relationship: I can see Persephone being as attracted to Eurydice as Hades is, and I would love to see a version of them getting together post canon; I’d prefer Hades knowledge/permission (even if he, perhaps, isn’t happy with his wife’s attention on the songbird) or outright participation in a relationship between them rather than outright infidelity. Eurydice is a lot like Hades in how practical minded she is and a lot like Persephone in her faith that things can get better; I’d love to see what Persephone thinks of that. Does Persephone’s special “attention” make things easier for Eurydice (a literal blast of springtime air from up above), or does it make her life way down under the ground harder (Hades, perhaps, taking out his displeasure at this new “pastime” of his wife’s out on her lover; or the other workers being uncomfortable about the relationship between Eurydice and Persephone and/or the boss)?
Group: Persephone & Persephone's mother (Hadestown):
Gen Relationship: While Demeter doesn’t appear in the musical itself, Hades and Persephone both make a couple references to her, with Hades sniping that Persephone always leaves the moment “mother nature calls” and Persephone giving Eurydice some advice she got from her mother about seizing the moment. How does Persephone’s mother cope with this new sudden onslaught of Hades’ picking up his wife earlier and earlier? Is she mad at Hades for perverting this natural order, or does she tell Persephone to try to live with it? Why doesn’t she ever appear to help stress to Hades that no, what he’s doing is actually a very bad, no good thing, and he needs to stop? Does Persephone’s relationship with her mother change as things get worse with Hades, and if so, does the bond between them get stronger, or does theirs begin to devolve as well? What do they do those six months Persephone comes up to visit?
Romantic Relationship: : Gen only for this one, please.
Persephone (Hadestown): Persephone is by far my favorite character in this musical and, in my opinion, the real heart and soul of the show. I love how her foibles in her marriage are so-very-relatable, that she is neither without fault nor without strength. While in the original myth, Persephone was a girl whose marriage was basically forced on her by older men, Hadestown Persephone chose this path, and is not victim; I’d really love to see something about how she feels she’s “complicit” in what Hadestown has become. Did she original go with her husband more often, in terms of going early — and was she happier about it? Did she used to like Hadestown, or at least be honored that he made this neon necropolis for her? Does she love him but know if she gives too much into that love, she’ll ruin the world forever — and if so, how does she deal with that?
Romantic Relationship: s: My OTP for her is Hades, always. I know they have their hard times, and I love reading about those hard times, and the good times, too. I would love to know how they got started on this road to Hadestown; what was it that made Hades or her begin to lose faith in one another? When did Persephone realize they had such a storm on their hands? How has their relationship changed over the ages? I think Amber Gray said that Hades and Persephone have been together since “dinosaur times” – what is it like to see how the world changed since then? What road can Hades and Persephone take, post-canon? Like Hermes, are they aware of the world “reboot” (if that’s how you interpret the ending)? Are they trying to fix things in each cycle? Or are they doomed to go over the same path, again and again and again, and if so, is that heaven, hell, or somewhere inbetween? (I’m also fond of Persephone/Hades/Eurydice as noted in Eurydice’s section, and Persephone/Eurydice, which is written in the group for that pair.)
Gen Relationships: I would love, love, love to see more of her adventures with Hermes. They have such a cute little brotp bit, where they’re constantly winking and nudging one another. I would love to see Hermes reaction to Hades and Seph’s marriage; how does he help her sister cope with things going south? Does he ever try to smooth things over for her? What sort of adventures did they have together when they were younger? How did Persephone react to Orpheus when Hermes took him under his wings — did it make her want children, and/or is she sad she never had any?
I’d also love to see Persephone with the workers. It’s clear she feels for them from how she looks at them during chant – I’d love to see how she tries to make Hadestown more bearable for them. What does the lady of ways/the lady of means do? What sort of power is in her fingertips? Has she ever gotten Hades to do what she wanted in hopes of making things better for others?
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Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Demeter (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore): I adore Demeter, who is such a strong mother figure in a pantheon that is often quite cruel to women. She comes from a horrible background — abused by her dad, literally imprisoned with her two sisters and two brothers — and isn’t freed until it’s time for a terrible war that she has to fight in. By the time that’s done, she marries/has sex with Zeus, who wins the most powerful position in all of the pantheon, and you’d think things were looking up — but then he marries her sister, Hera, instead. So does Demeter rue and lament? Nope, she pours all her energy into raising a damn awesome daughter, and it’s not until something happens to that daughter that she comes undone. I would love to see anything on Demeter in her earlier days; how did she come to fight in the war? How did she feel about her sisters and brothers who were trapped with her — and how did she fall for Zeus? When Zeus spurned her for Hera, did she later come to feel like she dodged a bullet? I’d also love to see how people treat her post-Persephone’s marriage, where she has shown the gods that she is not a woman to be cowed into doing what they want. Do people see her as more of a threat? Do the other gods favor her more, or resent her? What’s her relationship like with her daughter?
Favorite Gen Relationships: I would love to see more on her with Persephone — how do they handle the six month split? Does Demeter insist on keeping her daughter by her side, or does she learn to loosen up? Do they spend all their time together? How do they talk about the six months she isn’t there, if they talk about them at all? Does Demeter help her daughter get past any stumbling blocks in their marriage — or is she happy to ferment resentment in Seph towards Hades?
I would also love to see anything with Demeter and Hades before/during the war — for daughters who had been abandoned by their father and didn’t really have the opportunity to see other males given the erm, reigns of their captivity, Hades must have been a new and even strange addition. Did Demeter basically raise him or did she try to avoid having interacts with him? Did they get along or did they keep their distance, even then? How did she feel when Hades ran off with her little girl – and how did that change their relationship over time? Do they ever reconcile?
I would also love to see Demeter with her sisters, especially Hera. It’s got to be weird when you’ve both slept with the same man (never mind that that man is your brother), but I think over time Demeter would kind of pity Hera, given that Hera has to be faithful to a man who has literally never been faithful to her, not even once, and Demeter, while not married and thus not having the social standing that Hera does, is free to sleep with who she wants and how she wants. Do they ever seek solace together? Hera is the goddess of marriage — whose side does she take in the dispute between Hades and Demeter, and how does Demeter react to it?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: God honestly I am just so thirsty for Demeter with a woman. Demeter finding her late in life groove with Aphrodite, Hera, or Hestia? One of Persephone’s little friends (Athena, Artemis) starts spending time trying to help Demeter move on, and it becomes more? Perhaps Demeter decides to spend more time in the underworld to better understand the other world that claims her daughter half the year and finds Hecate there and realizes she and the mistress of the crossroads have a lot in common and start a romance? Other than Persephone, pretty much any f/f would be GREATLY welcome.
Group: Demeter & Melinoe (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: I would love to see how Demeter takes to becoming a grandmother! Especially with a child that definitively has more of Hades powers than Persephone; how does Demeter handle this little, perhaps slightly spooky child? Is she thrilled to have a grandchild? Worried about it? Does she help Persephone through her pregnancy, or does Persephone simply show up for spring at some point, and Demeter sees a little girl with her and Hades for the first time? Either way, how does she feel about it?
Romantic Relationship: : Gen only for this one, please.
Group: Medea & Hera:
Gen Relationship: Hera and Medea have such a complicated potential relationship. Hera is her (ex)husband’s patron goddess, but Medea is a goddess (or demigod, depending on source) in her own right and she’s done a lot of horrible things for him. When Jason leaves her, how does Hera take Medea’s being left behind? How does she take Medea’s desire to put the children she murders in Hera’s grove — is this a sacrifice meant to honor Hera, or an insult? As they are both goddesses and/or children of gods, at least, did they ever meet before/after the whole thing with Jason?
Romantic Relationship: : Hera likes the clever ones and there is no one who is more of a lightning bolt of god/demi-godhood intellect than Medea. Hera’s someone who’s willing to go full-tilt on her schemes and Media will literally murder a man to prove a point. I want to see them working together and kicking ass and figuring out how to take the pantheon by storm. Does Zeus ever find out about Hera having an affair with Medea? What does Hera think of Medea’s family? Do they bond over both being the children of titans?
Group: Penelope & Athena:
Gen Relationship: Athena is clearly Odysseus’ patron goddess, but is she Penelope’s? Does Penelope ever pray to her for her husband, and if so, does she ever know if perhaps her husband’s paron goddess answers back? What sort of relationship would they have: does Penelope share her husband’s faith in Athena? Is there tension after Odysseus fails to show up, year after year after year? Does Penelope feel bound to worship Athena, even if she is perhaps conflicted in her feelings about the deity (or outwardly despising her)? Does Athena help her with her weaving or her suitor problem? I am not sure what, exactly, their relationship would be like, but I know I would love to read any interpretation of it.
Romantic Relationship: : I would love to see some conflicted romance here between Penelope and her husband’s patron goddess; she reminds her of Odysseus so much, and yet, there are parts of her that are just not really understandable; she is a goddess after all and I imagine things like, oh, letting her husband wander a good decade or two is something that really sticks in the craw of Penelope – even if, in other ways, she is absolutely in love with Athena. How does a human love a goddess? Does Athena respond? If so, how does she display her affection? Are there downsides/upsides to loving a god?
Group: Persephone & Demeter (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: Demeter and her daughter have a fascinating history, always together for exactly half the year. I would love to see something set later in their relationship, after this whole thing has gone on for several centuries. What are Demeter and her daughter doing at important points in history – how do they handle things like the black plague, world war I, hippies, etc? Are they an environmental power duo, inspiring environmentalist movements through time? Do they just live as normal people, enjoying the world as it passes? How does Persephone change during time - - does she bring Hades up with her, ever, and if so is this her choice or him trying to take more of her time? Does their relationship change through time, or do they remain static? How does Olympus/the Earth/Underworld change as they meet up, year after year?
Romantic Relationship: : gen only for this one, please.
Group: Persephone & Hera (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: I think that Persephone and Hera would have a fascinating relationship with a lot of thorns in it: first, Persephone is the daughter of her sister…with her husband. That’s hard hard dealt to begin with –especially when Hera has a hot temper when it comes to the products of her husband’s extramarital affairs. But then when you add in the complication that Persephone is also a queen – a queen married to Hera’s other brother, one who is considerably more true to her (or at least, has considerably fewer mistresses) than Hera’s own husband has. Persephone is a lot younger, but wields equal power, despite being a bastard child of her husband – but the catch is that, like Hera, Persephone never really asked for all that. How do they get along? Does Hera hate the girl and try to spite the underworld, because she can’t stand that one of Zeus’ bastards was promoted to so high a throne? Or does she feel some sympathy for the girl, whose marriage was based perhaps as much in trickery as her own? Does Persephone find this fellow queen intimidating, or dread dealing with her – or does she find her a surprising friend?
Romantic Relationship: : Honestly, I’d be curious how this gets started. Both of them are married women, but, well, Persephone didn’t get a lot of choice in her matter, and Hera barely got any in hers. Hades certainly isn’t around six months, but Zeus seems ever present unless he’s fucking one of his new waifs/cupbearers — which is uh, frequently. Is this something Hera concocts out of revenge? Is this something Persephone seduces the older queen into — she is someone who enjoys power, after all, and what is better than having one throne but having two? Do their husbands ever find out, and, if so, how do the woman react to this?
Group: Persephone & the Furies (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen: Persephone is a younger goddess than the Furies in 90% of the retellings, even she is their younger sister. Suddenly, after marrying Hades (which doesn’t seem to have been her decision in most versions, though feel free to subvert this), she’s their boss. How does she deal with bossing around these ancient goddesses who are there to help women, especially mothers, who have been wronged by society? Are they friends? How do they adjust to this? Do they help her find her role as queen of the underworld, or are they antagonists Persephone has to conquer to prove herself the rightful queen?
Alternatively, if you want to go with Persephone being their mom, as in the Orphic version: I would love, love, love to see some raising-little-hellfire-babies ficlet. How do she and Hades wind up with triplets? Is he mad they all have her hair? What’s the logistics of raising children when you spend your time half upstairs, half downstairs?
Romantic: Look, there are three goddesses with snakes everywhere and I am but a mere mortal. If Persephone gets to enjoy one, two, or all three furies as they administer justice, who am I (or Hades!) to get in her way? I’d love to know how this happens, and how they come together — how did they meet? How did they start getting together? Is there love there, or is it purely a sexual thing? Are they literally horny for justice?
Hera (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Favorite Gen Relationships: I love Hera! Though often portrayed as Queen Bitch of Greek Mythology, I feel like she gets a raw deal. She’s swallowed by her dad, then married to the King of Heaven, but he cheats on her constantly and their relationship never feels so…warm and fuzzy. She is the queen of marriage and children and yet is constantly forced to suffer her husband’s adultery and bastards. She has a raw deal, but she never backs away or takes the easy way out, and I find her ultimately a sympathetic character. I would love to see something about how she stays Queen of Heaven despite all these challenges – is Zeus afraid of her? Are the others? Does she have allies? Whats her relationship with her sisters and brothers like — does she ever wish she’d married one of her other brothers? Does she ever visit her mom or dad post-titanomachy and if so, what is it like?
Some stories also note that she was sheltered by Oceanus and Tethys during the Titanomachy, which I’ve always wondered about because a) she’s either first-eldest or third, depending on if you favor Homer or Hesiod, and thus could fight because she was as much an adult as Hades or Poseidon, both of whom are confirmed to have battled in the war, and b) her sisters are not said to be sheltered by someone else, so how exactly and why exactly did Hera get this special treatment? Was she pregnant? Frail? What was it like going from living in her father’s stomach to living under the sea?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: I would love to see her with anyone but Zeus. He cheats on her all the time — has she ever decided she is going to turn the tables? Does she ever fall in love with someone else? There are stories where Hera uses her wiles to get with Zeus — has she ever used them to get with someone else? I’d particularly love to see Hera with another woman in the pantheon, or a human. I’d particularly love to see her with Athena, who is the child of only her husband, and thus the closest to him — but with the key difference of being a) female and b) more coy in her affairs. How would Hera fall in love with her? Would she be conflicted about falling in love with someone who is close to being her daughter or, being how the gods are, would that not bother her at all? How would Athena view Hera — as a step-mother, as a friend, as an enemy to be conquered?
Medea (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Favorite Gen Relationships: Oh boy, Medea is such a fascinating character for me, because she is not only whip-smart and utterly merciless, but someone who has it made and then loses it all for love. Medea is literally born into privilege as a goddess or at least a demi-god, seems to have it all made…and then spits in the gods face, running away with this mortal, Jason. And when Jason, in turn, spits in her face, leaves her for a younger, more Grecian bride, Medea takes her revenge in the cruelest way possible. I would love to see anything regarding her growing up in her father’s court; how she interacts with the Olympians, or even how she felt murdering her brother/kids, and if she knew just what doors she was closing behind her. Medea’s fate is infamously open, and I’d also love to see what happened to her after Medea closes – where does she go? What does she do? Who is she doing it with?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: I would be interested in any f/f pairing for Medea, especially with another goddess on Olympus. I would also love to see something with her with Circe, her aunt, who “absolves” Medea of the murder of her brother. How did Circe do this and why would she do so, knowing that this would likely make the Gods turn against her as much as Medea?
Persephone (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Favorite Gen Relationships: Persephone is pretty much amazing 100% of the time for me and I’d love to see something about her coming into her unique situation. How does she feel about constantly having to go back and forth between the upper world and the lower one? Does this give her a unique perspective among the gods, or is it just tedious? How does she change over time? Do her relationships with Artemis and Athena get harder to maintain when she’s under the ground? How do things change with her mother as time goes by? Do they get closer, or is distance inevitable when you age up a bit?
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: Hades is my favorite for her and I’m so interested in what their relationship is like, not just at the start but hundreds of years down the line: does being married to the lord of the dead cause tensions in her marriage? It isn’t like he can take time off to go visit her upstairs much so how do they make it work, six months out of every twelve? Do they even want to make it work? If you go by Persephone being tricked by Hades into being her bride – how long did it take her, to forgive him for that? Does she ever? Does she keep him eternally at her beck and call, because he is so desperate not to lose her? And why did he kidnap her in the first place – what was it about Persephone that made the long-solitary man give up his solo rule?
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Crossovers
Group: Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) & Medea (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Gen Relationship: I am absolutely in love with the idea of these crossovers. Medea's tragedy is so
much a part of her times, and I'm dying to know if her admittedly merciless ways -- one of the only ways a woman could get justice in those times for being wronged -- would translate to different times and different settings. Would she see Amy as a woman in the same sort of situation, and agree with the steps she takes? Or would she be horrified to find Amy following her footsteps, when so many other paths were available?
Romantic Relationship: : Honestly, I feel like these two could be a real hot disaster together, and I’d love to see it. I think that they have exactly the right amount of sharpness that I could see them encouraging one another on things like murder and mayhem. I’m not sure if this would be a sort of meeting-of-the-minds between these two, or a sort of deadly rivalry turns deadlier, but either way I would appreciate some hot make-out sessions.
Group: Medea (Greek Mythology) & Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Gen Relationship: For Medea and Daenerys, I would love to see if she thinks of Daenerys' path and whether she agrees with her on her romantic choices. Or just anything with them discussing, honestly, the role of women in whatever canon they wind up in; both seem more aware than not about how much of a mans game it is, and both have been used and abused by foreign men and, in many ways, conquered them. Do they get along? Do they hate one another? What would Medea think of Daenerys’ dragons — and what would Daenerys think of Medea’s witchcraft?
Romantic pairing: I am a simple creature with simple needs and one of them is seeing Khaleesi tango with a murderess every bit as cunning as her own. Medea, too, is sometimes alleged to be a queen, post-Jason — what if she came to Daenerys in King’s Landing and made an offer to the queen? Or, perhaps, what if Daenerys became Medea’s wife instead of drogo? Honestly I just want to see these two make out a lot, I think it would be very nice.
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Suikoden
Lorelai (Suikoden):
Favorite Gen Relationships: Lorelai has always been my favorite Suikoden girl and I am beyond thrilled she was nominated here. I would just honestly love to see more adventures with her -- what is she doing between Suikoden V and II? Does she ever find the Sindar she seeks so much? Why is she looking, and willing to travel the world to get it? Why does she switch weapons so often? I would love to see gen with her and pretty much either of the canon Sindar hunters — or a lost scene of her confronting Vicky in Suikoden II; after all, she remembers Vicky from Suikoden V, but for Vicki, that hasn’t happened yet…
Favorite Romantic/Sexual Relationships: Please, please, please give me all the rivalmancing between her and Killey. I adore them together, their bitter sniping, their moments where they help one another, the dedication to a shared goal (but not reaching it together) — anything going into that rivalry that ends with at least one make-out? Heavenly.
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