Trick or Treat 2k19

[acequeenking]

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. All my requests are for both art and fic; feel free to illustrate or write only a small scene of a large AU I ask for. I'm aware this exchange only has a 300 word minimum and I'm perfectly happy with fun size and king-size fanfic/art. Like candy, there's really no wrong shape or flavor.

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.

As far as characters without defined attributes (mainly mythology and novel sources): please feel free to go wild with how you want them to look: skin color, hair, eyes: go nuts! Whatever you want. Cultural change? Amazing, I live for alternate cultural takes on my faves. Trans or otherwise gender non-conforming? Sure! Bring it on! I love multiple versions and different takes so please change things to your heart’s desire: I am here for it. Stick with whatever idea makes your story/art best, and I promise I will enjoy it. As far as tricks vs. treats, I love both really deep, soul-suckingly sad/bleak dark!fic, and fuzzy, baby-blanket smooth fluff!fic. I am easy to please, I hope. :)

I've divided up each section here by:

Fandom
Character
->Ship(s) for that character (Note: Some ships are in multiple sections, and I've varied the prompts to focus on whatever character is in that section; eg, X's X/Y prompts will focus on X, while the same pairing in Y's section will focus on Y)
-->Trick Prompts
-->Treat Prompts
->Gen Relationship(s) for that character (Note: Some ships are in multiple sections, and I've varied the prompts to focus on whatever character is in that section; eg, X's X/Y prompts will focus on X, while the same pairing in Y's section will focus on Y)
-->Trick Prompts
-->Treat Prompts

Please only read what you feel is relevant, and if you want to throw away my prompts and do your own thing - go for it. :) I really won't mind!

Likes:

+Genre/Narrative Likes:

• 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)



+ Favorite Kinks and Tropes:

• Arranged Marriage
• Bad guys win / Villain 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
• Eldritch/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 absence 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-Penetrative sex
• Non-verbal communication and quiet intimacy
• Outsider POV
• Penetrative Sex
• Pyrrhic victories
• Physical recovery from injury
• Playing with danger, e.g. 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
• Power play
• Pregnancy, including alien/unusual pregnancy
• Protectiveness
• Redemption being complicated and not easy
• Rule 63/Gender swapping 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/earthquake/etc
• Trust kink
• Unhappy and/or complicated endings
• Unhealthy Relationships and/or Codependency
• Unreliable narrator
• World-building

+ Smut-Specific Likes:

• 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, cloacae, whatever)

+ Art-Specific Likes:

• 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 - e.g., a smut scene illustrated by two characters' hands and nothing else)

+ Do Not Want:

• 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)
• Character Bashing (eg going out of your way to paint X as evil or Y as a slut - I don't mind characters being wrong but I don't like everyone bashing X/Y if that makes sense)
• Extremely Underage Characters in Sexual Situations
• High School/College/Coffee Shop/Mundane AU
• Non-Con (Dub-con, even Extreme Dubcon is fine, I just want some sense of consent!)
• Non-Requested Characters (except for character/any)
• Scat/Urine/Vomitplay

Prompts:

Hadestown - Mitchell:

Tricks: Listen, this tragedy has a lot more room for tragedy, and I'd like more tragedy here. Any way you can find to twist the knife that isn't in my DNW, I'm more than game. Make me cry, make me weep; one of my (many) favorite things about this musical is how C-o-m-p-l-i-c-a-t-e-d the relationships between the characters are, how much history there is buried on the God's side and how much the mortals are often suffering at the hands of the most capricious Fate(s).

Treats: I also love the kinda-hopeful-despite-tragedy note that the musical ends on, the idea that eventually, through grit and effort and trust and work (and one of my other (many) favorite things about this musical is like, relationships take WORK) and eventually, it won't be a tragedy. I'd love to see some of the reunifications and friendships that get explored through the show, especially for dynamics that aren't the lovers (Eurydice/Orpheus; Persephone/Hades) because we don't get as much time spent on them. But I also absolutely love the lovers and love any scene of Persephone and Hades trying so, really, you can't go wrong. <3

Persephone:



Persephone Only:
[Trick] When did Persephone realize she had an alcohol problem?
[Trick] Persephone increasingly horrified reaction to Hadestown.
[Trick] Persephone's first winter - and her realization that she had to go back to it, one year and every year.

[Treat] Persephone helping mortals live it up! Show me her role as the patroness of all of this.
[Treat] Persephone handling her bar down below! How does she come up with it? Why? Does Hades ever know?
[Treat] Persephone playing matchmaker among mortals for fun. Why does she do this? What does she get out of it?

Persephone Shipping:
Persephone/Hades (Persephone focused):
[Trick] Persephone has a drinking problem; Hades can hold his liquor but even he has limits. Sometimes they have drunk sex but no one is really happy.
[Trick] Persephone has a fight while not actually having a fight with her husband; a freezing winter storm blows in the world above, and she realizes that she's (partially)responsible for it.
[Trick] Sleeping in opposite bedrooms while pining for her insanely stubborn idiot husband and feeling conflicted about it.

[Treat] First Time(s) - First Kiss, First Sexual Encounter, First Meeting - I will take any and all for these two, whether you go classical myth or Americana or something all-new, I'd love it.
[Treat] Babyfic. I have a pathological need for it for these two disasters. Give them a baby - accidental acquisition, knocked up, adopted - I don’t care, I just love these two learning to care for a small child while also learning how to love one another in a more healthy way.
[Treat] Persephone and Hades work on reconciling post-Hadestown, whether in a second run through the restart interpretation of the ending where things get a bit better, or just post-Eurydice//Orpheus and working on reconciling.

Persephone/Eurydice (Persephone Focused):
[Trick] Nothing ever changes. Eurydice goes to her goddess expecting comfort - and gets it, but it's ultimately temporary.
[Trick] Mr. Hades is a cold man, but his wife is warm - too warm to quite belong downstairs for long. Eurydice knows its risking the boss’s wrath, but she can't resist trying desperately to touch just a bit of Persephone's warmth.
[Trick] Persephone takes revenge on Hades for seducing Eurydice by...Seducing Eurydice. Eurydice is getting tired of being a pawn between these two.

[Treat] Persephone helps Eurydice come to terms with being, well, dead.
[Treat] Eurydice and Persephone working the bar and flirting.
[Treat] Persephone needs a drink. Eurydice knows how to make a mean drink, and, it turns out, is really good at body shots.

Persephone/Hades/Eurydice (Persephone Focused):
[Trick] Eurydice doesn't feel like she fits in this bed; Persephone isn't sure she does, either. Hades is quite certain they both do.
[Trick] Persephone wonders what happens when she's gone, and fears being replaced.
[Trick] Eurydice winds up becoming pregnant and isn't sure who is the father; Persephone feels complicated emotions about it.

[Treat] All things in balance - adding Eurydice to their marriage turns out to solve a lot of problems for Persephone.
[Treat] Smut. Just good, old-fashioned smut about how these three would work in bed. How does Persephone adapt to having a new woman in her bed? How does this change her relationship?
[Treat] Persephone gets spoiled by her lovers in two very different but very mind-blowing ways.

Persephone Gen:
Persephone & Hermes (Persephone Focused):
[Trick] Persephone complaining about Hades to Hermes; Hermes trying to help but ultimately being unable to.
[Trick] Hermes tries to help Hades and Persephone with their marriage - and just makes it worse.
[Trick] Ways Hermes tried - and failed - to make Persephone feel better during the space between "Why Do We Build the Wall” and "Our Lady of the Underground."

[Treat] Hermes and Persephone palling around up top! What sort of adventures do they get into?
[Treat] Hermes helps Persephone seduce/get together with Hades.
[Treat] Hermes surprises Persephone with a present that turns out to be exactly what she needs.

Persephone & the Fates (Persephone Focused):
[Trick] The Fates and Persephone seem to have a mutually sassy relationship - has Persephone tried to defy fate before? What happened?
[Trick] The Fates want to judge someone; Persephone doesn't allow it and it causes a rift.
[Trick] Knowing one's Fate doesn't lead to happiness. Persephone asks a question she winds up regretting.

[Treat] Persephone and the Fates work together to give Eurydice and Orpheus another chance.
[Treat] The Fates aren't used to the upper world; Persephone helps them live it up.
[Treat] Persephone and the Fates camp out at the snack table and make snarky comments at some kind of gathering.

Persephone & Eurydice (Persephone Focused):
[Trick] Persephone is worried about leaving Hades alone in the underworld with Eurydice, and moving on from her own insecurities proves as hard for her as it is for him. Eurydice being nice to her doesn't make it easier.
[Trick] Persephone is Eurydice's patron goddess, but that doesn't mean she's going to save her from the deal she's made.
[Trick] Persephone tries to help Eurydice adjust to her life under the earth - but her attempt backfires.

[Treat] Persephone takes Eurydice under her wing and finds a way to allow her to see the sun - at least, for a little bit.
[Treat] Eurydice walks into Persephone's bar and it changes her life. Unexpectedly, it changes Persephone's as well.
[Treat] Persephone helps Eurydice get some peace, and this leads to an unexpected peace for Persephone as well.

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Hades:



Hades Only:
[Trick] Hades and his so many insecurities; how does Summer pass, for the old man of Winter?
[Trick] Hades thinks he's won against the workers, but he’s only prolonged the inevitable.
[Trick] Hades recruiting workers, promising a diamond, but giving them a grave.

[Treat] Hades assumes the workers don't like him beyond what he provides; he is very surprised to find out some of them actually are a bit fond of the boss.
[Treat] Hades manages to wait six months and spends it...how?
[Treat] Hades reforms Hadestown, slowly but surely.

Hades Shipping:
Persephone/Hades (Hades focused):
[Trick] Hades notices his wife drinks too much. He isn't blind. He just isn't sure what to do about it.
[Trick] Hades seduces Persephone during the bad years and successfully gets her into bed, but the sex isn't great and he only winds up feeling worse.
[Trick] Hades tries to surprise Persephone up top; it ends badly.

[Treat] Hades receives a phone call/letter from his wife, and it makes his day.
[Treat] Hades uses his voice and absolutely ruthlessly seduces his wife.
[Treat] 100 years after the events of Hadestown, Hades and Persephone finally have it figured out. What do their lives look like?

Hades/Eurydice (Hades focused):
[Trick] Promises he made to her, and what those look like, a hundred years later.
[Trick] Their relationship was supposed to be a one-time affair. It wasn't. Neither of them is happy about going to the other for comfort, but they can't seem to stop.
[Trick] Seeking comfort in one another, but finding none.

[Treat] Smut. Hades shows Eurydice the pros of having sex with a very experienced older man, and in doing so feels a bit better about himself even if he’s still a mess that's madly in love with his wife but profoundly unhappy in his marriage.
[Treat] Honestly, size kink. He's a lot taller and bigger than her, and he's a god and she's a mortal. How does he handle her?
[Treat] Bittersweet comfort; Eurydice comforts Hades and gets through to him, somehow, even if neither of them feel exactly okay about what they're doing.

Persephone/Hades/Eurydice (Hades focused):
[Trick] Hades couldn't make one woman happy. Now he finds himself unable to make two happy, and feels like they're becoming a duo without him.
[Trick] Both Eurydice and Persephone wind up pregnant at almost/at the same time, and Hades isn't sure how to handle this situation - so he does so spectacularly badly.
[Trick] Hades thought having two partners would keep him too busy for doubt to creep in. It doesn't.

[Treat] Hades is surprised by how different his winters are with Eurydice and Persephone around.
[Treat] Smut. Just good, old-fashioned smut about how these three work in bed together. Or: having Eurydice in his bed forces Hades to up his sex game to please them both at the same time, and everyone is happy about it.
[Treat] Hades finds to his surprise that both of these women fit in his bed.

Hades Gen:
Hades & Hermes (Hades focused):
[Trick] Hermes plays a trick on Hades hat he thinks will just be funny but winds up revealing a lot of his insecurities.
[Trick] Hermes tries to offer Hades advice about Persephone. He doesn't take it.
[Trick] Hermes confronts Hades about Persephone's drinking and is surprised when Hades goes on the offensive defending his wife.

[Treat] Hades and Hermes conspire together to treat Persephone/the workers/someone else, and the plan works!
[Treat] Hermes plays wingman and helps Hades hook up with Persephone.
[Treat] Hades asks Hermes to help him reform Hadestown, and Hermes proves helpful.

Hades & The Fates (Hades focused):
[Trick] The Fates aren't happy Hades cut Eurydice's life short, and they expect to be repaid. Hades struggles to find a way to repay.
[Trick] Knowing one's fate doesn't make experiencing it any easier; Hades asks a question to the Fates and he doesn't like their answer.
[Trick] The Fates told him to let Orpheus hang. Hades watches them bring out the rope and doesn't look away until the boy's feet are figuratively twitching.

[Treat] The Fates provide Hades with people to recruit for the town who are "due" for collecting anyway; Hades is able to give a peaceful end to some lives that may have otherwise been much more violent.
[Treat] The Fates help Hades realize he can't keep Hadestown up. He’s surprised at how painless letting it fall feels.
[Treat] The Fates give Hades some pleasant news regarding his wife.

Hades & Eurydice:
[Trick] She can't really remember Mr. Hades, after a while, but she sure does instinctually fear him, and that makes Mr. Hades more uncomfortable than he'd like to admit.
[Trick] Its easier to blame Hades for her being here again rather than blaming Orpheus; Hades forces her to confront that truth.
[Trick] Hades isn't happy Eurydice is in the underworld, and punishes her for Orpheus' failure.

[Treat] Hades helps Eurydice adjust to life down low.
[Treat] Mr. Hades keeps his promises. Eurydice gets a belly full and it’s not nothing, that promise between them.
[Treat] Hades thinks Eurydice has every right to hate him; she does have every right, but she forgives him, and that matters a bit more than Hades wants to admit.

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Eurydice:



Eurydice Only:
[Trick] Things Eurydice did to Survive in the Cold before she met Orpheus.
[Trick] What made Eurydice become a runaway? What was she running from?
[Trick] Eurydice doesn't accept Hades offer - but things wind up worse.

[Treat] Eurydice enjoys the first brief moment of springtime.
[Treat] Eurydice finds the crack in the wall and finds some comfort from it.
[Treat] Eurydice finds her place among the workers, after she's been damned for the second time by Orpheus' glance behind.

Eurydice Shipping:
Persephone/Eurydice (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] Persephone seduces the girl to find out what Hades saw in her, but doesn't find anything special; Eurydice opens her heart to the goddess - and gets it broken.
[Trick] Eurydice prays to Persephone for relief, and Persephone grants it - but it’s always temporary.
[Trick] Eurydice sold herself over to Hades for security. She tries to sell herself over to Persephone for freedom, but Persephone’s definition of freedom is radically different than Eurydice's OR Persephone is happy to collect payment but certainly won't be going against her husband's wishes.

[Treat] Nothing ever changes, but that doesn’t mean Eurydice can't get a moment of comfort with her goddess.
[Treat] (Smut) Persephone shows Eurydice the advantages of an older woman, and for the first time in her life, Eurydice has a skilled lover who knows just how to take her mind off all her troubles - for a few minutes, anyway.
[Treat] Persephone sneaks Eurydice on the train and Eurydice gets to see the upper world for a few hours.

Hades/Eurydice (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] Hades keeps Eurydice with him during the summer as his mistress, with the promise he won't bring anyone else down or come for Persephone early. Persephone is happy since he isn't picking her up early, and Hades is happy because he isn't so lonely. But is Eurydice happy, or is her happiness sacrificed to keep the world going 'round?
[Trick] She tells Hades signing her contract that what's between them is only going to happen once. But after Orpheus fails, she wants revenge for Hades dooming them, and takes it by dooming his marriage in as much as she can.
[Trick] Eurydice is aware she's trapped in a loop, and knows what's waiting for her in Hadestown. She goes anyway.

[Treat] He manages to make her feel a little better about her decision to go to Hadestown, even if he isn't much comfort.
[Treat] Hades keeps his promises, and maybe she doesn't love him, but what they have together isn't without a feeling to it.
[Treat] Hades and Eurydice are both intensely practical people, which proves surprisingly comforting.

Persephone/Hades/Eurydice (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] Eurydice offers herself up to both of them - but there's so much history between Hades and Persephone, she eternally feels like the third wheel.
[Trick] Eurydice gets pregnant by Hades and carrying a God's child isn't easy for a mortal woman; Persephone is clearly upset without trying to show Eurydice she's upset, and Hades is cold, and she doesn't know what to do.
[Trick] Eurydice gets offered the chance to become a god as part of a triad with Hades and Persephone. But there are powerful drawbacks, and Eurydice isn't sure she wants to experience them.

[Treat] Orpheus song might have gotten the world unstuck, but its Eurydice who keeps the seasons flowing smoothly.
[Treat] Smut. Just good, old-fashioned smut about how these three work in bed together. Eurydice feels unsure about joining two gods in bed, but they find mind-blowing ways to make her feel welcome.
[Treat] Eurydice is a survivor, and sometimes the perspective she brings is worth its weight in gold in terms of helping Hades and Persephone maintain a well-organized realm.

Eurydice Gen:
Eurydice & Hermes (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] Hermes knows nothing good will come of Eurydice and Orpheus, and Eurydice is horrified when she realizes how long he's let this cycle repeat.
[Trick] Hermes tries to smuggle down some comfort for Eurydice in the Underworld; it doesn't wind up being very comforting.
[Trick] Hermes leads Eurydice back to Hadestown after Orpheus looks back; Eurydice hardens her heart.

[Treat] Hermes helps smuggle communications between Orpheus and Eurydice and shows the girl some kindness.
[Treat] Hermes helps Eurydice find the crack in the wall. It’s a small comfort, but it’s not nothing.
[Treat] Eurydice serves Hermes in Persephone's bar and Hermes is impressed at how the runaway has found her place.

Eurydice & The Fates (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] The Fates seem to have a singular interest in Eurydice. How does Eurydice feel about these three old women all dressed the same who always seem to be in the back of her mind...and at every destination she goes?
[Trick] Eurydice finds the Fates downstairs and asks what might have happened had Orpheus not turned around. She doesn't like the answer.
[Trick] Eurydice asks the Fates about how long it will be until Orpheus comes to her. She's disturbed by what they say.

[Treat] The Fates offer Eurydice a small snippet of good news; she clings to it.
[Treat] The Fates protect Eurydice during an adventure gone bad pre-Orpheus, as it's not her time...yet.
[Treat] The Fates help Eurydice realize what that flower means, and what she needs to do to make things better this time.

Hades & Eurydice (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] Hades expects Eurydice to hold up her end of her bargain, and lives up to his. Eurydice realizes after signing how much more she needs than food and shelter, but it’s too late.
[Trick] Hades and Eurydice's conversation after Eurydice comes back early - how does he treat her? How does she feel about coming back to him?
[Trick] Hades tries to make Eurydice feel better after a twinge of guilt for luring her there in the first place. He fails to make her feel any better at all.

[Treat] Eurydice helps change Hades' minds about the workers and makes Hadestown a much better place.
[Treat] Hades helps Eurydice adjust to life downstairs, and while he ain't kind, he is oddly comforting.
[Treat] Eurydice is mistaken for Hades' assistant/foreman...and they’re both surprisingly not aghast at that. Eurydice isn’t sure what that means.

Persephone & Eurydice (Eurydice Focused):
[Trick] Eurydice tries to apologize for her part in the whole Orpheus thing when Hades brings Persephone home early yet AGAIN, but Persephone isn't in any mood to listen.
[Trick] Eurydice prays to her goddess, but her goddess has her own problems. Eurydice feels the cold.
[Trick] Persephone is nothing but kind to Eurydice after Orpheus seals her fate - but in a lot of ways, that makes it worse. Eurydice wonders just how much Persephone knew of what would happen with Orpheus before they set out on the road.

[Treat] Persephone serves up drinks, and Eurydice learns to tend bar with a goddess. And maybe even keep up with her in drinks, since it is not like she can die again.
[Treat] Comfort pure and simple. Eurydice's feelings post-canon about Orpheus are complicated, and no one knows complicated more than Persephone.
[Treat] Persephone and Eurydice work together on an underworld farm to feed the workers.

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Hermes:



Hermes Only:
[Trick] Hermes is the only one who remembers when the story resets. And he can’t make it come out right, no matter how hard he tries.
[Trick] Hermes watches everyone fall apart due to love, and vows he won't (romantically) love anyone because it isn’t worth the heartache.
[Trick] Hermes is complicit in Hadestown to some extent, as he takes the coins from everyone who passes. The workers remember.

[Treat] Hermes keeps trying to make the needle move through the resets, and achieves a victory, even if it’s a small one.
[Treat] Hermes enduring hope is tested, but remains.
[Treat] Hermes is a bit of a trickster, and manages to outwit the Fates.

Hermes Shipping:
Hermes/Any: I don't see a lot of Hermes ship fic and I'd be interested him with any character. Gay/straight/bi Hermes are all good to me; canon character or borrowed mythological character or a Hadestown original character, all good options!
[Trick] Nothing ever changes. But, his lover thinks, Hermes sure does try. Even if it hurts them both.
[Trick] Hermes receives a coin for his bag, but the source of this coin is more painful than most.
[Trick] Hermes plays a trick that results in him hurting someone he loves.

[Treat] Hermes brag-flirts with his lover, who finds it handsome.
[Treat] Hermes is depressed as another go through of the cycle ends poorly; his lover helps soothe his brow.
[Treat] Hermes smooth-talks his lover, but winds up charmed in return.

Hermes Gen:
Eurydice & Hermes (Hermes focused):
[Trick] Eurydice wants to know why Hermes didn’t warn her about Hadestown. Hermes tries to explain.
[Trick] Part of letting Orpheus move on is letting Eurydice go. Unfortunately, the dead don't move on, and Hermes finds himself in the awful situation of constantly having to tell Eurydice that Orpheus isn't holding out for her anymore.
[Trick] Hermes realizes Eurydice has become aware of the cycle, but he can’t help her break it.

[Treat] Hermes sneaks treats from the upstairs for Eurydice.
[Treat] Hermes prepares for the boldest crime the God of Thieves has ever done: stealing Eurydice from the Underworld.
[Treat] Hermes pulls some strings, and when Eurydice reincarnates, he's there to help guide her in her next life.

Hermes & The Fates (Hermes focused):
[Trick] Hermes realizes the Fates also realize the cycle that keeps repeating. Unlike him though, they don’t want to break the cycle and for the first time in his life, Hermes finds himself going against Fate. They're not amused.
[Trick] The Fates tell Hermes any attempt to change will break this cycle for the worst. He tries anyway. They're right and Hermes has to pick up the pieces of the damage he's caused.
[Trick] The Fates play a trick on the trickster but he doesn't find it funny.

[Treat] The Fates sass Hermes and Hermes sasses back, and an unlikely friendship is formed.
[Treat] The Fates help whisper a clue in Hermes ear that makes him understand his role in this tragedy goes far beyond a narrator.
[Treat] Hermes and the Fates team up to prank a bigger target.

Hades & Hermes (Hermes focused):
[Trick] Hermes watches Hades' relationship with Persephone break down and tries to sympathize with Hades; Hades does not want his pity (as he's in denial).
[Trick] Hermes tries to stop Hades from taking Eurydice and/or Persephone; he listens, but what happens instead is far worse than either of them expected.
[Trick] Hermes watches Hades' hopes for things to work out die when Orpheus turns around, and it’s not a pretty sight.

[Treat] Hermes helps Hades smooth things over with Persephone, and basks in a job well done.
[Treat] Hermes winds up acting as both Persephone's and Hades' wingman when they are trying to hook up with one another, and Hermes is amazed at how complicated these two can make falling in love.
[Treat] Hermes takes the coins, Hades takes the souls, and they acquire a few pleasant traditions through eons of working together like this.

Persephone & Hermes (Hermes focused):
[Trick] Hermes pokes fun of Hades while they're drinking together and is surprised when Persephone tears into him for it; only she is allowed to drag her husband. Hermes worries about this.
[Trick] Hermes tries to help his sister bringing summer, but his efforts lead to an early winter instead.
[Trick] Persephone complains about Hades to Hermes during Our Lady; Hermes tries to help her but she just winds up crying on his shoulder and he is powerless to do anything more than hold her.

[Treat] Hermes helps Persephone build her bar/speakeasy down below.
[Treat] Hermes helps Persephone try to make more blossom in hopes of keeping the humans alive, despite Hades' shenanigans.
[Treat] Hermes helps his sister sneak downstairs....in the middle of the summertime. For, ahem, reasons.

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The Fates



The Fates Only:
[Trick] Nothing ever changed, and they makes it their mission to keep things stay static. Why?
[Trick] The Fates can see everyone's time. And when it ends. How does that harden their hearts?
[Trick] The Fates don't always agree; what happens to everyone else while the Fates argue?

[Treat] Three Sisters all dressed the same, or: how'd the Fates adopt their uniforms?
[Treat] The Fates have fun figuratively chewing popcorn and watching/commentating on Orpheus/Eurydice or Hades/Persephone. (Or any other combination!)
[Treat] The Fates dance to their own rhythm.

The Fates Shipping:
The Fates (romanticly involved with one another - Clotho/Lachesis/Atropos):
[Trick] The Fates see the whole fate of the entire universe, and cling to one another for comfort.
[Trick] There’s a reason the Fates live in the Underworld.
[Trick] The Fates' idea of a date night is picking random targets like Eurydice and getting off on a Chosen Fate successfully managed.

[Treat] The Fates take the day off. What do they do together?
[Treat] The Fates powers and how those work in bed. Do their fate-abilities change anything?
[Treat] The Fates live as one being in three bodies. They're closer than anyone knows.

The Fates Gen:
Eurydice & The Fates (Fates focused):
[Trick] The Fates seem to have a special hate on for Eurydice. What caused it?
[Trick] The Fates rub in Orpheus' failure as Eurydice recrosses the Gates of Hadestown.
[Trick] The Fates lead another soul like Eurydice to Hadestown. She tries to stop them but isn't (wholly?) successful. The Fates react to her attempt to change things.

[Treat] The Fates unexpectedly comfort Eurydice, but for reasons of their own.
[Treat] The Fates save Eurydice before Hadestown and give her a cryptic clue to her future.
[Treat] The Fates take Eurydice under their wing and teach her something.

Hermes & The Fates (Fates focused)
[Trick] The Fates and Hermes are both aware of the rebooting cycle the lovers are trapped in, but the end result they want is very different.
[Trick] The Fates sing their song to Hades' ear, and Hermes watches and realizes that they've sent Orpheus to hang - what does he do?
[Trick] Hermes tries to change things to rebel again the Fates for Orpheus and Eurydice - what does he do, and what do the Fates do in response?

[Treat] Hermes and the Fates work together to break the cycle the lovers are trapped in.
[Treat] Herms and the Fates enjoy the first spring day after a long winter - even knowing it won't last long.
[Treat] Hermes and the Fates sass around at a family gathering, adding commentary as they watch the rest of the family.

Hades & The Fates (Fates focused):
[Trick] The Fates whisper doubts in Hades' ear - and every time, it works.
[Trick] The Fates advise Hades about Hadestown, but he does not like the advice they give.
[Trick] Hades asks the Fates about the potential side-effects of taking Persephone early; the advice leads him to think this is a good plan, despite obvious drawbacks.

[Treat] Hades works with the Fates to find people to recruit for town; the Fates are happy to be of use.
[Treat] Hades becomes aware he's trapped in a cycle, and asks the Fates for help; they're willing to help, for a price, but it’s one he doesn't mind paying.
[Treat] Where exactly do Hades and the Fates go during His Kiss, the Riot? Are they talking mentally? Can other people understand them that are there? Just what exactly is going on, in-universe, during that number?

Persephone & The Fates (Fates focused):
[Trick] The Fates whisper doubts in Persephone's ear, and she winds up going down to Hadestown early all of her own accord.
[Trick] Persephone asks the Fates for an answer on something she takes for granted; the answer is not what she expects, and she doesn't know how to deal with that.
[Trick] Persephone realizes it's her whose causing the storms above with her fights with Hades, and the Fates rub it in her face.

[Treat] Persephone and the Fates enjoy a perfect winter day downstairs.
[Treat] Persephone uses the Fates to bend reality and break the cycle that she and Hades are trapped in.
[Treat] Persephone coaxes the Fates upstairs in hopes of getting them to enjoy the upper world a little bit more.

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Ancient Greek Religion & Lore

Tricks: I love how Greek mythology often has this harsh world where there's so much danger underfoot; complicating this further, the gods are often capricious and playing games of politics with one another that send mortals scurrying like dice when one God or another inevitably flips over the board. So many of the Gods - especially those born of Cronus and Rhea or Uranus and Gaea - are born into such violence and really seem to all have a lot of violence/trauma related to that. I'm all about Damaged Gods, so please show me Gods at their worst, Gods struggling, or half-goddesses coming into their heritage, or other difficulties.

Treats: I also feel like with these characters, especially the women, we really don't get a lot of information about happier times in their lives. Demeter and Persephone's entire story is about something that is certainly a major (and perhaps traumatic) event in their lives; Helen's marriage is certainly traumatic - and her abduction, too. Hera's arguably in the most important goddess in the pantheon but her marriage is certainly full of ups and downs. I'd love to see a happier moment in these goddesses (and Hades') lives.

Persephone


Persephone Only:
[Trick] Persephone's first time wandering the underworld by herself.
[Trick] Persephone has to perform a harsh judgment, but it doesn't work out the way she intended.
[Trick] Persephone doesn't feel like she belongs in either the underworld or the world above.

[Treat] Persephone has mortals praying to her, and she's able to make their prayers come true - if perhaps not quite how she intended.
[Treat] Persephone enjoys a perfect spring day.
[Treat] Persephone is nervous about going back to the Underworld, but something about the underworld makes her feel at home.

Persephone Shipping:
Persephone/Hades (Persephone Focused)
[Trick] Persephone is kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld, and while trying to talk to him to find out why he's kidnapped her, she realizes that they don't really speak the same language (whether figurative or literal).
[Trick] Persephone is scared in the Underworld, and her husband-to-be tries to comfort her, but...doesn't really know how to. And what he does attempt to do, just leaves her more confused/angry/sad.
[Trick] Hades tricked her into eating the pomegranate, but Persephone is conflicted about whether or not she's mad at him for it.

[Treat] Persephone finds herself surprisingly into the Underworld, and finds herself falling for Hades, despite the oddness of the situation.
[Treat] Persephone finds out she is pregnant; the only problem is, she finds out in the summertime, and it's several months until the next time she can see her husband again, and she has no idea how he'll react to this.
[Treat] She's a virgin, but not for long; or, Persephone seduces an older man.

Persephone Gen:
Demeter & Persephone (Persephone Focused):
[Trick] Demeter loves her daughter too much, and sometimes Persephone feels guilty because she wants her own life, away from her mother.
[Trick] Demeter sees her daughter become more and more like her husband, and sorrows for what she's losing.
[Trick] Persephone gets pregnant, and Demeter tries to be happy for her while still resenting Hades doing this to her daughter.

[Treat] Persephone helps Demeter keep going through a rough point in her life.
[Treat] Childhood cute story! Demeter teaching Persephone to grow things? An early dinner on Olympus? A fun day outside?
[Treat] Persephone sends her mom letters from the underground.

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Hades


Hades Only:
[Trick] He was going to be king of heaven...and then there's a game, and Zeus wins and he loses, and his ass is bound for under the grass. How does he handle that? How do the current occupants, if any, of the underworld, handle this?
[Trick] The world above spins but his realm stays....static. Does he find himself being left behind? Does he resent it, or is he glad this is so?
[Trick] Hades enjoys punishing the titans. Perhaps more than he should.

[Treat] Hades defends his realm from an intruder.
[Treat] Anything and everything about how he wound up with Cerberus, the bestest good doggo monster in the whole of the underworld.
[Treat] Hades goes to Elysium, and his subjects there remind him of why he keeps this job, despite offers to rebel.

Hades Shipping:
Persephone (Hades Focused)
[Trick] Why did he resort to kidnapping her? He tries to justify this need to her, but she isn’t buying it.
[Trick] He tricked her into marrying him. She hasn't forgotten it, and he wishes she would.
[Trick] She's too bright, and her touch hurts him. Still, he wouldn't have her any other way.

[Treat] Hades is surprised to find that his seduction of Persephone...actually isn’t that...necessary. Turns out, she's into this kidnapping rose/plot. A lot. Way more than he ever anticipated.
[Treat] Hades and Persephone ruling together! They’re almost always portrayed on a dual throne/side by side throne set up which is atypical when compared to depictions of Zeus and Hera, Amphitrite and Poseidon, etc. How did Persephone get her own/share her husband's seat?
[Treat] Babyfic from Hades perspective. How does it feel to be the god of death, holding a very tiny, new life between your fingers?

Hades Gen:
Demeter & Hades (Hades Focused):
[Trick] Hades asks for forgiveness. He doesn't get it.
[Trick] Hades and Demeter's tense relationship inevitably strains their relationships with Persephone, but they can't stop sniping at one another.
[Trick] Demeter and Hades in Kronos, and all the damages they have from that.

[Treat] Demeter and Hades make an attempt to forgive and forget.
[Treat] Persephone falls ill, and Hades and Demeter unite to take care of her.
[Treat] Hades gets rescued by Demeter, and he's too relieved to be anything but thankful.

Persephone's Children (with Hades or not) & Hades (Hades Focused):
[Trick] Persephone was raped by Zeus, and Hades finds himself in the role of being a (step)father to a child that reminds him of violence his wife suffered.
[Trick] Persephone's children have powers that Hades can't share, and he can't help but feel the odd one out.
[Trick] Hades sees the darkest sides of his personality reflected in one of his children.

[Treat] One of Hades children asks to stay in the underworld with dad, full-time.
[Treat] Hades tries to balance being the terrifying god of death...with the very cute baby on his lap all summer.
[Treat] Hades comes to collect his child(ren) and Persephone from her mother's house and receives a warm welcome.

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Demeter



Demeter Only
[Trick] Demeter, in winter, isn’t sure if she’s done the right thing.
[Trick] Demeter takes an action to protect her daughter/a mortal/another god; it has longer-term consequences than she intended.
[Trick] Everyone remembers Demeter let the earth starve. No one remembers that she had damn good reason to do so.

[Treat] Demeter makes a blossoming plant from scratch: how does she make new plants? What work goes into it?
[Treat] Demeter realizes she is pregnant and she's beyond thrilled.
[Treat] Demeter put Zeus in his place with the whole Persephone thing...but she isn't the only one happy to see Zeus put down, and Demeter winds up with a new friend.

Demeter Shipping:
Any/Demeter: (Demeter focused; f/f, f/m, f/other - all good! Demeter with a mortal or a god? All good! You can't go wrong with me.)
[Trick] Demeter falls in love, but introducing her lover to her child....does not go well.
[Trick] Demeter is slow to trust. Her lover resents it.
[Trick] Demeter has an affair with someone she really shouldn't have.

[Treat] Demeter finds being fertile herself leads to an improvement in the fertility of the fields.
[Treat] Demeter takes part in a fertility ritual with a lover and the results are even better than she hoped for.
[Treat] Demeter and her lover enjoy a feast after a long (metaphorical or figurative) famine.

Demeter Gen:
Demeter & Hades (Demeter-focused):
[Trick] Persephone falls ill in the Underworld, and Hades reaches out to Demeter to help care for her.
[Trick] A long time ago, they used to be friends.
[Trick] Demeter's perspective on Persephone leaving with him for the first winter, post-marriage.

[Treat] Hades is nervous when Demeter visits the underworld to see her first grandchild, but she's too infatuated with the baby to care that much about his contribution to it.
[Treat] Demeter is wasting away due to illness/depression/etc. during the Winter. Hades sacrifices some of his time with Persephone to bring her up to help mom...and maybe stays up himself.
[Treat] Hades and Persephone are sneaking around. Demeter pretends not to see it...but she's not against making him squirm a little bit.

Persephone & Persephone's Children (with or without Hades) & Demeter:
[Trick] Demeter sees something in Persephone's children she would rather not acknowledge.
[Trick] Persephone has a difficult second pregnancy and Demeter tries to help her by babysitting the first child...but finds she strugglse to understand this child.
[Trick] Demeter's grandchild(ren) show up one winter morning, unannounced.

[Treat] Demeter learns to love her grandchildren despite their obviously underwordly nature.
[Treat] Persephone finds out she's pregnant. She tells Demeter first.
[Treat] Demeter tells the children family stories while watching a star shower outside.

Demeter & Persephone (Demeter-focused):
[Trick] Demeter watches her daughter grow away from her; sooner or later, the Underworld gets its hooks in her.
[Trick] Demeter sees her daughter arrive later every year, and leave earlier, and she isn’t sure what to do about it.
[Trick] Persephone's pregnancy strains the delicate relationship between mother and daughter.

[Treat] Persephone reassures her mother that even as a married woman, she still intends on making her mother a priority in her life.
[Treat] Demeter makes her daughter feel at home after the whole kidnapping/seed ordeal in the Homeric Hymn, and tries to find out if what happened is what Persephone wanted.
[Treat] Demeter does her best to cheer up her daughter after a hard day.

Demeter & Hera (Demeter Focused):
[Trick] Hera and Demeter get pregnant within days of one another, and their joy over the new lives is quickly muted when they find out their children have the same father.
[Trick] Hera will never forgive her sister for being the other woman in her relationship with her husband. Demeter tries to apologize anyway, but it just makes things worse.
[Trick] Demeter feels like Hera stole her child's father.

[Treat] Hera and Demeter tend to their children, and Demeter offers Hera an olive branch that's surprisingly well-received.
[Treat] Hera helps Demeter during her struggle to find Persephone, despite their pasts. Demeter is thankful.
[Treat] Demeter goes to Hera in the wintertime and, to her surprise, finds a place for herself on Olympus that isn’t with Persephone.

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Hera



Hera Only:
[Trick] Hera is tired of being seen as nothing more than a harridan chasing after her husband, and decides to remind the world that she holds some power, too.
[Trick] Hera's rebellion against Zeus doesn't work, and he humiliates her. She can't figure out where they go from here.
[Trick] Hera's not in love anymore, but she can't let him go.

[Treat] Homer's Hera claims to be the firstborn daughter, and I'd love to see more of her exerting her power as Queen of the Gods - even without marrying Zeus.
[Treat] Hera's given a respectful acknowledge from someone she doesn't expect, and it gets her through a tough day.
[Treat] Hera and her peacocks. Just...anything about her and how she came to adopt peacocks as her animal.

Hera Shipping:
Hera/Hades (Hera-focused):
[Trick] Hades and her have both lost too much over Zeus. But they can have an at least petty sort of revenge.
[Trick] She loved him until he lost the draw. Now, it's over. She has her own future to think about, and he can't understand that.
[Trick] Post-Persephone abduction, he calls things off; she doesn't take it well.

[Treat] Hera was always ambitious, and Hades has the largest throne, in the end. But living in the underworld is a drag, so...why not take over the other two realms a little early?
[Treat] Hera isn't appreciated by her husband, but her brother/brother-in-law treats her well, and she never has to explain the hell she goes through upstairs.
[Treat] Hades clads her in diamonds, and gold, and she can almost forget where she is and what she's doing when he makes her look like that.

Hera/Anybody-But-Zeus: (male and/or female? All good. Divine or human? Doesn't matter! I just want her to have somebody who isn't Zeus.)
[Trick] Hera finally gets one over on Zeus by having an affair, and he has no idea. But it doesn't make her feel as good as she thought it would.
[Trick] Hera makes a hard choice and her lover...isn't a fan of it.
[Trick] Hera's rebellion fails, and her lover visits her while she is bound on a golden chain.

[Treat] Hera is treated right in bed for the first time in her life, and it is beyond mindblowing.
[Treat] Hera has a secret, and she is overwhelmingly happy about it. People notice, but its her secret.
[Treat] Hera finally knows what love is, thanks to her lover.

Hera Gen:
Hera & Demeter (Hera Focused):
[Trick] Hera's only been married a few minutes, and she's already being cast aside. For her own sister.
[Trick] Hera snipes at Demeter, and Demeter hits back in a way that tears much of Hera's established worldview down.
[Trick] A long time ago, they used to be friends. But Hera hasn't thought of her lately, at all.

[Treat] Hera attempts to bury the hatchet during her rebellion against Zeus; Demeter finds it an intriguing proposal.
[Treat] Hera and Demeter surviving in the early years, with Kronos.
[Treat] Hera and Demeter go to a restaurant in modern times and chat about their lives.

Hera & Persephone (Hera Focused):
[Trick] Hera tries to get Persephone into her revenge plan with Zeus. To her surprise, the girl isn't interested.
[Trick] Persephone hasn't forgotten how Hera treated all the kids who were Zeus' but not hers. Now, Hera needs a favor, and she's put in the ignominious position of having to grovel for it.
[Trick] Persephone is pregnant, and Hera helps her figure this out...with only a fair amount of rubbing it in. (Double trick: the child is her husbands, and Persephone doesn't know.)

[Treat] Hera needs Persephone's help during her rebellion, and the girl is surprisingly willing to go along with it.
[Treat] Hera admires Persephone's freedom; Persephone admires Hera's power. And thus a surprisingly fond friendship is formed.
[Treat] Hera and Persephone go over some business between their realms at a lavish dinner, where Hera walks away with a sizable prize.

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Helen of Troy



Helen Only:
[Trick] She's the most beautiful girl in the entire world...and no one cares about anything else about her.
[Trick] Helen gets kidnapped by Theseus and Pirithous/Paris and doesn't understand what's happening because the Gods are using her.
[Trick] She wanted to have a good marriage. She doesn't.

[Treat] Helen is a half-goddess and finds her powers in an unexpected area.
[Treat] Helen is so used to be treated as nothing but beautiful, she’s surprised when she receives a compliment over her skills in another area.
[Treat] Helen gets a moment of freedom without anyone telling her what to do.

Helen Shipping:
Any God or Goddess/Helen:
[Trick] An immortal god/goddess comes to Helen's bed, but they don't want anything from her but what mortal men/women do.
[Trick] Helen, a half-goddess, hopes after seducing a god/goddess that she'll belong with them since she doesn't belong with humans. But despite her lover, she realizes she doesn't belong with them, either.
[Trick] Mortal beauty doesn't last forever, and Helen is mortal.

[Treat] Helen has a god/goddess who sees something in her beyond her beauty.
[Treat] Helen is scared, locked in with the Trojans. A god/goddess teaches her not to fear.
[Treat] A god/goddess tries to visit Helen in the guise of a human, but Helen isn't fooled.

Helen/ Aphrodite:
[Trick] Aphrodite decides to sample the finest peach in the world, besides her own. Just to make sure she's still superior.
[Trick] Helen makes a Faustian deal with Aphrodite.
[Trick] Helen knows she's only seen as beautiful. Aphrodite tries to show just how great a thing that is, but her presence just makes Helen feel worse.

[Treat]Helen is gorgeous but she has never had an orgasm in her life, as most of the men she's been with have just cared about their needs. Aphrodite gives her a mind blowing sexual awakening.
[Treat] Helen receives a gift from her patron goddess that lets her know everything will be okay.
[Treat] Helen gets rescued after Pirithous/Theseus by an unlikely rescuer; Aphrodite checks out the competition.

Helen Gen:
Helen & Persephone (Helen focused):
[Trick] Helen holds out hope that the goddess downstairs will protect her during a traumatic event. She can't, but she helps her after.
[Trick] Helen dies but the Underworld isn’t at all what she's thought it would be.
[Trick] Persephone sees Helen in springtime and can tell the young girl's future; Helen thinks the smile she has for her is one of happiness, but its anything but.

[Treat] Persephone welcomes Helen to the underworld, and gives her a gift beyond measure: the ability to be judged by her actions, not her beauty.
[Treat] Persephone takes Helen to see Pirithous and Theseus in the underworld, and her half-sister's actions earn her approval.
[Treat] Persephone makes Helen a judge in the underworld; Helen wonders, why her?

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Ancient Roman Religion & Lore

Tricks: Roman Mythology takes some quite different tacks on these characters from their greek counterparts; Pluto is notably kinder (though, also, as ceaselessly just as the original), Proserpine has as many arcane rules as her husband (poor Psyche) that lead to doom if you're not careful, Venus is notably more of a trickster than she is in Greek mythology, and Vesta, well, Vesta is just plain more important, and people remember she exists! I would love to see some of the downfalls that come from the Roman traditions about these characters; like the Greeks, they still have their damages, but many of their characteristics are notably different, and I'd love to see something that focused on those differences.

Treats: Like in tricks, I'm curious to see happier moments in the lives of these Gods and Goddesses in the Roman canon; most Greek/Roman mythology focuses almost solely on the Greek aspect despite noticeable differences in stories, temperments, etc so I'm beyond thrilled to see that Roman is its own version here! How did Pluto and Proserpine fall in love/like, in Ovid's canon? How does Venus use love to ensnare others? How does Vesta deal with her vestal virgins - or the many, many Penates?

Pluto



Pluto Only:
[Trick] Pluto is said, in Ovid Metamorphosis, to have no interest in romance until Aphrodite has him stabbed with a love arrow. So what does it feel like to go from being asexual to being TERRIFYINGLY in love?
[Trick] Pluto has to handle all the tragic roman lovers: Hero and Leander, Pyrrus and Thisbe. What does he think of all this, and how does his relationship with Proserpine change?
[Trick] Pluto watches Orpheus, and watches him fail. And is left welcoming Eurydice back.

[Treat] Pluto goes down to the underworld and is...alright with his draw, really. Why?
[Treat] Pluto goes to Rome incognito; what does he do?
[Treat] Pluto and his horses! Does he baby them? How does he keep them well-exercised and well-fed in the underworld?

Pluto Shipping:
Proserpine/Pluto (Pluto focused):
[Trick] In Ovid's Metamorphosis, Pluto is filled with awe-inspiring, godly love for the first time in his life, with this....total stranger who is an entire generation younger than him. He's terrified, and she is too, and he doesn't understand how to change that.
[Trick] Pluto and Proserpine, in Ovid's Metamorphosis, wind up kind of married when neither was quite expecting it (she eats the seeds all on her own, Zeus basically storms in and goes WELP I GUESS YOU'RE MARRIED NOW and we never really get his reaction); she's obviously not thrilled, but how does he feel about it? Does seeing her be upset about it hurt him?
[Trick] In Statius' Thebaid, Pluto mentions that Pluto never went up but for his marriage to Persephone. What is it like to be in sunlight again after so many years underground?

[Treat] (Ovid's Metamorphosis/Fasti) Pluto does his best to re-address Demeter's complaint, and courts Proserpine properly.
[Treat] Proserpine dreads returning to hell; Pluto, to her surprise, has done a lot in six months to make it better for her.
[Treat] Proserpine nervously confesses on her wedding night that she wanted to remain a virgin; to her surprise, Pluto....actually is okay with that. (Or even relieved!)

Pluto Gen:
Pluto & Venus
[Trick] A time when Venus tried to seduce Pluto, and he was oblivious. Utterly.
[Trick] Venus needs to send Psyche to Prosperine. Pluto isn't fond of this idea, but he gets overruled.
[Trick] Pluto doesn't understand why everyone finds Venus beguiling, and she's none too nice about the snub.

[Treat] Pluto has Venus help him with making a present for his wife.
[Treat] Pluto asks Venus for help with his wife in the bedroom, and she's delighted to teach.
[Treat] Venus and Pluto work together to try to make amends to Ceres.

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Proserpine



Proserpine Only:
[Trick] Proserpine hates the Underworld. And even if she's come to like the man, she'll never like the place.
[Trick] Proserpine watches Orpheus and Eurydice, and seeing him turn around affects her more deeply than she thought it might.
[Trick] Proserpine's hunger and what lead her to eat the food of the dead.

[Treat] Things grow in the Roman underworld; Proserpine makes a garden.
[Treat] Proserpine coming into her own and her realization that she's a queen, and all the power attached to that.
[Treat] Proserpine gets a rare day to herself.

Proserpine Shipping:
Proserpine/Pluto (Proserpine focused)
[Trick] She doesn't understand why he brought her here, and he isn't very good at explaining it either.
[Trick] Proserpine confronts Pluto over his brutal treatment of her nymph friend.
[Trick] Dubcon. He's very madly in love with her, and Persephone gambles that giving her besotted captor her maidenhood will either make him leave her alone or will let her eke out a better existence in the underworld. What she gets instead in this gamble is...entirely unexpected.

[Treat] Pluto's a bumbling fool for her. Proserpine finds it charming in a way.
[Treat] Pluto kidnaps her and insists they're married. Proserpine, feeling out of control in what she can do in this situation, femdoms the hell out of him when he insists on consummating their relationship.
[Treat] Proserpine insists on being courted properly after being abducted.

Proserpine Gen:
Proserpine & Venus (Proserpine focused):
[Trick] (Ovid) Proserpine confronts Venus about Hades abduction. She doesn't take responsibility.
[Trick] Venus schemes with Proserpine about Psyche, but Proserpine is upset about what she asks.
[Trick] Venus isn’t pleased with Proserpine's sparing Psyche and comes to collect something she feels she's due. But what Venus forgets is, Proserpine is a queen.

[Treat] Venus comes to Proserpine to figure out how to live with a complicated family life as Proserpine does with Ceres/Pluto.
[Treat] Venus gives Proserpine a wedding fit, with unforeseen consequences.
[Treat] Venus gives Proserpine advice for her wedding night in a joking manner...that turns out not to be so joking, and suddenly the only information Proserpine has ever had on the subject...and surprisingly useful, if not in the way Venus thought it might be.

Proserpine & Vesta (Proserpine focused):
[Trick] Vesta expected the girl to become part of her order. Now that she can't, Proserpine is too ashamed to confront her aunt.
[Trick] Vesta doesn't go to the underworld, but Proserpine can’t help but think of her when she sees the lake of fire.
[Trick] Vesta comes to Proserpine's wedding, but Proserpine isn’t offered much comfort from her presence.

[Treat] Vesta and Proserpine hanging out together and Vesta realizing Proserpine wishes to remain a virgin.
[Treat] Vesta is sad that Proserpine can't join her sect...until Proserpine gives her some rather surprising news about her marriage.
[Treat] Of all her aunties, Proserpine likes her auntie Vesta best.

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Venus



Venus Only:
[Trick] Beauty is fleeting, but it’s what she has.
[Trick] Beautiful Venus is, but she doesn't understand why it isn’t enough to keep the people she lives nearby.
[Trick] Venus uses her role as patroness of prostitutes to stop a mortal man seeking to do harm to them.

[Treat] Venus celebrates a holiday with unexpected and surprising events.
[Treat] Venus demands a thank you for getting certain people together...who don’t, particularly, feel thankful for her assistance.
[Treat] As a queen of love/fertility, Venus helps out a petitioner with a desperate and unusual prayer.

Venus Shipping:
Venus/Any Character: (male, female, other? doesn't matter! God, mortal? No preference! OC or myth-based character? Both good!)
[Trick] Seduction is just a game to her, but the lover in her thrall can't help but play.
[Trick] Venus tries to seduce someone for fun but it...doesn't quite work out.
[Trick] She wants her lover to stay, but they never do.

[Treat] Venus blows her lover's mind as only the goddess of love can, and ruins them for other partners.
[Treat] Venus gets stung by one of her son's love arrows...with surprising but delightful results.
[Treat] Venus is finally able to be satisfied by a lover.

Venus Gen:
Proserpine & Venus:
[Trick] Venus isn't sorry for the trick she pulled.
[Trick] Proserpine is a stick in the mud; Venus makes her get out of her shell a little bit....with disastrous results.
[Trick] Venus points out all the ways that Proserpine isn't an ideal beauty; the queen of hell shuts her up, but Venus isn't happy about it.

[Treat] Venus and Proserpine help a mortal, each in their own ways.
[Treat] Venus tries to teach Pluto how to treat Persephone.
[Treat] Venus tries to teach Proserpine the benefits of love, and the girl is more curious than one might think.

Venus & Vesta:
[Trick] Venus doesn't understand Vesta, and realizes all too late just why she should have tried.
[Trick] Saturn's oldest and Uranus' youngest chit chat about family members...and it doesn’t go well.
[Trick] Venus plays a trick. Vesta gets hurt. Vesta's house spirits respond in kind.

[Treat] Venus and Vesta have more in common than one might have thought.
[Treat] Vesta needs something from Venus. Venus is suspiciously willing to oblige for reasons that are all her own.
[Treat] Venus needs a babysitter for a mischievous Cupid and who better to pick than the spinster sister?

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Vesta



Vesta Only:
[Trick] Vesta is alone, but it’s not entirely by choice.
[Trick] Vesta is a living flame in the heart of the republic. And no fire burns forever.
[Trick] Vesta's said to be a living flame. A flame burns as much as it heals.

[Treat] Vesta rescues a child in need of a family.
[Treat] Vesta keeps the six siblings together...despite how hard that is.
[Treat] Vesta's secret pleasure.

Vesta Shipping:

Vesta/Any Character: (male, female, other? doesn't matter! God, mortal? No preference! OC or myth-based character? Both good!)
[Trick] Vesta took a vow to remain a virgin. But that doesn't mean she isn't tempted.
[Trick] Vesta's vow means that she can't really share in some of the stories her sisters’ share.
[Trick] Vesta is sometimes described as an eternal flame. How did she lose her body? And does she miss it?

[Treat] Vesta leads Artemis, Athena (and Proserpine?) in a ceremony, and feels like she has found her place.
[Treat] Vesta and the Penates! Anything, honestly, with Vesta and the Penates.
[Treat] Vesta and her acolytes; how does she train girls for her temples?

Venus Gen:

Venus & Vesta:
[Trick] Vesta is tired of Venus causing chaos with her powers and makes her live one day without them. Vesta learns more about her fellow goddess than she would have thought.
[Trick] Vesta and Venus have a heart to heart that only leads both to feel more alienated from the other.
[Trick] Vesta and Venus argue over the fate of a mortal, leading to chaos for them.

[Treat] Vesta and Venus might not agree on sex, but that doesn't mean that can't bother appreciate certain other aesthetic beauties together.
[Treat] Vesta and Venus go to an art gallery, and what's on display brings them closer together.
[Treat] Vesta and Venus are up to something, but it’s a nice surprise.

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Uprooted - Naomi Novik

Tricks: I love the magic in Uprooted, especially the cool, eldritch horror of the forest and its slow, creeping almost inevitably for the vast majority of the book. I would love more legends and tales and temptations with those woods, especially with Sarkan and Agnieszka. Any details about the drawbacks of magic or the dangers of it would be much appreciated! Give me woods-inspired horror and bury me in feels.

Treats: I just want more sweet moments for Sarkan and Agnieszka! The romance in this is pretty much exactly My Brand of Surly Disasters Who Are Confused About Their Urgent Hormones to Make Kissy Faces and I just - I just want more of what their life might look like after that fair at the end of the book! More explorations of their magic together! More explorations of court life together!

Agnieszka



Agnieszka Only:
[Trick] Agnieszka tries to stay home, but the village never really feels like home again.
[Trick] Agnieszka doesn't get court politics, and winds up embarrassed.
[Trick] Agnieszka has a nightmare of the woods.

[Treat] Agnieszka finds new, unqualifiable magic.
[Treat] Agnieszka chooses her magical name.
[Treat] Agnieszka has a perfect day in the woods.

Agnieszka Shipping:

Sarkan/Agnieszka:
[Trick] He's 100 years older than her, and among mages, that's nothing special. It’s not an issue....except when it is.
[Trick] Sarkan is constantly running hot and cold in his affections. Agnieszka isn't sure she wants to put up with this for another 100 years.
[Trick] Sarkan wants to lay out a relationship contract. It’s as thorny getting him to agree to parameters in that as it was confronting their feelings for one another in the first place, and Agnieszka is frustrated.

[Treat] Smut wherein Sarkan decides to quantify sex as much as he does magic. And takes notes. Prodigious amounts of notes. On Agnieszka's skin.
[Treat] Agnieszka gets eaten out by Sarkan and it’s a very good experience for her.
[Treat] Femdom. Agnieszka dominates the hell out of Sarkan and to his surprise, he's really into it.

Agnieszka Gen:

Agnieszka & Other Taken Girls:
[Trick] Agnieszka discovers some of Sarkan's other students and doesn't like what she sees.
[Trick] Agnieszka finds one of Sarkan's former students in the woods.
[Trick] One of Sarkan's other students returns to the village. She's jealous of Agnieszka.

[Treat] Agnieszka starts a school and tracks down some of Sarkan's other pupils to serve as teachers.
[Treat] Agnieszka meets some of Sarkan's other students, who provide no end of amazing and embarrassing stories.
[Treat] Agnieszka is given a gift from a mysterious benefactor.

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The Dragon | Sarkan



Sarkan Only:
[Trick] Sarkan is only good at certain forms of magic, and one of his rivals finds out what he can't do.
[Trick] Sarkan is lost in the woods, and alone.
[Trick] Sarkan takes a girl captive, and the girl finds a rather permanent manner of evading him.

[Treat] Sarkan finds a new magical formula, but it turns out to have rather delightful effects he hadn't thought of.
[Treat] Sarkan enjoys life past the woods...and realizes he doesn't know just what to do with himself, until he does.
[Treat] Sarkan adding books to his library.

Sarkan Shipping:

Sarkan/Agnieszka:
[Trick] Sarkan didn't want her, but now he can't stop pining after a girl a hundred years his junior, and he's annoyed at himself by how much he wants her.
[Trick] Agnieszka modifies his magic, and while she makes it stronger, he isn't sure it’s a good thing.
[Trick] Sarkan loses control during sex magic; Agnieszka pays the price.

[Treat] Sarkan decides to stay with Agnieszka in the village, and hilariously attempts to adjust to village life.
[Treat] Sarkan and Agnieszka have sex during/after the Harvest festival at the end of the book, and Sarkan realizes he's always going to be coming back to her - and he's only a little freaked out by that.
[Treat] Sarkan and Agnieszka go back to the forest.

Sarkan Gen:

Sarkan & Other Taken Girls:
[Trick] Sarkan isn't exactly a patient teacher, and he had a lot of students before Agnieszka to take his irritation out at.
[Trick] Sarkan takes another student to court, but she doesn't make the cut.
[Trick] Sarkan's student dies, and he isn't sure what to do about it.

[Treat] Sarkan consoles a girl who misses her home - in his own, grumpy sort of way.
[Treat] Sarkan trains a girl in brewing potions.
[Treat] Sarkan finds a survivor from his homeland - or at least, a descendent of it.

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