Dear Darkest and Stormiest of Night Writers,
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.
As far as characters without defined attributes (mainly mythology and other novel sources): please feel free to go wild with how you want them to look. Any skin color? Amazing, I live for alternate cultural takes on my faves. Trans or otherwise gender non-conforming? Sure! Bring it on!I love when stories have multiple versions and different takes so please change things to your hearts desire: I am here for it. I love classical looks but I also live for the non-classical, too.
As far as dark fic, I love dark fic and as long as you don't cross my few DNWs, I am here for it. I especially love complicated relationships, when you love someone as much as you hate them, when it's not healthy, safe, sane, but is consensual, where the madness is felt and shared and suffered; I love to put my favs through hell and I hope you will enjoy doing the same!
( Likes and DNW )Prompts:
Prompts:
( Hadestown )Hermes (Hadestown): I think there's a special kind of horror that comes with smooth Hermes, who so clearly knows more than the rest of the cast...because he's lived it all before. With Hermes, I'm really fascinated by the idea that suggets that Hermes has been living through this constant cycle with Hades, Persephone, Orpheus, Eurydice etc. for years and years and years and he keeps trying to change it, to make it different, to make the ending come out right after so many wrongs...and it keeps repeating in the exact same tune despite his efforts. I really would love to see thr trials and tribulations of this Hermes, who must fight like a tiger for every step he m akes, onyl to be slammed in the face by fate again and again and again. How does he deal with this? Are they ever successful in finding a way to naviate this pitfall? How does he keep his strength up even when things are going wrong again and again and again?
Seeing Events Repeat Over and Over Again but Being Unable to Change Them: Hermes keeps seeing the same pattern, over and over, with Hades and Seph, and then Orpheus and Eurydice. How does this happen? when does he realize he is trapped in a cage? Are there confines to the cage — can he escape being with Orpheus, with Eurydice? Does he try to go to different places, and if so, does the setting remain the same? Does he ever try to bend Hades, Seph, Orpheus, and Eurydice on different tracks (eg encouraging Orpheus/Eurydice to fall in love with someone else, trying to stop Hades from pursuing Persephone early, encouraging Persephone to break up with Hades, and so on)? Does fate always set them on this road? What sort of actions does Hermes take to try to change things? No matter what he does, Hermes is doomed to see the past repeat itself, again and again and again? If so, how does he live with that knowledge - especially given that as a God, suicide/death doesn't really seemto be an option?
Time Loop - No One But Character Knows They're Stuck: How does Hermes deal with beeing in the time loop? If he's made peace with the fact that the loop is inescapable, how does he grin and bear seeing people go through the same heartbreaking tragedy, again and again and again? Does he ever try to convince the other gods just what is going on, and do they believe him? Does he ever tell Eurydice and Orpheus, or try to take them away so they won't get hit by Hades and Persephone's storm? Do things change at all (eg is Eurydice sometimes really bit by a snake? Is it Orpheus who is ever lured down? Are Persephone and Hades ever on better terms or worse? Does the attempt to reunite both couples ever fail on both accounts, not just Eurydice and Orpheus?
Time Loop Deleting Characters/Events Each Cycle: I would love to see a Russian Doll-esque take on Hadestown, where characters and events are slowly changed as the time loop goes further and further degraded. What happens? How do they break it — or do they not break it? Is there a point where HErmes is the last person standing? When an event changes, what happens? And if hte reset point is Orpheus turning around, then how does Hermes deal with being the only person who remembers in a land where time is constantly reset? Are there major personality adjustments when characters are "deleted" - if Persephone is gone, is Hades radically different, or vice versa? What about an Orpheus or a Eurydice who never met the other?
[Return to Top of Letter] Group: Eurydice/Hades/Persephone (Hadestown): I have a real soft spot for Eurydice/Hades/Persephone; I htink these three have SUCH a potential to be a total nightmare together, and I love it. 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 with one another, 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 mostly smutty or not, what I really want for this trio is the 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? Does she resent being treated as a lesser being? Does she feel guilty for choosing the security of these two over the true love she had with Orpheus?
Resentment: I would love to see something dealing with the resentment that the tenuousness of this situation would bring. Does Persephone resent Hades and Eurydice being a couple n the underworld without her (if they do)? Is she jealous of sharing her husband with a mere human? Does Hades resent that Eurydice gets to follow his wife (if she does) to the world above, or just that she can touch Persephone in ways that he, perhaps, cannot? Does Eurydice resent these petty gods taking their marriage spats out on her, or seducing her to help solve them, treating her as littel better than a puzzle piece? Do any of them resent Orpheus for failing as he did, or is at least one of them glad that things have worked out the way they did?
Betrayed By Lover: I would love to see any of these three dealing with betrayal and trying to move past it. I can see Persephone taking the whole "Step into my office" thing as a massive betrayal, and Hades declaring this girl is
their mistress, not just his, even worse. Does she try to make the most of this sudden threesome? Does Hades think Persephone's love for this girl is a sign of how much she prefers the upper world, and how does he deal with this? Does he take his fury out on Eurydice (sexually or otherwise)? Does Eurydice resent both of them using her as a sex toy and little better, or is her resentment for being betrayed reserved for Orpheus, who told her to believe in a better world but sent her to her death out of fecklessness?
[Return to Top of Letter]( Ancient Greek Religion and Lore )Cronus/Rhea (Greek Myth): Oh man, this is such a tragic pairing. Abused together as children, successfully lead a revolt against their abusers that put them on top...and then Cronus slowly loses his mind, becoming power hungry and paranoid (probably not exactly pleasant to live with), and then he crosses the final line and winds up devouring their chidlren, one after another after another. How does Rhea struggle to live with that? Does she stay with him for a long time (five kids!) in order to try to bring him back to her, and is there any signs it might work before he inevitably turns away again? How does she justify their relationship to those children? How does she handle him being in Tartarus after? (Or, by some versions, the isle of the blessed?)
Character A pretends they don't notice Character B's descent into madness: I can see her turning a blind eye to his descent into madness, excusing it in so many ways because after going through so much together, the thought that he could go somewhere she couldn't follow has to feel like such a bitter pill. What is the point where she realizes he isn't going to change? Does she ever backslide and wind up turning back to him? Does she ever feel responsible in some way?
Lover on Opposite Side of War: Post-Zeus, how does Rhea handle her relationship with her husband? She is on teh other side with her children, and while she's clearly made her decision, I can't help but wonder if she might ever miss him or want to be with him, despite it all. Does this cause tension with her children? Does she ever go to see him? Does he ever go to her? After the war, are they still "together" in some way, even if physically torn apart?
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