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Alternate Universe Exchange 2020 Letter
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Ancient Greek Religion & LoreMaurice - E. M. ForsterSharp Objects (TV)
Hi! I’m looking forward to writing for this exchange. There’s a special place in my heart for AUs. This should be fun. My AO3 is summerdayghost. If you would like anything in this letter clarified or have any questions feel free to ask through the mod. I hope you have a great exchange.
Likes
Terrible people in love
Drifters
Violence
Blood
Bruises
Casefic
Fluff with disturbing subtext
Horror presented as fluff
Straight up horror
Straight up fluff
Fridge horror
Roadtrips
Character study
Guilt
Anger
Begging
Taunting/Teasing
Dirty talk
Internal Conflict
Villain or criminal AUs
Historical AUs
Complicated and/or messed up relationships
Codependency
Loyalty
Being brought over to the dark side
Dramatic irony
All levels of consent
Manipulative relationships
Secrets
Dirtybadwrong
Power dynamics
Power imbalance
Mentor/protégé
Grand gestures (both of the poorly and well received variety)
Understated love
Oral sex
Frottage
Riding
Roleplay (the more tongue and cheek while also kinda sincere the better)
Characters being put on pedestals they can’t live up to
Frantic fully clothed take me now sex
Slow deliberate love making
Possessive sex
Cuddling
DNWs
Recreational drug use (alcohol and cigarettes are fine as are depictions of drug addiction)
Watersports/scat
Bestiality
Unrequested m/f
Unrequested trans headcanons
Pregnancy
a/b/o
Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Achilles/Troilus
ALL: Characters Met While Fighting In WWI
I enjoy reading retelling of myths that place them in new times and contexts. This is for a lot of reasons. I love history and just think it’s cool to visit other time periods in this context, but I also think this is a good way to look at aspects of these myths in different lights and maybe see them in new ways. WWI is one of my favorite settings to place the Trojan war in.
All: Arranged marriage to bring peace between two countries/species on the verge of a war
That would certainly be one way to try to ease the Trojan War. I’m interested in what the political situation would have had to have been to lead to this and what the exact political space this marriage occupies. Like is this Troilus being sent over to Achilles and now being a part of his kingdom or is this a way to give Achilles a certain level of power over Troy while bringing him into or whatever else? Also what would their dynamic be like in this context?
ALL: Elizabethan Theatre AU
While I'm not exactly sure how this would work, the concept was too meta for me to pass up seeing as how they’re both characters who appeared in plays from that era.
Demeter/Persephone
ALL: Being in a time loop together leads to getting together
I don’t have much to add to this other than YES. You can put the time loop at any point, I am just so here for this plot with them. Especially if them getting together turned out to be just what was needed to end the time loop and/or they continue to be together after it ends.
ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
I would be very interested in fic that treats the Greek gods as such. Also what is love between two Eldritch beings like?
ALL: Always A Different Gender
What would these two be like as father and son?
Maurice - E. M. Forster
Clive Durham/Maurice Hall
ALL: Ancient Greece AU, ALL: Erastes/Eromenos Relationship Model is Common/Socially Acceptable
This is entirely because of Clive’s Plato obsession and the ways that went into how he saw his relationship with Maurice (like he definitely saw himself as erastes with Maurice as eromenos).
All: Hades/Persephone AU
Who would be Hades and who would be Persephone?
ALL: Being in a time loop together leads to getting together
The only thing that will end the time loop is for Clive to accept his homosexuality and rekindle his relationship with Maurice. Knowing how deeply entrenched Clive’s issues are, that might cause a very, very long time to pass within the time loop but I would be very interested in that development.
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened
Older Clive has regrets so when he gets the chance to do it over again he takes a different path this time now letting himself be gay and not bending to societal expectations. I always did wonder how things would have turned out for him if he went this route. How would a lifetime to look back on inform these decisions? How would his relationship with Maurice progress differently when Clive has all this context/baggage from the last time in his mind from day one and Clive not going on to deny his nature?
ALL: Characters Met While Fighting In WWI
Considering how important Clive was to Maurice’s coming of age and this is well, a coming of age novel, I’m thinking that for this the timeline is slid up some years so that when Clive and Maurice are at the ages they should be meeting at university they are in the trenches together. How would their relationship be different if it started in this context? How would the war impact their outlooks?
ALL: Canon is 100x more gothic and foreboding, All: Horror AU
Apparently scary fic about things nowhere near the horror genre is my jam (which makes sense considering that horror in general is my jam). It would be interesting to see that kind of lens applied to this canon.
ALL: Serial killers AU
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
ALL: Vampires
I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Maurice Hall/Alec Scudder
ALL: Characters Met While Fighting In WWI
I see two ways to achieve this. The first is sliding the timeline around a little bit so that when they’re at the point in their lives where they should be meeting at Pendersleigh they're down the trenches instead. The other way is having them just miss each other during Maurice’s Pendersleigh visit they got together during in canon with the war actually bringing their paths together. What would their relationship be like when formed under this context? How would the war change their outlook on the world?
ALL: Different First Meeting - Mistaken for a Hooker and Goes With It
I just like this scenario a lot. I would read it in either direction but I am very intrigued by the concept of Alec mistaking Maurice for a sex worker simply because it’s not what I would have jumped to first.
ALL: Russian Doll Time Loop
I can just really see this working for them. Maybe the time loop is a single day at Pendersleigh before they know each other and they realize that the other also keeps dying and restarting and they must band together to try to escape.
ALL: Canon is 100x more gothic and foreboding, All: Horror AU
Apparently scary fic about things nowhere near the horror genre is my jam (which makes sense considering that horror in general is my jam). It would be interesting to see that kind of lens applied to this canon.
ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
I just think putting those sorts of themes and like ripping reality apart by the seams would be fun to put in the Edwardian era. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could do some interesting things with time. What put that in my head is from what I understand (hopefully I wasn’t being lied to) the script they shot for the film was out of chronological order (if I recall correctly, we meet Dickie Barry before we meet Clive) jumping back and forth in time. Ultimately the film was put back in chronological order during the editing process, but the fact that it wasn’t always is more than enough to make me interested in time fuckery. If there are any more fundamental concepts you would like to smash instead/as well go for it.
I thought of this next prompt as a joke but I’m gonna ask for it seriously. So one of the most common criticisms I’ve seen for this canon, both book and film, is that people don’t buy Alec and Maurice as a couple, don’t see what they have in common, and can’t imagine them lasting in the long term. I ship it, but I absolutely see where these people are coming from. So Maurice and Alec being pushed together and kept together by an all powerful and very invested Eldritch being.
ALL: Serial killers AU
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
ALL: Vampires
I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Sharp Objects (TV)
Amma Crellin/Camille Preaker
ALL: Ageswap AU, ALL: Twins AU
What if Amma was Camille’s much older sister instead? Or what if they were twins? How would these scenarios affect the dynamic? Where would Marian fit in all of this?
ALL: All Characters Genderswapped
Because these characters are very much informed by their gender I am fascinated by what it might look like if that part of them were reversed entirely. It could make for interesting character deconstruction and analysis. What would be different about their dynamic with each other if it was between brothers instead? What would be different with their dynamics with Adora if they were father-son relationships instead? What would be different if Amma was a teenage boy that murdered other boys with the help of the boys he runs around town with? What would be different if Camille were a man displaying the same behaviors and struggling with the same issues as in canon (or how might those behaviors and issues change)?
ALL: Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
My first thought for this is Amma the Vampire Slayer with Camille maybe as her Watcher, but I would also totally be into Camille as a semi retired slayer who is inexplicably still alive at her age and is probably holding a record of some sort.
ALL: Characters Have Children Together
I’m not usually the sort to go for ship has a child fic, but since this canon and these characters are so much about the impacts of mother-daughter relationships and the damage they can cause I would be very interested in what it would look like if these two adopted and raised a daughter together. Do all the handwaving you need for that to happen (maybe they started over under fake identities because of Amma’s crimes so no one knows their sisters and they can live as a couple and do couple things like adopt children or maybe one adopts as a single mother on paper but the aunt is so involved that she’s essentially a second mom or whatever else you can think of).
ALL: Dating Sim AU with the protagonist being aware
In my head for this Amma would be the protagonist. Although whether the game is incredibly fucked up (in which case Camille would work equally well as the protagonist) or if the game was intended to be sweet and fluffy school slice of life with like Ann, Natalie, Jodes, Kelsey, and so on as the unproblematic sugar sweet choices and Amma’s violence and pursuit of Camille is rebellion against the code.
All: Hades/Persephone AU
This is entirely because of that scene where Amma is dressed like Persephone, but I could also see her as the Hades to Camille’s Persephone in this scenario. Whether Amma is Persephone with Camille is Hades or the other way around is up to you. I would be interested in either.
Likes
DNWs
Fandoms
Ancient Greek Religion & LoreMaurice - E. M. ForsterSharp Objects (TV)
Hi! I’m looking forward to writing for this exchange. There’s a special place in my heart for AUs. This should be fun. My AO3 is summerdayghost. If you would like anything in this letter clarified or have any questions feel free to ask through the mod. I hope you have a great exchange.
Likes
Terrible people in love
Drifters
Violence
Blood
Bruises
Casefic
Fluff with disturbing subtext
Horror presented as fluff
Straight up horror
Straight up fluff
Fridge horror
Roadtrips
Character study
Guilt
Anger
Begging
Taunting/Teasing
Dirty talk
Internal Conflict
Villain or criminal AUs
Historical AUs
Complicated and/or messed up relationships
Codependency
Loyalty
Being brought over to the dark side
Dramatic irony
All levels of consent
Manipulative relationships
Secrets
Dirtybadwrong
Power dynamics
Power imbalance
Mentor/protégé
Grand gestures (both of the poorly and well received variety)
Understated love
Oral sex
Frottage
Riding
Roleplay (the more tongue and cheek while also kinda sincere the better)
Characters being put on pedestals they can’t live up to
Frantic fully clothed take me now sex
Slow deliberate love making
Possessive sex
Cuddling
DNWs
Recreational drug use (alcohol and cigarettes are fine as are depictions of drug addiction)
Watersports/scat
Bestiality
Unrequested m/f
Unrequested trans headcanons
Pregnancy
a/b/o
Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Achilles/Troilus
ALL: Characters Met While Fighting In WWI
I enjoy reading retelling of myths that place them in new times and contexts. This is for a lot of reasons. I love history and just think it’s cool to visit other time periods in this context, but I also think this is a good way to look at aspects of these myths in different lights and maybe see them in new ways. WWI is one of my favorite settings to place the Trojan war in.
All: Arranged marriage to bring peace between two countries/species on the verge of a war
That would certainly be one way to try to ease the Trojan War. I’m interested in what the political situation would have had to have been to lead to this and what the exact political space this marriage occupies. Like is this Troilus being sent over to Achilles and now being a part of his kingdom or is this a way to give Achilles a certain level of power over Troy while bringing him into or whatever else? Also what would their dynamic be like in this context?
ALL: Elizabethan Theatre AU
While I'm not exactly sure how this would work, the concept was too meta for me to pass up seeing as how they’re both characters who appeared in plays from that era.
Demeter/Persephone
ALL: Being in a time loop together leads to getting together
I don’t have much to add to this other than YES. You can put the time loop at any point, I am just so here for this plot with them. Especially if them getting together turned out to be just what was needed to end the time loop and/or they continue to be together after it ends.
ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
I would be very interested in fic that treats the Greek gods as such. Also what is love between two Eldritch beings like?
ALL: Always A Different Gender
What would these two be like as father and son?
Maurice - E. M. Forster
Clive Durham/Maurice Hall
ALL: Ancient Greece AU, ALL: Erastes/Eromenos Relationship Model is Common/Socially Acceptable
This is entirely because of Clive’s Plato obsession and the ways that went into how he saw his relationship with Maurice (like he definitely saw himself as erastes with Maurice as eromenos).
All: Hades/Persephone AU
Who would be Hades and who would be Persephone?
ALL: Being in a time loop together leads to getting together
The only thing that will end the time loop is for Clive to accept his homosexuality and rekindle his relationship with Maurice. Knowing how deeply entrenched Clive’s issues are, that might cause a very, very long time to pass within the time loop but I would be very interested in that development.
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened
Older Clive has regrets so when he gets the chance to do it over again he takes a different path this time now letting himself be gay and not bending to societal expectations. I always did wonder how things would have turned out for him if he went this route. How would a lifetime to look back on inform these decisions? How would his relationship with Maurice progress differently when Clive has all this context/baggage from the last time in his mind from day one and Clive not going on to deny his nature?
ALL: Characters Met While Fighting In WWI
Considering how important Clive was to Maurice’s coming of age and this is well, a coming of age novel, I’m thinking that for this the timeline is slid up some years so that when Clive and Maurice are at the ages they should be meeting at university they are in the trenches together. How would their relationship be different if it started in this context? How would the war impact their outlooks?
ALL: Canon is 100x more gothic and foreboding, All: Horror AU
Apparently scary fic about things nowhere near the horror genre is my jam (which makes sense considering that horror in general is my jam). It would be interesting to see that kind of lens applied to this canon.
ALL: Serial killers AU
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
ALL: Vampires
I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Maurice Hall/Alec Scudder
ALL: Characters Met While Fighting In WWI
I see two ways to achieve this. The first is sliding the timeline around a little bit so that when they’re at the point in their lives where they should be meeting at Pendersleigh they're down the trenches instead. The other way is having them just miss each other during Maurice’s Pendersleigh visit they got together during in canon with the war actually bringing their paths together. What would their relationship be like when formed under this context? How would the war change their outlook on the world?
ALL: Different First Meeting - Mistaken for a Hooker and Goes With It
I just like this scenario a lot. I would read it in either direction but I am very intrigued by the concept of Alec mistaking Maurice for a sex worker simply because it’s not what I would have jumped to first.
ALL: Russian Doll Time Loop
I can just really see this working for them. Maybe the time loop is a single day at Pendersleigh before they know each other and they realize that the other also keeps dying and restarting and they must band together to try to escape.
ALL: Canon is 100x more gothic and foreboding, All: Horror AU
Apparently scary fic about things nowhere near the horror genre is my jam (which makes sense considering that horror in general is my jam). It would be interesting to see that kind of lens applied to this canon.
ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
I just think putting those sorts of themes and like ripping reality apart by the seams would be fun to put in the Edwardian era. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could do some interesting things with time. What put that in my head is from what I understand (hopefully I wasn’t being lied to) the script they shot for the film was out of chronological order (if I recall correctly, we meet Dickie Barry before we meet Clive) jumping back and forth in time. Ultimately the film was put back in chronological order during the editing process, but the fact that it wasn’t always is more than enough to make me interested in time fuckery. If there are any more fundamental concepts you would like to smash instead/as well go for it.
I thought of this next prompt as a joke but I’m gonna ask for it seriously. So one of the most common criticisms I’ve seen for this canon, both book and film, is that people don’t buy Alec and Maurice as a couple, don’t see what they have in common, and can’t imagine them lasting in the long term. I ship it, but I absolutely see where these people are coming from. So Maurice and Alec being pushed together and kept together by an all powerful and very invested Eldritch being.
ALL: Serial killers AU
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
ALL: Vampires
I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Sharp Objects (TV)
Amma Crellin/Camille Preaker
ALL: Ageswap AU, ALL: Twins AU
What if Amma was Camille’s much older sister instead? Or what if they were twins? How would these scenarios affect the dynamic? Where would Marian fit in all of this?
ALL: All Characters Genderswapped
Because these characters are very much informed by their gender I am fascinated by what it might look like if that part of them were reversed entirely. It could make for interesting character deconstruction and analysis. What would be different about their dynamic with each other if it was between brothers instead? What would be different with their dynamics with Adora if they were father-son relationships instead? What would be different if Amma was a teenage boy that murdered other boys with the help of the boys he runs around town with? What would be different if Camille were a man displaying the same behaviors and struggling with the same issues as in canon (or how might those behaviors and issues change)?
ALL: Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
My first thought for this is Amma the Vampire Slayer with Camille maybe as her Watcher, but I would also totally be into Camille as a semi retired slayer who is inexplicably still alive at her age and is probably holding a record of some sort.
ALL: Characters Have Children Together
I’m not usually the sort to go for ship has a child fic, but since this canon and these characters are so much about the impacts of mother-daughter relationships and the damage they can cause I would be very interested in what it would look like if these two adopted and raised a daughter together. Do all the handwaving you need for that to happen (maybe they started over under fake identities because of Amma’s crimes so no one knows their sisters and they can live as a couple and do couple things like adopt children or maybe one adopts as a single mother on paper but the aunt is so involved that she’s essentially a second mom or whatever else you can think of).
ALL: Dating Sim AU with the protagonist being aware
In my head for this Amma would be the protagonist. Although whether the game is incredibly fucked up (in which case Camille would work equally well as the protagonist) or if the game was intended to be sweet and fluffy school slice of life with like Ann, Natalie, Jodes, Kelsey, and so on as the unproblematic sugar sweet choices and Amma’s violence and pursuit of Camille is rebellion against the code.
All: Hades/Persephone AU
This is entirely because of that scene where Amma is dressed like Persephone, but I could also see her as the Hades to Camille’s Persephone in this scenario. Whether Amma is Persephone with Camille is Hades or the other way around is up to you. I would be interested in either.