Trick or Treat 2019 Letter

Hi folks. Thanks for checking out my letter. This year I'm requesting both fic and art, as well as both tricks and treats for all fandoms. I don't really distinguish prompts below as either tricks or treats - feel free to take any prompt in either a more fun/fluffy/positive/sexy or angsty/grim/dark/horror direction as you please. I love supernatural themes-ghosts, werewolves, witches, vampires, etc. as well. Below the list of fandoms is a big list of trope and kink likes - if nothing else, feel free to pick a character and a trope or kink and go for it.

Fandom: Africa - Toto (Song)

I unironically truly love this song. I'm game for any takes on the lyrics that you might choose to pursue, though I'm particularly partial to the theory espoused in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/954767458769883136 (Text of the thread below)

"gonna take a lot to drag me away from you / there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do"

 

so why is the singer not with her now?

 

This is my theory of Toto's "Africa:"
 

in Toto's "Africa," why is the speaker in Africa in the first place?

 

Answer: he is "hoping to find some long-forgotten words or ancient melodies."

 

He is a student of the occult.

Why has the singer of Toto's "Africa" gone to Africa, leaving his love, in order to hunt up obscure folklore? He tells you: "I seek to cure what's deep inside / frightened of this thing that I've become."

 

ie, he's a goddamn werewolf

"wild dogs cry out in the night / as they grow restless, longing for some solitary company"

 

those aren't dogs

Why does he bless the rains down in Africa? Because the cloud cover blocks the moon.

tl;dr: Toto's "Africa" is about a lovesick werewolf in Africa seeking out ancient lore to find a cure for his unfortunate condition.

Fandom: John Wick (Movies)
Characters: Gianna D'Anonio, Cassian, John Wick

I love the "hidden underworld" motif, and the arcane ways of the assassin's world. The Continental and its rules, blood oaths and Herculean task challenges, and the idea of moving in and out of a shadowy other-world as John does over the course of the films. Everything is so over-the-top and yet the dialogue is so understated - I love that.

 

Prompts:

I would be very pleased to receive straight-up worldbuilding in this setting - please feel free to barely mention any requested character and tell me a story about how you perceive the details of the world. An outsider's POV would be fascinating - either a true outsider to the setting, or someone who works for the Assassins but isn't actually one, perhaps. How did they perceive the events of any film, especially Gianna and/or Santino's deaths and what it means for the future that John flouted the rules so explicitly? How did they perceive - and how do they talk about - the events of John's Task that allowed him to leave their world years ago?
 

I would also love fic that explores the past that John and Gianna are strongly implied to share. Were they lovers? What was that like? Their hands are metaphorically - and sometimes literally - dripping with blood, the both of them, and while the John of the films seems to be ambivalent about aspects of his past, Gianna seems to be totally unashamed. Has it always been that way?
 

Alternately, an entirely morbid canon divergence fic in which Gianna requests (demands? draws on old promises to compel?) a final fling with John "for old time's sake" before he kills her could be both highly creepy and very hot - dubcon and/or femdom themes welcome. Could still end with Gianna's death or be ambiguous or go entirely AU somehow...

What about how Cassian and Gianna came to meet? What was their relationship like? Or what brought Cassian into the assassin's world? Or what happened to him after John Wick 2?
 

Fandom: The Man from UNCLE (2015)
Characters: Illya Kuryakin, Gaby Teller, Napoleon Solo

I've become really enamored of this silly movie in the past year. For what it's worth I ship the three of them together as an OT3 and also any pairing among them. I also really, really am fond of them as friends and teammates with a more gen take on their relationships. I'm prompting more general group things, mostly, but feel free to narrow the focus to any individual character.

Anything where any one of the trio rescue the others (just as the movie emphasizes Napoleon saving Illya, then Illya saving Napoleon, then both of the boys saving Gaby) going in all Big Damn Hero and taking the risk for the team is always fun. (Doesn't have to have a happy ending, either.)

Glimpses of AU/canon divergence where they don't all get claimed by Waverly to work together as a team at the end, or never cooperate in the first place, and are playing spy vs. spy games against each other.

A RED movies AU - "retired, extremely dangerous" former agents being pursued by the CIA and/or KGB at the end of the Cold War. Circa 1991, when the Berlin Wall came down, Illya and Napoleon would be in their early 60s and Gaby in her 50s per the dates on their film credit dossiers. What if the agencies that had reluctantly played along with UNCLE during the Cold War decided it was too dangerous to have agents like those running around, even retired?

A supernatural AU - they're none of them quite human, and that's what explains their ability to be such successful (and ridiculous) spies.

How did Illya become so clued in to fashion? What's his relationship with his mother like?

Is Solo's mother really the only one who calls him Napoleon? Is that even his real name?

What were the literal years Gaby spent waiting to be approached by the people who kidnapped her father like? How does she grieve his loss after the events of the film?

General trope preferences (these are in no particular order, may not apply to all fandoms/characters/pairings and include both plot tropes and sexual acts - but feel free to run with one if you're inspired): 

hurt/comfort (physical and/or emotional), whump, soulmates (and soulmate subversion, and soulmates played dark), sex pollen, fuck or die, dubcon (especially when both/all parties are consenting only under duress due to outside circumstances), bondage, canon divergence/"what if" AUs, first time sex (both first time sex ever and first time for a particular pairing), sex magic, pegging, praise kink, sharing a bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on someone, cuddling, spooning, competitive sex games (who can make the other orgasm the fastest, who can resist orgasm the longest, who can successfully finish a task while the other partner tries to get them off or tries to entice them into sex, etc), begging for/during sex, sex as an emotional outlet in the wake of tragedy, battle couples/trios, alternate magical system AUs, Dominance/submission with Dominant female/submissive male or Dominant female/submissive female (situational, prefer not to read lifestyle/24-7 D/s stuff), sex between platonic friends, future fic and "next gen" fic about children of canonical characters, ghosts, communicating with the dead (via magic or weird science), enemies to lovers, threesomes, werewolves (preferably not A/B/O-style)