scioscribe

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm a huge horror fan, so I'm really excited about this exchange and already looking forward to whatever you write for me. I had more prompt ideas for some fandoms than others, but I'd be delighted by any of these possibilities.

I'm scioscribe on AO3 and scioscribe on Tumblr. All requests this year are for fic.

Please just think of the requested horror tags as general directions--I'm not that fussy about categorization.

Likes

hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, nuanced bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, friendships, first-time stories, established relationships, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationships, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, complicated relationships, relying on each other (healthily or otherwise), moral complexity, long relationships, werewolves with pack dynamics, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements

Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include. If setting up a non-canon ship and a horror plot at the same time is kind of a lot, I'm also perfectly happy to have emotionally intense pre-ship stories, even for shippy requests.

Unless otherwise noted, unhappy endings and character death are fine for this exchange.

General Sex Likes/Kinks

clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spaking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or downbeat), coming untouched, coming in pants, voyeurism, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, possessiveness, marking/bruising/biting

DNW

ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, scat, bestiality, vore, any actual eternal fire-and-brimstone hell

Request DNWs and DNW exceptions are listed in the individual fandom sections. I'm assuming that any teenage characters I request (for Thoroughbreds, The Wilds, and Carrie) are all at least sixteen at the time of canon, so explicit sex is fine there.

Thoroughbreds
Amanda/Lily

Gothic Horror, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Killer Horror, Paranormal Horror

+ Tim kills Mark, but Mark hangs around as a vengeful ghost, and now Amanda and Lily have to deal with a haunted house. Does Lily just start trying to find excuses to stay at Amanda’s? (Does she admit right away that she knows what’s happening, or does it become one more secret?) How would Amanda’s rigorous practicality match up against the paranormal?

+ The two of them kill Mark together, or Lily kills Mark but has second thoughts about framing Amanda, and they go on the run together and possibly take up committing other murders to stay alive/protect themselves and/or because it's their one workable problem-solving strategy. Cross-country teenage girl serial killers!

+ Amanda and Lily both get sent to Brookmore, as girls with severe behavioral problems, and the school is haunted, evil, terrifyingly abusive, home to sinister experiments, hired by their parents to kill them, etc. Any evil school trope you can think of, however plausible or implausible, I'm all over it.

+ Historical Gothic romance AU where Lily's mom doesn't know about Amanda's history, and she hires her to be Lily's live-in companion in their gorgeous but cavernously empty house? Old-fashioned sinister Gothic goings-on, dark secrets, and a murder plot agianst Mark?

+ Anything playing up the blend of obsession, possessiveness, attraction, manipulation, and longing between them, or anything that delves into Lily's selfishness and concern for image over substance or Amanda's supposed lack of emotion and takes those things into some weird psychological horror places.



Carrie - Stephen King
Solo: Carrie White
Solo: Susan Snell
Sue Snell/Carrie White

Dark Fantasy, Psychological Horror, Institutional Horror, Folk Horror, Paranormal Horror

Carrie and/or her mom can totally talk about and believe in a fire-and-brimstone hell; I just don't want it to be specifically real within the story.

+ Carrie doesn't go home after the prom; instead, she leaves town with a terrified Sue as a hostage.

+ Carrie lives on as a ghost in Sue's mind. If you take this in a shippy direction, I'm open to everything from nightmare noncon/dubcon to dark romance to something more wistful. Or maybe Carrie lives and blows town, but she's haunted by the prom ghosts and/or the ghost of her mother? Can she overcome them, banish them, or lay them to rest, or will they get the upper hand? Does she have genuine regrets?

+ I also love the idea of Sue being haunted by prom ghosts, especially while she's trying to deal with being ostracized by the town and having so much survivor's guilt. Or Sue starting to investigate paranormal/psychic phenomena, going headfirst into what scares her. Or Carrie/Sue with them partnered up in looking into these cases. Carrie/Sue vs. haunted houses and other people with wild talents.

+ Feeling like a monster, dealing with enormous power and the temptation to use it to do terrible things to people, PTSD and nightmares, physical deterioration and the knowledge that you're going to die young (or, if Carrie/Sue, the knowledge that the person you love is going to die young).

+ Carrie somehow manages to bring her mother back, but she Comes Back Wrong.

+ Carrie's intrusion into Sue's head gave her unwanted telekinetic powers that she's horrified by, and it's making people suspicious of her.

+ In the aftermath of prom night, Chamberlain develops some peculiar rituals for detecting people with telekinetic powers, and everything slowly becomes oppressive and/or retrograde-creepy with beliefs about witchcraft. Or a folk horror AU where everything is superficially modern, but this is still a world where people are alert to signs of "witchcraft" and ready to turn on Carrie as soon as her powers start manifesting and they want to stone her in the public square.

+ Carrie gets captured by the government/the Shop/some nefarious lab, either before or after prom, and they start experimenting on her and trying to control her, with a possible rescue attempt by Sue. Or a possible scenario where Sue is also brought into keep her company/help control her. Can they escape? How do the researchers control Carrie? If they offer her praise and support, does she even want to get out?



Dark Tower - Stephen King
Jake Chambers & Eddie Dean & Susannah Dean & Roland Deschain & Oy
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain
Roland Deschain/The Man in Black

Dark Fantasy, Gothic Horror, Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Survival Horror, Science Fiction Horror, Folk Horror, Paranormal Horror

If the story is centered on the ka-tet or Eddie/Susannah/Roland, I'd like it to not end in a place of complete despair. Even character death is just fine, as long as they die as themselves and not, like, totally maddened by agony and horror.

+ I'm very easy to please on the ka-tet encountering basically anything. (rachelmanija gave me permission to borrow some of her prompts here, too, because they're all great.) Send them up against a haunted house, rampaging monsters, their own evil doppelgangers, evil cyborgs, unsettling and realistic hallucinations that they have to fight through to help each other, etc. Send them into space and make them have to deal with a different kind of environment that wants to kill them. Confront them with eldritch entities!

+ The ka-tet runs into an isolated patch of civilization with some terrifying folk horror traditions. Are the villagers superficially friendly and sunny, but there's just something off about it all? Are they hostile, and do they try to keep the ka-tet from leaving? What do they want? I love folk horror and everything that goes with it: "we have to sacrifice you for our crops," dark rituals, homespun horror, cannibalism, unsettling relationships and traditions that everyone involved thinks are perfectly normal, etc. Give me some scraps of Mid-World society that have gone very, very weird to survive the world moving on.

+ Uncanny landscapes or non-Euclidean architecture, dreamscapes, they have to take refuge in the Overlook Hotel, etc. Weird, horrible bargains where one of the ka-tet has to give up something precious to try to save the others. Someone dies and Comes Back Wrong.

+ Arranged marriages are a thing in Gilead, and Roland has been formally affianced to someone since he was a child--and then Marten buys out his contract and sets up the wedding and there's nothing Roland can do about it except try to find an opportunity to kill his husband as soon as he can. Or maybe he winds up inexorably coming under Marten's sway and they become the world's creepiest power couple?

+ Roland and the Man in Black have a dark, mysterious soulbond that Roland hates. Mutual obsession and hatred and contempt and attraction that Roland, at least, is disgusted by, and that the Man in Black knows is affecting him more than it should be.

+ The ka-tet somehow winds up in what's left of Gilead, and the city is full of ghosts. Ghosts that want Roland to stay there forever.



The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
James “Bucky” Barnes/Sam Wilson
Helmut Zemo & James “Bucky” Barnes & Sam Wilson
Helmut Zemo/James “Bucky” Barnes/Sam Wilson

Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror, Science Fiction Horror, Paranormal Horror, Monster Horror

Fandom-specific DNWs: Karli and/or Walker as straightforward antagonists or sources of horror. (I'm fine with them appearing in other roles and being morally ambiguous.) Absolute loathing/unconflicted antipathy in Sam & Bucky & Zemo or Sam/Bucky/Zemo; I like there to be some kind of feeling involved, even if Bucky and Sam are deeply ambivalent about even slightly caring about this guy and even if Zemo is still prepared to treat them as pawns/potentially betray them/etc.

+ Any situation that pits them against horror, because this is the MCU and anything can happen. They have to track down a monster? Undoing the Snap caused weird ripple effects throughout the universe and all kinds of mini eldritch horrors are manifesting everywhere and the rules of reality don't always apply? Haunted houses? Bucky is haunted by ghosts who don't differentiate between him and the Winter Soldier? They wake up in some kind of false reality that at first seems completely real, but there's some nagging sense of not-rightness that means that reality has been tampered with?

+ They're stranded in some deeply inhospitable environment or contrived bad-guy trap and have to struggle to stay alive. Is there something attacking them? Is it some kind of experiment? Are they on another planet?

+ The government tries to brainwash Sam out of taking up the Captain American mantle, and Bucky has to try to fight to get him back to himself. / Someone threatens to redo Bucky's programming or does partly redo it, and Sam has to fight to get him back to himself.

+ More terrible governmental/evil agency shenanigans: it turns out someone is doing terrible experiments with the prisoners on the Raft, and Sam and Bucky reluctantly have to break Zemo out again and try to shut everything down.

+ Dystopian horror where everything is more oppressive and terrible, and if they're going to try to do any good, they're going to have to go on the run and deal with being constantly hunted while they exist in the cracks of society. And if someone did catch them, it might lead to terrible experiments or hideously cruel punishments.

+ rachelmanija said I could steal this one from her: fusion with Us where they meet their Tethered counterparts. Or maybe someone has made controllable doppelgangers of them in particular? Or some kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers setup where people are being replaced with identical replacements that have all the same memories but just feel wrong?

+ Any kind of hardcore hurt/comfort where the hurt is especially bad or cruel. (Although I would like some comfort to go with it.) One of them is doused with some kind of super-soldier-adjacent drug that makes you reckless or kills off all sense of pain? Especially awful one-sided sex pollen where one person is driven to basically lose their mind and attack/noncon someone else? Captured and tortured? Captured and nonconned? Forced to trade torture or sex for food/medical care for someone else?



The Perfection
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wells/Charlotte Willmore

Gothic Horror, Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Folk Horror, Paranormal Horror

+ The Perfection isn't an abstract concept: it's some kind of cosmic horror, and they were all worshipping/sacrificing to a force that rewarded or fed off artistic perfection, and now Charlotte and Lizzie have inherited it. Do they know how to deal with the force they might have just offended? What does any of this look like--how they serve it, how they move forward, how they potentially try to defeat or contain it, etc.?

+ Going off the above: dark post-canon setup where Charlotte and Lizzie somehow manage to get control of the school, and they fall into their own kind of worship of the Perfection in Anton's absence? Can they fully shake what they were taught, or do they find themselves repeating bits of that behavior even when they don't want to? Is the cosmic horror force real or just a delusion on their part?

+ Ghosts hang around: Anton, Paloma, Theis, Geoffrey? The academy is perfect for becoming a haunted house.

+ Any psychological horror that delves into Charlotte and Lizzie having fucked-up approaches to the world because of everything they've been through. Or something where they have to deal with that from Anton's current or former students, for that matter--maybe one of his loyal adherents seeks revenge for his death?

+ What if that threatened virus/zombie outbreak from the beginning was real, and Charlotte's plans go awry because she and Lizzie are stuck in the middle of an apocalypse? Are they still in China, or do they have to take an uncomfortable, destined-to-explode refuge at Bachoff?

+ More body horror. Do they wind up liking their new ability to play as one enough that they start altering their bodies in other ways, too? If the Perfection is a real force, does it ever tamper with them physically? Do they keep Anton alive so they can continue to work out their feelings on him in increasingly horrible, creative ways?



The Wilds
Stranded Girls

Solo: Leah Rilke
Solo: Dot Campbell
Solo: Fatin Jadmani
Solo: Nora Reid
Solo: Shelby Goodkind

Shelby Goodkind/Toni Shalifoe
Fatin Jadmani/Leah Rilke
Dot Campbell/Fatin Jadmani

Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror

I love all the girls in any and all combinations, so if you feel like shipping something I haven't listed here or focusing on someone I haven't named, honestly, go for it. The Stranded Girls request can be platonic or contain ships or involve some kind of amorphous poly thing, whatever works best for you.

+ Anything exploring and really leaning into the total creepiness of the mass-gaslighting going on OR into Leah's obsession and paranoia, including her having a blend of being absolutely right and having suspicions that don't pan out and could be harmful to others. A focus on the frog-boiling process of convincing Nora that all this is totally okay? You can go really dark for this.

+ The Dawn of Eve experiment does even creepier, even more morally reprehensible things to the girls in the name of Sociology and Progress. The girls' families get told they're dead, the girls get drugged to observe their reactions, one of them gets kidnapped and separated from the others, the experiment is actually super long-term and the girls are going to be left there for years, the experiment involves incredibly weird tests and cruel changing variables… Documentary-style POV where the whole story is someone's report on what was learned from the experiment and everything is presented very clinically?

+ Another riff on "the experiment is actually super long-term": the girls go home, but the project isn't over, and their lives continue to be interfered with for years, subtly manipulated, leaving them suspecting that something's wrong but not knowing how to deal with it.

+ Cathartic version: Leah goes up against the conspiracy and is able to defeat it, unmask it, kill Gretchen, etc., and get the upper hand after all the gaslighting and lies. Or all the girls band together and do the same, having a kind of mass prison break when they're being held after the island.

+ Long-lasting psychological effects where they're all semi-feral in weird ways, can't stand to be away from each other, can't fit into normal society anymore, and maybe don't even want to. One of them snaps--maybe Shelby kills her dad?--and the others all come together to help cover up the murder.

+ The island is actually much less hospitable. In fact, it's a terrifying environment full of monsters/an elaborate labyrinth/full of traps/etc. I've seen Cube and read House of Stairs, and I would totally welcome any riffs on either of those, so please feel free to trap the girls in a giant cube full of deadly traps or in an experiment that incentivizes cruelty. Blend institutional horror and survival horror for any kind of contrived situation where the girls have to go through horrible or exhausting things for food/water/medical care/etc.