Trick or Treat 2022 Letter

[echoslam]

Thank you for checking out my letter! I'm echoslam, and I'm glad to be doing ToT again this year!

Feel free to use this information as little or as much as you want. I have some optional prompts, but I'm not particular about whether or not they're used. They are just here in case people would like them. Definitely feel free to go ahead with whatever you want to make. Gen, ship, single character-focused, or worldbuilding - it is all good.

I am requesting art and fic + tricks and treats for everything!

General likes:
-Any kind of AU
-Crack treated seriously
-Getting inside characters' heads
-Incorporating mechanics in game canons
-Period and technical details
-Requested characters being admired and appreciated
-Works inspired by songs, poems, quotes, etc.
-Unusual formats are always cool!

Treat likes:
Anything seasonal!
Character studies
Friendly and romantic interactions/dates/outings
Humor and silly stuff
Missing scenes
Smut/pwp for romantic ships

Trick Likes:
Bad endings
Canons reimagined as horror
Dark smut/pwp
Deceptions
Disturbing imagery from canon
Stockholm/Lima Syndrome

Art likes (all styles welcome):
Action scenes
Book covers/card art/stylized illustration formats
Character portrait with their canon look or any outfit that seems fun
Characters reimagined in different art styles or settings
Chibis/Qstyle/Emote faces
Dramatic or romantic gestures
Characters enjoying a favorite activity
Nature motifs
Any kind of silly meme pose

Do Not Wants:
Bestiality (relationships involving shapeshifters and sapient nonhumans are fine)
Body waste kinks
Futanari
Poly involving requested characters
Sex scenes featuring characters younger than 15
Use of the words “cunt” or "twat" during sex scenes
Use of the word "simp" in any context

American McGee's Alice
Blood+
還願 | Devotion (Video Game)
Downton Abbey
Lost Ark
Shenmue
Clive Barker's Undying
VALORANT
Voltron: Lion Force
Witch Hunter Robin

American McGee's Alice

Alice Liddell

Ships I like (feel free to explore others if you have ideas):
Alice & The Cheshire Cat
Alice/The Red Queen

This game is such an underappreciated horror gem, imo, and I loved what it did with Alice's story and the dark version of Wonderland. I loved all areas of the game, so any kind of worldbuilding you want to include would be great.

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-I loved the toys-as-weapons, so anything involving the dice, cards, Jackbomb, croquet mallet, etc. would be very cool

-Psychological horror, references to Alice's sanity degrading (or healing) while she's in the real world

-Exploring any aspect of the levels and their puzzles

-Chess metaphors

-Poetry or rhyming schemes in the style of the Cheshire Cat

Blood+

Otonashi Saya

Ships I like (feel free to explore others if you have ideas):
Saya/Min
Saya & Diva (or Saya/Diva)
Saya/Haji
Saya/Solomon

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-More about the early episodes and Saya's school days in Vietnam or anything that subverts Min's death

-Saya enjoying her time among humans

-Biting+physical intimacy with a love interest

-Swordfights, bloody or otherwise

還願 | Devotion (Video Game)

Gong Li Fang
Du Mei Shin
Du Feng Yu
Mentor Heuh

Things I like about the canon: everything about the setting and snapshots of 80s Taiwan, environmental storytelling, the doll as something both creepy and comforting, contrasting the horror with the beauty in the storybook section and the scenes with the tulips, interior design elements as horror

Prompts:

-Outsider POV of things going downhill for Feng Yu or the antagonist setting up their scam

-So uh, I think it's likely that the Du family will no longer be living in that apartment after the events of the game. What will happen to the next family that moves in? Scary sightings from lingering bad karma?

-Mei Shin meets Ray from Red Candle's previous game Detention

-Any character's fate in the afterlife

-Just any creepy images or descriptions of the apartment complex! I just love the atmosphere in this game so much

Downton Abbey

Daisy
Gwen
Mrs. Patmore
Mrs. Hughes

Ships I like (feel free to explore others if you have ideas):
Gwen Dawson/Sybil Crawley
Daisy & Mr. Mason
Daisy & Mrs. Patmore
Mrs. Hughes & Any staff member
Mrs. Hughes & Cora Crawley

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-Characters having a life outside of service

-Reveling in the minutiae of the period setting

-Any AU where upstairs/downstairs roles are less defined (canon fusions -Game of Thrones? - and modern AUs are great too)

-Silly prompt: the Crawleys are secretly vampire or some other supernatural beings and the staff has established methods of how to deal with that

I've seen both movies, so feel free to make something based on those as well.

Lost Ark

Abrelshud | Brelshaza
Biakiss | Vykas

This MMO is K-pop Diablo, and I am so here for the Demon Commander Ladies. Please let them be terrible.

Ships I like (I imagine these would all be pretty heavy on dub/noncon):
Brel/Vykas
Brel/Female Player Character
Vykas/Any Female Character
Vykas/Wei

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-POV: character getting charmed by Vykas seduction magic or being corrupted by Brel's illusions

-Brel and Vykas' Legion Commander rivalry, trying to outdo one another but preferably with Brel getting the upper hand

-Either of them reveling in the mayhem they cause in Anikka/Rohendel

-Something silly referencing Vykas's raid mechanics (typing test, moaning swords, lust meter, etc)

Shenmue

Hazuki Ryou/Lan Di
Chen Guizhang
Ling Shenhua
Hazuki Ryou
Chen Guizhang & Master Chen

Ships I like (feel free to explore others if you have ideas):
-Lan Di/Ryou
-Guizhang/Ryou
-Ryou & Shenhua

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-Lan Di plotting/doing bad stuff to Ryou

-Guizhang and Ryou sparring, discussing technique, defending each other, etc.

-Ryou and Shenhua enjoying peaceful times, solving mysteries or doing something fun or silly together

Clive Barker's Undying

Lisbeth Covenant
Bethany Covenant

I got into this game as a kid when I noticed it came bundled with American McGee's Alice, and it definitely helped foster my affection for Quake-esque horror shooters. The Covenant estate is such a great Gothic setting, and I'd love anything that captures that atmosphere.

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-Ominous moments from pre-canon, before the curse

-Bethany and/or Lisbeth do bad stuff to Patrick

-Bad ending where Patrick is trapped in Eternal Autumn or the mansion

-Something in the format of creepy journal entries or research notes

VALORANT

Astra
Fade
Killjoy
Neon

Ships I like (feel free to explore others if you have ideas):
Astra/Killjoy
Fade/Neon

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-Fade is pretty much her own prompt, tbh - I mean her whole theme is fear. Anything involving agents and what scares them most would be so intriguing.

-Any sort of League of Legends crossover or Valorant Protocol members playing League during their downtime (maybe with Killjoy as a coach)

-Astra and Killjoy reconciling their differing viewpoints on spirituality vs tech

-Scene(s) from a mission

-Admiring each other's abilities and/or tech

-Neon + angst or drama relating to her speed abilities

-Wordbuilding incorporating any of the maps or agent lore

-Team Halloween party

-Anything with Mirrorverse agents!

Voltron: Lion Force

Allure
Romelle

Ships I like:
Allura/Lance
Allura & Voltron Force members
Allura & the Space Mice
Romelle/Sven
Romelle & Allura

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-Allura as a space ghost whisperer

-Getting caught in one of Haggar's dark schemes or facing some kind of cosmic horror

-Star-crossed romance

-Contrasting Arusian vs Earth customs

Witch Hunter Robin

Robin Sena

Ships I like (feel free to explore others if you have ideas):
Robin/Any STN-J teammate (Karasuma, Dojima, Michael, Sakaki, Amon)
Robin & Harry

Potential Prompts (don't feel like you have to use these; I'd be just as thrilled to receive anything else you come up with):

-Quiet moments sipping espresso with a friend/love interest

-Anything more about Robin honing her powers

-Slice of life at STN-J or scary stuff involving Orbo

-Expansion or exploration of any of the witch investigations

-Robin surviving post-ending (potentially with others)

Thank you so much for your time. If any clarification is needed, please let me know!

I forgot to nominate a whole slate of things this year, and yet there are so many RTMI canons in the tag set??? Choosing was hard.