Trick or Treat 2020 Letter

[echoslam]

Dear Trick or Treater,

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

General Info:
I love both gen and ship content and am open to receiving art or fic of any rating. Also, I'm requesting both Tricks and Treats for everything - please feel free to mix and match any of my various likes!

Unconventional formats are definitely welcome: epistolary, IF, chat logs, found documents, unusual narration styles, anything! I really love this year's challenge theme, so if you're into that, I definitely look forward to seeing any interpretation of your fandom + song choice.

Treat likes:
-Anything seasonal! I love all autumnal themes.
-AUs of all sorts - I especially love alignment swaps, career changes, and video game crossovers
-Battles, chase scenes, duels, or any kind of thrilling experience
-Character studies
-Friendly and romantic interactions/dates/outings
-Humor (absolutely anything from mild banter to ridiculous crack)
-Slice-of-life
-Smut/PWP (I have a Smut4Smut Letter if you'd like more details for this)
-Worldbuilding

Trick likes:
-Bad endings
-Charisma or comedic sociopathy in villains
-Corruption of safe spaces - amusement parks, hospitals, schools, or lovely homes/gardens are all favorites
-Cruel and unusual violence
-Dark versions of characters/settings
-Death themes - major character death, grief/mourning, moments before dying, etc.
-Deceptions
-Gallows humor
-Noncon/dubcon - I especially like this if it involves one of my pairings and a brainwashed or dark version of one of the characters.
-Stockholm/Lima Syndrome

Art likes: All art styles welcome - portraits, Halloween costumes/skins or autumn fashion, signature colors and symbology, couples being affectionate, any kind of silly meme pose, your idea of a "cursed image" for the fandom

DNWs: Body waste kinks, inflation kink, use of the word "cunt" during sex scenes, poly involving requested characters (exception for Blade and Soul)

Prompts and song choices are all totally optional. If you're doing the challenge, feel free to use any other song from the tagset if you have ideas - I love being introduced to new music!

Links by Fandom:

블레이드 앤 소울 | Blade and Soul
David Cronenberg Nike Air 180 Commercial
Ever17: The Out of Infinity
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Marianne
The Secret World
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
TRICK
Voltage Inc's Liar! Series

블레이드 앤 소울 | Blade and Soul

Any Character

Tagset:
Cricket
Junghado
Leerok
Soha
Yu Chun
Yunma Fei

Prompts:
-Exploration of rivalries or (broken) romances/friendships - I like Junhado/Yunma Fei/Yu Chun and Cricket/Anybody
-Slice of life in any part of the Earthen Realm during more peaceful times
-Character studies, looking at the reasons why and how these characters fight
-Cricket's never-ending struggle to gain some respect

Battle of the Bands:
Assassin - Muse
Firestarter - The Prodigy
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites - Skrillex
Throne - Bring Me the Horizon
Victory - Two Steps From Hell

David Cronenberg Nike Air 180 Commercial

Insectoid Creature
Wheelbarrow Pusher

Watch on YouTube

It's like Kafka's The Metamorphosis but with more commercialism! Feel free to go crazy weird with this.

Prompts:
-Body horror-filled worldbuilding
-Crossover/fusion with any Cronenberg film (I could totally see this being set in the same universe as The Fly)
-How do the new Nikes make the creature feel??

Battle of the Bands:
Bug City - The Presidents of the United States of America
Dirty Nikes - Ruth B.
Evolution - Ayumi Hamazaki
Ordinary Idols - Cold War Kids

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity

Any Character

Tagset:
Blick Winkel
Coco Yagami
Sara Matsunaga
Tanaka You
Tsugumi Komachi

Prompts:
-Missing or alternate scenes/endings, anything about the creation or behind-the-scenes workings of LeMU
-Introspection about in-game or post-ending fears from any character's POV.
-Divergent AUs/ruminations on time and space bending/fourth wall breaking stuff

Battle of the Bands:
Blue Monday - New Order
Middle - DJ Snake
Speed the Collapse - Metric
Time Is Running Out - Muse
Will I Make It Out Alive - Tommee Profitt

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Marianne Von Edmund

Fandom-specific DNW: Marianne in a romantic relationship with Dimitri, Lorenz, or Sylvain

I like Edelgard/Marianne and Hilda/ Marianne but would be happy to see other pairings if you want to do something shippy. (Re: Edelgard & CF stuff, I actually really like Hubert and if you can avoid him being too hostile towards Marianne if he appears, that would be great).

Prompts:
-Crimson Flower worldstate and Marianne coming to terms with the truth about the Church of Seiros
-Dark!Marianne or scary situations with her crest
-...I just love anything with Marianne being able to use her sword relic
-Not a big fan of the endings where she ends up being taught to be an orator by her adoptive father, but anything based on her other epilogues would be cool!

Battle of the Bands:
Full Moon - Sunmi
Glory and Gore - Lorde
Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Raise Your Banner - Within Temptation

Marianne

Any Character

Tagset:
Aurore
Camille
Emma Larsimon
Father Xavier
Inspector Ronan
Marianne
Pat

Prompts:
-I'd love to see anything Camille/Emma or Emma/Aurore if you want to do something shippy!
-Excerpt or illustration from a Lizze Larck book
-Anything about what Emma's creative process or what it feels like when she sits down to write
-Outsider POV of other creepy happenings in Elden or what it looks like from Marianne's perspective when she is terrorizing people

Battle of the Bands:
I'm Gonna Haunt You - Fabienne Delsol
The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish
Season of the Witch - Lana Del Rey (Cover)
Tourniquet - Rasputina
Which Witch - Florence + The Machine

The Secret World

Marianne Chen

Prompts:
-Scary apocalyptic doom porn about being a doctor trying to contain the situation in the Moon Bog
-What ends up happening when the player character leaves the area (maybe the Filth already got into her Hazmat suit?)
-Anything involving TSW's Samhain events, such as Marianne's "Organ Smugglers" story

Battle of the Bands:
Don't Worry About the Government - Talking Heads
Help I'm Alive - Metric
Mistaken for Strangers - The National
Trials - Starset

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Marianne Dashwood

Prompts:
-Awkward but sweet romance with Brandon, made more complicated by his monstrous appearance (thumbs up to any NSFW tentacle stuff btw)
-Adventures exploring the wacky AU setting, alone or together with Elinor
-An encounter with sea witch Lucy Steele...this could totally be shippy as well

Battle of the Bands:
dead girl in the pool. - girl in red
Octopus's Garden - The Beatles
Nemo - Nightwish
What the Water Gave Me - Florence + the Machine

TRICK

Yamada Naoko

Prompts:
-Ueda's failure or success in trying to do something nice for Naoko
-Reflection on any of their cases together
-Naoko doing magic tricks or teaching them to Ueda

Battle of the Bands:
Dream Lantern | Yume Tourou | 夢灯籠 - RADWIMPS
Lights - Ellie Goulding
Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
Things We Lost in the Fire - Bastille
Zoetrope - yanaginagi

Voltage Inc's Liar! Series

Any Character

Tagset:
(Liar! Uncover the Truth)
Kagami Kazumi
Lady Sachi
Main Character
Mamiya Haruichi
Shiga Sotaro
Yanase Ayumi
Yuikawa Itaru

(Liar! Office Deception)
Akutsu Mei
Kusunoki Kohei
Main Character
Miyata Reina
Sasaki Yusei
Shijo Keisuke


Prompts:
-"What happens next?" after any ending
-Fun autumn date or romantic outing
-Stuff from the Halloween events (Devil Kohei..the girls picking out costumes together maybe?)

Battle of the Bands:
Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Catallena - Orange Caramel
Cheap Thrills- Sia
Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar
TOKYO GIRL - Perfume